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[jigokumods]

The Department of the Enma

Memorandum

To: All Officers
From: The Desk of the Enma
Subject: "Beach Party"


All Officers of the Department of the Enma will be sharing shifts on life-guard duty for the "Beach Party" event hosted by the Sutoku Alliance, per request of the Daitengu. Shifts will last no more than two (2) hours each, and compensation will come in the form of free access to all food and drink.

That is all.

-The Desk of the Enma


[[ooc; the Enma, as usual, will not be responding to any comments, but players are encouraged to interact among themselves below!]]

Comments

[apshot]

YOUR world. Not mine. Like hell you know the skillsets of everyone here to make that fucking claim

[ganashara]

Do you think this is a literal conversation about skillsets? Or about how cops, a class of people known to abuse and oppress, shouldn't be trusted with rescue work?

Because I feel like we're having two different conversations here.

[apshot]

You're the one coming up in here making a comment about how cops shouldn't be rescue workers. On the announcement that people from Enma are going to be working to boot.

How the hell else should that comment be taken?

[ganashara]

[ ... ]

Anyways, I meant the latter.

[apshot]

Maybe you should have specified in the first place.

That's on you.

Not to mention, pretty sure it's not Enma-exclusive if you're talking about power being abused.

[ganashara]

Is that something you actually believe, or something you are simply told?

[apshot]

Something that life has shown me.

[ganashara]

So you don't trust power structures. That's good.

Though that does make it even stranger you'd stick up for cops, but I guess people contain multitudes, don't they?

[apshot]

It doesn't make it strange at all.

I think it says something about you more than anything else. You wanna make that comment about people in the Enma faction? People that arrived here and are just trying to do the exact same shit that you are?

The fuck is with that?

[ganashara]

Someone who is selected for, and willingly works with, the cops is not the same as me.

[apshot]

Yeah because that attitude is sure going to get you far

Good to know there's at least one person who openly won't be watching my back when shit inevitably goes down

[ganashara]

That's not what I said.

But I also don't owe you an explanation.

[apshot]

How the hell can anyone trust you if you're gonna look down on them for shit that they can't control?

[ganashara]

We're not meant to trust one another.

I'm in the Shuten Clan. You're in the Department of the Enma. We're not allies, and are in fact going to be enemies based on the fact that you represent the "law" and I operate with a known "criminal organization".

We're not in this together. We might both be concerned with fulfilling out contracts, but that does not make us the same, nor does it make us friends.

That's the truth of things here, isn't it? Whether or not you personally agree with it doesn't make it less our practical reality.

[apshot]

And I'm saying I don't give two fucks about that "practical reality."

I don't give a damn what faction anyone is in

[ganashara]

Your leader is going to ask you, some day, to arrest or execute someone from another faction in the name of Order. You won't be able to fulfill your contract, otherwise. Refusal will only end in your own destruction. In following that order, you're going to prevent someone else from fulfilling their contract, whether by putting them in jail, or killing them.

You can say you don't care all you want, but not caring doesn't change things.

[apshot]

[ He knows all of that. Bakugou actually does and has thought long and hard about it.

But at the end of the day: ]

It ain't worth it to fulfill the damn contract if I sacrifice my own beliefs for it. I'd sooner fail than do that.

[ganashara]

[ ... ]

I guess we'll see if that holds true.