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THE MASTERMIND AU
NICK V. CN EDITION

It's time for Nick vs. CN's mastermind meme!

To those who aren't familiar, this is essentially an AU where your character is the one responsible for Nick v CN's Mutual Killing Game, and all of the carnage that came with it, from the kidnapping to the motives to the trials to the executions! And now, they have chosen to reveal themselves before the remaining members of their class at the final trial!

As such, you are free to play around with this as much as you would like; was your character just another pawn in the grand scheme of things, or did your character put everyone in the Killing Game for a different reason? What is your character's motivation for bringing despair? What do they intend to get out of this seemingly senseless killing? And what does the rest of the class have to do to stop the madness and go home?

There's probably going to be quite a bit of AUing from your character's original canon happening here to make them into the best harbingers of despair they can be, so feel free to go as nuts with it as you want to! And, of course, feel free to tag others with your character's reaction to their classmate's big reveal; it doesn't matter whether or not your character made it to endgame, have fun and mix up the survivor pool as much as you'd like!

Oh, and feel free to describe your character's sweet new Monobear-themed duds, too!!

Original meme text borrowed and modified from loveisanopendoor!

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[Sokka let's Wirt finish while be blankly stares at him.]

Are you done?

[Because he is about to blow your mind!]

I know I'm in control! Those people I want vengeance against are right outside of these wall. I have cameras everywhere. That war machine was finished weeks ago, just sitting in a garage, waiting to be used! I've built a lot of machines that have killed a lot of people. I pride myself at being good at that. I am and was the brain of Team Avatar! Heck! Everyone listened to my plans on how to defeat the Fire Nation!

[He stands and motions to the hooded girl beside him.]

And I kidnapped you all to kill each other because of her. You think Steven has a lot of hope in his heart? This girl right here has him beat! Steven and Lapis were my first kidnapping goal. Those two made an amazing pair. Too bad Lapis cracked and went insane! It's impressive how that stupid little kid is holding on. I wonder what would happen if I shattered his gem...

[Wirt just lets out an annoyed 'tch' sound as Sokka goes on. To a point he's almost ready for Sokka to just drop him. The abyss couldn't be much worse than this rambling, at the least.

Still, now that he mentioned the girl beside him...]

She can't have that much hope, if she's going along with this.

[Sokka is silent for a moment before he starts laughing hysterically. He pulls the cloak off of the girl, revealing a statue that seemed to be crying.]

Look at her! Katara is still crying for all of you. Da Rules book says you can't hurt anyone with magic, but if you rip a few pages out? Then you can do whatever you want! Even turn your own sister into a living statue. Being able to hear and see everything going on in this house.

[He almost lovingly puts the cloak back over her before covering her face with the hood.]

I let her out at night. Ask her if she's still holding onto hope... you know, it doesn't matter how many times we repeat this, she still says she loves me. That I'll see that despair isn't the answer. I tell her I love her, too. Lock her in her room. In the morning it's still the same. "Hope, hope, hope, hope, HOPE!" I hate that word.

[For a moment, Wirt is quiet. And in a moment, things fall together and make sense.]

I was wrong.

From everything we got out of this, I...I thought you hated your sister just like you hated everyone else you had been adventuring with. But you don't. You don't just say you love her, you really do still love her because no matter what, she is your sister.

I get it now. All this despair. You never really cared about making us fall into despair. What you wanted was for your sister to give up hope and fall into despair along with you because you either can't or won't finish this without her with you. You could care less if we sided with you in the end, just so long as our situation broke your sister and made her side with you.

.......

[Sokka sighs deeply.]

No. I want her to feel the same despair I feel. To watch the person you love above all else die in front of you. I want her to see me kill Aang. So she knows how I felt when Suki died. [He rips the cloak off, letting out a frustrated noise.] YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GO WITH ZUKO, NOT STAY BEHIND WITH US! SUKI DIED BECAUSE OF YOU! BECAUSE AANG STOPPED TO SAVE YOU! You have no idea what it was like watching that damn Phoenix King just...

[After several moments of silence, he turns to Wirt with a look of sheer madness.]

I will kill all of you. But now that I'm thinking about it... I don't need my sister anymore. After all, family always holds you back. So do friends. I don't need any of you. Not unless you join me in despair.

[That

That actually takes him off guard. Wirt realizes at that moment that he was, perhaps, projecting. That he was still wanting to see something in Sokka that just wasn't there. That, deep down, Sokka would still be fundamentally human in some respects.

He wasn't. Not anymore. Whatever he was, it was entirely monstrous and destructive, too much like the Beast. A part of Wirt wants to think that he isn't entirely wrong, but he can't be sure anymore. Sokka is too wild, too consumed with despair to actually predict.

But Sokka. If you're despair and she's hope, and not just that but someone that could signal hope in someone else, could be that important to someone else and you're showing that she's still alive and that there IS still hope...

Sokka. That was unbelievably dumb of you.

At Sokka's words, Wirt makes his face fall, looking down at the ground for a moment, before looking back up at Sokka, shuddering a little.]

There's...there's really no other way out of this, is there? There's nothing we can say to change your mind?

[Look at him, Sokka. He's starting to get it.

Please believe that he's starting to get it.]

[Sokka had actually started to feel hope slipping into his heart when he had been with them all. Felt like he had friends he could start trusting again. And then came Monday... Challenge Monday. All that hope went out the window. He remembered that he had a mission. To make the Goddess of Despair proud.

Yes, he still had to play the role of the loyal friend. The friend that grieved with them, felt angry with them, cried with them... which made it fun to crush them. To see them all fall into despair.

Steven had to ruin it all. That optimism, love for everyone... Sokka's biggest regret was not killing that kid when he had the chance. Could have made it so easy to look like a freak accident. Make it look like Steven tried to make friends with a Monobear and just blew up. Heh. Oh well.

Hearing those words that Wirt... hmmm...]

Even if I changed my mind, you'd all still want me dead. The thing is... why would I change my mind? Hope abandons you. I know you've felt it. It's so much easier to let it go than to try and scramble after it. [Sokka snaps his fingers which makes the wind pick up in Wirt's section.] Give up hope. It'll only get you killed faster.

[He can put off getting rid of his sister for just a few more minutes. Really let it sink into Wirt's mind that there is no saving Sokka.]

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