text | in spacetext no one can see you crying like a toddler.

[borndying]

Who cares if you die?

( feel free to interpret that however you please, denizens of the EXTREMELY POORLY NAMED tranquility! all possible interpretations are acceptable in harry's current state of complete emotional breakdown. he probably doesn't care if any of you die, for instance, and may bitterly resent you for having an actual answer to this question.

who cared when norman died? who really cared. people mourned the man who'd contributed so much, but that man was an idea. an image carefully cultivated. harry knew enough to know better, but even he wouldn't pretend to have known his father, and who's going to care when harry dies? just like norman did.

harry's legacy is just disappointment and isolation. his best friend is his only friend and he's pretty sure they're totally not friends any more, also. everything sucks and he broke a bottle when he got back to his room and he can't be bothered to clean it up, he's just going to sit here and hate all of you, publicly and violently, and

you know, by text, because he looks even shitter than usual. )

Comments

[instincts]

your family.

[borndying]

My family are gonna care if you die? We've started with some real ambition, here.

[majestyofthethrone]

It's more important than people may think.

[borndying]

Two for 'no one'.

[alsohawkeye]

My friends. Even if sometimes it seems like they're too busy caring about their own drama to bother.

[ Kate totally didn't write this with Harry's specific problem in mind no way what are you talking about. (It's still true, so there.) ]

[borndying]

You ever consider that if you're worried your friends "drama" would stop them from caring that you died that maybe they're shitty friends?

[timeisluck]

[ ... is this a misfired text? is the tranquility still having issues? either way, gwen recognizes the person writing it. ]

someone's always going to care, harry.

[borndying]

Well, sure, I mean, look at you.

text. filtered to him... with his own filter.

[unmakes]

i have no idea how to take that so

literal answer: i care, my friends care - well i guess the ones who can see ghosts don't care quite so bad bc they can still talk to me but whatever - my family cared

[ she doesn't realize she slipped into past tense there. whoops. ]

figurative/hypothetical/whatever other bullshit word answer: please tell me this isn't some emo self-pity thing, because my 'death sucks way worse than you could possibly imagine so don't even think about it' talk needs some reworking before i whip that puppy out again

sally you precious baby. oslock from here on out.

[borndying]

It's just a question, Sal.

[Voice]

[the_other_eight]

Here or at home.

[borndying]

Fucking pick one, Jesus.

text.

[technologist]

Friends and family.

[ The generic response seems silly, given that he's fairly sure it won't be a theoretical situation if he ever gets home. After a slight pause: ]

Probably. Why?

[borndying]

Why anything?

text; private

[50000volts]

If we're talking about me, I have no idea who would care if I died.

[ Not entirely accurate, but listing off people who might care (Kate, Claire) seems counterintuitive to interacting with Harry right now. If he wants to infer that she really doesn't know that anyone would care, that's on him. ]

If we're talking about you, I would care.

oslock ∞

[borndying]

I'm real touched.

( completely unconvinced. )

text. private.

[adhesion]

you finding the answers you're looking for?

text. private.

[borndying]

I didn't mean to break his fucking glasses.

private.

[darkart]

No one.

Are you having a tantrum?

∞

[borndying]

What the fuck is it to you.

( YES HE IS. )

[spiegele]

no one

[ . . . cares if you specifically die, mystery person Tobias hasn't met yet and whose personal welfare he therefore cares about not at all!]

[borndying]

That's sad for you, bro. Five for 'no one'.

[rebelled]

Far more than you seem to think. There are those you leave behind, and those you would meet again.

No death is gone uncared for.

[borndying]

You sound like you have pamphlets.

[de_void]

scott would probably care, the sap.

[pointedly not mentioning his dad because he still has those fears, even now, that his dad would be better off without him.]

[borndying]

I'm astonished and a little saddened that it took us this goddamn long to get someone who could actually think of a name.

( he's actually not. )

[sophically]

Your family, your friends, those you may have only communicated with in passing.

[borndying]

Well, I'll let 'em know to give a damn when you die.

( harry already knows who cares when he dies, he is persistently going to answer such responses as if they'd answered the question he intended to ask because he is a douchebag. )

text

[jondrette]

No one did

[borndying]

B u m m e r.

text

[pushesback]

sometimes no one gives a shit. what's that got to do with it?

[borndying]

You tell me, man, nobody made you get up in here.

text

[redhotsummers]

The bigger question is who wouldn't care?

Mostly everyone. No one is that special.

[borndying]

Finally, someone sensible.

( ^ IT'S OFFICIALLY TIME TO EXAMINE YOUR LIFE AND CHOICES, ALEX SUMMERS, WHEN THE ALCOHOLIC THROWING A PUBLIC TANTRUM THINKS YOU'RE MAKING SENSE. )

I mean, it's a little internet tough guy, but you ain't wrong.

[striking]

The person that kills you.

[borndying]

If you're lucky.

text; private.

[culver]

For a long time nobody.
But I found someone who would. Even though he is gone I like to think that even in another universe he would know and care.

not here.

[borndying]

( congratulations, nill, you are officially the first and only response from a stranger that actually merits a pause, actually impacts him in any real way. it's the starkness of it that makes him stop, and he circles it for a while, coming back several times to read it over again. someone here, she means, he can tell. someone here who is gone now.

harry doesn't believe anyone remembers a damn thing, off the ship. he doesn't believe that the person nill is talking about remembers her at all, much less has the capacity to care what happens to her.

the idea of telling her so is-- uncomfortable. he doesn't examine that; he just doesn't say anything at all. )

[klutziness]

at the very least, the dude who has to bury your body
you're his paycheck

[borndying]

New favourite answer, right here.

Text

[acapriciousthing]

When anyone dies, I care.

[borndying]

Creepy.

text; private

[suddenlycaptain]

the people who try to save you.

or the people who watched it happen.

[ Tense change not deliberate on her part. ]

oslock ∞

[borndying]

Now, earlier I was just mocking people who said "you" when I clearly started with that and they should've ponied up with a little "I".

I'd hate to kick a lady with a wrench the size of my head when she's down, though.

( or: he sees your totally an i-statement, queen of flight. )

text;

[axeyou]

It's been this long, and no one's offered to kill you so you could find out?

[borndying]

Dude, apparently I'm doing the threatening. You know what I think? I think this ship has an insufficiently high class of death threat overall.

( now if you threaten him it's flirting, johanna. )

text;

[nutsaboutscans]

if I die? Dorian, Sandra, Sally.

[He thinks (hopes) some other people might care, but he's not sure.]

do you even care about these answers?

[borndying]

Not in the fucking slightest.

[borntorebel]

My family and friends would care if I died here, I imagine.

[borndying]

( harry almost responds to this one, but ultimately there's not enough here to give him something to mock easily that wouldn't be a rehash of previous insults.

and harry prides himself on personalizing each and every derisive put down. )