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[theyregooddogs]

Who: Doctors in training and the curious
Where: Clinic
When: Day 123, 7AM Sharp

[Well, whatever way the winds blow on combat in the cooliseum or combat over the next upgrade, someone has decided to be prepared. If more wildlife comes to Imeeji, there could also be some severe reactions to it. So, the lesson for the day is allergies, from the banal to the lethal, including how to do a basic level allergy test. Sorry, it's for skin only; John is not ready to teach anyone how to work with any of the laboratory gear he has amassed for blood tests. There are practice and real epipens for students who want to be prepared . . . ]

[Or you could just gossip after class about why did John have to show that many gruesome pictures of rashes, hives, and sores?]

[[This was announced on Dissonance for anyone to poke their head in and learn something, like all first aid classes. There are some more classes over here, since I fell behind.]]

Comments

[sancrimony]

I don't think there's anyone else who is better company than Intensity-sama.

[ this is

genuinely

genuinely

not sarcasm.

this is real.

he has real admiration for intensity.

he loves this man to death. ]

[theyregooddogs]

Yeah, don't really take to the overly narcissistic types. Only mild ones.

[sancrimony]

Mild - like who?

[theyregooddogs]

[slight snort]

Sure. Let's try. —Like Whisky.

1/2

[sancrimony]

- Ah!

[sancrimony]

Certainly, he is wonderful!

[ whatever residual bitterness was in his body language is instantaneously melted for whisky love. sheer, unabashed radiating love and joy for this man ]

So "narcissistic" is "confident", then - ? I must say I don't know the word very well!

[theyregooddogs]

He thinks he's better than any other. In very select aspects.

[sancrimony]

. . . Ah, so Intensity-sama is intolerable because he thinks he is better than any other in all or most aspects?

[theyregooddogs]

Somewhat. But more because he can't be trusted. Too selfish, too narrow in his view.

[sancrimony]

. . . Is that so? Though that's not the impression I have of him . . .

[theyregooddogs]

[holding back his sarcasm]

And? Be strange if you did have the same impression of him as me.

[sancrimony]

I think it's stranger to not pick up on something like that -

Then again, I must admit my own view is always too narrow. More and more, I learn that I'm not seeing the forest for the trees, and though I re-evaluate my own perspective, it's still not enough . . .

[ it isn't enough to think, "save just these few people". it isn't enough to think, "save every human, including those who would wrong you", either. because there are those who aren't human, too - so his salvation needs to reach them, too. ]

As someone whose views were broadened by him, it's difficult to think of him as narrow-minded. But, two narrow minds does not mean that one cannot be widened by the other, I suppose.

[theyregooddogs]

[slowly, carefully selecting what to share]

. . . You two share some qualities, not hard to be blind to them. Most people are not capable of authentically seeing themselves. From an external perspective, at least.

[sancrimony]

[ taking that pretty easily with a laugh ]

Mm, indeed! I would say that, of everyone in this place, he might be one of the few who really understand me. I'm sure that bias of mine is blinding, too!

[theyregooddogs]

Not so strange, then . . .

[sancrimony]

Mm, it isn't.

I'm a little surprised, though. I think . . . it's speaking rather poorly of him to compare him to me, though I don't think that was your intention by any means. Rather -

To most people, I think we seem quite different?

[theyregooddogs]

I said, some, not all. The qualities you don't share might be more distinctive to other people. A little more attention grabbing than what you have in common.

[sancrimony]

[ with a tilt of his head, curious in a sort of - child finding something fascinating way ]

What qualities would those be, John-san?

[theyregooddogs]

The kind that I'm not going to talk to you about. Don't need that kind of information.

[sancrimony]

. . . Aw.

[ with a - rather doglike whine as disappointment crosses his face, childish in his emoting. it's

it's not necessarily that it stands out of place, for anyone who doesn't know him well or doesn't observe him, but up until about a week ago, it's certainly not how he carried himself. at least before, it seemed he had some level of dignity in presentation, a clear mark of his upbringing. though he's fairly shameless and undignified in his actions, it skews much more to "reckless person who's willing to put everything on the line" as opposed to "child". ]

That makes it sound like it would be dangerous for me to know . . .

[theyregooddogs]

Could be. Hence why I'm not sharing it. So, leave it alone.

[sancrimony]

Ah . . . Very well. I'll believe you, then.

[ with a pause, as he moves on to the next subject: ]

Do you think the same of Whisky-san? That his view is too narrow?

[theyregooddogs]

[his jaw shifts, still gauging how much to give]

No. He hasn't seen enough, so you can't call it narrow.

[sancrimony]

Ah.

It is not that the path is narrow, but that the light of his candle is dim?

[theyregooddogs]

No, it's not internal. If we're going to use your metaphor, someone trapped a candle in a box. Not much to shine light on.