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runs_on_batteries) wrote2022-02-14 12:37 am
runs_on_batteries) wrote2022-02-14 12:37 am
IC Inbox/ Interactions 2.0
[For IC messages/ posts in suggestion box/ 'I don't want to flood the comms stuff'/ etc etc etc.]
[For IC messages/ posts in suggestion box/ 'I don't want to flood the comms stuff'/ etc etc etc.]
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[For other things, yes. But not, entirely, for having perhaps gotten off on something of a strange start. Still, if Tony expects him to be the least bit cowed by the sudden invasion of his space, he will be sorely disappointed. In fact, there's barely so much as a blink from Emet-Selch. Admittedly, by the way his scowl deepens the longer Tony continues on about what he has tried to do it's clear that he wants to continue on the topic that Tony has just told him not to, but to his credit he does listen. He's perhaps not the best pleased about the idea - not least of all because Tony's not the only person who has been having a difficult time dealing with the conversation - but he does at least refrain from mentioning that fact.]
But by all means, let us turn to this 'insult' she offered. [A pause, for effect and consideration rather than any direct attempt to modulate his own lingering irritation.] You are speaking of her insistence that her communicator is a device she values highly, yes? When you had previously shown a significant temper that resulted in at least one item having been thrown to the floor? A poor insult, by all counts, if indeed it can be called such.
[Too, he could say things about his assumptions about Tony's ego, if such a small thing had been enough to prick it to the point of it seeming like an insult. He does not. Irritated and angry though he might be, even he isn't much interested in needlessly winding Tony up, now that he is - at least nominally - trying to help Tony understand if nothing else.]
Nor should you assume that practices in your world will have an equivalent in ours. While it would have been simple enough to see that you had been offering your assistance, she would not have had the context to see it as more than that. Just what little she knew of you - from conversation and actions both.
[The good and the bad, and Emet can most certainly guess at which of the two has caused the two of them to end up at such odds. Though this, too, is not something he speaks of, although in this case it's because Tony's comments about truth have him scowling again.]
Then let me rephrase. She lies most often to herself. When she is speaking to or of other people, however, she is careful to present information neutrally; as much without bias as she can. To offer an account that is the truth of a situation. And if you cannot - will not - see that as anything but disingenuity than you will never come to so much as the barest hint of an accord with her.
[Another pause, and this time it is to rein his anger in again.]
She is polite because - I assume - it is how she was taught to be. She favors text because it is easier for her, and so she prefers it. Not as an attempt to mislead or hide the truth of how she feels. Surely neither is so unusual?
[A more considering pause, and then:]
As to the rest, I will grant that she may not have entirely thought her actions through. But the rest of your assumptions - and they are most certainly that - make it quite clear you have misjudged whatever she may have told you of the situation. And her, by extension.
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You're joking, right? You and her honestly believe all of this was set off over her communicator? No of course that's not the insult I'm talking about! I was annoyed that she was making assumptions about my character at the time but no, that wasn't...
[He shook his head in disbelief and let the sentence drop with a sigh.]
For the record, a plate and someone's communication device that came from home aren't anywhere near the same thing. Also she could've just offered an alternative to get the information like the zip drive instead of making a big fuss about it. I just thought that whole thing was stupid.
Either way, that's all beside the point since it has nothing to do with anything. It hardly matters now why since it is clear that my health and well-being meant very little to either of you.
You're right about one thing though. I don't believe she 'presents information neutrally' and 'without bias'. I think that's complete bullshit, especially given the level of her mental health issues. However, I believe she is trying to tell the truth and she has a genuine desire to do right by others. If I didn't think she was a good person, I would never have tried so hard to help her.
As for texting, just look at how much confusion and headache that has caused us. How much of this could've been cleared up by her or I being able to read one another's facial expressions or tone? We already had enough staked against us, we didn't need to add more obstacles to get in our way. I just hope whoever she's texting next she isn't sending those oppressively long texts to like she did to me. That isn't fair to do to someone when they can't stop her from doing the texting version of verbal diarrhea. No one deserves that.