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.

[instincts]

i was going for general you.
was it not general

are you threatening the whole ship?

[borndying]

Your logical leaps astound me. But I'm gonna take that as a 'no one' for our first responder and move right along.

[majestyofthethrone]

It's more important than people may think.

[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]

Two for 'no one'.

[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?

[borndying]

What the hell. We'll make that three for 'no one'.

[majestyofthethrone]

It's not what I said.

People would care but it's not exactly simple.

[alsohawkeye]

I'm not actually worried. Just sometimes when you get wound up in your own head it's easy to convince yourself of things that you know rationally aren't true.

[borndying]

What you said was incoherent in the context of the actual question. But I'm really swayed by your compelling argument of "people", sure.

[borndying]

Good luck with that.

[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.

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

[majestyofthethrone]

My twin would care.

Does that specify it?

[alsohawkeye]

Would you rather be told that no one cares and life is meaningless and you might as well fling yourself out an airlock? Is that the point of this post?

[borndying]

Well, sure, I mean, look at you.

[borndying]

I asked who cares if you die. Because I'm interested.

[borndying]

I personally don't care.

sally you precious baby. oslock from here on out.

[borndying]

It's just a question, Sal.

[majestyofthethrone]

Then why bother ask?

Unless what you really want to know is who will care when you die.

[Voice]

[the_other_eight]

Here or at home.

[alsohawkeye]

Yeah, of course you are. You care who cares about complete strangers? You want to compare lists.

[borndying]

Oh, I know the answer to that question.