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[sweetsleuth]

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[tigerpoet]

I haven't slept with him I don't know???

[sweetsleuth]

I know you haven't!!
But I mean
I could still sound like him anyway on accident??

[tigerpoet]

If it makes you feel any better, I associate the voice with you now more than I do with him.

[sweetsleuth]

[...]

That does make me feel better.
But I guess I should be glad I sound like a friend of yours, rather than the other-me.

[tigerpoet]

I don't really like the other Ranpo.

[Even now, he still finds it hard to just say things like that. He doesn't want to offend, and that Ranpo is a great writer and a lover of mysteries acting as a lover of mysteries does, it's not his place to tell him that he's not comfortable with how pushy he is-]

Is that okay?

[sweetsleuth]

Why wouldn't it be?
That guy gave me the creeps, and I only talked to a fake version of him for ten seconds!
Just because we share a name and some other weird alternate dimension mumbo-jumbo doesn't mean we're actually related in any way.

[tigerpoet]

It's not because of the name. I'd feel guilty saying that about any of my coworkers. Edogawa hasn't really done anything wrong to me... Just been a little pushy with his questions, and really I should expect that from anyone who found out about Tiger.

[The fault is probably with him.]

[sweetsleuth]

You know you're allowed to not like people, right?

Sometimes people just don't get along! You don't even need a reason, but if he makes you uncomfortable, then that's just how you feel!

[tigerpoet]

I don't want to make people think poorly of him just because he makes me uncomfortable.

[Edogawa is a good person... probably?]

Especially when he isn't here to defend himself.

[sweetsleuth]

Well, you don't have to worry about that!

He could be the greatest guy who ever lived-- but I'd still find him creepy, with or without your assessment!



Besides, I still haven't even gotten over the name thing.

[tigerpoet]

I suppose that's fair. Sorry.

I barely think about the name thing anymore with Atsushi and I, but it's different if you see them all the time?

[sweetsleuth]

The fact that we have the same name isn't the problem.

It's that my name is apparently just a fake way of saying Poe-kun's name.

[tigerpoet]

If it helps, pen names are extremely common? Kyouka's real name is Kyoutarou. Dazai Osamu is actually Tsushima Shuji. Kunikida is a real name but 'Doppo' isn't. Ango is a pen name, Mori Ougai is really Mori Rintarou... I could go on.

Naming your pen name after an admired author isn't even the strangest origin story I've heard.

[sweetsleuth]

I don't care that it's a penname, but that still means my name isn't a real name!

And that another version of me is a Poe-fanboy!

And we all know that's just backwards!

[The second part is absolutely the more shocking of the two.]

[tigerpoet]

Since I'm also friends with him, I feel like any comment I make about that is going to be the wrong one...?

1/2

[sweetsleuth]

He spent six years obsessing over me because he was a sore loser.
Joined a corrupt organization of ability users so he could someday find me again.
Betrayed that same organization for the chance of challenging me for a rematch.

And now we're basically dating.

[...]

[sweetsleuth]

There were some more steps in the middle there, but you get the point! It'd be backwards the other way around!

[tigerpoet]

Does everyone you like have to threaten you at some point in your life?

[sweetsleuth]

[..........]

Not everyone everyone, but a lot?

[tigerpoet]

I guess as long as none of them followed through on it it's probably fine...

[sweetsleuth]

Well, he probably got closer than most people?
He almost killed Yosano-san, and it's because of him that I learned my ability wasn't an ability after all.

But the information he gave us helped us save Yokohama, so it worked out in the end!

[tigerpoet]

This should surprise me more than it does, but okay. As long as you're happy with him.

1/2

[sweetsleuth]

[...]

He really is a good guy. Even back then. I'm sure he always was.
He just had some things he had to work through.

[Some people keep journals, and some people join evil organizations so they can confront their rival across the planet for a final duel to the death. Different strokes.]

[sweetsleuth]

And you know, Tiger is on that list too!
He threatened to stab me when we first met!

[tigerpoet]

That's why I brought it up.

[Apparently Ranpo didn't mind it so much if that Prismr profile was anything to go by.]