#they're all on page 294 but Marcille and Senshi bought the wrong book and Laios is reading upside down

[grandfangarbagechan]

Thinking about Chilaos in the context of Senshi and Marcille seeing what's happening before they get it into their heads that Chilchuck is an adult. I bet they're weird about it. Iirc, Senshi's journal says he initially disliked Laios and Marcille because he thought they had hired a child to do a dangerous job. What kind of Kill Bill sirens are going off in his head when he realizes that Laios is eyeing Chilchuck in a peculiar sort of way?

And Marcille probably sees this coming a mile off but even with a better idea of how half-foot life spans are she definitely still sees Chilchuck as younger than Laios. I can just imagine her trying to send all kinds of "that's weird man, don't do that" signals to Laios and Laios just. Not getting it. Every hint flies over her head. Maybe she even tries to talk to Chilchuck about the dangers of older men, only for Chilchuck to assume that she's telling him he's no good for Laios.

(He gives her a whole speech about inter-party romance being bad, and they both walk away with entirely different ideas of what conversation they just had.)

The thing I'm thinking about most is that Senshi also mentions that he actually has no idea if Laios is old or young. Imagine him asking how old Laios is to gauge how much of a problem his thing for Chilchuck is or to make a point about the age difference, only to be left absolutely baffled when Laios informs him that he's 3 years younger than Chilchuck.

Especially because Senshi is sure that Chilchuck and Marcille are "still growing", I think the idea that big ass Laios might still be growing would be confusing to him. And thinking that Laios is younger than he thinks Chilchuck is would be mind-blowing. He'd be like "I guess height really doesn't indicate age..." and Chilchuck would be foaming at the mouth in the background.

#chilaios #garbage talking trash #i just think misunderstandings like this are funny #no one outright says what they mean #they have no idea that not only are they not on the same page they're in different books #they're all on page 294 but Marcille and Senshi bought the wrong book and Laios is reading upside down