Well, I think you can still be Bookman Junior and get to have something you want. How the hell are more Bookman Juniors supposed to happen anyway, if all Bookmen are supposed to be hermits who don't get attached to anyone and live their whole lives in solitude?
[ maybe gramps had a harem you don't know, lavi ]
I get that it's important, but you deserve to not have to spend the rest of your life miserable and alone. You're always putting on a big show of flirting, and asking out women twice your age. Is it really so bad to ask someone attainable for a real date or two?
[he listens quietly. he could say yes they can have children, and that bookman has so many -- all scattered about the globe and barely worth a mention, because at the end of the day those children and the people bookman had them with don't matter. and Lavi could say something along the lines of 'I don't ever want to do that to someone', but he thinks he knows what Yuffie will say to that, that he doesn't have to do that if he doesn't want to, but that's precisely the issue here.]
It's like you said. I put on a big show, but that's as far as I can take it. [it's too far already, he knows. but those are consequences he'll always accept.] I'm not gonna string them along further, and make 'em think something could happen.
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He looks over at Yuffie, silent for a beat, then]
It's not like I'm doing that out of habit -- or cause I'm a masochist who thinks I don't deserve to like someone.
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It's just something I can't do. As long as I'm Bookman Junior.
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Well, I think you can still be Bookman Junior and get to have something you want. How the hell are more Bookman Juniors supposed to happen anyway, if all Bookmen are supposed to be hermits who don't get attached to anyone and live their whole lives in solitude?
[ maybe gramps had a harem you don't know, lavi ]
I get that it's important, but you deserve to not have to spend the rest of your life miserable and alone. You're always putting on a big show of flirting, and asking out women twice your age. Is it really so bad to ask someone attainable for a real date or two?
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It's like you said. I put on a big show, but that's as far as I can take it. [it's too far already, he knows. but those are consequences he'll always accept.] I'm not gonna string them along further, and make 'em think something could happen.
They deserve better than that.
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[ yes, it is a bit too far when he's macking on half the game and inadvertently romanced a chunk of the teens, lavi. ]
[ she lets him talk, as tempting as it is to butt in and argue, she waits until he's finished talking. then, a beat: ]
And what about you? What do you deserve?