foolishmortals | FOURTH TRIAL

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FOURTH TRIAL

[To what I'm sure is everyone's joy after a sad investigation like that, after everyone reaches the Stretching Room, Oogie's voice can be heard.]

Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it just your imagination?

[Well at least he's honoring Ghostave's memory, except he starts laughing, almost tauntingly, after he says that.

In the very least the graveyard seems identical, with three new epitaphs for our dearly departed.

Here lies Lea
Slaying bugs he made a name
And got sent to the deadliest game

Here lies WALL-E
They were our dearest friend
But that didn’t help them in the end

Here lies Tarzan?
????
?????

... Ok then.

Oogie speaks before everyone can get to their tombstones.]

Don't keep me waiting!

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...yeah. In the Laundry Room. It was all full of puddles. Of course my boots would get wet if I got there.

[It's a bit amazing how he can contradict himself without changing his tone]

But Lefou just said the floor there was dry.

That's--that...

[...oh. Demyx shuts up, most of his coldness leaving him. Instead he falls silent]

...Demyx. If there's anything we should know, I think it's best you come out and tell us now, before we go any further.

[WHAT THE FUCK, HE THOUGHT YOU WERE CHILL....]

...Dude, you're nervous, aren't you?

[She knows that look.]

You broke WALL-E!

Wally was a robot. A machine. Fix it later and it'll be like nothing happened.

[Yeah, Demyx still isn't big on empathy and the such]

So you admit it, then? You...you murdered him?

...yeah. I broke it.

[Still not calling it a murder, though. It was a machine. He bets it didn't even have a heart]

[BRO]

He was alive. He was sentient.

This...this bastard doesn't care about it!

I don't care. I can't care.

[He thinks]

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. . .

[bruh.

Still, tentatively, Mike reaches out to put a hand on his shoulder.]

You're. . .not totally wrong, man, but it doesn't work like that. Not here.

[Well he doesn't move, he's just giving up. You could hit him with a cello and he wouldn't react]

I thought it was a better target. It's not like I killed someone who is here, alive and all. It was just a machine.

[He shrugs]

I don't even know why I panicked while I was doing that. I just--pushed the table on it and ran away. Didn't even think it wasn't completely broken yet.

He wasn't your run-of-the-mill android! If you'd spent more than five minutes with him you'd have figured that out!

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[Mike has no freaking clue how Nobodies work, but he definitely gets where Demyx is coming from. He nods, pocketing his hands.]

Maybe you felt bad--the little guy was everyone's friend here, after all. And you didn't wanna die, so. . .you didn't wanna get caught.

[He lets out a huff.]

Honestly? I would've done the same. Not the cleaning up my tracks part, but the rest of what you did. I get it, man.

He--! [You know, Wendy was sad before, but it seems she's been refueled by a burst of rage.]

Hey wasn't just a robot, you idiot! He was our friend! He cared about us, and... and did stuff with us!

He had a heart!

[He wasn't just a roomba.]

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It's not like you - [Julia's fingers curl around her tombstone.] He could talk, he understood us, and you think he was just a machine? How heartless can you be?

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You were still fine with killing the rest of us! Don't act like you're better for picking him as a victim!

Unless you make it so he can't be fixed. It -- by the rules of this place it probably wouldn't've counted otherwise.

[He isn't even... angry, exactly. He agrees with Demyx to a degree, even, but WALL-E wasn't just a machine.

He's just... tired. Wrung out. He doesn't have the energy to be furious anymore.]

Surely you'll get something out of that vending machine that'll get it fixed. You'll see.

[Demyx doesn't really care if it gets fixed or not. He got caught, he'll be executed, what does that matter]

Disgusting.

[That isn't how it works! It isn't how life works!]

...But you told Lefou there was nothing on the floor, did you not?

[Um.]

I was in the laundry room, too. The only water was in the basin and the machine.

Okay, yeah, guess that's legi--[WAIT NO THAT'S NOT LEGIT AT ALL!!]

. . .

Dude. . .

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