[Rohan steps out of the genkan, turning back around to face Giorno with his arms folded. It's tempting to start digging for more right away. But Rohan refuses to swindle more than he's earned.]
You realize I only requested one truth, right? Why offer me, someone you don't like, more?
You realize I only requested one truth, right? Why offer me, someone you don't like, more?
Because it's all part of the same lie. That's what you implied before.
[He counts on his fingers.]
One, it's a lie that I claim to be Italian; two, it's a lie that I don't share my true origins. Because to your mind, my business is everyone's. And now it's yours.
More broadly, I'm tired of you treating me like I'm somehow less than you just because I don't air my dirty laundry for everyone to see. So if you want it, fine. If you think it'll benefit you in some way, fine. If you think it'll make you feel better, fine. I just want you to shut up about it.
[He counts on his fingers.]
One, it's a lie that I claim to be Italian; two, it's a lie that I don't share my true origins. Because to your mind, my business is everyone's. And now it's yours.
More broadly, I'm tired of you treating me like I'm somehow less than you just because I don't air my dirty laundry for everyone to see. So if you want it, fine. If you think it'll benefit you in some way, fine. If you think it'll make you feel better, fine. I just want you to shut up about it.
[Rohan opens his mouth to say something, but then he closes it, looking away from Giovanna. It figures, doesn't it? It figures that Giovanna finds a way of spoiling this for Rohan. Instead of finally having the satisfaction of a sincere truth, Giovanna twists it around and manages to find a way to spoil it. Rohan shakes his head before looking at him again.]
If I was that interested— no, obsessed with you is accurate to what you're implying, Giovanna, I would have torn every last truth from you by now and there would have been very little you could have done to stop it.
I don't dislike you because you choose to keep your history private. I dislike you because you're a habitual liar. And you try to use whatever little lies you come up with to sell yourself, to make people like you. I don't care for that. If I'm going to invest in someone, it better be something real. But you do something even worse than just that. You don't even have the spine to admit to it when you're caught in a lie.
That's why I don't like you. That's why I think you're pathetic.
[Rohan scoffs, shaking his head and turns towards his studio.]
Tell Tonika I'll have her commissions for her by the end of the week, including the portrait of you. I trust you can find the door on your own.
If I was that interested— no, obsessed with you is accurate to what you're implying, Giovanna, I would have torn every last truth from you by now and there would have been very little you could have done to stop it.
I don't dislike you because you choose to keep your history private. I dislike you because you're a habitual liar. And you try to use whatever little lies you come up with to sell yourself, to make people like you. I don't care for that. If I'm going to invest in someone, it better be something real. But you do something even worse than just that. You don't even have the spine to admit to it when you're caught in a lie.
That's why I don't like you. That's why I think you're pathetic.
[Rohan scoffs, shaking his head and turns towards his studio.]
Tell Tonika I'll have her commissions for her by the end of the week, including the portrait of you. I trust you can find the door on your own.
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2017-01-30 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
[She loves technology. She loves the fact she doesn't have to speak to someone in person anymore. She loves the fact that she can have a conversation without fear of it being recorded, because this kind of one-on-one vocal communication is so new that no one has developed a way to listen in yet.
And she loves it because it means she doesn't have to meet her clients in person, which makes it all the easier to sneak the fact she does have clients under her husband's nose.
So: ring, ring, Rohan; it's your patron calling.]
And she loves it because it means she doesn't have to meet her clients in person, which makes it all the easier to sneak the fact she does have clients under her husband's nose.
So: ring, ring, Rohan; it's your patron calling.]
[Rohan finds this technology to be an aggravating new invention. Or, well, he would if he had actual friends who contacted him on it with any sort of frequency. But that's the trouble with being so mired in one's work and being so pricky; one doesn't really have the time to develop friendships of any kind.]
[So, the underlying aggravation when he answers is more put-upon, more prospective for when he might have friendships in the future (or, more likely, alternate universe) than genuine to the moment or to his caller.]
What?
[So, the underlying aggravation when he answers is more put-upon, more prospective for when he might have friendships in the future (or, more likely, alternate universe) than genuine to the moment or to his caller.]
What?
I wanted to check on your progress.
[She loves that he doesn't greet her. She never bothers with pleasantries either; it's so much easier when you can leap into a conversation.]
[She loves that he doesn't greet her. She never bothers with pleasantries either; it's so much easier when you can leap into a conversation.]
By interrupting me and thus preventing further progress. [Rohan rolls his eyes a little.] I can deliver it to you completed first thing in the morning.
[It will require working late into the night on it, but what is he going to do with that time? Sleep?]
[It will require working late into the night on it, but what is he going to do with that time? Sleep?]
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