Tai, A-G-H, 28, 29, 12, 18, 19, pls
12. Usually with a door jamb or a wall corner. If he’s desperate, a stick, or grumpily asking someone to scratch it for him.
18. On a shallow level, being undereducated, and his parents. On a deeper level, his transness. (Which he doesn’t know has a term or anything.)
28. A lie, definitely. Unless he finally found out about it, but that’s a bit hypocritical. Of course, Tai is rather hypocritical.
29. NOPE. Not at all. He wants to be smarter and smoother and not so terrible at everything but he figures he’s never going to anyway and so he should just not try.
A: Because he has a decent amount of potential plot, with what little backstory he’s got.
G: His absolute refusal to change. It takes a crowbar and a hell of a lot of manpower to get that boy to shift his thinking and it’s frustrating. Although it does make good plot. (That and he’s really self-deprecating.)
H: Despite everything, Tai is still creative and after much pushing and shoving, WANTS to be better. He just needs help.