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]

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.

[abnormalizes]

I try not to! I'm not an angry person, I don't think.

[splittingheadache]

You most certainly aren't, no! If you were, you would have taken my offer to hit me again.
Hence why I think you punching someone is such an important judgement of their character.

You wouldn't do it without good reason, and such good reasons reflect well on who that person is.

[abnormalizes]

...I'm sure I could think of someone I punched for a bad reason. If you gave me a minute.

[splittingheadache]

...

[Reaching into his bag, then, to fish out his phone --
He sets up a stopwatch for sixty seconds, puts it to the side right where she can see it, turns it on, and leans back again. Lacing his fingers together in his lap and everything.]

[abnormalizes]

I set a guy on fire because he called me a coward and then wouldn't fight me??

[splittingheadache]

That isn't a punch. Not only that, but he sounds like he deserved it.
I would do the same.

[...]

Well - not fire, as I have no access to that. But certainly I'd pump someone like that full of bullets without question.

[abnormalizes]

He was absolutely an asshole, but setting him on fire might have been a little too much.

...It did feel great in the moment, though

[splittingheadache]

Mmm... I don't know. I feel fire is just enough. If someone wishes to speak ill of you, but refuses to take responsibility for his words, then you're well within your right to enact that responsibility upon him however you see fit.

And if he won't fight you, what other option had you but fire? As a Summer, that should be expected, really.

[abnormalizes]

He was also new, so he hadn't learned to expect people to be capable of doing that yet...

...Eh. Fuck him.

[splittingheadache]

There you go. Fuck him, indeed. New or not, he should expect retaliation if he refuses to take responsibility for his own actions.
You just so happened to be someone who wields fire, that's all.

If it were me, he'd have bullets and nightmares to face. If it were Chipp, he'd be faced with lightning and blades.

The method doesn't matter. What matters is if it was deserved.