+ Guilt Runs Deep

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Mansion
When: Feb 23-25
Rating: Please warn in top level subject lines for potential triggers/NSFW
Summary: Various residents are trapped in their own guilt, watching their guiltiest memory play on a loop.
The Story:

Welcome to the gathering post for the event. Please see the plotting post for more information + the bulletin board link. Have fun!

Comments

[thisismadfreaky]

Terroists...? [In Wonderland? He squints and follows as he moves to trace the familiar symbol. Both eyebrows shoot up at the implications of what he's just said.] SHIELD is hardly what I'd consider a terrorist organization.

[hypoxic]

I know they were recruiting. From the sounds of it, you've been indoctrinated already.

[thisismadfreaky]

I-- I don't know if I'd go that far, but I mean, I guess we were allies? [He only knew the things he learned from Fitz and Jemma-- Cisco hadn't really spoken much to the other members of SHIELD the last time he was here.] What the hell about their MO seems like a terrorist threat to you? [Because he soooo isn't following that one, at all, buddy.]

[hypoxic]

They operate outside of the law and train Inhumans to be used as weapons against the state. Presently, they're invading my home world.

[How is that not a terrorist move?]

[thisismadfreaky]

That's... not exactly how I understood it. [He squints, skeptical. He knows he can't buy what this guys says, but-- he also knows all about things like doppelgangers and alternate realities and... what if that was true on his version of Earth or something?]

[hypoxic]

They've probably convinced you that they were enacting justice. They're fond of casting Hydra as the enemy.

[thisismadfreaky]

[Yeah, people don't tend to like Nazi-esque regimes, amazingly. But Cisco manages to keep that comment to himself. It seems like bad form, and might be a little more residual bitterness to everything going on back home when he got pulled back into Wonderland. So instead, he switches gears--] I really miss my friend. You don't think he could show up while you're still here, do you? [If they're really two different people, like Cisco and Reverb are, couldn't it be possible for the real Fitz to still come back? And if this was some kind of brainwashing situation, well, hopefully something could be figured out sooner rather than later on fixing it.]

[hypoxic]

You'll benefit greatly by your friend's absence. Consider it a lesson in personal development.

[ but he steps back then, ready to leave Cisco to his guilt and his hallucinations. ]

[thisismadfreaky]

[Cisco could say something to stop him, but it seems futile. The guy isn't here to help him get out by any stretch of imagination, and arguing with him would only lead to him being stuck in this room even longer than he already has been. It's probably best to just let him go.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't at least give him his very best bitch-face on his way out.]