[ It doesn't have the same ring to it as ladykiller, but it's close enough. For someone who tries to push people away, worried about what he would become, Manjiro sure is attracted to people, isn't he? He just... wants. Their affection more than anything else, he thinks. ]
Weren't you already with Yu at the time? Sounds like he had his girl, and you had a partner of your own too.
[ Unless it doesn't work like that. Manjiro's from a different culture from Fodlan, or the other people here from what appear to be Fodlani cultures. But nothing Manjiro has said ever suggested a culture like Claude's own, a culture in which a man would have several women - and, frankly, men - provided they were in some position of power to maintain that.
Manjiro, lawless as he is, isn't that. His relationship with Yu isn't that either. It's something else entirely. ]
(so, it's not exactly that they're bound to each other, to never leave, never experiment. manjiro's never been like this, although he realized that he never really told claude that part about himself... even with all the hitting on him of it all.
he waits for a moment before he starts out again. how to put this?)
... It's not the norm, but I... Love people, I guess. Everyone I like, I like differently, so it's not like I could ever be with a single person for the rest of my life. It's not me.
[ Claude's brows knit. Not the norm, Manjiro says, as though this wasn't the very thing that has dictated the entirety of his childhood. He can't help the doubt that enters his eyes, even when he's taken every other strange thing about Manjiro's life in stride. ]
And none of you get jealous of one another? No favourites are played? I can't imagine.
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Date: 2025-01-16 09:19 am (UTC)You're a bit of a mankiller, aren't you?
[ It doesn't have the same ring to it as ladykiller, but it's close enough. For someone who tries to push people away, worried about what he would become, Manjiro sure is attracted to people, isn't he? He just... wants. Their affection more than anything else, he thinks. ]
Weren't you already with Yu at the time? Sounds like he had his girl, and you had a partner of your own too.
[ Unless it doesn't work like that. Manjiro's from a different culture from Fodlan, or the other people here from what appear to be Fodlani cultures. But nothing Manjiro has said ever suggested a culture like Claude's own, a culture in which a man would have several women - and, frankly, men - provided they were in some position of power to maintain that.
Manjiro, lawless as he is, isn't that. His relationship with Yu isn't that either. It's something else entirely. ]
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Date: 2025-01-16 07:49 pm (UTC)(so, it's not exactly that they're bound to each other, to never leave, never experiment. manjiro's never been like this, although he realized that he never really told claude that part about himself... even with all the hitting on him of it all.
he waits for a moment before he starts out again. how to put this?)
... It's not the norm, but I... Love people, I guess. Everyone I like, I like differently, so it's not like I could ever be with a single person for the rest of my life. It's not me.
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Date: 2025-01-26 07:46 am (UTC)[ Claude's brows knit. Not the norm, Manjiro says, as though this wasn't the very thing that has dictated the entirety of his childhood. He can't help the doubt that enters his eyes, even when he's taken every other strange thing about Manjiro's life in stride. ]
And none of you get jealous of one another? No favourites are played? I can't imagine.