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[claim_my_place]

Enough! I have no intention of helping you.

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[prismshards]

[ Curious as Luke is, he's not going to ask. ]

She must be desperate to want your help.

[claim_my_place]

Yes.

[Asch scowls, though whether because of the unintentional double meaning, the fact a replica's here, or because he just agreed with said replica remains a mystery.]

Why are you here?

[prismshards]

[ Luke will go with "D. All of the above." It's pretty obvious Asch isn't only annoyed with whatever topic they're not discussing. ]

If I thought you wouldn't bite my head off, I'd say to offer moral support for whatever nightmare your mun is trying to put you through.

[claim_my_place]

[In his opinion, he'd be doing Luke a favor. His head's close enough to empty as it is.]

The last thing I need is "moral support". [You have to admit, it's fairly useless on someone like Asch.] And I never said she was trying to put me through anything.

[prismshards]

[ Can't let Asch do that. He might catch some amiability-eating disease and completely lose the ability to smile! He can smile, right? ]

Then why'd she need you to give her a hand? You're not good for much else. Er-- [ FLAILING ] Not in the useless way! Just in the 'can't do a lot in this situation' way! Haha...

[claim_my_place]

[Yeah. Asch can, in fact, smile, but he's only managed it about twice since he left Auldrant. Not enough to even bother putting on a resume.]

....

[What an epic failure in communication between your brain and your mouth, Luke. Asch isn't going to even acknowledge that one with a response. He has about five seconds to save himself.]

[prismshards]

[ ...Asch obviously needs to practice smiling more if he can keep count on one hand. ]

Uh. So what don't you want your mun to do? If she's not planning on making you miserable, I don't see what harm there is in lending a hand...

[ It's not his fault that their conversations are always like navigating minefield, even when he just wants to help. ]

[claim_my_place]

[Suggest that to him, and he'd say there's no way in hell he's going to practice smiling. Idiot.]

What, you want a list? [But he knows by now that continuing to dodge is pointless. It'll just lead to more questions, and more, and that's just as irritating as being expected to answer in the first place.]

To begin with, she has this stupid idea that typing out my conversations is somehow going to make it easier for her to write everything else. [What conversations you ask. It's like how writing poetry is supposed to be harder than writing a story. Or something]

[prismshards]

[ He'd have to get hit over the head a few more times before he'd dare to make such a suggestion. But there's always the option of trying to get Asch to smile on his own! ]

Most of them do that last, so it might work. [ Despite saying that, he still looks puzzled. What conversations, indeed. Could having Asch tell you what to do or yell in your face even count as a conversation? ]

Where're you going to this time? Unless you mean she's writing one of those "fanfic" things.

[sassy_spy]

What are you helping your mun with today Asch~?

[claim_my_place]

I'm not. [That's the whole point!]

[sassy_spy]

That's not what I've heard~♪

[claim_my_place]

[Have a disgruntled sound. Feel free to use whichever babelfish you like to translate its meaning.]

You've got me confused with someone else.

[sassy_spy]

I think it's a little more than hard to confuse you with other people.

[claim_my_place]

You'd be the first person to say that.

["Master Luke, have you grown your hair out already?"]

[sassy_spy]

[The only reason why it's so easy to tell is because between you and Luke, it's be hard for both of you to do each other's expressions...At least without the other cracking up soon after.]

I'm sure there's others...

[Luke...Natalia....Natalia.]

[claim_my_place]

[Don't talk to him about Natalia, you little brat.]

Not really.

[...Doughnuthead, maybe.]

[nozomiracle]

Asch-saaaaaaaan. *>>*

[claim_my_place]

[Nngh. Best to get this over with.]

What do you want this time?

[nozomiracle]

Why are you still being mean to your mun? I bet whatever she needs help with, it would get done faster if you helped.

[claim_my_place]

[But the truth is he doesn't want it to get done at all.]

Why are you still defending her? I see no reason why I should give her a hand with something I've been against from the very beginning.

[nozomiracle]

What don't you want her to do?

[claim_my_place]

She needs to quit messing around with everything and take responsibility for her poor decisions!

[Okay, that's unhelpfully vague.]

[nozomiracle]

Eh? Is she trying to send you someplace new again? That's not a poor decision, it's fun.

[claim_my_place]

How can you even say that? There's nothing fun about it! [She of all people should actually have some idea what he's been through since he's had to cart her around the galaxy. B|]