003 ️‍🔥 A New Year!

[gruffier]

Type: Voice
Sender ID: gruffier (Clive Rosfield)
To: Open to everyone
Subject: New Year Resolutions
Warnings: N/A

I've heard it customary to lay plans for the future upon the new year. Saying your goals out loud has always helped me to achieve them, so I'm curious to know what goals you have planned for yourself. Be they large or small.

I've nothing grandiose for myself— only to be a better person. A person worthy of friendship, and to continue to help those around me.

[ And after a small pause: ]

—Maybe open a petting zoo, at this rate.

Comments

[gruffier]

[ WOW OKAY THAT WAS NOT THE POINT OF THIS AT ALL, KAVEH

but Clive is flattered— truly. So much so that his voice softens upon a reply ]

Thank you, Kaveh. You words mean much to me, but I do feel as though I have a long way to go.

[ He chuckles. ]

So willing to assist... maybe taking some respite this year might be on your books?

[empyrean_mirror]

Respite? Oh, but I'm hardly busy at all, it feels like.

[HE'S SO BORED. HE NEEDS ENRICHMENT. LET HIM DO HIS ACTUAL JOB.]

[gruffier]

Oh? It always feels as though you have your hand in something productive.

[empyrean_mirror]

I hardly have half as much going on as Cid, don't I?

[Kaveh that's a bad benchmark.]

I'm not particularly good at staying still.

hello guess who

[indispensable]

I wasn't aware that lying is part of one's new year's resolution.

it Begins

[empyrean_mirror]

Wha--I'm not lying!

[Sorry clive this appears to be Happening now.]

This isn't nearly as much as my client schedule back home!

New Year Extra Gay

[indispensable]

That is as apt of a comparison as putting yourself up against Cid.

[They both know that his schedule back home is basically overflowing. So yeah, not a good basis of comparison at all.]

Extra Gay, Extra Chaos

[empyrean_mirror]

I am fine, don't be so fussy. We can't all be content lazing about in the sunshine all day.

and more headaches for everyone

[indispensable]

Is that so? I seem to have heard the distinct opposite opinion just last night.

[Not that it really should mean anything because that was while they were canoodling.]

[empyrean_mirror]

Wh--don't bring that up now!!

[WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS!]

[indispensable]

And why should I not? Are you going to deny that it happened?

[He is like this because Kaveh is too fun to tease.]

[empyrean_mirror]

We are in public! On someone else's post!

[DON'T DO THIS TO CLIVE!]

[indispensable]

[It's so cute that Kaveh thinks that Alhaitham is going to just spill the intimate details of their relationship out in the open public even after all this time.]

You'll have to elaborate as to how any of those things are relevant to our current discussion.

[That doesn't stop him from making things worse anyway.]

[gruffier]

I figured that was the case.

[indispensable]

My advice would be for you to turn down any of his suggestions in the future.

[Stop enabling his husband's bad habits!!]

[gruffier]

He's rather convincing. It's hard to say no.

[indispensable]

It's a skill you're going to have to learn.

[Be strong, Clive... resist the puppy dog eyes...]

[gruffier]

How do you do it, then?

[indispensable]

By saying 'no'.

[Can you hear how dry his response is here, Clive.]

[gruffier]

You and I both know that is easier said than done.

[gruffier]

Cid is hardly the person to compare yourself to, as occupied as his services have been. I often wonder where he gets the stamina.

[empyrean_mirror]

...Maybe we should be concerned about his coffee consumption.

[gruffier]

Out of all the things to be concerned about, coffee may be the least of them.

[empyrean_mirror]

Can we do anything about the rest?

[gruffier]

I've tried, with little success. Cid does what Cid wants.

Best not to take after him too much. [ Unlike Clive... who very much did. ]