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[darkinferno]

Dante Rantanen

"Hey, you've reached Dante. I'm not in right now--you know what to do."

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[constellates]

[to be fair blushing is her natural reaction to receiving praise]

then i will do my best !
and also tell dante what i think which is that your words were very sweet
thank you for them
style should not matter if you make other people happy

[darkinferno]

i don't care about making other people happy

[spoilers he cares a lot about making other people happy]

there are certain types of people in this world, anya. you might be able to get away with the whole earnest optimistic type but i sure don't so let me stay in my wheelhouse, all right? that's all

[constellates]

what wheelhouse

but i do not think anyone should be like anya
that can be very hard and silly
i just think that it is nice when people are honest

[darkinferno]

[Whoops. He wasn't thinking about the language thing when he said that. How to explain it...]

turn of phrase. your wheelhouse is the stuff you're good at and feel comfortable with

so for me that's stuff like being a jerk and making people mad by saying what's on my mind. i don't lie to people just to make them feel better about themselves

for you it's probably something like seeing the best in people and optimism to the point of letting it blind you

[Case in point: she still talks to him.]

[constellates]

[ . . . so the thing is that she's heard this a couple of times now. her nose wrinkles at the text that she gets back and she responds as directly as she ever does]

letting it blind me ?
even if you are not trying to say a mean thing
it does not sound nice to hear that
when it sounds like you are saying that anya lies about people

but i do not think that you are a jerk
i do think that you will take things about people as truths
even if they are not

[darkinferno]

nah

you know how you keep telling me that there're good qualities to yuri even though i've never seen them? it's the same thing but in reverse

i think you talk about people in the way you see them

you just don't see their negatives because you've got so much light of your own that it makes it hard to see their darkness

does that make more sense

[Where the hell is this metaphor of light and darkness coming from? Oh, well, it works fairly well, so Dante shrugs and lets it go for now.

Also it's sounding like he's saying he lies about people....]

[constellates]

why do you think that i do not see negatives
is it because i do not talk about them ?

[which is... not something she sees herself changing but

just because she doesn't actively talk about how moody yuri is or how difficult dante can be or how stubborn jade can be doesn't mean she doesn't see them]

people are not all darkness
they are not all light
a mix of mistakes and good things

[darkinferno]

well... yeah, actually

not even that you don't talk about them but you don't ACKNOWLEDGE them, at least not to other people

you're going to get people worrying after you that way

[Not him, though. He's just saying.]

[constellates]

you already do not like yuratchka
why would i tell you bad things about yuratchka
you will just say
yes this is why i do not like him
and the same for others ?

i do not want to give people more reasons to choose to dislike

[that doesn't make much sense to her]

[darkinferno]

give it a couple weeks and i probably won't care about him any more, life's too short to waste time keeping track of who i do or don't like

anyways the point of saying it isn't to give someone more reason to dislike that person it's to show that yeah you understand where that person's coming from in the first place

like when i was talking with yuri last month and i said that yeah souji fucked up BUT

you gotta show people you understand them if you want to have any chance of changing their mind

but i'm also not trying to just talk about the people you know either

i'm talking about how you meet someone new and treat them like they're your best friend with no reservations

something like that's gonna get you in trouble sooner or later if you aren't careful

[constellates]

when you talked to yuri last month about souji
you were saying things without knowing the full story ?
and assuming a lot

[tbqh maybe not the best example]

but you are warning me
and i know it is because you care
and while i think that is nice and thank you for it
you think anya is too trusting and open ?

but i am not
so please do not think so

[darkinferno]

[No offense Anya but you maybe aren't in the best position to diagnose your own weak points...? Anyways this is getting away from the point.]

saying you're TOO trusting and open would mean i think you should stop

i'm just making sure you remember to temper it every once in a while and keep your feet on the ground while you're staring at the stars

anyways don't read too much into it i'm the resident asshole remember i don't care about shit

[TSUN TSUN :T]

[constellates]

you are not the resident asshole
and you do care
what a funny flip

[darkinferno]

funny?

what do you mean by that?

[ALSO YOU'RE WRONG 8T]

[constellates]

dante says nice things
but then says
but do not listen !
what i say does not matter !
when it does matter
because you are a good person
but you will say right after
no !

but the answer is yes

[darkinferno]

[IT IS NOT??????????????

But

There's also probably no way to get Anya to listen to him so. Dante's just going to make exasperated faces at his phone and let it go.

She'll figure it out sooner or later, right?]