Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

[abnormalizes]

This is Evangeline! Sorry, I'm a little busy right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

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[splittingheadache]

[SIGHING.]

... Fine. This would be something that you wouldn't quite understand, regardless... I'll allow you this one.

[But he's also going to take a piece of that bread for himself as he talks, smiling as he pops it into his mouth.]

- I'll have you know, though, that for me, it's divine.

[abnormalizes]

I'm glad you're enjoying it so much. It makes me happy to see you happy, no matter how weird your happiness happens to be.

[splittingheadache]

Hmhm~ That's all that matters to me, in the end! My happiness may be strange and incomprehensible to those around me...
But so long as it's harmless, I would hope my most beloved people would support it, regardless!

[Said with what is, perhaps, the cutest little laugh he's ever let out, holding that loaf close again like it's returned to its rightful place as The Most Precious Thing.]

[abnormalizes]

Love you too, honeybug. -I’m pretty weird myself, so it’s only fair.

[splittingheadache]

... Ah -

["Love you, too"... did she think he was saying "I love you" by calling her beloved? It felt like such a simple word to use, a synonym for treasured or cherished, but...
His face immediately flushes a deep orange, and he looks down at the bread rather than her.]

... I wouldn't say that you are weird. Eccentric, perhaps, but not weird.

[abnormalizes]

[She did, in fact, think that. She’s beloved because he loves her, right?]

It probably depends on your standards. I’m very weird for the City.

[splittingheadache]

[Well, yeah, sure, but he doesn't want to say that --]

Mm. Perhaps, yes, but I'd argue that anyone here would be weird for the City.
Rinku would be weird there. Chipp would be weird there.

...

[Thinking on that, now, as well as on a conversation he'd had with Rinku...]

... I think I would be the only one who'd fit right in.

[abnormalizes]

No way. For a million reasons, but first is that you’re generous without expectation of repayment.

[splittingheadache]

To those I like, yes. Surely the people in the City don't withold generosity from their loved ones -
Otherwise, how would your parents be as wonderful as they sound?

[abnormalizes]

…My parents are also weird. Most parents are not as loving as mine.

[splittingheadache]

Mmm.
So the City truly is as dire as my own family had been.

Still - I stand by that I am not nearly as generous as you think. You get the fullest amount of generosity I can offer -
From there, Rinku and Amari tie for second place. Lycaon and Lucifer take third, and Narinder has fourth.
After that, my generosity runs dry. I have no time for people who do not hook their claws into my heart in some fashion... or people who have nothing to offer me in return.

[He has, in fact, mentally ranked the people he calls friends this way. And he does, in fact, stick to this ranking for as long as the rankings don't mentally change.
And it is, in fact, the coldest possible way one could go about it - but she should know that his empathy is...
Low, at best. He has no idea how that might come off poorly.]

[abnormalizes]

You gave me your seeds when we first met. I wasn’t on your rankings instantly, was I?

[…Was that before or after she kissed him, that might affect things.]

[splittingheadache]

[It was after! It was also after --]

You broke my nose without a second thought, refused to hit me again due to how pathetic I looked, scooped me up, and kissed me.
I would have given you anything at that point.

[abnormalizes]

...Okay, yeah, I guess that is a strong first impression.

[splittingheadache]

Exactly. You won me over the instant we met -
What else was I to do but gift you something you so clearly needed?

Which I still stand by, for the record.

[abnormalizes]

What I'm getting from this is that I should punch more people in the face.

[splittingheadache]

I hope you aren't expecting me to disagree with that statement. Anyone you feel is worth punching probably deserves it, regardless.

[abnormalizes]

I was kind of joking, but... alright, I'll consider it?

[splittingheadache]

As I feel you rightly should! You are a good judge of character, Ol Siaion.
Obviously, considering you decked me the instant I gave you the option.

[abnormalizes]

That has nothing to do with your character and everything to do with me being mad at you, though.

[splittingheadache]

You judged me to be worthy of a swift fist to the bridge of my nose. You broke it, in fact - I had to set it nigh immediately, lest it healed crooked.
That says everything about my character.

[abnormalizes]

Consider: if someone was mean to you, I would also break their nose.

[splittingheadache]

And that is a good judge of their character as well.

Someone worth being punched is someone worth being punched, Evangeline.

[abnormalizes]

I'm really not sure, but I guess I'll take data on the people I do and don't punch and report back.

[splittingheadache]

Please do! I'm sure you will find common ground amongst them all.
You don't seem the type to punch indescriminately.