❀ 6th Konpeito ❀ [Anonymous Text]

[konpeitoqueen]

let's say A is anyone and B is someone who treats A terribly by society's standards

which is dumb to follow but for the sake of argument

so B gets into trouble and by A's point of view they've done nothing but horrible things to them

and A still helps B out of trouble without any way of using the situation to make them 'owe one' or blackmail

what exactly could A be thinking?

[...Saionji is not very good at all this anonymous business.

What's up with all this, though?]

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[freshprints]

What sort of person feels it necessary to mistreat others for personal satisfaction?

[konpeitoqueen]

well in this society most people see mistreating as obviously bad and for personal satisfaction

but if you mistreat others according to the majority's standards then no one will think about taking advantage of you over some naivete, like this place is riddled with

[...Right?]

[freshprints]

In other words, you think that so long as you're on the "winning" side, you ought to be invincible — and therefore, those who aren't the winners are yours to do with as you will.

[konpeitoqueen]

that's about it

[Too bad she's not on the winning side anymore.]

[freshprints]

If that's how B thinks, then it's hardly a stretch to think that A might've enjoyed seeing them in need of help.

Quite possibly A felt a sort of karmic satisfaction to it — that the once-mighty B had at last gotten what was coming to them.

[konpeitoqueen]

[This is bad, because: Saionji ended up bringing up an opinion that was clearly her own, and Kirigiri might deduce who she is if she actually bothers to ask around.

This is also bad because now everyone seeing this knows she's bringing in personal details and thus other people might be looking for her.

Goddammit.]

'what was coming to them'?

[freshprints]

Indirect satisfaction. B's place in the favored majority wasn't nearly so secure as B thought it was; that sort of arrogance is what inspired the phrase, "pride goes before a fall."

A had the pleasure of watching B fall, even if A wasn't the one who caused it themselves. One doesn't have to orchestrate another person's misfortune in order to derive satisfaction from it.

[konpeitoqueen]

that makes sense.

[Here's another liberty with being anon, even if she's exceedingly obvious. She can admit when the other person has a good point, for once, without looking like someone losing the argument.

...If something less significant had set off the motivation for this anon message, she may have aggressively defended B, buuuut.]

thanks

i guess watching your master fall is one of the only choices a slave has to enjoy

[freshprints]

And how humiliating it must be for the master, to have to accept that kind of assistance from someone so far below him.

Not of his authority, not of his power. In assisting him, the slave exercised power over him — what an unnatural state that must be, for a proud master.

[konpeitoqueen]

[ALRIGHT KIRIGIRI WE GET IT

YOU'RE PUSHING IT]

yeah yeah i get it