Video 04 → No, Really, I'm Just Curious.

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[Filtered from Weiss]

[Ken, wearing a blue apron, is standing in what appears to be the stockroom of Nectar.]

So...

[He hesitates for a moment, gazing around himself apprehensively, clearly worried he might be overheard. When he turns back to the screen, he closes his eyes briefly and takes a deep breath, as if steeling himself for something.]

What would it take to make you decide you couldn't be yourself any more?

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[alphaophiuchi]

[he's always been rather good at reading people, one brow twitching curiously at the evasiveness.]

Yes, I do. Either that, or you'd have to have done something incredibly stupid to make yourself believe you had to change.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[Ken sighs, slumping slightly. Whatever answer he'd been hoping to get from all this, that clearly wasn't one of them.]

You don't think someone would do something like that because they thought it'd... it'd help?

[alphaophiuchi]

[believe it or not, he's been thinking about this a bit too.] They probably would. I'd think that it would stem from the aforementioned stupid thing, though.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Well, it's not as if any of them are exactly short on stupid--]

I guess maybe if you'd... if you kept messing up trying to do things your way. Maybe you'd figure anything else could only be an improvement? Even if it meant changing who you were.

[alphaophiuchi]

Insightful. I suppose that could be very much possible.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Really? That surprises him a little. Being insightful is not something Ken gets accused of a lot.]

Well, if you keep on messing things up it might sound like a better deal to just let someone else call the shots for a bit. Even if it just gets worse at least you got someone else to blame now...

If you'd made a lotta mistakes, I mean.

[alphaophiuchi]

Fair enough.

You make a lot of mistakes then?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

This isn't something I'm thinking about because I wanna do it.

[alphaophiuchi]

My apologies. [he doesn't sound sincere.]

Someone you know?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[And that gets Ken bristling slightly. He doesn't like insincerity one bit. The guy's been polite enough so far so 'bristling slightly' is about as far as it goes, but... yeah. Hackles: up.]

Just a guy I know.

[alphaophiuchi]

[just one those things you get used to, Ken~]

Hm, fair enough. [topic change time!]

Have we been introduced yet?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Don't think so, who are you?

I'm Ken.

[alphaophiuchi]

Draco. Charmed, I'm sure. Especially after such a hypothetical conversation.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Hackles: Up. Still.]

What's that supposed to mean?

[alphaophiuchi]

Not a thing. It was an interesting conversation.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for calling, Draco.

[This is genuine. Ken can appreciate that Draco didn't have to and no matter what the motives are, talking this stuff out at all is helpful.]

[alphaophiuchi]

You're welcome. [surprisingly, he's just as genuine. He'll never admit it, but it was just as useful to him. Giving a brief nod, he hangs up.]