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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.

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[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.

[burninglight]

don't tell me what to do and don't patronize me

i don't care how dissimilar you say it is, that does nothing to just magically fix what i can literally see you doing right now

[founderinglight]

It doesn't fix it and I can't fix it. Only you can do that.

All I can do is point out that I don't want the thing you're afraid of. From there it's yours to deal with.

[burninglight]

fuck you this isn't on me

this is entirely you and not knowing when to back off

again.

[founderinglight]

The fuck, Ardyn. I don't understand what you want here otherwise because you're just getting pissed instead of saying anything meaningful.

1/2

[burninglight]

REALLY I CAN'T FUCKING IMAGINE WHY

[burninglight]

[A long pause, in which Ardyn typed and deleted a wide range of things to the point where it was starting to look like he wasn't going to bother. Then:]

i don't give a shit about whether or not heart's setting you off, and i trust him to make his own godsdamned decisions about all of this. i don't speak for him or tell him what to do. what i care about is that you clearly just don't give a damn about the fact that what you're doing has an effect on people who aren't you.

'oh, this is izunia is going to replace me trauma' no shit it is, and you don't even seem to care. suddenly it's on me to fix the situation when you came to me about how leonard upset you and forced my hand in intervening because you threatened him?

you don't get to do that, then turn around and do as you please as though your actions don't have the same consequences as his.

in conclusion, you're an absolute hypocritical prick and i still despise you without a trace of hyperbole to that.