gistful: ([Midnight Hotel])
Anton Shudder ([personal profile] gistful) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2015-07-02 04:36 pm

[Midnight Hotel] July catch-alll

Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of JULY, 2016.
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!

Though the attack on Anton and Jintou occurred outside of the Hotel, its effects can nevertheless be seen on the Hotel’s runnings during July. Jintou is absent, in the first place, though Anton keeps his room in the event he’s found.

For the last few days of June and the first couple days of July Anton is preoccupied with rebuilding the shops he damaged in his attempt to stop Jintou from being taken, and therefore a good deal of the Hotel’s daily running is in the hands of his staff and a handful of trusted ex-gang kedan.

Within the first few days of the month Anton’s health takes a nosedive. Though the chronic condition discovered by Raine and Tony wasn’t previously active, the poisoning attempt apparently changed that and for the rest of this month Anton is under enforced bed-rest—or if not bed-rest then an enforced holiday. For that reason, any and all offers to help out with maintenance, cleaning, cooking, accounting and other daily chores at the Hotel will be welcomed.

Provided, that is, that no one minds the Hotel proprietor hovering over their shoulders—when he isn’t being sat on by a giant wolf to make sure he doesn’t overtax himself.

Hotel rules are, obviously, still in effect.

[ooc: The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top and ongoing status at the bottom. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]
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[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-10-03 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"I take responsibility for what I've done," Gene said, a little acid seeping into his tone, "but my life is my own, to lay down for who and what I wish, not in the payment of some imagined debt. I am a bad person, yes, and I have done wrong; but I am no slave."

Anton, in Gene's view, was being entirely unfair. What about those who've wronged him? They're not getting a lecture on the nature of responsibility and being told to hand over their lives to him based on some arbitrary moral compass.

He'd been trying. He really had. And he felt like Anton was telling him that what he did to atone would never be enough.

"Why do you think I'm turning myself around, then? I am a bad person, I will always be a bad person, and I have accepted that. I am trying to do good while I'm here, not in the service of some nonexistent balance of justice, but because I know what I did before was wrong."

If justice really existed, if the universe was really concerned with rewarding good with good and evil with evil, Zhang would have been struck down by a bolt from the heavens before he could ever lay a hand on Gene or his mother.