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IC Inbox ☽☽ genessia

"Hi, Jaune Arc here! ...Except that, I'm actually not here right now. Or maybe I am and I just re-discovered decent comic books but I mean, I'm probably not ignoring you. So leave me a message. Unless you were trying to call someone else. Then you should call them. Smiley face."

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didn't have the excuse that YOU do of "mind-altering bullshit", for starters

bided my time until a guardian up and offered me a deal to help me out tbh

hmmmmmmmm

i wonder where you might find a guardian who would offer protection to a mind-warped killer

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I feel so bad for you.

yeah lucky you

[Killer. Yeah. He has that label now.

...]

what do you want, Mercury?

[ paying forward a kindness, but like hell is he going to look at it that way. ]

not about what i want, it's about what i can offer. way i see it, there's no way you should be held accountable for something that happens when nine out of ten people were acting out of their right mind. this place does that kind of shit constantly.

until things blow over and tempers cool, stick to nova. i'll keep the hounds off you. seems the guardian-ly thing to do.

[why? he doesn't ask even if he wants to.]

it doesn't matter if I was in my right mind or not. Kay is dead. so are other people, and they won't get the option to come back. someone has to own up to it.

you already have enough to deal with.

it ABSOLUTELY matters. someone's got to be held accountable, sure, but you're not going to fix anything by taking a fall for things that aren't your fault. if you're going to martyr yourself wait for a decent time for it, geeze

being a martyr and taking responsibility aren't the same thing!

so what, you just expect this to blow over?

honestly?

... yeah?

not right away, and it's going to be strained as hell for a bit, but anyone with half a brain knows how this place can be. they'll figure out that they're aiming their anger in the wrong direction sooner or later.

ok

but the elections coming up, so if you change your mind at least give me 24 hours heads up?

...thanks.

[Knowing that things could have gone very differently in that other reality or whatever it was, Jaune can't really resent Mercury. He's already accepted Emerald for a while, but he never extended that to her partner. He's sure that he's still a jerk, but...he sucks less than some of his other former deputies and a lot of people in general.

He doesn't hate him.]

because THAT would make me look good, offering amnesty and then rescinding it mid-election. if i wasn't going to follow through i wouldn't have offered.

[ Emerald liking this weirdo (sort of) probably helped flavor Mercury's decision more than a little. See? Sometimes it's about who you know. ]