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[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ ALright, foLks, quick PSA before this has a chance to become an awkward issue, since I have friends around here and for some reason so does JaiLbreak:

o)+ TroLLs have a greater variety of romantic reLationships than humans usuaLLy do. Some of these are more or Less equivaLent to human romance - we caLL those ones red romance, generaLLy sPeaking - but we aLso have a couPLe of modeLs of bLack romance, which is founded PrimariLy in confLict and contention rather than more Positive emotions.

o)+ Kismessitude is normaL and heaLthy in my sPecies, and JaiL aPParentLy has a sense of adventure more usuaLLy associated with PeoPLe getting eggs Laid in their thoraxes. She seems to think she knows what she's getting into by continuing to needLe me. We're both aduLts and abLe to Look our for our own interests.

o)+ As such: it's ok to react to PubLic disPLays of contention with the same sort of miLd censure with which you'd treat equivaLent PubLic disPLays of affection. I wouLd request that you foLks not attemPt to arbitrate between us without exPress invitation. Doing so is imPoLite at best and tantamount to a ProPosition to a different romantic quadrant at worst.

Comments

[myocordial]

I'm really not worried about you hurting me. At all.

[founderinglight]

Yes, so I've noticed.

Your refusal to admit that you can be hurt, in spite of very obvious evidence to the contrary, is reasonably high on the list of things that frustrates me.

[myocordial]

There's nothing to admit. What happened during our fight was a fluke and not worth mentioning.

So forgive me if I continue not to worry.

[founderinglight]

Uh. Huh.

(This is the part where I give you an obviously disbelieving look, but don't explicitly verbally call you on your bullshit.)

[myocordial]

Right, I forget. Because you have such an incredible understanding of what does and does not hurt me.

This is the part where I would punch you, if you were physically present. For the record.

[founderinglight]

Even if I couldn't read your face, I know what a traumatic freeze looks like, Heart.

It's not like I'm going to think any less of you, I don't understand at all why you have this thing about it.

[myocordial]

I was momentarily distracted.

I don't have a thing about it!

[founderinglight]

You absolutely have a thing about it, which is stupid, because it's perfectly easy to accommodate, you delightfully intolerable stupid bastard.

[myocordial]

I think I would know that better than you and also really?

[founderinglight]

I figured flirting is fair game until you actually turn me down?

[myocordial]

You're insufferable.

[Is this a complaint or flirting back?

Honestly, who the fuck knows.]

Always, really, but especially during this conversation.

[founderinglight]

[Given that it's Heart's pet insult for him?

He's definitely going with flirting.]

It's not my fault that you refuse to deal with your emotions like a reasonable-ass person and would rather hide from them like a child afraid of a storm.

Pain in the ass.

[myocordial]

Well, thank you so much for offering your opinion once again even though I very much didn't ask, but I think I'm dealing with my emotions just fine. I'm not hiding from anything, least of all any part of myself.

Does being obnoxious and impossible really come this naturally to you or do you practice?

[founderinglight]

I have never been anything but my natural and authentic self with you.

Also, I'm fairly sure that counts as flirting back.

[myocordial]

You really are just like that. I knew it.

Does it?

[founderinglight]

Well, I certainly find it mildly annoying.

[myocordial]

Only mildly? Well, I suppose for some of us, it's just not in our nature to be so effortlessly aggravating.

Should I try harder to match you?

[founderinglight]

I didn't say you were only mildly annoying, just that particular action.

And that's absolutely flirting.

[myocordial]

And yet, with you everything is equally infuriating.

I'm simply stating my honest feelings. You do like to read into things.

[founderinglight]

I'm starting to think you wouldn't admit to your honest feelings if they were painted on a series of billboards, loaded into a truck, and that truck ran you over.

[burninglight]

excuse me

what the FUCK do you think you are doing?

1/3?

[founderinglight]

what

[founderinglight]

Oh, wait, this is 'Izunia is going to replace me with everyone I love" trauma acting up again, isn't it.

i lied 3/4

[founderinglight]

Ardyn, take a breath, the relationship is nothing at all similar. I don't think we could manage to not find each other annoying if we tried.

-> Private to Heart and Ardyn AND DONE

[founderinglight]

And to be frank, Heart is the only one who hasn't set off my own traumas regarding the issue, so doubly take a breath because I don't want the thing you're getting yourself all worked up about.