Ask the Hangman

every question is welcome. the answer may not be...

HCs in this blog are dark themed and follows the events of the book mainly, but it is allowed to include pre island and post island asks.

Please check this post about passage of time in this blog and for specific events or characters tags.

Important:

I did it because I wanted and because Jack sucks at torturing.

Icecream and hot water.

And good food.

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And my bed. Sometimes it is annoying to sleep on the sand or on the rock ground...

But I still prefer it than having all those stupid rules and itchy clothes.

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what did you do to the twins that they would rather join jack's tribe than help ralph?

It's less about convincing and more about giving no other option. Help Ralph isn't an option.

But of course it took some work. Nothing like that rhythmic poking Jack was doing. He doesnt know a shit about it.

The secret is on not let they know what you're going to do next, but they know that it's very likely going to be worse than what they've already got. With a bonus that I can use one of them to show the other how things are going to be if they dont cooperate. Eric easily gave up when he saw what I wanted to do to Sam.

I dont like making threats.

I think after Piggy they had a good idea.

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No.

Help with what?

I know I'm not like the others boys. But I'm fine like this.

I'm tired of people telling me that I'm a problem, that I'm bad, trying to fix me. I don't care anymore.

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Here I'm fine being like this.

I have been watching us. The other boys in general.

We are getting weak within the days even if we can hunt a pig or eat the fruits.

Some littluns are sick, coughing, shitting themselves during night. Some hunters have wounds that dont heal well.

A wrong step on the craggy side of the mountain and you may trip and fall to the rocks and you know... it isnt hard to trip around when we are tired or when it is getting dark.

The passage of time on this blog is not linear.

Asks will be answered as they come in, but the answers will be usually in the present (for the character), but may refer to different events and different moments in the timeline (following book canon, or hc before or after island). That is, if you want to ask Roger a question about a specific event, Roger will respond as if he "heard" the question at the moment immediately after the mentioned event.

Eg. Asks about Piggy's death will be answered during the night immediately after, while the hunters sleep and prepare to hunt Ralph at dawn. But if you send an ask about, lets say, when they let the fire go out, we'll go back in time and Roger will answer right after/during the first feast on top of the mountain.

If the question does not refer to any specific event or it is about something from before island, it will be answered at some unspecified time (mostly like a free time before Simon's death) unless I think it would be interesting to situate it in a specific moment of the book. If you want to ask adult Roger or young Roger before island, or set it to a very specific moment you can say it in the ask too. I'll try my best to show the little changes in his personality according those different moments.

Thank you for the asks! It is being really fun to answer them!

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Time tags (this will be edited as new events are mentioned)

#pre island -> Roger before island or remembering his past before the plane crash

#watching the fire -> unspecific moment before events from chapter 8

#sharpening a stick -> unspecific moment after chapter 8 when the groups split and the hunters moved to Castle Rock, mostly after Simon's death

#just before the manhunt -> the night right after Piggy's death and preparing to hunt Ralph

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Specific events:

#piggy's death

#simon's death

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We also have tags for characters mentioned, so you can search by "#lotf (+character name)" if you want to see what Roger have to say about a specific character.

We'll kill him when we catch him.

Or at least I think that is the plan.

I dont believe we can get rescued.

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We would all die here before that. The adults are busy with their war, they dont want us.

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But if we got rescued I doubt any of us will ever say a thing. I'm sure neither Jack or I will ever say a thing.

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The only problem is Ralph...

But soon we wont have to worry about him.

I never cared about making friends.

There were the boys from the choir, yes. Most of them are on the island too. But we were together because of the choir, not because we were friends.

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I dont think much about it.

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Sometimes when I'm alone... I think...

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I cant say for sure because none of them expressed their opinion openly. But they had a funny look on their face. I think mostt of them were impressed to say the least. Perhaps scared.

I like it when they are afraid of me.

But if Jack didnt say anything they wont dare either.

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I dont think. I just hurt them.

No.

Jack is a good chief and knows how to do the things. I dont like doing all that talk and thinking and planning stuff.

I dont care about it.

I used to enjoy catching bugs and other insects and make them fight. Or threw them on spiders webs to see the spider eating them.

And collecting stones. Some of them I'd carry with me and toss it at spiders web too, but to destroy the webs instead. I had a small collection of stones of interesting shapes in my drawer.