[not again] catchall for ogata

[fishingforcompliments]

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[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]

[snyaiper]

[Or, at least, it seems that way, as he steps out of the way of her fall. Only to catch her by the front of her dress at the last possible moment, just holding her almost parallel to the ground.]

Stupid of you to trust someone like me.