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[whattheytellyou]

[Public]I have a question to pose to the rest of you. This isn’t a condemnation of anyone aboard; I’m not judging the choices anyone has made. Or will make. It’s a product of my own curiosity, getting the better of me once again. This is particularly directed to the wardens, but I do welcome the inmates to weigh in, as well

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It's a good meds day, apparently.

[impure_tale]

If I am treated as a second-class citizen because of my former status as an Inmate, then I hardly notice it. I will still say and do as I wish.

...And I hope that the numbers are low among people who would not willingly enter into a relationship with an Inmate or former Inmate or my nights are destined to be quite lonely in the future.

[whattheytellyou]

I could have predicted that answer from you, Marquis.

[impure_tale]

Then I shall have to think more creatively when next you ask these questions.

[notiaraincluded]

If an inmate has rehabilitated and officially graduated to the point of being given the authority of a Warden, then they've earned the respect that goes along with it til they prove themselves otherwise. No one on this boat is a saint, last I checked. So, what's the point in working so hard if they aren't going to be treated differently? When do you stop being judged by your past and start being judged by your present?

As for the relationship bit...nah...I'm not gonna touch that one. Everyone here's an adult. That's all I'm saying.

[whattheytellyou]

I'm not trying to look at this from the perspective of the inmate graduate, but their colleagues. I want to know whether they would, personally, be able to treat a graduated inmate the same as any other warden. Especially someone like Amanda.

[notiaraincluded]

If you feel that you can't trust a former Inmate, then you're pretty much calling out their former Warden. If that person feels like they could trust that Inmate enough to make them a colleague then we should, at the very least trust the judgement of the Warden.

Basically, if you trust her to cover your back, I'll trust her to cover mine.

[Warden Filter]

[notiaraincluded]

Okay, I keep hearing about these deals. Am I the only Warden who didn't come here for something in return??

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[mrs_persson]

I think it's a good thing that we have any graduated inmates staying on as wardens at all-having that particular perspective is invaluable, really.

I've had a few relationships here and there, if you can call them that, in highly variable degrees of seriousness. Including some inmates, as it seems that I have a general weakness for troublesome men and good women. But I confess that I've something of a history of transitory affairs to begin with-being somewhat unrooted in Time lends itself to such.

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[whattheytellyou]

Do you prefer affairs to be transitory?

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[mrs_persson]

I suppose it's both a necessity and a preference at the same time. It's rare for me to stay anywhere for very long, and as a result it's better to not get too attached.

Not that I don't have good friends across the Multiverse, and there are several who I'm lucky to see again and again. But my way of life doesn't lend itself to settling down for long.

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[whattheytellyou]

Do you like that way of life?

[shortsghtedlove]

You do realize they could just leave the Barge together, right?

[whattheytellyou]

I do realize that, and noted so in my original query.

But many of the wardens are here for a deal which will affect their lives in their own world. It isn't an option to leave together.

[shortsghtedlove]

But their partner cannot come with them? Or they can't change their mind on what they want?

Besides, I already know two deals were that isn't the case and I hardly go out of my way to hear of them. I also doubt they're the only ones.

[whattheytellyou]

[Musing:]

Perhaps those who do get involved in relationships are the people whose deals or worlds aren't as important to them.

[scarlet_discord]

What about the fact that different inmates have done different stuff and we're not all a bunch of monsters? Doesn't that count for anything?

Doesn't it?

[whattheytellyou]

I asked the same question, actually.

"Would it matter to you at all if they had, say, tortured and murdered people as opposed to accepting kickbacks?"

[scarlet_discord]

...

I was mostly asking the others, but thanks. I just...

I'm really not a bad person. Really. I just have a bad power.

[whattheytellyou]

Power and self-control go hand in hand.