Week 7

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well this is all starting to feel incredibly routine. After being trapped here for a month and a half with no sign of rescue, maybe you have just resigned to the idea that you'll never leave this place and that people will keep dying until none of you're are left.

Truthfully, I can't even pretend to make an optimistic about any of this. it's a dark and horrid world you all live in.

There are no new floors today. It seems you finally have access to the whole mansion.

15 people remain]

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Comments

[faciliheir]

Does that... matter? You won the argument; it's part of the deal.

[nachosquire]

[you know that face spongebob made when he found out squidward liked krabby pattys

imagine that on marco]

Yeah but you wouldn't want to actually play along like you're my big sister unless you actually wanted to.

[faciliheir]

... I guess I don't not want to. I guess.

[beat]

It's. Weirdly lonely in my room now, okay?

[nachosquire]

Hey, no, I get it.

[Marco's expression softens to a smile, and now he vaguely feels bad for telling her to get the Fuck out.]

People keep dying even though we keep trying to prevent that from happening and it's.. kind of scary. We're down to half the amount of people we started with? And it makes me wonder if we're really gonna be able to rescue everyone before the rest of us are all dead.

[faciliheir]

[oh shit it got serious for a moment.

a pause.]

My dad escaped.

[nachosquire]

......what?

[he doesnt like the idea of a decapitated head running around thank you]

[faciliheir]

I fixed him with the wand after the trial, with Basil. And then he left. [which is. actually kinda the story of her life tbh.]

[nachosquire]

He left left? Like, he's not in the mansion anymore? Liiiike.. not even stuck outside with the shadows left?

[faciliheir]

I hope he's gone for good, but... There's still a slight chance he's just completely ignored what I said and immediately threw himself into another scheme and is still around?

So, yeah. That happened.

[nachosquire]

I... I'm not sure if I should be sorry for you or happy for you.

[And he's not sure if he likes the idea of Facilier still being around or not.]

[faciliheir]

Happy, I'd say! It's a test run for when I free the real deal.

[nachosquire]

The real.. he's not your real dad?

[there's so much to unpack here]

[faciliheir]

Well, kinda-- he's a version of my dad. There could be millions of those. [just. hangin around.] I'm talking about the dad I grew up with, that raised me-- that man is still back home on the Isle. And with the wand? Nothing will stop me from getting him out.

[nachosquire]

[Marco's just gonna. Take a long sip of his coffee to process all of that.]

Is the Isle like, some kind of prison or something?

[she's mentioned it before already but he didnt stop to actually ask what it was]

[faciliheir]

Where they put the baddest of the bad. [sighs fondly] Home sweet home.

[nachosquire]

[He gives her a nod at that, like ah yes I see now. No wonder she said he wouldn't last over there.. even he agrees he wouldn't last in a prison. Though he's totally imagining this isle like.. a giant state prison on it's own island rather than a shitty dystopian-esque village on it's own island.]

Usually I don't encourage like, rule breaking or bad guys doing bad stuff but honestly I hope your plan works and you can break your dad outta jail.

[faciliheir]

Most of you guys seem to. It's making me kinda worry I'm accidentally doing something righteous. [BC THAT WOULD BE WEIRD]

It's just... Not everybody deserves to be on the Isle, y'know? None of us kids do, I think, but a lot of our folks don't, either. Not all of them tried to conquer the world. A lot of 'em just made the wrong person angry.

[nachosquire]

Yeah.. I don't know the full story, obviously, but I feel like banishing a bunch of people to an Isle-- even their kids is maybe going a little far? Unless your dad, like, murdered a bunch of people or something. And you also murdered a bunch of people.

[faciliheir]

He was just gonna kill one rich dude and damn the souls of New Orleans. It's not even a big deal.

[these are actually relatively minor crimes]

[nachosquire]

........that sounds kind of like a big deal.

[faciliheir]

It's not as big a deal as "skinning a hundred and one puppies to make a coat," though, is it?

[nachosquire]

[Marco actually lets out a gasp at that.]

Who would skin puppies for a jacket?! I thought people did that too, like, alli..ga....

[stopping himself there bc louis exists]

[faciliheir]

A villain would. Specifically, Carlos' mom. If it makes you feel better, the coat never happened; she got beat by the pups and sent off to the Isle just like everybody else.

[nachosquire]

That does make me feel better, actually. A lot better.

[All he was imagining was his own lil litter of puppies back home being a coat and No Thank You.]

Still... cursing the souls of everyone in New Orleans or whatever sounds like a little bit of a red flag? I mean, they still shouldn't have put you on the Isle too, though.

[faciliheir]

Only to save his own! If those darn frogs hadn't messed everything up, his debt would've been paid off! [and then he would've added more--

she's had a very one-sided interpretation of events given to her]

As awful as they are, I don't think the Auradonians... meant to do that? I mean, I wasn't even sure they knew any of us existed 'til the fancy car showed up and carted some kids off to Princessland. But, 20 years is a pretty long time. Anything could happen.