Like, super obviously, given the sudden change right in that moment. There she was looking just as serious as him and his brothers sometimes were. Minus her eyes going white and narrow.
"Or at least the cheerful little kid thing isn't always you. Nico's pretty open about when she's angry or threatening someone so I don't know why you can't b - oh." He just got it. "Oooooh, I get it."
Oh, wow, the implications of that were pretty terrible.
"You're not showing off that side of yourself so they can feel like they were able to protect you from it all, aren't you. That's probably all they wanna see, so they're ignoring how you can't go through all that life or death stuff and still just be a goofy little kid all the time."
A pause.
"Unless you're Mikey, but my brother is a weirdo." A pause. "And we were trained pretty much from when we mutated to be able to handle life or death stuff. Totally different thing when you're trained to handle it."
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Like, super obviously, given the sudden change right in that moment. There she was looking just as serious as him and his brothers sometimes were.
Minus her eyes going white and narrow."Or at least the cheerful little kid thing isn't always you. Nico's pretty open about when she's angry or threatening someone so I don't know why you can't b - oh." He just got it. "Oooooh, I get it."
Oh, wow, the implications of that were pretty terrible.
"You're not showing off that side of yourself so they can feel like they were able to protect you from it all, aren't you. That's probably all they wanna see, so they're ignoring how you can't go through all that life or death stuff and still just be a goofy little kid all the time."
A pause.
"Unless you're Mikey, but my brother is a weirdo." A pause. "And we were trained pretty much from when we mutated to be able to handle life or death stuff. Totally different thing when you're trained to handle it."