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Edogawa Conan | Kudo Shinichi ([personal profile] silverbulletkun) wrote in [personal profile] squirreledaway 2013-06-05 09:25 pm (UTC)

I went over most of his game feelings on plurk, but it essentially sums up to not okay. I can never stress enough how jarring it is for him to have had any sort of conscious hand in killing people; for him, taking a life is the absolute worst thing you can do. The chestburster thing was just the icing on the cake to make the nightmares worse, really; he's used to seeing death, but not quite that unnecessarily gruesome. The fact that he couldn't find any loopholes or ways around the game mechanics made him feel very trapped, and that's not something he's used to- he's a detective, he should always be able to find a way out- and yet even in a situation that goes so against his very being he turned to the one thing he could do: helping to protect his team. So he did participate in the game, if only minorly. So now the problem is that the game is over and he was able to help the injured a little and all but he still feels trapped. There's no way out of this guilt, for him. He can only take the time to suppress it.

In each round there was one team that died that Amethyst had played a stone on. Granted I think it was only Iolite that actually died from an accumulation of stones from multiple teams as opposed to bussing themselves/being bussed by another team, but he took note of it. It isn't something he's planning to talk about, but he's going to remember that he had a hand, however small or inconsequential, in the deaths of Citrine, Iolite, and Peridot. However, due to the nature of the game he feels like everyone bears some guilt for everyone that died- we were all murderers in that game, essentially. He didn't have a lot of personal attachment to any of the teams that died, but he didn't need to- one of the things that first threw him about this game was his team promptly picking out which teams they didn't want to target, and it just baffled him that they would so quickly pick favorites when they really had no right to take anyone's life. There was Berry and Star, but even with that he was able to keep his distance. With how independent he is, he just hasn't been around long enough to make many strong connections.

He is aware of all the knights dying; Amethyst didn't place any stones on knights, but he saw when they died. He isn't fully aware of the pre-existing tension to do with some knights feeling like they're disposable to teams, but even without that he can kinda gather that it really looks that way from this game. That implication does bother him some, but one game like this isn't enough to prove to him that this is the case and that it wasn't just one or two teams deciding to target the knights.

How did Mako feel about the game (besides in horrendous pain)? I saw Bolin found out, how is that working out for him?

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