[Tattletale's idea, of course - and then Khepri used a nobody unseen by everyone to deliver the finishing blow to his fragile burgeoning grief.
He wonders if Tattletale kept it from him on purpose. As an act of pity or an act of her two faced kindness. It dawns on her that she doesn't actually know where he's from. It was almost certainly redused to dust along with the rest of the world - if he has family, there's a near 90% chance they were wiped out.
She should tell him that. It would be right.
A colder, more cynical voice wonders if that might just incentivize him to stop trying. To give up on saving anything. She knows her city is gone. Redused to rubble and mounds of corpses. People she went to school with - people she fought alongside, for a given definition of fighting - they died horribly.
Does knowing they're all dead make it easier? Does she even care? Her aunt, Clockblocker, Kid Win... A few years later, Amy can admit to herself that part of her fucking hated them all.]
The Undersiders mostly.
[It always circles back around to those assholes after all. The fact that it was mostly Lisa who came up with it goes without saying. Meanwhile her own role goes unsaid.]
But not before a lot of the damage was already done.
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Date: 2024-06-03 08:02 am (UTC)[Tattletale's idea, of course - and then Khepri used a nobody unseen by everyone to deliver the finishing blow to his fragile burgeoning grief.
He wonders if Tattletale kept it from him on purpose. As an act of pity or an act of her two faced kindness. It dawns on her that she doesn't actually know where he's from. It was almost certainly redused to dust along with the rest of the world - if he has family, there's a near 90% chance they were wiped out.
She should tell him that. It would be right.
A colder, more cynical voice wonders if that might just incentivize him to stop trying. To give up on saving anything. She knows her city is gone. Redused to rubble and mounds of corpses. People she went to school with - people she fought alongside, for a given definition of fighting - they died horribly.
Does knowing they're all dead make it easier? Does she even care? Her aunt, Clockblocker, Kid Win... A few years later, Amy can admit to herself that part of her fucking hated them all.]
The Undersiders mostly.
[It always circles back around to those assholes after all. The fact that it was mostly Lisa who came up with it goes without saying. Meanwhile her own role goes unsaid.]
But not before a lot of the damage was already done.