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.
"Like, if you determined that you were going to wind up with post-traumatic stress, this would be pretty significant as personal changes go but you wouldn't start imitating the symptoms in advance."
"Yeah, but that's my whole point, I can't really act on unexpected changes to my personality. Or, really, predict the by-definition unpredictable changes and their consequences, amongst which potentially breaking up with you in a month."
He laughs. "I mean, if those statistical premonitions included 'huge fight, everyone's hurt, can't stand to see one another's face ever again, ninety-five percent confidence,' it might be a reasonable thing to say."
"Is that... the kind of thing you tell him by email? I mean, I don't know much about your relationship with him - totally one of the questions in my list of personal questions, by the way - but it sounds like the kind of thing people prefer to tell in person?"
"...alright. Will this first in-person conversation be just you and him or will it double as a presenting-the-boyfriend thing, given that there's a heads-up already? I mean he knows me already, I guess, but. Also is he likely to react to the I'm-not-always-a-boy thing?"
"He already knows you're not always a boy, I will clarify how that interacts with me being straight if he's curious but I bet you he won't be, and I was planning to wait to discuss you in person until we're home and I can include my mom. Who I don't usually discuss in costume, I like to leave it ambiguous whether she's even alive."
"That was one of the other questions, yes, but let's get to that in a second, I want more info here. How does your straightness react to the gender thing, exactly? I mean, I kinda vaguely gestured and indicated not-a-problem at the start and then I guess today banished any doubts it would be, but in what ways is it not a problem?"
"It's possible I'll wind up slipping into - careless brain habits and default to thinking of you as a boy at any time you are not actively being a girl right in front of me," she says. "I don't know how big a problem that is; it's not likely to emerge in how I talk, I've been policing that since I found out who my dad was."
"I need to start carrying like a notepad or something with me to keep track of all the questions I want to ask," he comments lightly. "I don't particularly mind if you think of me as a boy more often than a girl or an enby, brain habits aren't horrible. And besides, I've kinda spent the past few months trying to be boy or enby more often than girl around you in hopes that my cute face might nudge you in the right direction."
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Date: 2016-02-23 08:50 pm (UTC)And Sadde makes a face at her that she may or may not recognize as his 'I want to kiss you right now' face.
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