Of course I'm thinking about your best interests. We're friends, right?
Just because Johnny started the war doesn't mean there's any actual bad blood. Your teacher has been a nuisance-- not an actual danger. We know the difference, even if he doesn't.
I'll bring the book thing up with Penny. She's from Remnant like I am, and she's been great to have around even if her boss had us framed.
She and Ruby have history. That's all that matters to me.
[All this talk of households made little sense to Oscar. On a fundamental level he understood, but his farmlad practicality thought it was dumb. Instead of saying all this, he added: ]
Ruby would go out of her way to help strangers. Gerry has, too-- and he's not a hero or a huntsman or anything.
They're just good people, Paul. I do my best to be like them-- and I already told you that I'd do my best to help you and yours.
Everyone needs a different perspective sometimes. Including you and your boyfriend's.
[It's a title Paul is still getting used to offering up as freely as other people do, but the facts are what they are: he trusted Oscar enough to grant the title of ally, enough to share his developing secret, enough to take his words to heart. What else does he call all of that?]
Sensei Lawrence isn't trying to be a danger. He's looking for respect. I admit he doesn't always go about it delicately, but he means you no real harm.
I'm going to have to ask you to draw a map for me one of these days on how you're all connected.
And believe me, they provide a difference of perspective. It's one of the things I value about them. As I do about you, although not the same way, of course.
[That was the very same way he regarded both Ruby and Dipper, after all. They both helped him gain insight into perspectives that weren't his own, and ground him when he had no idea what to do. Their presence reminded him to be.... himself.
In a different way, Paul was doing the same as well.]
Guess we've both got stories to swap. I can tell you about my teammates on Remnant, and you can tell me more about your spice and your worms. Maybe one day, we'll be able to just relax and enjoy everyone's company, too. There won't be any karate wars, no evil wizards playing weird games...
[Oscar is entitled to get his thoughts about evil wizards and their weird games in. Paul may be devoted, but this is just between them, and there's no one he needs to think about proving his loyalty to.
And Teacher accepts it, and that's the kind of magnanimity Paul should emulate as his disciple. (It might also make him smile, if Paul tells him about it later, and if both motives lead to the same place, does it matter which is the stronger?)]
As long as we only involve Ruby Rose in the eating, and not the baking. Although it can be fun to try to identify poison by effect.
I'll see about finding some uncursed supplies for it. Maybe we can make something from your garden to go with it. I'd like that.
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Just because Johnny started the war doesn't mean there's any actual bad blood. Your teacher has been a nuisance-- not an actual danger. We know the difference, even if he doesn't.
I'll bring the book thing up with Penny. She's from Remnant like I am, and she's been great to have around even if her boss had us framed.
She and Ruby have history. That's all that matters to me.
[All this talk of households made little sense to Oscar. On a fundamental level he understood, but his farmlad practicality thought it was dumb. Instead of saying all this, he added: ]
Ruby would go out of her way to help strangers. Gerry has, too-- and he's not a hero or a huntsman or anything.
They're just good people, Paul. I do my best to be like them-- and I already told you that I'd do my best to help you and yours.
Everyone needs a different perspective sometimes. Including you and your boyfriend's.
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[It's a title Paul is still getting used to offering up as freely as other people do, but the facts are what they are: he trusted Oscar enough to grant the title of ally, enough to share his developing secret, enough to take his words to heart. What else does he call all of that?]
Sensei Lawrence isn't trying to be a danger. He's looking for respect. I admit he doesn't always go about it delicately, but he means you no real harm.
I'm going to have to ask you to draw a map for me one of these days on how you're all connected.
And believe me, they provide a difference of perspective. It's one of the things I value about them. As I do about you, although not the same way, of course.
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[That was the very same way he regarded both Ruby and Dipper, after all. They both helped him gain insight into perspectives that weren't his own, and ground him when he had no idea what to do. Their presence reminded him to be.... himself.
In a different way, Paul was doing the same as well.]
Guess we've both got stories to swap. I can tell you about my teammates on Remnant, and you can tell me more about your spice and your worms. Maybe one day, we'll be able to just relax and enjoy everyone's company, too. There won't be any karate wars, no evil wizards playing weird games...
We might even have cake. Won't that be fun?
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And Teacher accepts it, and that's the kind of magnanimity Paul should emulate as his disciple. (It might also make him smile, if Paul tells him about it later, and if both motives lead to the same place, does it matter which is the stronger?)]
As long as we only involve Ruby Rose in the eating, and not the baking.
Although it can be fun to try to identify poison by effect.I'll see about finding some uncursed supplies for it. Maybe we can make something from your garden to go with it. I'd like that.
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For now: ]
Strawberries are in season right now. So are raspberries. We can make a good cake with them!
Who knows? Maybe your more picky friends will eat it too!
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[But enough Harrowhark culinary strategy.]
Kaworu and Gideon will like the regular kind.
It looks like we have a plan. Let's reconvene soon.