{⚔}—— No one can hurt you now. That sentence in itself made the feisty blonde pause in his tracks, just about ready to head out again for another mission, another assignment just to get a bit of work done on his end. Not classwork, field work like usual upon falling dead silent. Frozen, not moving, just... not even there almost as the words rang repeatedly through his mind given to him by his brother in arms and even someone he'd go as far as to say is his brother, King.Vulnerable, a state of mind that was rare save for when hit by nightmares of his new home perishing as fast as his old one. He couldn't even bring himself to talk, nothing, not a word would leave those tiers of his as ivory sunk into his lower one as if to hold himself back. Nobody told him this, the times he heard it was told to Cinque in an attempt to soothe her yet him? That's what made it all different.He wanted to cry, wanted to just call him stupid for telling him that when he knew that he felt safe there and yet the reassurance only served to make him unable to act. At least until he nodded, weakly in response then backing out of the room. Letting him sit there and wonder what just happened to him, why he didn't react in his usual way of just shrugging it off or telling him otherwise. Because it hit harder hearing him say it than someone else.It ain't worth... dwellin' on, fucks sake Nine, calm yer ass down an' don'cha dare fuckin' start cryin', yer stronger than back then!

{D'awwh, thank you! ♥ I feel so honored to become a part of it! You've all been so amazingly warm and welcome!}

Hell's Kitchen a la King

{⚔}—— You're adorable.Hearing that almost made him laugh, hard at that, being called adorable of all things by his brother out of everyone. Not that it was minded, his relationship with King is odd as a whole to some of them and he didn't give a damn about what they thought. "Shit man, ya sure ya didn't drink tonight?" Well, not that King did drink, that was more his and Sice's sort of thing as a whole. Not that he'd mind, to him it just means his brother is cutting loose finally.It actually was not something he expected out of the blue, oh well, two can play at that game since it was nothing abnormal between a pair of brothers such as them. "Yer so fuckin' cute that ya make the whole damn room wanna snuggle ya!" He thought he could use that anyways, his brother was the one that called him adorable anyways.This was like a game between them, one they didn't even get embarrassed by regardless of questionable looks and other things, like their preferences being taken into thought which promptly was responded with them not really bothering to let it get to them. They had people they liked in some parts, so what was wrong with them just having fun?Besides, it always was worth a good laugh or attempt to see King of all people trying to hold back his laughter.