Audience: Yuri Leclerc

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Comments

[aubins]

[ he's mentally committing them to memory. ]

... Alright then. I'll give it a try.

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Good. [hehe] Let me know how that goes?

[aubins]

You have a lot of faith in me.

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Am I not supposed to?

[aubins]

You've never seen me and Pride talk, have you?

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Nope. It's not like I eavesdrop on your conversations. Why?

[aubins]

Oh you should, they get really grumpy and mad at me.

[probe]

That's normal. If this still doesn't work? Might be time to rethink your strategy again.

[aubins]

A headlock would probably get me stabbed, huh?

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You would absolutely die, yeah. So maybe avoid physical contact?

[aubins]

Yes, that is what we're trying to avoid here.

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All I can say is good luck. And be careful.

[aubins]

Waaaaay to make it ominous, Little-A.

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I'm just saying! You're the one pursuing it so I do want you to be careful just in case!

[aubins]

Maybe I'll go ram my head into a brick wall for fun next.

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Stop, don't be like that. [but she sighs.] ...is it really gonna be so bad if Pride doesn't budge?

[aubins]

No.

[ i just really want more npc cr ]

But they're interesting, so I don't want to strike them off my to talk to list.

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[good luck]

Well...okay. [they sound a little unsure about that answer, like they're not quite into it.] Then I think you know what to do next.

[aubins]

You sound like you think this is a terrible idea.

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I want people to try and get along with them. I don't want people to push them. So that's all. If things don't go as well as you'd hope, just keep that in mind. Okay?

[...] And don't be an asshole like Fukuda and try to pick them up.

[not that yuri would ever do that, but yes, they're still annoyed about that.]

[aubins]

I know when to step back, don't worry. But it does go both ways.

[ ... a pause, and: ]

Sorry, he did what?

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When it was Pride's week to be out in the base, when the garden opened up. I don't really know everything that was said because I only heard about it afterwards, but Pride said that Fukuda tried to pick them up as as way to prove a point or something.

Envy's my friend, too, but it's kind of really rude to approach someone and demand they be nice to someone when you don't know their history.

[aubins]

[ ....



fukuda, pls. he does actually just look uncomfortable at that. ]

No one owes anyone anything they don't want to give. In any context of the word.

[ ... ]

Especially not to prove a point.

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That's what I said. But it's like he didn't even know what he did wrong and kept pursuing the subject!

[and that's why lust is always worried now about people pushing pride too much.]

[aubins]

That... might be uniquely Fukuda. Given this is the same man who was very insistent his home world pastime of drilling holes into people was a good thing, actually, and really it wasn’t his fault if they died because of it, I can’t say I’m too surprised he doesn’t know when to drop something.

[ hm!! ]