foolishwren | 025. Video

_{[Heather's been scarce. There are a few reasons for this. One, she's sort of embarrassed about having her butt totally kicked by Falkner, and two... she's also kind of totally broke, and doesn't dare try to stay in the Pokemon Center now that she can't afford the hotel. So it's camping ahoy on the outskirts of Violet for her! Needless to say, she's been a bit broody.]

[When the camera comes on, it's dark and she's got a fire going, the flickering shadows lending the solemn look on her face a little gravitas. She notices this right off the bat and wrinkles her nose to dispel the whole 'there is obviously something wrong and I have been sitting here being angsty and weird for a week' look.]}

Sup, guys.

It's all muggy out here and I don't feel like sleeping. I can't be the only one, so...

_{[She doesn't feel like rambling this time. There's too much on her mind. So she just cuts to the chase.]}

What was everybody doing right before they wound up here in this friggin' place?

_{[She somewhat conspicuously doesn't offer up her own answer, but adds, with a grin that's not too genuine but looks like it is (which is what counts, after all)--]}

Bonus points if it was something super embarrassing like being in the shower or something.

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I was cutting the salary of my chauffeur for making me late for my studies.

[annoyed face]

You were... dude, a chauffeur? _{[That's right, Fran's whole attitude sort of did scream 'rich and snooty'...]} I wish I had chauffeurs.

_{[Only she really didn't, because Heather honestly wouldn't know what to do with herself if she was rich anyway.]}

[She didn't have a chauffeur? How odd.]

Not this one. I needed to be back at Papa's house at precisely 3 o'clock and he let a measly traffic jam get in the way.

I was seven and a half minutes late!

[It's disgraceful, isn't it!?]

_{[And right about now is the time Heather's 'spoiled brat' alarms start going off. She can't help it-- it's not as though she was ever impoverished, her father had always made a moderate living with his novels, but they'd certainly never been rich. And even at her bitchiest and most popular, she'd never had a taste for pampered princesses.]}

... Just seven and a half minutes?

Seems a bit much if you ask me. What'd you expect him to do, drive over the other cars?

You don't understand. As a Von Karma, I expect the ultimate degree of perfection not only in myself, but of all those under my ~~[father's]~~ employ.

When said chauffeur took the job, he already knew the standards of which he would be judged by. His failure to get me there on time was a transgression he's lucky not to be fired for, given the circumstances.

So what was he supposed to do then?

.... Drive over the other cars? _{[Parroting was an awesome way to prove a point!]}

...If it were my job to figure it out, there wouldn't be much need to hire him in the first place!

The only thing I needed to be worried about was making it on time. The "hows" are solely down to the chauffeur and him alone!

But still, you're basically saying he should have driven over all the other cars.

_{[Generally when an argument got to this point, Heather either hauled off and started using the word 'bitch', OR she decided to have fun. She didn't exactly want to damage the whole informant relationship thing in this case, so fun it was!]}

If that's what it takes for him to do his job properly.

[No, she is not joking.]

So, you'd be totally okay with crunching everybody else's cars and potentially killing babies on board?

An appeal to the absurd rarely makes a sound argument.

I won't even consider what you said, it was so unbearably foolish.

[Translation: There's no other way to reply to that without shooting myself in the foot, so have a unsatisfying non-answer instead.]

_{[And Heather sounds suitably skeptical of that reply.]}

Ahuh.

If you want to make any kind of hypothetical scenario to prove your point, you should at least pick one that's within the realms of possibility.

Didn't sound that unrealistic to me. I mean, if that's the only way to beat the traffic, and he HAS to get to your house or he's fired...

Sounds like a catch-22 to me!

You are aware that presenting a false dichotomy is a logical fallacy?

There are many other options in between; presenting two extremes as the only answers sounds like you're desperate to prove unsound argument with little regards to truth.

And you sound like you're trying to avoid the question!

_{[Actually, those were just a lot of words that Heather wasn't really in the mood to decrypt, so she was just going to go for the "be annoying until you win" strategy.]}

No, I'm simply looking for a sensible, logical one.

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