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[craftpunk]

🜲 It's Woden. 🜲

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[reexamined]

Maybe you also get something out of being disliked. Sometimes I do.

[craftpunk]

[ Being disliked means a lot of things. There's a pause. ]

What could you possibly get out of being disliked?

[ Other than nobody else leaving you for who you really are. ]

[reexamined]

No one tries to befriend you, which is advantageous when you know you both have nothing in common. You don't have to worry about others, it's overall easier than developing relationships.

Sometimes, when you know you aren't going to be winning anyone's opinion of you anyway, it's fulfilling to just evoke an even more powerful negative response.

Wouldn't you agree?

[craftpunk]

[ A long pause. ]

Something like that, I suppose, yes. I hear it's common.

[ A shift, then. Like he's moving. ] I like to keep people at a distance.

[reexamined]

Why?

[He knows he's probably not going to get an answer. But he might as well ask.]

[craftpunk]

[ Because his mother left him when he was still a baby. ]

How else am I supposed to be the villain?

[reexamined]

Then apparently you're a bad one, because everyone knows the most threatening villains are the ones with a lot of friends, particularly if they're in high places.

[craftpunk]

Only the ones who can't rely on superior technology.

[reexamined]

I still disagree, but I think we should come back to the fact you fancy yourself a villain. Villains don't say "well, I'm already rude, I might as well be the bad guy." It also contradicts with what you earlier said, about not wanting to be disliked.

If you don't give real answers, I'm just going to have to make my own personal assessment out loud, which could consist of a few things you don't want to hear said by someone who only met you such a short while ago, considering how mysterious you like to be.

[threatening people to reveal their secrets is definitely how you make and keep friends, right?? no one's told him otherwise!!]

[craftpunk]

You can make all the vague assumptions you want.

I can always leave. It's rather easy with a teleporter.

[reexamined]

I suppose that would put us at a physical and literal distance, like you said.

[But his bluff was totally called, there, so...]

I think given that, I'll keep it to myself for now.

[He'd rather not have a vague assumption now, when he could have a very well calculated answer later.]

[craftpunk]

Very well.

[ Woden crossed his arms. ]

It's...for the best. Honestly.

[reexamined]

I wouldn't know, besides from your word alone.