Okay, so now that we're really into this whole coffee thing. How do Taka and Ryou take their coffee?
lol, what have we started? But the short answer is: any way they can have it. I suspect even before it became a distant fond memory to them, the Shirogane twins would pretty much just guzzle whatever you put in front of them. Long, long days, no sleep, running on fumes and spit - look, they don’t care how old it is and whether you had to cut it with a knife just give it to them in a cup at a hot temperature and they’ll down it. It’s rocket fuel, sure, but that’s basically what they’re using it for physically anyway.
Given a choice and enough hours of sleep though? You know, I’d like to say they take it straight up because that’s both Manly and Disgusting but... well, I think Taka likes his with milk. Real whole milk. He’ll experiment with flavored creamers too. He doesn’t like the powdered stuff, keep it liquid. The amount of warm milk he adds depends on how much comfort he needs so if he’s drinking pretty much straight up warm milk that tastes a little bit like coffee you know things are bad. Yes, that’s right. Taka drinks warm milk given half the chance. Its very comforting. He’ll add milk to his tea too if you let him. If he’s feeling really splurgy he’ll add a single packet of sugar but most times he just wants the warm milk flavor.
Ryou can do the milk thing but it makes the drink too thick for him. Sugar though - sugar is a different story. Ryou likes sugar in his coffee. Which is odd because he’s not a huge sugar freak with most of the rest of what he eats. But if you let him he’ll add several packs of sugar. None of that artificial sweetener stuff either. He wants the real crystals. Sugar cane in a bag. Not too much though. He doesn’t want to lose the taste of the coffee. He’s just fighting an ever running battle between trying to take the bitterness out of it and still keep the flavor without making it too sweet. Their old apartment (and the officers lounge at the Garrison) used to be full of carefully folded over half and quarter packets of single serving sugar as Ryou chased the perfect balance.
Their grandfather, while he was alive, was quietly disgusted with them both for not sticking with green tea (which both the boys do enjoy and find very relaxing and nostalgic - though nobody can make matcha like their grandmother does).
