[open] What a way to start...

[heir_to_ruin]

[Well... okay. Dead. That kinda sucks, sure, but he's been down here long enough to kinda know how things go. Some cute little girl thinks she can just wrap everyone around her finger because they don't know any better. Just using everyone around her. It's disgusting. He's absolutely horrified that he's spent who knows how long practically worshipping this girl.

But that's okay. The man is nothing if not confident.

Which is why anyone that's been keeping an eye on the rooftop stage may find an unfamiliar redhead chatting up the specter guards, all bright smiles and casual charm. Insisting, of course, that he knows a guy.

After getting insistently removed from the area enough times the mask drops a little, amber eyes going hard as he stares at the nearest screen. What the hell makes her so special, anyway? Like she's entitled to everyone's adoration. All he needed was one chance and he could ruin her. All this desperate need to be seen and adored at all times meant one little slip was all he needed.

A moment later the smile is firmly back in place and he's strolling out of the mall proper, heading for the housing district. If she's not at work... then she's gotta be at home, right?]

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[schardynfreude]

...Ah. [He has offended, in some manner. Chiron is much more awkward now, if only because he's trying to suss out just what happened in the past few seconds, before nodding and moving on ahead.]

Don't get me wrong, your attentions are downright flattering. And we are dead, so perhaps I'm being...terribly old school about this. But of the few memories I do possess, one involves a woman I very deeply love. I see nothing so amiss with a little flirting, of course. It seems to me only a natural manner of humanity. But...

[He doesn't Know For Sure, but. He's taken? Kind of? Sort of. He thinks. He hopes.]

[heir_to_ruin]

[Oh. Well then. It's far worse than he thought. A thing he won't admit about this Phoenix person and he's fallen victim to some greedy woman's scheming. Disgusting.]

Mmm no it makes sense. I mean you don't know what the situation is so why would you... [An awkward shrug, hand twisting in his curls for a moment as thought there's any chance of taming them.] I figure nothing else makes sense so-

[So fall back on what's familiar. Flirting and tempting and yeah, sure, maybe it's a little manipulative but it gives him some sense of purpose, some feeling like he's accomplishing something. Like maybe he's important.

What a joke.]