[Ever experienced input lag in real life? Ryou definitely is right now. Reading all of that has him absolutely physically buffering, and even when he thought that it might be done with, that he might cobble together some half-minded response, the Ring-Spirit kept going.
He was...really trying to get Ryou up out of his own head. He was trying very hard, and that translated to an awful lot of aggressive verbiage, but Ryou gets it. He understands that the spirit's coming at him from, lord help him, a good place. An attempt to be helpful??
But that makes it all the harder to deal with in a way. For now, Ryou retreats into what he knows. He shuts down.
He shuts down for a very long time, probably a worrying amount of time. But it's easier to just stare at the screen and not see anything for a length of time than to come back and try to figure out how it's your fault.
Because one thing is for certain. The Ring-Spirit is right. This...isn't Ryou's fault. He's overthinking it. Processing that is just difficult.
So...he doesn't immediately respond. He goes idle.]
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He was...really trying to get Ryou up out of his own head. He was trying very hard, and that translated to an awful lot of aggressive verbiage, but Ryou gets it. He understands that the spirit's coming at him from, lord help him, a good place. An attempt to be helpful??
But that makes it all the harder to deal with in a way. For now, Ryou retreats into what he knows. He shuts down.
He shuts down for a very long time, probably a worrying amount of time. But it's easier to just stare at the screen and not see anything for a length of time than to come back and try to figure out how it's your fault.
Because one thing is for certain. The Ring-Spirit is right. This...isn't Ryou's fault. He's overthinking it. Processing that is just difficult.
So...he doesn't immediately respond. He goes idle.]