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[puzzlekeeper]

[ He hasn't set up a voicemail.

Figure it out. ]

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[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?

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He considers that for a long moment ]

And yet, in a similar scenario, you threw your ante in for me anyway.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Whether you said yes or no, one thing would have remained the same. You will always be my one and only rival.

I was betting you'd throw in the same chip.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ That earns a slight smile. ]

. . . Of course.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then people being jealous of things I was never going to give them anyway is not my problem.

I thought friendship was supposed to be bullshit about being happy for people anyway.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Thinking back on something D.Va said . . . ]

Did you end things with her?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

End what in particular?

We haven't slept together since she was high on bees if that's what your asking.

And I told her before she got involved with Kohime, that if us being friends with benefits would upset Kohime, I wasn't interested. She said it would be fine. Shot to the head proved it wasn't.

So I'm not interested in starting anything again until at the very bare minimum she sorts herself out.