HARROWHARK, GAY GOTH PROM QUEEN

[malewife]

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[outsidebones]

Do I strike you as a person accustomed to happiness? [...] There are things that a person cannot bear, but short of that.

[malewife]

You're still young.

[ He thinks she can learn to be happy more than she knows now. ]

But I suppose this makes you stronger than me.

[outsidebones]

I doubt that very much.

[staring back.]

[malewife]

… There is more to strength than brawn.

[ Stares back at her with the same intensity. ]

[outsidebones]

I know that more than you ever will, and I do not speak of brawn.

Wanting to live isn't strength. It's an instinct. Perhaps you have less of it than I do. It's irrelevant.

[malewife]

You’ve never considered gaining some muscle?

[ leg days are important. ]

Instinct would be the fear of death. Living and surviving are different, unless to you they are the same.

[outsidebones]

She always says this as well. No. I will never adopt a fighting style I am not skilled in. What a waste; no muscle will change that I have a necromancer's physical frailty.

[she's not just scrawny, all necros are kind of unhealthy.]

I don't consider them the same, but I'll settle for the latter if it gets me the chance to attain the former. I don't have the luxury to die. I am not my own to throw away.

[malewife]

Rather than a fighting style, you can extend stamina to outlast opponents.

[ But he can accept necromancers are just all like this. In a kind of annoyed, but not actually annoyed tone: ]

What do you accept praise on.

[outsidebones]

I don't particularly care for it.

[this is such a lie but there's certainly no topic she accepts it gracefully.]

I know what I am and am not good at, I don't see why I ought to care about someone else's opinion.

[malewife]

You're being difficult. No one truly dislikes validation.

[ Him included, actually, but he uses similar reasoning. ]

[outsidebones]

It's condescending.

[no she's being difficult for sure.]