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[showbizpanache]

[Kurt is usually pretty composed when he posts on the network, but not this time. He looks frantic, exhausted and frankly ill. His head is in his hands, his fingers gripping his usually impeccably-styled hair as he speaks without looking at the camera.]

All of you, please.

Please don't do this. I'm begging you. There has to be something else, there--there just has to be.

[In case it isn't clear what he's talking about... :c]

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[hostage]

You gotta rule the world before you can change it, yo. Flex that muscle so they understand what they're dealing with, then show 'em - hey, that hand could punch you in the face or it could help you up. Alls they gotta do is learn respect.

And most of these people? They're already scared. AGI? SERO? Who says we ain't coming along to save these people from the gangs they're already scared of? Maybe they don't know it yet, but they've been waiting for us to take charge for a long time.

[showbizpanache]

[He just looks horrified.]

So-- That's what this is to you? Some kind of battle for superiority?

[hostage]

Me? Nah, bro. That's what it is to them. That's why they put our people in cages. That's why they hunt us like animals. That's why half this city won't let a Newcomer walk in the door - and forget about applying for a job. They want us poor and scared and low.

And I say screw that, bitch.

[showbizpanache]

I understand that.

But turning the tables is not the way to do this. We have to rise above them, not become them.

[hostage]

Like I said, you gotta fight your way to the top. I ain't saying you gotta be the one to pull the trigger, but somebody does. Revolution, yo. It takes a little blood.

[showbizpanache]

I can't believe you can say that so easily. That any of you can just--

Are you out of your minds?

[hostage]

Nope. Just living in the real world.

[showbizpanache]

I don't appreciate your condescension.

[hostage]

And I don't appreciate being called crazy.

[showbizpanache]

What you're condoning is crazy. It's--

[He sighs heavily, rubbing his forehead.] Just please reconsider. Please.

[hostage]

Those psycho freaks won't stop hunting us 'til somebody stops 'em. And ain't nobody gonna stop 'em except us.

[showbizpanache]

[A long pause. He hates how this is making him see everyone in a different light. Everyone.]

Fine.

Just-- Fine.

[hostage]

[Oh - god damn it, he didn't want to make the kid cry.]

Look, just... Just stay home and let us take care of it.

[showbizpanache]

N-no. No.

I'm coming afterward to heal as many people that I can.

[hostage]

Yo, I get what you're trying to do and all, but after... That ain't gonna be pretty.

[showbizpanache]

You act like I've never seen ugly things before.

[hostage]

The cops'll be there too. They'll probably try to haul in every Newcomer they find.

[showbizpanache]

Oh god...

[Why, why, why are you doing this.]

[hostage]

Stay home, okay? Just stay home.

[showbizpanache]

You should too.

[hostage]

I can't.

[showbizpanache]

Because of Lisbeth?

[He saw them at the beach party. He knows what love looks like, even from a distance.]

[hostage]

Yeah.

[showbizpanache]

[His stomach flops because he gets it. If the Hunters had taken Blaine...]

Just-- Be careful.

[hostage]

Ain't a single one of us going down in that fight if I can help it.

[...Which he can't. But, bless him, he'll try.]