week 11 - sunday (i guess?? after all the shit goes down)

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[ Jack hadn't quite forgotten about wanting to talk to Dorian, but for a while after things calm down (at least, so much as they could), Jack just keeps to himself in silence. It's pretty clear that whatever the Queen had shown him had shaken him, since a thoughtful, pensive silence didn't exactly suit the person Jack had been up to this point... But whatever it is, eventually he at least decides that it can't stall him.

He'll take the time to ask Luke to accompany him, and Adam comes along as a result, which Jack doesn't actually object to at all in this case. He seems distracted more than actually really caring one way or another, and that carries to when the group goes to find Dorian too.

Still, that said, it might not exactly be a bad thing. Jack is more subdued by now, hardly the argumentative and baiting tone he'd been carrying earlier. ]

So. You had something to say to me, as I recall. Hope you don't mind me bringing my clique, since, y'know, not the most trusting guy.

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[ PRETEND I SAID FIVE... BTW... I was working off my ooc list and forgot the mod characters that I took off for obvious reasons whoops ]

Well, can't tell you why in some of the cases, so you're gonna have to trust me, but. I know that Grell and Jason are clear, so add them to you, me, and these two, Dave for obvious reasons, Jessie for her role, and that leaves us with Judar, Yuno, Adrien, Marinette, and Clover. Out of them? I think we're lookin' at the furries, and really? Marinette's the strongest candidate here, I'm thinking.

[ He shrugs ]

'Course, I don't have strong reasons to write off Judar, Yuno, and Clover, I'll admit that. But since, I mean, if it weren't obvious, the blood thing was a total bluff. I was surprised we even friggin' found anything, even if I also think it was ultimately bullshit. But. Purely a gut feeling of looking at those two kids and seeing logic behind it from the alien's point of view. You wanna hide your biggest, most badass general? You pick a kid that someone would hesitate to cut off their head.

[ Jack pauses, since he'd wanted to say this earlier, but hadn't. Though since they're at a relative agreement here, he thinks he can say it without it coming off quite so badly. ]

...Which, hell, if I'm honest, I kiiinda figure that's why I'm the one that got the message here. Whether I'm really the highest ranking or not, I don't actually give that much of a shit about it, since it hasn't exactly helped me out here. But if it takes killing a kid to do what's necessary? Yeah. I'll kill 'em.

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Sounds logical to me. [Which may come as a surprise, given how defensive he's been of Marinette in public.] Before last week, I felt the most likely were Marinette, Yuno, or Jessie. Jessie's now been taken out of contention for obvious reasons. All guesswork of course with no means to confirm anything, but all of the souvlaki hosts so far have in some way appeared harmless or nonthreatening, but have been formidable in combat. Marinette and Adrien fit best, but it hasn't been exact.

Personally, I find Clover rather unlikely, if only because it was only by luck she wasn't a victim of Elizabeth's plot. Judar is a possibility; he's clearly better at making allies than you'd expect. Adrien is less incapacitated by his injury than one would think, and I wouldn't put him out of running either. But something does strike about Marinette.

I should like to know your reasons for being so certain of Grell, Luke, Jason, and Adam. They aren't who I suspect most, but I hope when you say that you know they're clear, you actually know. Your assumption that I'm clear because I haven't killed you yet doesn't fill me with confidence - perhaps attempting to use you to evade suspicion would be an equally good strategy as killing you would be.

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[...there's a pause, and he decides maybe it's up to him to clear most suspicions about himself. It's up to Adam if he wants to explain himself, too, but Luke shrugs in response.]

Some of us have already done the "possessed and murdering everybody in your path" thing. It's not likely they would return to me, I think? But other than that I wouldn't have waited this long to kill somebody if I was really interested in killing somebody. Not the greatest defense, but I'm also not exactly defenseless. Jack has a point. You want the perfect host, you stick with someone who seems harmless or someone with a very strong presence. Elizabeth fell into the latter, Dave's a kid...[He shakes his head.] And also if I was really hosting something you think that something would let me suggest we draw everybody's blood? Just a thought.

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[ Adam is not entirely sure why he's cleared, really, other than not killing Jack and probably being vouched for by Luke. Those are fine with him, anyway, so he's not going to bother really defending himself, but he will add: ]

Luke and I have been keeping an eye on each other, too. It would have been easy enough for one of us to kill each other, plus you've probably noticed that we tend to stay close on Thursdays and Fridays. That sort of thing wouldn't exactly be helpful if we were planning to kill. [ It's not a perfect defense but it's more for Luke's case than anything.

Either way, he gives Jack a look that does not actually seem to contain distrust for probably the first time. Maybe Jack's admission that he will kill children gained some respect. ] We have to make sure no one's going to get in the way of us killing the last alien.