glowsferatu: rude, sad (Is It Wrong Not To Always Be Glad)
ᴘsychopomp 💀 ([personal profile] glowsferatu) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2015-01-19 03:03 pm

006 ♍ voice

[ kanaya knows she has to make this confession, not that she's particularly looking forward to it. but now that they've put her in solitary, nothing about this punishment has been satisfying. she needs something better.

everyone needs to know, but she doesn't want their pity, and doesn't deserve their sympathy. so. she kind of goes a little too far in the other direction, there.
]

I've been quiet the past few days. I say this not as an apology, because I don't particularly give a shit, but as an explanation. For those who don't know me, my name is Kanaya Maryam, an for the past few months I've been moonlighting as a costumed thug. One might even go so far as to say I was a supervillain.

Shocking, isn't it? I was a bit surprised, myself. [ not that she's going to explain that one. ]

As Hobgoblin, I committed numerous crimes, whether disrupting traffic, harassing the costumed set, playing ghost in a haunted house, other, more serious infractions. Kidnapping. Stalking. And...worse than that. [ her flippant tone cracks, her voice falling low and shaky. ] I've-- I've hurt people. People who didn't deserve it. Innocents.

[ there's a fury brimming in that last word, a self-loathing and shame. she can feel her hands shaking, her knuckles going white as she balls her fists. but they won't see that, it's important that they don't. if they recognize any remorse, it will defeat the whole purpose.

she takes a deep breath, letting it out slowly as she collects herself again.
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For all of these things, the most the local authorities have seen fit to do is stick me in a room alone without my powers. Which is really great, I must say. Wonderful to know that we feed and house our criminals when law-abiding residents have no such amenities, especially when they aren't registered! I must say this world's punitive measures are deeply impressive, it truly overwhelms me with compunction, how much softer-handed it is than I expected when I turned myself in. I suppose I shouldn't be really surprised, when the approach to everything is such a joke, such a limp attitude toward justice is at least consistent.

But it isn't real justice. It's a mockery. [ she thinks of terezi, and wonders if she'd be more embarrassed by the meagerness of it, or that kanaya submitted herself willingly. terezi would know what to do here. ]

I'm sure many of you could do better, someone who really believes in the subject, unless you're too stuck in all the nonsense moralizing humans too often preoccupy themselves with. You're heroes. I'm a villain. That seems simple enough to me.

If you want to see real justice done, I'm not going anywhere.
deadtective: (three.)

[personal profile] deadtective 2015-01-30 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Florida still uses the death penalty. If you mouth off to the right people maybe they'll fry you anyway just to shut you up.
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[personal profile] deadtective 2015-01-30 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, murder's not that expensive. They could probably pass re-killing you off as employee stress relief if they really wanted to.
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[personal profile] deadtective 2015-01-30 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't take any kind of courage to kill someone.
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[personal profile] deadtective 2015-01-30 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Look, I'm not going to get into a thesaurus war with you. Or a murder pissing contest, so don't even start. This isn't some super revolutionary statement that you can only understand if you've been rolling around in gore for years.
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[personal profile] deadtective 2015-01-30 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Murder requires knowing what breaks the easiest and maybe how to dump a body. That's it.

You don't need a goddamn ounce of grit or gumption or what the fuck ever to be a serial killer. And you sure as hell don't need any of that if you think that killing does a fucking thing for justice or closure. Alive or dead, it's exactly the same.

If you need to keep telling yourself otherwise, I guess that makes two of us with useless opinions.
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[personal profile] deadtective 2015-01-30 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
And they weren't people, by the way. That's too kind a word.