{FAILED LOCK FROM LARSA}

[bentflame]

Why would someone give me gifts and want to go places with me when he very well knows that I'm not exactly found of him? Especially considering how, despite what he says, it's been clear that he's not very fond of me, either?

This is why I hate people.

Comments

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

He does in our conversations. He's condescending, he's been saying for years that I'm a horrible ruler, and now that he's really pushing this "crush" he acts like I'm a porceline doll that can neither protect nor defend myself.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

... It's pretty normal to want to protect someone you have a crush on. Even if they don't need it.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It's insulting. As was when he tried to brush off all the horrible things he'd said in the past as "just a joke".

He may be acting tolerable now, but it won't last. It never does.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Is it possible he really didn't mean them? Or at least that he wishes he hadn't said them now?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

That doesn't mean he can brush them off as jokes.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, if that's what he said than that was definitely not a good way to handle it.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

[kind of thankful she ignored that "if"]

But bad judgment aside, do you really have a reason to believe he doesn't like you?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

[fffff he really had said it too; SILLY LARSA]

Yes.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

... "Doesn't approve of your methods" isn't the same as "doesn't like you," you know.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I know that.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

All right, I'll bite - why do you think he doesn't like you?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

He doesn't know me.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Again, you say that about far too many people for it to really be taken seriously. And you two have been talking to each other since you've both been here, I think.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Why shouldn't it be taken seriously? It's true. People have no right to judge me if they don't know me, and talking doesn't constitute knowing.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

What does, then?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... Me telling them things.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

What, they can't work things out for themselves? You can learn a lot about someone from what they don't say.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Trust me, when people try to work things out for themselves, people get it wrong all the time.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

That mostly depends on how good they are at it.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I've only met a couple people who definitely are. There might be others, but they don't voice it. I've noticed that the people who do are almost always the ones who get it wrong, but still loudly insist that they were right.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Probably. It's a lot easier to learn about someone if you're good at staying quiet. Especially if that means they don't know how much they're giving away.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I suppose.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I expect you probably know a few. Most governments find that sort of thing useful.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I don't want to talk about it.