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[puzzlekeeper]

[ He hasn't set up a voicemail.

Figure it out. ]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[After many longs beats of silence]

Say something.

[puzzlekeeper]

. . .

[ He shifts one hand so he can peer down at the ring Intensity gave him. ]

You're the first selfish thing I've ever chosen, in any of my lifetimes. I don't regret that. I never will.

But I don't want you to regret it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Another pause and the tension starts to bleed out of him slightly. Just a fraction.

Probably something that only someone like King would notice.]

I've never lived my life on anything but my terms. No matter how shitty of a hand I was dealt.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He leans back to look at him for another long moment, then reaches up to drag his face down, until they're forehead-to-forehead. ]

Okay.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[As one hand travels lazily down King's spine]

You absolutely are still going to be fussed about it, aren't you?

[puzzlekeeper]

Yes.

[ . . .

Another long sigh ]

D.Va's more upset than I realized.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

["She also tried to kill you four times?" he doesn't say.]

Are you going to try to solve her problem for her?

[puzzlekeeper]

No. For this, there's nothing more I can do.

If I'm not enough, she'll have to keep searching for whoever is.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Holy shit.

What did King just say?]

[puzzlekeeper]

. . . What?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You're hot when you're selfish.

...

Hotter.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ this face ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Adorable, really.]

What was she upset about in particular?

[puzzlekeeper]

Us making things . . .

[ Waves a hand ]

Official.

Not that she would ever actually say that, but I know better. She wants something like that for herself, but with the two people she's asked so far, it hasn't worked out.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She's already asked two people?

[puzzlekeeper]

Um . . . maybe. I don't know if she ever asked the first person for real, but . . . either way, they're not together at all anymore.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ah.

. . .

I do recall her screaming to a giant kaiju about how everyone leaves her.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ uhhh ]

She what . . . ?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She was showing me footage about the boss battle with the imps. Where AlcheME! had grown her to the size of a building.

Her bee cult. The imps. The House. And now this.

This has been stewing for quite some time, hasn't it? Well before our duel.

[puzzlekeeper]

Mm . . . I suppose that's true.

Do you think . . . she's someone doomed to never be satisfied?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[There's a steady hum as he ponders that question for many moments]

Describe, in your opinion, D.Va's ideal person.

[puzzlekeeper]

I . . .

[ . . . ]

I don't have the faintest idea. She seems to love everyone.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Surely you've heard the saying that if everyone's special, then no one is.

[puzzlekeeper]

No, actually, I haven't.

[ But that does sound like something Intensity would say . . . ]

Surely being open to many kinds of people should increase her chances of finding happiness rather than reducing it . . . ?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

For flings and casual romance, yes. But that's not what she's jealous of.

She needs to risk being alone if she ever is going to want anyone to stay. Otherwise why would the other person bother throwing in their ante?