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alliances in death games actually drive me up the wall and onto the ceiling on all fours. despite the circumstances you allow yourself to trust someone so completely you place your life in their hands and take responsibility for theirs in return. you share everything you have and form an intimate bond built on the foundations of your very existence. perhaps you even briefly find hope and happiness where you thought it should be impossible. and then there's a gun to your head and the clock is ticking down and you have no time at all to choose whether to destroy them yourself or make them watch you die. there's a depthless cruelty to that, in a world where your autonomy has already been stripped away from you. the only acts of free will available to you condemn you no matter which way you turn.

congratulations to the person who tagged this as "among us" for snapping me out of whatever pretentious highschool english lit student kick i was on when i wrote this and making me laugh so hard i feel like i'm gonna puke