[ the quickest answer would have been an obvious no, it's right on the tip of his tongue, but something holds him back. a memory from months ago, the very last time he got upset when people teased him about his relationship with barnaby, of how he felt like it wasn't fair to his own wife.
what vriska told him that day is the only thing he can think of that might count as an answer to sturmhond's question. at least, it's the closest way he can describe how he feels about his partner. ]
I don't know, but— Vriska told me about a word that just made a lot of sense to me. [ a beat. ] To us, the closest thing it meant was soulmates.
[ it's not in a romantic sense, at least, kotetsu doesn't think it is, but it fits them, one way or another. if anyone had asked him earlier on, years before, he would have answered differently. the two of them differed from each other in leaps and bounds that there was no way he'd even come close to thinking about barnaby in that way. that's changed by now. he thought about it long enough that he knows now that it's just how they've always been once their rhythms followed the same beat. ]
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what vriska told him that day is the only thing he can think of that might count as an answer to sturmhond's question. at least, it's the closest way he can describe how he feels about his partner. ]
I don't know, but— Vriska told me about a word that just made a lot of sense to me. [ a beat. ] To us, the closest thing it meant was soulmates.
[ it's not in a romantic sense, at least, kotetsu doesn't think it is, but it fits them, one way or another. if anyone had asked him earlier on, years before, he would have answered differently. the two of them differed from each other in leaps and bounds that there was no way he'd even come close to thinking about barnaby in that way. that's changed by now. he thought about it long enough that he knows now that it's just how they've always been once their rhythms followed the same beat. ]