[Closed] What happens in fight club stays in fight club...

[revolutionfalcon]

Who: Shun and Ren
What: Card game assholes antiheroes have a post-fighting-lesson sleepover and talk about their respective dark pasts.
When: May 20th
Where: Nekhbet's Temple
Warnings: Discussion of war and likely PTSD and survivor's guilt at some point, others will be added if they come up.

[Shun and Ren's fighting lessons have become basically routine at this point, every three days like clockwork that's only thrown out of time by the few occasions Shun has to work, in which case it's picked up the next day and the cycle continues. Not even the more brutal lesson on the fourteenth had managed to stop the following one falling in line, and now it's the one after that, and as always, Shun's demanding a rest period afterwards to be sure he doesn't send Ren back out weak enough to make easy pickings.

This time, though, is a little different, because he's not sending Ren back out, and though they discussed this extensively enough a few days ago when Ren suggested it, Shun doesn't really get what the difference between a sleepover and sharing quarters with his allies is. But there is definitely one thing they agreed on when it came to "getting to know each other better", and after coming across from the tiny kitchen with both a jug of water and a pot of the most obnoxiously strong black coffee imaginable, cups already on the little coffee table in the other room, Shun drains a glass of water in about two and a half seconds before he switches to the coffee and gives his guest a level look.]

You did better today than last lesson, but I'd be surprised if you wanted to discuss something that obvious.

Comments

[shadowrevenger]

I'd be disappointed if there was a quick change. I like you the way you are.

[And maybe he also likes the challenge involved. He does think Shun could be happier and better adjusted with certain things for his own good, but if all of that changed instantly, that would be no fun at all. He's not sure shun would appreciate being called a challenge though.

So instead, he moves right on to hold one of the bowls out for shun to inspect.]

Is that enough or do you want more?

[revolutionfalcon]

That makes one other person in this entire place. [The dryness of Shun's tone indicates that he's not entirely serious about that, but it's certainly true that just about everyone else he's met here either has multiple complaints about his attitude or is determined to make him a happier person as immediately as they consider possible, which half the time seems to be by the end of whenever they get to the inevitable "you should smile more" or equivalent. Shun mostly just considers it annoying by this point.

When Ren holds out the bowl, Shun barely glances at it - it's basically only so it can't be said he didn't look at all.]

It's enough. [Then again, Shun considers anything that's not no food at all to be "enough" most of the time, hence the not really looking.]

[shadowrevenger]

[Wow, so he does have a sense of humor buried in there somewhere. That is hands down his favorite thing that he's learned about Shun so far today.

And if he's going to care that little about how much is in his bowl...Ren nods and sets the bowl down again so he can start filling his own, and maybe possibly accidentally on purpose slips a little more into Shun's bowl while he's at it. Not a whole lot more, but enough so their bowls are even and it won't matter whose is supposed to be whose.

Then he heads over to the microwave to start heating them up. And now he finally, finally feels like he can ask the burning question he's had since like halfway through Shun's story.]

Did you ever find out why Yuto-kun and your sister have those other people who look like them?

[revolutionfalcon]

[He does, it's just so deadpan that it's impossible to tell he's not being serious a good 99% of the time anyway.

Perhaps thankfully, Shun's glancing over at the stove for a moment when Ren slips that extra into his bowl, so he gets away without Shun picking up on it. Faux accidental is a bit hard to explain away when you're going for an entire other bowl, particularly when it's Shun being dealt with.

Of all the questions Shun was expecting Ren to have after that talk, though, that wasn't really one of them, and since he only knows bits and pieces, he grimaces slightly before replying with a touch of bitterness to his voice.]

No, actually. If there's one in every dimension, it could be something to do with that, but I never saw all of them if that's the case. I just know the ones with Ruri's face each have a bracelet - and Akaba Leo wanted them all for something - and that the ones like Yuto use a dragon that names their summoning method. [Or their dimension. It's kind of hard to tell, but then, Odd-Eyes refers to Pendulum, not Standard.]