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[photographice]

Type: Text
Sender ID: photographice (March 7th)
To: Public
Subject: Miss Dorina Gray
Warnings: Probably nothing? Will update if that changes


So I heard about this Dorina Gray lady who can paint your soul or something.

I'm curious: did anyone go and get painted by her? What was it like? Was she nice? Do you think she'd be able to help uncover some deep memories, or is it just a "you're a good or a bad person" kind of thing?

Comments

[yuezun]

She was given this venerable one's description and produced the same figure one could get from any common child with no skill or talent for the arts.

[So either she was not as talented as suggested, or she has purposely given him something insultingly simple. And considering what she had produced for Rem, as well as the meticulously detailed frozen tree shading his own figure... Well, he certainly could not accept that it was an accurate representation of his soul. Therefore: fraud.]

[photographice]

["This venerable one"... hoo boy.]

Sooooo you didn't like what she drew of you, is what you're saying.

[yuezun]

She promised skill and insight into one's soul and drew what a child could produce with charcoal sticks and five minutes of free time. She did not deliver on her promise and the skill shown was beyond questionable.

[He doesn't have the perspective to understand or interpret her art as saying his soul and emotions were undeveloped, frozen at the level of a child only learning to navigate what he saw and felt and barely able to articulate it. All he could see was an insult purposely given.]

[photographice]

Did you say something mean to her?

[She wouldn't insult him for no reason, would she?]

[yuezun]

This venerable one had no reason to wish injury upon her before she was finished.

[Now he was being accused of being the reason for her insult? Fine. Whatever. He had been blamed for worse wrongs done to others than being mean to a blind woman. What was one more crime he didn't commit being added to his name when there were already so many others that he had committed already there?]

Forget it. You asked and this venerable one has answered. Believe this venerable one or not as you will.

[photographice]

It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that your answer is so different than everyone else's...

Maybe you insulted her accidentally? With all the 'venerable one' stuff?

[He seems kind of like a pompous asshole, tbh.]

[yuezun]

That is a matter of the translator. This venerable one has no control on how it interprets his words. If she found insult in that, it is not this venerable one's fault.

[photographice]

That's a good point.

I don't know, then. I really am sorry she painted something so bad for you.

[yuezun]

Do not assign yourself responsibility for her insult. No apology on her behalf will have meaning unless it she who gives it herself.

[He doesn't really understand sympathy.]

You have the opinion you have asked for. This venerable one will leave first.