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I'm an incredibly skilled manipulator. Seeing what motivates others is useful in maneuvering them where I want them to be. Applying that to myself is. Significantly more difficult and uncomfortable.

Argh. I love it when you talk dirty to me.

Not in a sexual way, fyi.

Thanks. I'm weirdly starting to feel better.

[He gives a light snort.]

I guess that's something.

[He pauses as something like self-awareness hits him and he adds:] I may have been overly harsh at points, there. Harmful impulsivity has always rubbed me the wrong way. It was a bad habit of my brother's that was always easily excused, whereas anything I did was treated as horribly malicious because I put thought into it.

Hey, I get it. I'm..trying to strike a balance between lovable but boring and unpredictably asshole-ish. It's harder than you'd think.

Still bullshit you guys got treated different. I never had a sibling so I was always the least favorite.

Admittedly, it's possible my perspective is a bit...skewed. But that doesn't change the fact that little effort was made to correct me, really.

I'm...glad I helped, somehow. [He sounds surprised to be saying this.]