sort-of voice-test for a sort-of oc.

[scryinghope]

Please don't.

Yes, I know that won't stop you. I don't even need to be in your head to know that. I also happen to know that a little bit of pleading will at least make you feel guilty while you put me through all the things you're planning.

You see? It worked. At least now I can suffer with the petty vindictiveness of knowing that a fictional character made you feel bad. I'm like that on occasion.

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[skeletonenigma]

It won't be enough.

But while you're fruitlessly pleading, is there any chance I can join you? I've been trying for ages, and mine doesn't even seem to feel guilt. I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong.

[scryinghope]

You just don't know how to appeal to a young lady.

[skeletonenigma]

Don't I? Well, it has been some years.

I feel it's my solemn duty to point out that you're not doing much better.

[scryinghope]

It is something of a hopeless endeavour.

[skeletonenigma]

As are you, Descry.

[scryinghope]

What can I say? People do tend to find something alluring about hopeless cases.

[skeletonenigma]

I don't. Hopeless cases tend to find me alluring.

[scryinghope]

I think I should be objecting to that, but I can't seem to muster the mental fortitude.

[skeletonenigma]

Probably a hopeless endeavour anyway. I'm rarely wrong.

[scryinghope]

I think I just figured out how your narcissism complex arose.

[skeletonenigma]

Really? Do tell.

[scryinghope]

You find yourself alluring.

[skeletonenigma]

Wouldn't that be the narcissism complex?

[scryinghope]

But now it's just a subliminally-admitted hopeless case.

[skeletonenigma]

I'll admit, you've lost me. Am I an alluring subliminally-admitted hopeless case with delusions of a narcissism complex, a subliminally-admitted hopeless case that I find alluring and therefore makes me narcissistic, or a narcissism complex that finds itself alluring?

[scryinghope]

Take your pick. Isn't multiple-choice psychology wonderful?

[skeletonenigma]

Only for the psychologists, in my experience.

[scryinghope]

And here I was doing my best to be accessible.

[skeletonenigma]

Maybe you picked the wrong line of work.

[scryinghope]

To be fair, the line of work picked me. And you're biased.

[skeletonenigma]

Am I?

[scryinghope]

Oh yes, very much so. I realised that the very first time you pointed at me and said 'ha ha, you can't read my mind'. If I didn't know any better I'd think you have things to hide, Skulduggery.

[skeletonenigma]

Everyone has things to hide. Not everyone has the opportunity to rub that fact in a mind-reader's face. I took full advantage.

[scryinghope]

Far be it for you to neglect to rub things in my face on behalf of everyone else.

[skeletonenigma]

I'm glad we understand each other.