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preybeforemeals) wrote in slowpoke_gif2014-10-13 01:50 pm
And if you'd like to talk for hours, just go ahead now
1. Leave a comment listing who you play.
2. Reply to one another, asking for details on CR/what their characters think of yours!
3. tl;dr at will!
Holy crap, it's so easy a Weedle can do it.
Have at and enjoy!
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Solf J Kimblee | Fullmetal Alchemist |
Alfred Ashford | Resident Evil |
Nonon Jakuzure | Kill la Kill |
Shuu Tsukiyama | Tokyo Ghoul |
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Ishimaru is honestly very comfortable with Naegi by now; he finds him reliable and incredibly dependable, which are always good traits to have as far as getting along with Ishimaru is concerned. He doesn't like surprises and he doesn't like trusting people only to find out that his trust was ill-placed, and problems like that aren't very likely to arise from Naegi's direction. Naegi is a very...safe person, I suppose, in that regard; as such, Ishimaru is a bit more okay with talking to him about things that he normally doesn't talk to anyone else about, including Mondo. (It's not that he doesn't trust Mondo as much as it is that he finds him unpredictable a lot of the time, and as such he has a hard time gauging what will get a good reaction and what won't, as such he doesn't tell him as many personal things; he doesn't really have that issue with Naegi. "Predictable" is too mercenary a way of wording it, though; "dependable" is closer to what he wants.) He...sort of dislikes talking about feelings with him, because Naegi is one of those people that seems to have his feelings all worked out and he basically seems to have his shit together in a way that Ishimaru does not, and Ishimaru is still a ridiculously competitive person and he doesn't like having to admit inferiority like that - he's really counterproductive in some ways because he wants to learn from people but attempting to learn from peers just tends to make him all frustrated and competitive, so he's trying to find some sort of balance where he can talk about these things without feeling like an idiot, but. Naegi has actually given him a lot of good advice in those regards as well, and he's feeling a little more confident in social endeavors largely thanks to Naegi's help.
(...he's also probably the reason Ishimaru is making a concerted effort to be nicer to Kirigiri, both because of the whole dating thing and because Naegi has basically managed to talk to him enough that he has some degree of social function.)
His friendship with Naegi is also noteworthy because he's managing to do it without putting him on a pedestal or going through some bizarre honeymoon phase where absolutely nothing he does is wrong; he acknowledges that Naegi isn't perfect and he's...okay with that, or at least as okay as he can be, rather than taking it to some sort of unhealthy extreme in either dismissing any and all of his flaws/claiming they don't exist, or trying to bludgeon change into him with all the subtlety of Justice Hammer #3. (He's strict with regards to things like kendo but that's more because he's not the best teacher out there and doesn't understand how constructive criticism is supposed to work, as opposed to actively trying to verbally beat the flaws out of him.) He tends to have a lot of problems with that sort of thing, but he's somehow managing functional friendship with Naegi even if he's not entirely sure how.
He's probably closest to Naegi than he is the rest of the Dangans, and he really appreciates everything that Naegi's done for him and everyone else. He's discussed it with Kirigiri before, the difference between being grateful that someone specific survived and being grateful that someone survived, period; he's really grateful for Naegi, specifically, even if he's kind of shit at expressing it. He feels like he owes him a lot, definitely, though not in a...bad way, just in an "I ought to find a way to return the favor someday" sort of way.
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Ishimaru actually likes Jimmy, though it's less in a close-friend sort of way and more in a "...somebody needs to adopt you now, why is no one properly doing this" sort of way. (And if someone actually has properly done this, then why in the world are they letting you have extistential crises about Hell.) It's more of a protective thing than anything, if that makes any sense; he's kind of...not comfortable with people around Jimmy's age having major issues like that given that he had mental complications that literally drove him completely insane when he was around that age. So basically there's a lot of projecting like an IMAX going on, I think.
Kimblee → Jimmy
They've spoken a few times and Kimblee finds him...interesting, if nothing else; he's decent conversation, anyway. Kimblee doesn't really tend to have a lot of thoughts on people; basically they have to really grab his attention for him to really register some sort of opinion on them one way or another, and Jimmy is...not quite there yet? He finds the kid naive as hell and he's not sure what to do with all the optimism because Kimblee is himself not an optimist in the least; if anything he's probably remembered the optimism more than anything else because that's not a point of view that he can really comprehend or justify taking himself - life favors pessimism over optimism and realism over idealism, so the idea that someone would go against what makes logical and coherent sense really doesn't click well in his mind. So that's interesting, which is more than he really has to say for like 95% of people. ...He's really not one for opinions on people, I'm sorry.
Alfred → Jimmy
...Oh boy. Um. Alfred is another card-carrying member of the "no opinions on anyone ever" brigade; most of his conversations are very superficial and he tends to like it that way, because he has a lot of psychosis issues and those come with often having no idea whether he actually had a conversation with someone or if he just thinks he did. He remembers that Jimmy is the little boy from Hell, and that is...about all he's got. I mean Jimmy's a decent boy from Hell, so Alfred's pretty sure he's probably doing the whole "being from Hell" thing wrong, but...yeah, um. It's nothing Jimmy's doing wrong, it's purely on this end that the weird snags are hitting.
Ishimaru → Chihiro
Okay, just as some background for why part of this is...the way it is: when we had our previous Chihiro, Ishimaru was really good at doing one thing with him and that was accidentally making him cry. (Usually by having all the subtlety of a brick to the face.) He did get along with him really well by the end, but he spent the first several weeks with more or less nothing but accidental tears all over because oops. As such, Ishimaru is a little wary of interacting with him, because he doesn't really have a lot of social skills as it is and he can't read a room for shit; a lot of the time he'll try to keep conversations reasonably brief with Chihiro because he wants to avoid upsetting him, since a lot of the time he doesn't understand what he did to upset him in the first place. At the same time, he's insanely protective of the guy, especially now that he's been canon-updated to mid-Chapter 3 - he's generally of the thought that Chihiro has suffered more than enough (and really, pretty much everyone has suffered more than enough), and apparently when you cross that particular line you get thrown into a pool. He doesn't feel guilty about Poolgate at all, even though he suspects he should (he kind of feels vaguely guilty over not feeling guilty? ...it's confusing) though he does sort of wish he could have stopped it...faster than he did. At the same time...look he broke rules and threw a girl into a pool for you and got reprimanded like hell, so clearly he thinks pretty highly of you, there. :|b
I think that's everyone? If I missed somebody, hit me.
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Ishimaru on Kirigiri
Tsukiyama on Meridiana
And optionally, your choice of one of yours on one of mine, if there's something interesting or novel worthy of note!
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You know, he is actually starting to hate her face a lot less. :|a
He definitely acknowledges that they're probably not going to get along very well on a regular basis - they're never going to be friends - but he's actually pretty okay with that? Some people are friends, some people are coworkers or acquaintances, some people are one of a set of 14 who were victims of a highly traumatizing set of circumstances so they're going to have to deal with each other from now on because it's not right to not deal with each other, it's just how things go. He's not going to ever seek her out for casual (..."casual", because this is still Ishimaru we're dealing with) conversation the way he does with, say, Naegi, but at the same time he can acknowledge that she's useful for some things and...not-so-useful for others, and it's more a matter of delegating tasks in a way she sort of likes as opposed to trying to smack her in the face with it like he usually does. He sort of accepts that she'll do her own thing anyway, and at this point he'll only step in if she's doing something horrendously stupid (LIKE THE FUCKING SHEDINJA THING, DON'T DO ANYTHING ON PAR WITH THE FUCKING SHEDINJA THING EVER AGAIN, ARE YOU TRYING TO GIVE HIM A HEART ATTACK OR).
Otherwise, though, he's...trying to be better toward her; part of this is due to her being Naegi's Girlfriend (YES, HE KNOWS...) but a large part of it is finally locating half a sense of empathy - it's not that he never had one, but at the same time he's so poorly-socialized that it wasn't exactly...functioning properly. Something that actually kind of kickstarted it in her direction was her fuckup with Fujisaki, and that time he called to try to make her feel a bit better about it; that's...honestly because that's one of the few things she's done that he could understand completely. I told Chi above that Ishimaru spent a large amount of Fujisaki's last stay here accidentally making the poor kid drown in tears, so he completely understood the whole "I did not realize this would get that reaction and now Fujisaki's a mess so I'm going to retreat and let Naegi handle it" thing because that is exactly what he did for weeks. He has an easier time relating to people if he has a direct comparison, as...horribly stunted as that is, and so he felt the need to try to make her feel better about it through some bizarre sense of I HAVE BEEN THERE AND oh god it sucks please don't be upset over it it will be okay.
But with being nice to her comes a bit more of an understanding, I think, of how she works; at the very least he's figured out that there is a difference in coding between "Kirigiri-hime is being obstinate today" and "...wow, okay, I guess Kirigiri-kun doesn't know what to do either", it just takes him a while to work out which is happening in certain responses. But as long as he takes his time with it he can...often work it out? Not always, and not even most of the time, but a decent amount of the time, and that's helping with the lessened hating of her face. That and she's actually acting more like a human being toward him over the last several months - getting him on the DDR machine, teasing him about confessing to her on her birthday, stuff like that. It makes her register higher on the Person With Feelings scale with him, as opposed to...I don't even know. The Plot Dispenser I Tend To Otherwise Forget About.
...He also totally would have switched honorifics if she'd asked him to because quite frankly they're not kids anymore, and his particular speech quirk comes from holding a position of superiority over the other students that he...is kind of acknowledging he doesn't have anymore? It's a work in progress, anyway.
Tsukiyama → Meridiana
Okay, I'm going to throw a disclaimer out here that any negativity that happens is entirely on Tsukiyama's end, because Tsukiyama is actually a terrible person despite what she wants to think - Meridiana isn't doing anything wrong, outside of maybe choosing to travel with something that only looks human but is honestly closer in mindset to being some sort of animal.
NOW THAT THAT'S OUT OF THE WAY oh boy.
So they started traveling together entirely because she was the best candidate for dinner that he'd seen all damn day. That was definitely a thing he did, and he was more than slightly annoyed to realize once he'd evaluated her (which he did when they were alone, and he didn't call attention to it or anything but again that definitely was a thing he did) that she wasn't going to be suitable food-wise and so the effect was kind of "...great, so I'm stuck in the woods for several days with something I can't even eat" and basically he was being completely charming like that internally while having to...actually be charming outwardly. Which is something he's decent at doing, so at least there's that, but at the same time there were more than a few cracks showing - the willingness to push her buttons with all the rules of nature talk and asking her bluntly about people who were trying to kill her, things like that, that's...generally a sign that he's agitated, and he spent a while agitated with her for no rreal reason other than anal devastation at his own initial analysis failure and generally being hungry and the entire new-world situation making him testy as hell.
Once that chilled out a little bit, however, he...actually likes her all right? She's good company, even if she's a bit too delicate for his liking; he can tell she's trying, and it's kind of cute, and she's kind of cute, and he's not opposed to cute at all. So he's actually pretty fond of her, whether he started out that way or not. He does still talk shit about her behind her back from time to time, but it's not over anything that she's doing wrong - he's not used to being around someone who's as sentimental as she is and quite frankly he finds that a little disgusting, but that's an issue with him and he can deal with it tbh. He's really bad with feelings outside of short obsessive periods that he has toward people or goals; otherwise, he isn't really good at knowing what to do with feelings given that he deliberately deadened his own years ago. He's...really messed up, and she has a damn near uncanny tendency to stumble into questions and topics that manage to highlight exactly how he's messed up, and a lot of the time he just doesn't want to deal with that so he goes off and vents at his stupid castmate over the 'Gear about how he's dealing with this absolutely repulsive woman who won't shut up about human sentimentality and it's stupid and disgusting and I'm sorry what, I'm the only one allowed to talk shit about her so don't you dare talk shit about her, she's nice.
...it's really, really dumb.
But basically he does like her, she just...makes him think about stuff he'd be more comfortable not thinking about. She's good company, though, and honestly the fact that he hasn't abandoned her yet despite the entire Cherrygrove clusterfuck says a lot about how much he does like her. It's probably closest to how he feels about Hinami-chan back in Tokyo; he'd abandon her if he had to, but he enjoys her company and thinks she's nice, and as such he won't make any sort of move against her unless he has to.
...IF I THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMMENT.
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Tsukiyama → Naki
...and any of the others you feel we haven't discussed very much!
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Nonon is actually not entirely sure what to do with Isaac half the time, though it's a different sort of "I don't know what to do with Isaac" than most of my dudes experience. She doesn't exactly trust him because she came from somewhere that you literally can't trust adults - she grew up around Satsuki and as such she grew up around Ragyou, so she's really, really gun-shy about getting into actual discussions with adults about anything; her father also works for Revocs, so she can't talk to him either. As such, she's not willing to tell Isaac about her situation back home (and keeps falling back on the "bored kid on the internet" thing), but at the same time, she likes listening to what he has to say because he actually has a surprising amount to say, and a lot of it is more insightful than she'd thought it would be.
He also doesn't give her shit or try to press her about anything, which she definitely appreciates; they talk about a lot of difficult stuff but at the same time he doesn't try to discredit anything she says, he just asks her why she thinks that way, and that's...not something she's really used to. She's kind of aware that he's probably just humoring her, but at the same time he's so damn decent about it that she doesn't mind so much. He's actually managed to make her think about things from time to time, and while it's not exactly to the point of making her a better person just yet, it's given her cause to think about it, which is a lot more than most people have managed.
...She also doesn't find him nearly as hard to talk to as he seems to think he is, and admittedly she finds that kind of cute. (She's also expecting someone Irish as fuck and closer to her age; she is not going to know what to do with...uh, Isaac over there.)
He's the closest she's actually come to telling anyone about the situation back home, btw. She still sort of wants to, but yeah...
Tsukiyama → Naki
In all honesty, Tsukiyama legitimately can't work out what the hell Naki's game is. He doesn't necessarily believe the "friendship" thing is genuine because that is stupid as hell, so the next logical assumption is that he's trying to run some sort of play by himself, but because this is Naki we're dealing with it's probably a stupid play and not very thoroughly thought-out; the only other option is that it's not some sort of long game and he actually believes that whatever bond of friendship happened in the Nakiverse is actually genuine and based on...god only knows what, and that's not an idea he's very comfortable with entertaining. Tsukiyama is used to observing other people's friendships, rather than having any of his own; he claims to be friends with Kaneki but he knows it's entirely shallow and one-sided, something he's playing at rather than actually doing. So he's not too sure what to...do with the notion that someone just kind of looked at him and decided that they were friends now when he wasn't doing anything to try to provoke a favorable reaction. Tsukiyama is used to manipulating people into liking him, usually for the purposes of preying on them later; he doesn't know what to do now that someone is doing it on their own, completely unprompted.
There's a feeling of a loss of control over the situation that he definitely doesn't like, but at the same time can't do anything about; his current canon point is leaving him a little twitchy about overemotional things, and this entire situation is one that he considers to be such, so...
TL;DR - THIS IS REALLY AWKWARD, NAKI.
At the same time, he will acknowledge that there are certain things about Naki that he does respect - the...whatever the fuck he did for his bodyguards back in Tokyo was admirable, even if it was completely balls-to-the-wall idiotic; he also seems to operate in a way that's similar to how Tsukiyama operates in terms of dealing with overwhelming things (that is to say that he doesn't, he just goes off and cranks up his reaction of choice - with Naki it's either crying or getting angry, with Tsukiyama it's turning up the flamboyant tendencies) so he kind of understands and is perfectly fine with that much, at least.
...Also this guy is surprisingly fun to talk shit with, when he's got nothing else to do. He may actually be disappointed when the day eventually comes that someone from home shows up and he's going to have to go back to beating his ass.
JUST. STOP IT WITH THE AWKWARD AND WE'LL BE FINE, OKAY.
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Tsukiyama → Banjou
...oh...boy, um.
Tsukiyama has a lot of thoughts in Banjou's general direction, actually, and almost none of them are particularly positive; he's from Chapter 108, so he knows that Banjou turns out just fine after Kaneki-kun...uh, after he Did The Thing (Tsukiyama still isn't entirely sure what he thinks of that, so he's going the usual route of DISREGARD OUTSIDE OF ACKNOWLEDGING THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY BOSS AS HELL AND MORE THAN A LITTLE HOT), but he also knows that Kaneki spends what Tsukiyama considers an unreasonable amount of time upset over the actual doing of the thing. He still hadn't snapped out of it by the time Tsukiyama came to Johto, despite the fact that Tsukiyama went out of his way to try to help him, and Kaneki isn't even here right now with him but Banjou is, and Tsukiyama was already kind of pissy about the way that the others in their group were insisting on looking for Banjou rather than trying to find Kaneki, and the entirety of chapter 108 did not help - aaaand if you can't see where this is going you are either really optimistic or blind as hell.
So! He's projecting his frustration all the hell over Banjou, who has pretty much done nothing at all to deserve it, and holy shit is he willing to actually take it out on the guy now that he has the chance; he technically didn't go back on his word with regards to leaving Cherrygrove, because he did stay well past the three-day timeframe and was there when he claimed he'd be, but as soon as the opportunity arose he ditched with Meridiana because he...simply didn't want to be around anymore, among other things. Basically he's taking the opportunity to split hairs over technicalities, as much as he can without flat-out lying to the guy, and you had best believe that he'll claim it was all misunderstandings if Kaneki ever shows up and Banjou makes noises at him about it. And he suspects Banjou will make noises (whether he would or not in reality) because he's simply decided that that's how it's going to be and he won't be persuaded otherwise.
He's just...really prickly in general when it comes to Banjou and it's for a lot of really self-centered, irrational reasons; what it comes down to, though, is a massive amount of jealousy, even if he'd rather die before admitting to it. Kaneki really obviously favors Banjou despite the fact that he's worthless as a fighter and even more worthless as this "shield" he claims to be (at least as far as Tsukiyama is concerned); he doesn't understand why Kaneki takes so much pity (because surely it is pity) on a former member of Aogiri yet refuses to give him the time of day, and he's just...got a lot of really nasty thoughts toward the guy most of the time. He's willing to smile and be outwardly civil because he smiles and is civil toward most people, and he'll generally try to not treat him in ways that will get Banjou killed because he knows Kaneki wouldn't want that, but he's literally only humoring him for Kaneki's sake right now. He's not harboring any delusions that they're friends, and he's fine with the fact that they're not and he's even more fine with the notion that they never will be, because friendship isn't the goal here. The goal here is to do what he thinks Kaneki would want him to do in this circumstance, and that's "stay near Banjou, or at least stay somewhere that I can be found and/or contacted if needs be," so that's what he's going to do.
...all of this sounds horrible as hell but I AM NOT SURE WHAT WE WERE EXPECTING...
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Tsukiyama jesus christ
This is going to be fantastic dear god I am looking forward to it. At least Banjou knows better than to think that Tsukiyama is doing this for anything other than selfish reasons because man this is going to go straight to shit.
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no seriously he's a selfish little shit and unless banjou manages to work some serious magic on him this is going to go right to hell if he has any say
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Also, Alfred on Dist?
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Hagakure is one of those people Ishimaru didn't have a lot of thoughts about before coming to Johto; he knew he was there, certainly (unlike Kirigiri, whom he managed to forget even existed most of the damn time), but he never really struck him as someone he liked or disliked. Someone else to keep in line and keep on schedule, and someone to move around and check on from time to tiem, but that was about it.
YEAH NEEDLESS TO SAY that changed a lot in Johto. One of the things Ishimaru has been working toward, whether he realizes it or not, is seeing his classmates as People With Feelings, rather than These Individuals That I Have To Keep In Line Or So Help Me, and Hagakure has always been incredibly good to Ishimaru since he arrived - he's actually found it pretty touching, given that they didn't know each other very well back at Hope's Peak but Hagakure's always seemed to care about his well-being and all that. It was admittedly kind of confusing for a while, because Ishimaru couldn't exactly figure out...why that was happening; he's never been the most socially adept person in the world, though, and it took him a while to understand that whether they're all friends or not, all of the Dangans do have some weird sort of family-type bond going on and that's what family does for each other.
That said, he does consider Hagakure a friend by now, definitely; he likes talking to him, even if the conversations aren't always the most linear in the world (due to both of them being...well, themselves). He still doesn't exactly believe in...pretty much anything Hagakure does, but at the same time it's obviously important to him and Ishimaru has had enough character development to not immediately dismiss things that are important to other people just because he doesn't understand or particularly like them; he used to be very arrogant in that regard and he's managed to tone it down a lot, which is why he's so willing to humor Hagakure and let him tell fortunes if he wants to - it's obviously important because it's what he does, and if he wants to read fortunes for him or give him advice based on the current alignment of Jupiter in the house of Saturn or whatever, then he's not going to argue it and he's always admittedly kind of curious to see what'll come up. It's definitely a point of interest due to a curiosity/novelty factor, at least, even if he doesn't necessarily believe in what comes out of it. ...There's also the part where Hagakure is dead-on, like, once out of every three or four predictions on average, and that's actually a pretty decent percentage to be completely dead-on about something literally no one has any way to know anything about. So he's not quite a believer, but at the same time, holy shit.
Ishimaru also remembers a bit more about what happened in Hope's Peak since that incredibly rough canon update in January; he was catatonic as hell for most of the duration, yes, but he was aware of more than they seemed to think he was (as is evidenced by the...total disaster that was the Ishida thing, which was caused by Asahina's going on about a ghost and everyone deciding to just leave Ishimaru where he was while they went to check it out; he obviously heard them, given that he asked to see the "ghost" later, he just couldn't make himself do anything about it at the time) and while it's a bit surreal and hazy, he does know that Hagakure tried to help lead the others while he was out of commission and attempted to get him to come out of it a few times. It's not really something he's discussed with him very much, if at all; he...sort of tried when he first woke up (that's where the "you're a good person/I'm glad you're here" came from), but he hasn't really talked to him about it at length. That...actually means a lot to him, that Hagakure was willing to do that, especially since the others generally left him alone at best and discussed how he was "useless" now right in front of him at worst; Naegi tried to FTE him but otherwise no one but Hagakure really did anything, and the fact that he was willing to try despite not knowing him very well is, uh. Well, it's honestly the sort of thing that isn't getting discussed without a fucklot of tears, should he decide to discuss it at all, but they're good tears, he promises.
Basically he considers Hagakure a really good person and a good friend - kind of a space cadet at times, but that's sort of a WELCOME TO DANGANCAST thing by now, everyone has their moments.
...He's also given his permission with regards to Hagakure and Parker dating, so obviously he's doing something right because that's Ishimaru's sister we're talking about.
Alfred → Dist
This is going to be far shorter, just because Alfred is one of those people who doesn't form opinions on very many people; he has a lot of issues that basically make it very difficult for him to remember at times who he's spoken to about what, and as such he tends to prefer keeping his conversations mostly superficial and it's a large reason why he has such an attitude issue most of the time. (So actually no, it's not anything Dist is doing in particular to piss him off, despite the fact that Alfred tends to be snide in his direction a lot of the time.)
He actually does respect what Dist does, because his family is kind of based around SCIENCE!! and he has a very healthy respect for what people in that position are capable of; he also...okay there's really no way to put this that isn't blunt as hell/doesn't make everybody involved sound like they're six, but my god he really liked that bee. It's not common that he finds someone willing to work with massive insects, so he definitely approves of the giant metal-coated bee that he was allowed to, uh, play with for a while.
(He raised so much hell with that bee in the name of science, Dist. I don't know how useful the science was but there certainly was a lot of it.)
So yes, despite the general sense of Alfred that tends to come across in their threads, because Alfred is super-unpleasant, he does respect the guy? He's just really shit at demonstrating it and honestly doesn't see why he should have to demonstrate it in the first place because it's just sort of a given that you don't fuck with scientists where he comes from.
...In terms of personal/non-professional opinion, he. Um. Sort of doesn't have one. But again, that's kind of par for the course...
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yeah she's probably going to be messaging him one of these days like YOU'RE STILL HERE RIGHT
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