tangentdarko | .08. [voice] i guess i don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit

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.08. [voice] i guess i don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit

I don't get it. Why should I feel bad when an inmate here dies or leaves? We're all dead anyway and most of them come back. We don't have meaningful lives and it's not like we were good people. I mean, I'm sorry, don't get me wrong.. I like some of the inmates here, but half of them are lost in ignorance.. and ignorance is bliss, so I guess I would be happy if I were them too. But why should I care if they leave? I guess I just don't see the point in crying over a dead inmate when they probably didn't even fear dying anyway.

[Private to Tommy]
I don't want to keep taking my pills.

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I can follow your argument, but...I tend to care too much, so I can't rightly say I agree.

Why would you care about horrible people?

Not everyone, just the ones who manage to turn a new leaf or show a side that indicates they're capable of being not horrible. They're here for a second chance and we as Wardens have to give them that. When you get close to them, it hurts to see them leave. Would you rather no one care if you left?

I don't think anyone would care if I left. I don't think anyone really cared when I died either. That's just how it is. There's no use deluding yourself that it's anything else.

And don't even get me started on redemption.

[Sad sigh.] You shouldn't think that way, Donnie.

I don't think we've have the Inmate/Warden convo yet...are you an Inmate, then?

Why?

Ccht.. that's what they tell me, but.. I don't know. I guess.

Because it's a lonely life, thinking that way. And we're getting to be friends, right? I'm going to have to care about you at some point, otherwise I'd fail you as a friend.

Can I ask what it is they think you did?

Yeah, but.. that doesn't mean you would miss me if I left.

What? They know what I did. I flooded the school and I burned down that pervert's house. Then I guess they got mad because I started going a little bit crazier and I tried to save Gretchen but I couldn't, so I shot Frank for killing her.. but then it didn't matter anyway because I fixed the tangent universe and so I died and all the manipulated dead were living again.

[Incredulous.] Of course I would miss you, why the hell wouldn't I miss a friend??

[And you sort of broke her brain.]

Doesn't sound so bad to me. I mean, defending a friend and taking out a pervert.

..Well.. ff.. I.. chh.. I don't know.

I guess it was, you know, because I'm here.

Well, I'd certainly want you on my team.

..Thanks?

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