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[Gratitude doesn't even begin to explain it. Ryuji's entire kit was made up of offensive and support ability, so even if he had his persona with him, it wouldn't have been much help. If the situation were reversed and Dave had accidentally gone into the water... man, he wouldn't forgive himself for a second. He can only make the people around him stronger, not cure them. Doesn't have versatility like Ren does.
The reversal of his injuries happens all too familiarly, like it's been done so many times that he can barely count. He's been knocked out, had his life drained to the brink of death, been shot at more times than he could count. It's only because of his friends that he ever stood a chance of making it out alive, and as he feels the pain start to fizzle away like a can of soda going flat, he closes his eyes and smiles appreciatively.]
Thanks, man.
[What else does he have to say? That Ren's always bailing his ass out of trouble? That he's sorry for being reckless, again? It's underpinned beneath everything that he is, and he knows he doesn't have to say much more than that for Ren to get what he means.
Now the question of how they explain this crosses his mind as he looks at Dave wandering around the pool, sizing it up.]
Stupid... goddamn monkey has to be as much a stubborn ass as me. [That probably makes no sense.] Yo, Dave! What're you.
Ohhhh.
Shit, this is gonna be cool.
The reversal of his injuries happens all too familiarly, like it's been done so many times that he can barely count. He's been knocked out, had his life drained to the brink of death, been shot at more times than he could count. It's only because of his friends that he ever stood a chance of making it out alive, and as he feels the pain start to fizzle away like a can of soda going flat, he closes his eyes and smiles appreciatively.]
Thanks, man.
[What else does he have to say? That Ren's always bailing his ass out of trouble? That he's sorry for being reckless, again? It's underpinned beneath everything that he is, and he knows he doesn't have to say much more than that for Ren to get what he means.
Now the question of how they explain this crosses his mind as he looks at Dave wandering around the pool, sizing it up.]
Stupid... goddamn monkey has to be as much a stubborn ass as me. [That probably makes no sense.] Yo, Dave! What're you.
Ohhhh.
Shit, this is gonna be cool.
[sometimes your true self sucks tho.]
He makes self-disparaging comments a lot. Unrealistic ones. Nothing to call a crisis over, but it's a weird pattern.
I'm not equipped to help him, but I don't just want to ignore it, either. You don't have to do anything special. All I wanted to know was that he has a fairly close friend.
He makes self-disparaging comments a lot. Unrealistic ones. Nothing to call a crisis over, but it's a weird pattern.
I'm not equipped to help him, but I don't just want to ignore it, either. You don't have to do anything special. All I wanted to know was that he has a fairly close friend.
That's you, huh? I'm gonna come over one day and you're gonna be meditating and levitating 2 feet off the ground.
[He absolutely takes everything Dave says to him deeply to heart, even if his sense of displacement at how it makes him feel gets covered by a layer of humor.
God, he wouldn't be able to look at a dead version of himself and not get completely and utterly fucked in the head over it. One tiny change could alter everything. Stray him off a path that he was never meant for, or- was meant for all along because fuck time travel. That's really not how he envisioned life going. And Ryuji? He's a heart thief. He doesn't change the building blocks of time-space, he changes people.
And the more he sees that, the more he starts to see how personally Dave is actually talking. Not even from a philosophical kind of tutelage standpoint, but he can infer that someone only ever gains that knowledge by trial and error. How suffocated do you have to feel under the weight of knowing the "right" path to begin with?
He feels weirdly sentimental, for some reason.]
You're right. This is definitely the right one. I dunno, I just kind of feel it. I mean. If it wasn't...
I might not've met you.
[Adding on to that so it didn't sound so incredibly goddamn lame and cheesy-]
And then who would've come up to you passed out in the hall that day?
[Wait, that's probably worse.]
[He absolutely takes everything Dave says to him deeply to heart, even if his sense of displacement at how it makes him feel gets covered by a layer of humor.
God, he wouldn't be able to look at a dead version of himself and not get completely and utterly fucked in the head over it. One tiny change could alter everything. Stray him off a path that he was never meant for, or- was meant for all along because fuck time travel. That's really not how he envisioned life going. And Ryuji? He's a heart thief. He doesn't change the building blocks of time-space, he changes people.
And the more he sees that, the more he starts to see how personally Dave is actually talking. Not even from a philosophical kind of tutelage standpoint, but he can infer that someone only ever gains that knowledge by trial and error. How suffocated do you have to feel under the weight of knowing the "right" path to begin with?
He feels weirdly sentimental, for some reason.]
You're right. This is definitely the right one. I dunno, I just kind of feel it. I mean. If it wasn't...
I might not've met you.
[Adding on to that so it didn't sound so incredibly goddamn lame and cheesy-]
And then who would've come up to you passed out in the hall that day?
[Wait, that's probably worse.]
Jesus Christ, dude, you just set a new bar on lame.
[it's said with the same sort of fond cadence he has whenever he tosses a light jab at a friend. as he does. Dave's not always the type to be outwardly affectionate, not exactly, and not even toward people he loves dearly. but maybe one day he'll figure out how to be.]
[in any case, as serious a tone as most of their conversation has had, it feels just as natural to shift into something much more light-hearted and stupid. for a little while, at least, they can be just kids in tacky as fuck jumpsuits eating junk food and trading a bit of friendly snark. in this moment, at least, there's no ghosts, or the inevitabilities waiting for the both of them back home.]
If you really want the answer to that question, though? Probably someone a lot better at thumb wrestling.
[there's just two really big idiots.]
[it's said with the same sort of fond cadence he has whenever he tosses a light jab at a friend. as he does. Dave's not always the type to be outwardly affectionate, not exactly, and not even toward people he loves dearly. but maybe one day he'll figure out how to be.]
[in any case, as serious a tone as most of their conversation has had, it feels just as natural to shift into something much more light-hearted and stupid. for a little while, at least, they can be just kids in tacky as fuck jumpsuits eating junk food and trading a bit of friendly snark. in this moment, at least, there's no ghosts, or the inevitabilities waiting for the both of them back home.]
If you really want the answer to that question, though? Probably someone a lot better at thumb wrestling.
[there's just two really big idiots.]
Ehhh? What the hell was that, asshole?!
[If his eyes could narrow any more, they'd pretty much cease to exist. His fists clench up in a ball as he propels himself off the desk he had been so firmly planted upon. This is Ryuji Sakamoto's earnest attempt at being an appreciative person, and to get so, so flagrantly brushed off like that! It's something he can't forgive.
He approaches, accusative in his posturing and ruthless in his methods. It's a lean in, a come-up that validates his true form (aggression) and it looks like he's about to take Dave fucking on, right here, right now. And then it's a pillow in his hands, Ren's to be exact, that he draws back away from the other, only to throw it like a softball right at him.
This asshole!!!]
Just you freakin' wait. I'm gonna work on these muscles day in and day out, and when I get that goddamn rematch, you're gonna eat those words.
[Thumb muscles.
Because those definitely exist. And he's going to be so swole, Dave won't ever see it coming. And the trick to being a truly menacing figure is not to find yourself smiling through it, but, well. Ryuji ain't perfect.]
[If his eyes could narrow any more, they'd pretty much cease to exist. His fists clench up in a ball as he propels himself off the desk he had been so firmly planted upon. This is Ryuji Sakamoto's earnest attempt at being an appreciative person, and to get so, so flagrantly brushed off like that! It's something he can't forgive.
He approaches, accusative in his posturing and ruthless in his methods. It's a lean in, a come-up that validates his true form (aggression) and it looks like he's about to take Dave fucking on, right here, right now. And then it's a pillow in his hands, Ren's to be exact, that he draws back away from the other, only to throw it like a softball right at him.
This asshole!!!]
Just you freakin' wait. I'm gonna work on these muscles day in and day out, and when I get that goddamn rematch, you're gonna eat those words.
[Thumb muscles.
Because those definitely exist. And he's going to be so swole, Dave won't ever see it coming. And the trick to being a truly menacing figure is not to find yourself smiling through it, but, well. Ryuji ain't perfect.]
I'm not treating you like a kid, what the hell?
I'm just saying that like
I dunno, if someone's friendly to you, it's not like you gotta debt, you know? At least, I don't think that's how it works.
If I did something nice for you, I'd do it because I like you, not expectin' anything outta it.
I'm just saying that like
I dunno, if someone's friendly to you, it's not like you gotta debt, you know? At least, I don't think that's how it works.
If I did something nice for you, I'd do it because I like you, not expectin' anything outta it.
You're not going to "work on" me. I'm not a project. Hinata can feel how he wants about it.
Obviously I don't "need" to repay him. Obviously he makes his own choices. This is about me choosing who I want to get attached to and how much, and before you decide to lecture me on that too, I don't know you and it's not your business.
I'm sorry for being harsh, but not sorry enough to bite my tongue.
Obviously I don't "need" to repay him. Obviously he makes his own choices. This is about me choosing who I want to get attached to and how much, and before you decide to lecture me on that too, I don't know you and it's not your business.
I'm sorry for being harsh, but not sorry enough to bite my tongue.
Wait... so you want me to help Hinata out and basically mean to turn him into a project, but then hypocritically go back and say not to do it to yourself?
That's pretty messed up?
Like, honestly dude.
I was just offering to be your friend and joking around a little bit about it. I seriously don't even have a motive here
That's pretty messed up?
Like, honestly dude.
I was just offering to be your friend and joking around a little bit about it. I seriously don't even have a motive here
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