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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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[beautifulmistakeofnature]

[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.]

[trustyboomerang]

[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.]