[Taunting him? There was nothing Hannibal could do to him in public. A verbal attack (which it was like, talking about serial killers and cannibals when there wasn't a murder in the City with himself attached to it) wasn't the worst of things.
That there may be someone, somewhere, who had a clue about him based only on his name was worse than anything else so far.
What would he be taunting him for, other than to draw out more information on all this talk of press and monikers?]
You tell me now you are not one to judge when you clearly have made some sort of judgment based solely on my name. [Which is rude. Very, very rude. It's not often Hannibal finds it appropriate to tear a person apart for what could be seen as little to no reason (though considering Hannibal actually is all those things, he has a great deal of reason to do just that), but he doesn't know enough about his fellow just yet to do as much. He doesn't know if he was raised poor, if he was considered trash, if Mommy and Daddy Nygma fought in front of him, if he drank to numb some pain that he couldn't move past.
He knew next to nothing about him but, apparently, Edward thought he knew a little about him. That was the most alarming, infuriating thing of all.] You react to my name without knowing anything else, other than I found myself speaking to one person going by the name of Eridan, who you say I should disregard. You make a connection to my name with something else you know but I clearly do not, and then you ask: what's in a name?
[His grip may not have been unrelenting, but the way he lowers his voice and refuses to look away from his face is just that.]
What's in a name is up for debate. But what's in my name, you've now got me curious. Of course, I'd be curious about it if it was approached in another way, but your manner is insensitive and completely inappropriate, and I hardly appreciate it. Serial killers and cannibalism? Do you realize how mad you sound at this very moment, how much you're contradicting yourself in the name of, what? Placating me?
[It doesn't matter what happens afterward, not in the end of things.
Once someone is rude, that's all he needs. And how many more ways can he say "rude" without saying as much?]
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That there may be someone, somewhere, who had a clue about him based only on his name was worse than anything else so far.
What would he be taunting him for, other than to draw out more information on all this talk of press and monikers?]
You tell me now you are not one to judge when you clearly have made some sort of judgment based solely on my name. [Which is rude. Very, very rude. It's not often Hannibal finds it appropriate to tear a person apart for what could be seen as little to no reason (though considering Hannibal actually is all those things, he has a great deal of reason to do just that), but he doesn't know enough about his fellow just yet to do as much. He doesn't know if he was raised poor, if he was considered trash, if Mommy and Daddy Nygma fought in front of him, if he drank to numb some pain that he couldn't move past.
He knew next to nothing about him but, apparently, Edward thought he knew a little about him. That was the most alarming, infuriating thing of all.] You react to my name without knowing anything else, other than I found myself speaking to one person going by the name of Eridan, who you say I should disregard. You make a connection to my name with something else you know but I clearly do not, and then you ask: what's in a name?
[His grip may not have been unrelenting, but the way he lowers his voice and refuses to look away from his face is just that.]
What's in a name is up for debate. But what's in my name, you've now got me curious. Of course, I'd be curious about it if it was approached in another way, but your manner is insensitive and completely inappropriate, and I hardly appreciate it. Serial killers and cannibalism? Do you realize how mad you sound at this very moment, how much you're contradicting yourself in the name of, what? Placating me?
[It doesn't matter what happens afterward, not in the end of things.
Once someone is rude, that's all he needs. And how many more ways can he say "rude" without saying as much?]