[ it takes a while for kaiser to reply. first, he has to reflect on whether he thinks noa is right about all of this or not — but that actually doesn't take much time, he quickly accepts that noa is more or less correct. michael kaiser is a creature for whom "yearning for love" and "treating with malice" are two sides of the same coin, after all. he sees himself as an object and assumes everybody sees him as one too, which is why he can't help but want external validation — where else does a 'thing' get its value from, other than what humans give it? — even as he thinks of himself as something that can look down on any human being. above all else, he tends towards inertia; he knows his mind is naturally weak, and that he has to throw himself into challenge after challenge to prevent himself from giving into the temptation of giving into the comfort of accepting weakness.
no, what takes time is for him to consider what to say in response to all of that. "gross, stop paying so much attention to me"? if kaiser is honest with himself, it's not as if kaiser doesn't realize that he observes noa quite a lot in turn. and he gives noa opportunity after opportunity to continue observing, so even if the comment is a tacit agreement with what noa says, it feels like a useless deflection.
also, he literally asked for it. ]
then, how do you think that this contradiction that is "michael kaiser" will resolve itself?
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no, what takes time is for him to consider what to say in response to all of that. "gross, stop paying so much attention to me"? if kaiser is honest with himself, it's not as if kaiser doesn't realize that he observes noa quite a lot in turn. and he gives noa opportunity after opportunity to continue observing, so even if the comment is a tacit agreement with what noa says, it feels like a useless deflection.
also, he literally asked for it. ]
then, how do you think that this contradiction that is "michael kaiser" will resolve itself?