Dyssia is cool. So cool. So very cool, she's even totally looking at Violet's eyes when she turns around, and not checking out those legs at all! Despite the way she is so very normal about the way the muscles bunch and extend and send her shooting across the pool!

So normal. [i]So[/i] cool. And not slightly panicking at all, either, because oh no oh no she's sad [i]aaaaaaaaa[/i]--

"In fairness, being number one has a much simpler benchmark, right?" 

She hauls herself partly out of the water, and endeavors to make it clear by her body language that while Violet isn't required to take her hand, the hand is nevertheless there and boy, it sure looks lonely, like it could use a hand, maybe you could take the hand? This hand right here next to yours?

"Ahem. Did you win, yes slash no? If yes, congrats, you did good, let's train more. If no, I'm sorry, let's train more and get 'em next time. But coolness?

"For coolness, we gotta get metaphysical, right? Like goodness, right? Is something cool because it matches some hypothetical proto-ideal of cool, and the cool people are merely revealing it to be so? Or are your actions cool [i]because[/i] you do them--that is to say, you are the ultimate arbiter of cool, because something cannot be cool except by your action?"

Wait. No. She's losing her, moping increased! Quick! Change tack!

"I guess what I'm really trying to ask is, why do you [i]want[/i] to be cool?"

"Like, for real! I'm not trying to make fun of you or mock you, it's a genuine question! What do you get outta being cool? And I'm also not asking like, why is being cool desirable! What do you, Violet, specifically, hope to gain from being cool?

"Is it the confidence? The ability to declare to the world that actually, you're invincible? You're on top of things, you're coolsville and the world can follow or be left behind?

"Is it about people [i]treating[/i] you like you're cool? About the adulation of people around you?

"Like, what is cool is a good question, but I wanna know [i]why[/i] is cool!"