[Her hands move with their usual grace, as if existing on a separate level of consciousness from the rest of her - they manage to rearrange the jumbled mess into something presentable, even as her response rolls smoothly off her tongue.]
What you're saying is true, of course, and yet you're missing the point: the feelings don't have to be genuine on the other person's part. The ones who ply the potion....they just want the object of their affections to notice them and treat them as they've always desired.
It's not odd so much as it is selfish. [She states this coolly, almost callously, yet with not a small twinge of guilt.] They're manipulating the other person's behavior to suit themselves.
[And Mami herself is no stranger to such underhanded tactics, if ones that used words rather than magical elixirs.]
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Date: 2012-03-07 02:15 am (UTC)What you're saying is true, of course, and yet you're missing the point: the feelings don't have to be genuine on the other person's part. The ones who ply the potion....they just want the object of their affections to notice them and treat them as they've always desired.
It's not odd so much as it is selfish. [She states this coolly, almost callously, yet with not a small twinge of guilt.] They're manipulating the other person's behavior to suit themselves.
[And Mami herself is no stranger to such underhanded tactics, if ones that used words rather than magical elixirs.]