Random Idea/scene draft for Nathaniel and Ichirou (basically brotp but could be seen as otp)
Okay think like 15 years time skip.
Nathaniel is at the final stage of his pro player career, tho he has few years left. He's slowly taking his place beside Ichirou, and they shared a fair share of shit together that happened over the years.
So when Nathaniel rushes through the door of Ichirou's cabinet, he doesn't even look up at first, does not bother to scold him about respect or threaten him about it. He's not as old-fashioned as Kengo was. What makes Lord Moriyama to look up from work is Nathaniel's voice.
"Ichiro"
He almost never addresses "So what, you're the old fuck Moriyama now, not the little Lord Moriyama?" by name
"Sorry, seems like you won't get your own Butcher Junior in the end" He's out of breath and, by the sound of his voice, heavily in pain.
Ichiro lifts his head to see limping Nathaniel slowly sliding down the door he shut by leaning on it. Even from the desk, Ichirou can say Nathaniel's leg is heavily wounded. He's about to ask why the fuck Nathaniel is here and not at the hospital, when latter speaks again.
"So. Do you wanna shot me yourself or will you hand me the gun?"
That question shook Ichirou to the core.
In a way, Nathaniel had his own logical conclusion. If his wounds are serious enough to left him a cripple - he should become a lost investment. The few years he had left in Exy will be gone, alongside the money he could get from it. If a man can barely stand, will he be able to hold the entire criminal world in fear for Ichirou?
No matter how closely they grew on each other, Nathaniel never forgets he's a subordinate. The only way he's attitude stays overlooked is as long as Ichiro thinks he is valuable.
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT" Ichirou never raises his voice, let alone yells, so his throat is already sore and voice cracks. "GET UP and CALL A GOD DAMN DOCTOR and NEVER say ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER AGAIN"
Nathaniel stares at him stunned for a second and bursts in laughter.
"WHAT ELSE?"
"Ichirou... hooo... Ichirou, I can't "Get up" ya' know. That was kinda the point"
"... That was metaphorical. I am getting you to the hospital myself and after that you will have a long conversation with your beloved Kevin Day"
Neil and his obsession with Kevin while on the run transformed into him knowing the most random stuff about Kevin's life.
Someone: Kevin, if you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Neil, bored: Greece.
Kevin: Greeā wtf Neil.
It comes out in the most random ways. Neil starts doing it a lot more often because it makes Kevin uncomfortable and Kevin's reaction is always amusing. (Neil loves that the Foxes find it funny too and don't think he is a creep.)
Most of the Foxes also use Neil's unhinged knowledge to their advantage when they have to give Kevin a gift. It works every time and Neil finds it curious that Kevin has never complained about that part (he has let him know on various occasions).
Someone: Kev, if you had to chose, what ice-cream flavour would you be?
Neil: mint āwhich I totally disagree with btw, you are totally dark chocolate with caramel.
Kevin: can you stop?
Neil:
Kevin:
Neil: does it really bother you?
Kevin: yes, it's weird that you know so much about me.
Neil:
Kevin:
Neil: Kevin, if Jeremy Knox were an ice-cream flavour, what flavour would he like to be?
Steve's baseball team decide that they want to play a prank on their coach.
They get shirts screen-printed with Steve's face on it and something silly he always says, and then they all wear them to practice. They time how long it takes Steve to notice (nine minutes and only because the team had a bad case of giggles).
It's a funny prank.
Steve gets a kick out of it.
Unbeknownst to Steve or the team, the guy who made their shirts is an old friend of Eddie 'left Hawkins and got famous' Munson.
It was a known secret in Hellfire that Eddie was crushing bad on King Steve so he sent Eddie one of the shirts.
Imagine Steve confusion when he flips the tv over to MTV and sees his old classmate being interviewed...wearing a shirt with his face on it.
a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.
my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.
okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett
and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)
Without fail, every time a woman is talking about how she does not want to have children and never wants to be pregnant and how medical professionals, romantic interests and family members keep trying to bulldoze her decision and keep expecting her to change her mind because motherhood is something that is expected of all women and it is abhorrent to think a woman could not desire it, a random mother spawns in the comments to be like āWell, actually, you never know! I didnāt want children and then I got pregnant and I realized I love being a mama and I have five little babies now! Could happen to you! š„°ā
Sister, keep that to yourself or make your own goddamn post, you are ignoring that womanās central concern and belittling her, you donāt even think youāre doing it. Formerly childfree women who ended up having children and loving it are like detransitioners in the sense that there is nothing inherently wrong with changing your mind about having children or realizing you were mistaken about your gender identity but immediately weaponizing your indecision to tell people that the barriers to healthcare and the violations of their bodily autonomy and the way society ignores that personās wishes is actually okay because you were wrong. Some people do know themselves.
She's local to me, so I'm friends with her on facebook and everyone has been SO nice to her about it! I see her at cons a lot and she's done events with the group I volunteer with - she's always been absolutely lovely and I could not be happier for her!
