one (smile like you mean it)

[scathefires]

un: j.doe
how does this thing know what day it is

anyway time is a construct and this thing on my wrist is giving me a rash

[oops guess who checked the date and saw that today’s his birthday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Comments

[scathefires]

kinda meant that in a general sense but yeah you could say that

i grew up in a pretty rough part of a pretty rough town

they call it crime alley for reasons

[mediumhoodie]

I grew up in a city full of demons. It's probably not the same but I can understand.

[scathefires]

actual demons or dudes who like to call themselves demons

[mediumhoodie]

Actual demons.

[scathefires]

no kidding

where are you from

[mediumhoodie]

It's called Limbo City.

Rather aptly named given its circumstances.

[scathefires]

thought limbo was for people not demons

[mediumhoodie]

Limbo City, not the parallel dimension though there are some people who can walk into there too. But, there are demons and it isn't safe.

[She happens to be one of those people and her escapes into Limbo had nearly killed her.]

[scathefires]

nowheres safe

dont need to grow up around demons to know that

[mediumhoodie]

I'd like to think that places can become safe.

cw vague mention of domestic abuse and drug use

[scathefires]

[he thinks about his childhood home - the fights and fists when his father was still around, the fight to keep his mother safe from the drugs that eventually claimed her life. he thinks about living on the streets, alone, fending for himself, until he was taken in at wayne manor, and even then, behind locked gates and enough security measures to rival a sitting president’s residence, jason didn’t feel entirely safe.]

sure

maybe a remote cabin in the woods if no one knows where you are

then again horror movies would have you believe the opposite

cw vague mention of domestic abuse and drug use

[mediumhoodie]

We are in a remote town now.

Lots of cabins.

[Kat doesn't want to believe him. She wants to believe that with Mundus gone, they can reshape the world and make it safe. It's demons who are making the world unkind... but what if they can't. What if she and Dante aren't enough?]

[scathefires]

lots of people around too

[and jason’s experience has taught him that people are dangerous and usually can’t be trusted.]

[mediumhoodie]

So? So far everyone's been nice.

[Which is strange, she'll admit it, but they all have something in common and that pulls them together in a way that few things can.]

[scathefires]

nice ones are the ones to watch out for the most

[not always. cissie was nice to him, for no real reason except she wanted to be nice. he misses her.]

[mediumhoodie]

Isn't it better to wish for the best in people?

[scathefires]

sure if you like wasting your time i guess go for it

[mediumhoodie]

This world doesn't have to be like our homes. I think we can make it better.

[He'll find that she's a painfully hopeful person, even after everything that they've been through.]

[scathefires]

how do you propose to make people better than what they are

[mediumhoodie]

Give them a chance.
Sometimes it takes believing someone and seeing the good in them, for them to see that good in themselves.

[scathefires]

[jason’s heart stops for a moment when he reads those words on the device screen. give people a chance, and they’ll usually surprise you. isn’t that exactly what bruce told him, many years ago? he’d taken a chance on jason, after all, and jason - well. look how that turned out.]

how many chances do you think people should get to screw up

how many other people have to get hurt because youre giving someone a chance

[mediumhoodie]

[His question hits her hard and it takes a moment for Kat to figure out how to answer.]

Everyone should get a second chance.

Look, people are going to get hurt and die no matter what you do. So why not make the future better for those who are still here?

[scathefires]

people dont have to get hurt and die because you wanna take the moral high road

take a tougher stance with the scum doing the hurting and killing

theres your better future

[mediumhoodie]

That only works if the world is back and white.

No one is completely evil.
We all do things for reasons and sometimes people thing they're doing things for the right reason.

[Isn't this world a second chance? Kat has to believe that it's possible, that people have a choice and the ability to change. That choice makes them human.]

[scathefires]

clearly youve never met some of the lunatics ive dealt with

[jason is 100% sure that the joker is at least 110% evil.]

it’s not an all or nothing game

some things work on a spectrum of shades but there ARE some things that are black & white