Once again, Chay is forced to break the silence.
“Kay was worried about you.”
What about you? Kim wants to ask. Were you worried, too?
Instead, he says, “He misses you.” Wants to take it back when he sees the hurt flash across Chay’s face. Says, “He used to ask me when you were coming home,” because Kim has never been able to say the right thing when it comes to Chay, and it’s a knife in both of their chests that he twists and twists and twists.
“What did you tell him?” Chay asks, because he’s learned how to wield a knife, now, too.
“I told him you had to go home to take care of your family.” Kim smiles—not with his mouth, but with his eyes—softening at the picture they make. Kay and Chay. A painful imitation of the way things used to be. “He didn’t stop asking about you until he saw you here. He still talked about you all the time, though.”
“I’m sorry.”
Sorry for seeing Kay without me, or sorry that every day he reminded me of you? It doesn’t matter, really.
“I don’t mind,” Kim says in answer to both.
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Yeah why were people shitting on Camilla's cinderella?!?! She is amazing and the musical is entertaining
I lived under a rock and just found out, thanks to rwrb, i am on a cast that includes nicholas movie watching spree
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Melli in the gear station family au is like that one lovingly overbearing family member who comes to see you at your job and tell you that you're doing a great job, except he needs an excuse to tell Akari & Rei their doing a great job so part of his getting lost is intentional and part of it is genuinely accidental (hc he has an absolutely terrible sense of direction and gets lost in a straight line, Zoro from one piece style) so when they find him and help him he's like "you two are SO GOOD at your jobs, the BEST employees here, honestly" and like half of the ten most recent gear station reviews are from Melli praising Akari and Rei.
Ingo and Emmet ask them if he needs to be banned from the subway and the younger twins are like "no, he's fine. Embarrassing but he means well and it's all good." (They have a hunch that Melli Knows Them which is why the kids are fine with hanging around him and helping him, but also all three of them are so at ease with each other that they had to ask just to Make Sure everything was fine even though they were Pretty Sure there was no issue)
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Thinking about Billy’s relationship with age again. Obviously we all know the classic never-ending “he’s a 8-15 year old in a 20ish year olds’ body”. And, assuming no magical bullshit happens or he doesn’t die, one day he’s going to be a twenty year old in a 20ish year old’s body. And one day he’s going to be the exact same age as his body. And then… he’s going to keep aging.
He’ll be 30,35,40. As far as the population knows, Captain Marvel is immortal. As far as Billy knows, Captain Marvel is immortal. All his original peers are part of a long-retired or dead age of heroes. Then his peers his actual age are part of a slowly dying and retiring age of heroes. Billy is pushing 60, been an established member of the Justice League for fifty years, he’s taught three generations of heroes and counting. The first generation he was around to train starts dying and retiring. Someone makes a joke about how Cap isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, right buddy?
His appearance is stagnant. Instead of transforming into Cap to escape the pressures of being a homeless child, he transforms to relieve the ache of his joints. He flies like it’s second nature, like it’s his first nature, instead of every flight being a magical adventure.
Billy does not remember what it’s like to not be a hero any more. It’s the only life he remembers. The average human lifespan is 80 and he’s pushing 100. Billy cannot age but he is so old and he is so tired. But his holocomm (kids these days) starts beeping and he smiles sadly and says the magic word.
Because who is Billy if not the Captain?
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I started reading Billy Bat manga by Urasawa Naoki (u may know him as the guy who did Monster) and jesus christ its wild. Absolute experience. Judas and Jesus are in it, so are ninjas, so is lee harvey oswald (technically at least 3), theres a bat thats satire about how evil mickey mouse and disney are, there's lying cartoons galore, there's the civil rights movement, the oppressivr terror of the ku klux klan and the structural damage of segregation and fucked up laws, and the pervasiveness of advertising and the coca cola company ("golden cola") there's real events sprinkled with gratuitious fictional shit about manipulative God Billy Bat (or perhaps "administrator/guide to the human race"), a scroll that could control the world, Fake walt disney has hired killers, the looming brutality of imperialism and corporations buying out poorer areas, killing in other countries and breaking laws and whatever else is needed to acquire what they want, there's a cartoon dog kennedy assasination, a baby kevin inherits the powers of an older kevin, there's ninjas and priests, there's a small town out west full of cowboy larpers who are this comic artists biggest fan club, a secret agent Smith with a heart of gold (one hopes), a teenager named jackie whos seeing visions, there's a good and evil fake "mickey mouse" bat but frankly theyre probqbly both evil cause either way they lie and manipulate to get people to do what they want, judas cameos not only in his jesus arc but as a little kiddo, and like. Im not even halfway done. Einstein JUST showed up.
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i mean all of my characters are Troubled thats essential to both the actual story and their development as characters. all of them have serious issues and jayden is no exception 😭
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Wait wait so how old were you then? I’m 19 and still have my V :oo
16 🫣 so happened like 10 years ago JESUS 😂 I’m old as fuck
Yeah, that’s alright, you just didn’t find the right person who you trust with such a precious thing.
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