"Last place I was had a real active government that punished people for breaking the rules. And sometimes, they punished everyone. I remember once, they brought everyone together to tour the punishment facility and forced people to demonstrate the bond they had with their contract partners to satisfy the guards. I remember the people who tried to sail off into the ocean got themselves attacked by a kraken and killed and I don't want to imagine what the tentacles did with them before they died. I remember livestreamed video of someone with a power to heal having that taken from him before he was whipped for over an hour. Those of us with a crumb of power, we would be held responsible for the actions of our partners, since we was supposed to keep them in line. And some people just. Kept. Pushing. The. Button. Kept getting punished, kept getting those around them wrapped up in schemes and punished with them."
He shakes his head, as if trying to clear it like an etch-a-sketch. It doesn't work.
"The Captain hasn't been like that yet, I know. But I'm still not going to risk it. I got people here I care about a lot. People I consider myself responsible to keep whole, whatever I got to do."
CW: coercion, corporal punishment, tyrannical government, tentacles
"Last place I was had a real active government that punished people for breaking the rules. And sometimes, they punished everyone. I remember once, they brought everyone together to tour the punishment facility and forced people to demonstrate the bond they had with their contract partners to satisfy the guards. I remember the people who tried to sail off into the ocean got themselves attacked by a kraken and killed and I don't want to imagine what the tentacles did with them before they died. I remember livestreamed video of someone with a power to heal having that taken from him before he was whipped for over an hour. Those of us with a crumb of power, we would be held responsible for the actions of our partners, since we was supposed to keep them in line. And some people just. Kept. Pushing. The. Button. Kept getting punished, kept getting those around them wrapped up in schemes and punished with them."
He shakes his head, as if trying to clear it like an etch-a-sketch. It doesn't work.
"The Captain hasn't been like that yet, I know. But I'm still not going to risk it. I got people here I care about a lot. People I consider myself responsible to keep whole, whatever I got to do."