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[marmoron]

Name: Anonymous
Date: 7/2 (after new mirrorbound arrive!)
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question. what's supposed to go into a bonding vow? how did your bonding ceremonies go? are you supposed to wear something nice? bring presents? would appreciate some advice.

[ Help out an anonymous space mullet? ]

Comments

[marmoron]

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you're the guy who was asking people if they'd killed people while speed dating
of course im going to ask questions

[eyeforaneye]

So you know me. The sensitivity people have towards that question aside, I'm telling the truth.

There are no particular preparations required. What you need to do is speak openly to your Bondmate about their expectations. Isn't that obvious?

[marmoron]

maybe i do maybe i dont. it's a story i've heard about you.
and look. is it really so wrong to try and work out what the general expectation for this stuff is?
it's hard to gage what's reasonable when one of you is nobility and the other is the opposite

[ The answer is clearly a "yes" if the rest of this post is any indication, but shh. ]

[eyeforaneye]

I'm not interesting or related to your topic at all. Let's avoid that subject.

More importantly, you're proving my point. If you can't have a simple discussion about this, class differences or not, why are you doing it?

[marmoron]

[ Just closes eyes. Adding "tfw Sasuke has a valid point" to the list of bad feelings. ]

out of curiosity what would you consider a difficult discussion?

[eyeforaneye]

A discussion in which a valued person has to be hurt, manipulated, or disappointed.

Why?

[marmoron]

because you keep insisting this is a simple discussion so i wanted to know what you'd call difficult
since you consider having a conversation with a "valued person" that may be disappointing difficult i'm glad you understand the problem

[eyeforaneye]

"may be"

You genuinely believe the person you're bonding with will be disappointed by your attempts to ask them honestly what interests them?

[marmoron]

no! stop framing this in the most ridiculous way possible
i mean that we're very different people and it isn't easy to talk about expectations and preferences knowing full well you can't meet them all
i'd like to because their happiness means a lot to me