#krel

I wrote this sloppy and fast. Now I have five hours to sleep. Was it worth it?

Krel had spent all morning listening to Aja talk about Steve. Steve this, and Steve that, she told Vex about her date with the Palchuck the other delson and even got advice from the Blanks! So when Steve stopped by early to walk with them to the schoolhouse, Krel was sick of it.

"Don't either of you have a personality outside of your dating lives? Aye yi yi. I would've at least thought you were better than this Aja."

Aja didn't seem to mind her brother's comment. Instead she laughed, and put her hand on Steve's, which was on her shoulders.

"He's a part of my life little brother. Besides this is normal for a 'teenage girl'. I thought blending in was important?"

Steve, confused as he usually was, immediately went to defend his infatuation with his girlfriend.

"You're just jealous because you can't get a girlfriend, buttsnack. You know cause your brother can't flirt?"

Steve said the last part to Aja, consistently looking for her approval. It made Krel roll his eyes. Of course just because he wasn't interested in romance everyone assumed he wasn't good at it. Go figure.

"I'll have you know if I wanted one I'd have one. And she would be happy. Ugh. But have her own life. Won't you two ever get off of eachother?"

Krel was more than happy to hear the first bell ring. He was very thankful to be in the honors math class now. I mean he'd appreciated Ms. Janeth noticing his genius before, but he was definitely going to thank her now. He split away from his sister and her annoying new boy toy and beelined to where he knew to be.

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Math was unfufilling per the usual, even if slightly more difficult than the normal mush they teach in the actual math class. Krel was on his own for now. He had a seperate English period than Aja and wouldn't see her until lunchtime. He went down the hall, his path memorized.

"Oh hey that's the guy that didn't do a volcano. Good to see someone with some originality."

A passing human girl commented on him to her companion as they passed him. Then Krel had an idea. He might not be interested but he could still prove that he had game.

"Oh ho! I may be intellectually ahead with my sciences, but even I must defer to the greats when I say, 'surely the angels must take after you?'"

———————— Steve knew he wasn’t exactly “the brains” type of guy in the group, which was fine, he was perfectly content with being the jock/heartthrob! But sometimes he really wished he could be both, or at least a bit more skilled in critical thinking, like now.

Standing by the corner that lead to the hallway in Tarron residence, eyes fixated in a confused and almost irritated expression, on two of the three biggest nerds he knows. Eli taking third place, he’s gotten de-ranked after deciding to leave earth with Steve’s gorgeous and loving girlfriend to rule Akiridion-5– “human ambassador”, Steve wasn’t quite sure what that even meant.

His bestfriend’s got this dopey expression, almost droopy. This weird gentle smile on his face as he listens to Krel talk about science-y stuff Steve couldn’t care less about. They’re giggling with each other— and Steve had never in his twelve years of knowing Seamus heard him giggle, at least not this love-sick and hopeless.

It sure as hell looked like they were flirting, though Steve wasn’t sure if he should be happy about that possibility or not. If Krel were to break his best friend’s heart with his Krel-ness, the dork would have hell to pay, but then there was Aja, and that’s a whole other conversation on why Steve cannot lay a hand on Krel in any given situation if he’d like to keep his head on his shoulders.

Then again, they were weird, they could just be…bros being bros, in their own weird, nerd way.

He’d been standing here for a while, all he knows is that in all that time, he’d witnessed Seamus brush Krel’s bangs out of his face thrice in the span of, what he assumed was, eight minutes.

Toby raised a brow as he approached the blond. “Is there a reason you’ve been spying on those two the past few minutes like a creep, or…?”

“Look,” Steve cut him off, pointing an accusing finger at his soon-to-be-brother-in-law and best friend. “There is something going on with them. I mean, look at them! All red faced and giggly. Seamus just brushed Krel’s hair out of his face for the fourth time in less than ten minutes. Am I crazy or are they flirting?”

Toby stared, deadpan as he spoke with a hand on his hip. “Wow, what gave it away? The flushed faces and giggles or the fact they’ve been dating for the past three months?”

“They what?!”

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🎇: Random headcannon for Jim, Aja, Krel & Douxie from TOA?

So despite Krel and Aja being children, based on their appearances and not being able to see how they act, the goverment attackers (I don’t think they have a specific name?) assume they’re adults, which mean pretending to be human children is extra worrying.