Prompt 266
Back on my Danny & Ras frienemies/rivals/maybe-lovers-nobody-can-tell-their-signals-are-very-mixed train.
See, Danny has gone through time a lot. Often. It comes with being Clockwork’s charge-son-thing and honestly he finds it fun. And several times he’s used this time travelling to get some training in. Enter Ras, stage left, also a teen at the time and also learning swordsmanship from the same person.
And they… utterly despise each other. They would kill the other for an apple slice, if the other one would die! But also, only they can kill the other, as it is obviously their right!
And well, they keep running into each other. It has been a hundred years, surely the other would die by now? But of course their rival would live through utter spite. Probably to spite them specifically.
The amount of times they have ended up sparring- trying to kill each other or not- the moment they see the other is actually ridiculous. But time is also passing. And… Danny understands, not having another to talk about things people are forgetting, or have already forgotten.
How they ended up actually talking without a murder attempt was a long story that included a demon, a dragon, a pair of fae, some bandits, and a lot of alcohol, but it happened. And then it happens again. And again, and now it’s just kind of normal to share a drink after their spars, talking about things that no longer exist, and things they miss.
Sure Danny can go back in time again, but he knows better than to do it willy nilly. He’s matured, he’s been an adult for a hundred years now, he knows there’s consequences for messing with time, even with Clockwork’s blessings.
The first time they got married was technically for an undercover assassination. Well, Ras was there to assassinate someone, Danny was there to grab an artifact that should Not be in the realm of the living. And they got divorced after, it was fine.
They just, also got married again when they met a few years later, for another job. And… okay, so maybe they have gotten married over a dozen times now and only divorced like half of those times. Half of those were for the bit or while drunk!
And even if technically they’re married or shared a bed, it’s not like they're exclusive! As Ras’ daughters’ existences attest to (adopted in one case or not). They don’t exactly have a label for their relationship, despite others asking for one or trying to put a name to it themselves.
Now Danny knows Ras isn’t exactly a good dude, or at least on the side of ‘good’ as he’s a literal assassin. But he also knows that good? Bad? Rather relative. He had gotten labeled as a villain when he was just trying to help all that time ago after all, and really who was he to tell someone else how to live their life?
Which brings him to now, where he’s run into his old frienemy-rival and his youngest daughter. Who has a braindead teenager and a small toddler. Which is fine, really- but also, Talia dear, why are you using a brain dead teenager to guard your three year old son?
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Okay, Talia dear, Ras (Derogatory), why are you using your brain dead son and grandson to guard your younger son and grandson? Do you not have the Pits, which you were soo proud about Ras? Yes, he will spar with you, but for Realms’ sake, heal, what’s his name? Ah yes, go heal Jason and he’ll actually stick around for a few years, deal? Good.
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I may forget things very easily
And I may not be able to put two ans two together very quickly
But
Uh,
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i think that... eon doesnt really know who he is if hes not working himself to death... if he isnt trying to prove something to everyone and no one at the same time...trying to make sure he can stay "useful" to others and hopefully earn their "respect" or something.
he doesnt know what hobbies he could try that he wouldnt feel would be a "waste of time". what different places he would want to travel, not for work but just for fun! he doesnt know what cuisines he would want to try, not when he doesnt even bother really taking his lunch more than half the time to begin with..
he struggles so much with trusting how he feels in regards to himself and others....he doesnt know if he even has the emotional capacity to feel and to love as deeply as everyone else seems to, so easily. and he doesnt know if it would be easier for him if he could.....if only he trusted how much he already does....
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I'm a big fan of gouenji's friends stopping on putting him up a pedestal the more years they know him.
At some point, they're going to realize he was just some guy with a lot of issues like them (prob even more) who is not always right and who finds it even harder to reach out because he doesn't like being perceived and doesn't like bothering others and believes that his problems were nothing compared to everyone's.
Of course, he also has this ego that prevents him from recognizing that he actually has a layered issue regarding being seen as "weak" too a bit different from what fudou or kidou have but takes the form of him wanting to only show his best in a way that he thinks would result in the least consequences for everybody involved (it doesnt tho). This in fact reached an extreme to the point that he masks the perfect persona for the specific need of a specific activity... (something that i think was the reason he knows he can pull off ishido and why he's slightly different as the chairman)
In any case, they realized that Gouenji's only way of coping is by doing extremes that supposedly would have killed anybody mentally if they were doing that for that long but for some reason just makes Gouenji looks badass and amazing in everybody's eyes. Succeeding on what he puts his mind to do make Gouenji happy and satisfied but sometimes they feel like the satisfaction he felt was more about him being able to serve someone so that they could continue believing in him and less about what he actually feels. It's really not easy to know because he's used to nobody worrying about him and likes appearing that there's nothing that you should worry about him, it is something he unintentionally mastered.
Endou was the first to figure that Gouenji's training and the reason he works so hard to go above and beyond everybody's expectations all the time is so he wouldn't bother anyone and that conforming to the expectations of the people he treasures the most is his way of survival; it's keeping him alive inside somehow....
So, starting from Endou, everybody just follows... because the more time you spend with him the more you'll see him tired... and take off the mask. And the more comfortable he is with you, the more he talks and takes his guard down.
And at some point (basing this on the last talk he had with senguuji at least), Gouenji did realize that he finally find kindred souls that he can show all of his sides to and still would love to be his friend. unconditionally.
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Alternian trolls being straight up cannibals is fun but you know what we also need? Beforian trolls eating like, closely related species as well. Less fucked up than direct cannibalism, because Beforus, but the equivalent of us eating apes or chimps or something
wait you have raised the very important issue of yeah wtf is the troll to species equivalent of humans and chimps/bonobos ??????? this has the potential to be very disturbing
also perhaps more convoluted cuz wtf is the mother grub and all the lusi anyway…… taxonomically speaking
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