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[backscar]

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[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.

[wizardsplain]

You're hardly a fair and unbiased judge. You seem the type to run from a genuine emotional connection faster than from a mindflayer. At the same speed, at the very least.

[backscar]

Who needs an emotional connection? Sex is fun enough already.

[wizardsplain]

You know, I sincerely hope one day someone will make you eat those words. Everyone deserves the experience of loving and having that love reciprocated. Even you.

[backscar]

Even me? Have you decided to hate me today, Gale?

[wizardsplain]

Would you take less offense if I had said 'including you'?

Honestly, Astarion, I'm attempting to share my genuine hopes for your future despite your absolute disdain towards anything resembling vulnerability. Perhaps the comments and critique for my delivery could be saved for another time, if you're amenable to that.

[backscar]

Would you like to put it in our group calendar? "Gale narrates the values of love and romance to an embittered vampire".