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[stripping.livejournal.com]

On a subject not related to Diarmuid-nii.

What holidays do you have at home? There's talk of Christmas here, of course, but I realize that not everyone may have a similar holiday in their world. I'd love to hear more about different cultures and religions - it's one of my greatest areas of interest.

Also, should we have a Christmas party, assuming that circumstances allow it?

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

It's pity, hate, or nothing? That's the stupid idea here.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

Shut up! [She stamped her food, her voice rising to a shriek] You don't understand! It works perfectly fine!

[stripping.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work for human beings and it doesn't work on Earth! But I have no reason to try to be friends with someone who doesn't want friends at all. [He smoothed out the flowers a little more.] It would only be an irritant to wish you well, I suppose.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

[Vriska wasn't looking at Issei, her right hand tightening slightly] Fine! Fine, fine, fine, fine, go away! See if I care! It's not like it matters! [She turned away, hiding her face completely from him] It doesn't matter at all. It's not like I don't have either red quadrant here, flushed or pale.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

...Does it really matter that much to trolls?

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

... the Heiress was the only reason Eridan doesn't have the time to kill all us landdwellers. She was his moirail.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

What does a moirail do exactly?

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

[Vriska wiped at her face briefly before turning back around] Why, do you want to be all diamonds with me? Pale red, trying to be my balance like Kanaya before she broke up with me?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

No, I want to understand what I did that made you so upset. An offering of friendship is perfectly fine for a human, maybe not as much as an offering of romance but more than valuable on its own. So I want to know what [your problem is] is really going on that I don't understand.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

... I just don't like being jerked around like that. Having my heart manipulated, making me think I might have a moirail here. Someone I can lean on.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I didn't - I didn't mean to imply - I'm not exactly sure what I accidentally implied. I do want to support you.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

By being my friend? [She sneered] "Friend" and "enemy" are the same word. Different things.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

They're complete opposites in human languages.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

Then it proves just how stupid humans are. [No, it didn't escape her that her appearance was one now and she couldn't keep it out of her voice]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Humans aren't stupid, they're just different. It's just different. What have I done that's like an enemy anyway?

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

And that's why I was upset! You didn't. But you used that word like you wanted to be and I thought you pitied me, not hated me. And I don't want to pail you, and after Kanaya I'm tired of meddlers trying to auspistice for me, so all blackrom would be out.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Is there absolutely no way that I can care about you without being in a relationship that's romantic?

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

... well, as long as you don't want me to catch that stupid friendship disease.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

All right. I won't call it that.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

[What was she feeling for him? It was weird... perhaps not pale or ashen, but... Vriska grinned at the words, putting her thoughts aside] Good!

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Um. Do you want your flowers back? I think they're still all right.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

Are you suuuuuuuure they don't do anything? It seems kind of dumb to have something so useless in this world.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Barring things like 'food for certain animals' and 'changes composition of the air,' they don't do anything.

[scorpiospider.livejournal.com]

Hmph.

... maybe I'll find a use for them. [She held out her hand]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

[Issei returns the flowers with a small smile.]