If we're not friends, why do you care how "dangerous" this is?
The fact is, I don't care if you consider me a friend, but I do care that you're using this as a way of keeping me from helping our court. Maybe it's arrogant of me to think you'd actually have enough respect for me and who I am to recognize that I can help, but this is the one thing I won't let anyone try and play down, not you or anyone else. It's not favoritism if it's blatant common sense.
I've already shown my abilities and experience. You know what they are. You don't have to be my friend to know what they are.
[ she's usually so careful about not even coming close to talking about what happened to his mom, but this is kind of.. exactly that. even if she's not doing it on purpose. it's hard to avoid it. ]
I passed that test. I proved myself. I would have died that day, or worse, if I wasn't capable. Anyone from our world knows what could have happened if I couldn't handle it, so you know that I wouldn't be who I am in our world if I couldn't. Maybe you like trying to pretend you're above who we are back in our world, but I'm not. Taking the oath, earning my place in that world, it matters to me. I'm the Oracle of Delphi. I was worthy of it back home, and I should be given the chance to prove as much here, too.
But you keep playing your part. Your part of "not Percy Jackson", apparently. Who didn't want me to take the oath back home, by the way, so don't you dare try and make it sound like he only sees people for what they can do. The difference between you and him isn't that he's biased towards his friends, it's that friend or not, he'd never try and stand in someone's way if they knew they could help somehow. All you're doing here is trying to tear away a chance for me to help. You know what I can do, and instead you're throwing this power play in my face just because you can. I don't have to prove anything to you.
And it's not my fault I don't know "you for you", it's things like this. It's your constant need to push and shove at people every time they try talking to you. It's acting like you think me saying I'd offer you a knuckle sandwich is a real threat. Nobody would take that as a serious threat! [ Rachel your lack of faith in his sense of humor isn't the point here.. ] We're not friends because of the fact that you act like I have to prove I'm worth your friendship. No, not even, that much I would understand. But the problem is that you act like I'm not worthy of even typing words at you. That I shouldn't even get the chance to get to know you. And if that's just a defense mechanism then well done, it works spectacularly. But you can't blame other people for it.
That's exactly what you're doing right now, with this. You're acting like we need to convince and impress you, then getting mad at me for suggesting you should already know.
Only I don't actually need your approval to get my shot at this. I know what I can do, and I know I can use that to help here.
As I said, thanks for the heads up. I'm pretty sure we're done here.
seelie lock;
The fact is, I don't care if you consider me a friend, but I do care that you're using this as a way of keeping me from helping our court. Maybe it's arrogant of me to think you'd actually have enough respect for me and who I am to recognize that I can help, but this is the one thing I won't let anyone try and play down, not you or anyone else. It's not favoritism if it's blatant common sense.
I've already shown my abilities and experience. You know what they are. You don't have to be my friend to know what they are.
[ she's usually so careful about not even coming close to talking about what happened to his mom, but this is kind of.. exactly that. even if she's not doing it on purpose. it's hard to avoid it. ]
I passed that test. I proved myself. I would have died that day, or worse, if I wasn't capable. Anyone from our world knows what could have happened if I couldn't handle it, so you know that I wouldn't be who I am in our world if I couldn't. Maybe you like trying to pretend you're above who we are back in our world, but I'm not. Taking the oath, earning my place in that world, it matters to me. I'm the Oracle of Delphi. I was worthy of it back home, and I should be given the chance to prove as much here, too.
But you keep playing your part. Your part of "not Percy Jackson", apparently. Who didn't want me to take the oath back home, by the way, so don't you dare try and make it sound like he only sees people for what they can do. The difference between you and him isn't that he's biased towards his friends, it's that friend or not, he'd never try and stand in someone's way if they knew they could help somehow. All you're doing here is trying to tear away a chance for me to help. You know what I can do, and instead you're throwing this power play in my face just because you can. I don't have to prove anything to you.
And it's not my fault I don't know "you for you", it's things like this. It's your constant need to push and shove at people every time they try talking to you. It's acting like you think me saying I'd offer you a knuckle sandwich is a real threat. Nobody would take that as a serious threat! [ Rachel your lack of faith in his sense of humor isn't the point here.. ] We're not friends because of the fact that you act like I have to prove I'm worth your friendship. No, not even, that much I would understand. But the problem is that you act like I'm not worthy of even typing words at you. That I shouldn't even get the chance to get to know you. And if that's just a defense mechanism then well done, it works spectacularly. But you can't blame other people for it.
That's exactly what you're doing right now, with this. You're acting like we need to convince and impress you, then getting mad at me for suggesting you should already know.
Only I don't actually need your approval to get my shot at this. I know what I can do, and I know I can use that to help here.
As I said, thanks for the heads up. I'm pretty sure we're done here.