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[cactusy]

[If I don't have an active post up, feel free to use this post to have your character call, videochat, text, or knock on Shaw's door.]

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[cactusy]

sure, they're not blameless kittens. I'm sure they're nasty pieces of work in their own right. annoying, too.

but a bad, messy situation can have more than one culprit, and even bad guys get sob stories sometimes. that doesn't negate their badness. but it doesn't negate the bad that was done to them, either.

think about this. maybe I'm not projecting my experiences onto a situation where they don't fit. maybe I've seen this before, more than once, and I know what the warning signs are. crappy governments with propaganda machines and shady companies with good PR firms are a dime a dozen. this is the first time I've seen them rolled into one, and the level of tech that might as well be magic is new, but the broad strokes? unoriginal.

[weartearrust]

You're not going to convince me Shinra made those boys, or was even involved at all, without more than guesswork and things that happened on entirely different planets to back that up.

[cactusy]

I don't need to convince you of diddly in a single conversation

and yeah, I could be wrong. I'll be surprised as hell if I am, but it's possible.

but I'm not wrong about Shinra being shady across the board, and I do want you to spend some time thinking about that as a possibility. finding some books on the psychology of propaganda to add to your pile wouldn't hurt.

[weartearrust]

Pass. You're still trying to move the goalposts just because you THINK you've seen this kind of company before. I have other things to do than chase figments of your imagination.

[cactusy]

I can copy down bullet-point lists of hallmarks of totalitarian governments and stick them on your cabin door, but I think that'll be less effective.

[weartearrust]

Wouldn't do you any good. You want to be anti-government, that's your choice. It's not what I'm here for.

[cactusy]

I'm not anti-government, I'm discerning

[In the end, she doesn't actually go with bullet-point lists; it's easy to just toss something away without reading it. Instead, she spends a good deal of time in the library herself, finding books of propaganda posters from places like North Korea, Francoist Spain, and the USSR - and every so often, she'll tape a new one to his cabin door. She's never seen Shinra propaganda - his file hadn't exactly come with visual aids - but this sort of thing tends to have a similar vibe the world over, and she's hoping it'll look familiar.]

[weartearrust]

[One by one the propaganda posters disappear as quickly as they're stuck to the door.

Where are they going? They're not appearing in the trash!

It's a mystery that may go unsolved for a while, or at least until a thorough inspection of his cabin happens.]