It's the way he leans back to pull an arrow from his quiver, the discipline that's earned him that blemish-less physique. The reason he wakes up at dawn and goes to bed at 8, the reason he hardly ever thinks to rely on anybody other than himself.
For the entire 23 years of his life, Kung Jin has always conditioned himself to be perfect.
What once was envy gives way to heartache, because the curtain finally falls.]
No, no, no, no-
[What Asher does may break the rules, but at this point, he is too worried to care.
Closing his eyes, he presses his lips to the other's with an urgency that's alarming, even craning his neck to deepen it. Both palms clutch either side of that nervous freckled face, and seconds pass before the kiss is broken.
Whispered, softly, painfully, are the words:]
You're amazing, Jin.
[What follows is less coherent.]
You're gonna beat yourself up for that? When you're on a team, which literally has some of the biggest, baddest badasses from a whole bunch of different universes?
There are gods here, bro. And even they couldn't stop this shit from going haywire!
Do not, for a second, think that any of this is your fault.
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It's the way he leans back to pull an arrow from his quiver, the discipline that's earned him that blemish-less physique. The reason he wakes up at dawn and goes to bed at 8, the reason he hardly ever thinks to rely on anybody other than himself.
For the entire 23 years of his life, Kung Jin has always conditioned himself to be perfect.
What once was envy gives way to heartache, because the curtain finally falls.]
No, no, no, no-
[What Asher does may break the rules, but at this point, he is too worried to care.
Closing his eyes, he presses his lips to the other's with an urgency that's alarming, even craning his neck to deepen it. Both palms clutch either side of that nervous freckled face, and seconds pass before the kiss is broken.
Whispered, softly, painfully, are the words:]
You're amazing, Jin.
[What follows is less coherent.]
You're gonna beat yourself up for that? When you're on a team, which literally has some of the biggest, baddest badasses from a whole bunch of different universes?
There are gods here, bro. And even they couldn't stop this shit from going haywire!
Do not, for a second, think that any of this is your fault.