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[evocation]

This is Kyna. You should just text me if you actually want me to answer.

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[lifetothefullest]

I'm not being needy; I just have standards.

[evocation]

okay, fine. what do i get?

[lifetothefullest]

Friendship, obviously.

[evocation]

what a rip off.

[lifetothefullest]

I'm going to pretend that wasn't terribly offensive.

Besides, you offered in the first place.

[evocation]

god, i was kidding.
do serial killers even have friends?

[lifetothefullest]

Depends on the serial killer, but yes, many do.

[evocation]

ew, gross.
how do you even trust anyone when you're dealing with psychos all the time?

[lifetothefullest]

I actually rarely deal with 'psychos', considering that refers to a very specific mental disorder.

But the answer is carefully. A suspect lectured me once for being too distrusting, actually.

[Which, you know, rude, considering they were a murder suspect.]

[evocation]

what? how?

[lifetothefullest]

'Psycho' refers to 'psychopathic' which is a somewhat pejorative term for someone with the condition of psychopathy. Psychopathy itself is a broad disorder that is not given as an actual diagnosis, for various reasons, but is characterized by a set of particular symptoms including a difficulty or even complete inability to form emotional attachments.

Although a convenient label to assign to serial killers, or criminals in general, that's because it provides an easy way to distance oneself from them rather than recognize that many are essentially very normal people. It's a lot simpler to believe that murderers completely lack empathy and compassion, rather than that they just decide their own needs and wants are more important than another person's life, which is something anyone could do.

[evocation]

[She was actually asking about the mistrustful thing, but... well. Oops.]

oh
uh, sorry.

[lifetothefullest]

[That's what you get for not clarifying in text and Lance taking opportunities to go full psychologist.]

It's fine, just something that's come up here a few times, along with a huge tendency toward victim-blaming and a belief in the just-world theory.

[He could keep ranting about the population here for days, okay.]

[evocation]

yeah well
people suck.
and don't know what the fuck they're talking about i guess.

[lifetothefullest]

Some do. Maybe a disproportionate percentage of people here.

[Because overall he doesn't really believe that people suck, just... Some individual people definitely do, and there happen to be a lot of those individuals in Hadriel.]

But at least it could be worse, right?

[evocation]

yeah, i guess.
you're pretty okay.

[lifetothefullest]

Thanks. You're pretty okay yourself.

[evocation]

✨
thanks for the heads up btw
i'll let you know if i hear about hux doing anything sketchy.

[lifetothefullest]

Yeah, of course, and thank you. Hopefully he'll decide it isn't worth drawing attention by doing anything questionable, especially without an ally in the Guard.

[Not that Lance is going to count on that, but maybe they'll get lucky.]

[evocation]

yeah, maybe we'll get lucky for once.
hey, want to make a bet on how long it's going to take us to get running water again?

[lifetothefullest]

It's bound to happen sometime.

No idea, but honestly I hope they get the food problem solved first. Running water would be nice, but since drinking water's easy enough to get the food thing seems a little more important.

[evocation]

you say that, but you haven't seen my hair.

[She's kidding.]

[lifetothefullest]

I saw it like a week ago and it wasn't so bad.

But point taken.

[His own hair is a disaster.]

[evocation]

wow
"it wasn't so bad"
every girl's dream compliment.

[lifetothefullest]

You're welcome.