[Log]

[goldtiger]

Who: Everyone ever!
What: It's drinking time at the locale tavern! Lets make the bar tender love the new arrivals!
When: Evening time.
Other information: One rule to this, everyone must get completely smashed one way or another! Dohko went and just grabbed as many people possible to join in a drinking binge and even if your poor character is there to have one or two drinks. Run away before they get roped into drinking games.

Comments

[righteyed]

[Look, back in samurai days apparently sucking your bro's dick was pretty standard shit anyway so the hubbub over him saying that sort of thing just...Boggles Kojuro. As in, he's drunk enough that he goes into deer-in-the-headlights mode, plus furrowed eyebrows. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT DUDE IT'S MANLY AS SHIT TO LOVE YOUR BEST FRIEND. GIRLS ARE OK BUT THEY'RE NOT MASAMUNE....What is wrong with those dudes seriously.

Still, even if he doesn't get what's going on, he knows that Theo just stood up for him and that? That's some respectable shit right there. No matter what sorts of looks they're getting right now, he reaches over to clap a hand on Theo's shoulder and smile; it's small, very faint, but warm all the same.]

Thank you.

My round, as they say! What will you drink? Beer, sake? Some other new discovery to alcohol? It's on me!

[sonofdawn]

[ Theo beams at the shoulder clap and smile, but then his eyes start to get teary. That... THAT is something he's always wanted to receive from his father. Appreciation, gratitude. It's one thing to complimented in public because you're his son, and another to be genuinely thanked.

GODS HE'S NOT GOING TO CRY OKAY. He just nods and sits back down, and doesn't even react when Kojuro announces that he's spending for everyone else's drinks. He stares at the bottle in front of him, almost looking like he's trying to make it melt. ]

[righteyed]

[Oh...

oh he can't go buying drinks if he doesn't know what Theo wants, because he's doing this for Theo's benefit. And he knows that look, that's a look he's taken on a few times in his youth and seen on Bontenmaru once or twice, a complete rarity.

The happiness of the bar will wait, thank you. Kojuro shuffles over so that he's at Theo's side, leans down and replaces his hand on his shoulder. His voice is careful and quiet, just because no one likes their emotions talked about loudly, do they?]

Did my actions cause you some distress? I apologise for this, though not for my actions and sentiments in themselves.

[sonofdawn]

[ Theo welcomes the contact and takes reassurance in it, although he doesn't look at Kojuro when he responds. ]

N-Not distress, no. I just... [ He puts a hand on the bottle as if to drink from it some more, then he shakes his head, deciding against it. He's had quite enough, or so he thinks in this particular point in time. ] I just wish my father actually did that, you know? I mean, he's not embarrassed of me or anything, he actually takes me along his important meetings and introduces me to important people and tells people at parties how proud he is of me... but it feels like he doesn't really mean it. Like he's saying and doing those things because he has to, because I'm the eldest, because appearances have to be kept...

[ TOTALLY NOT CRYING. But there might be a hitch in his voice somewhere there. ]

[righteyed]

[Ah.

Kojuro scowls, even for a moment; he knows that's the pride of a father not used to open affection, but that raises cold children and that is not a method sitting well with him. (Then again, look at how his kid turned out holy s h i t.)

His grip tightens a little, affection over unhappiness, and he bobs his head in thought.] ...Something you logically know is false, but feel is true all the same. Emotions are wicked things, Theo, and some men do not like to let them run rampant for fear of losing themselves to the worse ones.

Still, if you wish for praise, I doubt I will lack opportunity to give it you wholly deserved. And perhaps when you return, you should talk to your father about your feelings, so that he can better change for your sake.