ENDGAME

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[A wall panel in the green room slides out of view, revealing an elevator. Get in it and it will take you down to the hotel (description here), where your fellow contestants - alive and ghostly - await.

You may spend as long as you want here, ordering up as much room service as you like, but when you're read to go home, you'll find that one floor (new to the current hotel occupants) has nothing but doors with your names on them. Exit, and you'll show up exactly where you were when you left.]

((THANK YOU FOR PLAYING EVERYONE. Ghosts, feel free to materialize and talk to people. You may now speak about your prizes.))

Comments

[meatitfeedson]

[She just laughs and shakes her head. She takes a few even, likely even bleeds, but when she's had enough, she grabs Natsuhi by the wrist and squeezes, only to push her back with as much force as she can.]

Anyone who says they wouldn't do the same is a goddamn liar.

[refusedtoleave]

[She stops flailing and pushes back.]

...Even if they had the same prize?

[It's hissed out between her teeth, because how do you fight?]

[meatitfeedson]

Especially if they had the same prize! What would you do to keep Jessica-chan and Krauss-niisan?!

[If that's how it's going to be, then Kyrie grabs her by the collar.]

[refusedtoleave]

I meant children. Krau-guh.

[She's jostled, and rests a hand on Kyrie's shoulder for balance.]

Krauss and Jessica weren't mentioned on my prize...

[meatitfeedson]

I'm talking hypothetically Natsuhi-neesasn. Wouldn't you be willing to kill someone to have them with you?

[refusedtoleave]

What does that have to do with the prizes? Given what little I've told of yours and how I should respond, they'd have nothing to do with.

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[meatitfeedson]

It has everything to do with the prizes.

Did you know, neesan? When Asumu-san and Rudolf-san married, it's just because she was pregnant. But I was pregnant too, it's just that I was ill at the time, so I didn't know until I started to show.

But Asumu-san had already forced her way into the register, so I was going to have a shameful bastard. ...Only he was stillborn. But if I did have that child, Rudolf-san could have married me instead, you know?

[meatitfeedson]

Instead I have to look at that bitch's stupid, worthless kid who stole everything from me! Who's the exact same age to the very day that my son would have been! Who probably looks just like he would have! I have to pretend I like that worthless little shit when all I want is for him to be dead.

Umineko spoilers

[refusedtoleave]

...

[The entire way through that! Natsuhi is just frowning in varying levels of disgust. And she's just not sure what to say.]

You want to know what my grand prize is so badly? Then fine!

[There's no hiding the venom in her voice even when it's brought to a whisper.]

My prize was that certain child hadn't died. Because everyday for the last nineteen years I've wondered what they'd be like. How well they'd have gotten along with Jessica. How they'd have done in school.

What my life would be like if things had been different...

And when they gave me that note at the start of all this. I didn't want to believe it was possible. So I didn't bother thinking about it. At all, it was a waste of time. Then I got sent to the hotel.

I think that even if I'd only done half as much as you have. And against all odds gotten that prize, I wouldn't have been able to look them in the eye, or Jessica or Krauss. Not without thinking of everything that happened here, everything that it cost...

[It's not the full story, but her feelings on this won't change.]

[meatitfeedson]

[Well this is interesting new information... She'd never heard of another child they had. So...? She'd like to ask, but right now she's playing the villain's part.]

Then frankly Natsuhi-neesan, I don't think it matters that much to you. I love Rudolf-san, and I loved our unborn child. ...When the doctor told me my baby was dead and handed me that lifeless bundle, if I had a heart before, I'm sure that was the moment I lost it. To get that child and all those years with the man I love back, I'd kill a thousand people with my bare hands.

[refusedtoleave]

Don't talk like you know anything about how I feel. When you've already made it clear you don't.

You're right about one thing though, you really don't have heart if you don't realise how far you went. What about Ange, how do you think she'd feel if she saw what you'd done here? What you said about Battler?

[She grits her teeth. Before pushing herself up, have fun with the few seconds of extra weight. She's not taking her eyes off of Kyrie as she backs away to the others.]

There's no point speaking to you any further. Not when you can't even see how this is wrong...

[meatitfeedson]

I'm surprised you didn't watch that part then.

[When she cried on Santa, begging him to ask the Ushiromiyas not to tell Ange what she's like, so she won't end up like her mother.

But that's the first thing Natsuhi has said that's broken her armour.]

It would destroy her. ...She's a good girl who thinks her mother's perfect.

But that doesn't change the fact that she's wrong.

Or that I'll never let her see what I'm really like. If her mom and dad do awful things, it will secure a good life for her. So she never has to cheat or hurt anyone to get by.

[refusedtoleave]

Are you really expecting to believe you care? When you've already said you're heartless...

[She should have changed her prize no debt and the rest of the family has no connection to hers.

Because she's done, she's going.]

[meatitfeedson]

[True, why did she bother while playing the villain's part.

It's just, Ange.

She gives a shrug and walks the other way.]