unsaid | jason the classic anna edgey boy

What, you think because we have automated fast food and cell phones, we don’t shit all over each other for our own gain when we can?

Especially in the modern era.

[He doesn’t look at Mikazuki about the last bit because he hates being like “yeah, woohoo, I’m such a strong survivor! thanks for the trauma!” In an annoying turn of events, he also hates when people tell him sorry. He should PICK one.

Instead, he will pour them some more.]

Well, you have considerably more laws in that age.

[like you have rules such as Don't Kill People or Don't Use a Sword]

Are they so terribly ineffective?

[tokyo seems much less chaotic but jiji doesn't know what a gotham is]

[sweats, looking at gotham and then at the camera]

Pfft. Ha. You're funny, you know. More rules just means more rules to break. Criminals don't care about rules. They're already not playing by any rules. Not really.

And the rule keepers? The police. [He says, talking to a sort of history police.] Most of them are corrupt, so laws don't matter.

Is that so...

[mikazuki frowns at that then, taking another sip of his sake]

How unfortunate. Even if such things are common throughout history, I had hoped that it would not be rampant... Is that type of society common everywhere in your world? Or is it hard for you to leave it?

Not necessarily, but it's like that a lot of places. It just happens to be real bad in Gotham.

[...]

It has a bad habit of keeping a hold of you.

[So yeah.]