[Oh please, as if the reason he chose Dirk is as shallow as that. Honestly, Steven's seen what Hythlodaeus is packing, if anything, he picked the less shallow option!]
Why wouldn't I care? Hythlodaeus means more to me than you could ever comprehend. Which is why when there is aught amiss with him, I most certainly take note of it.
And there is aught amiss. I see no reason why someone as engaging and brilliant as he would find any continued and—the mind boggles—waxing interest in someone like you. The whole notion is laughably absurd. You're about as interesting as observing a broken clock.
That he would seek your company, yet seem distant from me... Something does not add up.
[... wait. Is Hades jealous of Steven? Holy shit, he is.
Steven would be more smug about this, if he didn't know that Hythlo's interest in him was mostly based on needing a confidant with all the bullshit in his life that Hades had caused and Steven was one of the few people who tolerated him in large enough doses to be that confidant. And because he hadn't rejected Hythlodaeus when Hythlodaeus had told him he wasn't the real Hythlodaeus at all.]
That's because you're not thinking this *through*. You've got a new flame who you're very passionate about, Emet-Selch, and Hythlodaeus needs *someone* to talk to about how much he misses the relationship he *used* to have with you. Seeking my company while distancing himself from yours has nothing to do with *me* and everything to do with *you*.
Seriously.
I mean, yeah, sure, sometimes we talk about my bullshit, and I know he does actually like me as a person, though it's up in the air whether he actually *cares* about me, but don't get me wrong: he's seeking my company over yours in this case because he knows I'll give him a sympathetic ear.
So if you're finding something amiss about that, then maybe you should think a little about *why* he needs to go to someone else for his sympathetic ear.
[Also, fuck you for basically insulting him to his face, Hades.]
[For a moment, that's all he sends, but shortly after:]
Little is he bothered by aught like this. He and I have had our various other flames under different circumstances, never has it been a problem for either of us. Even less is it a problem when he encouraged this to begin with. He knows the purpose behind this, and has fully accepted that.
Try again. This time do not apply that pathetic perception of Hythlodaeus, it does little but cloud your mind's eye, make you look foolish, and insult him.
Okay, fine, it's not *all* about how he misses ploughing you, although I certainly hear *more* than enough about that from him, far more than I ever really wanted to know, but it *is* about things that he doesn't feel like he can talk to you about these days.
Also, when you two had 'various other flames' previously you were *not* the last of your kind. That changes things.
More than that--even think that maybe *because* he encouraged you to get with Dirk in the first place, he's not going to want to talk to you about his current frustrations over it?
I am not surprised by that, he has a habit of oversharing, particularly when it involves me. I loathe that he wishes to share such intimate details with you, but I do suppose that is not without its precedent.
[Still real salty about the name thing, after all...]
Also, I have been one of the last of my kind for eons, I highly doubt that he would bend under a mere moon or two of such a distinction. After all, he had endured the Finals Days with me, and if the apocalypse did not shake him, little would my dalliance with Dirk.
You truly know so little about him. Am I just wasting my time here? Mayhap I am, here I had hoped to better understand the relationship betwixt the two of you, but all I have come to understand is how little you understand about him. Hythlodaeus is not wont to encourage that which would end in his personal suffering—nor anyone else's for that matter. He is a man proud of his cleverness in both securing what is his, while likewise denying not others their needs.
As such, he would not lead me astray on these matters. Or, I suppose, ordinarily he would not. The developments between you and he, and his likewise betrayals, have framed things quite outside the expected. Nevertheless, it is passing strange if what you claim has any truth to it at all, which I highly doubt.
I never claimed to know him well, Emet-Selch, and I hope when you're sober (because I am giving you the benefit of assuming you're not right now) you'll be able to reread this conversation and realize what charity I'm extending to you in letting you insult and abuse me constantly in this conversation when I don't have to answer these questions at all or even reply to your texts.
The facts of the matter are this:
1) Hythlodaeus has things he wishes to talk about that he doesn't feel like he can talk about to you, for various reasons. You may not wish to believe it, but it's true.
2) Hythlodaeus has one (1) friend who is not you.
3) That friend is me.
You're not a stupid man, Emet-Selch. Put the facts together.
[Honestly, he does not like being called out on being drunk. He's fortunate that he has enough control over himself to not be typoing like a madman, but not enough to keep from rambling or contacting Steven. Perhaps he's too drunk or too stubborn to find himself as willing as he should be to accept these proclaimed "facts".]
I may be well into my cups, but even I can keep up with the conversation. The question is, can you?
These facts you present are dubious at best, idiotic at worst. I care not that he has a friend that is not me, I care that he chose you for such a role. Even if I entertained the notion, pretended for but a moment what you claim is true, it does little to explain why he would choose you. When you had done scant more than be a blight to me.
He does not make habit of befriending those I hold in contempt. And, even if he had that which he refuses to speak to me about, it goes against all logical reasoning to confide in one such as you. After all, ever do you have loose lips, though I doubt that is all that is loose about you. His mind is different, even compared to most in Amaurot, but he is no fool, and seldom does he err in judgment—yet he has so grievously.
But it is clear to me that you wish only to play games, dancing around the true answer to my inquiries. I should have expected as much, and perhaps I did, but like a fool I had hoped for otherwise.
There's a difference between things worth gossiping about and things that aren't worth gossiping about. Hythlo and I both know that difference--and we know that we know that difference--and the things he tells me that he doesn't tell you *aren't* worth gossiping about.
His mind is different. So is mine. Our differences are similar. Maybe he's just glad to know someone with a similarly different mind, even though I'm *not* Amaurotine.
[He's not even going to dignify that 'loose' comment with a response.]
Similar, but not the same. There is far more to him than whatever malady you choose to believe you share with him.
But, if what you claim is true, then consider me surprised you can differentiate between what should be kept quiet and what is free to share. It still does not make any sense whatsoever why he would seek you out. He never cared to seek out those of a similar mind as he—varying accuracy such claims may hold. Mayhap it is the culture shock.
Oh, dear sweet Hythlodaeus, have I put too much faith in his resilience and strength? Has being among mortals finally taken its toll? Enough that it would rob him of his better sense? Truly, even mortals cannot have such power over him.
He has very specific tastes, and you scant fit them.
Do you truly think I have not asked him? You are far from the top of the list on whom I'd ask about any of this. I cannot say you make the top ten. However, while I was willing to believe his answers then, little do I now.
But you would have me believe that all the two of you are doing is baking cookies and gossiping. Tell me Steven, has Hythlodaeus taken you as a lover?
[Steven bursts out laughing. Oh god, is that what this is about?
But then, after a moment, he sobers. No. Fuck. He needs to handle this delicately. He doesn't want Hades to get any stupid ideas.]
Hythlodaeus is much more likely to proposition *Jack* than he is me. After all, Jack's more clever than I am and, ah, *better endowed*. And it was *Jack* who he made a gift of his prototype Gloom Juice to. And he's always so *interested* in hearing about the things Jack and I get up to.
If he wishes to bed him, then so be it. Little do I believe he befriended you to court Jack, however. Even less do I believe Jack would have much interest in Hythlodaeus. Even if he did, it is of little consequence to me.
But I suppose all I can do is take your word for it, that you are not bedfellows. Foolishly, in my anger, I had told him that you might be willing. It is not oft that I am glad to be wrong.
What your small mind fails to grasp is that you can be loyal and still entertain others between your sheets. But well do I know how you mortals favor your absurd monogamy.
Truly, I cannot imagine whom it is you might be implying. Or, that you might believe I wish to take another lover when I am quite satisfied as it is.
Regardless, It is hardly a discourtesy unless one makes it so. But I do suppose with such short lives, only having one mate would seem logical, even if it is not so in reality. But it is good to know that your close-minded approach to such matters will keep Hythlodaeus from sharing your bed. I did not expect to find such practices a boon, but even I can be surprised it seems.
I'm just saying that my own opinions on monogamy vs polygamy have little bearing on your life outside of keeping Hythlodaeus out of my dastardly clutches. It would make more sense for you to make these arguments for polygamy to *Dirk*, not me.
As I have stated, I am quite satisfied with Dirk. My commentary was naught more than mere contesting your claim that loyalty and taking multiple lovers are exclusive from one another.
This has naught to do with my relationship with Dirk. But it certainly seems you have your own ideas about that, don't you?
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Why wouldn't I care? Hythlodaeus means more to me than you could ever comprehend. Which is why when there is aught amiss with him, I most certainly take note of it.
And there is aught amiss. I see no reason why someone as engaging and brilliant as he would find any continued and—the mind boggles—waxing interest in someone like you. The whole notion is laughably absurd. You're about as interesting as observing a broken clock.
That he would seek your company, yet seem distant from me... Something does not add up.
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Steven would be more smug about this, if he didn't know that Hythlo's interest in him was mostly based on needing a confidant with all the bullshit in his life that Hades had caused and Steven was one of the few people who tolerated him in large enough doses to be that confidant. And because he hadn't rejected Hythlodaeus when Hythlodaeus had told him he wasn't the real Hythlodaeus at all.]
That's because you're not thinking this *through*. You've got a new flame who you're very passionate about, Emet-Selch, and Hythlodaeus needs *someone* to talk to about how much he misses the relationship he *used* to have with you. Seeking my company while distancing himself from yours has nothing to do with *me* and everything to do with *you*.
Seriously.
I mean, yeah, sure, sometimes we talk about my bullshit, and I know he does actually like me as a person, though it's up in the air whether he actually *cares* about me, but don't get me wrong: he's seeking my company over yours in this case because he knows I'll give him a sympathetic ear.
So if you're finding something amiss about that, then maybe you should think a little about *why* he needs to go to someone else for his sympathetic ear.
[Also, fuck you for basically insulting him to his face, Hades.]
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[For a moment, that's all he sends, but shortly after:]
Little is he bothered by aught like this. He and I have had our various other flames under different circumstances, never has it been a problem for either of us. Even less is it a problem when he encouraged this to begin with. He knows the purpose behind this, and has fully accepted that.
Try again. This time do not apply that pathetic perception of Hythlodaeus, it does little but cloud your mind's eye, make you look foolish, and insult him.
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Also, when you two had 'various other flames' previously you were *not* the last of your kind. That changes things.
More than that--even think that maybe *because* he encouraged you to get with Dirk in the first place, he's not going to want to talk to you about his current frustrations over it?
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[Still real salty about the name thing, after all...]
Also, I have been one of the last of my kind for eons, I highly doubt that he would bend under a mere moon or two of such a distinction. After all, he had endured the Finals Days with me, and if the apocalypse did not shake him, little would my dalliance with Dirk.
You truly know so little about him. Am I just wasting my time here? Mayhap I am, here I had hoped to better understand the relationship betwixt the two of you, but all I have come to understand is how little you understand about him. Hythlodaeus is not wont to encourage that which would end in his personal suffering—nor anyone else's for that matter. He is a man proud of his cleverness in both securing what is his, while likewise denying not others their needs.
As such, he would not lead me astray on these matters. Or, I suppose, ordinarily he would not. The developments between you and he, and his likewise betrayals, have framed things quite outside the expected. Nevertheless, it is passing strange if what you claim has any truth to it at all, which I highly doubt.
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The facts of the matter are this:
1) Hythlodaeus has things he wishes to talk about that he doesn't feel like he can talk about to you, for various reasons. You may not wish to believe it, but it's true.
2) Hythlodaeus has one (1) friend who is not you.
3) That friend is me.
You're not a stupid man, Emet-Selch. Put the facts together.
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I may be well into my cups, but even I can keep up with the conversation. The question is, can you?
These facts you present are dubious at best, idiotic at worst. I care not that he has a friend that is not me, I care that he chose you for such a role. Even if I entertained the notion, pretended for but a moment what you claim is true, it does little to explain why he would choose you. When you had done scant more than be a blight to me.
He does not make habit of befriending those I hold in contempt. And, even if he had that which he refuses to speak to me about, it goes against all logical reasoning to confide in one such as you. After all, ever do you have loose lips, though I doubt that is all that is loose about you. His mind is different, even compared to most in Amaurot, but he is no fool, and seldom does he err in judgment—yet he has so grievously.
But it is clear to me that you wish only to play games, dancing around the true answer to my inquiries. I should have expected as much, and perhaps I did, but like a fool I had hoped for otherwise.
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His mind is different. So is mine. Our differences are similar. Maybe he's just glad to know someone with a similarly different mind, even though I'm *not* Amaurotine.
[He's not even going to dignify that 'loose' comment with a response.]
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But, if what you claim is true, then consider me surprised you can differentiate between what should be kept quiet and what is free to share. It still does not make any sense whatsoever why he would seek you out. He never cared to seek out those of a similar mind as he—varying accuracy such claims may hold. Mayhap it is the culture shock.
Oh, dear sweet Hythlodaeus, have I put too much faith in his resilience and strength? Has being among mortals finally taken its toll? Enough that it would rob him of his better sense? Truly, even mortals cannot have such power over him.
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But honestly, I don't pretend to know why he decides to do what he does. If you want to know why he's friends with me, why don't you just *ask* him?
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Do you truly think I have not asked him? You are far from the top of the list on whom I'd ask about any of this. I cannot say you make the top ten. However, while I was willing to believe his answers then, little do I now.
But you would have me believe that all the two of you are doing is baking cookies and gossiping. Tell me Steven, has Hythlodaeus taken you as a lover?
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But then, after a moment, he sobers. No. Fuck. He needs to handle this delicately. He doesn't want Hades to get any stupid ideas.]
Hythlodaeus is much more likely to proposition *Jack* than he is me. After all, Jack's more clever than I am and, ah, *better endowed*. And it was *Jack* who he made a gift of his prototype Gloom Juice to. And he's always so *interested* in hearing about the things Jack and I get up to.
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But I suppose all I can do is take your word for it, that you are not bedfellows. Foolishly, in my anger, I had told him that you might be willing. It is not oft that I am glad to be wrong.
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['Unlike some people,' he mutters out loud.]
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[He knows what Steven actually means, he's just...him.]
Nevertheless, to imply that one cannot be loyal while taking multiple lovers is a rather simplistic claim.
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In any case, my bed is Jack's. I wouldn't do him the discourtesy of asking someone *else* to share what is ours together.
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Regardless, It is hardly a discourtesy unless one makes it so. But I do suppose with such short lives, only having one mate would seem logical, even if it is not so in reality. But it is good to know that your close-minded approach to such matters will keep Hythlodaeus from sharing your bed. I did not expect to find such practices a boon, but even I can be surprised it seems.
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This has naught to do with my relationship with Dirk. But it certainly seems you have your own ideas about that, don't you?
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Oh, well. I suppose we are done here, I have learned little in terms of aught I wanted, which I suppose I should have expected.
Till next time.
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