dramatispersonae | ❧ Jasper

❧ Jasper

The Ring seems to fade out around you. More to the point, it seems like the world just zeroes in on your small dessert table and your team. You appear to be in a lantern-lit garden, though if you try to stray away from the table, you find yourself disoriented and turning back around to face it. There is a gentle sound of water running.

There is a book and quill on the table now, too. The pages are blank, for now. When writing does appear, you find you're able to understand the words regardless of whether you can read or not.

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You're the sort that those with suffering confidence would find intimidating and abrasive. I believe several of us are. But there is Saya as well.

[doesn't seem remotely offended by that description]

Well, if it's an overall answer, it depends on how many people have met each of us.

[didn't mean it in a negative way, SO AS EXPECTED!]

Yes . . . they will likely try to encompass all of us as best they can after a team discussion, exactly as we did in the first round.

Yes. So we should do the same reasoning we did, as if we'd only been exposed to a few superficial traits of ourselves.

"Haughty." That's the word that boy on Coral used to describe me.

Young, abrasive...cute maybe.

Most of them are probably trying too hard to be friendly to use the word "abrasive"...

Even in a private situation? I wouldn't bother.

Neither would I. Obviously. But there's nothing to say our answers won't be exposed. After all the trouble people have gone to to welcome us, would they really run the risk of offending us like that?

That depends on the team, I suspect. Not everyone has bothered to be polite even to my face.

Most everyone has been to me. And I assume we're going by the majority.

Hm. Perhaps we should address both. "Some may have said we're an abrasive and intimidating team, but most of them are more likely to call us young and cute out of politeness. A new team finding its feet and still exploring the basics of this situation."

Something along those lines.

That sounds reasonable. Although I think clever and self-confident should go in there as well.

I heard determined as well, which I think is accurate.

Perhaps, "Superficially, small and cute, a new team still finding its feet. With more observation, clever, self-confident and determined. They may also have said we are abrasive and intimidating, but most probably avoided that out of politeness."

That's fine.

That's acceptable.

I'd concur with that.

You and Saya have probably spoken to the most people out of us; I haven't gotten the chance to meet a whole lot of other teams.

And how do you think people would describe us?

You? Perceptive, determined, a little forward. Intimidating, perhaps, if they're timid themselves.

Saya is different. People have a soft spot for children, and she's a cheerful one. Determined in her own way, too.

Hmm, determined, then, at the very least.

Yes, I agree.

I think I came off as a bit forward, myself. [doesn't seem too fussed by this, though]

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