DE: Safe and sound

[bjornwilde]

From pullsneedles :

In Mother 3, there is an invention known as the Absolutely Safe Capsule. It is, as the name states, a one-person capsule that is absolutely safe. The outside is impervious to any attacks, natural disasters, armageddons, what have you. It contains a life support system built to last long beyond an average human's lifespan. The catch is the inside will not open again once it is shut.

Knowing all of this, would your pup go into the Absolutely Safe Capsule for any reason? Would your pup put anyone inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule?

Comments

[bjornwilde]

Jess, honestly, is horrified by this idea. She spent enough time in a similar capsule, thank you very much. Don't know that she'd put someone else in one though.

Tybalt would gladly put October within one if there was need and assuming he could open it when whatever problem required its use was dealt with. Assuming the person within is conscious, he would most definitely not chose to be within one himself. Confinement is not something cait sidhe tolerate well.

I'll have to think on my other pups.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Oh, Ellen already did that. To Stanislaus Braun, Overseer of Vault 122. Only with the added bonus of the life support system being able to keep a human being alive for hundreds of years if not more, and with a virtual reality system inside that emulated any one of several possible real-world settings.

Thing is, Stanislaus Braun's only remaining joy in life at that point was deliberately manipulating and taunting other human beings. Since Ellen had mercy-killed all of his subjects who were trapped in the same perfectly physically safe scenario, Braun is effectively in Hell.

(Ellen would rather have shot him in the head, because she prefers getting things over with in a clean fashion, but her father talked her out of it.)

[pullsneedles]

Life support system-wise, the creator has stated that the Absolutely Safe Capsule and whoever's inside (in canon's case, Porky) will survive beyond the heat death of the universe. And Porky was already potentially thousands of years old because time travel's a pain. Porky went in by choice and, though he might not be aware of not being able to get out, possibly got what he wanted all along.

It doesn't have virtual reality, though. But there's a window!

[genarti]

For all of mine: no, and... mostly no. Clare would put her human friend pet? companion Raki inside in a heartbeat, or possibly another human bystander if Raki wasn't around, while she fought whatever she needed to.

For the others, if someone else chose, consciously and while of sound mind, to go into the capsule, they wouldn't argue. Some of them might actively suggest it under the right circumstances -- especially Thor to a human, in a "look, you go in the capsule, I swear I'll let you out, I'LL SURVIVE THIS AND YOU WON'T" situation.

Possibly some of them would be willing to if they were the human in that hypothetical Thor situation, but... all of mine have control issues and/or asking other people to do things they won't issues, so it would be a hard inner struggle before they agreed.

[death_gone_mad]

No.

Well, Amascut might use it for the worst of the worst of evil things, but she hasn't met anyone that bad. Anyone human-sized at least. Given that she spends a lot of time human sized, I think she'd be too afraid to let such a thing exist unless she actually has a use for it RIGHT NOW.

[pullsneedles]

Lucas, having seen what kind of person wants to go into the Absolutely Safe Capsule for himself, would not want to go in nor put anyone inside for any reason.

Lohengrin wouldn't go in. Why would he want to prolong his own life? But if he could open it from the outside, he wouldn't hesitate to put another in it to save them.

Mia wonders if a dragon would be able to destroy it from the inside, but she wouldn't be willing to ask Nall or any other dragons to test that theory unless it were an emergency. And it would take a dragon to tell Mia to go in before she would do it.

Mirai, like Lohengrin, doesn't like the idea of prolonging her own life. Nor would she like being in one thing for the rest of it. She can think of some things she'd like to put in, but they're ineligible due to being intangible.

[herr_bookman]

Autor wouldn't set foot in one for any reason. It sounds terrifying to him; he'd end up claustrophobic. Nor would he subject anyone to that, even to save them--being trapped forever is a fate worse than death. If he could open it and the person consented, he might change his mind, but it's a slim might.

Come to think of it, my other pups think the same way.

[singthesong]

No. No no no no no no no no no no no no.

...in short, he would never go in there. And while the best he has in his canon is "sometimes friendly crazy murderer", he doesn't hate anyone else enough to do that to them.

[alexiscartwheel]

If Stiles ever had to make a choice between certain death and the capsule for the Sheriff, he'd do it. He'd miss his Dad, but he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he could've saved him and didn't.

[runningred]

Jay - oh hell no! Too much like being back in his coffin. Even now, he has issue with narrow spaces.

David and Minx - If it came to life or death, David would put Minx in there to protect her but doesn't value his own life as high.

Olivier - would help someone else to safety if it would help but won't enter himself.

Diaval - maybe. Who knows. He certainly doesn't!

[filemyclaim]

I think Eponine would be the only one who would.