[It is a temptation, and the awareness of it still causes him to sigh, shaking his head at this recently-found insatiability on his own part. With how prone they both were to one another... he suspected that even the barest hint of privacy would lead to escalations. A progression from scandalous hand-holding to suspiciously intense kissing, to an inevitability of biting. And worse. They were fortunate to have gotten away with it once, but eventually even Mettaton's considerable luck would give out.
So he turns instead to the conversation, concerns for this new crisis in the back of his mind, along with a certain resoluteness regarding it.]
Then I will appreciate both your attempts at discretion, as well as your preference for my name. Even so- 'tis not the same as your protectiveness over your own history. While I would detest strangers knowing of mine, it's not to the point of needing to erase their memory of it.
[The difference between something being personal, and being mortifying, he supposed. Few had any right to his name or past, but it wasn't something he was specifically hiding. It was only a matter of who deserved to know. And those numbers were drastically limited.
By comparison, being a ghost was of significantly less concern. Keeping it to himself was more a matter of keeping most things to himself, rather than a spectral-nature specifically. It helped, certainly, that the Ascian had considerable disdain for humanity. Why would he be interested in the opinion of something so far beneath him? Whether it was fear or acceptance, neither was a result that he cared anything for.]
But what of you? Apart from the obvious... is there anything you'd wish to keep private?
[While Emet-Selch was considerably less distractable when it came to discussions about himself, no matter his own superiority, he also kept his personal life, well, personal. Given an appropriate question, he might deign to answer it, but there was no reason to volunteer anything. So though he had no interest in hiding anything (they'd certainly had public conversations on the network which would no doubt imply something about their relationship), he'd also had no reason to specifically bring up being Bonded to him to much of anyone.
Which had, perhaps, backfired a little when he hadn't cared enough to inform any of his other Bonded when he'd taken on a fourth, but, that was all in the past now.... Perhaps he might even have learned something from that.]
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So he turns instead to the conversation, concerns for this new crisis in the back of his mind, along with a certain resoluteness regarding it.]
Then I will appreciate both your attempts at discretion, as well as your preference for my name. Even so- 'tis not the same as your protectiveness over your own history. While I would detest strangers knowing of mine, it's not to the point of needing to erase their memory of it.
[The difference between something being personal, and being mortifying, he supposed. Few had any right to his name or past, but it wasn't something he was specifically hiding. It was only a matter of who deserved to know. And those numbers were drastically limited.
By comparison, being a ghost was of significantly less concern. Keeping it to himself was more a matter of keeping most things to himself, rather than a spectral-nature specifically. It helped, certainly, that the Ascian had considerable disdain for humanity. Why would he be interested in the opinion of something so far beneath him? Whether it was fear or acceptance, neither was a result that he cared anything for.]
But what of you? Apart from the obvious... is there anything you'd wish to keep private?
[While Emet-Selch was considerably less distractable when it came to discussions about himself, no matter his own superiority, he also kept his personal life, well, personal. Given an appropriate question, he might deign to answer it, but there was no reason to volunteer anything. So though he had no interest in hiding anything (they'd certainly had public conversations on the network which would no doubt imply something about their relationship), he'd also had no reason to specifically bring up being Bonded to him to much of anyone.
Which had, perhaps, backfired a little when he hadn't cared enough to inform any of his other Bonded when he'd taken on a fourth, but, that was all in the past now.... Perhaps he might even have learned something from that.]