008 - Pecan

[deadly_ned]

So.

As a first time Warden more or less mentoring a first time Inmate, there's this very important question that's been hovering menacingly near my head for the last few days like a demonic little helicopter and I would be remiss if I didn't at least ask it, even if I'm sure it's obvious to the more seasoned Wardens, Inmates, what have you.


...Is an Inmate's happiness more important than their graduation?

If you had to choose one, I mean.


And I think I should also ask to Inmates because I don't...like the unspoken divide and communication is usually an effective bridge over most divides..


What do you need from your warden to be happier?



[Private to Claire Bennet, Jesse Pinkman, the Marquis de Sade, and Megamind as a group]

Someone happened to tell me you're a dog person.

I'm trying to..rehome my dog, Digby. My Inmate is scared of them and it's probably best if Digby and I separated until my Inmate graduates. And I'd like to find someone to...borrow him, or take him, but if I don't find someone he'll have to go home and we've never been separated and I'm feeling a little...clingy.

Comments

private

[mattersverymuch]

Do you think someone can be happy trapped here? The choice isn't between graduation and happiness, it's between graduation and stagnation.

private

[deadly_ned]

I don't think my inmate wants to graduate.

I don't know if I want to force him.

private

[mattersverymuch]

And the alternative is what, exactly?

private

[deadly_ned]

I don't know. I don't know if there is one.

I just don't want to rush headlong into making him graduate if he's going to be miserable once he's there.

[video/public]

[routemistress]

I reckon if I can't work on both at once I shouldn't be 'ere, meself. Some are 'arder than others, though. I don't know your bloke too well.

If I were you, Pieman, I'd work on makin' 'im feel safe. Get 'im to where 'e doesn't stop to wonder who's in 'is corner 'cause 'e knows it'll always be you. 'Appiness, graduation, they'll all flow natural from there.

[video/public]

[deadly_ned]

What if one is counter to the other? What if graduation doesn't make a person happy?

I am. That is, I'm working on safe. I have a plan for safe.

Re: [video/public]

[routemistress]

Good. Then work on that, and work out the details of the rest of it later. Things 'ave a way of coming clear sometimes if you leave 'em alone. 'E's not been 'ere long, 'as 'e? There's a good chance 'is feelings and priorities'll reorder themselves to where it's not a problem.

Re: [video/public]

[deadly_ned]

Or they can domino into a disaster.

Is domino a verb? I feel it should be a verb.

[with_my_teacup]

I don't think you can graduate if you aren't at least a little happy about something. Or at least satisfied with where you got to.

[deadly_ned]

Are you happy?

Audio

[fuckingvisions]

I think happiness is more important then graduating. If you get through but are miserable whats the point o' bein'?

[surrenders]

You think he won't be happy if he does?

[with_my_teacup]

I'm satisfied. Time to time I'd even call myself happy, yeah. I got something out of graduation.

[private]

[megamind]

I'll be glad to help you with your dog. Angus would love a playmate.

[ A beat ]

And the answer to your question is more complicated than you can make it out to be, just so you know.

[private]

[meanstwin]

...you don't think I can have both?

[deadly_ned]

What did you get?

Besides pie. I know you got pie.

Audio

[deadly_ned]

But you're still...dead. If you don't graduate. You're still stuck here.

[with_my_teacup]

Direction. Not to sound too rehabbed, but I needed to have somewhere to go instead of just somewhere to run from.

I got my brain together and it didn't actually change me, this place.

Audio

[fuckingvisions]

Being dead and stuck here, beats burnin' in hell and I'm pretty sure that's all that's waiting for some of us. I personally think if the persons happy their more likely to try and graduate.

[private]

[deadly_ned]

I really, really want you to have both.

[private]

[deadly_ned]

Digby doesn't play much. He's a little neurotic. But he would like company.

I was afraid of complications.

[deadly_ned]

I hope he'll be happy if he does.

Re: Audio

[deadly_ned]

You believe in hell. That...puts a critical time limit on things.

[deadly_ned]

You can graduate without change?

[surrenders]

...so then I think we got to talk. There's two different kinds of happy, right?