you ever talk to someone and instantly realize that they don’t view themselves as a person, they view themselves as “The Protagonist,” and they don’t view you as a person either, but as “Extra #2 (Used in Backstory Exposition)” or “Background Character #8 (Dialogue: “Whoa, that thing you can do is really cool”)
and like, it’s so painfully obvious when you say something “off-script” to their bizarre fantasy wherein you just exist to ask more and more probing questions so that they can continue to monologue to an invisible audience. like they have no patience for anything you have to say unless they can use it as a springboard for some quip
judsonryder