For @thebestpersonherelovesbucky and @nocturymiszczu and @esaael -
I’ve just realized that, if Colby’s almost 31 and Jason’s 38, then Colby was born in 1989 and Jason in 1981, and now I am one hundred percent picturing young!them in nineties and eighties fashions and I cannot even
young!Jason was a giant (literal and metaphorical) nerd, a D&D player, a fantasy reader, etc, but also a Cool Nerd because his family worked in Hollywood and he knew about cars and motorcycles and he learned about stunts and fighting and martial arts at a very young age. I imagine he was one of those kids who just kind of got along with everybody, the jocks and the cool kids and the geeks, in a laid-back go-with-the-flow way, though he also kind of secretly wished he could talk to more people about that really cool epic fantasy novel he just read, and he was kind of figuring out that he might be into boys too but he didn’t want to say anything and mess up bro-friendships…
young!Colby was also a giant nerd, but very lonely, very wealthy, generally the new kid in a few different foreign European countries (and with a very American politician father, which could make things complicated), and not exactly shy but very reserved: very aware that mostly he wasn’t especially wanted, not least by his parents, and very aware that interruptions or exuberance wouldn’t be welcomed. He totally would’ve had unicorn and rainbow stickers and glitter pens and the shiny Lisa Frank everything (his parents wouldn’t remember to buy him anything but he had a credit card from a very young age and would buy himself school supplies and also things that made him smile but only under a strict and self-imposed amount of money: Being Good) and he would do his homework the second he got home, very neatly, and then quietly sit up in his room and teach himself calligraphy or paper-marbling techniques or Morse code (he just thought it was neat), or read a fantasy or romance novel, something in which the main characters ended up loved.
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