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Posted: **Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:51 pm**

After his conversation with Katarina, Leo did his best to keep his appetite. He made it about halfway through his meal before sulkily poking at the remains with his plus-sized fork. Memories of the painful ordeal that left him as a beastly chimera were once again dragging him into the dark place he might never be completely free of.

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Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:12 am**

"What's got you down luv?" Ainsley asked in their secret way as a slipped into a seat across from his boyfriend.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:28 am**

He looked up from his pokings in mild surprise, having been to in his own head to hear Ainsley coming.

"Just... feelin' ugly again..." he sighed.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:32 am**

"Who's throat am I punchin'?" Ainsley asked, popping a cherry tomato in his mouth casually.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:42 am**

"A thoughtless princess," he answered.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:46 am**

"OooOoOooOo......" Ainsley replied, sounding scandalized.

"I get to bitch fight with a princess?

That's the stuff a boy grows up dreaming about you know." He thought for a moment on who Leo must be talking about.

"That lovely red hair of hers would make a fine addition into my braids after I rip it off the regal pin she calls a head."

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:59 am**

He sighed heavily, "No, don't do that."

"It's not like she called me ugly. She just... ignorantly complained about feeling disfigured by a facial injury in front of me, forgettin' that I told her once before what happened to me."

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 2:20 am**

"Oh poo. You never let me have any fun." He replied, clearly joking.

After a very long pause, Ainsley came up with an actually thought out response.

"Women are frequently reminded by bigots and small minded people that their only value is their looks, so they tend to internalize that and it... comes out in strange ways.

I can't imagine it's easy on a princess, the pinnacle of 'only need you for your genetics', to take even a slight cut in stride.

It doesn't forgive it... but perhaps... that makes you feel better somehow? To know it's her own hang ups and has nothing to do with you?"

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:26 pm**

"It does a little. I mean, she did just go through a kidnapping. I can sympathize with that, even if she probably wasn't locked in a cage and treated like an animal. But if she's disfigured, what am I?"

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:11 pm**

"You luv, are a magnificent creature who is for some reason projecting the insecurities of a potentially useless figurehead onto himself for reasons I can't entirely understand, but nonetheless sympathize with." He replied, looking over his spectacles and smirking.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2021 9:14 pm**

"I think she just..." he began before blinking and raising a brow, "Magnificent creature?"

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:42 am**

"I don't think I can stutter...." Ainsley replied with a easily cocked brow as he nibbled on a carrot.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2021 1:05 am**

"You really mean that, don't you?" he asked with a slight smile.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:47 pm**

"I meeaaaaaannn.

I have a propensity towards sarcasm, but I feel like most of what I say is genuine, this included."

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2021 9:22 pm**

"At risk of inflatin' your ego, you're pretty amazin' yourself," he grinned.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:47 pm**

"That's impossible.

My ego is a black hole. It consumes all."

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:03 am**

"See, I'd come back with a joke but everything I think of sounds super dirty," he smirked.

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:40 am**

"This also pleases my ego. My ego is insatiable.

Eat your lunch, luv."

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:10 am**

"I suppose my near bottomless appetite has made a comeback," he smiled, impaling a piece of meat on his fork and bringing it to his mouth.

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:20 pm**

"So the Festival of the Atom's coming up again. I was thinking... maybe we could go together?"

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:33 pm**

"Huh. It is about time for that, isn't it?"

"I'd love to," he smiled after little thought, his case of sulkiness washed away.

"And, hey, maybe your Lambeth friends will be there too," he added, both nervous and excited about the prospect.

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:53 pm**

"Yea, I'm sure there'll be plenty of the busker crowd there, for sure."

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:17 pm**

"Wish I had felt like goin' last year and seen what you did for it. The street acts were one of the few bright spots of my time in Lambeth. I just... well, mutant pride is a new concept for me."

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:23 pm**

"Oh you know. Just conning cats and random street animals that normies aren't offended by into doing tricks for snacks. Drawing when my buddies were tired of my bull-shite. Nothing major."

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:40 pm**

"I still wish our paths had crossed more. A lot might have turned out differently," he said, sliding his large hand across the table in an invitation to touch hands, "Not least of all bein' an us that much sooner."

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:57 pm**

Ainsley did take Leo's hand, smiling a re-assuring smile.

"Things happen as they happen, and cannot happen any other way."

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:12 pm**

He snorted a laugh and grinned, "Yes, wise kung-fu master."

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:41 pm**

"Listen, just leave my Morpheus impressions, alright?" He quipped back.

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:22 am**

"Alright, alright, but now I'm imagining you in one of those mirrored shades and too-much-leather outfits," he smirked.

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:30 am**

"It's fine. Mine's vegan."

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:45 am**

"Rather than ask how the hell leather can be vegan, let's get back to talkin' about the festival."

"I'm thinkin' we should spread the word around campus. Make a whole thing out of it."

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:48 am**

"Sure. No sense in keeping all the fun to ourselves."

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:48 pm**

"You'll have to make a poster or something. Or maybe we can put the headmistress in touch with the organizers. That Rose woman from the shelter is one, I think."

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:04 pm**

"That might be a good idea. Students could get involved."

Posted: **Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:25 pm**

"The school needs more of a relationship with Mutant Town anyway. I certainly didn't see any X-Men when I was there."

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:46 am**

"Me either, though I suspect they're concerned about their image with the city government."

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:53 am**

"Nobody wants a super-powered throw down in Lambeth. But the school would win some hearts and minds with a little outreach on top of what X-Corp does, right?"

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:55 am**

"Can't disagree with you there.

You should probably bring this to the Headmistress.

You know. What with the being mute thing."

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:45 pm**

"I'll do that if you find out how to get in touch with the festival people."

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:05 am**

"Deal.

I'll do it after I finish this veggie burger."

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