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[tucky]

I just don't like the policy you got for respect. That's all.

You are handling it really well.

cw: fire

[ichoosefight]

I had to jump through a dozen hoops to get any kind of respect. Some of them literal. Some of them literally on fire. I don't see why I should give it out for free.

[tucky]

I never got respect at all, at home. I get it.

[ichoosefight]

And you don't see a flaw in your reasoning?

[tucky]

No, 'cause it wasn't right that people didn't respect me, and I don't wanna do that to other people. Especially not inmates, who've got enough shit to deal with. They're getting disrespected just by being here.

[ichoosefight]

They're here for a reason. That's always suspect.

[tucky]

A lot of the wardens are here 'cause they fucked something up at home and want to fix it. Are they always suspect too?

[ichoosefight]

Wardens are here because we were hired to do a job. I trust them about as much as I trust a server to not spit in my coffee.

[tucky]

Do you trust anybody at all?

[ichoosefight]

As a rule? No.

[tucky]

Even your inmates?

[ichoosefight]

Why would I? Being someone's warden makes you arbitrary target number one. I mean, I do my job, but to some extent I assume they might stab me for it.

[tucky]

That ain't arbitrary-ness.

What about inmates who ain't violent? There are ones who aren't.

[ichoosefight]

I'd rather be proven wrong about someone stabbing me in the face.

[tucky]

I get it. I get that, too. It just don't seem like it helps inmates any.

[ichoosefight]

It's not supposed to. It's supposed to keep me alive.

[tucky]

But we're supposed to be here to make things better for the people who're stuck.

[ichoosefight]

"And try not to die" is usually the unspoken addendum to any mission plan.

[tucky]

I wanna try not to die too, and I made some pretty fucking bad decisions about that before, like with Sylvanas and everything, but--

-- There should be something in the middle between thinking you have to trust everybody and thinking everybody's out to kill you.

[ichoosefight]

I think that's called 'normal life', but I wouldn't really know. I never had one.

[tucky]

Something about how you talk sometimes just bugs me. I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. It ain't just a you thing, don't worry; it's a lot of people.

[ichoosefight]

Well, you try to stick up for everybody, all the time. I guess I just don't have that kind of faith in humanity.

[tucky]

Not everybody. And not all the time.

[ichoosefight]

It seems like it, sometimes.

[tucky]

I wanna listen and understand all the time; that ain't the same thing.

I wanna stick up for inmates when they're being ignored or treated like shit.