mostly ash, potentially ishmael since She's Coming (hopefully)

10, 15 & 38 for ash!

4, 11, 27, and E for Ash

oh and importantly 24

10. He told a lot of people (including himself!!) he was 100% A Guy for most of his life and look how that turned out! He was young, stupid, and growing up in the 1970s and 80s, so he thinks he can give his old self a pass on this one. Not for any of the other things, ofc.

(Realistically his most common lie is 'It's fine'. Honey. You have never once in your life been fine. Nobody is fooled by this except you.)

11. she has long since given up the hope of being normal and socially graceful so she just asks questions. even when it is, perhaps, not the time

15. if she thought before she said things she wouldn't be on the barge <3 her mouth moves a lot faster than her brain does and things just. get said. often in much worse-sounding ways than the intent was

at best he throws on a mental filter of 'this is how i want to be perceived here / this is who i am in this context' and uses that as an overlay

24. maybe if vampires had marriage & marriage counseling there would be less nonsense going on. sure is a thing people do! will not begrudge anyone getting married, has basically never considered it as an option for themself, has seen healthy marriages so knows they DO exist but gee sometimes you wonder

27. 100% would much rather have the truth. hates being lied to, hates being jerked around; tell her the fucking truth. even if she won't understand it she still wants to hear it, she is sick and tired of not knowing.

38. does not acknowledge a variety of things as Actual Flaws, & if they're in love extremely prone to just ignoring said flaws. if they dislike someone they'll hyperfocus in on said flaws though

well that's just normal

aw fuck, the worst guy in the world (armand) had a correct opinion again. he can't keep doing this

they can't keep getting away with this!!!!!

E. she'd find me immensely annoying for being an all-talk no-action path-of-least-resistance coward but i'd also get so frustrated by her Everything that we would only ever be able to coexist in 'shared mutual acquaintance' scenarios