[ shiro says you're not, and even if that's not true, or it shouldn't be true - because how else would you react to something like that? -it doesn't really leave him much of a choice but to believe it. so he nods, and he swallows heavily, and he tries to ignore the anxieties that are still clumping together around his misstep. ]
...Neptune and Jupiter. [ he feels bad about that, too. he's just outed them, hasn't he? but- only because shiro is safe. it's different, telling someone who's like them, he's pretty sure, and even though he doesn't count he at least kind of gets it on some level. ] They're... I mean, they're kind of the worst? We all are. You don't get sent to the summer scouts without being at least sort of terrible.
[ earlier today, he might have said jupiter was different - that she was too nice, or too good, or too capable of that. but even now, he's already starting to see some of the ways she's just like neptune. just like him. ]
Jupiter's... small. [ a short laugh, less amused and more apologetic. ] She's good at a lot of things? Like, people call on her first for sports all the time, and she knows a lot of stuff about. Everything, really. [ she's only bad at the very last step - at turning in the test, at making the winning goal, at inviting the girl she likes to play seven minutes in heaven instead of some boy she wouldn't ever be interested in. ]
And Neptune's... tall and mean? But, like. Mean in the nice way. Mean because she cares, or maybe because she doesn't but she wants to care? [ a pause. venus hesitates for a moment. ] And she's... really pretty. Both of them are? But Neptune's like, pretty pretty. It's...
[ for a fraction of a moment, a single millisecond, there's something approaching jealousy in venus's voice. but it's gone, just like that - a trick of the light within her, and nothing more. ]
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...Neptune and Jupiter. [ he feels bad about that, too. he's just outed them, hasn't he? but- only because shiro is safe. it's different, telling someone who's like them, he's pretty sure, and even though he doesn't count he at least kind of gets it on some level. ] They're... I mean, they're kind of the worst? We all are. You don't get sent to the summer scouts without being at least sort of terrible.
[ earlier today, he might have said jupiter was different - that she was too nice, or too good, or too capable of that. but even now, he's already starting to see some of the ways she's just like neptune. just like him. ]
Jupiter's... small. [ a short laugh, less amused and more apologetic. ] She's good at a lot of things? Like, people call on her first for sports all the time, and she knows a lot of stuff about. Everything, really. [ she's only bad at the very last step - at turning in the test, at making the winning goal, at inviting the girl she likes to play seven minutes in heaven instead of some boy she wouldn't ever be interested in. ]
And Neptune's... tall and mean? But, like. Mean in the nice way. Mean because she cares, or maybe because she doesn't but she wants to care? [ a pause. venus hesitates for a moment. ] And she's... really pretty. Both of them are? But Neptune's like, pretty pretty. It's...
[ for a fraction of a moment, a single millisecond, there's something approaching jealousy in venus's voice. but it's gone, just like that - a trick of the light within her, and nothing more. ]
...I hope they're okay.