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[backscar]

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[backscar]

Oh, I didn’t really care. You never got anything I was interested in, it’s just rather novel to poke you about it.

[ Deflecting from the kindness, at least a little. ]

[wizardsplain]

Well! All right then. Now that that matter's settled, I suppose it's only right to address your next complaint. I never meant to imply magic by one unstudied in the arcane arts was less real, only less... erudite.

[backscar]

You may not have meant it that way, darling, but that’s most certainly how it sounded.

[wizardsplain]

Well, you must admit that casual magic is hardly comparable to that of a true arcane scholar.

[backscar]

Why? Does it not take the same dedication and practice, just of a different kind?

[wizardsplain]

A different kind, surely. And, forgive my presumption, but I had always assumed your gifts the product of natural ability rather than discipline and dedication.

[backscar]

A mixture of both. Nothing comes easily, especially not for my kind.

[wizardsplain]

I can't say I'm not rather flabbergasted. You certainly do an excellent job of making everything appear as if it comes easily.

[backscar]

I can hardly let people think I’m trying, can I?

[wizardsplain]

I don't know. I think it rather humanizes you. Or, well - you understand my meaning, surely.

[backscar]

Ugh. After these last few adventures the last thing I need is to be considered more human.

[wizardsplain]

Would that really be so terrible?

[backscar]

Utterly. It would be awful.

[wizardsplain]

As the sole representative for humanity in this conversation, I feel the responsibility to inquire. What, exactly, is so 'utterly awful' about our existence?

[backscar]

You're all so vulnerable. I cannot permit that.

[wizardsplain]

That's certainly an interesting perspective. I have to admit, I surely don't feel vulnerable when I'm incinerating a pack of vicious goblins. Quite the opposite, really.

[backscar]

Yes, well, I obviously meant emotionally.

[wizardsplain]

[ Obviously. ]

With emotional vulnerability comes life's greatest joys and deepest sorrows. It's quite impossible to experience one without the other.

[backscar]

I can think of other, far more pleasurable joys.

[wizardsplain]

Ah, if I know the joys of which you speak, Astarion, even those are improved when one is able to share oneself fully and without facades.

[backscar]

Gale, I assure you, no one has ever suggested I require improvement.

[wizardsplain]

Perhaps not to your face.

[backscar]

[ A GASP can be heard across their mental connection. Did he really just -? ]

In the two hundred years of honing my craft I have never had a single complaint.

[ Until they’re given to Cazador, that is. ]

[wizardsplain]

[ It feels good to say Astarion is bad at something. He thinks he'll double down. ]

Well, purely carnal dalliances can hardly be compared to true emotional and physical intimacy.

[backscar]

[ How DARE he! ]

Of course they can. They're better.