Audience: Yuri Leclerc

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Comments

[aubins]

considering your little trick with shi and aoi, Little A, maybe i should be asking if you dabbled in anything here.

seeing as you seem to be able to calm them down, i imagine you can avoid getting stabbed quite nicely as well.

[probe]

hey! i would never do that to pride, or you!
especially when you mean so much to luca
but...yeah, i guess that's true. pride and i have an understanding
they're one of my favorites

[aubins]

[ ... ]

... well
that's a nice thought at least.

but now i'm really confused about what happened.

important question though: are they actually a romantic because they sounded like one when they were talking about their hobbies.

[probe]

yeah...don't forget that
also don't say anything but...they really are very sweet when you get to know them
but a lot of people don't try because they're really rude and try to keep people away from them
they aren't so great with people so that's probably why they ran away instead of explaining anyway

[aubins]

...

oh i don't dislike them. i don't mind the way they think.
i'm not going to sit here and pretend like i wouldn't have been a good fit for their team as well as wrath's, after all?

but i tried to talk to them again and they blanked me.

[probe]

true
and yeah that happens! don't let it discourage you but you've gotta soften the approach
like a cat! pride is just a feral cat!

[aubins]

...


what, like...


"pspspspspspspspspspspspsps"?

[probe]

yeah but with less "pspspspsps" and more sitting quietly and letting them approach you
pride likes speaking to people who have a purpose and don't waste time on silly questions
they're more likely to open up if you're patient
but i know that's not for everyone

[aubins]

like greed, except their fur's all on end?

i'm not really sure what to ask them about half the time. greed i can throw trial related stuff at but pride just goes all tsundere and blinds me and runs off.

and now they're kissing me and leaving me on read. how did we get here, little A?

[probe]

...yeah, sort of
there are worse things than being kissed, i think
i mean going blind is pretty bad actually
really bad
hm.
maybe...jeez, this is tough
how do you talk to the rest of us?

[aubins]

it was for about 30 seconds so they could run away, but still. if they don't do that again, i'll be happy.

you and wrath i just hang out with. the others, well. i normally have a reason to approach them, so sometimes i'll speak to them a couple of times and sometimes just not at all.

i suspect offering to paint pride's claws when their current coat has worn off won't go down as well with them as is does you, wrath or sloth.

[probe]

[they ran out of texts and i miscounted but anyway, wherever yuri is, lust suddenly appears in front of him.]

I can ask them to stop doing that, but no promises. And I'm the only one who can paint their claws. [they hum a bit in thought.]

Some of us are harder to approach than others, but it's weird because you're really approachable in general.

[aubins]

[ oh hello, there she is ]

I figured. I don't really want my eyes being taken out for just trying.

Ah, it's fine. I'll figure it out. I expect they just see purple at this point and have an instinctive urge to run. [ GU YUN... MOLLY.... poor pride. ]

[probe]

You're probably not wrong. You guys are pretty...yourselves! [that's polite.]

But like I said, don't take it personal or anything.

[aubins]

Please, they are much more of a disaster zone than I am. [ are they, yuri? are they? ]

I don't. But I do want to know what happened, so I'll keep trying. [ ... ] And also ask them about something they said a few weeks back, come to think of it.

[probe]

[are they.]

I like Molly a lot. And Wrath likes Gu Yun a lot, too. [she doesn't mind gy but she doesn't know him that well.]

Trying's all we can do, so just be careful. What sort of thing were you thinking about?

[aubins]

[ oh my god i missed this. ]

They're likeable. It makes sense. [ his roomie and his unofficial roomie. he's fond of them in his own way. ]

They mentioned their old job, so to speak. I was curious about it.

[probe]

[nodding! they are both very likable this is true. but huh?]

Really? That's surprising...but as long as you approach it without being demanding, you should have some luck.

[aubins]

[ purple bastards! ]

[ looks at the later thread with pride ]

We'll see. They do like to go on about "not liking small talk". Maybe I'll just con them into watch a movie.

[probe]

Small talk is pretty hard for them, but being in the same vicinity isn't a bad start. I don't think they've seen too many movies anyway.

[aubins]

Oh, noted.

So I just need to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to get them down to watch something.

[probe]

It's worth a shot! Pick something nice and relaxing.

[aubins]

[ so die hard is out then. ]

Any suggestions?

[probe]

Maybe something whimsical with a happy ending?

[aubins]

... I probably need names, Little-A. I'd probably pick something where the dog dies, or something equally horrible, by accident.