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[supplanted]

[when the video opens, it's to chaos-- beautiful, ornate mansions ring around an open central area that's absolutely packed with confused, frightened people; most are dressed in finery (or more than finery-- a significant number have outlandish outfits, tattooed or dyed skin, and brightly-colored hair), but it's obvious that, at least for the moment, they aren't very well-off]

[there's also a concrete barricade (guarded by the white-suited Capitol police and District Peacekeepers that some might recognize from earlier videos) surrounding the most impressive building of them all, a huge mansion-- and within that barricade, all the refugees happen to be children]

[the insanity increases when armed guards break through the crowds, pushing aside citizens and attempting to storm the mansion; next hovercraft appears in the sky, raining down silver parachutes on the barricaded children]

[they reach for the packages, carrying them in their arms and attempting to tear them open... and then suddenly, a couple dozen of the parachutes explode, killing or severely wounding those who had been holding them]

[at this, their guards immediately step aside, making way for a swarm of medics-- Prim among them]

[despite this being more danger than they had assumed they'd be facing, not a single one of them shies back or tries to run away-- even Prim, the thirteen-year-old who wants nothing more than to live a quiet, uneventful life, doesn't hesitate to run forward to the nearest wounded child and begin treating them as best she can]

[anyone who knows anything about terrorism (specifically, the tactic of sending out one wave of attacks, and then following it with a second to take out the first responders) might know what's coming next: and indeed, the rebel medics have been behind the barricade for less than thirty seconds when the rest of the parachutes explode, blowing absolutely everyone to pieces]

Comments

[vinodejerez]

...No way...

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[stillneedawish]

[ she's already looking at the video horrified, her eyes wide, but madoka screams when the parachutes explode with prim in the centre of them, because no, prim can't have died, not like that, it's too cruel, she's even younger than madoka herself and this sort of thing isn't supposed to happen-- ]

[stillneedawish]

[ and then it sets in, a few seconds after the video ends. numb and creeping. she's gone. prim is - she's dead.

and madoka curls up in a ball on her bed and cries. ]

[icantbelievethis]

No way... I can't...

I thought this place saved everyone.

[makewayforroze]

[What do you say to that? Watching something like that is beyond horrible and Roze's chest starts to hurt even before the medics arrive. War is horrible and hurts a lot of people but...they were children.

When Prim does show up, Roze freezes. She already knows what's coming but she's praying that she's wrong. She wants so badly to be wrong.

And then she's not and she can't post. She can't even close her book for a while, staring at it's pages, horrified. Finally, she slams it shut.]

[ultimateenemy]

[He was just browsing this new connection, for lack of anything else to do that he hadn't already tried at Clockwork's tower. And suddenly he sees this.

He's not really horrified or disgusted - he's seen plenty of things very similar before, even caused most of them himself. But he hasn't seen anything with humans acting like this toward each other before - not as the highly sheltered Danny or willingly ignorant Vlad, and all the humans sort of teamed up and put aside their difference to try to destroy him when he showed up himself.]

[So now he's just confused.] Huh. Don't see why the humans would complain about me when they do it all to themselves perfectly fine.

[specialest_agent]

It's not something you see every day, is it, Zach? But it probably happens just as often.

There is nothing we could have done, but it's still a terrible shame.

[the_visitor]

Oh humanity...