tl;cr meme

[marriagebroker]

post your character, people reply, give them the deets. you know how this goes.

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[phenomerom]

You apologize like you didn't just drop a surprise gift in my lap ... me shoveling it in my mouth with tremendous gusto while fighting back tears of delight .........

Anyway the mental image of someone ever asking this to Edamura and Edamura answering with "because he's sincere" is so funny to me because if Rom was present for it he would genuinely just be sitting there going ?????????????????????????? to himself. He has plenty of positive adjectives he'd apply to himself without hesitation (and without sarcasm or facetiousness!), but 'sincere' is definitely not one of them ... I'm fucking crying to myself because I can already see I'm gonna have to fistfight the mental gymnastics demons anew over the subject of Rom's self-perception for my upcoming tl;cr with Yi Sang later. Mind you, I don't think Edamura is wrong -- Rom really is quite sincere in his altruism, he just goes about the task with insane clown logic that obfuscates his sincerity due to (gestures vaguely at his everything). But I think he just wouldn't characterize himself as sincere in any way, because he's too aware of the sheer density of his constant lying, as well as the fact that he relies on soft-scamming people in order to maintain his livelihood ... I bet it doesn't help either that his scamming seems to have been what mainly caused that rift between him and Mitsue for the long years before they finally repaired their relationship, making him doubly conscious of it even if he has no plans of changing his operating strategy.

Anyway I hope you'll be delighted to know that Rom is just going to think that Edamura is all the cuter and sweeter for attributing such a word to him, even if he thinks its accuracy is questionable. He knows Edamura is extremely kind and empathetic, willing to give people the benefit of the doubt -- it's why he thinks Edamura is able to accept him in the first place? So in his mind, it tracks that Edamura is also willing to attribute a word like 'sincere' to him, perhaps evaluating his intentions a little too highly ... It just means he's going to have to try all the harder to live up to those standards, huh. Since his main goal is still making sure Edamura doesn't regret anything!

[ordimame]

LMFAOOO, to be fair to Rom, Edamura's own genuine/sincerity gauge is probably a little. . . broken. . . YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CAREER LIARS AND SUDDENLY SOMEONE SHOWING ONE (1) SINCERE NOTION MEANS YOU LATCH ONTO IT LIKE A REMORA TO A SHARK, EVEN IF EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE PERSON SCREAMS SCAMMING CON MAN!! it also helps that they're similar in that respect too, i.e. Edamura is actually a pretty genuine guy!! . . . until you realize how much he is lying to himself, and how good he is at selling his lies to other people! but that contradiction is simply built into his nature and is a big reason he struggles with his own wants and desires SO, YA KNOW.

also I am in fact delighted to know this. ehehe.