tsubasa reservoir chronicle – tora42's nonsensne

reshki:

realk talk tho i know it’s done the rounds a bunch of times but ‘awwww, babe, you had a crush on me? that’s embarrassing’ ‘WE’RE MARRIED’ still warms the cockles of my gnarled old heart when applied to kurofai bc the image of kurogane just straight-up having something as innocent and lovely as a crush on fai is so pure, so freeing, my spirit feels lighter already just thinking about it. enormous thunder-faced man with arms like tree roots and the temperament of your average hippopotamus*, could rip phone books in half if this were the 2000s and phone books still existed, tall as a mountain and twice as rugged, also his hands get heavy and clumsy and shake almost painfully when fai touches him on the wrist, they’ve only ever taken one selfie together and kurogane hasn’t looked at it since bc it stops him breathing but he keeps it on his phone all the same, he plays it cool but sometimes when he stands behind fai he can smell fai’s????? soap???????? or shampoo??????????????? and one time fai left a cardigan at kurogane’s place and kurogane aggressively dumped it straight into the washing machine so that the temptation to smell it like some kind of creep wouldn’t even be present, fai wore a flowercrown and short-shorts to sakura’s birthday picnic one time and made friends with the ducks on the river and slung his arm around kurogane’s shoulders and whooped with excitement and kurogane could not get the image of fai covered in flowers and cackling uproariously out of his head for weeks, i wouldn’t say he pines or anything so melodramatically maudlin but it’s just there and it’s trivial but it’s vast as well and it’s like his heart is full of bright water that keeps brimming over, anyway fifteen years later fai finds out just how embarrassingly kurogane crushed on him before finally asking him out and is Delighted and i dont really have an ending for this because i understand that unpacking a throwaway meme is superfluous & possibly puts too much strain on the inherent fragility of the medium but it happened anyway??????? i need to lie down

*don’t make me tell my first day of school in africa story again, hippopotamuses will fuck you up