[ Reaching up to fidget with her scarf, twisting the fabric between and around her fingers. ]
I'm sorry if this causes us to lose. [ and that, right there, is part of it. good job, aoko; you're too self-centered to own up to your insecurities even to help your team win. ]
[ Well, at least he knows that it's definitely, without a doubt, her that this is about.
Also sorry not sorry for how he's going to be approaching this. This isn't about shards anymore this is about a girl, his teammate, who doesn't feel as if she can trust him and well. When they get to him, she'll see why this is important to him. ]
So then you think it's fair for all of us to share our inner thoughts and you get to go home without a scratch? Feeling sorry for yourself while driving the wedge that separates you and the rest us further?
"You think it's fair for all of us to share our inner thoughts and feelings while you go home without a scratch."
I don't think it's fair, no. But I also don't think it's fair to try to force somebody to talk before they're ready to do so. [ Her fingers are white-knuckled in her scarf by this point, and there's a tight little shake in her voice ] Like with Tama-san. If you want somebody to open up to you, you make the offer and then let them come to you. You don't … you don't tell them that they're letting down their team.
I trust and respect you as my teammate. I like you as a person; as somebody that I'd like to get to know better in our own time, outside of invasive games that leverage our personal thoughts and feelings as chips in games to win back shards.
If I'm insecure about my place on this team, it's about me, not the rest of you.
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[ Or at least that's the way things are really starting to shape up to be. ]
If you can't say this in front of your own team even if it is a game, then when are you?
[ More seriously. ]
Aoko, why do you feel as if you're being left behind?
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Panther-san, I'd really … I'd rather not.
[ Reaching up to fidget with her scarf, twisting the fabric between and around her fingers. ]
I'm sorry if this causes us to lose. [ and that, right there, is part of it. good job, aoko; you're too self-centered to own up to your insecurities even to help your team win. ]
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Also sorry not sorry for how he's going to be approaching this. This isn't about shards anymore this is about a girl, his teammate, who doesn't feel as if she can trust him and well. When they get to him, she'll see why this is important to him. ]
So then you think it's fair for all of us to share our inner thoughts and you get to go home without a scratch? Feeling sorry for yourself while driving the wedge that separates you and the rest us further?
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Panther-san, with all due respect, this isn't about you. Trying to emotionally manipulate me into sharing things about myself isn't fair.
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[ He'll see the hurt and well... ]
I'm just pointing out what it looks like. If you don't trust us here, where do you trust us?
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I don't think it's fair, no. But I also don't think it's fair to try to force somebody to talk before they're ready to do so. [ Her fingers are white-knuckled in her scarf by this point, and there's a tight little shake in her voice ] Like with Tama-san. If you want somebody to open up to you, you make the offer and then let them come to you. You don't … you don't tell them that they're letting down their team.
I trust and respect you as my teammate. I like you as a person; as somebody that I'd like to get to know better in our own time, outside of invasive games that leverage our personal thoughts and feelings as chips in games to win back shards.
If I'm insecure about my place on this team, it's about me, not the rest of you.