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[vacationer]

[Since her hotel hostage adventure had gone south, Lourdes has been laying low - not out of a desire to look repentant (she isn't, and she sees no reason why she should pretend that she is), but because she's been sulking. Her powers are gone, which is both horrible and a relief, and she's on probation, which she considers a joke.

But what she's most upset about is that it hadn't worked. She's not at all surprised that she'd been caught, and she'd always figured that it would happen eventually - but before that, when she'd been in the hotel with everybody, it hadn't done anything to make her happy, which had been her main goal in the first place. It hadn't been like Hearst Castle, or even the Horizon. It had been meaningless, just like everything else in the world.

She waits a while before turning to the network. She hasn't actually been planning to address this in any way - not to explain herself, and certainly not to apologize. But one evening when she's sitting around in her apartment, angrily glaring at the tattoo on her wrist, she fires it up and says something on a whim.]

It was for their own good.

[She has no idea how far news of the takeover has spread, or if most of the people who hear this will even know what she's talking about. That's okay. She doesn't care.]

Comments

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[logicunlocked]

Oh, that's an old favorite of mine. Almost as good as "it wasn't technically illegal" and "I knew someone would do it eventually so I did it first."

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[vacationer]

You weren't even there. How would you know?

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[rathercommon]

[ No question in Kitty's mind what she's talking about. So, her immediate response is to let loose with a loud scoff. ]

Yeah? And who do you get to decide what's good for them?

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[vacationer]

Who are you to decide that?

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[brushoff]

The go-to sentiment of people who can't come up with a better justification. [ said as he gives the camera a little wave. Hey Lourdes. ]

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[vacationer]

Still playing the piano, Dorian?

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[restingstitchface]

[He has no idea of what's happened. Things have been busy lately; he's been occupied. But that's such a loaded phrase he doubts it implies anything good.]

What did you do?

[Whatever it was, a good time was had by all. Right?]

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[vacationer]

it's complicated

[She hadn't thought it would be, but that's how it turned out.]

[mightthinkthat]

Of course it was!

[ This is hilarious. ]

[vacationer]

Are you just saying that to be contrary?

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[justimom]

In all my years I have never heard that justification be accurate to anyone but the individual claiming it.

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[vacationer]

What are you?

[hisheartsdesire]

And what exactly did all that accomplish?

[vacationer]

why don't you take a wild guess.

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[huntergames]

It was wrong.

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[vacationer]

Wrong is sort of relative, isn't it.

[bindsthedead]

No, it was for your own amusement. [Sabriel's tone is curt, and suspiciously restrained.]

[vacationer]

Things can have more than one goal.

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[timeshares]

How wild did that party get?

[Someone was out of the country... but at least this one seems a bit more surprised than accusatory.]

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[vacationer]

It went strong for about a week.

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[sunasuna]

Of course. Because little girls often know what's best for everyone.

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[vacationer]

Little girls like me do.

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[dumbfound]

I don't think most of the people would agree...

[ Except maybe Jinseok, the one guy he was actually there to save... ]

I don't think the people that worked there thought it was for their own good at all.

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[vacationer]

They were sort of... the help.

I wasn't talking about them.

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[fridgeflower]

Why do you think that?

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[vacationer]

I tried giving them something they wouldn't have gotten anywhere else.

[dicktate]

Invite me to the next one.

[vacationer]

That might be on hold for a while.

[slightlyoffchilt]

What was it all for? Codependency?

[vacationer]

[She laughs, humorlessly.]

No.

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[dreamshades]

It's not much of a party when your guests clearly didn't want to be there.

[ He sounds like he's mocking her just a bit. Even if he's been playing the hero it's still hilarious that some stupid girl thought she could make that last forever.

Ruining her fun was probably the best thing he's done here. ]

Not exactly nice after all.

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[vacationer]

That's too bad. I care a lot about being nice.

[Teasing, teasing.]

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[flowerette]

But did you gain any satisfaction from it? Did it make you happy?

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[vacationer]

You're hoping I'll say no, right?

[permavoice]

[makethman]

Oddly enough, I don't feel terribly enriched by the experience.

[permavoice]

[vacationer]

You didn't even try.