"I'm trying to stretch mine a little to match yours."

"I want Vietnamese, are you ok to talk if we get a booth or are you likely to have the wrong kinda 'Nam"

"I think I can handle it."

"Great, hopefully we can have this all wrapped up in time to make it to Hoyts. I already booked us tickets."

"The Amazing Digital Circus?"

"Yeah. Anyway, I'd like to talk to your dad to get his side of the story, but I think I have some idea of whats going on and its mostly big mama chimpken's fault but you screwed up big too so take notes."

"Fine, but just remember who was getting divine messages out of real estate flyers."

"Ok so, your un summoning seems thaumicly sound, and it is a big step up from a real banishing. But I don't think you realized just how cold Vous were being. Like first off vous for papa vous for your good old dad? I'm not the French speaker so maybe I'm missing something, but that seems harsh. Also, the whole framing of things as bussiness transaction. I get that it was an out from the family situation being bad, but it still clearly puts him in the not family bucket which I don't think is what you want."

"It would be nice to have family that talks to me. Cousin Peng is nice, but not actually close and everyone else..."

"Good to have goals for a relationship.

Ok so, going back further, things were already rough before but the shit really hit the fan because of an attack.

You flashed back to your adventuring days when Iomedae explained that you were 100% right about your family, and he started doing twitter clap backs. Clearly because dismissing the need to take any of your opinions seriously is the only reason someone would tell you to get help in response to you going full 'Nam vet. Especially, if it is someone who is supposed to care about you but doesn't know anything about psychiatry.

Right, that's what happened?"

"Does it actually hurt that much when we do it to you?"

"Yes, but don't stop. It's like when you kicked my desk the rest of the way in class."

"I think you're right though."

"I always am."

"Aroden says so."

"Viarge, woman don't scare me like that."

"I learned from the best, and that was barely a spoop."

Between Homeroom, Suicide, and hearing things second hand it should be completely obvious. But I guess it's easier to miss Tan being like that if you have the nice guy for Mythos Mechanics and get out of Hunting completely.

*mama need smoko*

"Sorry, need to check my backup phone real quick, I was still catching up on messages when we finished coffee."

[note to self link I'm howling at the moon when I write it]

"Fine, I need to check my professional social anyway."

"Ok so, before that you were mad at him about the forced marriage and implicit misgendering. You reached for a Star Trek metaphor, which reminds me."

Before next breeding conflunce we need some cosplays. I'm obviously dibsing Kirk, but who want to be McCoy?

We're doing it?

We're making it happen.

Hell yeah! Dibs on McCoy.

I can do Uhura.I think she was back on the Enterprise, but I can wear a miniskirt to group chat.

Lilith what do you think about that?

You guys... I just don't know if my family will go for it I think they want my genes.

I can talk them into it no praaaaaaablemn. I meant Chase.

Just a faggot and occasionally a stage queen.

You know how good my eggdar is and I think he's right.

"Ok so, papa and forced marriage and also being constantly nagged. I can't rule out the possibility that he is actually fine with granny's breeding kink, and his cultural background means he probably doesn't get quite how bad it is."

"But I think filial piety is cope."

"You had the balls to run away from home to get them removed, but think how hard it is for you to defy your maman to her face."

"And she was mostly just Catholic, and was a human who had to worry about family court." 

Big Chimpken Mama

*in unison*
God, I hate that woman.

Thanks

"Had a lot of space and societal support to do more than that. Probably not anything as intense as satan, but over a much longer period of time. At the same time she raised him and can be very affectionete and loving at times. Classic abusive groomer.

I think that his support for her actions are less thinking those actions are good, and are at worst because he values being on her good side that much.

It's plausible he thinks going along with it would be good for you. Not because what she wants is good for you, but because going along with her has been the right move for as long as he can remember."

"Are you defending him?"

"I'm your friendly neighborhood serial killer, I'm defending your ability to have a relationship with someone you care about. Not his morality."

"I hate you."

"I know."

"Ok so, lets move onto the Queen Fucker Chicken.

And more importantly something I've been wanting so say for awhile."

"If you say 'it's obvious if you understand decision theory I will shave your head."

"No, read the sequences."

"That's worse. You understand how that's worse right?"

"If you knew about illusion of transparency and double illusion of transparency or just remembered that 'if you look past the obvious you'll see the even more obvious' is literally a joke I like memeing on this might have gone more smoothly. 

"Mon cherri, I think I understood, but you are getting a little bit um what is the term. Word salad."

"Ok so, I'll try to wrap up the last main point then we can go play Overwatch or something."

Winton

"Even when not working across a cultural barrier or having a heated exchange it is easy to be wrong about what is obvious. It is likely your papa didn't know what parts you most objected too and/or was worried there were more things he missed. In particular it is possible that he doesn't realize what its like to have family you aren't raised with or didn't realize you underweight how much of him not being there in childhood wasn't his decision.

So it is really important to verify the obvious, though there are tradeoff, sometimes you waste time and cause drama by going over things everyone really does consider obvious enough that you sound stupid for belaboring the point. Or you get frustrated that other people don't get the obvious even after you've explained it, or its just emotionally sensitive.

Like why magic is secret, Mr.Tan being the devil, or why you still need an eyepatch respectively."

"Crisse, I do worry about your obsession with. Wait what do you mean why I still need an eyepatch?"

"Why won't it heal?"

"I believe if you look past the obvious answer, you'll see one that's even more obvious,"

"I don't know why it didn't immediately heal, but I don't know because there are too many different things that can cause that. Honestly, you probably got that injury after you already procked rez and it wasn't fatal.

The only unusual bit is that it didn't heal later.

There are at least two things blocking that, maybe more but the blend together at the edges."

"And those are?"

"You're a type 2a resurrection mechanism, it strongly weights your self image relative to your genome. 

Your eye is both somesorta visible symbol of your unhealed trauma, and something you expect to see in the mirror. 

Also, I think you are just a bit chuuni or at least an attention whore."

"Chuuni, really miss ace detective?"

"Locking things in even more strongly you had the nice teacher for Mythos Mechanics. I'll admit he's a master, even better than his similarly named obverse.

But even though I'm sure he warning you in theory about how Crafting is only mostly a one way street he was to nice to beat it into you even though he's the go to example for one of the most obvious failure modes.

So you are in a classic to talented for your own good situation. Ok well actually, the trade off is plausibly worth it there is a reason I thought you knew but."

"Are you ok?"

"So-so, but I'm almost done so lets just motor through it.

Anyway, what you've done in Sherbrooke is already amazing, and you're clearly just getting started.

It's ridiculously hard for anyone supernatural to interfere even with mortal proxies.

You've indirectly ensured their peace and prosperity at least enough for you to clearly fit in.

And you've made L' orginal du coin du Sherbrooke such a part of the background they won't notice anything off when people a hundred years from now go through family archive see their favorite local musician playing at their great-grandparents wedding.

Good ol' Lilith got to love her folksy serenades, weird quirks, and eccentric fashion sense?

She's really rocking the hip length hair.

And he mother fucking eyepatch.

Yeah, unless you burn everything down and start over your losing that about as soon as mister nice teacher looses weight.

Hohoho merry christmass moron." 

"Ok, yeah I'm crashing. I actually do have some ideas on your eye, but I need to stop talking now. Lets get you some new clothes, and maybe stop by the fortress and or pancake parlor."

"This is not over, but I need a break too."