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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:28 am
"Oh, I know it's Brokeback Mountain," he answered excitedly, rising up on the balls of his feet for a moment before dropping back down. "I also know it's something I shouldn't watch because of the major character death and the bury your gays thing, but Jake Gyllenhaal is just so hot..." He trailed off with a wistful sigh and mumbled, "Why would you ask us, a Narnia blog, this." Speaking back up, "I know it's really important and everything? But I just... I'm not good at bad endings. It doesn't feel cathartic in the good way for me. Not like, say. Watching Stoick die saving his son from the mind-controlled Toothless in How To Train Your Dragon 2." That, and... he'd seen too much on the streets in his short years on them to want to inflict such terrible death upon himself on purpose. Not from the main characters.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:48 am
Now that he’d located something adjacent to dignity, Reiki completely intended to stay there until the meteor shower ended or Amsvartnir got bored.…… Intended being the operative word in this sentence. Because before he could gather his brain up enough to reply, it dawned on him what, exactly, Amsvartnir had said. About Jake Gyllenhaal. And the Narnia blog.
And he broke.
Cracked.
Good thing he was already hugging himself because as Reiki doubled over laughing, he had to hold on to something and his sides seemed like as good a bet as anything. Also good that his water bottle was already in his subspace because who knew if some late night pedestrian might not have wandered by at the wrong time and gotten hit on the head with it. Part of him could not believe that Amsvartnir had just said, out loud and in real life, Why would you ask us, a Narnia blog, this.
The rest of Reiki, however, did not care because it was the funniest thing he’d heard in weeks—and his last drag brunch had involved moderating a reading contest between Brandy, Dorian, and Charlotte while they all tried to one-up each other for throwing the shadiest shade.
“Why would you,” he repeated, desperately gasping for breath. Trying to get a handle on himself again so he could explain for this poor kid that the major character death wasn’t even the most devastating thing about Brokeback Mountain, Jack and Ennis’s relationship getting ******** over by queerphobia and toxic masculinity was. But a grip did not come. Did not seem likely to come. It was honestly a miracle that he managed to add, “I’m Murikabushi! By the way!”
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:39 pm
Well. Amsvartnir was glad he made Murikabushi laugh, at least. The infectious laughter had him giggling behind his hand, eyes dancing with mirth as he watched his—friend?—laugh over a silly internet reference joke. But then he realized he hadn't gotten Murikabushi's name right up until then and he choked back a silly apology for never having asked his name, and grinned at him. "Nice to finally hear your name. What are you the Senshi of, anyway?" he asked curiously. "If you don't mind saying." Some chuckles were still getting by him, simply because Murikabushi's intense joy over the joke was just that wonderfully infectious.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 2:59 am
It took Reiki a few moments—a few long moments—to recover and pull himself back together in any way that mattered. Even once he’d calmed down enough to stop having a one-man laugh-riot over hearing a ******** vintage Tumblr meme referenced out and about in the wilds of the Not Online World, he still got a few waves of giggles rushing up to take him by surprise. Getting himself calm enough to process Amsvartnir’s question took several deep breaths—but fortunately, Reiki did manage it.
“Hunger,” he said, at which his demeanor chilled like a corpse. Bowing his head, he fiddled aimlessly. Knotted and unknotted his fingers. Tugged at his knuckles without trying to really pop them. “It’s, uh.… Not as straightforward as it probably sounds. I……I don’t think I’m at liberty to tell you what it did to Kerberos? He—he was helping me with it, trying to diagnose some issues I was having with making it work? Which meant he consented to be a guinea pig for the one time I actually managed it. And……it’s his story to tell or not? What happened after that? But it—suffice to say, it was more complicated and significantly messier than making him cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
To say the absolute least—but Reiki wasn’t going to just out Kerberos’s drinking problem like that. You didn’t even do that to people you hated, if you could avoid it without hurting them somehow, never mind doing it to people who……were complicated in a not-bad-exactly sort of way.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:44 pm
Amsvartnir frowned when Murikabushi's demeanor suddenly changed, wanting to reach out and give him reassurance somehow. But he wasn't sure he was allowed to come close enough, to get physical in such an intimate way. "I'm sorry you did that to a friend," he murmured instead, glancing down at the rooftop. "I know how it feels, to hurt someone with your magic when you didn't want to do that. The circumstances were very different, but..." He trailed off, squinting at the concrete of the rooftop at something glinting, and picked up two star charms. How on earth did they make it all the way up here? Teenagers chucking stuff probably, he thought. "Hey, I got you a gift," he said with a little laugh, gently tossing one over to Murikabushi.
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:59 am
As much as Reiki appreciated physical reassurance most of the time, he appreciated Amsvartnir refraining right now. Thinking about what his powers had done to Kerberos, even if he had Kerberos’s forgiveness, made him feel so sick, he could’ve jumped off the roof, gone to vomit in a trash can, and still felt absolutely godawful. For all this intrusion had gone surprisingly well, Reiki really just……wanted to go home, power down, and fall asleep with his Best Girl (and maybe run her outside one more time, if she needed to go).
It was probably a stroke of luck that Reiki looked up in time to catch the charm being thrown his way. Pretty little thing, wasn’t it? With its purple gem and silver pipng? “Hey, thanks,” he said, holding it up by his tiara. “We kinda match, don’t we?”
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:46 pm
Amsvartnir smiled, dangling the gold charm from his finger. "Yeah. What luck, huh?" Really good way to thankfully exit a conversation on a good note, he thought to himself with relief. "Anyway... It was nice. Seeing you. So. I hope you have a good night, bud," he said with a half-smile, really wanting to say that they would see each other later, but afraid of being too presumptuous. So he waved, and showboated his way off the roof by backflipping with a whoop.
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