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betty cooper ([personal profile] perfectible) wrote2020-07-18 09:35 pm
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I think to fight him, I have to become like him.
I don't know if there's any coming back from that.
But I can't turn my back on it either because I'm the only choice we have.
perfectible: (smile ⇾ sad smile ⇾ welp)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I felt about my father. In order to stop him, I had to do things like he did, think like him, to play his games. But I had people behind me, to keep me anchored, to pull me out of that darkness when I couldn't do it myself.

I can't believe that you don't have that too. [ in some shape or form. just from her interactions with alina, betty felt drawn to her and she knew that if she were from where alina was, she'd be one of those people behind her.]
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that simple.
No one else has the power that I do.
Literally.
And I need more to beat him. And I feel like I get farther from human as it grows.
perfectible: (drink ⇾ booze ⇾ skeptical)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
He's that evil?[ she suddenly feels uncomfortable with how vulnerable she'd been with him.


but betty's seen this movie, read this book, but she still has to ask.] Are you going to die? Fighting him?
Edited 2021-10-02 03:43 (UTC)
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cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know.
Maybe.

[ is there a socially acceptable way to say "that's just about the only thing i have left to look forward to?" because, you know. ]
perfectible: (listen ⇾ what what what)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh.

betty just stares at her phone because that's one of the worst things she's read. of course, alina isn't the only one whose world is in peril or has to go home to face a shitshow. bellamy... betty can't even think of how bellamy is probably dead now. and not this city's version of dead but actually, truly dead. ]

As bad as this place can be... I hope you never have to go back there, Alina. Because no one should have to do that.

[ especially not someone their own age. ]

And I hope you know that nothing you do here makes you a bad person, at least not to me.
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
How many bad things does a person have to do before they're simply a bad person?
perfectible: (listen ⇾ biting lip ⇾ awkward)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. How many do you think?
Edited 2021-10-02 04:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I think I passed that point.
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[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
You really think it's that bad?

[ what has she done? ]
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Is it that hard to imagine, after what I already told you?

[ or does revenge really excuse it? ]
perfectible: (skeptical ⇾ the most ⇾ who me?)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Do you like the things you do? That you consider "bad"?
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-02 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ parts of it, maybe. but the parts that were terrible? that made her feel responsible for the awful things he'd done in turn? ]

No.
I didn't have to enjoy it. It was enough that it hurt him.
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[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-02 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Do you want me to tell you're a bad person? Is it so hard to believe that I don't think you are especially when you don't think I am?
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-03 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
No.
I don't know what I want.
A way to stop believing it about myself.
perfectible: (smile ⇾ listening ⇾ interested)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-03 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Talking about it can help.
Also knowing you're not alone and there are people who believe you are better than you think you are.
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-03 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
All talking about it has ever done for me is make me realize how little my friends understand.

[ not entirely fair. but she'd always wound up in screaming matches with mal. ]
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[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-03 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you haven't talked to the right person yet.
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-04 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd certainly like that to be true.
perfectible: (drink ⇾ booze ⇾ skeptical)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-14 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
You can always talk to me, here, that is.
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-14 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to make you listen to my problems.
perfectible: (listen ⇾ concern ⇾ long)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-14 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
You're not making me, I'm offering.

It's actually nice to have a friend.
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-14 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a persuasive enough argument. she waffles on it for a bit. ]

The things that I've done to humiliate my Submissive won't do anything to help fight him. It won't stop him.
I don't even enjoy doing it.
All it does is make me feel like, for a moment, I'm in control.
perfectible: (listen ⇾ what what what)

[personal profile] perfectible 2021-10-14 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ holy shit she relates to this. except for her, sometimes it feels good to do bad things. ]

Sometimes... I get lost in that feeling. Sometimes it's good to feel control when the world keeps taking it away from us.
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[personal profile] sunmon 2021-10-14 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That's exactly it.
As much as I don't want the responsibility, I don't trust anyone else with it.
But I'm not happy. And I'm not winning.
Humiliating the Darkling doesn't get me closer to beating him. It doesn't help em fight him. It just hurts us both.
Then he repays the favor.
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