[Church isn't always the most attentive person--well, even if he's listening, sometimes he's not caring, and it's a fine line he walks every day--but he's extremely attentive now. It's...nice. To be seen that way. To be a reminder of something good. Something good even if it hurts.
Because there's hurt there, too. Church might not be able to immediately see why there's hesitation, what the complicated emotion underlying the pause is, but he sees it, and he leans in, arms on the table to prop himself up. He's worried that something might happen, and he wants to be ready, and he also...just wants to be here. (Present and accounted for.) He wants to give comfort but he's not about to go reaching over and do something dumb like take his hand while they're on Q's dumb adorable pseudo-date. So he lets Ardyn work it through himself.
And maybe he's even smiling by the end of that.]
We're all as human as the next person here. Especially the not-so-humans. Which is why we push you around like a nerd on a playground. Because you're Ardyn, the guy that makes damn sure everyone's taken care of when something happens, who keeps his cool and does his best to make everyone else keep theirs, too. You're the designated driver of a bunch of drunk assholes who secretly has an arsenal of awful dad jokes.
So you better stay attached to that feeling of being treated as an equal, cuz you're stuck with us now for better or worse. Though I feel like I might've liked this Vandeae, sounds like a piece of work. Totally nothing like me, though. [definitely crazy talk through a smirk]
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Because there's hurt there, too. Church might not be able to immediately see why there's hesitation, what the complicated emotion underlying the pause is, but he sees it, and he leans in, arms on the table to prop himself up. He's worried that something might happen, and he wants to be ready, and he also...just wants to be here. (Present and accounted for.) He wants to give comfort but he's not about to go reaching over and do something dumb like take his hand while they're on Q's dumb adorable pseudo-date. So he lets Ardyn work it through himself.
And maybe he's even smiling by the end of that.]
We're all as human as the next person here. Especially the not-so-humans. Which is why we push you around like a nerd on a playground. Because you're Ardyn, the guy that makes damn sure everyone's taken care of when something happens, who keeps his cool and does his best to make everyone else keep theirs, too. You're the designated driver of a bunch of drunk assholes who secretly has an arsenal of awful dad jokes.
So you better stay attached to that feeling of being treated as an equal, cuz you're stuck with us now for better or worse. Though I feel like I might've liked this Vandeae, sounds like a piece of work. Totally nothing like me, though. [definitely crazy talk through a smirk]