{ 08 } well you can try and change the world but you won't change me

[socoolbrewster]

Well that was pointless.

[There's an Ed giving the camera a very unimpressed look, though he's unsettled underneath; not obviously so, but those particularly adept at reading body language could pick it up with relative ease; he has the ragged look of someone who hasn't slept in days, a certain tenseness of muscles and looseness of movement that speaks to pain of some kind, though he's trying to spackle over it all with his usual cocksure attitude.

Anger seems to help.]

Like "I'm sorry" actually helps. Fuck you. Anybody who actually liked having Captain Douchenozzle around raise your hands high so I can murder you in your sleep.



[A/N: feel free to assume you (or the replacement) ran into Brewster while he was around; I dropped the ball in terms of bothering people, sooo I'll either backtag that or handwave depending on what's most convenient.]

Comments

[socoolbrewster]

Isn't that enough? Fucking asshole thinks that just undoes everything.

[...When coupled with "if I'd known Peter had a stake that could turn everyone back I would have found another way" it kind of helps, but Ed's trying to ignore that. Somehow it just seems to make everything worse.]

And just so you know? Your little insightful quips and questions aren't exactly helping.

[made_a_choice]

You obviously wanted to bounce this off of someone and didn't seem to care who.

If you wanted someone who was going to nod and agree with you all the way you wouldn't have asked people to identify themselves as sympathetic to your friend back there. I'm not saying you haven't got reason to be angry, and being killed is pretty damning evidence, but I'm not one for black and white politics, and I didn't see enough of him to think he was a malicious person.

Take that how you're gonna, but there it is.

[socoolbrewster]

I'm not looking for agreement, but I'm not looking for people to defend him either. Or did you miss the second half of the question?

He's not my friend anyway.

[made_a_choice]

I don't take threats to kill me in my sleep terribly seriously in this place. I know, big shocker, especially since there are some hardened criminals around, but since it's not permanent I figured you guys would try to be a bit more creative if anything we had to say really offended you that much.

So riddle me this: Would you have been relieved or offended if he left at the end of the flood and had nothing at all to say to you?

[socoolbrewster]

Wouldn't have cared one way or the other; it's not like it'd be any different than any other day.

[made_a_choice]

Sounds like you would have and you did.

If he'd left without saying a word, then that would have been what you'd have seen as typical, and good thing you hate him. But since he actually did try to leave something for you -- what an asshole.

[socoolbrewster]

No, he's an asshole anyway. He didn't need to leave some kind of half-assed apology to be one.

[made_a_choice]

I haven't got the letter right in front of me, so tell me: What would have been less half-assed?

I don't mean that to be crass; I'd really like to understand your side of it.

[socoolbrewster]

I don't know, something more than a damn letter maybe? I mean, come on, anybody can write something down, that doesn't mean jack shit.

[made_a_choice]

I don't think the Barge left much of an opening for anyone to do much more than that, unfortunately.

[socoolbrewster]

So? You asked, I answered.

[made_a_choice]

And that's all I'm doing, too.