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[backscar]

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[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".

[wizardsplain]

Consider it a free class in becoming an ex-bittered vampire with Gale of Waterdeep as your most illustrious professor.

[backscar]

And what makes you uniquely qualified?

[wizardsplain]

My charm. My boundless knowledge of subjects both of the mind and the heart. My upbeat outlook!

[backscar]

Charm?

[wizardsplain]

Must you really sound SO skeptical?

[backscar]

It's almost an obligation at this point, darling.

[wizardsplain]

Perhaps you just haven't gotten the full opportunity to witness my charisma in action. [ Yes, that's it. Just cope harder. ] I assure you, I'm more than capable of winning over even the most misanthropic of spawns.

[backscar]

I suppose you must have been doing something right, given your last entanglement. I won't say that the same would win me over, however.

[wizardsplain]

You may refer to the notches on your bedpost with such flippancy, but there's no need to relegate my relationships to mere 'entanglements'. Regardless! I've no desire to repeat the unseemly mistakes of my past. I've quite learned from those tactics.