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maskormenacelogs2015-12-03 08:23 pm
khajidont) wrote in maskormenacelogs2015-12-03 08:23 pm
DECEMBER CATCH-ALL
WHO: Jaime Reyes & YOU
WHERE: All over the place!
WHEN: Throughout the month!
WHAT: This will mostly be used for logging out Jaime's return back to MOM, though I'm keeping it open for other interactions throughout the month! If you'd like to thread anything at all out, just contact me, and I'd be more than happy to write a threadstarter for you. As always, I can be reached on my plurk or via PM.
WARNINGS: Discussion about dead teenagers within.
WHERE: All over the place!
WHEN: Throughout the month!
WHAT: This will mostly be used for logging out Jaime's return back to MOM, though I'm keeping it open for other interactions throughout the month! If you'd like to thread anything at all out, just contact me, and I'd be more than happy to write a threadstarter for you. As always, I can be reached on my plurk or via PM.
WARNINGS: Discussion about dead teenagers within.
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[Jaime's gone through the same thing. People ask him why he's the Blue Beetle, and his immediate answer is because I have to. If you have the power to help people and you squander it, what does that make you?
But he does have a choice. He could give it up. He could go back to being a civilian and staying safe, focusing on his people instead of the entire world. Just like Ken had a choice to let fear rule him, let other people like his mother die.]
So don't write it off as you not having a choice, okay? All it was was you making the right choice.
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But it's no time to regret that now, and at this point, Ken doesn't regret that choice he made. He made his decisions, and his decisions led him here, and he only had to focus on the decisions that are to be made. And what pulled him to his feet so that he could look up like this had been the friends he gained here. For them, he would run through rivers of blood and miles of darkness.]
... Thanks, Jaime-san. That means a lot. You always put so much faith in me.
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[Jaime lets out a quiet snort, a sound that's not entirely amused. He didn't put his trust in the Titans as much as he should have, and if he's being honest, he won't be able to do it going forward, either. He has faith in people to do the right thing sometimes, perhaps, but it's not blind faith. He's good at smiling at people and telling them that he believes in them, and he does believe that they'll do the right thing eventually.
That doesn't mean that he trusts them to do it right away, though. He's a walking contradiction in some ways, trusting them with himself, but not, perhaps, with others. Ken is one of the people that he has blind faith in. Maybe Ken won't always make the right decision, but he'll always, always have the right idea at heart.]
I dunno. They might just not know me very well. But you've earned it.
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[That's the only think Ken can think of, and he thinks it's a fair assumption with someone like Jaime. People would call Jaime -- and the Blue beetle -- too trusting if they saw the way he talked about how the robber and storeowner from months ago will do the right thing, but someone who truly, blindly trusted anyone might have let them get away.
Jaime was kind. Kind and willing to forgive people and offer second chances, perhaps recklessly so (especially if the only risk was himself), but Ken did't think that necessarily meant he trusted people as easily.]
I know you don't, that's why it means a lot.
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[Ken gets it. But then again, Ken probably gets him a little better than most people do, people who look at that steel wall of kindness and good etiquette, and don't bother looking at what's going on underneath. That's not necessarily how Jaime fashioned it purposefully, but it's his own way of holding people at arm's length until he finally warms up enough to them to trust them with how he really feels.
How he really feels is rarely surprising, but it's private anyway. That's just the sort of person he is.]
As long as you get that, then we're good. I just don't want you thinking it means less than it does. [And, of course, Ken doesn't.] It's not like it's the sort of thing you don't bother returning.
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[He moves even close to Jaime though, and from there he looks up at him, saying with as much sincerity and honesty as he can muster up now, more than he already has tonight.]
But Jaime-san is someone important to me. I trust you, but no matter, I want to be on your side.
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But then, Ken probably expected that sort of response out of him. Jaime sighs, shoulders sinking a little as he settles into his place here, leaning over to rest his chin on the top of Ken's head.]
...you're important to me too, kiddo. I'm glad we're always gonna be on the same side.
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But I swear I'll make you grow out of calling me that. We're only a few years apart!
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[Jaime's a cheater. Biologically speaking, it's more like four years apart; he's actually going to be turning seventeen instead of eighteen, but it's so much more convenient to just roll with what's listed on his birth certificate. He'll take being legal sooner.]
That's more than a few. So that means I'm never gonna stop calling you that, 'cause no matter what, I'll always be that much older than you.
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[Yes, kid. "Almost." Because "in six months" is "almost."]
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[They both know that... but in this case, Jaime says it much more playfully.]
Which means that no matter what, you can never beat me. Give it up; this is a fight you're not gonna win. Call it a perk of being old.
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I hate being told to give up. Why would you do this, Jaime-san.
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[He reaches over to try to mess with Jaime's hair. He's gonna ruffle it as much as you do his!! Try not to get poked in the eye, Jaime.]