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terajkTitle: Precise and Perfect
Fandom: Soul Eater
Characters: wee!Death the Kid, Shinigami-sama
Rating: G
Word count: ~300
Summary: He didn't think something so perfectly balanced could bug him so much, but it does.
He didn’t think something so perfectly balanced could bug him so much, but it does.
And it’s really unfair: he likes it when Father takes him human-watching. They go to Deathbucks (he gets a hot chocolate; Father gets tea) and then go to a park or a mall and tell each other stories about the people they see. But he can’t concentrate today because this bugs him.
Two grownup humans walked by a while ago; they had bathing suits and beach towels and a little girl between them, a little younger than himself. She held her parents’ right and left hands in each of hers (he knows that some humans have two parents--it’s unfair) and they...
They were wearing sandals, so he counted their toes. Twice. Twenty toes between them, properly divided up: precise and perfect. (He keeps counting them in his head, over and over and over. It’s annoying.)
He counted their fingers: precise and perfect. (The same.)
He saw more of the human body than he’d seen in his entire life, and nothing looked wrong. Out of place. Missing. And yet, there she was: that girl.
(“Do humans have tails, Father?”
“No, I don’t think so.”)
Darn it! It’s almost enough to make him ask, and that time Father told him where shinigami came from was horrible: he cried and cried and cried. ("I don’t mind missing a toe, son! I’d much rather have you than a toe!”) But this bugs him.
“Father?”
“ 'Sup?”
“Where do humans come from?” he asks.
“From other humans, of course. Other than that, I don’t know.” Father sips his tea.
He knows Father is lying, but he just holds his hot chocolate close and blows. Because he also knows that Uncle Spirit has a little girl, too.
Fandom: Soul Eater
Characters: wee!Death the Kid, Shinigami-sama
Rating: G
Word count: ~300
Summary: He didn't think something so perfectly balanced could bug him so much, but it does.
He didn’t think something so perfectly balanced could bug him so much, but it does.
And it’s really unfair: he likes it when Father takes him human-watching. They go to Deathbucks (he gets a hot chocolate; Father gets tea) and then go to a park or a mall and tell each other stories about the people they see. But he can’t concentrate today because this bugs him.
Two grownup humans walked by a while ago; they had bathing suits and beach towels and a little girl between them, a little younger than himself. She held her parents’ right and left hands in each of hers (he knows that some humans have two parents--it’s unfair) and they...
They were wearing sandals, so he counted their toes. Twice. Twenty toes between them, properly divided up: precise and perfect. (He keeps counting them in his head, over and over and over. It’s annoying.)
He counted their fingers: precise and perfect. (The same.)
He saw more of the human body than he’d seen in his entire life, and nothing looked wrong. Out of place. Missing. And yet, there she was: that girl.
(“Do humans have tails, Father?”
“No, I don’t think so.”)
Darn it! It’s almost enough to make him ask, and that time Father told him where shinigami came from was horrible: he cried and cried and cried. ("I don’t mind missing a toe, son! I’d much rather have you than a toe!”) But this bugs him.
“Father?”
“ 'Sup?”
“Where do humans come from?” he asks.
“From other humans, of course. Other than that, I don’t know.” Father sips his tea.
He knows Father is lying, but he just holds his hot chocolate close and blows. Because he also knows that Uncle Spirit has a little girl, too.
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Date: 2012-03-11 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-18 03:59 am (UTC)THANK YOU! Kid and Shinigami-sama are kind of intimidating for me, as much as I love seeing them together. They clearly love each other, but Shinigami-sama is so inscrutable underneath all the goofiness.
Also, I seem to want all the interaction between wee!Kid and Spirit? Where Kid torments him with questions (and Spirit is like: "Will I get Shinigami-chopped for this answer?") and goes to him with some things he wouldn't even tell his father--not because Kid loves Spirit more, but because he respects him less/assumes his dad would lie. And Kid forgets that Maka hates Spirit as much as she does, and needs a Maka-chop as a reminder now and then. ("You and Ms. Marie went on missions all week while the school was being renovated and you DIDN'T INVITE ME?")