Channelknight Fadran

"How about this?" Fadran replies. "You let my friend go, I start a prison break, and then we leave your darned planet and you never have to worry about us again?"

No. My regular brown is fine for me. If I had any reason to change it, though, I guess adding a crimson streak would be cool. What's your favorite board/card/tabletop RPG game?

Sure, I suppose.

"Well, um, because..." He kicks open a door... and finds himself face-to-face with the holed controlling Eric. "Because I didn't want this guy to know I was onto him." Fadran swings his Channelblade at the holed, determined to kill the thing here and now.

The answer to that is all conditional. If you two don't know each other that much, then he'll probably take it as a signal. If you guys kind of know each other, then you might have doomed him to lie awake that night and wonder if you like him (but he'll get over it. Probably). If you guys are good friends, then it depends on how you ask him. If you ask him all timid and nervous, he might take it as a signal. If you ask him chill and confident, he'll probably know that you don't mean it romantically. Edit: Also, no, you are not a jerk! There aren't any rules about who you can and can't ask on a date.

Yes. It's creepy. Avoid these people.

Whoohoo!

Oh yeah, DEFINITELY. Expectations at the bottom. Bar on the floor. The people we like are perfect and there's nothing you can do to convince us otherwise. Yes. Maximum aloofness is bad, but also a fact of life... a very sad, disappointing fact of life.

*Fadran replies, via asterisk, that it'd be a paradox if he had all the happiness in the world, because he would feel bad if he no one else had happiness in order to provide it for him. Perhaps happiness is not an objective term that can be quantified and distributed, but rather a result of performing actions that help themselves and others.*

*Is slightly... ever so slightly... happy*

Fadran turns a corner, nearly slamming into a wall. "Eric's been enthralled. I tried to free him, but... I can't tell you any more than that."

You could, indeed, take a train.

"Vapor?" He gasps, still running down the hallways. "Are you alright?"

Indeed.

I could bring the Legend of Zelda, Null could bring Apples, then Null could bring Spook, and then The_Truthwatcher could bring Knowledge.

You can take an ostrich.

Here's a hint. You can take an Ostrich.

No. I like your sisters! To the tune of Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton:

It's the rule. I'll edit that post.

Huh. I had figured only about half of that out. Nice, thanks! How do guys work? Uhh... Guys rarely go by halves. There isn't an option, as far as I know, that is "I kinda like this person but not too much." Guys either like you or don't like you. Whether or not they know this, however, is individual to each person. When it comes to liking someone, guys have a variety of methods of showing that. I'll list them below: "Maxiumum Aloofness." This beautiful advice given by Sokka to Aang in the fourteenth episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender is a perfect representation of a good portion of guys. These guys will outwardly appear as if they don't care about the person they have a crush on. I was like this for about three years or so, and I can't actually find a good reason why I did it. Guys will trick themselves into thinking that if they completely ignore the person they like, then that person will eventually notice them. This does not mean that every guy who ignores you has a crush on you; just some of them do. A good way to pick these people out of a crowd is to try to talk to them: chances are they'll freeze up and stutter, or act as though they've been your friend for years and chat smoother than you might anticipate. "OverFlirtation." If a guy is flirting with you, then he might have a crush on you! That's how it works! However, you have to know the person who's flirting; if they flirt with everybody, then you're just another girl (that was painful to write. GUYS!!! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS JUST ANOTHER GIRL!!! EVERYONE IS UNIQUE!!! Ok, that's out of my system now. Moving on). If they only flirt with you and a couple other people, then they probably like you and those other people. They might lean towards Aloofness as they do this, flirting with people they don't like in order to cover up the fact that they're flirting with you because they like you. To make sure you're not an "extra" (and I sure hope to goodness that none of you are. I would find and kill anybody who considers anybody an extra), try flirting back. If they seem excited, congrats! You got them! If they seem uncomfortable... then they're a sexist son of a chull and you're just a coverup. Ask your brawny friend (or me, but I'm not brawny) to beat them up for you. "The Experienced." Those past two methods are generally starter phases for most guys. I certainly went through both (I didn't flirt with anybody to coverup, though. Even I'm not that much of a jerk). After awhile, though, a guy will finally learn that in order to get a girl to like them, they have to become friends first. They may have absolutely no idea how to go through with this, so sometimes you might want to take initiative and start befriending them first (I'll put good methods to do this in a subsection. Am I seriously categorizing crush identification? This is weird). If, in the case that the guy does know what he's doing, he'll play it smooth, but not too smooth. He'll start conversations on his own, he'll respond to you without freezing up too much (he'll still freeze, though. He'll always freeze), and he might even go so far as to swallow his pride and buy you a gift on Valentine's day or ask you out. Be careful, though. If you're aware that the guy you like is in a relationship with someone, then you need to stay cautious. Waiting for him to break up is certainly an option, but not a good one. If he turns to you after breaking up with somebody else, then it might just be to prove a point, which is even worse than "extras" or "coverups," in my opinion. A few more things to note: About 90% of the male population is freaking terrified of females. If you start a conversation with a guy and he instantly freezes, then that does not mean he has a crush on you. If you want to get close to someone who is inexperienced in relationships, then try to use a conduit. Become friends with friends of that person, then join the group and befriend that person. From there... well, from there, it's a bit of a waiting game, because most guys don't know how to pick up flirting signals. Get close to them, help them feel comfortable around you. Eventually, they'll figure out what's going on, and then all you have to do is subtly suggest a date, or mention Valentine's day (guys are also terrified of Valentine's day). Try laughing at things they say: We feel great when we make you laugh (though with @Condensation telling me that girls laugh at everything when they like you... hmm). Guys are also terrified of admitting they like unless they're 100% sure that you like them; if you do something nice for them, though, they're more likely to approach you. TL;DR... it seems as though the "fearless male warrior" is a huge misconception, because half the verbs in that entire post were the word "terrified." Other guys! Did I miss anything? What a beautiful way to end a post ~ Fadran

Let's hammer through those pages and THE LONGEST THREAD WILL get close second.

I think I'd sooner swallow a bullet covered in lighter fluid

Just out of curiosity, do the female species understand their male counterparts?