behemoth, meet the opposition

[mrglam]

Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of it.

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[mrglam]

"Yeah, maybe. I mean, I'm pretty sure they are okay, and of course Tobias knew not to be too obvious about it. He did give me food, my room was okay, I went to school, the bruises were in easy-to-hide-and-explain places."

[thinkering]

"Before I got my powers I was the klutziest kid alive and when I was in first grade someone thought my parents might be hitting me because I was always bruised and they took some convincing. ...My powers don't affect my clumsiness directly, I compensate with technology."

[mrglam]

"...is it bad that I kinda think the klutziness is endearing?"

[thinkering]

"Well, you're a little late, because it's no longer a factor even out of costume."

[mrglam]

"Really? How'd you fix that out of costume?"

[thinkering]

"If you remind me next time I'm sans armor I'll show you the insertion scars. It was a serious problem. I couldn't walk briskly, let alone do anything in gym class, traverse a sidewalk in winter, or run around."

[mrglam]

"Wow. Yeah, I kinda prefer it when you're fit and powerful."

[thinkering]

"In order to even build the implants I had to make clumsy jitter compensators for external wear first!"

[mrglam]

"And how'd you build those?"

[thinkering]

"They didn't need to be as small as the implants and I didn't use anything delicate so it didn't matter as much if I sometimes dropped things. My fine motor control was always okay, it was knocking things onto the floor that was the potential issue."

[mrglam]

He nods.





He makes this face that's somewhat similar to some faces he's made previously today. Specifically, it's the face he made when he was thinking about suggestions.

[thinkering]

"What?"

[mrglam]

"Oh, nothing. I mean, it's just that, you mentioned showing me the scars on your legs the next time I saw you out of armor, which made me think of you out of armor and seeing your legs, which." Pause. "I'll remind you I'm a teenage boy."

[thinkering]

"I mean, I was thinking of the one on the back of my neck and in my elbows and wrists, but if you're that excited to have a look at my knees..."

[mrglam]

"Mm. Knees. Yes. Let's go with that."

[thinkering]

"I do also have hip joint ones, admittedly."

[mrglam]

"Ooh. Hip joints."

[thinkering]

"Yep. I can, if I so choose, jog. It's very exciting."

[mrglam]

"Yes. Quite exciting. The. Jogging."

[thinkering]

"It actually was. First week I went to Arcadia - we used to live in another city, so nobody there noticed I could suddenly, you know, walk like a person - I would show up early and run around on the track. It was novel! I had given up the entire gait of running as a bad job when I was like six or seven!"

[mrglam]

He laughs. "Okay, that does sound exciting!"

[thinkering]

"And I could now theoretically dance, but I haven't picked it up."

[mrglam]

"...oooh! That sounds like a thing I'd enjoy. Is that a thing you'd enjoy? We could learn to dance together."

[thinkering]

"I'm a very busy person. I'm not sure I have room for dance lessons."

[mrglam]

"Yeah, fair enough, I guess. Can't cut into our kissing time."