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[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.]

[sweetsleuth]

You know that does happen
a lot





Do I have a type?

[tigerpoet]

You might, but then neither me nor Atsushi fit into that type, and I'm sure Kunikida doesn't either...

[sweetsleuth]

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

Well, not unless it was Sanguis.

I still have a scar on my neck from where he bit me.

[Which Atsushi most definitely would have seen by now, since it's pretty obvious on the back of his neck.]

[tigerpoet]

That's not the same. Even I can bite sometimes, though hopefully not hard enough to scar.

[sweetsleuth]

...well, I for one wouldn't mind if you wanted to bite me that hard.

[tigerpoet]

Ranpo, why.

[sweetsleuth]

[Wow don't kinkshame!!]

What? It's not that weird.