☞ 020. (memory theater)

[wouldnotkindly]

[The above plays out on the network in its entirety minus the thirty-second intro, health bars, weapon indicators and other in-game displays. Though he doesn't speak throughout it, those who know him might recognize the chain-link tattoos and familiar sweater cuffs as belonging to Jack...]

( ooc: for those who can't/would prefer not to watch the video, a basic summary: Jack encounters a man who tells him that not only was everything he thought he knew about himself a total lie, but also that he's been under mind control for pretty much his entire life, then forces Jack to murder him with a golf club; he is then further mind controlled into giving over control of Rapture to the man responsible for it all, who reveals his entire villainous plot and leaves Jack to be horribly killed by robots. but it's okay, because little girls show up to save him! ... Bioshock is a complicated game. )

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[archivy]

[ She dislikes this curse, not only for what it does to those whose memories are on display but also because she can never again forget any of what she sees. ]

Did you make it out all right?

[wouldnotkindly]

[Unfortunately, Jack isn't yet aware that this memory has been put on display.]

I'm sorry, what?

[archivy]

[ Ivy considers not telling him for a moment, but then decides he should be made aware of it. ]

A memory of yours is on the network.

[wouldnotkindly]

What?

[Not having paid attention to this sort of thing in the past, he's genuinely confused.]

How can that... [But this is the City, so that's a moot question.] Wait, I don't... [His memories might be fake, but would that stop a curse? Unless it was a memory of Rapture—] Which one?

[archivy]

Of the time you were told that you had been controlled all along and killed Mr Ryan with a golf bat.

[ A beat. ] I hope that the command no longer works.

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[mortemscintilla]

[ Interesting. ]

[ Very interesting. ]

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[mortemscintilla]

[ Nice Guy face is go! ]

...Wow.

[ Shock and horror feigned so convincingly in that tone. ]

That was - hard to watch.

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[wouldnotkindly]

[A reply doesn't come until much later, and when it does, Jack sounds — not that this guy would know otherwise — uncharacteristically bitter.]

I'm sure it was.

[boutant]

[ ... welp. ]

Uh. Jack?

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[wouldnotkindly]

[Again, Jack's response is delayed, but this time he doesn't feel like actually speaking.]

YOU DIDNT SEE IT DID YOU

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[boutant]

[ And Ariadne switches to match. ]

Yeah, I saw it. It wasn't pretty.

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[wouldnotkindly]

I KNOW

[After a long pause:]

IM SORRY

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[boutant]

for what? it's not your fault

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[rudeandginger]

Why did he let you kill him?

[Yeah, he saw it. Obviously.]

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[wouldnotkindly]

[Sorry, Turlough, but Jack still isn't feeling up to using the voice function again.]

HE DIDN'T LET ME . HE MADE ME DO IT

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[rudeandginger]

Fine then. Why did he makes you do it?

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[wouldnotkindly]

I DONT KNOW

[For all he's thought about it, and that's been quite a lot, he still has not the slightest idea. Maybe he'd known that even with the trigger phrase, there would be no way to overcome Fontaine. Or maybe he'd done it to spite the both of them, not just Fontaine but Jack himself — after all, he had taken the time to call him his greatest disappointment.

Either way...]

I DONT KNOW IF I WANT TO KNOW [No matter how much it haunts him.]

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[hatedbyfanboys]

... Guess we're more alike than I thought.


[OOC: I always think of HAWP whenever I hear that phrase. WOULD YOU KINDRY?]

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[wouldnotkindly]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

( ooc: hahaha oh god DID THAT PLANE REALLY CRASH... )

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[hatedbyfanboys]

Following orders, no matter what they are, without questioning...


[OOC: that gif is amazing.]

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[wouldnotkindly]

I DIDNT HAVE A CHOICE

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[thenormalsquint]

That's... horrible. Cruel. How could anybody do that to a person and sleep at night?

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[wouldnotkindly]

[By the time Jack answers (and, possibly, luckily for Angela), he's given up on texting altogether. His voice is still hoarse and bitter when he speaks.]

He's Frank Fontaine, that's how.

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[thenormalsquint]

Who is he? Some big cheese with a cruelty streak?

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[wouldnotkindly]

He was a conman. [But he won't say she's wrong, because she's not. Definitely not.]

Everything horrible that happened in Rapture... [Everything horrible that happened to him, really, even his own birth, but that isn't something he'll dare to say just yet.] If it wasn't because of Andrew Ryan, then it was because of him.