you have a boyfriend? sorry not being a dick, just- people don't exactly talk about that sort of thing back home.
but c'mon, you move like- like nothing i've ever seen outside of one of my best friend's comic books. it's pretty cool. there a lot of people that do stuff like that where you're from?
[Not that he's interested for any particular reason.]
Yeah. My brother does too, but Teddy ain't here anymore. Back home they're married.
If you ever meet some noisy tall redhead from jersey, that's my punk.
Sorry people are shit about it back home. I know they still are back home for me sometimes. Hell, took me forever to be out to B.
Ugh comics. Talk to Billy about those. He's the nerd about those. I'm just a card carrying Avenger. Except for the card part. Apparently I'm still a kid in their eyes. But really they don't trust my mom. Or my past. And my grandfather on my dad's side may be an evil genocide robot.
i haven't actually dated anyone. or well- i dunno. it's messy.
if i ever see him around i'll make sure to say hi.
back home i go to this prep school in Virginia full of rich assholes, so it's kinda rough if you're not an aggressively straight dickhead.
well, i think you seem pretty cool. though man, that sounds like a mess. my family's not that weird. my mom's nice and everyone loves my younger brother and my older brother is a liar.
[It almost sounds like a joke, or a punchline. But his father is alive and also a liar, so at this point it doesn't yet hurt.]
i don't know anything about my grandparents, though. i have an aunt and uncle in new york, but they're- i think they're friends of my father's. i'm not related to them or anything. the only family i know are the ones i grew up with.
[Clearly there are no secrets about his family here.]
Dude, why the fuck are you going to some rich prep school? Wait, are you fucking loaded? Man, you were SO COOL!
[Kid from the wrong side of the wrong side of jersey with authority and power issues? Doesn't take well to wealth. Even reminders of Tony's fortune can make him jumpy.]
I'm fucking cooler than you could imagine. Seriously though RichieRich, be good to them when you get back. Family's all a guy's really got. And sometimes you don't even get that shit. So be careful, watch yourself, and don't let them go easy if they're good.
Oh c'mon, I'm a farm kid. Think cows and barns and shit. My friend Gansey back home is richerich, but he's sort of tolerable most of the time anyway, even if he suffers under the delusion that pastel polo shirts are attractive.
[He doesn't deny that his family has money, because that would be a lie, and Ronan isn't so clueless to be unaware of the difference, even without Adam to see it reflected in.]
Yeah, they're pretty good, most of the time. Even Declan is pretty-- I dunno. He wants to be a DC politician or something dumb, but he's okay once he's not wearing his suits and his fake face.
Yeah, okay, fair point. I'll admit he makes it work better than he has any right to, but I still think he'd be better off in clothes that made him look like a real boy. If you know what I mean.
Nah, I get it. We've got money, and my dad travels. Sort of makes his money as a very charming sort of conman, I guess? I know it's not the same. But we're not the sort of rich like Gansey and the kids I go to school with, either. All yachts and vacations in the Hamptons and crap.
[Which isn't a lie, even if it's also not quite the truth- but it's somewhere in the middle, where he doesn't feel like he's lying, or betraying that reminder to don't tell his father had extracted from him one sunlit morning a few years ago.]
Yeah, they are. My brothers were the only friends I had before I met Gansey. And- well, Kavinsky too, I guess.
[That's definitely something more than friends though, even if he hasn't found the words for it yet.]
Not sexy clothes, I just mean like- tshirt & jeans. Gansey's cool and all, but he's like a statue or something. A different species. Someone's fairytale prince or some shit.
[Not Ronan's, being the implication.]
Kavinsky is.. I dunno. He's good, even if no one back home really saw it. And he gets me. I didn't think anyone else ever would.
[He sort of almost wants to tell Tommy, who has powers that are far flashier than Ronan's. But he's been told to keep it secret for so long, it's difficult. But after a moment he asks anyway, even if it feels like unsteady ground--]
Are there other people like you where you're from?
Statue? I've known people like that. Like young Vision.
Hey, I've known fairytale princes. It's entirely possible he is.
[It's a shame Ronan doesn't tell him, because honestly Tommy would be one of the least impressed people here over it. Given his brother it would just be another day.]
Like me? Well there's definitely Uncle Pete. Then the Beaubier twins but that's cheating because they fly too. Then you get your non-mutant speedsters and they're a whole other thing, usually some sorta device or alien tech or cosmic powers. Like, there are more people like me than there are people like Billy.
I wouldn't put it past Gansey honestly. He's got a quest and everything.
[Gansey's always seemed a bit like a storybook character, something from one of his mother's tellings of the old Irish myths Ronan was raised on. His allergy to bees like a strange sort of geas that Ronan couldn't help wanting to save him from.
Tommy is just so matter of a fact about it, that it hardly feels like a secret. He still asks K about it first, but it feels less like breaking a promise when he types it.]
Until I met K, I'd never known anyone like me aside from my dad. And he would never talk about it- just wrapped it up in pretty lies.
[Lie isn't quite a dirty word yet, because Niall is still alive to tell them.]
One of the first I remember was when I was small and my older brother had to haul me out of a fire because I brought back a flaming sword. I thought it'd be really cool.
And still no one would talk about it. I guess they thought if I didn't have the words -- maybe it'd be easier to hide?
[At sixteen he's still upset about it. It becomes the fuse ignited by Declan's lies, even if it isn't Declan's fault. He's still figuring out the shape of what he can do.]
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Date: 2021-10-04 10:21 pm (UTC)so since you've rescued me like fucking twice now, i figured i ought to say thank you or something.
so you know..
thanks, or something.
[Look, he still sucks at this.]
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Date: 2021-10-04 11:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-04 11:53 pm (UTC)and you're pretty badass in case no one's said it recently.
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Date: 2021-10-04 11:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-05 01:09 am (UTC)sorry not being a dick, just- people don't exactly talk about that sort of thing back home.
but c'mon, you move like- like nothing i've ever seen outside of one of my best friend's comic books.
it's pretty cool. there a lot of people that do stuff like that where you're from?
[Not that he's interested for any particular reason.]
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Date: 2021-10-05 01:19 am (UTC)If you ever meet some noisy tall redhead from jersey, that's my punk.
Sorry people are shit about it back home. I know they still are back home for me sometimes. Hell, took me forever to be out to B.
Ugh comics. Talk to Billy about those. He's the nerd about those. I'm just a card carrying Avenger. Except for the card part. Apparently I'm still a kid in their eyes. But really they don't trust my mom. Or my past. And my grandfather on my dad's side may be an evil genocide robot.
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Date: 2021-10-05 03:53 am (UTC)if i ever see him around i'll make sure to say hi.
back home i go to this prep school in Virginia full of rich assholes, so it's kinda rough if you're not an aggressively straight dickhead.
well, i think you seem pretty cool. though man, that sounds like a mess. my family's not that weird. my mom's nice and everyone loves my younger brother and my older brother is a liar.
[It almost sounds like a joke, or a punchline. But his father is alive and also a liar, so at this point it doesn't yet hurt.]
i don't know anything about my grandparents, though. i have an aunt and uncle in new york, but they're- i think they're friends of my father's. i'm not related to them or anything. the only family i know are the ones i grew up with.
[Clearly there are no secrets about his family here.]
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Date: 2021-10-05 04:06 am (UTC)[Kid from the wrong side of the wrong side of jersey with authority and power issues? Doesn't take well to wealth. Even reminders of Tony's fortune can make him jumpy.]
I'm fucking cooler than you could imagine. Seriously though RichieRich, be good to them when you get back. Family's all a guy's really got. And sometimes you don't even get that shit. So be careful, watch yourself, and don't let them go easy if they're good.
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Date: 2021-10-29 05:51 am (UTC)[He doesn't deny that his family has money, because that would be a lie, and Ronan isn't so clueless to be unaware of the difference, even without Adam to see it reflected in.]
Yeah, they're pretty good, most of the time. Even Declan is pretty-- I dunno. He wants to be a DC politician or something dumb, but he's okay once he's not wearing his suits and his fake face.
Worth fighting for, if you have to, I guess.
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Date: 2021-10-29 04:37 pm (UTC)And look at you, denying being Richie Rich. Fine. You can be Richie Rich Jr.
Good family is worth fighting for, dude.
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Date: 2021-10-29 09:03 pm (UTC)If you know what I mean.
Nah, I get it. We've got money, and my dad travels. Sort of makes his money as a very charming sort of conman, I guess? I know it's not the same.
But we're not the sort of rich like Gansey and the kids I go to school with, either. All yachts and vacations in the Hamptons and crap.
[Which isn't a lie, even if it's also not quite the truth- but it's somewhere in the middle, where he doesn't feel like he's lying, or betraying that reminder to don't tell his father had extracted from him one sunlit morning a few years ago.]
Yeah, they are. My brothers were the only friends I had before I met Gansey. And- well, Kavinsky too, I guess.
[That's definitely something more than friends though, even if he hasn't found the words for it yet.]
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Date: 2021-10-29 09:06 pm (UTC)Hamptons sucks. Too tidy. And that Kavinsky guy is DEFINITELY concerned about you, so yeah. That's a good friend there. But he'd look shit in polos.
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Date: 2021-10-29 09:40 pm (UTC)[Not Ronan's, being the implication.]
Kavinsky is.. I dunno. He's good, even if no one back home really saw it. And he gets me. I didn't think anyone else ever would.
[He sort of almost wants to tell Tommy, who has powers that are far flashier than Ronan's. But he's been told to keep it secret for so long, it's difficult. But after a moment he asks anyway, even if it feels like unsteady ground--]
Are there other people like you where you're from?
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Date: 2021-10-29 09:46 pm (UTC)Hey, I've known fairytale princes. It's entirely possible he is.
[It's a shame Ronan doesn't tell him, because honestly Tommy would be one of the least impressed people here over it. Given his brother it would just be another day.]
Like me? Well there's definitely Uncle Pete. Then the Beaubier twins but that's cheating because they fly too. Then you get your non-mutant speedsters and they're a whole other thing, usually some sorta device or alien tech or cosmic powers. Like, there are more people like me than there are people like Billy.
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Date: 2021-10-30 04:50 pm (UTC)[Gansey's always seemed a bit like a storybook character, something from one of his mother's tellings of the old Irish myths Ronan was raised on. His allergy to bees like a strange sort of geas that Ronan couldn't help wanting to save him from.
Tommy is just so matter of a fact about it, that it hardly feels like a secret. He still asks K about it first, but it feels less like breaking a promise when he types it.]
Until I met K, I'd never known anyone like me aside from my dad.
And he would never talk about it- just wrapped it up in pretty lies.
[Lie isn't quite a dirty word yet, because Niall is still alive to tell them.]
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Date: 2021-10-30 09:57 pm (UTC)So, you're a mutant then? Or something like that?
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Date: 2021-10-31 06:55 am (UTC)[Which wasn't to say there was no magic there, but Glendower was Gansey's tale- it felt strange not having him here to tell it. ]
Something like that. Never heard anyone use the word mutant back home tho.
But I can bring back my dreams back with me.
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Date: 2021-11-01 01:17 am (UTC)[Except apparently it's for Ronan. Tommy raises an eyebrow at that.]
So you're like Billy then. Cool.
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Date: 2021-11-01 01:43 am (UTC)One of the first I remember was when I was small and my older brother had to haul me out of a fire because I brought back a flaming sword. I thought it'd be really cool.
And still no one would talk about it. I guess they thought if I didn't have the words -- maybe it'd be easier to hide?
[At sixteen he's still upset about it. It becomes the fuse ignited by Declan's lies, even if it isn't Declan's fault. He's still figuring out the shape of what he can do.]
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Date: 2021-11-01 01:49 am (UTC)Wait, a flaming sword? Bad fucking ass. Though i get hiding stuff. mutants get issues back home too.