thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

Heart Game (Continued)

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[...all right, flinching away from all contact.

In that case, are there any vines still around that he could set on fire without burning any corpses or causing a chain reaction that would be bad? Because if so he's going to set vines on fire. Call it stress relief.]

...Yaksinis, huh. That same Echo that was working with Nyssa that other time.

They're to blame. For all of this.

[And he does mean all.]

[There are some vines not on corpses. Who knows about that chain reaction though.]

It was in the rules. Loopholes I should have spotted.

[Can they be picked up? ...If not he'll pull out his sword and hack off a piece.]

I told Miss Emotions Don't Work Here this, and I'll tell you too. You did everything you could to try and prevent more death. You made a mistake, but you tried as hard as you could.

Mistakes don't make you a bad person.

[He can hack off a piece and burn it, yes.]

I should have known better. I know games. I know loopholes and the secret stuff.

[He is doing that then. VINE TORCH. ...It makes him feel better okay.]

You did what you thought would mean less deaths at the time. Nobody's perfect, right? So just learn from it for next time.

[Pyroooooo.]

Yeah.

Don't try.

...I never said don't try, geeze. It's okay to make mistakes. But if you hadn't tried, then there'd be something wrong.

I tried and this happened.

And if you hadn't, you'd be kicking yourself now for not speaking up and dragging things out.

It was over days.

So? It's still better that you tried and failed than not to try at all!

Even when trying means others are paying for it?

If there's a chance that it'll make things better, it's better than not trying at all.

I probably would've done the same thing.

You probs wouldn't ignore your teammate.

[...oh come on there was nothing said about a teammate being there and having a dissenting opinion.

He'll just hack off another piece of vine to burn because seriously.]

If I wasn't the only one playing? Then yeah, I guess. But that's not really the point.

Look. If you hadn't done that, if you'd just shut up, and it had been dragged out, and it turned out that they were seriously that blind and everyone ended up dying except you, you'd regret not having spoken up, right?

Three teams.

If the wolves played along, at least three teams would have lived.

You had no way of knowing that everybody would die, Roxy! Last I checked, you're not psychic.

[What's funny is that's honestly debatable with how Homestuck works.]

I should have!

I ignored my teammate, I ignored what so many people were saying, and I shouldn't have because then maybe I would have seen what was in the rules sooner!

So learn from it!

But don't blame yourself. Blame the Echo who ran this dumbass excuse for a game instead. 'Cause if it wasn't for that? None of this would've happened. Even if you had stayed quiet? Teams still would've died. If the Yaksinis hadn't been assholes, though, nobody would've had to.

...

So it's not... It's not your fault. Please, just don't blame yourself for this.

There's always assholes. I'm suppose to...supposed to stop them.

And you tried.

You're allowed to not be perfect at it, you know?

[She scoffs.] I know I'm not.

And that's okay!

You're allowed to make mistakes. You're allowed to not always succeed. As long as you keep trying... That's what matters.

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