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[divinestrike]

[Random starters are okay, too!]

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[feistro]

it means you tend to come up with excuses rather than accept something, like a compliment.

[divinestrike]

That's. Not wholly untrue, I guess. I don't really know how to handle compliments. Easier to handle just about anything else, though. I don't dislike compliments. Just not good with them!

[feistro]

[Pom might not know a lot of things -- and fakes it accordingly -- but he knows that much is true.]

good thing i'm great with compliments. let's do a little exercise, how about

i'll say i think you got nice hair

now what do you think you say?

[divinestrike]

[...She should hit him for this. She really should.]

I guess I would just say 'thank you?'
This isn't something that requires an exercise, you know.

[feistro]

[And he would absolutely deserve it, to be fair.]

i don't know, seems like it worked to me. got a thank you without all that fanfare about how you think someone else has better hair or how you don't know a thing about doing anything but a braid

so when i say i think you know enough words that you could come up with something nice to say about yourself, you say...

[divinestrike]

I say this is ridiculous and you're making a big thing out of nothing. Hasn't it ever occurred to you that perhaps I just don't want to talk about myself? I've lived with myself. I'm much more fascinated in you or any of the others. I don't need to discuss myself because I already know who and what I am.

[Bzzt—that's not the right answer, or at least not the one he's looking for and she knows it.]