006 ✞ [video]✞ Encrypted from Damian times a million

[unetrustworthy]

(A million, of course, meaning the highest she currently knew how to code, which was a solid 60%. Thus, he theoretically could still hack it, should he choose to do so)


[It had been more than a week, and Midii was still at a complete loss. So much so, she was finally desperate enough to go to the Network for help. Something that, under most any other circumstance, she would never do. Which spoke volumes about the situation as a whole. And how she felt about it.]

[After more than a full ten seconds of silence wondering how to phrase her problem, before she gave up and just blurted out the first question that came to mind:]

How do you get someone to admit he's being a jerk?

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video

[unetrustworthy]

[It was fairly obvious by the way her brows furrowed and her lips pressed together in a thin line that the suggestion wasn't something she was particularly pleased with.]

I don't believe in hypnosis.

And even if I did...that would be like tricking him into doing something he doesn't want to do. It wouldn't count.

Re: video

[violetsedanchair]

Ah, but people under hypnosis can't do what they don't want to do. That whole thing where someone innocent is hypnotized into murder by some outlandish Svengali, that can't happen.

He has to believe himself to be a jerk for this to work, of course. I think it's axiomatic here. That he may not be willing to admit it is natural, but if he does realize his 'jerkiness', if you will, then hypnosis would allow him to process it and come to understand it more consciously.

video

[unetrustworthy]

I don't know what he believes.

[She shook her head. Still certain in her resolve. No matter what this man said, she would never not be convinced that Hypnosis--again, assuming it was even real (she'd gradually learned not to rule anything out)--was the answer to her problem.]

Damian's blunt. He says what he's thinking. He just thinks he's always right.

Re: video

[violetsedanchair]

[Walter shrugs.]

Then I'm afraid I don't know of anything that could help you with your original problem.

video

[unetrustworthy]

You don't know anybody like that?

Re: video

[violetsedanchair]

Oh I've known my fair share of jerks but I was always happy to leave them wallowing in their ignorance.

Uh, of course I understand if this is not an option for you either.

[Walter is not really good with people. Does it show?]

video

[unetrustworthy]

[Only a little.]

I don't know.

If this is the way things are now, then...there's not much I can do, is there? He won't change his mind. He doesn't care enough to.