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[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-16 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
( i mean, let's be real — )

Well, this might be a surprise to you, but I've never seen a man as old as you before.

I can't even gauge your age.


( this COULD be an insult, but... it's just a fact? )
betenoir: (Focused)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-16 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WOW ]

You're making aimless guesses. Try thinking everything through, otherwise you have no recourse. Because what if I claimed to be twenty six?

[Sneaky Renoir.]
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[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-16 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'd obviously call your bullshit.

I've seen people who are twenty-six and you look /nothing/ like them.


( emphasis on that nothing!!!!!!!! )
betenoir: (Reverie)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-16 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Funny. Because he would resemble being the older relation to his son if he was as lax as that boy, growing his hair out like a peasant.

Not that he remembers the feeling of being styled by the barber. Strange.]


I look nothing like people twice their age. But that benchmark is closer to the number you are looking for.
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[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-16 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
( she does see a vague resemblance there, truth be told? but renoir is so well-kept, and verso is so... unkempt... )

I guess the "how old" doesn't actually matter that much to me right now.

I'm more interested in the "why are you that old."
betenoir: (Reflective)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-16 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Have you ever heard of the saying ignorance is bliss?
oilpaint: (pic#17852416)

[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-17 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Never been into it.

If I'm going to die prematurely, I'd rather know why first!
betenoir: (Astonished)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-17 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
My apologies mean little to you. So I will offer you my condolences. Because you really have no idea, do you?
oilpaint: (pic#17852413)

[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-17 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Your condolences mean little to me, too.

Save any pleasantries, in fact. I'd rather just hear answers.
betenoir: (Affection)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-17 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
And I would rather you abandon this foolish escapade of yours.

But life seems to be refusing both of us what we desire.
oilpaint: (pic#17852412)

[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-17 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
But the world should adjust for the young, not for the old!
betenoir: (Default)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-17 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The world should adjust for those you love.

We both know you would change the world for that man of yours.
oilpaint: (pic#17852416)

[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-17 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
( low blow. )

... that's irrelevant.
betenoir: (Complex)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-17 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
But also true.
oilpaint: (pic#17852418)

[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-17 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't speak of things you know nothing about.
betenoir: (Acerbic)

[personal profile] betenoir 2025-05-17 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I will speak my mind until you abandon this fool's errand of yours.
oilpaint: (pic#17852418)

[personal profile] oilpaint 2025-05-17 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? Why do you care so much?

We'll be gone soon, anyway.