"surprise!" al's voice was light but somewhat reedy...which meant that he was nervous. you raised a brow, and his made for hollywood smile faltered.
"how big is the mess?"
"...i'm gonna spend all day tomorrow cleaning the oven," he mumbled finally, casting his eyes down. seth snickered, which earned him a punch in the shoulder, which was returned with a smack upside al's head, and on and on it went.
Beloved, I am sorry, I saw that way after the actual thing... Tumblr notifications are ineffable sometimes. Anyways, you know that I enjoyed it a lot and this bit is quite cute and funny.
I mean, I meant to write something about it for a while but, in short - he's simple in the best possible sense of the word.
He literally is "just the dude" - his main problems - you know the big revelation in the "Hiking" video - were that he has problems making friends at the Academy and that people don't see the real him and he's not good at keeping connections.
Firstly, same.
Secondly, all of that is just so normal. No running away from home and having no one, no starting a revolution and pushing yourself to reach unreal goals all the time, no being goddamn rejected by your own kind. Just normal stuff. Fixable.
Thirdly, because of that when I put myself in the freelancer's shoes I'm second-guessing myself so much less. No, "What if say something so wrong that would trigger him?", no "I don't have any Great Goals, or even strong opinions sometimes, will he even tolerate me?" and for hell's sake no constant worm of a question chewing my brains at the back of my head "When will he get bored of me?"
Spoilers for the Bonus Audio but nothing NSFW mentioned (even though, I could have spilt some thoughts in that direction too).
Goodness Gracious - he said "I love you" like it's the most natural thing in the world! Because, I don't know, for him it probably is.
