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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:15 pm
lizbot Kim's AMA"So like, why can't you just... not do stupid things? Like, it's hard to be friends with someone if they just really want a minder. That's practically saying you want to be someone's burden, and that's really uncool." The teenager lectured Kim, hands on hips and a more than a little offended at that idea of friendship. "If you want friends, why don't you start out by being a friend yourself?" This Afterschool Special was brought to you by the America Jones Foundation for Wayward People Who Should Be More Like Her. Kim parted her lips a moment, stammering. The ring took over for her, and she spoke softly. "I don't realize I am doing stupid things. I grew up in a series of foster homes. No one cared what I did or when I did it. So I left there. I guess I have impulse problems." She closed her eyes as the words spilled from her. "I don't WANT to do things that cause issues. I can't help it. By the time I realize I am doing something dumb it is already done. I try to be a friend. But as you said, who would want to be my friend. I am lucky that even Terry deals with me. I keep expecting to wake up and find myself back where I started. Laying under a overpass wishing for death." She closed her lips tight and turned her head away. "I guess... it all makes sense.. It just seems so easy for others, but... I can only TRY."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:19 pm
[Melvin AMA]"I work, Rep. I work a lot. I've been repairing, I work in the infirmary. I work on researching Atlantis, I work every day in the Runic department. You aren't the only person on this island working. My entire day isn't spent at home hovering over Lawr - god you are such a ******** a*****e. You just jump to whatever little insult you can grasp onto to make me some old-man loving caricature of a person. That's like saying you must be tired cause you are just spending all day having ******** sex with Harrison, sipping hot chocolate and shaking your fist at vaginas."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:21 pm
[ Rep AMA ] Al listened for the most part. Listened and felt hurt and then anger and then both of those all over again in rapid succession. "When have I ever ditched you?" The ring, he knew, but in the heat of the moment had forgotten about, would compel more answers with every question. Answers he most likely wouldn't like. "And don't ******** give me just one. I want all of them. I want to know these perceived slights against you when I've tried to be ******** there for you but you just... you ******** hide all the time. How can I do anything when all I've ever gotten from you was shoved away or told s**t - someone who claims to be as indulgent as you claim to be - wouldn't say. You've been nothing but a distant judgmental a*****e the entire time I've known you and yet I'm the shitty friend??"
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:22 pm
[Melvin AMA] Kim turned to Melvin, her eyes blazing. "I didn't ASK you to fix me. Why the ******** would I do that? You made it clear you are ******** up. Friends is different than a damned Psychiatrist. Someone to talk to is not the same thing as someone to repair you. If you are so messed up fine. Good for you. Friends are people to talk to." She was really mad now. She stood up and stood over him, hands on her hips. "I didn't ask if you wanted to ******** me. Did I say, hey Melvin do you want to come ********? NO! I was asking because I was curious. So, if you hate me... good for you, but don't lay your issues at my feet. I know I am ******** up. Most of us are in one way or anything. I just wanted to know if you would ever see me as a friend." She turned from him and stomped back to where she was sitting.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:27 pm
Saliru [ Ember AMA ]Al didn't know him very well and a certain question always crossed his mind whenever he saw him on Twitter or walking about on island. He didn't care if it was an inappropriate question. "Do you consider yourself male, female, or something else entirely - and if so, what?" "Good question! In truth," Ember said, before making a slight face at himself upon realizing how redundant his words were, "Sorry, that's a given, since, you know." He wiggled his pinky finger, ring jostling. "Well, okay. Short answer: non-binary and genderfluid. Longer answer: It's complicated? When I first was like, grappling with it, I did nearly equal splits in presentation between like... Feminine versus masculine versus androgynous. But in retrospect, I think that was out of a like, false sense of obligation? To try and give each facet of myself equal time, as if I were devoting myself to three deities equally. Like I had to, or I wouldn't be legitimate. But that emphasis was being untrue to myself... Much like I have favoritism in my polytheistic ways, I have favoritism in my preferred perceptions, too." Ember tugged at his hair. The green would need to be redyed; it was a good thing he had stocked up while portals were open, after advisement from some of the more veteran hunters. "Perceptions that I get to explore, now that I exist outside of that more performative life, that life before the island. I realize like... While I am still sometimes comfortable presenting more masculine, it's genuinely not what I feel most connected to, and not very frequently. And I'm still working it out, too. I don't think I have all this figured out, I'm not even sure if for me there is any sort of final end-game. But I'm young and blessed enough to have resources to like, figure it out in an environment that allows it. You know. In between almost dying a great deal."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:27 pm
[ Kim's AMA ]Peyton was sitting there listening to Kim, listening to Melvin and America dealing with Kim, and she could feel her lip curling at the answers that kept coming out of the Sun trainee's mouth. Truth, because they had to be, but so disappointing. "You can't just drag up a sad past and use it as a blanket excuse to continue to do stupid s**t, it doesn't work that way. A lot of us had shitty pasts, and you don't see us recklessly endangering anyone else." She very decidedly did not look at Lucky. "So you don't realize you're doing the stupid s**t as you're doing it. I think that's just a shitty excuse, but alright. If that's the case, how come you don't try to fix things after you realize you've screwed up? "And don't get all pissy at Melvin just because you don't like what he had to say. You asked, then you got all woe is me when you didn't hear what you wanted to hear. You're not a victim here, stop acting like it."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:30 pm
Kim's AMA"Listen, I've been passed around all my life, too. And like, at least it was family so probably not as bad? It super sucks nobody cared about what you did in the bad way? But that's not an excuse, it doesn't make the stupid stuff okay and fun or whatever. You still need to care about what you do." America crossed her arms, "I have an Uncle Sampson and you're a lot like him. He messes up like, a lot. More than you probably have because he's got like twenty years more to mess up with. But he usually is trying his best and means well. I don't know enough about you to know for sure if you do stupid stuff for selfish reasons or good-hearted ones. But from what I've heard you say on Twitter and what you're saying now, selfish is what it sounds like. So like, if you've got to go do stupid stuff, try to do stupid stuff for better reasons than 'I'm just stupid and can't help it and had a hard life' okay?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:31 pm
[Rep's AMA]"I don't ******** remember or care." Rep said, and even with the truth ring, this was true. Rep remembered the emotions, he remembered the intention of what had happened, not the incidents themselves. "Believe it or not you aren't ******** important enough to me to have a perfect log of every slight you've ever made against me. You've just made them so often and so ******** clumsily that I finally decided that you were a shitty person and trusting you with more than just a superficial ******** work relationship would be emotionally dangerous to me. You ******** suck Al. You really ******** suck, I pushed you away because you hurt me until I made it that you can never hurt me again. It's how it works. Once I've switched to avoiding you or hiding, it's too late, you ignored the warning signs." He shrugged his shoulders. "So uh. Go ******** yourself, I guess."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:39 pm
[Kim AMA] Kim narrowed her eyes and spoke softly, trying to contain herself. "I am NOT using my past as a reason. I was just speaking about what did happen. Who said I wasn't trying to fix what I did? I AM, just because people can't see what I am doing doesn't mean I am just sitting on my a** crying about it. I AM trying to do things. As for recklessly endangering anyone, I did not CONSCIOUSLY do that. I have NO intention of doing the likes of that. I know and even said I knew that people had bad pasts. I am not hiding behind it. If telling what things were like for me is a crime, fine I wont talk about it. As for Melvin, I am pissed he even said I wanted to be ******** by him. I never said that. I also never asked him to fix me. So I can say whatever the hell I want about that and no one has the right to judge me. If you think you do, then get in line... but you don't see me going around judging any of you based on a few lines of words you speak. I actually thought it would be nice to get to know some of you. Heh, And here is a big one. I know I am not a victim, I am not acting like one, but I am also not a robot. Big shock, I have feelings, if you tell me I can't feel then I may as well go request to be packed up and put on deep freeze." Kim let the words finally fall to a stop. She likely just screwed up her chance of ANYONE on the island liking her, ever. She knew it and would now have to live in a freakin' cave under some damned rock or something the rest of her life. Good one Kim. Next time just stay away from the stupid truth ring. and anyone else
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:39 pm
[Melvin AMA]
Melvin rubbed his eyes slowly as he felt throttled yet oddly not as miserable as he would have through. He hadn't wanted to take off the ring because he wanted to know what he would have said, and now he knew. <******** it. Who's a counselor?" He glanced at Dawson.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:39 pm
[ Nash AMA ]
He was going to kill Dean and that was going to be the end of it.
"Who are you calling a manwhore, you little s**t," Nash snarled, debating whether or not he was going to punch Dean again, or maybe kick him, or maybe do a combination of both of these things and then also knee him between his legs for good measure.
The ring, of course, took the answer right out of him for him.
"Everyone should have proper aftercare, and as for fantasies, I dunno, there's a lot of things that could happen, I guess I just want to see what would happen if I let someone tie - oh FOR ******** SAKE SONJA NOT YOU TOO."
He wasn't embarrassed, exactly, but he also hadn't planned on the pair of them pulling all his secrets from him.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:40 pm
[Noah AMA]"I was actually kind of sad he forgot his recipes," Noah said after a moment, in reply to Melvin's question. He'd had to think of something. There wasn't much that he didn't share; but he was utterly grateful to have already told Al about the red-eye, because having that dragged out in front of everyone here would have been awful. Kim's question was another relatively easy one. "My dad's a corporate accountant. I don't know a lot about what he does, I mean, other than crunching numbers. He didn't like talking about it over dinner." He gave Al a slightly worried look. The ring made him answer, more quickly than he would have liked, though at least he could keep his voice down. "I wish sometimes you'd think more before you said things." [Rep's AMA]Noah didn't have anything to say that would help in any way. He sat quietly, trying to be small in spite of his height.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:45 pm
[ lysander ama ]
Sam attempted to pull her hair back and retie her ponytail. "I'm interested," she both replied and corrected. "If someone has that sort of business acumen, then I'd rather use this time to build a network than pursue personal drama."
She nodded towards Roswell in apparent apology, although her affect remained the same.
"I can't imagine the time you spent with them, but I have to say that when paired together, it's little wonder you accomplished something before coming here."
Merrick she didn't know about, other than an offhand remark about pandas she had caught some time ago. Between that and remembering that the three had congregated at the orientation, Sam surmised he was either a third business partner or a candidate.
"What divisions are you all? I'm new to Death, but information is a commodity I'll be pursuing as soon as possible."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:51 pm
[ Rep AMA ]"You can't even recall one? Okay then, I guess you totally didn't just internally make s**t up as you went to get pissed at me for. I'm no saying I'm perfect. Everyone is ******** flawed and everyone has selfish moments because we don't think about everyone else all of the time. But if you think some thing I may or may not have done that you can't even remember was some dig at you that makes me the shittiest thing alive then whatever. I can't say anything to that except that - ring or no ring." He turned his hands front to back at Rep to indicate it wasn't him with the truth ring. "- It seems like you don't even ******** know what you want and you get mad when other people don't live up to your invisible expectations of them. I tried. You didn't appreciate anything or clarify anything so whatever. It's no me with all the burning bridges, I'm no the one turning my back on people instead of talking to them like an adult." He clenched and unclenched his fists, "It's you." "You chose to just be upset and play the 'I'm no talking to you' games. That's on you."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:55 pm
[ Lysander ama ]
"Life." Lysander said a little curtly. There was a certain formal tone which always set him on edge, reminding him of work and his parents. Even though Sam was being very nice and very complimentary he found himself somewhat suspicious. He wasn't sure how he felt about people who took notes when people were emotionally compromised and very much wasn't comfortable with other people knowing about Ros's past. It was something which left him reeling and twisted his emotions into a blackened and dark sort of bitterness.
He found himself warring with the kneejerk feeling that he would need to get a new personal assistant without a known background and the other feelings of loyalty towards Roswell. It was intended to be something kept in the past, not dredged up in front of all and sundry and noted as if it was a helpful skill like being a good cook.
Reaching for the ring he lazily asked the people around. "Quite done? Nothing further to ask?"
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