11-12-2021, 02:53:45 AM
The kid's dead.
Russell...he was fucking doomed. Doomed more than he already was just by being here, doomed, doomed, doomed.
Voi just looks, unable to make herself do anything other than feel peril and rage and sheer inability to do anything, anything, you can't do anything, you're powerless-
Why should she care anyways, right?! Heeko's probably gonna send out to grab another kid like him once all of them were dead in the ground. They were all replaceable. Heeko and that Pianist had already made that clear as day. Hell, it wasn't even anything new to Voi. It's just how things work. You get replaced. You're done with, you're obsolete, and when you eventually grow old and boring and stale you'll get thrown away and replaced with someone that can do everything you can. Except better. It's the nature of improvement, they say. The corps always say that they're out to make things better.
And if you can't fit their idea of better, then there's no place for you in their future.
Shouldn't she be happy? Ruby didn't say her name despite Voi's vote. She'd evaded death again. She'd evaded obsolescence once more, she's done this too many times before, shouldn't she be grateful? Grateful for the luxury of getting to exist?
She'd always been ungrateful, then. Being grateful never got you anywhere in life.
You can't save him.
You can't do anything about it.
Just watch, and wait to see what happens next.
Russell...he was fucking doomed. Doomed more than he already was just by being here, doomed, doomed, doomed.
Voi just looks, unable to make herself do anything other than feel peril and rage and sheer inability to do anything, anything, you can't do anything, you're powerless-
Why should she care anyways, right?! Heeko's probably gonna send out to grab another kid like him once all of them were dead in the ground. They were all replaceable. Heeko and that Pianist had already made that clear as day. Hell, it wasn't even anything new to Voi. It's just how things work. You get replaced. You're done with, you're obsolete, and when you eventually grow old and boring and stale you'll get thrown away and replaced with someone that can do everything you can. Except better. It's the nature of improvement, they say. The corps always say that they're out to make things better.
And if you can't fit their idea of better, then there's no place for you in their future.
Shouldn't she be happy? Ruby didn't say her name despite Voi's vote. She'd evaded death again. She'd evaded obsolescence once more, she's done this too many times before, shouldn't she be grateful? Grateful for the luxury of getting to exist?
She'd always been ungrateful, then. Being grateful never got you anywhere in life.
You can't save him.
You can't do anything about it.
Just watch, and wait to see what happens next.