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

[borndying]

If you're lucky.

[striking]

Or tries.

People who want you dead care whether or not you're dead.

Or am I supposed to leave a list of names?

[borndying]

You do you, champ.

But let me introduce you to the concept of 'collateral damage', aka the 'oops, my bad' of murders. Sure, you usually hear it when people are having a moral argument about the precise number where a tragedy becomes a statistic (wrong conversation, but you try telling anybody that), but it also makes good time as a euphemism for a certain kinda expedience.

I mean, if someone killed me, I'd want it to be personal. You don't wanna die because it was easier to step over your corpse than ask you to move.

[striking]

They might still care. They might feel guilty after.

[borndying]

Might.

[striking]

I think some people just don't have any empathy at all.

But that's rare. Most people care.

[borndying]

People care about people. Here's the thing: not everybody is people to everybody else.

[striking]

[ well. that certainly hits home. ]

You're right.

[ because what else can she say? she's not exactly about to argue. though she still thinks they care. just selfishly, for entertainment. ]

That's not exactly a new concept to me.

I care if I die.