prismatica | anonymous text, un: ANON

i have a question. there's no right or wrong answer, i'm just wondering what people think.

suppose somebody came here, and outwardly they seemed like an average person. kept to themselves, didn't make trouble, maybe were a little bit weird but not, like, offensively so. you've never seen them do anything wrong. they seem pretty harmless. they're just a normal, fine, generally boring person.

then imagine somebody else said that they knew that person, and that all the niceness was just an act, and really that person was dangerous. really dangerous. and that the person hurt people in really bad ways. but imagine there was no proof of it, really, just that upset person's word against the boring person's.

how would you decide who to believe? would you only go by what you saw yourself, or only by what happened here and not where they came from, or what? would you believe anyone at all?

like i said, there's no right or wrong answer, i guess. i just wonder how you would make a decision either way, in a situation like that.

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i was a cop for awhile you know.
i think we could manage it.

Noooo, really? Wow! No wonder you're so cool.

You're really making me feel better, you know. Thanks. I mean that.

nah it's the lipstick

but seriously. i've fucked up a lot in my life. did more wrong than good.
i'd do what i could to make sure i did right by you and people who deserve it.

...You know, I was talking to a guy who said he's a police detective. And that he works for the Moon Knights.

I bet the Knights welcome guys with all sorts of useful policeman skills.

i cant
i cant do that again
i fucked it up too much the first time

thats sort of a big question anon!
i usually want to see the best in everyone, but ive had experience with people like that and it didnt go well...

id trust the person speaking up. try to find out more.

Edited 2019-09-15 11:59 (UTC)

Yes, I know him. And no, he's not going to get away with anything if he shows up here.

Can you draw me pictures of both of them? Just so that I can keep them, and show somebody if I need to.

All due respect, it's hard to answer that. You see a lot of people do a lot of bad things in war.

But I guess that's a bad example, if you're thinking of someone who's like this in regular life. War's just the reason why I knew so many dangerous folks.

You don't have to. I'm not going to tell you that you should or shouldn't, either.

...Besides, then you'd have to leave the Spaghetti Shack and I'd still be there suffering through it all alone, yuck. :P

yeah, i think war is a completely separate circumstance from the kind of thing i was getting at with my questions. that doesn't mean people shouldn't still talk about it, but right now it'd be, ummm.

what's that saying? something about going down a whole other rabbit hole?

when you say people like that, you mean people who are dangerous who don't seem dangerous on the outside?

it seems like most people wouldn't make any snap judgments but would try to find out both sides of things. pretty few have said "it's enough just that someone spoke up".

mhm, thats the kind i mean

a huge blanket answer to this is kind of hard... but i really think its important to listen to people when they speak up about stuff like this, you know? most people aren't going to make up something that serious. even more in a place like this, about a person who acts like that

Edited 2019-09-15 19:22 (UTC)

I can draw pictures of them both. Just keep them out of sight unless you need them. You shouldn't look at them every day.

I've got better things to look at every day than his horrible face. Like that vase you made for me.

This is just for if I need it. For emergencies.

Alright. Well, I'll draw a couple of sketches. It won't take me long.

that would be the true cruel action
ditching you to the spaghetti shack on your own

I think a lot of the people who have done bad things have had reasons for those bad things. Sometimes they may not be good reasons, but they usually exist. And, in this world, the reasons why the boring person may have done what he did are no longer there. That boring person might want to not do such things anymore. But if they are pushed and pushed, they probably will be given a reason again. In this situation, I'd ask the upset person about details, to keep on a lookout for that kind of things happening again. Because people's safety is important. Maybe take precautions, but not ones that would personally attack or corner the boring person. And then give the boring person a chance to not do the bad things again, by not assuming that he will do them again.

Something like that.

Point still stands, though. I usually watch out for people like that, war or no.

I'd say it'd definitely be worth looking into what the accuser has to say, if nothing else. You can never really be too careful if someone's that dangerous... but at the same time, I wouldn't really advocate vigilante justice, either.

To be more exact I'm very afraid of becoming that person here. There's a certain person from my world who I really hope never show up in this place.

that's a hard feeling to deal with, i think. did they do something to you, and that's why you don't want them here?

yeah, and even if they did, once the truth came out no one would ever listen to them again. that's a pretty big risk to take on a lie.

i think having people listen to you and believe you is really underrated, when it comes to how important it is.

hmmm. in that example, you make it sound like the boring person would almost start doing bad things again out of spite. like saying "well, if everyone believes i'm this bad, then i might as well be".

what kind of reasons are you thinking of, why the boring person would've done a bad thing? you sound like you've thought about this a lot.

hmm. what if vigilante justice turned out to be the only chance of bringing the boring person to justice at all?

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