[ Would he be lying if he said he didn't set out to explicitly dismantle - like, everything like that? Ren feels like he's done a year's worth of talking in about five minutes with the density of it and it isn't like he's not relieved that that much more is out there on the table in open air, but it's not worth picking out and examining every nook and cranny if the jist is grasped there and then. It's just a lot, yeah.

He'd started as nearly mute pebbles at a precarious peak and this is how an avalanche happens. He's not sorry, god he's so not because a simple "okay" is basically what he discovered he'd wanted as he gained momentum and realized too late that this was going somewhere and they'd have to deal. "Okay" he can work with.

There's a tiny part of him that still wants Ryuji to love him back the way he wants to be, but that's vastly overshadowed by Ren wanting Ryuji to love his damn self and feel like he could own it. So yeah man, fistbump, cuz it's not like Ryuji's in it alone on this long ass journey.

And yep they have to talk about gay feelings like that, sorry he doesn't write the rules. ]

I could tell you about my first boyfriend or you can find out with your kawaii crushu~, depending on what time he gets his five o'clock shadow.

[ Please take the bait. ]