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 Also the list is slightly outdated so if I missed anybody who talked to him about it before, sorry!]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

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

I know but it seems normal doesn't it?

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

...I guess everybody did kinda get used to it.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Yeah...we all got used to it, even when we were at home. And then we got used to it in the Digital World, so it'd make sense to get used to it here and just make it a normal thing...

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

... [Folds up the bag again and sets it aside, propping himself on the pillow so he can kind of but not-quite lay on his back, wings folding themselves neatly against his shoulder blades.] ...what'll you do when we get home and everybody has their parents again?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[You're pushing buttons man.] I don't know, let them? I'll still be the leader but maybe things will be normal in a different way.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[We kind of realize this. A part of us thinks it'll help. We're probably wrong.] Yeah but I mean... Joe's gonna be going off to middle school, half of us go to different schools anyway...

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[probably a little sharper than we meant it to be] Doesn't matter.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

[Glances at him.] ...do you think it's wrong... to not really want to go home?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

...a few people I know here don't wanna go home because of things that've happened in their world. It's not wrong at all.

[toomuchhairgel.livejournal.com]

...yeah but we just fixed everything. [Rolls onto his side and shuffles the fliers a little.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

So what? Here we've got a make-shift family and a lot of friends.

[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]