dear abby...

[openhanded]

Surei Doushi 7/17 near Apprassage

hey everyone! it's been a little while, so I have two things for you all. the first is that I've written up everything we saw on the ghost trip I organized late last month. if you'd like to hear the details, let me know and I'll send over the document. the second is that I'm starting an advice column! I need things to write advice about, so feel free to comment with things you'd like help with. I promise I'll try my best to make it good advice. I'm definitely returning as a teacher next year and I need the experience! ...... and the bingo square.

Comments

[openhanded]

I KNEW IT
you DO have friends!!!!

it just sounded like you were talking from personal experience before. (*´▽`*)

I think Prompto has a dog now, you could always ask him if you could take it for a walk

[darkinferno]

don't put words in my mouth, i said people that tolerate my moods, not friends

[Honestly it's just a matter of time until one of them crashes this to prove him wrong...]

anyways, you don't know what you're talking about. prompto's had that dog for a couple months now

[Is the "you don't know what you're talking about" about Prompto and his dog or is it about the "personal experience" quip? IT IS A MYSTERY.....]

[openhanded]

I gotta wonder what your definition of friend is then because I'm pretty sure that's what friends do!

[Sorey's gonna do it himself t b h]

yeah, he told me. he was so happy...

I think you'd be happier too

apparently this icon forever

[darkinferno]

[don't say it don't say it don't say i--]

friends are people you trust

[goddammit dante

(He's assuming that his actual friends would know better than to believe this if they actually saw it.)

(He's... probably not entirely right.)]

swing and a miss, doushi. what makes you think i'm not happy the way i am now?

LMAO it's ok he deserves it

[openhanded]

huh. you think so?

[Now Sorey's just being obstinate. It's one of his better qualities, if you can believe it.]

ahhh...
I think if I said what I thought, you'd probably get mad at me again.

[darkinferno]

[It's another trap--"I know so," he'll say, and then Sorey can try and catch him again.

Nope. No thanks.]

and yet here you are telling me about it, like you expect me to care enough to want to know so that i'll ask "why would i get mad" and you can tell me anyways and then try to score some sort of point on this weird game you're playing

pretty manipulative, don't you think

[openhanded]

[It takes Sorey a moment to respond to this because he's trying to figure out where Dante got that from. It even makes his face hot and there's a flash of defensiveness, but-- but Dante said that because of something Sorey did. It's not unprovoked.

He thinks of when he made some other kid angry once and almost got hit for it, and how he'd felt back then. It wasn't all that different. I didn't do anything. I just wanted to help.

Well, some people have boundaries and things they don't want to show, or feel, or deal with. Sorey had learned that from Mikleo and the disfiguring scars he tried to hide.

And so... and so...]

that... wasn't what I was going for actually.
I just didn't want to ruin what we had going here by making assumptions and all of that and changing the tone of the conversation.
swing and a miss, right?
it's true. I really can't get a read on you at all

[darkinferno]

read up, you'd already made a lot of assumptions and changed the tone of the conversation. cliff notes: as soon as you started getting self-righteous because you thought you'd figured me out so you could mess with me

i'm a pretty open guy, you know. what you see is what you get

maybe you're just looking for something that isn't there

[openhanded]

I'll accept that you don't like me.
But I have a hard time believing you don't like or trust anyone at all
If that makes me self righteous then I'll accept that too.
I don't think you're half as bad as you say you are
not even a quarter

you've helped people a lot

[darkinferno]

[Sorey thinks Dante doesn't like him? Dante turns his eyes to the ceiling, a look of exasperation. Sure, he can understand how Sorey might have gotten that idea, but come on!]

you're putting words in my mouth again and all of them are wrong

if you're gonna talk shit about me like that do it off the public network, why don't you

[openhanded]

whoa whoa whoa!!!
that wasn't an insult!!!!
I... definitely could've phrased that better
why is being called a good person insulting?

[darkinferno]

because i'm NOT a good person and you saying i am is just going to give people false ideas about what they can expect from me

[openhanded]

okay.
I'll stop.

I'm sorry for upsetting you.