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[bloodandbrass]

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[bloodandbrass]

it ain't that special. get more artistry in killing people than that these days.

[hardlydead]

You just think that because it's normal for you.
I'm telling you it's cool. Take the compliment.

[ well, kind of. he thinks the actual masks are stupid as hell, but he thinks it's cool that evan just goes and makes them. that that's something he can do. ]

[bloodandbrass]

you're trying to give me a compliment?

[ emphasis on the me. ]

[hardlydead]

Yeah.
Don't get used to it.

[bloodandbrass]

wasn't going to.

at least not when i don't have you bent over a table.

[hardlydead]

I'm complimenting you then, am I?

[bloodandbrass]

sometimes.

i'd say making you scream counts, but you never shut up anyway.

[hardlydead]

You ever make me scream, and I think you can count it.

[ but it's never happened, okay! not even once!!! everyone stop saying it!!! ]

[bloodandbrass]

gotten close enough.

[ he's being a little broad with the definition of a scream, here. ]

[hardlydead]

Have you now?

[bloodandbrass]

yes.

[ no, he's not going to elaborate. ]

[hardlydead]

Guess my memory's a little faded.

[bloodandbrass]

not surprising. you probably blacked out.

[hardlydead]

Nah. I know you haven't gotten me that good yet.

[bloodandbrass]

might've, if you hadn't blown up about the rope.

[hardlydead]

[ well that de-sexifies this whole thing immediately for david ]

Well sorry for not being pumped about some asshole jumping me and tying me up.

[bloodandbrass]

if i asked it'd be fine?

[hardlydead]

Might've been willing to try it.

[ probably not. but he would've at least considered it. ]

[bloodandbrass]

[ he just doesn't understand the difference. ]

right. i'll keep it in mind next time you show up.

[hardlydead]

[ there's just so much to unpack there and david has no idea how to even begin with it. this way that evan thinks he can do whatever and it's fine as long as the other person gets off. ]

Are you like this with everyone?

[bloodandbrass]

[ that confuses him a little, but at least over the phone it doesn't show. ]

don't usually ask.

[ of course, people don't usually get as mad as david did. at least not to his face. ]

[hardlydead]

[ oh. ]

[ he doesn't know how to respond to that, which strikes him as stupid considering it's such a small thing, but evan is... fucking awful at this, david's learned. and david knows what he'd do and say in evan's position, but that doesn't exactly help with being on the receiving end of it. ]

Not for nothing, but you don't usually ask with me either.

[ come to the campfire and watch a man realise he's a fucking idiot moments after hitting 'send' in realtime. ]

[bloodandbrass]

[ evan, entirely ignorant of any problems with anything he's said in this conversation: ]

didn't think i needed to after you came out looking for me.

[hardlydead]

Why would that be a blanket okay to do what the fuck ever?

[bloodandbrass]

why wouldn't it be?

[ evan's logic is dangerous and unpleasant on this front. trespassers pay, either because they deserve it or because it's owed. they all show up for their own reasons. the thieves and saboteurs bleed out eventually. the rest get what he gives.

that he should ever ask about it once they made their intentions clear hasn't occurred to him. ]