it's a sleepover, and you're all invited. this is never have i ever, and the rules are simple: icly comment with your character and a "never have i ever", people respond with judgement, jokes, or in the event they've done what you haven't, a shot of alcohol. comment around, thread hop, and react as you see fit! (meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)
[ he knows. hawk's entire history lives in his head, the boy his father caught him with, the boy who followed him into a war and got himself killed for it. there are times when he wants to shove hawk's face through a brick wall, and then there are times when he remembers it should be everyone else who painted every decade of his life out to be a mistake going through that wall instead. ]
[but decades of building up walls and defensive measures have mixed up the idea that as he breaks them down, they canβt come back up. that somehow the picture perfect vision of virility and masculinity will crumble.]
I donβt know who that man would be on the other side. I canβt stand the idea of anyone thinking less - not least of all myself over a moment of vulnerability like that.
You'd be the same man. The one that still pisses me off. The one I told you I liked just the way he is, even if it seems like all we do is fight lately. I meant it. I don't mind waiting until you understand that.
I wouldn't blame you if sometimes you did want to be done.
You know I'm not just being an asshole when I say I can't come stay with you? I'm not trying to be. I know Danny has friends who'll stick by him no matter what. But the thing is I had some friends too, or at least people I considered friends, and they stuck by him instead of me. And I get that I'm not exactly worth choosing, but that means I'm not choosing the greater population of this fucking place, either. I'm not saying you have to like it, but that's what I wish you'd try to understand.
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You tried out your Christmas gifts yet, or what?
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Not yet. I'm waiting for a full week when I don't want to punch you in the goddamn face.
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Christ, I don't know. It's just - something about that, specifically.
I made a promise to myself decades ago that I'd never let anyone else catch me that vulnerable or weak again.
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Do you think I'd make you feel that way?
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[but decades of building up walls and defensive measures have mixed up the idea that as he breaks them down, they canβt come back up. that somehow the picture perfect vision of virility and masculinity will crumble.]
I donβt know who that man would be on the other side. I canβt stand the idea of anyone thinking less - not least of all myself over a moment of vulnerability like that.
Why worry if I donβt have to, huh?
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You could try and understand me too.
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I miss you. I'm gonna try - okay? And Christ knows you've been patient enough already, but...I'll try harder.
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You know I'm not just being an asshole when I say I can't come stay with you? I'm not trying to be. I know Danny has friends who'll stick by him no matter what. But the thing is I had some friends too, or at least people I considered friends, and they stuck by him instead of me. And I get that I'm not exactly worth choosing, but that means I'm not choosing the greater population of this fucking place, either. I'm not saying you have to like it, but that's what I wish you'd try to understand.