It's really easy when all your arguments against yourself are stupid, what can I say?
But yeah, I'm nowhere near ready either. I don't know if we'll be in town long enough for me to be ready, but...as you said, we can always come back. Maybe we can challenge him on the same day, if we get strong enough around the same time.
[He bats his eyelashes innocently at Felix.] Dissecting you with my eyes? Most people would use the phrase 'undressing'. [It's a completely innocuous, factual comment. That is the phrase people use. So how does Claude make it sound like flirting? Purely by implication?
The fact is, Claude is testing the waters a little. He has no intention whatsoever of sabotaging Sylvain and Felix's relationship - never mind all the work he did trying to repair that - by seducing Felix. Mostly, he's just...working a hypothesis. Is Felix's blush related to being attracted to him? The easiest way to determine that is to try to provoke some kind of further reaction and see what happens.]
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Date: 2020-12-15 02:49 pm (UTC)But yeah, I'm nowhere near ready either. I don't know if we'll be in town long enough for me to be ready, but...as you said, we can always come back. Maybe we can challenge him on the same day, if we get strong enough around the same time.
[He bats his eyelashes innocently at Felix.] Dissecting you with my eyes? Most people would use the phrase 'undressing'. [It's a completely innocuous, factual comment. That is the phrase people use. So how does Claude make it sound like flirting? Purely by implication?
The fact is, Claude is testing the waters a little. He has no intention whatsoever of sabotaging Sylvain and Felix's relationship - never mind all the work he did trying to repair that - by seducing Felix. Mostly, he's just...working a hypothesis. Is Felix's blush related to being attracted to him? The easiest way to determine that is to try to provoke some kind of further reaction and see what happens.]