140 // Voice

[major_west]

[There's a very, VERY long silence, and finally West says:]

Balloons.

[Another silence, then he clicks his tongue disgustedly.]

Of all the absurdities.

[CLICK.]

[OOC: WORKING THROUGH BACKLOG OF TAGS.]

Comments

[gimmethemap]

Yeah.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

"What could have been." That always appears to be the motto to take away from these events.

[gimmethemap]

It's partly that, but that's not all.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Then what is it?

[gimmethemap]

I guess I feel badly for those people.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

They weren't real, Morgan.

[gimmethemap]

I don't really believe that.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Do you believe your teenaged counterpart really exists? Or the young camper?

[gimmethemap]

Yeah, I do. Somewhere.

We just sort of step into it.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

But what purpose would that have? Literally walking in another's shoes teaches us nothing about our own selves or how we would behave in their circumstances. It implies that all acts during breaches are predestined.

[gimmethemap]

I don't think it's all predestined, but I can't really explain it. I guess more to the point there's nothing saying that exact situation hasn't occurred somewhere before, if not those exact people.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But you can't get too hung up over other people's tragedies. Not when you have your own to deal with.

SORRY, I COULDN'T RESIST HAVING BILLY BE A LOSER :c

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

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