Golden Peacock IC Inbox

[softheartedshizun]

@ic username

▶ TEXT

▶ AUDIO

▶ VIDEO

▶ ACTION

Comments

[softheartedshizun]

I have a strong sense of self-preservation.

[ Says a man who keeps getting poisoned, and dying, and dying again. ]

Look, if it spreads and I have yet to take care of it, you will be the first person I call. Does that make you feel better?

[shittyauthor]

Do you, though? Because if I were turning to stone, I wouldn't be sitting on that.

Not really, no.

[softheartedshizun]

I'm not sitting on it. I'm looking through the options and working towards taking action.

[ In a way, he was at least contemplating his options and trying to think of ways around the stuff he didn't want to deal with. ]

[shittyauthor]

What options are you looking at?

[He's gonna call you out, bro.]

[softheartedshizun]

Well... if I don't have to be touched or touch someone else... maybe there is the least embarrassing way to deal with it in that context....

[shittyauthor]

Okay, give me your short list of people who will indulge you in that "least embarrassing way".

[softheartedshizun]

....

Maybe someone I don't know very well?

[ What he needed was someone to take over the urgency for him. Thankfully it wouldn't be too long for that. ]

[shittyauthor]

You are impossible.

[God he hopes so. He's going to get gray hairs from this. If it was just uncomfortable suit stuff, that might be one thing, but he's seen those statues! They're really creepy!]

[softheartedshizun]

I wasn't expecting them to put this kind of timer on us, ok?

[shittyauthor]

There was always going to be a timer. The House was never going to just give us anything without expecting us to go along with what it wants.

[softheartedshizun]

It could have done it a different way. Sex polin is an easy solution, everyone loves using that.

[shittyauthor]

We'd find a way around that eventually. Besides, that wouldn't be a permanent solution to make people play your weird sex game.

[softheartedshizun]

Doesn't it go, after enough poisoning and forced aphro, you just start to enjoy it and seek it out?

[shittyauthor]

For most people, no. No, that's not how it works at all, bro.

[softheartedshizun]

I just assume they want to operate under those sorts of mechanics.

Or desensitize everyone untill they don't care anymore.

[shittyauthor]

Most people like having a choice. Including me. You're just weird.

[softheartedshizun]

I want a choice! Choice is important!

I just don't want to be forced to make a quick choice with limited options.

[shittyauthor]

That's just life, bro! Quick choices, limited options. At least that's my life, maybe you've had it better, being the pampered princess of Cang Qiong.

[softheartedshizun]

Look here, I've had plenty of hardships. Do you think breaking out of prison was easy?

[shittyauthor]

Didn't you basically put yourself there in the first place?

Ah, not that it's a competition or anything but my point stands, this world is not one where anything comes easy and sometimes you just have to hold your nose and do something.

[softheartedshizun]

How did I put myself there? That was your plot point for the original goods!

I understand that. But understanding that doesn't make it at all simpler. I'll try my best, but I'm still going to have my own hangups.

[shittyauthor]

Just don't let those hangups get in the way of you sticking around. Not as a statue.

[softheartedshizun]

It will be fine.

I even have the medicine Xiaomao gave me still.

[shittyauthor]

Does the medicine actually help? No offense to her skills. Your ailments are always so incredibly inconvenient though.

[softheartedshizun]

...

It's just some of the very potent aphrodisiac the house gave her on entry....