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[a_survivor]

No, as a matter of fact, you do not know what you're doing.

You have enough work to do elsewhere. Do it. I'm not going anywhere.

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[sandwormie]

People usually don't. Mine only played really pretty reserved and kind of cynical characters before, and she's doing fine with me. That's how everyone starts, clueless I mean; sometimes you just have to go.

- just, yeah, other stuff is important too.

[a_survivor]

*softer expression? Softer expression*

Thank you. I think her problem is less with the kind and more with the details, such as most of the backstory. Of course, it hasn't stopped her before, but it's irritating.

[sandwormie]

Oh, yeah. It's always really awkward when someone gets things wrong. ...Mine's got this horrible trick memory where she'll remember all kinds of details, but not if they're canon or from a fic or what. [Luke rolls his eyes.] And then comes the self-doubt, but... everyone makes mistakes. You can't not. You just have to keep going sometimes.

[...Luke, you have too many issues to give me pep talks.] I was giving it to her! [You were multitasking.] Believe what you want. [Quit being so immature!]

[a_survivor]

At least she won't have that problem, she rarely reads fics.

*small nod* Thank you. About... making mistakes. *loaded subjects? Nooooot much.*

She is still amused at that. Pep talks can be dangerous.

[sandwormie]

They hurt and sometimes you can't make up for them. [...Luke got a pack animal he liked killed. To him right now, it's still a big deal.] But sometimes you can.

[Luke wrinkles his nose.] Anything can be dangerous.

[a_survivor]

*deep breath* From the mouths of...

True enough.

[sandwormie]

[Dismay. Aaaand here's the part where he shows his age; he sounds slightly hurt.]

I'm thirteen.

[a_survivor]

*hey, he didn't say it. And he's... kind of older than he looks.*

Thirteen is a good age.

[sandwormie]

[He said the first part of it.]

I'm not a baby, you know. I'm not all that sheltered. I'm - they call me naive sometimes, but I know how dangerous worlds are, I know you have to be wary.

[a_survivor]

There's a difference between babes and babies. And I was referring more to innocence than naiveté.

[sandwormie]

I don't get the difference with either. But doesn't babe also mean girl? I'm not a girl, either.

[a_survivor]

I didn't mean girl. Or baby as in infant.

And innocence is a quality of... belief in certain things - in life, if you will - that many people lose. And that loss can come at a different age. While naiveté - well. That mingles very neatly with gullibility.

[sandwormie]

What did you mean, then?

I thought innocence was just... not involvement. Kind of ignorance?

[a_survivor]

The saying refers to advice - which is wise - coming from the mouth of those who shouldn't have the experience to give it. Regardless of age. Babe as in innocent - yet not necessarily to be ignored.

Innocence can be many things. Absence of guilt, usually, and guilt is the price paid for some experiences.