Day 11

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

Today we have something special, really special! A favorite of mine. It seems like all of you need to have a break today, so your next game challenge will last two days instead of one. That... and that's how long the drug lasts.

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[manuscripture]

[ Huh. ]

How nice of you to send such reassurance my way. Thank you.

I'm interested in what else you have to ask before I finish calculating anything I will throw your way. I interrogated you a bit already. Go on.

[jinglebros]

I'm interested in how you've overcome your people aversion this much. You hated people so much when you got here, so what gives?

[manuscripture]

I don't hate people.

I don't hate them at all. I can't be who I am and do what I do if I hate people. You don't build your life and career at sixteen without being able to have interpersonal skills. I just don't care to have people hanging all over me when I have a job to do. It's why I live alone. It's why I travel alone. It's why I would rather be alone, but that doesn't mean that I hate people. My image as a reclusive author that I built up for myself doesn't hold water here. People don't come from a place where they know my name. No one is going to fall to my feet and shove paper in my face for autographs. I'm just another jackass who was kidnapped by a clown.

Transitioning to a new environment means having to adjust the ways you think about or do things.

Everyone has their code of conduct back home. When it is turned on its head? What next? You have nothing. Do I get pissed when I see Nijimura doing his best to make people think negatively of me because he's a giant manchild? Yes. Does it make me shake and cry because someone said a mean thing about me?

Absolutely not.

One person compared to all of the ones I have gone ahead and gotten the names, faces, and stories from is dirt to me. I learn. I adapt. I do what I feel I must.

[jinglebros]

[ Santa blinks a few times, quiet for several seconds after that speech. ]

 

 

...okay, you're awesome.

[manuscripture]

[ haha what ]

Really?

[jinglebros]

Really.

[ This is said firmly. ]

[manuscripture]

Thank you... Again.

I don't find much of it to be directly inspirational. It's just how I feel about myself and what I know about myself.

[ Someone recognizing him for being awesome??? THAT'S... That warms his cold heart. HE MIGHT EVEN SMILE. ]

What is the hardest thing that you have ever had to overcome, then?

[jinglebros]

My sister burning to death in a fire, and the subsequent years after in which we attempted to correct the time paradox which kept her both alive and dead.

[ ... ]

I promise I'm not insane.

[manuscripture]

No more insane than anyone else here, I assure you.

You know that what you have here is precious. You value it and want to protect it. I think that's something to admire.

[jinglebros]

Yeah?

[ Santa flushes slightly, he hadn't been expecting to hear that. ]

I've taken care of her most of our lives. I'd do anything for her.