threadthefire | 6th Design [accidental video]

[The video opens, angled strangely as if the video is accidental. Only half a face is visible - pale, sunken eyes, and a stubble'd cheek. The normally put-together Cinna looks positively taken apart. A hand comes into view, rubbing over his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose as he begins to speak in a bitter tone.]

Bravo, City. Not even the Capitol could have conceived that little torture - after all, who better to harm us than ourselves? Who knows better what fears we harbor, sins we cover-up.

Well played. Really, well played.

[The feed ends with an angry click.]

[He sits at the kitchen table, cradling his coffee in one hand as the other casually tosses the device to the side. Taking a sip, he winces, even after several cups he's not used to the flavor without sugar and cream, but today... there's nothing comforting about today so the coffee's as black as his mood. From the moment he woke up, before the sun had even hit the horizon, he'd been sitting in this chair, contemplating his own... foolishness.

How could he ever have believed he had a grasp on what happened to those children in the arena? How could he ever have thought he could help? It was arrogance to the nth degree to have ever thought he understood. To have thought that he could help erase the scars. He should have realized sooner how deep they go.

Now with the sun several hours up, he's still hardly moved, looking out the window, more determined than ever to see the Capitol fall.

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Is that your tried and true method of dealing with things?

Not really, but I know an entire government that uses it quite well to keep some of its citizens from asking too many questions.

[There's a pause. Then a hum.]

You mean every government ever?

I wouldn't know, I'm only familiar with one from home and now here.

I think it's a prerequisite to being in government. You have to learn how to distract people from the truth so that they don't start asking questions or trying to bring you down.

Some are better at it than others. Or worse about it, depending on how you want to look at it.

I'd say it comes down on the side of "worse".

The kind of government that you guys come from really seems to have a niche for 'worse.'

[ooc: I'm so sorry for this late reply. I don't know how I missed it, but feel free to ignore sob <333]

...that might be an understatement to some. I was one of the privileged, so my life was comfortable.

Not that I can even begin to understand, but sometimes understating things is the only real way of being able to mention them at all. Did you have some kind of free pass?

I was lucky to be born in the Capitol and posses a talent that keeps me in demand. It's those in the Districts that truly suffered.

How's that talent been treating you here?

Fairly well, actually.

Well enough to use it as a distraction?

Well enough, yes.

I might be able to help contribute to it, if you think you have the time.

What would you like?

Are you sure?

I am first and foremost a professional.

Actually, you're first and foremost a human being, but...

Do you know Tinkerbell?

Not off the top of my head, but I presume that it's something I can research here.

Look under 'Peter Pan' and you shouldn't be able to go wrong.

And that's the costume you want?

She and I have a few things in common, so it seemed like a logical choice. And it stops other people from making the jokes before I do it myself.

What's your favorite kind of cookie?