Seventeenth Flame-[Action]

[gogglesyndrome]

[Taichi's busy running around Luceti with a stack of these fliers, pinning them anywhere he can because well, today seems like a good day to get started with the soccer team and he's bored anyway. After this last experiment seems like people could use a pick-me-up. So, that's what he's doing now, feel free to run into him (or have him literally run into you, whichever) as he's going around advertising]

[ooc: depending on vote, we can either assume that this whole soccer-club thing happened, or I can start a log and anybody can jump in and we'll do it that way, however every/anybody wants to go about it. Also the list is slightly outdated so if I missed anybody who talked to him about it before, sorry!]

Comments

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

Dad would be really sad if I stayed.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

I miss my mom.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

...sorry. [Maybe probably getting up and stacking the fliers again.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[shrugs and probably starts doing the same thing because he feels a little weird admitting that]

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

It's kind of weird, seeing Takeru get all lit up about our mom... I don't even really remember what it was like when she was around. I guess 'cause I didn't want to. [This is Yama's attempt at saying it's okay to miss your mom. I guess. Idfk.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Well you feel the same way about your dad don't you? [Too bad Tai's already mentally shut down, determined not to think about any of it]

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. But sometimes... [Shakes his head.] Nah, it doesn't matter.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

No, what is it?

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Leans his chin in his hand, frowning.] Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be easier on him if he didn't have to take care of me.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[just kind of stares at him] Are you kidding? No way, your dad would have made you live with your mom if he thought that way. Dude he loves you, he doesn't mind taking care of you, why would you even think like that? You're the most important thing ever.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

I know that. I'm not undermining the fact that he loves me, I know that. He just works all the damn time and sometimes I can't tell if it's so he can pay for stuff, which would be my fault because he could live in a smaller, less-expensive apartment if I weren't there, or ...what. [Flops a little, wings puffing and shifting restlessly.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

...[yeah doesn't really know what to say to that so just gonna flop down next to him. Here, have an arm around your shoulder in a weird-kind-of-bromance hug, pulling Yamato's head closer]

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Folds his arms around the pillow he's laying on, resting his chin on them and frowning a little.] I wanna be old enough to do something to help him. 'Cause right now all I can do is cook stuff and say "thanks, dad".

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to let people take care of you and accept that there are things you can't do for yourself. Your dad knows you're trying and that's probably all that matters to him. [Pot, meet kettle]

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Makes a sort of noncommittal sound of acknowledgment, nodding.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[removes his arm from Yamato's shoulders then, also nodding]

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Normally, this would be where we break away and try to leave, but today we feel like lingering. In fact, we'll shift and bump our shoulder into yours, Tai.] It's tough to be us. [Kind of grinning.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[There's a little bit of a smirk there as he bumps his shoulder back] Tell me about it. People don't know it but they've got it made compared to us.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Wingtwitch. Glances over his shoulder.] ...and then there's these. [Icon keywords. See them.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[yeah tries flapping his wings and they more or less spazz out instead]...if it helps, I'm pretty sure mine are broken.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

I can't get them to do anything I want them to, they just kind of do their own thing. [Puff.] ...like that.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[no literally, when he moves his wings it's like they're being electrically shocked and they spazz rapidly] ...yeah well they're stupid anyway. [no we're not bitter about not being able to fly, really]

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Ffffff, that's fitting.] ...Just don't let them get beat up, right?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Right. Get 'em beat up, you die.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

Completely not cool at all.