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eridan ampora | prince of hope

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So.

Any a you ewer had a nemesis before? Like fated fuckin' contentiousness, always gettin' up each others' gills doin' shit just to irritate 'em, duelin' to practically the death, maybe makin' out a little, that kinda thing.

See, I'm in the market for just that particular arrangement, and while I'm personally a master of the bellicose arts and don't need any adwice or nothin', I obwiously got a wested interest in how humans go about poorly imitatin' the quadrant. What with my bein' the main troll-human confidante in these parts and such.

[he pronounces it "con-fee-dawn-tay". also he means intermediary.]

Despite most of you bein' from a society bearin' a sewerely inferior romance system and therefore gettin' your emotions all scrambled up wrong from the get-go 'cos of it, I'd appreciate hearin' some personal tales.

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I had assumed you'd aim for the more obvious non-lethal areas.

Maybe I oughta just choke you out when you start gettin' lippy.

Courting conditional training now? How advanced.

Are you gonna speak English or what?

Or write it in Alternian, I guess, since you're so fuckin' nosy you gotta learn a whole other language to snoop.

Classical conditioning -- also known as respondent conditioning -- is a psychological cause-and-effect form of behavior training that is reminiscent of lower tier brainwashing, really. Think Pavlov. The function is to encourage association of consequence in tandem with a desir --

[Wait.

Telling Eridan this may not be the best idea.

He trails off into a cough.]

[a long beat.

then, pleasantly:]

Go on.

Mm, no. That has nothing to do with your present objectives, and I hesitate to draw your focus astray.

How about I do some research on my own time, then.

Technically nothing is stopping you.

I'll keep it in mind when I'm wonderin' how I'm supposed to deal with your bullshit.

You shouldn't seek to control me. Not when your education is incomplete.

So I oughta hold off until it is. That's what you're sayin' here.

Quite clearly I'd rather you abstain in regard to me, period, but. Timing is everything.

Besides, I've proven myself capable of undermining any attempts to alter my behavior via psychological or substantive manipulation.

[except that time bane injected him with venom and it went exactly as you'd expect it to go]

[HORRIFYING]

Obwiously they just ain't tried hard enough.

Or they didn't know you the way I do. Whichewer.

Both are, arguably, true.

[well crap... time to try a new tactic.]

But why would you want to?

I-

[he trails off.

how does he phrase this in a way that neither sounds incredibly awkward nor trips a falsehood alarm.]

...Well, hawin' your kinda intellect at my disposal pretty much fuckin' cements my status as bein' the best damn superwillain this city ewer saw, right?

So you're interested in reducing people, even people with whom you have good rapport, even me, to resources.

That's diabolical.

[But the way he says it, it's not condemning. Or even judgmental.

It's almost (but not quite) intoning praise.]

Interesting development.

Sentimentality isn't goin' to get me anywhere.

Also true. To be honest, it's a lesson I'm glad you've already learned on your own -- I find that one to be rather tedious.

But the next step: people serve as resources in more ways than just their abilities.

Through how they go connectin' in with other people, right?

Very good! [yep he sounds patronizing even when it's sincere praise.] Interpersonal connection can make a girlfriend or a father or an enemy a pawn of impact. The higher the emotional context, the sharper that impact.

[UGH EDDIE]

So the main problem is wearin' somebody down the point a bein' useful without lettin' 'em in on it beforehand, I'd imagine.

The alternative to that method is engaging them with full awareness, but creating a dilemma where contradicting your design would damage their lot beyond repair.

This method is more suited to the type of people who aren't highly vengeful, for obvious reasons. That's why calculating a cog's perspective and philosophy is essential to effective manipulation.

Is this somethin' else you're gonna make me learn?

Ideally, yes. I want you cognitively equipped.

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