poooossibly looking for games. canon is hyouka!

[conserve]

[ there are several things wrong with this situation. if he wanted to, houtarou can count them all off his fingers without needing to pause for breath, but he doesn't, and so he won't, because he's been around chitanda long enough to know that, sometimes (read: all of the time), he just can't win.

(though let it be known that he's already thought of twelve.) ]

No.

[ and still, he tries! if you can call that trying, because he knows his mun, and he knows the terrible, awful, no good places she could bring him to, and he should fight for his salvation, shouldn't he? or something.

Where's the line between fighting and begging for mercy?

quickly--! what would chitanda do? ]

Please.

[ Damn, I crossed it. ]

Comments

[conserve]

[ what if he's fine with his character just as it is have you thought about that? ]

Yet I soldier on, despite it.

[coaches]

[How could anyone be fine being him?]

Hahah, you've surprised all of us. So where is it you're afraid to be sent?

[conserve]

[ he finds it pretty easy, actually. you should give it a shot. it's alarmingly...

dull.

Just how I like it. ]

Nobody said anything about being afraid.

[coaches]

[Well, if that's what you like.]

Just an impression I got, what with the 'please'.

[conserve]

[ of course it is.

maybe.

...no of course it is.

probably. ]

That was... [ A moment of weakness. ] ...an experiment.

[coaches]

An experiment in mercy? I can promise it won't work.

[conserve]

You're a victim? [ "survivor" doesn't feel pitying enough. ]

[coaches]

You're not?

[conserve]

That remains to be seen. [ he's only been brought out here, after all...







shut up memes don't count. ]

I could always just be a whim.

[coaches]

[They totally count.]

Would you like that any better? Being a whim versus a victim. I think victims require a lot more dedication and care.

[conserve]

They both sound pretty exhausting. Either way, she's wasting energy.

[ and that offends his delicate sensibilities. ]

You'd rather yours go through all that trouble for you?

[coaches]

As long as something gets accomplished. It isn't like there's much else to do.

1/2

[conserve]

[ gnck.

that line.

he hates that line. ]

[conserve]

[ HOW MANY TIMES HAS HIS LIFE gotten more interesting BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BECAUSE OF THAT LINE? ]

I don't mind not doing anything.

[coaches]

[What a reaction. You really are strange.]

You don't get bored?

[conserve]

I'm used to it.

[ which isn't a no... ]

1/2

[coaches]

I see...

[coaches]

SO IS THAT IT? YOU'VE GIVEN UP?

1/2

[conserve]

[ So loud! ]

I...

[conserve]

...didn't realize I was playing.

[ wait. what are they talking about? ]

[coaches]

It's not a game! Don't you have any ambition?

[conserve]

Not really.

[ and then he recites, as if on cue: ]

I won't do anything I don't have to. If I have to, I'll do it quickly.

[coaches]

[That's just... depressing.]

Do you say that a lot? It almost sounds scripted.

[conserve]

[ his life is depressingly dull. ]

It's my motto.

[coaches]

You need a new one.