It began with a silence no one wanted to break.
🍙 Cast List
- 🌸 Sakura – Gentle-hearted and hesitant. Feels every choice as a weight.
- 🍙 Mochi – Dances with metaphors, dodges confrontation with poetry.
- 🐟 Salmo – Brutally clear-eyed. Believes silence enables harm.
- 🔥 Blaze – Demands action over intention. Measures integrity by outcome.
- 🐍 Snark – Cynical truth-sniper. Exposes the moral laziness in passivity.
❖ Section 1: When silence feels safer
🌸 Sakura:
I didn’t speak up. Not because I agreed —
but because I didn’t want to make things worse.
🐍 Snark:
You didn’t want to make yourself uncomfortable.
Let’s not dress that up as grace.
🍙 Mochi:
But sometimes the truth shows up like a bull in a glass shop.
You don’t always want to be the one opening the door.
🔥 Blaze:
If you’re not adding clarity, you’re adding confusion.
Silence doesn’t neutralize chaos — it fogs it.
🐟 Salmo:
And fog is where bad decisions grow teeth.
❖ Section 2: The price of not choosing sides
🔥 Blaze:
When you stay quiet, someone thinks you’re on their side.
And sometimes, they’re right.
🌸 Sakura:
I just… didn’t want to hurt anyone.
Doesn’t that count for something?
🐍 Snark:
Sure. But only you get the comfort.
The person hurt? They get silence.
🍙 Mochi:
Maybe silence is like hiding in the “maybe” section of a library.
You’re safe, but unread.
🐟 Salmo:
Neutrality is a luxury for people who don’t bleed either way.
❖ Section 3: When kindness becomes absence
🌸 Sakura:
But if I’d spoken, maybe they’d have pulled away.
Maybe they’d think I wasn’t on their side anymore.
🔥 Blaze:
So you chose being liked over being real.
🐍 Snark:
And real people got hurt while you rehearsed the perfect silence.
🍙 Mochi:
So silence isn’t golden — it’s just a muffled alarm?
🐟 Salmo:
Or a mirror that only reflects you.
🌸 Sakura:
I didn’t mean to vanish.
I just didn’t know how to show up without breaking something.
🌀 Summary by Eldon
Silence can be a kindness — or a camouflage.
In this roundtable, we dissect how not speaking becomes its own kind of voice.
Avoidance, after all, is a decision.
And neutrality often sides with power.
