(12:26:05 AM) The topic for #nefariousplot is: In Which Nefarious Plotting Occurs
(12:26:06 AM) mode (+qo Zuki Zuki) by ChanServ
(12:26:28 AM) Zuki: Skip ahead?
(12:26:52 AM) Zuki: what would you say're the biggest differences he'd notice between the two of them?
(12:26:52 AM) serpentLinguist: T'where?
(12:27:00 AM) serpentLinguist: Hmm.
(12:27:03 AM) serpentLinguist: Personality.
(12:27:06 AM) ***Zuki nods.
(12:28:04 AM) serpentLinguist: 'Cho's all carefully-constructed, a little cold at first, if friendly, then distant until she's trusting. He'd have noticed that with her towards everyone else, and she'd have been especially guarded to him, not distant.
(12:28:18 AM) serpentLinguist: This Echo's a bit spacey, a bit more passionate.
(12:29:11 AM) serpentLinguist: This is the girl who was getting into a field she chose three years earlier than anyone else because her dad put her on an accelerated path. She drifted along, completely content with letting him choose everything for her.
(12:29:15 AM) Zuki: more open and warm, *nods8
(12:30:01 AM) serpentLinguist: If he joked and said 'a little more blonde' she'd have retorted with an 'oh. You like auburn, or brunette?'
(12:31:39 AM) Zuki: Heh.
(12:32:03 AM) Zuki: A little more 'spacey' or 'breathy,' he'd have said,and she'd miss the reference on account of Not A Replayer
(12:32:15 AM) Zuki: if he had, though
(12:32:17 AM) serpentLinguist: Hee.
(12:32:22 AM) Zuki: And if he was in a joking-back mood,
(12:32:33 AM) Zuki: "I like -clever-"
(12:32:54 AM) Zuki: (Let's be honest. Damn near all the women in his life are quick as a whip.)
(12:33:39 AM) serpentLinguist: *whoops there's that same blush-and-lowered-lashes-and-crooked-little-smile she started giving him when they started getting really close and intimate and emotionally-invested*
(12:34:15 AM) Zuki: *oh shit I'm flirting again*
(12:34:41 AM) Zuki: *I really do love that look on her face though*
(12:35:02 AM) serpentLinguist: A laugh, and her wanting to know whether /she/ or /he/ flirted first.
(12:35:53 AM) serpentLinguist: And her absently wondering just how old she is when she's dating someone closer in age to (hah, try almost as old as) her father than herself.
(12:36:19 AM) Zuki: If he's comfortable:
(12:36:33 AM) Zuki: "...does licking cake batter off my hands count as flirting?"
(12:36:50 AM) serpentLinguist: Woops she'd turn pink and giggle.
(12:37:07 AM) Zuki: (( yes Ross it totally does. ))
(12:37:56 AM) Zuki: How old *does* she think he is?
(12:38:12 AM) serpentLinguist: At least thirty, under fifty.
(12:38:37 AM) serpentLinguist: Age wasn't... people stayed younger-looking longer if they wanted to, sometimes people in their sixties looked 20ish.
(12:38:43 AM) serpentLinguist: But she doesn't get that vibe off of him.
(12:38:44 AM) Zuki: Huh. He's 'tiered, so he'd, well. Self-image. Aaaaahhh. Point.
(12:38:48 AM) Zuki: She's going off how he acts.
(12:39:51 AM) serpentLinguist: He's acting like "This is my lover's little sister or niece and she's asking awkward questions that I nevertheless want to be totally honest about when I answer them, even if I want to go nopenope you'retooyoung."
(12:40:12 AM) Zuki: That's about right.
(12:40:53 AM) Zuki: 'too young' in Ross's brain is something more based on 'hasn't played sburb' yet than '19'
(12:41:01 AM) Zuki: (or so he'd tell himself.)
(12:41:27 AM) Zuki: Frankly, 19 and 18 year-olds will come off as 'too young' to *me*, depending on life experience, so....
(12:41:43 AM) Zuki: and I'm not a *very* road-worn 37
(12:42:45 AM) Zuki: 'Cho doesn't really parse as '21' to him, after all. She parses as 'has been playing too long,' or 'veteran', which, well....
(12:43:45 AM) serpentLinguist: She is
(12:44:05 AM) serpentLinguist: She's too young to have played so long but she's got more playing experience than he does.
(12:45:37 AM) Zuki: in that paradoxical way
(12:47:37 AM) Zuki: But, well. intellectually, she keeps up. Road-weariness, she understands. Keenly. She's *hurt* enough to be someone he can feel close to, if that makes a problematic kind of sense.
(12:47:46 AM) Zuki: ...
(12:47:47 AM) Zuki: well.
(12:48:02 AM) Zuki: *that's* why he keeps having shitty times in the replayer dating pool.
(12:48:07 AM) serpentLinguist: Yeah.
(12:48:38 AM) Zuki: He was looking for damage.
(12:48:42 AM) ***Zuki siiiiighs.
(12:49:05 AM) Zuki: (...not that Echo isn't/wasn't, in her own way, excluded from this.)
(12:49:14 AM) Zuki: (Anyways, skip ahead? Let me think of a closing line....)
(12:49:56 AM) serpentLinguist: Also skip ahead to where?
(12:50:27 AM) Zuki: to the end of the exposition about His Echo, that you and I already know.
(12:50:32 AM) serpentLinguist: Unless we're okay with her asking for and receiving cuddles or we want to do a bunch of intra-conversational bits, he'll wake up before they move, probably.
(12:51:11 AM) Zuki: move?
(12:51:35 AM) Zuki: Mm. Ah, before they get up and go somewhere else.
(12:51:40 AM) serpentLinguist: Yep.
(12:51:50 AM) Zuki: Yeah, it's a lot of story to tell.
(12:52:08 AM) ***Zuki thinks. *would* he cuddle*
(12:54:24 AM) Zuki: Chastely. On the couch. Prrrobably not on a bed.
(12:55:16 AM) serpentLinguist: (She's also probably a good two inches taller than the 'Cho he knows so well.)
(12:55:43 AM) Zuki: (( ...seriously? Myra made her -shorter? ))
(12:56:26 AM) serpentLinguist: (( Wouldn't you think? Her dreamself in her second session -was- Myra and she died as her realself and then tiered. ))
(12:57:32 AM) Zuki: -wince-
(12:57:47 AM) Zuki: and *that's* why he ran for the bed and didn't go for the kiss.