Hummm... coulda fooled me. [Then again, you could hardly stay competitive as a rival if you were that relaxed. It just makes Blue want to face him in a battle even more.]
[It's familiar frustration, even if it's not directed in the same places... Blue chews on how much he's willing to tell from his own side as Raihan coughs. He doesn't quite recognize exactly what the little bits of petal were that escape his coughing, but they're far different from his own.]
[It was the same old song and dance. Completely unseen, completely misunderstood. Blue's jaw slides, staring at a point out the tiny window of his apartment, irritation boiling in his throat with blood.]
They don't even see it, [He mutters, and hesitates for a long moment of his own.] I knew it since we were kids. Since way before we even became trainers. Maybe not exactly how it was, but....
[His head hangs, and his hands muss in his hair irritably as he tries to work up the words.] ...But other things happened, and it got... complicated....
After that... I never felt like we could even be friends anymore. He was just an obstacle, in the way of ....somethin' else.
[Every fiber in his being strains to keep him from talking about this. There was a lot of danger in it, especially when Gramps was right down the hall.....]
...You said we're the same, but it's a lot more complicated, for me. On top'f all of that stuff, on top of him never noticing, there was... the other stuff.
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[It's familiar frustration, even if it's not directed in the same places... Blue chews on how much he's willing to tell from his own side as Raihan coughs. He doesn't quite recognize exactly what the little bits of petal were that escape his coughing, but they're far different from his own.]
[It was the same old song and dance. Completely unseen, completely misunderstood. Blue's jaw slides, staring at a point out the tiny window of his apartment, irritation boiling in his throat with blood.]
They don't even see it, [He mutters, and hesitates for a long moment of his own.] I knew it since we were kids. Since way before we even became trainers. Maybe not exactly how it was, but....
[His head hangs, and his hands muss in his hair irritably as he tries to work up the words.] ...But other things happened, and it got... complicated....
After that... I never felt like we could even be friends anymore. He was just an obstacle, in the way of ....somethin' else.
[Every fiber in his being strains to keep him from talking about this. There was a lot of danger in it, especially when Gramps was right down the hall.....]
...You said we're the same, but it's a lot more complicated, for me. On top'f all of that stuff, on top of him never noticing, there was... the other stuff.