(text) a completely hypothetical question

[blacksong]

[The only reason Rose is posting this is because she thinks it's going up anonymously, but what's one more effort blowing up in her face when that's all she's gotten for the past. Forever, right! Besides, she didn't actually bother to put back her name in when prompted, so everyone gets to see this post from just another asshole instead.]

okay so hear me out

let's say there was some crazy alien parasite infesting you that wanted to
idk destroy the entire world or something
end all of humanity at the very least
now you could live and let all that bullshit happen
i mean god knows how long you'll even be okay with something like that living in you
but anyways
you could do that or you could... you know, die

what would you pick

also before anyone asks: yeah i should probably get therapy but who doesn't need that on this app

Comments

[thesettingsun]

I can't exactly blame them for worrying a little over the theoretical end of the world, but I think they'd ease up on it if you told them you didn't want to be fussed over.

[blacksong]

you don't know them like i do

[Also it may or may not involve them too, but she doesn't want to talk about that. Or think about it, for that matter.]

but i guess it's not like they can spend all their time worrying anyways

[thesettingsun]

Nobody has the level of energy it would take to worry about all the possible apocalypses that somebody could trigger.

[blacksong]

fair enough
seems like the app causes enough of those kinds of worries on its own anyways

[thesettingsun]

It sure does. Who's going to worry about your apocalypse when the city's filled with ghosts or everyone off the app is talking like an NPC?

[blacksong]

god
we're never gonna catch a break here are we

[thesettingsun]

Not until it's all over with, I think.

[blacksong]

so like
never

[thesettingsun]

I was thinking more like ten years, but that's also a valid guess.

[blacksong]

can you imagine going through a decade of this shit
i think i'd actually lose my mind

[thesettingsun]

You mean you haven't already?

[blacksong]

my grasp on sanity IS pretty tenuous these days
wish i could actually get a therapist to confirm or deny tbh

[thesettingsun]

Therapists with Retrospec access are hard to come by these days.

[blacksong]

figured as much
well good thing i still have my own unhealthy coping mechanisms i guess

[thesettingsun]

We could go drinking sometime.

[blacksong]

oh my favorite coping mechanism
i'd be down if it didn't cost so much for me to get drunk these days

[thesettingsun]

I could treat. At least the first time, I'm not making promises for repeats if you really do cost a fortune.

[blacksong]

for real?
shit, let's do it then
tomorrow, 8pm at [INSERT BAR HERE]?

thread wrapup?

[thesettingsun]

Sounds good to me.

[and then they met up and Shuji got to be not even that surprised that he was talking to Rose]

sounds good!

[blacksong]

see you tomorrow then

[SURPRISE, it's just Rose considering death. She probably just greets him by raising her bottle and once again warning that it's gonna be an expensive night anyways.]