Buddy, I hate to tell you this, but I'm cold and standoffish and also rude as fuck. And I didn't switch to voice with you right away, either, and look where we are now.

[The faint wash of humor ebbs away again as he goes over what he has assembled of the Kingdom Hearts Canon Puzzle. It's not much.]

All right. I'll drop him a line soon, see if I can pull anything else out of him now that you've softened him up for me. As a native speaker of Withdrawn Assholese, maybe I can get somewhere you can't.