CROSS-CANON DOUBLE DATE OF THE MULTIVERSE

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[crucifer]

I'm not, he kept moping about it repeatedly.

[ohthehumanities]

[YOU'RE FULL OF LIES]

I did no such thing!!

[crucifer]

I feel like we talked about him a lot.

[ohthehumanities]

Vash talked about him a lot.

[Kaveh is downplaying his own part but he's also not wrong]

[crucifer]

Never heard him mention it.

[ Granted, it would be IMMENSELY weird if Vash and he talked about Alhaitham while Kaveh wasn't there. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[He was thinking of the double date but he doesn't want to specify for so many reasons]

Well, he did.

[crucifer]

[ Oh yeah. The same one where Kaveh was like who's Alhaitham ]

Seems like your friend really got his attention then...

[diffract]

[ just here in the middle of this like ... ]

[ohthehumanities]

[It's not even the first time he's pulled that dumb card and it was just as stupid in canon]

Yes, well... you know how Vash can be sometimes.

[crucifer]

"Sometimes"...

[ He says this like he's making fun of Kaveh but the expression on his face says yeah. ]

[piteous]

[ He'll let you do that Kaveh and not doxx you in front of Alhaitham. ]

Well... He seemed like an interesting guy! I was curious! And maybe made my own observations!

[ohthehumanities]

[Thank you Vash this is why you're his favorite when Livio isn't in the room]

Well, now you can observe reality all you like. [The reality that NOBODY IS INTO ANYBODY and that Alhaitham is a nerd and a jerk who obviously hates Kaveh as much as Kaveh definitely hates him!! Yeah!!!] Just don't blame me when you're disappointed.

[piteous]

I'll study him under a microscope.

[ Vash is still reading that Alhaitham cares about you, my man. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[That makes him laugh because it's exactly what Alhaitham does to other people so it serves him right]

[diffract]

[ kaveh mentioned this. he wouldn't elaborate on it, though... ]

What sort of observations would those be?

[ohthehumanities]

[STARES INTENTLY AT VASH AND ATTEMPTS TO BEAM "DON'T SAY A WORD" INTO HIS BRAIN]

[piteous]

[ LOOKS AT KAVEH LOOKING AT HIM, THEN LOOKS AT ALHAITHAM. ]

You don't let emotions get the best of you and instead process the situation with reason. Another realist.

[ THIS ISN'T AN INSULT? He worded this rather well for all of Kaveh's complaints. ]

[diffract]

[ alhaitham furrows his brow a little more. vash isn't wrong, which means that there's something unsaid here.

he looks at kaveh, who he's noticed has been boring holes into vash with his eyes this whole time. ]

Why did you insist that I disregard what he infers about me and my relationship to you?

[diffract]

"It"?

[crucifer]

[ About what an incredible roommate you were. ]

Just comparin' living situations between the UG and... here, I guess.

[diffract]

[ 😇 ]

Really. I understand that you all lived in random open establishments in the area. As an objective third party, how would you compare the two?

[crucifer]

I'd less call it "random open establishments" and more we got assigned warehouses and it was totally up to us to decorate it... or even put any furniture at all into it.

Didn't have nearly as many windows as your place, I'll give it that. Or as nice of a view outside.

[diffract]

Barring circumstances, I'm sure Kaveh enjoyed having such freedom given how often he complains about the decor.

[ 🙄 ]

Anyway, the more I hear about this game, the more I'm convinced that this was a controlled experiment. To what end, I'm not certain.

[crucifer]

I think he did. He even bothered to help us decorate ours even though he wasn't on our team.

[ lol ]

It kinda was, from what we're hearin'. It was someone in the organisers lashin' out 'cause they didn't get what they wanted, so they made a worse version of the game to try to force it to shut down for good.

Basically, we got roped into this shit 'cause of someone's tantrum.

[diffract]

[ alhaitham actually smiles just a little, because lol. that smile leaves as soon as he starts talking, though. ]

I heard. That was Ruby, correct? The one who turned herself into a weapon at the very end of the game.

[ he remembers kaveh's explanation—how hard it was for him to parse that experience into words while he was weighed down by guilt. wolfwood doesn't seem to have a lot of sympathy for this person/reaper/ghost. alhaitham feels the same way. ]

She was aiming to shut the game down for good, correct? You make it sound like her motives were more selfish than that.