[ He makes a face at that, too, because he knows how far from the truth that is. He's not a good man. Not a good person at all. Just because he was good to those people who mattered to him, those who were important to him...
That didn't negate all the other horrible things he'd done over the years. And there had been countless many. All the ways he'd used people to keep them at a distance. Or to get his own revenge in cruel little ways. Some of it had been deserved, but he can't say all of it had.
But he also knows it's pointless to try and argue with Claude and Hilda when they get this stubborn about something. He's not sure why they've decided that something had to be him today, but he also knows he's not going to talk them out of it, either. Easier just to give in and let them think they've won, probably, because otherwise they'd just keep this up all afternoon. ]
I would never call you oblivious, Hilda. [ Probably. Some choice other things, maybe, but he doubted oblivious would be one of them, unless she was actively trying to be that way. Except that probably made it less oblivious and more deliberately obtuse. ] But I appreciate you both trying to do... whatever this is. I don't know why you're doing whatever this is, but, uh. Thanks? I guess?
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That didn't negate all the other horrible things he'd done over the years. And there had been countless many. All the ways he'd used people to keep them at a distance. Or to get his own revenge in cruel little ways. Some of it had been deserved, but he can't say all of it had.
But he also knows it's pointless to try and argue with Claude and Hilda when they get this stubborn about something. He's not sure why they've decided that something had to be him today, but he also knows he's not going to talk them out of it, either. Easier just to give in and let them think they've won, probably, because otherwise they'd just keep this up all afternoon. ]
I would never call you oblivious, Hilda. [ Probably. Some choice other things, maybe, but he doubted oblivious would be one of them, unless she was actively trying to be that way. Except that probably made it less oblivious and more deliberately obtuse. ] But I appreciate you both trying to do... whatever this is. I don't know why you're doing whatever this is, but, uh. Thanks? I guess?