[ look. it's hard being the only cause of canon on screen dirk strider smiles, what the fuck even is that, hussie. dave would argue the better liar thing, and might still, but he actually pauses to think about it because he agreed to, you know, try to listen. ]

You emote about the same amount as me around other people. I just had to learn to like...

[ ...uh. ]

It sounds bad if I say I learned to smile more in order to keep people from in-person asking questions, doesn't it. Once we met up in person, they actually needed somethin' there to read. But you are so expressive. It's just not a kind of expression most people have had to learn, I guess.

[ he's not sure how they got here. ]

You said we should talk about when we need one another to say no. I'm...not sure what my list would look like. What do you need me to say no to?