[ic inbox] - Kaisou

[throwmoreswords]

You'd ought have a good reason for calling upon me directly, Mongrel.
State your case and don't bore me--or there may be consequences.

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[anyprice]

HYPOTHETICAL

HYPOTHETICALLY!!
Obviously you'd eat your rival, bones and all, so like just pretend you're a little guy without a million different pies

...

Hm.
I'm a big pretender. Fake it til you Make It is like; my unofficial middle name or something.
Teach me the confidence to act like he's not gonna show me up with his insane skills.

[throwmoreswords]

Difficult for me to become so far removed from myself.

Do you need someone dealt with, Sam?

[ this is an inquiry, threat, and promise all wrapped up in one. ]

[anyprice]

I guuuesssssssss.
Hhfhffgfghf NONO no no Gil buddy pal he's not worth all that
He's not a Bad Person not really he's just!!!

yanno
he's got game! in the undercity and places where you buy and turn over fancy magic stuff like I have been for years.
I don't wanna' make him think I'm an easy mark just because I've settled down, you know?
I wanna make an impression--not take his knees!

[throwmoreswords]

Taking his knees would make an impression.

Besides.
Why are you overthinking this to begin with?
Isn't your sublime talent wiggling things around until they come up in your favor?
Perhaps he's a clever merchant, but your tongue remains as silver and quick as ever.

[anyprice]

Because!! He. Totally beat me to the punch on at least half a dozen different things in other cities and he's got this total ego about him! You'd understand if you meet him. When you meet him??

...
He sent me a letter and a gold bracelet today and definitely wants to 'catch up'. [ ...but aw gil. that vote of confidence has him kickin his feet... ] ...Hehe. You have such a way with words. I'm blushing like a college girl.

[throwmoreswords]

Samuel Kouvac, are you truly telling me that it only takes a golden bracelet to completely throw you off your game?

[ he cares deeply for you tolerates you more than other people, so it's time to give you some tough affection. ]

So what if he has an ego? I also have an ego. [ and the Grand Canyon is a small gash in the earth. ] Everytime I turn that regard on you, it flows off of you. Why does this nobody trip you up?

[anyprice]

The golden bracelet didn't throw me off! It just startled me! That's all! I'd have been so happy if he'd just kept to his corner of the world.

[ but ah, to answer that second question? easy. he has such an easy answer that it might make gil throw something at him next time they see each other. ]

Because I love you, and not him.

[throwmoreswords]

You have a dozen better bracelets, and you're certainly a better merchant if you'd only give yourself the credit.

[ will you shut the hell. ]

Oh, quit your sentimentality, you mongrel~

[anyprice]

You're biased. 💕 But I'll listen to your compliments every day of the week without getting tired.


And no. I won't stop. I missed years of being able to say it so now I have to make up for lost time.

[throwmoreswords]

I would tell you if you were outclassed and hopeless if that were the truth of the matter and you know that. I do not waste words, nor do I regard the feelings of others deeply enough that I can be troubled to lie to them.

[ which is both a bone-deep truth and a weird thing to say given how much Gil seems to like the sound of his own voice--but he does tend to speak most when he feels purposeful about something. ]

I'm beginning to get the sense that you just wanted to be spoken nicely to, and are in no distress whatsoever about your rival.

[anyprice]

Ok so I'm definitely a little distressed about Hugo, I won't lie about that, but.

Also, maybe, just maybe, I want to be spoken nicely to and told that I don't have anything to be worried about. Even when he absolutely will mock me the whole time we talk.
The Whooooole time.
He calls me mean names in French sometimes. :<