You mean whenever you'll get something out of it later, right?
Okay. So. Here's what I'm thinking: you should join Team Rocket.
I know, I know. Technically we're the bad guys. But it's like you said yourself, whoever's behind the space llama is just-- constructing sides, pitting two groups against each other. If you join the team, you'll be on the same side as Hades again.
And you can mostly avoid stealing Pokemon too. There's a quota, sure, but they don't actually check how you got them. Most of us just turn in ones that we catch in the field.
But seriously, Hythlo, they'll give you your own lab, so you won't piss off Hades by cooking in this one. And they'll handle the business side of your drug empire, so you don't have to bother with that tedious shit. They'll give you a stipend, so you won't have to rely on Hades for your money. You can get room and board from them, in case you need to a night or two to yourself.
And also? Hades will fucking hate it and I know you love him and all, but from what I can tell? He's your outlet. Isn't he? For the sadism and need for control and all that shit. This would be one way to annoy the fuck out of him and if he protests, you can just tell him that you're not doing anything he isn't doing.
Besides [and here he gives Hythlodaeus another knowing look], right now he really deserves you doing something to make him unhappy and uncomfortable. Not for anything he's done to me, but for what he's doing with you and Dirk.
Even if you're not fucking anymore, he's still-- well. He's still treating you like you're still in that relationship, even as he's doing his thing with Dirk. That's not fair to either one of you. Dirk deserves a boyfriend who doesn't have a secret sidepiece, even from just an emotional standpoint--and you deserve a man who isn't taking you for granted. Who isn't treating you as a sidepiece. Who isn't taking it as a given that you're all too happy to wait until Dirk dies to slip back into your old relationship.
At least, [he adds after a moment,] I assume Dirk doesn't know how Hades still acts around you. He, uh, seems like he'd be a lot more publicly passive-aggressive at Hades if he did.
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You mean whenever you'll get something out of it later, right?
Okay. So. Here's what I'm thinking: you should join Team Rocket.
I know, I know. Technically we're the bad guys. But it's like you said yourself, whoever's behind the space llama is just-- constructing sides, pitting two groups against each other. If you join the team, you'll be on the same side as Hades again.
And you can mostly avoid stealing Pokemon too. There's a quota, sure, but they don't actually check how you got them. Most of us just turn in ones that we catch in the field.
But seriously, Hythlo, they'll give you your own lab, so you won't piss off Hades by cooking in this one. And they'll handle the business side of your drug empire, so you don't have to bother with that tedious shit. They'll give you a stipend, so you won't have to rely on Hades for your money. You can get room and board from them, in case you need to a night or two to yourself.
And also? Hades will fucking hate it and I know you love him and all, but from what I can tell? He's your outlet. Isn't he? For the sadism and need for control and all that shit. This would be one way to annoy the fuck out of him and if he protests, you can just tell him that you're not doing anything he isn't doing.
Besides [and here he gives Hythlodaeus another knowing look], right now he really deserves you doing something to make him unhappy and uncomfortable. Not for anything he's done to me, but for what he's doing with you and Dirk.
Even if you're not fucking anymore, he's still-- well. He's still treating you like you're still in that relationship, even as he's doing his thing with Dirk. That's not fair to either one of you. Dirk deserves a boyfriend who doesn't have a secret sidepiece, even from just an emotional standpoint--and you deserve a man who isn't taking you for granted. Who isn't treating you as a sidepiece. Who isn't taking it as a given that you're all too happy to wait until Dirk dies to slip back into your old relationship.
At least, [he adds after a moment,] I assume Dirk doesn't know how Hades still acts around you. He, uh, seems like he'd be a lot more publicly passive-aggressive at Hades if he did.