#ben davy.

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@kylo-wrecked said: "being a professional yourself, you should know, it wasn't personal.”

DAVY, INCENSED, CONVEYS HIS VEHEMENT DISAGREEMENT WITH A SHARP GLANCE. Too sharp, he realizes; he softens immediately. It's not in his nature to treat someone with disdain, even if vitriolic disdain is exactly what he feels.

"Even when I am working, I treat people like people."

Has Ben ever considered this?

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@kylo-wrecked said all kinds of crazy stuff, such as: “some things are so horrible that the only sane response is a bit of madness.” Ben tosses the horrible thing in question onto the boardroom table. His aim is good. He likes how the jacket designer jolts; it’s the best part of his day. Sales nods. “find an audience for this. i don’t care if you have to peddle it to Columbiners, make it shoot off the shelves.”

THAT WAS REALLY RUDE. This is, he'd admit, the worst part of Davy's day. And the best part of Ben's! It's funny, how those things work—how two people can be so fundamentally incompatible in any context, particularly professionally. And Davy truly believes it can be attributed almost entirely to Ben's pathological crankiness and hostility.

"I am not going to make an appeal, subtle or overt, to that particular sub-culture." Maybe Ben isn't meant to be taken at face value. Davy struggles with that on a good day, of course, but his reckless reference deserved a direct address. Davy is acutely aware of how many people are in the room.

"Have you ever reckoned with your pessimism?"