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"If it was a prank, it was awfully planned out. I have trouble thinking of common situations where you just so happy to accidentally get holy water instead of normal water when you target a demon." Yasmin shook her head. This was like those stupid YouTube videos where people do outrageous things, and when called out for how terrible they were being, it was described as a prank. "There comes a point where something intending to be a prank stops being one. The initial explanation doesn't matter. It was assault, and one that certainly seemed to be fueled by xenophobia."

Yasmin took a deep breath. She was getting too emotional. "I'd love to help. Connected to my earlier point, I think some awareness on safe pranking would do everyone well. It's been a frequent thing, here and out in the Narrow Reality, that people don't understand the difference between a prank and harassment. I don't want anyone to think this was a prank gone wrong. It had to have some kind of ulterior motive."
 

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"I agree with you there, Yasmin," she began. She could feel the fear and rage caused by the event everytime she passed a demon. Her boyfriend was exactly feeling safe with it, either. "But this does raise the question of He he actually got the Holy Water. I doubt he would have planned this without someone like a priest knowing, and he didn't seem to have any aggression to Chloe black or the Demons on the island."

Shaking her head, she looked back at Yasmin. "Teaching Safe pranks is a must. What if something like this happens again?"

Nodding this time, she watched Yasmin, then looked at the other members. Maybe it was her Empath ability, but sometimes she got caught up in emotion, and it was hard to sort out what she was feeling. But some part of her felt a bit uncertain at deeming him a villain out to disrupt peace, maybe he just found the bucket there, and was an idiot?

"A suggestion we could use might be to hold a whole school seminar to address this? Slow fix, but it at least brings it to attention?" Beyond personally contacting Tricksters, that was the best option in her mind.
 

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Alma was already sitting down, her fingers flying across her keyboard as the meeting got underway. She watched everyone, measuring their emotional levels, their heart rates, everything. It was important, keeping a read of the general mood of the room.

She frowned somewhat and shook her head ever so slightly. "I think the first thing we do is make a show of solidarity. A stand-in, led by us and the leaders of as many clubs as we can get. Faculty too if we can. Let people know that this sort of thing will not be tolerated. We can educate people sure, but it's important to remind them too that they have to take steps too. Personal responsibility is an important factor to remember."
 

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Of the whole group, Jude might very well have been the least agitated. It wasn't that he didn't have a stake in the game, because he did. Alma was right there, after all. But his stake had her own say in things, and more importantly Jude had already dealt with all of it. He'd already heard the stories. He'd already talked to Xavier.

"In the interest of full disclosure," Jude said, "I spoke to Xavier, the culprit, yesterday evening. He lied to me repeatedly and kept changing his story, but ended on the note that he didn't know it was holy water, but he couldn't explain where he'd gotten it. I don't think I believe him, personally. He's going to trial later today, but I don't know what charges he's facing."

Better to make sure everyone was on the same page.

"A show of solidarity seems good. I'm honestly not sure about safe pranking lessons or anything like that. The people who most need to hear it aren't going to pay attention. Maybe posters, something like 'if it's a crime, it's not a prank'? Just something to remind people that isn't going to work as an excuse."
 

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Liliana was listening quietly to everyone, giving each person her full attention and just taking in everything. Glancing in surprise at Angelo when he mentioned Xaxier, she considered what he told them thoughtfully and smiled at Alma and how focused she seemed. Then when everyone had given their initial feelings and opinions on the matter, she nodded.

"I don't think safe pranking is going to help that much. Although, I do think getting teachers and staff onboard with us, hanging posters, and maybe talks and general awareness of what's a prank and what's is harassment is a very good idea. Sometimes people simply don't realise they could be hurting others with their actions." she said calmly.

"And I'd like to think Xavier was not acting maliciously. I mean, it is extremely possible he just thought it was water in the bucket. I mean, why would he assume otherwise?" she stated questioningly. "It's not like holy water is sold by the gallons in the Manta Carlos supermarkets, nor are there a lot of Catholic followers on the island." Liliana said as she stood up, feeling slightly agitated now as she addressed the group.

"That said, my own personal concern is that, if he is as innocent as he claims to be, that there is somebody else, maybe a group of people, students, that are xenophobic and this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there might be more incidents in the future. I honestly think people need to be aware of this and not be convinced of pulling a prank on someone or doing something they feel is wrong."
 

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Alma stopped typing and looked at Liliana. "I disagree. While in general organized religion is less prominent here it still exists. Citizens Against Evil has and has had a religious motivation since its founding decades ago."

She took a moment to glance around the room, her eyes settling on Angelo. "Angelo, was religion prominent in your world? Was Catholicism? Because we have to keep in mind, Xavier isn't coming here with biases from this Earth, but a different one."
 

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"I don't think any students would be very happy being forced to go through some safe pranking seminar. Hanging posters sounds fine. Maybe a quick announcement through our social media page would help. I also agree with making a show of solidarity."

She listened silently as the conversation moved on. It was going so quick. It would have been exhilarating if it wasn't so frustrating. How could he not know it was holy water? How do you accidentally get holy water? Did he just find it off to the side in the cafeteria and decides that was the perfect time to dump water on someone? Specifically, a demon?

For now, Yasmin held her tongue. Alma made a very good point, and she turned towards Jude expectedly. Focusing on one possibility of why it had to be Xavier shouldn't trump focus of all the other possibilities about if it was or wasn't him.
 

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There it came, the religion thing. Jude felt eyes on him, and he was quick to respond. He'd definitely prepared for this part of the conversation, and it showed in the way he spoke. His words were even and obviously practiced, unlike most of the other conversation.

"Religion had an equal amount of sway in Halcyon as it does in modern day America. Lots of people say they're religious, but most don't have much actual faith. It's as much of a cultural thing as it is an actual religious thing. Younger people rarely have much religious affiliation. Considering what I know about Xavier, nothing he's said or done has struck me as particularly religious. I would have described myself as an Easter-and-Christmas Catholic, and I'm pretty sure I was far more religious than he was."
 

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Liliana refrained from commenting about the Citizens Against Evil, not wanting to turn this into a religious debate. "I don't believe the motivations were purely religious. It just happened the substance used is common to a certain faith," she reasoned, trying not to be impartial.

"My take is that it was done as a way to cause harm or instill fear. It just happens that Chloe Back is a demon and holy water could have harmed her very seriously, or whomever was behind this assumed that," she added almost as an afterthought, the idea just occurring to her now. That maybe, the person attacking Chloe just assumed that holy water would hurt her and the attack was not random, but aimed at her personally.
 

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Thinking, She considered what the others had mentioned. "Well, what if the council started producing items that protected demons, like a charm that negates divine properties."

Elisa knew Chloe was the victim, hearing how she was scared for her life afterwards. This could work as a shield. Holy water wouldn't be so effective then.
 
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