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The IC Anon Questions Meme





How to get started:

I. Post with your character! Name and canon go in the header.

II. Go find another character. Go anon and ask them questions, or remain logged and do it ICly. These can be as serious or silly as you like.

III. Answer questions people have left for you.

Comments

[nohalfway]

Dude, just up and bailing is no way to fix anything.

Be a fucking man and, you know, make up for it. Change shit.

[ Sigh ]

Look, you seem like a really great guy-- No, don't seem like one, you are. I pointed a fucking gun at you and all you could concern yourself over was getting me clothed and fed. I don't know if you've noticed? But good people are really fucking rare where we come from.

What I'm trying to say is... I mean, let me catch up to the times. This is like, record time for me starting to even give a fuck about someone.

You've taken really good care of us. I might not remember it, but I can tell.

[hostage]

There's no point in me bailing right now, anyway. And no matter what, I'll always make sure you're taken care of.

Just... It could happen. Someday. Maybe even tomorrow. And maybe it wouldn't even be my choice. So I hope you're not too hurt when it goes down.

[nohalfway]

Sooooo... what exactly went down in December that was so awful?

[hostage]

Somehow - I still don't even know how - a bunch of people found out I was cooking meth. Instead of going to the police, they started coming after me themselves. Joel was running for me back then, and we had no way of knowing how much they'd found out about him, but they had a way - like a magic powers kinda way - to get the truth outta me if they really wanted to. If I was going down, I was scared he'd go down with me.

Didn't end up happening, thank god. I got death-marched out to the woods for an old-fashioned questioning-plus-execution thing, but I never told 'em about Joel. And they never ended up pulling the trigger, anyway.

No more trouble now, since I been a good boy and stopped cooking. But that ain't gonna last.

[nohalfway]

...

Holy shit.

I mean, if you keep going straight and avoiding this shit, how do you know it won't last? If you've still got assholes chasing after you, Jesse, I know Joel's got your back.

And fuck, so do I.

[hostage]

I can't keep going straight. A lotta people depend on that money, and my partner needs me. I been stalling as much as I can, but I'm gonna have to get back in the lab sooner or later.

Still, I don't want anybody to get hurt. Those people coming after me, they're good people and I care about 'em. They just think what I'm doing's evil. And maybe they're right, but I can't stop doing it. The money's more important than good or evil. It's gonna help all of us survive.

I don't want it to come down to a fight. We're all just trying to live.

[nohalfway]

...

Well, then I'm gonna help.

Even if it's like, just keeping an eye out or... I don't know, stopping the people coming after you.

[hostage]

No.

Nothing's more important to me than you not being involved in any of this. What I want most is for you to have the kinda life you didn't get back home.

[nohalfway]

Oh, come on, you sound like Joel.

Look, infected or no infected, people are shitty, but I've already got a better life. Either way, if you get fucking killed, it's obviously going to affect me, affect Joel. He's obviously pretty involved.

[hostage]

That still don't mean I'm gonna use you for any part of this. I don't use kids. Your job is going to school and doing regular kid stuff. That's what I want you to do.

[nohalfway]

I'm never going to be a regular fucking kid, Jesse.

This place could be a goddamn paradise, but what's happened to me isn't going to wash off like some cruddy stain.

I'll go to school and I'll lay low, but when my friends get fucked, I get involved.

[hostage]

Not for me, you don't.

[nohalfway]

Right.

I shouldn't do anything for either of you. That resolution always works.