IC Inbox for Ophiuchus

[tsunverde]

[He hasn't recorded a personalized message, so anyone who calls will be treated to whatever automated greeting the phone came with.]

Comments

[tsunverde]

I call it taunting because you're trying to get a reaction from me.

[perspicacitas]

Most people do interact with the intent of getting a response or reaction from others. I reckon that's the entire point of interactions.

But I assure you it's not meant to taunt. Perhaps the finer nuances of flirting are yet be too foreign to you, though.

[tsunverde]

I never had a need for flirting.

[perspicacitas]

Always had people throwing themselves at you, hmm?

[tsunverde]

Of course not.

[perspicacitas]

Given your...enthusiasm for the subject once you make up your mind to indulge, it's a bit hard to imagine you not wanting any sort of companionship.

[tsunverde]

It was unnecessary at the time.

[perspicacitas]

And must it be necessary to be enjoyable?

[tsunverde]

You're saying I should have taken time away from practice or studying to look for a relationship?

[perspicacitas]

Needs must be balanced if they exist.

And I reckon if anyone could have made it work, it would have been you, Midorima-kun.

[tsunverde]

When we were at home, it was something I would worry about later.

[perspicacitas]

Of course. I reckon you're excellent at prioritizing.

[tsunverde]

Here the priorities have changed for the sake of obeying the gods.

[perspicacitas]

Indeed they have. And I'm sure you give them no reason to doubt your devotion. The...intense level of focus with which you apply yourself to a given task is most commendable, Midorima-kun.

[tsunverde]

Is this more flirting?

[perspicacitas]

It could be. I suppose in part it depends on your reaction.

Though it would just figure that you'd find statements regarding your level of focus and dedication more stimulating that other, more suggestive advances.

[tsunverde]

I never said it was stimulating.

[perspicacitas]

Oh? Do you dislike compliments, Midorima-kun?

[tsunverde]

I don't mind compliments, but I don't want to give the impression that I'll get turned on by anyone recognizing the truth of my accomplishments.

[perspicacitas]

[what an impossible brat]

But of course. Though that does beg the question, Midorima-kun. What does turn you on?

[tsunverde]

[Well, so far the answer seems to be everything when he actually allows himself to be a normal teenage boy with sexual urges.]

It's not like I've created a list.

[perspicacitas]

Ah, but you have thought about it.

[tsunverde]

It's difficult not to think about it when I have to wonder how much comes from my true preferences and how much is influenced by outside forces.

[perspicacitas]

I reckon the outside forces only help you discover said true preferences faster. Despite their meddling, the twelve do not appear to be forcing anyone's hand in any particular direction.

[merely hinting. or strongly encouraging. but as far as he knows, with the exception of murasakibara's momentary lapse into believing himself a cannibilistic demon (and that, he'd learned, was more kise and henry's fault than the twelve) imayoshi hasn't heard of anyone being made to like or do something they did not themselves choose]

[tsunverde]

I tied someone up because I thought it was my job, not because the idea turned me on.

[Not mentioning the lap dancing.

Barely capable of mentioning this, but he needs an example to prove his point.]