meme | #002 -- absolute obedience ( do you do you want to )

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the ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE MEME 1. Post with your character. 2. That character is compelled to follow the orders of anyone who replies. 3. Any orders. 4. Any orders. Meme Strategy: There's nothing in the rules about whether or not your character knows s/he must obey - as well, the other character might not know that s/he must be obeyed. Play it however you like. Don't like the orders you got? Not willing to have your character follow them, even if you've had a good time up to this point? Talk to the other player, use OOC notes or PMs, try and work it out. Got some stuff you'd never want to play out? Consider making a preferences post and linking to it when you reply here. Wanna give orders that people would love to follow? Give em context. Make it a story. Is this about revenge? Working out some personal issues? Too dumb to realize that the other guy has to do whatever your guy says?

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[angle_on_it]

This is my job, Jet! [He can't stress that enough, mostly because he's already seen what's done to people who refuse to do their jobs.]

[Sokka turns to the other guard.] If he won't cooperate, we'll need the clamps. You go -- I have some... unfinished business with this rebel. [He spits it out with vitriol only meant for himself, but it seems to convince the other guard who nods and leaves them alone.]

[everlastingturmoil]

That's right, feed right into it, Sokka! Do exactly what they tell you! [He catches himself before he says Fire Nation, but the situation is leaving him thinking about it. The Fire Nation. Their reign. Their cruelty.

He snorts.] Yeah, go get the clamps! Why don't you chain me up and go help him, traitor?

[angle_on_it]

[As soon as the other guy's gone, Sokka hisses at Jet angrily.]

Are you stupid or something? They'll kill us both if they realize we're on the same side!

[everlastingturmoil]

Then let them! I'll die before I start begging for mercy from someone like that Sokka! Remember why you fight!

[angle_on_it]

Shhhh! I'm not asking you to beg, I'm asking you to think!

[Sokka tugs at his own collar, feeling oddly overheated.] Listen, they're not the type to be merciful. I've seen them-- [He swallows, shakes his head, mops at the sweat on his forehead.] Three died this morning -- they'd been suffering for days, Jet. Death was a relief, but it took days to get there...

[everlastingturmoil]

I am thinking! They're just like the Fire Nation, Sokka. Three died this morning, how many villages starved at home? How many families got ripped apart? How many soldiers died in a war defending their home?

[His grudge from home is what's making him so enraged about this.]

Those three went down honorably, Sokka. They faced what they had to face and didn't back down until they had to.

[angle_on_it]

I'd rather bide my time and save people than get myself killed and help no one! Don't you-- don't you get it?! If we're all dead, there's nothing left to fight for! Nothing left to save...

[everlastingturmoil]

I'm fighting for myself! I'm reminding everyone else in here what's really going on and how much of themselves their losing by just giving in!

I can't even tell if this has or ever will be on prompt, but idec, I love it!

[angle_on_it]

[Sokka is just about to answer, but he hears approaching footsteps and steps back from Jet. He looks confused and hurt and worried for what he might have to do.] Just cooperate with me, okay? Not them, me.

[Before he can say anything more, two new guards come through the door with "the clamps" followed immediately by... another set of "the clamps." Huh. Sokka glances back to Jet because he's no so sure what will happen next. He slaps the crop against the other boy's arm and takes a step back.]

Hey just won't talk without-- without some persuasion... Rack him up. [Ugh. He could taste bile at having to say it.]

FFFF TTHIS IS BEAUTY

[everlastingturmoil]

[He hears what Sokka says, and he tries to let it sink in but one thing Jet has is a very thick skull. His temper is blinding him, his hate for what's going on is all he can see.

He sees the other guards before he hears them, which is a self relevation to how off he may be.

But it doesn't sink in. And he very defiantly fights the guards, getting one good left hook in before being tackled and held down.

No. He's not looking in Sokka's direction, just struggling.]

I AM SO LATE T____T

[angle_on_it]

[Sokka is not all that interested in being aware of the situation around him in that moment. In fact, all eyes are on a figure being brought into the room behind the torture devices.]

[Female, he can tell, even if the clothes are meant to hide that fact. Her head is covered and she doesn't appear to have enough life to struggle or scream. Not-too-tall, not-too-short -- she could be anyone. More than likely, though, it was someone they both knew.]

What's this? Another prisoner? Aren't we lucky? [Ugh. He's so disappointed in himself for saying it.]

[C'mon Sokka... gotta think, gotta make a plan, gotta get everyone out and safe and do it fast. Gotta think!]