[Okay. Alright, Ryou's kept quiet long enough. Atem's relaxing, but Komaeda is not, so he does the only thing he can think of to do at that point, and honestly to hell if it's weird or poorly received by one or both.
Ryou puts himself in between the two of them and sits, cross-legged, before snuffing out a quiet breath.]
The reason we're here is to talk, and I don't think it's very productive to be self-deprecating or accusatory. This is a complicated situation on all ends, that's very true, but I still think we all care for each other in enough of a capacity not to bite each other's heads off. Right?
[Ryou's body-language remains somewhere between neutral and submissive. His body is firmly positioned like a wall between them, but his ears are lowered and his tail tip twitches up and down against the ground in the same placating wag.]
At least...I care about both of you. Whether it's accepted and understood or not.
[He adds the last part towards Komaeda, flicking his golden eyes over to the other were. Atem already knows Ryou's feelings. Komaeda is the one he's still working on forging familiarity with. Ryou's still trying to play a careful balancing game between these two, even though it does kind of get under his skin what Komaeda implies about him dating Atem once he was gone, intentionally or otherwise.
Mostly because it feeds into Ryou's deep-seated belief that he was a second choice. Something he's trying to put behind him, but that Komaeda's twisted a thumbscrew into and reminded him of...]
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Ryou puts himself in between the two of them and sits, cross-legged, before snuffing out a quiet breath.]
The reason we're here is to talk, and I don't think it's very productive to be self-deprecating or accusatory. This is a complicated situation on all ends, that's very true, but I still think we all care for each other in enough of a capacity not to bite each other's heads off. Right?
[Ryou's body-language remains somewhere between neutral and submissive. His body is firmly positioned like a wall between them, but his ears are lowered and his tail tip twitches up and down against the ground in the same placating wag.]
At least...I care about both of you. Whether it's accepted and understood or not.
[He adds the last part towards Komaeda, flicking his golden eyes over to the other were. Atem already knows Ryou's feelings. Komaeda is the one he's still working on forging familiarity with. Ryou's still trying to play a careful balancing game between these two, even though it does kind of get under his skin what Komaeda implies about him dating Atem once he was gone, intentionally or otherwise.
Mostly because it feeds into Ryou's deep-seated belief that he was a second choice. Something he's trying to put behind him, but that Komaeda's twisted a thumbscrew into and reminded him of...]