...Are-- [don't ruin it don't ruin it don't ruin it] Are you seriously giving me the 'please talk to someone I don't care who as long as you talk' speech instead?
That's not one I expected from you. Queenie, maybe, and Junpei, but you?
I don't-- [He wants to try and make this something funny, except that that's...really oddly and stupidly sweet of Ardyn in a way he's not entirely sure he knows how to process. (Join the club.) Ardyn has been in some wild swing of a mood since learning he's dead and might be alive forever and ever here. That's understandable, just...kinda expected it to be a downswing instead of like...this sideswing? And kind of an upswing?
It's the effort to care, and the effort to let it be known that he cares. For as much as he can. Church flashes a quick and uncertain smile, like he really is about to tell a joke, but whatever he thought he came up with never actually comes out. The smile vanishes, and he's left rubbing his neck and looking pretty awkward himself.]
I--talk to you. I talk to you a lot. And Junpei, I talk to him, too. I told him I'd keep him in the loop, more or less, about you and me both. It's not everything; it's never everything--
And sometimes I talk way too much and nobody can get me to shut the fuck up. [There we go, there's at least a modicum of a joke! Salvaged this right at the end.]
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That's not one I expected from you. Queenie, maybe, and Junpei, but you?
I don't-- [He wants to try and make this something funny, except that that's...really oddly and stupidly sweet of Ardyn in a way he's not entirely sure he knows how to process. (Join the club.) Ardyn has been in some wild swing of a mood since learning he's dead and might be alive forever and ever here. That's understandable, just...kinda expected it to be a downswing instead of like...this sideswing? And kind of an upswing?
It's the effort to care, and the effort to let it be known that he cares. For as much as he can. Church flashes a quick and uncertain smile, like he really is about to tell a joke, but whatever he thought he came up with never actually comes out. The smile vanishes, and he's left rubbing his neck and looking pretty awkward himself.]
I--talk to you. I talk to you a lot. And Junpei, I talk to him, too. I told him I'd keep him in the loop, more or less, about you and me both. It's not everything; it's never everything--
And sometimes I talk way too much and nobody can get me to shut the fuck up. [There we go, there's at least a modicum of a joke! Salvaged this right at the end.]