Colt ADORES Ryland's teacher voice the calm cool authority makes his knees go weak and he jumps to do whatever Ry asked of him
Ryland is conflicted on one hand thats the voice he uses to teach his students and the other they way Colt looks at him, eyes wide desperate to be a good boy
-🦋anon
you can’t just say this to me and expect me to feel normal about it
i loooove the Teacher Voice. i feel like ryland does it accidentally, he just kind of instinctually slips into it. and it isn’t until colt’s staring at him with wide, attentive eyes that he even realizes what happened
he doesn’t quite get why it has such an effect on colt, but he makes note of it for later. it’s the quickest way to get colt to listen to him, especially when it’s paired with a request or command (ie, “hand me that” or “stand here, please”). every time, colt snaps to attention and obeys
god forbid ryland is chiding colt with that voice… colt doesn’t know whether to be more chastised or turned on, but it’s usually both
ryland also totally slips into Teacher Voice when rambling about something sciency that colt doesn’t really understand and it gets him to pay attention so fast
it all comes to a head when ryland finally confronts colt about it and it goes something like this:
ryland: do you like when i talk to you like i talk to my students?
colt, freezing: uh.
ryland, Teacher Voice activated: do you, colt?
colt: Yes.
ryland: okay, interesting. why?
colt, sweating: it’s……… hot.
ryland: it’s hot? how so?
colt, steadily turning red: can you stop. it’s— i’m. going to pass out.
ryland, intrigued and amused and getting some Ideas: sure. but we’re revisiting this.
colt, strained: okay.
