Imagining you playing coy is one of the last things that comes to mind when I think about you.
[ She bluntly admits this. Whether or not she's as good at reading him as he thinks is a matter of perspective: she thinks she doesn't do so badly, but there are differences in culture and expectation that throw her off, time to time. She has no guide to Japan, and no immersive life lived there in order to read the people around her to know how to suss out intentions. ]
For one, you're not particularly flirtatious, and I'd figure if you were, it would be genuine instead of... [ She waves her hand. ] Provocative for the sake of it. For another, you don't strike me as the type who'd bother with that kind of word play and body language in most situations. Maybe that would change when you were particularly interested in someone, but either I'd have to witness that, you'd have to tell me, or someone else would have to make the observation.
[ If he was ever curious how she forms opinions on people's tendencies, this is a bit of insight into the process, delivered with a considering air. ]
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[ She bluntly admits this. Whether or not she's as good at reading him as he thinks is a matter of perspective: she thinks she doesn't do so badly, but there are differences in culture and expectation that throw her off, time to time. She has no guide to Japan, and no immersive life lived there in order to read the people around her to know how to suss out intentions. ]
For one, you're not particularly flirtatious, and I'd figure if you were, it would be genuine instead of... [ She waves her hand. ] Provocative for the sake of it. For another, you don't strike me as the type who'd bother with that kind of word play and body language in most situations. Maybe that would change when you were particularly interested in someone, but either I'd have to witness that, you'd have to tell me, or someone else would have to make the observation.
[ If he was ever curious how she forms opinions on people's tendencies, this is a bit of insight into the process, delivered with a considering air. ]