Date: 2023-10-18 06:17 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] selfimmolation
You sound like Deuce. This was my hundredth fight with Pops, you know. I was angry for a long time, and frustrated, but after a while, it started to be... kind of fun. Fighting someone who was pushing me to get stronger every time just to get a hit on. He called me out on it.

[ he laughs a little ]

I got so mad.

[ he sounds incredibly nostalgic and fond for a time where

he was a little shit ]

Date: 2023-10-19 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] selfimmolation
[ ... honestly, he kind of expects her to call him an idiot, so he looks a little surprised ]

... You do?

Date: 2023-10-19 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] selfimmolation
... Yeah. Something like that. [ it was a little more complicated than that, but ace doesn't think he needs to get into it. ] You must've felt like that a lot too, considering.

Date: 2023-10-20 05:31 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] selfimmolation
Being the smartest person around at ten can't have been easy.

[ it is both sincere and a little teasing ]

Date: 2023-10-22 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] selfimmolation
Isn't that how most adults feel, when you're a kid?

Date: 2023-10-22 10:35 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] selfimmolation
...

Maybe just the ones I knew.

[ so like. his siblings. ]