and even though he does genuinely think eiffel might have said the dumb/hurtful thing later (which makes it super hard to walk back, oops) he would definitely not have done it like this or right now if he was being his best self
Jedao, to himself, 70% believing it: if I was an asshole I definitely had a perfectly good tactical reason for it, which I am going to think of riiiight now
honestly he can't even pin this one on Jedao 1 at all, he is just feeling very helpless to protect gonou and eiffel from All The Things and possibly has a crispy hole in his chest and eiffel is an easy target and he overreacted
Based on what they usually do to people: burning, sometimes burning a hole Right The Fuck Through The Torso To Daylight depending on how much power he puts into them.
I love that on one of my character slider we have Doug "Voted Most Likely to Eat His Own Foot" Eiffel, and on the other we have Arthur "It's Your Responsibility So Own It (Even if It is your Theoretical Future Self Fucking It Up)" Lester
jedao is very ???? i don't know how I could have been more clear ???? because apparently eiffel does think Jedao would set him up expecting him to fail at Gonou's expense
but he's very much convinced himself jedao would set him up for a fall under his own lacking self-worth capabilities to make a point that he needs to be better
tbf eiffel just spent two days black-out drunk and another one with no memories at all so he's having a rough week in terms of like. what he expects people to expect from him
eiffel is dumb bc he will very much like. hold a reasonable grudge against someone he doesn't like (eg guess who's still mad about learning he was being used as a lab rat by hilbert)
jedao is also, like. in a LOT of pain and it's NOT the sexy kind, so he is feeling distracted and blindsided by eiffel reading stuff into what he's saying that he doesn't mean
equally ironic that he's not in a good enough place to be really careful, and that the thread he's hanging on right now means that eiffel's careless comment hurt/scared jedao when normally it really wouldn't have
self-worthcapabilities to make a point that he needs to be better