Leon Magnus | Stahn Aileron | 071

[discard]

[this is a catch-all for boyfriends

here's a list

- ice cream ✓
- seasickness
- stahn sacrifice ✓
- reunion: judas ✓
- taming stahn's hair ✓
- piggyback rides ✓
- just imagine
- family dinner
- why is there pow hammer
- possessive leon
- apologies
- post-barbatos afterlife meeting
- AND MORE]

Comments

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[There's only so much he can do with packed rations, but he can still put things together in a pretty decent combination.

So yeah.

It'll be pretty good when he hands it over to Stahn.]

The trip as well, yes, I agree.

[majinken]

Mm! The atmosphere is good... I feel young again.

[this is all fine, and stahn will take the food from judas and almost immediately dig in, letting out a pleased him.] ...Tasty!

[he's so easily pleased with food.]

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[Well. When Stahn talks like that--

Judas snorts.]

Now you truly do sound like an old man.

Regardless, this is hardly anything. For dinner, I may be able to cook something more properly.

[majinken]

—You can?

[he's just going to ignore that old man comment. partially because he doesn't need judas to remind him! and partially because... he's more curious about the other part.]

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Naturally.

While we do not have much in the way of ingredients, I packed enough to be able to make something tolerable.

[And also he learned to cook because why not.]

[majinken]

"Naturally...?" I didn't know you learned how to cook at all...

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... It is not as though I had any other choice.

[To be fair...]

I was on my own for long enough to need to learn how to cook for myself. I believe I've become passable at it.

[majinken]

You're probably great at it... I can't wait to try it!

[stahn sure will be stahn about things.]

[discard]

... It is not as though I have much to work with here, so do not get your hopes up.

[Stahn's faith makes him feel like he needs to cover his bases here...]

[majinken]

I bet it'll be fine... you never skimp out on anything.

[he's always been kind of a perfectionist that way, so stahn's sure even with their meager rations, it'll taste pretty good.]

[discard]

[Aaaaaa.... no pressure or anything!!]

I... yes, well, we shall see at dinner.

[majinken]

[no pressure at all, honestly. stahn wouldn't be disappointed because... he knows judas would be fine.]

Right... I guess we should get through lunch before we worry about dinner anyway!

[discard]

Naturally... that will be some time away.

[Safe.

For now.]

[majinken]

Mm-mm! Of course since.. .we're just having lunch now.

[discard]

[Shut up, keep your logic out of the picture.]

So eat your lunch.

[And Leon's just going to settle to eat his.]

[majinken]

I am, I am!

[and he will, happily. this is honestly just such a good experience, as far as stahn is concerned.]

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[It's so like old times......

He's quiet for a long moment, before finally, he speaks.]

It...is strange how some things--aren't missed until you encounter them again.

[majinken]

[it definitely feels nostalgic, and hearing judas put it that way brings a warm smile to his face. rather than the boisterous excitement this trip has been giving him, it's more subdued, more like stahn usually is these days.]

I knew I missed it a lot, but now that we can do this again... it feels like some empty piece of me has been filled. [he feels so much more complete this way, because able to fight alongside his best friend without care for anything but the thrill of battle and staying a alive, following it up with casual meals and ever more casual conversations...

it's perfect.]

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[Of course Stahn was infinitely more aware than Judas.

Because Judas still sucks at emotions.

But either way, he just nods vaguely in response to that.]

I see. [It's...the same for him, even if he doesn't think he really has the right to say so. After all... he didn't have to bear that missing piece for 18 years like Stahn did.]

Then that is...for the better.

[majinken]

I don't think there's any situation where you being here could be worse.

[it's a quiet, honest statement. it's always for the better that he's here, and stahn is happy every single day when he wakes up and realizes that judas is part of their family now, where he belongs.]

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[... So sentimental.

So sappy.

And yet it warms him a lot even so... ugh. He's getting sentimental too.]

Should ever you change your mind on that, I'll be the first to remind you of this moment.

[He's mostly joking though.]

[majinken]

I waited eighteen years... I'd have to be a real idiot to change my mind.

[no matter how many times he's been called an idiot, this is a situation where he won't concede to being one under any circumstances.]

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[The stark reminder takes a lot of the humor out of the situation; Judas is quiet for a moment before he nods briefly.]

... I know.

I am aware that...that is still a period of time that I have not completely grasped yet.

[majinken]

I know... it's different for us in that way. It's... a long time. A really long time but...

[he gives a bit of a nod.] Times like this, it feels like no time at all has passed.

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... Is that for the better?

[That it feels like no time has passed?]