It was clear enough to V that Wren had said something without realizing what exactly it was they were implying. It didn't make the wound to his pride magically disappear but he was willing to overlook it this time - he couldn't hold something they didn't know against them.
"You don't know what you don't know," he offered in place of direct forgiveness. There wasn't a lot of room for apologies where he was from - people tended to shoot to kill before they'd apologize, and those that didn't would ghost and abandon.
"Yeah, well, God had to humble me somehow, I guess," he responded dryly. His reaction to their joke was rather subtle - his face was still close to resting bitch face, but the corners of his lips turned up slightly and he couldn't hide the way his eyes lit up (a trait he would likely come to hate moving forward).
"Suff that's real polished like that's just pretty typical of a band with a shit ton of money behind it, which usually means they're some corpo band. Or that it was written by an AI, I guess," he explained, moving to start looking through tapes to see if he found anything he recognized. The AI artists were all corporate projects so that technically fell in with being corporate but he felt it was worth the distinction.
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"You don't know what you don't know," he offered in place of direct forgiveness. There wasn't a lot of room for apologies where he was from - people tended to shoot to kill before they'd apologize, and those that didn't would ghost and abandon.
"Yeah, well, God had to humble me somehow, I guess," he responded dryly. His reaction to their joke was rather subtle - his face was still close to resting bitch face, but the corners of his lips turned up slightly and he couldn't hide the way his eyes lit up (a trait he would likely come to hate moving forward).
"Suff that's real polished like that's just pretty typical of a band with a shit ton of money behind it, which usually means they're some corpo band. Or that it was written by an AI, I guess," he explained, moving to start looking through tapes to see if he found anything he recognized. The AI artists were all corporate projects so that technically fell in with being corporate but he felt it was worth the distinction.