I wrote the first part of this but it got eated. Madelaine's profile is ok, she has a younger sister named Miriam and two parents that behave like irresponsible teenagers so Madelaine has to run their household and tell everyone what to do.
Onto the island, she wakes up and immediately runs into Amanda. They know each other from math class, but don't talk much. Amanda is also daughter of the vice president and she spends a lot of time hinting about that but no one asks so she has to come out and say it. UNFORTUNATELY FOR US ALL, David Jacks walks up and decides for the good of America he must protect Amanda and Madelaine I guess if he has time.
Out of the woods walks Heather Pendergast and if you have seen my Heather writeup you know that David GMs an innocent girl who has voluntarily disarmed herself into being shot14 times and steals her stuff. That's some good hero-ing there, chief!
Amanda and Madelaine sortta scold him after the fact and then they walk across a field to a house where Amanda and Madelaine quietly discuss plans to ditch David.
David ditch count: 1
Amanda has told Maddy that she hopes to find her crush Adam Dodd. Madelaine is like "Oh wow, hope you find him." This is in stark contrast to actual pure angel Jeremy who vows immediately to help a stranger find his brother in his first thread.
The group comes upon a cabin and there's a boy outside. Amanda hides in the bushes and Madelaine and Adam Dodd have a song and dance that's pretty tiresome that's like "I'm looking for Adam Dodd" "Who is looking for him?" "Madelaine." "Well, maybe I know where he is" ect. til Amanda runs out and everyone is happy, yay.
[TWO MONTH BREAK]
Ugh ok I'm back
So Hawley decides while Amanda and Dodd have a little date to talk to Madelaine because I'd chose her over David as well. He asks her name, saying they should know one another if they are to be allies.
She is extremely doubtful that anyone can be allies in the situation. They talk, she goes outside in the rain, Hawley tells her she's gonna get sick like that.
She's annoyed that he's treating her like a kid because back home she's the one that has to treat everyone that way as her little sister is a child and her parents are irresponsible. Madelaine doesn't like it when someone talks to her the way she talks to them. CHARACTER.
Madelaine looks at a picture of her family in a diary and reinforces that they are all happy go-lucky and she's a bit more serious and says if she'd have known about death island in her future she might have relaxed a little more.
But then River runs out of the house to a danger zone and explodes. Madelaine and Hawley are in shock, Dodd is devastated, Amanda wants to comfort him and David doesn't care. Also Dodd tells the group his good friend Adam Sandler phoned him and told them to meet him at the lighthouse because he has an escape plan.
David says it may be a trap so they should ignore the call. Hate.
Madelaine is sneezing and coughing, I guess Hawley was right. Also she's still freaked out about River. She doesn't really want to move because she doesn't feel good. Aw, pobresita.
David says that maybe they should just consider killing people and Madelaine has a speech about how killing is giving in to the terrorists and not worth the toll it would take on them as people [REMEMBER FOR LATER]. She vows never to kill, but also to stay with Amanda no matter what and for some reason reminds David of his vow to also protect Amanda. (Hey, maybe you don't want David in the Amanda protection team).
A summary:
David: Maybe we kill people? Just a suggestion.
Madelaine: I'll never kill! Killing would mean that we've given in to the terrorist's demands. It's not worth it to sacrifice our humanity just at a slim chance to win this game!
Hawley: I've.....already killed. I regret what I've done and I can't take it back but...here, Madelaine, take this medicine. I hope that maybe I can make up for what I have done.
Madelaine: Hawley, though you've done bad things, the fact that you want to reform and take the right path even now means you're strong : ) . You're not bad, you're human.
David: YEAH WELL, HAWLEY HAS ADMITTED HE'S WEAK BY PLAYING SO WE BETTER FUCKING LEAVE
Me: Why are you like this?
Also, what's that Future!Madelaine?
"The thing is, these kinds of circumstances, they tend to bring out the absolute worst in people. It's not a sin or anything...it's just the instinct to survive, something that can't be helped anymore..."
/the future
Devi walks up to ask for shelter and David pulls out his gun. Bitch, run. It's not worth it.
Hawley and Madelaine have a moment as he gives her medicine and says that he wants to live because he's never met his mother. He's afraid of being alone and wants to stay with them. I ship them? She's blushing while he gives her medicine. Minus 1 point to Madelaine for seeing David about to shoot another innocent girl and not giving a shit though.
While he is dealing with Devi, Amanda, Madelaine and Hawley try to quietly escape. I guess Devi is just the price they are willing to pay to get away from David. Alas, as soon as they make it outside the house he teleports to be outside with them when he was just at the front door talking to Devi. He GMs her into talking to no one in order to make sure the good characters don't escape him.
David ditch count: 2
Everyone is upset they did not escape David. Also Marcus is here now too. Madelaine tells them that she intends to die on the island. Amanda tells her not to think like that, Hawley suggests they move to a less open area to look for Dodd. Everyone except David decides they should go to the lighthouse and they leave before David can throw in his two cents.
END OF THREAD THANK GOD
Hawley hears a weird noise. Madelaine goes to check it out and it's some dude singing and chopping a body with an axe.
He comes out all crazy having just killed a kid named Jimmy and Hawley wants to leave. Marcus wants to fight. Hawley thinks that if they fight the axe boy (Blaine) they risk injuring a party member. Madelaine takes out her gun and threatens to shoot Blaine.
They decide to leave and Madelaine apologizes for scaring Blaine. WHY? HE JUST AXED SOMEONE IN THE FACE TO DEATH
Madelaine wrote:
"Who am I to point fingers at now? she thought sullenly. After all...I just pointed a gun at someone, looking at them as though they were a wooden target, unable to feel happiness, fear, anger, or pain."
NO YOU CAN YOU SEE BECAUSE YOU DID NOT MURDER A PERSON. Also foreshadow of her not giving a fuck about people dying later.
Sidenote: I don't like Madelaine's monologue talk. When she's allowed to talk for too long uninterrupted the dialogue doesn't sound like how humans talk. Sounds like dialogue from a not very good anime
Marcus is upset they are letting a murderer just walk away. Fair. Madelaine says that though it's possible he'll go kill someone, she was thinking selfishly about not wanting to risk a fight. Also fair. She says in the moment she pointed the gun at him she didn't think of him as human, but if she did kill anyone she couldn't face her family.
Hawley tells Amanda and Madelaine that his goal is to help the people who prove that they are good to get off the island, which is why he'll stay with them. Nice.
Madelaine says that she doesn't feel comfortable trusting so many people but that it's part of what's helping her get through this. But now she also wants to survive? Before she didn't. I'll say that it's Hawley's influence that's changed her mind.
NEXT THERAD
The gang come up to the clinic which has inside a scared and injured Elise. A scared, unarmed young girl begging for safety? DAVID KILL!
He tells her to come out or he'll open fire. She repeats that her legs are injured, she can't walk. He tells her he doesn't give a shit and she better get her ass out of that room or he'll kill her, broken legs or not.
Dude, come on. I'm ready to downgrade Hawley and Madelaine if they let this slide.
Elise sighs and crawls across the floor to the door to avoid being shot. Well, Madelaine tells him he's being a jerk and also makes a joke about his small dick, so it's not a total loss.Elise has crawled to the door and Madelaine is helping her up and snapping at the others to help too. Elise is like "Hi yeah, someone shot me in the legs. So are you gonna kill me now?" Elise's got jokes too! So Madelaine and Hawley help Elsie.
Meanwhile:
Amanda tells David to be less of a fucking dick, but she says it nice. He says he'll try.
Hawley is doctoring up Elise, Madelaine has gone to search the area and suddenly JACOB, STEVAN AND PERI SHOW UP AND I NO LONGER KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING. I can't tell who is talking to who out of this trio. Oh well.David hears the talking and warns the group.
Amanda: "FUCK! It's Jacob..." she hissed to Madelaine and Hawley.
I know that feel.
Madelaine runs inside while David goes out to fight, the only thing he's really ever wanted to do.
A shoot out happens between David, Stevan, Peri and Jacob. I can't tell what's happening besides a lot of shooting with no one actually getting shot. Also I don't care what happens to any of them.
MADELAINE HAS FOUND A BACK DOOR OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. Let's see if the group can finally escape David. Oh no, Amanda's been hit in the leg which reminds David that Amanda is there. Amanda is like "NO, I'M FINE GO BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE DOING."
David ditch count: 3
All of them escape, including Marcus who has teleported once again and somehow David even though he was shooting people. Curses.
Now we've made it
I stand before the precipice
No second thoughts, no backward glances
The games we've played till now are at an end
No second thoughts. I've decided.
Past the point of no return. No going back now!
Our passion-play has now, at last, begun
Past all thought of right or wrong!
How long should we two wait before we're one?
When will the blood begin to race?
The sleeping bud burst into blood?
When will the flames, at last, CONSUMEEEEE USSSSS?
THE FINAL TRESHOLD
THE BRIDGE IS CROSSED
ONWARD TO: THOUGH WE MAY NOT SURVIVE IT
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Madelaine is sweating and dying from running full tilt away from the gun battle. She looks back to take stock and see if everyone is with them-
Jacob is now with them in addition to David
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjda8O-lYgE
Madelaine collapses, Hawley collapses next to her and Amanda collapses between them. Aw. Jacob and David seem to be doing peachy and Hawley is upset they are still with them. Jacob is like "I'm good now!" David is like "C'moooooon"
Amanda grabs a gun that Jacob dropped and threatens to kill Jacob since he tried to kill Dodd. Hawley tells David to shut the fuck up.
Mandelaine tells everyone to freeze. She doesn't want them killing, but also tells Jacob to get away from them and if David has a problem he can leave too (they have been trying to escape David for so long).
David ditch count 3
Jacob grabs the gun out of Amanda's hands and sadly asks David if he'll stay with them and David sadly says yes (NOOOOOOOO).
An OOC battle breaks out since Jacob took the gun with Amanda without her permission.
Dodd lets it go and Amanda is distraught that she almost shot someone and cries on Madelaine. Madelaine hugs her as she cries.
OOC Swoosh asks what became of Elise. Makaze says Madelaine was only aiming to get her friends out. Ouch, guess Elise isn't a friend.
The terrorists come on reading erotica! Except then Danya takes over and says they'll be sent to the island.
Our trio is sutibly freaked out except David who says if they can beat the terrorists then they can get them to tell the kids how to take the collars off. Hawley is doubtful the kids can beat military trained combatants.
He instead goes back to helping Amanda. But then Madelaine realizes she's also been shot or at least grazed on the shoulder. It's bleeding quite a bit.
Hawley tells her to stay calm and asks her about her life to distract her while he gets supplies for the wound. She talks about her writing and her favorite noodle dish and how her family was so dependent on her that she has no idea what they'll do without her. He needs her to take off the shirt so he can get to the wound and she does, with both a bit embarrassed but neither remarking on it.
Hawley reveals that he hoped to become a doctor like his parents. The bullet is still in her but he says it's better to leave it be than to try to dig it out unless it really starts to bother her, but that it's not a good option.This is all very nice stuff that lets us know more about each character while building their bond naturally.
DAVID EXPLODES THE COLLAR OF A DEAD PERSON AND ALL HE HAS IS A CUT. Expert opinion on this is some of his fingers should be blown off.
Hawley patches up everyone and Amanda requests some time for girl talk, telling Hawley and David to make conversation in the meantime. This should be good, but I'm also afraid that Amanda and Madelaine will consider Hawley a sacrifice and try to escape David again.
Marcus has finally made it out of wherever he was and collapses. They tell him to go up the road and visit Nurse Hawley, while hoping no one has followed him.
OH BUT SOMEONE HAS.
Amanda talks about how Adam is her true love and she only trusts her emotions with Madelaine. Madelaine can't understand quite since she's never felt romantic about anyone.
"I've....I've never fallen in love before. I've never even been close to a boy, for that matter. But...I do know what it's like to deeply, truly care about someone. I mean....I care about you, you know"
FORGET DODD, AMANDA. GET WITH MADELAINE.
Oh Madelaine says that their friendship still exists and it's worth holding on to and fighting for even though their chances are slim. Blaine is sneaking up on the girls, but they hear him because he's singing the lyrics to his song post. If only he'd been quiet he could have gotten the drop on them.
He starts talking about how Madelaine pointed a gun at him and didn't wanna be his friend and all his other friends fell asleep (he killed them) so she must die. She counters his axe with the tire iron and tells Amanda to run for Hawley and David. But that injured leg isn't helping and he runs to kill Amanda but THEN ADAM DODD.
He shoots Blaine in his first kill. History in the making. Adam breaks down and it's pretty good. Good job, V1 Dodd.
Madelaine is in a shock state and is only brought back once Dodd starts to weep. She feels bad that Dodd has taken on the burden of killing that she would have had to in order to save Amanda.
Hawley's back from his walk alone. Did he finally manage to shake David? OH NO HE'S EVIL NOW, WHY? : (
Adam is like "Lol, what?" and Hawley is like "Friendship is weakness, I made a mistake, there is no such thing as true friends. I gotta kill you" and Madelaine steps in front of Dodd and is like "What about all the times you helped us? I believe in friendship and you!"
But then a new character joins the scene named Callum! He's looking for his imaginary friend Beth and decides that because she is in trouble, Madelaine is Beth so he'll save her. It looks like Madelaine is winning over Hawley who says he's afraid and doesn't want to die because he trusted the wrong people, but then Callum tackles him.
Madelaine thinks that even though he's behaving irrationally she still trusts him and turns her gun on Callum, saying he was wrong to rush Hawley. Sure, ok, but to an outside observer it did look like he was about to shoot you.
Hawley says that when he heard the gun shots from the Blaine scuffle he assumed someone had killed the girls and felt like it was his fault if anything bad happened because he left clearly injured girls alone. To cope he tried to convince himself they were never his real friends in order to prepare for when Dodd would blame him for their deaths.
Interesting.
Callum talks to a second imaginary friend : I
Hawley begins tending to the arm wound Dodd got in his Blaine fight and thinks about how he ditched David.
"There was someone up there with some kind of weapon when David and I got there
" He muttered, blinking as he took note that he had left David back there when he had came back here
David ditch count: 4
Marcus has come back and he's fucked up. Amanda goes to help him while Hawley pumps Dodd full of m o r p h I n e so he can sew his arm up.
David's found them again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtBfGvzzlwM
Madelaine is promoted to nurse as Hawley tells her how to take care of Marcus while he sews up the Doddster. I'm not exactly sure what's happened to Marcus but he's been whipped pretty badly. A nice character moment here from Hawley who inwardly freaks out, not sure if he can tackle such extensive wounds and feeling pressured that at 15 these people are counting on him to save this person.
Well another girl comes upon them wearing the same uniform from Madelaine's old school in Japan. One might assume that they could know each other. David?
"Who are you?" David asked the newcomer, walking over to her with his gun raised
"Why shouldn't I just shoot you now, whoever you are? It would save us a lot of trouble."
David threatens to kill scared unarmed girl count: also 4
At this point I'm surprised David has not threatened me for being a girl with no weapon.
Marcus understands that shooting a crying girl on the floor is bad PR at the very least. Amanda tells him to STOP TRYING TO KILL UNARMED GIRLS LOOKING FOR HELP.
Uh, Nanami calls Madelaine "Shirohara-san" which I think isn't right? I mean, Madelaine says they are childhood friends and even "best friend." Maybe this is intentional to show us that Nanami doesn't really consider them to be that close or Nanami thinks of Madelaine as superior.
I instantly like Nanami. She's not happy to see Madelaine, but she doesn't have the heart to say so. She lies, saying she meant to write her, thinking that lies are just easier sometimes rather than hurting people with the truth.
Uh oh. I think we're reaching a Madelaine turning point.
So up until this point I would say I characterize Madelaine as "okay" learning a bit towards "good." She's not given a ton of introspection and some of her moments come across as sort of Saturday morning cartoon in how much she talks about friendship, but she has a really cute relationship to Hawley which actually challenged her a bit because he has a past that goes against her ideals. She's shown to be pragmatic sometimes too, having to chose to save her immediate friends rather than extend herself by trying to help more people (like leaving Elsie in the dust). Now and then she's got a good character moment.
By modern standards she wouldn't be a revelation, but for V1 she's solid enough. But now we start to see some cracks
.
As mentioned in the Toben review of Nanami, Madelaine comforts Nanami and remembers a time that she comforted her in the past, but never actually asked her what was wrong, and then says Nanami gets upset over "petty things." How do you know if you never asked?
Madelaine assures her that all of them will get out and Nanami asks, shocked, if she trusts these strangers. When Madelaine says she trusts them with her life, Nanami rightly points out that David was about to shoot her. Nanami wants to them to leave together but Madelaine tells her she's being silly.
Nanami is aghast that Madelaine would choose these strangers over her best friend, but also thinks that because Madelaine is so self-sacrificing it's good to have her around because she'll protect her at the cost of her own life. Mmmm okay. Nanami and Madelaine are written by the same person so, this looks to be a way to reinforce how kind Madelaine is in a quick way.
Adam Dodd doesn't like the fact that Nanami wants to leave so in his morphine craze he calls Nanami a "whiny bitch" and tells her to "shut the fuck up." Yeah, that's gonna win her over for sure. He also tells her that he killed a man and that Madelaine is for sure not an Asian sex slave.
I'm sure that Dodd meant for Dodd to sound totally crazy here and the opposite of comforting, but it kind of works against Makaze's efforts to paint Nanami as unreasonable for wanting to leave. Dodd essentially says that if she leaves they'll follow.
Nanami stands there horrified and crying, Amanda is horrified and mad, Madelaine is horrified and slaps him one good. Nanami remembers some other times in the past when Madelaine was the best and tells us how Madelaine always stands up for her. Er, okay. Show don't tell ect. She thinks Dodd has seen through her cunning manipulation (I think he's just tripping) and she's resentful that she is dependent on Madelaine which also comes across as showing us how great Madelaine is.
Also as mentioned by Toben, she escalates the situation to physical violence by slapping Dodd when it probably could have been resolved more easily without violence given that he's just kind of rambling while high. Hawley basically says all this, telling Madelaine that he's just drugged up and there's no reason to get violent.
Madelaine doesn't like that everyone told her she needs to cool it and she sulks, rather than reflect. This does call back to her not liking being talked down to since she's used to being the one acting as the parent. It's a bit like when she was resentful of Hawley correctly saying she shouldn't be out in the cold despite her talking down to him earlier.
All this is cool, but Nanami's accounts of Madelaine don't betray any of that, nor is Madelaine self-aware of this problem. Her not being self-aware doesn't bother me, but the narrative nor Nanami, a second party, are either.
AFTER ALL THIS, SHE INTRODUCES NANAMI TO THE GROUP.
Best. Friends.
Random thought: Should Madaline and Nanami be speaking in Japanese? Perhaps not all the time but at the very least when Nanami is trying to convince Madelaine to leave the group within earshot of the group?
Madelaine tells her that they are staying with the group and that Nanami would like them if she opens up. Nanami doesn't like having decisions made for her. This is actually in character though since Madelaine is used to making decisions for people unilaterally. She doesn't consider Nanami's feelings in the decision-making, but I think she always just does what she things is right just using her own perspective.
The thing I don't know is if we're supposed to take Nanami's anecdotes about Madeline being kind and angelic at face value and think "Ok yeah, she's the best" or if those memories are just coated in Nanami's bitterness and her own perception is remembering Madelaine as more angelic than she really is.
I can't
.tell
.
If it is that she has a flaw of being thoughtless because her childhood of having to make the adult decisions for her family have gotten used to her thinking she knows what's best for everyone without truly considering their point of view and Nanami's resentment of that treatment carrying over to her has made her falsely paint a more grand picture of Madelaine
..it might be too subtle? Is that it though?
"But now, all Nanami could think about was how much she resented Shirohara-san at that moment, just because she was right. She was always right."
IS she always right? Or does Nanami just THINK she's always right because she's resentful? She also thinks about how Madelaine is scary but also makes friends with everyone. Laying it on a bit thick.
Did I say thick?
THICC
"And then there was you, Shirohara-san. You were always really cool, even as a grade school student. No one ever saw you crying, and you always looked after everyone else. Even the teachers thought you were special, because you were always good with words, writing, that sort of thing.... Everyone really admired you, you know?"
We're running into issues of author intent here as I try to untangle this because Toben pointed me to a character trivia thread wherein Makaze says:
Nanami Nishida is not particularly based on anyone in particular, rather the tendencies that I often notice in people who are unhappy with their lives, and blame the people close to them for their unhappiness.
From the author herself, Nanami is not meant to have depth, but to be a flat villain that will contrast to how great Madelaine is. It's quite possible that she was intended as a way to pump up Madelaine's goodness to the reader and any fault on Madelaine's part is accidental. I don't like that. It seems like cheating and cheap as far as character development.
Well Nanami shoots Madelaine, everyone comes running and Nanami is pretty much in a corner with Madelaine as a hostage. She says that all throughout their friendship she has always resented Madelaine smothering her, pitying her, telling her what to do.
Uh, Madelaine doesn't consider any of this. Man, it is so hard to get her to consider other points of view that are not her, even when it comes to her best friend. She's hurt that the friendship was based on a lie. Ok.
My patience is wearing thin right now at page 10 of 17 of this thread.
Dodd tries to goad Nanami into paying attention to him instead of Madelaine, which is brave and selfless. See, Madelaine? This works
..until David tries to shoot the gun out of Nanami's hand and she gets upset and shoots Madelaine, grazing her cheek.
"Something goes wrong, and you cry
right? But you had something there for you, you had her." He said, nodding his head lightly toward the fallen form of Madelaine. "Someone there to comfort you and to make the tears go away. You should be happy someone cared about you enough to do such a thing, but you see that as nothing but a burden, and a weakness on your part brought on by her."
Right now, Madelaine hoped more than ever that Nanami would take to heart and understand what Hawley was saying to her, before something horrible happened.
Mmm I dont know that Nanami will agree that she's a burden and sucks, but apparently Madelaine agrees?
Nanami has taken considerable verbal abuse so she decides she'll prove her strength instead by killing the crowd, taking aim at Amanda. Madelaine shoots her and then screams for help. David kicks a dying girl in the ribs. Stay classy.
Madelaine apologies for never realizing her friend was unhappy and for discouraging for standing up for herself, telling her such behavior was "troublesome." Better late than never. Nanami tries to apologize for the attempted murder, but dies first. Harsh. Silver lining: Dodd heard it and tries to tell the others.
Madelaine goes catatonic due to shooting her friend and Dodd is now the cheerleader of the group, telling them they can make it, they have to keep moving.
"Who will I protect now? Who's friend am I now?"
Me, me, me. I'm the one you should focus on in this death.
Amanda, Dodd and Hawley awkwardly cough in the distance. As she is basically catatonic we spend a lot of time being locked in her brain. She's not interacting with anyone much, forcing people to cater to her while not giving back anything.
Madelaine can hear Amanda's pleas to snap out of her catatonia, but just isn't talking to her. WHY? Holy shit, this thread is longer than Catcher in the Rye and she's not interacting with anyone so I'm locked in her brain.
Madelaine for the rest of the thread:
If I were Hawley or Dodd I'd throw her over Marcus's shoulder like a sack of potatoes and keep moving.
Amanda has an actually really nice plea to Madelaine about how they could have been friends at home and how she needs her. Madelaine hears it and smiles but STILL DOESN'T RESPOND DEAR JESUS.
Oh no, we've switched to SOTF: Oregon trail as one of our party members has fallen ill.
GuitarJack wrote:
"ooc(you all have two days to figure out how to help a person with a concussion, or Marcus is going into a coma. Just thought I would spice things up a bit.)"
Some head trauma always adds a little sauce to the story. HAWLEY IS THE ONLY DOCTOR HE'S BUSY, HE IS NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH.
SPEEDIN' UP THE PACE SO I DON'T DIE HERE
The J-crew show up (Jeremy, Heather, Glenn and Fred) and it's like:
Heather: you shot me and stole my gun. Give it back!
David: you're a player, no.
Heather: I shot a guy who tried to rape me and another crazy dude who wanted to murder me because he said I was a witch
David: bitch I don't care, you can have it back when you take it from my cold dead hands
Heather: ok (fires shots)
David: (fires shots)
Adam: Oh no a player!
Madelaine: I have to protect my friends! (Shoots at Heather)
Dodd gets a pass here but Madelaine was around to see David steal from and assault Heather the first time. Let's check in on how Madelaine is doing.
"The sight of Heather being shot down like that...did not seem to have much of an effect of Madelaine now for some reason.
This puzzled her mildly, and she wondered vaguely what was up with her all of a sudden, why she was not feeling anything. Her confusion increased as she felt herself remaining her calm while David pressed the barrel of his gun against Heather's forehead. Though for some reason...she felt a flicker of enjoyment as the crippled girl had cowered helplessly in front of David. It appalled her...and almost excited her at the same time..."
She's on the straight and narrow.
David takes the opportunity to tell Amanda he loves her while Jeremy and Fred are screaming over a passed out Heather, who they then rush to the hospital. Then Hawley succumbs to his wounds and dies in a touching scene where he says that he's always felt alone and realized too late he had true friends.
UGH NO HE WAS MY FAVORITE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LVxDcOfF5E
Hawley's death snaps Madelaine into talking again and she seems upset but not super upset? Oh and Marcus is dead so we shoot him and leave despite Amanda's protests (though she admits he's a vegetable at this point). Madelaine decides she's going to die in this place, but she will give her all to protect her friends, even if this means killing someone or playing. STRAIGHT AND NARROW.
IT'S OVER AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH-
Ok we go to the warehouse, Jacob locks Amanda, Cody and Madelaine in the warehouse for ????? reasons I guess. Cody decides to mac on Amanda and forcibly kisses her to which Madelaine brains him in the head with a tire iron. They make their escape once Adam, David and friendspry the doors open
..
Last thread. Let's fucking rock
DAVID DITCH COUNT: 5, YOU DID IT GUYS!
Dodd explains the kills to his name to newcomers Jill, Martyn and Chance and Madelaine has this to say
"The thing is, these kinds of circumstances, they tend to bring out the absolute worst in people. It's not a sin or anything...it's just the instinct to survive, something that can't be helped anymore..."
Sounds pretty different from Madelaine "I'll never kill, killing is unforgivable" from the start, and you know what, I like that she has evolved her stance here as she's gotten pushed.
As she wandered about, she found herself stopping before Nanami's corpse. And to think.....that only moments ago, you were cursing me, saying how much you hated me, and how you were going to kill me. Friendship is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Madelaine is not in any way a messiah figure of goodness, hope and light, but she is kind of fascinating as someone who kind of took up that mantle in a superficial way to end up at the end like "Fuck hope, fuck this, fuck friendship : ) "
Her complete disillusion in friendship at this point makes it almost worth having sat through all her friendship speeches in the first few threads. I feel like maybe it's not a conscious decision from the writer because a moment later when talking to Chance she says she trusts the group, even though the only members she's been with for a long time are Adam and Amanda (Martyn and Jill have only now joined up).
Well, as you may know by now Cody catches up to them and grabs Madelaine while she's looking at the bodies of her friends (they are back at the river). He chokes her to unconsciousness, binds her hands and tells her if she does not cooperate or if she screams he'll kill her and proceeds to undress her.
This can't be happening.... Good girls don't go through this. Honour students are never raped. What did I do? Did I do something to deserve this...?
I have * thoughts .* Oh boy. Oh jeez. Okay, I do realize that this was 12 years ago and attitudes towards sexual assault have changed quite a bit so part of this is likely a product of it's time but
..jeez. This is obviously a horrible attitude to have towards victims of sexual assault and I guess Madelaine thinks that only girls that "deserve it" get raped. I don't know how this meshes with her personality traits of being nurturing and caring but it doesn't speak well of her.
This is also uhhhh ermmm uhh
She would give anything to trade places with anyone right now...to let someone suffer in her place.
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After all, may the worst happen...to even the good-hearted.
TLDR: Cody is biting her a lot and head butting her to inflict damage while raping her. The rape is a bit secondary because the violence gets a lot more focus and pretty much doesn't go into the nitty gritty of the sexual act. I get the feeling that we're just meant to watch her suffer as much as possible. Case in point the narrative directly tells you:
"This is something that no one should have to go through."
Uh, thanks? I kind of already thought that.
"Here she was, first being coerced into submission, then finding herself being violated and tortured in just about one of the worse ways imaginable."
don't tell ect.
He rips her throat out with his teeth after climax and she starts to die of blood loss.