[not again] catchall for ogata

[fishingforcompliments]

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[snyaiper]

[Ogata seems satisfied with that, at least.]

Most things in life are. If people were more honest about how the world works, maybe that wouldn't have to be the case.
[Smoothing his hair back.]

You agree, don't you?

[fishingforcompliments]

I think if people were more honest about anything, life could be much simpler.

[she sighs]

...even things that people go to war over could be resolved if people approached each other to talk in good faith.

[snyaiper]

[Hmmm.]

And why do you think that's not the way things are?

[fishingforcompliments]

I do not know. I have never understood why it is not.

[snyaiper]

It's because most people, regardless of what they claim, will act in their own self interest, in the end. Human beings are naturally selfish.

[fishingforcompliments]

[she does not look like she wants to accept that at all.]

Surely not all of them are.

[snyaiper]

I suppose, mathematically, you're correct.

[Gee, thanks.]

But I do believe it's far more than you think. People lie, Flayn.

[fishingforcompliments]

Perhaps they do. But I cannot believe that lying is the default.

[snyaiper]

[Considers her for a long moment.]

Why not? It's a lot easier than trusting people.

[fishingforcompliments]

Distrusting everyone around me would be an exhausting way to live.

[snyaiper]

You get used to it.

[Or maybe Ogata is secretly exhausted and cranky all the time from living like this.]

[fishingforcompliments]

[secretly?]

That is not something anyone ought to be used to!

[snyaiper]

[Secretly as far as this being the cause of his temperament. He stares at her for a long moment.]

Why not?

[fishingforcompliments]

Having someone to trust and rely on, and being trusted and relied on in return, is one of life's greatest comforts. That is what people ought to be used to.

[snyaiper]

...

[He's quiet for a long moment.]

Giving up something like that to someone else is just asking to get taken advantage of. I'm not interested.

[fishingforcompliments]

[sad. that's really, really sad.]

I think fewer people get taken advantage of than you think, Ogata.

[snyaiper]

Do you really? Aren't you keeping secrets from everyone, yourself?

[He's still not buying your claim that the age on your profiles not right!!!!]

[fishingforcompliments]

...

That is a bit different.

[snyaiper]

Is it? There's something dangerous about that information, and you don't trust us with the full truth of it.

[fishingforcompliments]

It is irrelevant to what is going on here. But it is best that I not be in the habit of divulging it, for when I return home.

Aside from that, I am able to trust people quite easily.

[snyaiper]

[Hmmm.]

I see. Are you willing to prove it?

[fishingforcompliments]

Prove it?

[she tilts her head to one side]

How do you mean?

[snyaiper]

Turn around and fall backward. I'll catch you.

[A pause]
That is, assuming you trust me to do it?

[fishingforcompliments]

[even before he asks if she trusts him enough for that, she turns and falls backwards toward him.

trust fall!]

[snyaiper]

[And Ogata just watches her fall flat on the ground lmao bitch you thought]