( The misunderstanding starts to make itself apparent, though with his thoughts running slow and tired, he's left blinking at Inigo and his red face and the whole of it, speaking first without thinking hard on it: )
My clan's got over three thousand precepts. We broke at least twenty five when we went pole dancing.
( this is entirely irrelevant beyond his tired wonder at anyone thinking he's not aware of breaking rules he thinks are dumb practically daily. in fact actually daily right now, but that's not the point, and it's not what's going on, which is clearly:
Inigo being Inigo, and trying to gently (?) turn Jingyi down (??) for a proposal that, uh.
... he thinks has happened (???).
this is almost novel, also somewhat irritating, but more novel. he's never been turned down before, directly related to never asking anyone to... uh. what.
he thought he was... pretty clearly talking about his friend, for one, but also how his expectations were kind of... a lot. which he knows, but then that makes it insulting, because Inigo is... saying even if Jingyi was willing to compromise for someone, they got to decide if that wasn't fair.
and since he's preeeetty absolutely positive this is a very embarrassed attempt to gently turn him down, and now he's starting to blush a touch because what the catastrophic storm winds, Jingyi kind of.
... gets annoyed. come on! give him a genuine refusal! he's an adult, he can wreck himself if he chooses! )
That's my decision, right? Yours is about how you feel, not how I do, or what I do about it.
( this with the smallest twitch of the tailtip. absently, he pats his own fluff down. )
So I like you, and? ( which he does, he's said that before, he's just not head over heels for anyone, or frankly anyone that people blush around except in secondhand embarrassment, for the most part; ) I trust myself on that.
( then he starts ticking things off on his fingers, because Inigo started it, so Jingyi will finish it. hah! )
You're attractive, you're kind, you lock a whole lot down. You throw yourself into helping people out. You wear smiles like a mask, and that's all fine.
( he lifts his shoulders in a small shrug. he's so tired. how did this happen. can they nap on this. no, ugh, he's not the kind to be avoidant, even if he's... also not going to spare Inigo from having to go through his whole gentle letdown. be honest, get through it, be better friends after, right? that's how that works. probably? )
Just say what's going on for you. It's not like I'm going to pin you down and say, love me anyway.
( he would normally attempt an eye roll at that: sure, it would be nice to tell someone that, if you were a complete jackass with zero ability to respect other people's boundaries. he's frankly too tired to try.
either way: MUTUALLY ASSURED SUFFERING this is how bonding happens )
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My clan's got over three thousand precepts. We broke at least twenty five when we went pole dancing.
( this is entirely irrelevant beyond his tired wonder at anyone thinking he's not aware of breaking rules he thinks are dumb practically daily. in fact actually daily right now, but that's not the point, and it's not what's going on, which is clearly:
Inigo being Inigo, and trying to gently (?) turn Jingyi down (??) for a proposal that, uh.
... he thinks has happened (???).
this is almost novel, also somewhat irritating, but more novel. he's never been turned down before, directly related to never asking anyone to... uh. what.
he thought he was... pretty clearly talking about his friend, for one, but also how his expectations were kind of... a lot. which he knows, but then that makes it insulting, because Inigo is... saying even if Jingyi was willing to compromise for someone, they got to decide if that wasn't fair.
and since he's preeeetty absolutely positive this is a very embarrassed attempt to gently turn him down, and now he's starting to blush a touch because what the catastrophic storm winds, Jingyi kind of.
... gets annoyed. come on! give him a genuine refusal! he's an adult, he can wreck himself if he chooses! )
That's my decision, right? Yours is about how you feel, not how I do, or what I do about it.
( this with the smallest twitch of the tailtip. absently, he pats his own fluff down. )
So I like you, and? ( which he does, he's said that before, he's just not head over heels for anyone, or frankly anyone that people blush around except in secondhand embarrassment, for the most part; ) I trust myself on that.
( then he starts ticking things off on his fingers, because Inigo started it, so Jingyi will finish it. hah! )
You're attractive, you're kind, you lock a whole lot down. You throw yourself into helping people out. You wear smiles like a mask, and that's all fine.
( he lifts his shoulders in a small shrug. he's so tired. how did this happen. can they nap on this. no, ugh, he's not the kind to be avoidant, even if he's... also not going to spare Inigo from having to go through his whole gentle letdown. be honest, get through it, be better friends after, right? that's how that works. probably? )
Just say what's going on for you. It's not like I'm going to pin you down and say, love me anyway.
( he would normally attempt an eye roll at that: sure, it would be nice to tell someone that, if you were a complete jackass with zero ability to respect other people's boundaries. he's frankly too tired to try.
either way: MUTUALLY ASSURED SUFFERING this is how bonding happens )