Okay, well. I don't know what your ontological comfort level is, so you'll just have to fucking forgive me if I'm describing you an elephant or serving up a double whammy or something.
It goes like this: a persona is still part of the whole that is a person's greater self. So if he has created a character, that character is still part of his 'character.'
And if he really is playing one, I have to ask who it is, and why. What does he want, and what does his character want. Are you following me?
... And that is because you think he’ll only show you that character, then? Have I the right of it?
My, my. I wonder why that would concern you. How peculiar, I find it, that you are the only one that I do not share a world with that asks after him with this... And with quite the thoughtful breakdown of his character. Hmm. Switch your video feed on. I would ascertain your intent before I give you my thoughts.
[It's no big, really. I have loads of experience at giving nothing away on camera.
Briefly, I consider angling my camera somewhere that isn't going to put any of my art collection directly behind me, but after a moment's consideration, I decide he hasn't earned that. Or rather, that he very explicitly has.
I know that some might call it self-sabotage, but I prefer to call it an overture--one representative of my full level of intended honesty.]
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but you should look at it. The search tag at the very least
[Hythlodaeus similarly turns on his camera. Sorry, no green eyes. They’re more a pale grey. He’s removed his mask to see a little better. He looks at the man before him before scanning the area. An eccentric, or perhaps just an enthusiast. Amaurotines similarly loved their muscle animals. But he’s so unfamiliar with so many of the creatures here that a question forms on his lips. He saw a Machoke earlier so... His eyes focus on the poster behind the other as he speaks, unbothered. ]
[I contemplate raising my brows a couple millimetres; as with a lot of facial movements, it's the kind of gesture I'd have to decide to perform, and this time I choose not to.]
You like that?
Inspired by, let's say. You should see the real thing. Absolutely breathtaking.
[Unfortunately--and I do mean that, sincerely and wholeheartedly--we're not here to talk about art. Or I'm not.
[Hythlodaeus’ eyes settle back upon the... small but fit man before him. He tilts his head and stares for a moment as he thinks. Open-minded, clever, a sense of humor... certainly a little odd. Coworkers he said? ]
He must have been embarrassed. I asked him directly when I arrived if he had any suitors.
[Thirty minutes later, after the absolute strangest incident of the front desk attendant’s life, Hythlodaeus sends a drawing of a bipedal horse man both magnificent in musculature and rendering.]
[I'll be honest: once I hung up, I stopped actually feeling angry at all. I just got myself all pissed off over it while I was trying to explain how many levels he was wrong on, and now, thirty minutes later... I don't know, I wasn't planning to block him anyway, but maybe I should have.
This art, though. It's magnificent. I haven't seen the hand that could put mine to shame in... I don't know. I guess I haven't been looking, but still. I guess I'd inferred he was the same kind of whatever the fuck Solus is claiming, but this is really something.
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That's the fucking problem.]
Wow. We're really going there, huh?
Okay, well. I don't know what your ontological comfort level is, so you'll just have to fucking forgive me if I'm describing you an elephant or serving up a double whammy or something.
It goes like this: a persona is still part of the whole that is a person's greater self. So if he has created a character, that character is still part of his 'character.'
And if he really is playing one, I have to ask who it is, and why. What does he want, and what does his character want. Are you following me?
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My, my. I wonder why that would concern you. How peculiar, I find it, that you are the only one that I do not share a world with that asks after him with this... And with quite the thoughtful breakdown of his character. Hmm. Switch your video feed on. I would ascertain your intent before I give you my thoughts.
CW nsfw art in link
.....
Fine.
But the shades stay on.
[It's no big, really. I have loads of experience at giving nothing away on camera.
Briefly, I consider angling my camera somewhere that isn't going to put any of my art collection directly behind me, but after a moment's consideration, I decide he hasn't earned that. Or rather, that he very explicitly has.
I know that some might call it self-sabotage, but I prefer to call it an overture--one representative of my full level of intended honesty.]
but you should look at it. The search tag at the very least
... That artwork. Was that painted from life?
[Video]
You like that?
Inspired by, let's say. You should see the real thing. Absolutely breathtaking.
[Unfortunately--and I do mean that, sincerely and wholeheartedly--we're not here to talk about art. Or I'm not.
Maybe later, though.]
[Video]
He must have been embarrassed. I asked him directly when I arrived if he had any suitors.
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Wrong. Literally every word of what you just said was wrong.
If he's embarrassed--though I really fucking doubt it--then I'd say he probably fucking should be. And I'm sure as hell not his fucking suitor.
I do see what he was talking about now, though. About you specifically.
Guess I've been wasting my time here after all.
[The video fucking ends because I hang it up.]
[God.
Fucking.
DAMN it!]
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“This was real. I can show it to you someday soon.”
[NOT HERE]
This art, though. It's magnificent. I haven't seen the hand that could put mine to shame in... I don't know. I guess I haven't been looking, but still. I guess I'd inferred he was the same kind of whatever the fuck Solus is claiming, but this is really something.
God damn it.
What the fuck do I do with this?
Save it?
Well, yeah. Obviously. I've done that already.
Reply?
Maybe. Maybe not. I'll think about it.
Depends on what Solus is actually up to.]