I mean, yeah. He switched the dates. I just got...I don't know, I'm frustrated about other things, you know? Like. If...uh, stupid worries about if he wants. Me. That maybe aren't valid?
[ Minato's so concerned about how much stuff they'll have to wade through before getting to Bro... ]
At least you recognize it's stupid. [ He says it softly, but still firmly- because it is stupid, but it's also good to have that awareness. Clover didn't when Minato and her first started dating, but while she still likes the reassurance, she needs less of it now. ]
Don't... tell Clover this, but... [ as if she has ears everywhere, he steps a little closer to Dave, lowering his voice. ] I know I cause a lot of trouble for her and I'm slow at fixing those things, but it's probably... an unconscious desire to have that conflict. Being able to work past them together, that sort of thing I think is good for any relationship between two people. I don't really believe in the whole "sunshine and rainbows" anyways, you know.
[ Minato struggles with conflict too, having seen a lot of it in both his lives and his default has always been to let things go, assume responsibility and accept and concede, regardless of whether he should. Joke his way out of it. Avoid, avoid. ]
That, and I like learning about people. People I get along with, I learn about bit by bit. But people I don't, they tell me their beliefs, and it feels a little more honest.
[ It sure is abrupt, but Minato has an answer ready for that too. ]
Losing my parents. ...probably.
[ Something that happened so long ago, but something he'd never gotten over- he'd set the issue aside and ignored it, pretend it doesn't matter to him, when instead the pain of loss had just grown alongside him and affected his entire life since. It's not the worst pain he'd experienced, and it had happened when he was very young and impressionable, but that's why it's the worst. ]
[ Losing his parents, probably, and for the same reasons of coloring the rest of his life, but the two lives overlap too much for him to know anything more than the handful of brief snapshots that barely make up a year of memories for him. ]
Probably... watching a friend die in front of me. Knowing that I might've been able to save him if I were just faster, or stronger, or... better.
[ Minato closes his eyes briefly, telling himself to accept and not question the whole older brother/genetic father thing, but doing so triggers a memory— not an OU memory, but one with him and Dave and Clover and his eyes snap open again. ]
"Bro just kicked my ass" Bro?
[ That thing we promised never to bring up ever again, we're bringing up again, but it's on Dave. ]
[ His lips press into a thin line, because while there have been plenty of times- innumerable amount of times- that Minako's kicked his ass, he has never, never, never doubted that she loved him. ]
You must've fought back... [ Though, he can't really see it; he knows full well that Dave is capable of fighting back, but he doesn't seem to enjoy it the same way Minato does- for the hunt, the rush. Like when they were back in the forest, Dave had done it to get it over with, so nobody else had to. ]
I never won. [ quietly. not until dirk, and dirk had let him - or maybe he hadn't. dave isn't sure any longer. ] ...I dunno, it was just. Shady bullshit, you know? It was lonely and hard and it sucked and I don't want to live in a house where John ain't these days even when I'm mad because it's so. Different.
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Minato, to his credit, maintains his neutrality with a solemn nod. ]
He's asking you to sacrifice a lot for the benefit of the city. I can understand why he chose a weekend, but... there's always Sunday, right?
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[ he's. leading up to bro stuff.
slowly.
maybe. ]
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At least you recognize it's stupid. [ He says it softly, but still firmly- because it is stupid, but it's also good to have that awareness. Clover didn't when Minato and her first started dating, but while she still likes the reassurance, she needs less of it now. ]
Don't... tell Clover this, but... [ as if she has ears everywhere, he steps a little closer to Dave, lowering his voice. ] I know I cause a lot of trouble for her and I'm slow at fixing those things, but it's probably... an unconscious desire to have that conflict. Being able to work past them together, that sort of thing I think is good for any relationship between two people. I don't really believe in the whole "sunshine and rainbows" anyways, you know.
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anyway. dave's lips quirk up a little. ]
...Yeah, I mean. I don't really like conflict for...reasons. But I like when we make up? Is that the part you like, too?
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That, and I like learning about people. People I get along with, I learn about bit by bit. But people I don't, they tell me their beliefs, and it feels a little more honest.
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[ that's a little abrupt... ]
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Losing my parents. ...probably.
[ Something that happened so long ago, but something he'd never gotten over- he'd set the issue aside and ignored it, pretend it doesn't matter to him, when instead the pain of loss had just grown alongside him and affected his entire life since. It's not the worst pain he'd experienced, and it had happened when he was very young and impressionable, but that's why it's the worst. ]
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What about in the other life?
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Probably... watching a friend die in front of me. Knowing that I might've been able to save him if I were just faster, or stronger, or... better.
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Yeah? What would you say your worst is?
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[ which, for all he knows of Dave's family in this life, he has too and it never occurred to Minato that it'd be different in another universe. ]
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"Bro just kicked my ass" Bro?
[ That thing we promised never to bring up ever again, we're bringing up again, but it's on Dave. ]
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You must've fought back... [ Though, he can't really see it; he knows full well that Dave is capable of fighting back, but he doesn't seem to enjoy it the same way Minato does- for the hunt, the rush. Like when they were back in the forest, Dave had done it to get it over with, so nobody else had to. ]
What was it like?
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