#AND fcg provably is just Always Listening and even THEY didnt know and like. damn. terrifying

[sparring-spirals]

While I've got F.C.G on the brain, actually, I feel like its fun to talk about the passive part of that passive collection of everyone's problems.

There's already the pending questions that could arise of: How much should I tell F.C.G if it might get thrown back at me in a dangerous moment? How much can I tell them? Even though its not actually F.C.G wielding it against me, how much of me should I be giving out? Which is- devastating and rattling for everyone involved.

But then, F.C.G rattles through the parties most vulnerable moments in their head, and only Imogen is aware of it, I think, but- its not just things they tell F.C.G. Its things they tell each other, they confide in each other. The quiet, safe spaces of a 2 person watch, late night conversations- are all thrown into question.

And F.C.G doesn't mean for any of this. As far as we can tell- the data collection, the quiet overhearing of everyone's quiet conversations doesn't manifest as information F.C.G seems to be consciously aware of. A bug has been planted in the group but the bug is- still just F.C.G. Worried about their friends.

and now- now that worry is weaponized, now that care and concern feels dangerous, and malicious, and no one is happy about it, and how do you talk about it when you don't know when it will be used against you.

(And on a related note, I think F.C.G and Laudna should talk again. For both of them.)