Event 4: Plots
Before:
01. You are one of the people who is getting word around about the protest. Jin has never made any secret that his feelings about Metzger are far from the positive kind, maybe you hope you can use this. (his whole schtick is that he’s strong and someone has to help barricade the doors.) But he also remembers exactly how the last rebellion went and who ended up paying the price for it. It’s going to take more than idealistic words to get him on board this time around.
02. On the flip side you see the failure of the last rebellion as one of the many reasons to not get involved (or so you say), to perhaps even betray their efforts, but it’ll a lot easier to stand against everyone else, or at the very least stand your ground, if you can get someone to see things the way you do.
During:
01. This protest turns out to be more than you anticipated and you become overwhelmed. Jin would not consider himself the one best suited to offer comfort, but tonight seems to be one of many firsts.
02. It’s not that you’re against the protest, but you’re not exactly helping each other. But as things begin to grow more and more tense you are forced to confront that this state of false you neutrality cannot last, but what happens when your idea of taking actions differs from his?
03. This rebellion is your passion project and in a moment of stasis you are proud of what you have achieved. Jin thinks the other shoe just hasn’t dropped. This is not the first time you’ve heard this, but the hypocrisy of criticism from a man who has offered no alternative weighs on you and you come to a disagreement egged on by the growing tension outside. Does it prove your point or his?
04. You think that they should stand strong and assume Metzger will not do his worst; Jin thinks that once again gross oversight has been made and that the goal now should be to minimize the consequence. Communication is never easy when you’re both so sure that you’re right; that your beliefs are rooted in something other than yourself.
05. Jin doesn’t like to fight, or so he says, but as the guards put their hands on him, on you, there is a mutual understanding that nothing will be achieved tonight through pacifism.
After:
01.The guards split you up into unlikely groups, people that they think you have nothing in common with, but that doesn’t keep you from talking. Maybe it’s to him, maybe it’s just to fill the silence, but either way Jin has to hear it. He is easier to wear down than he gives himself credit for.
02. Some interrogations are easier than other. I have nothing to hide, Jin says with self assurance that is worth something that only a lawyer could posses, what about you?
03. You both sneak off and walk the fair grounds either together or of your own accords. The world of the menagerie has for better or worse been thrown of it’s axis.
04. Once again a rebellion, once again you find yourself dealing with the bunt of the fallout. Is this what the illusion of control is worth?
05. After the interrogation and having his room torn apart, not that there was much to find to begin with, Jin is left to pick up the pieces. The thing about trauma is that it has the misfortune of creeping to the surface at the most unlikely of times.
