[voice] A stormy question

[justicereigns]

[Hello Luceti, is the nice little ice storm distracting you from post-Valentine's woes? Don't worry, here's a grumpy marine asking questions to painfully reminds you all.]

Seeing as we're all stuck inside -- [Once again, an usually feminine voice from Smoker's journal account.] -- I've got a question for everyone affected by the event.

Are there normally lines you won't cross in relationships that the Malnosso seem to cross for you? Or do they seem to take those into consideration instead? Since they seem to know us pretty well, it begs the question whether they're using our weaknesses, or if it's completely random.

And if anyone needs help out there in the storm, let me know. This weather is good practice.

[ooc: and feel free to threadjump like the dickens. It might be the only time Smoker keeps quieter than not, seeing as he's a girl now.]

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[ voice ]

[etudes]

[ She's completely oblivious to most of this, Smoker, prepare for a probably confusing conversation. ]

Of course I'm not against having a relationship.. It would be really sad if you couldn't have relationships with other people, then there's no way you could be friends together.

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

[... Actually he seemed to get that which probably just makes it more confusing.]

I completely agree. Though I meant romantic ones as well.

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

Now you have gone from interrogating pirates and criminals to question a girl about her love life? She already said she's not against relationships, does she have to spell out everything for you?

[Aka "stop bothering the girl who I loved for a week and with whom I still talk every day and for whom I'm gathering the biggest collection of books ever to give her for White Day".]

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

Because I think she just meant friendship relationships. Idiot.

[He sees your tsun and raises you... MORE TSUN.]

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

Because friendship is obviously more important for her. Are you sure you just don't want gossiping fodder for your visits to the beauty salon?

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

Are you sure you're not pissy due to your insatiable need to shoot yourself in the foot socially? Somehow even worse than I do?

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[uccellodifuoco]

You talk as if I would care about that.

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

I talk about what I see.

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

Do I look angry about such a stupid thing?

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[etudes]

Romantic ones, huh...

[ She.. actually never really thought about them specifically - she's already bad enough with somehow forming regular friendship bonds, let alone ones that are even vaguely romantic. Even the feelings she had during the experiment just seem like some different variant of her usual ones, and even with Tomoya back home the border between friendship and love was thin, if not just generally difficult to make out.

So she has to think for a bit - she probably doesn't even notice Ikki's threadjack until after she replies, she's that caught up in her thoughts. ]

... I.. don't think I mind it, probably.. since it's a very warm and nice feeling.

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

[Why are you answering him anyway?!]

Oi, you don't have to actually reply to whatever this weirdo asks!

[ voice ]

[etudes]

[ Because she's an obedient girl, Ikki. 8| ]

... But.. she asked me a question, right? It'd be rude to not answer..

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

Not with this one. You're free to not answer without it being rude.

[ voice ]

[etudes]

That's weird, really, really weird.. Are there some sort of special rules for dealing with Smoker's twin sister-chan?

[ that's what Smoker told her (s)he was and she believed it, okay, super gullible. ]

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

[Smoker's twin sister...]

Yes, there are special rules for her. Because she's a liar.

[ voice ]

[etudes]

A.. liar..? [ wait, that doesn't sound very good.. but she actually liked this person who said she was the twin sister of someone named Smoker, but she's actually a bad person? ]

Did she lie about anything?

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

Oi! I'm not weird. It wasn't even about you! That's why I asked everyone.

[Huffs.]

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

I didn't think it was about me, but that doesn't change the fact that you are being noisy without reason.

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

You just don't know the reason.

[ voice ]

[uccellodifuoco]

I know you're bothering her, that's enough.

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

So you don't have a problem with having a relationship like that. But is there some type of person you'd usually not want to associate with or something?

[ voice ]

[etudes]

Bullies.

[ The answer comes practically instantly, and despite Kotomi's usual blankness this part seems somewhat determined, as if she's something she settled on for sure. ]

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

[Oh god... that's too cute.]

Good answer. So in that case, the malnosso didn't set you up with one of those at least.

[ voice ]

[etudes]

[ 'too cute' is all of what Kotomi consists of, pretty much. ]

Hmm, Ikki-kun's not a bully at all. He's a really kind and good person.. If it had been a bully, I would have been really scared.

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[justicereigns]

That's perfectly understandable. Well, I'm sure you won't ever have to worry about bullies with Ikki around.