I'm sorry your crush is painfully dense, Nat. Like, bordering on Paul Retriever from Empress? Empress! dense. Good luck.

Reads more like a deliberate avoidance rather than simply being too dense, tbh

Does it? Been a while since I've read the April Fools specials, but I don't remember it that way. I might need to go through and do a reread.

It's important to remember that even though the characters might be answering, this is a noncanon fourth-wall segment, so any in-character interactions have to be taken with a grain of salt.