[IMAGINE NAHIDA LIKE I'LL KILL U THIS WEEK IF UR NOT NICE TO KAVEH]
And I'm not being nice. I'm being sensible. If you want your team to stop worrying about you all the time, then you should give them a bone every now and then. That way you can get them off your back later.
[I can't believe Rang is like the only person who's successfully made Kaveh feel better by virtue of distracting him with his insane paranoia (and also guilt but unrelated to hikari this time)]
What happened to your egoist attitude? Isn't it better for you if my team is distracted?
[KAVEH WHY ARE UR TWO MOODS EXTREME GUILT (UNRELATED TO HIKARI????) AND INSANE PARANOIA? but also mood, he'd rather this than the frees weeping into their hands,]
Sure, but it wouldn't be as interesting. [the best way to stomp out the competition is when they're at their best?
and humans are always so fragile and prone to emotion. he wonders if the ones here will prove him wrong,]
People's suffering isn't entertainment. [GRUMBLE GRUMBLE. He knows that's not really what Rang meant but he's being uncharitable anyway because it makes him feel better to pick a fight, help.]
Because I'm not an idiot and it's completely antithetical to the rest of your behavior as I know it? [PLEASE???] I find it extremely hard to believe you did anything of the sort without demanding something in return, which is not what I meant, and you know it.
There's a beat where Rang looks at Kaveh like he's the funniest person alive, and also extremely rude? It's a mix of both.]
Obviously, I'm not doing it for free. If I let them keep taking from me, then I'll end up shriveled like a dry husk. Or worse, sleeping on benches and drinking caffeine in order to keep up with all their wishes.
[IS THAT WORSE THAN BEING A DRY HUSK]
You have to pay for services rendered. Surely, that's something a human like you can understand.
[Rang can look at him however he wants, Kaveh doesn't care because he's MAD!! This is so stupid because Rang literally didn't even do anything but he truly just mashes all of Kaveh's rage triggers every time he opens his mouth]
Helping desperate people is not rendering a service. Mutual assistance is the purpose of society. [HUFFS] I don't care whether you're human or not--if you claim you understand people so well, then you know that you're taking advantage of those in need. I'll grant that there's nothing wrong with them paying you back later, if they can, but it shouldn't be an expectation.
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What would Nahida even threaten me with? Erasure?
[IMAGINE NAHIDA LIKE I'LL KILL U THIS WEEK IF UR NOT NICE TO KAVEH]
And I'm not being nice. I'm being sensible. If you want your team to stop worrying about you all the time, then you should give them a bone every now and then. That way you can get them off your back later.
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What happened to your egoist attitude? Isn't it better for you if my team is distracted?
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Sure, but it wouldn't be as interesting. [the best way to stomp out the competition is when they're at their best?
and humans are always so fragile and prone to emotion. he wonders if the ones here will prove him wrong,]
So this is really more for me than it is for you.
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People's suffering isn't entertainment. [GRUMBLE GRUMBLE. He knows that's not really what Rang meant but he's being uncharitable anyway because it makes him feel better to pick a fight, help.]
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It's the power of positive thinking. [no it's not] A cloud's silver lining.
Instead of feeling guilty and sad about things I can't control like the rest of you, I'll just enjoy it.
[rang like actually i just like suffering and im presenting myself very charitably right now,]
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And I take it you've never put that energy toward helping other people?
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rang puts a hand over his heart in what he thinks is his best offended kaveh impression]
Actually, [ACTUALLY!!!] I help people all the time.
[so THERE]
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Oh yeah? Like who?
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[he leans in all conspiratorially, i remembered that we're still in touch week]
People who've asked me to find their loved ones. Others who needed help getting justice for their family. I've helped every person who wished for it.
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[URSULA?]
I don't think you mean this genuinely at all.
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And why's that?
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Because I'm not an idiot and it's completely antithetical to the rest of your behavior as I know it? [PLEASE???] I find it extremely hard to believe you did anything of the sort without demanding something in return, which is not what I meant, and you know it.
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There's a beat where Rang looks at Kaveh like he's the funniest person alive, and also extremely rude? It's a mix of both.]
Obviously, I'm not doing it for free. If I let them keep taking from me, then I'll end up shriveled like a dry husk. Or worse, sleeping on benches and drinking caffeine in order to keep up with all their wishes.
[IS THAT WORSE THAN BEING A DRY HUSK]
You have to pay for services rendered. Surely, that's something a human like you can understand.
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Helping desperate people is not rendering a service. Mutual assistance is the purpose of society. [HUFFS] I don't care whether you're human or not--if you claim you understand people so well, then you know that you're taking advantage of those in need. I'll grant that there's nothing wrong with them paying you back later, if they can, but it shouldn't be an expectation.