poooossibly looking for games. canon is hyouka!

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[ 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. ]

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[coaches]

[This guy is thinking pretty intensely. Don't hurt yourself.]

Please, what?

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[ whoa look at his hair. ]

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Please, no. [ and, because he knows the guy will ask. ] To everything.

[coaches]

To everything? That's a little broad, you should narrow it down if you really want to get your point across.

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Narrowing it down leaves her too many opportunities to find a loophole. With a catch-all answer, I can eliminate any chance for a rebuttal instantly.

[ and ultimately save himself a lot of time, which is the whole point, anyway. ]

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[ ...seriously, though, look at his hair.

If I touch it, will I burn? ]

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[coaches]

Haha, clever. I'll give you credit. But you also leave yourself wide open to assumptions by everyone else, you know?

[coaches]

[... kiddo, you're staring.]

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[ shit - caught! ]

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[ okay just pretend it didn't happen, whatever, nothing to see here, moving on-- ]

I guess that's true.

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But I'm not obligated to humor any of them.

[coaches]

[If you want to touch his hair, man...]

Even if I asked you an absurd question, or insulted you in some way? Would you humor me then?

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[ wait - really??? ]

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[ --wait, no, stop that, he doesn't care!! ]

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Getting insulted doesn't usually make a person want to appease the other.

[ but he'll keep quiet about the absurd question bit. It depends on the question, but that would just open a whole new topic of conversation. ]

[brightens]

No what?

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[ there are several ways to answer this. no to games, to memes, to the constant gushing over his bedhead that his mun just won't shut up about, et cetera, et cetera...

let's see, let's see... how could he best sum this up... ]

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[ --ah. ]

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Life.

[brightens]

No... life? [ ... what. ]

What do you mean? You seem to be doing pretty good at it so far.

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[ okay that didn't work out. guess he'll have to use more words. ]

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To life.

[brightens]

Then... you want to..? [ ... Die? Not live anymore? ]

[conserve]

[ uh. ]

Sure.

[ he wouldn't really be dying... he'd just be forgotten.

Wait - is that worse? ]

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[coaches]

Okay, okay. I can agree with that.