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By the current present chapter 10 of Such Forced Contrition, Teunis hasn't realized Marcus is Hortensia yet. Marcus finds this very uncomfortable and Kal intends to eventually tell Teunis, but for the moment finds it very funny to wait and see if Teunis figures it out himself. Kal figures that since Calla knows and she and Teunis have their on and off thing, she'll tell him eventually (she won't, because she secretly finds it kind of sweet and thinks it will ruin the plays for him if he finds out. She's not totally wrong at this point in the timeline.)

Apollonia and Mayke realize when they see Marcus leave the theater in a panic in Such Slow Recognition.

Abel Ferreira não erra ao dobrar laterais no Palmeiras. A opção tática é válida, evidente, em alguns jogos. Não é definitiva, nem poderia ser. Circunstancial, diante da falta de alternativas na montagem do time, por exemplo, contra o Fortaleza. Até o primeiro tempo dessa partida, comportamento da equipe era razoável e funcionava bem com a dobra de laterais. Nesse sistema, Gabriel Menino estava…

Abel Ferreira não erra ao dobrar laterais no Palmeiras. A opção tática é válida, evidente, em alguns jogos. Não é definitiva, nem poderia ser. Circunstancial, diante da falta de alternativas na montagem do time, por exemplo, contra o Fortaleza. Até o primeiro tempo dessa partida, comportamento da equipe era razoável e funcionava bem com a dobra de laterais. Nesse sistema, Gabriel Menino estava…

I keep forgetting to lean into this more for Marcus/Kal. Marcus isn't fashionable in a following trends way, but spending stupid amounts of money on clothes was one of the few things he could make his own decisions about as long as it wasn't too flashy. So he's the kind of fashionable where if you Know he's obviously dressed very expensive, but following trends too much is for nouveau riche and not rich-rich. Cyril is also somewhere in this area after he gets engaged and his father in law starts trying to make him over, and Cyril is wildly uncomfortable with this because it mostly reminds him of Julius.

Kal definitely doesn't start very fashionable and by the time Marcus runs into him again, he's more on the flashy and scandalous end of fashionable. Right after Marcus buys him, Kal has an eye for what fits/what size things are/what's expensive after working in a laundry for a lot of his childhood but not really any sense of how that applied to himself. Then Marcus picked out his clothes and basically dressed Kal as an accessory to his own outfits so Kal never really developed a sense of what he liked himself.

Somewhere towards the end of the Kal POV part of the sequelfic, Kal will develop more of a sense that if he's going to be perceived he might as well decide how he wants to be perceived. He eventually settles on he wants people like Lucian and Marcus to perceive fuck you and trends more towards scandalous things like brightly colored socks, striped pants and plaid waistcoats by the time Marcus runs into him again. Lodee shows up in the big city dressed like he's still on the northern frontier because he's also performing fuck all this. Kal will eventually talk Marcus into something scandalous like flashy socks to go with his earring.

Marcus and Kal will eventually have a babies ever after because I find the idea of that trainwreck very iddy. Marcus is the one with the most parenting experience since he was responsible early on for supervising his sisters' children's educations and doing general parenting-ish things like going to recitals and doing their clothes shopping.

Kal doesn't dislike the idea of kids but was never really around them much after he got older, and has a lot of issues wrapped up in his own childhood for obvious reasons. He has a weird relationship with Marcus' older nieces and nephews, mostly from his side, because he's self conscious that they remember how things used to be and Kal feels like he doesn't belong with Marcus' family.

When they finally end up having kids, Kal is very stressed out all the time because it makes him process stuff that he compartmentalized for a very long time. He ends up being more of the disciplinarian because in his experience,bad things happened to kids who weren't silent and obedient and it all brings a lot of low key anxiety up to high key for a while in the toddler/preschool years. Marcus enjoys the chance to be the Fun parent for once after being the uncle who had to supervise everything, and they end up having a couple big fights until they sort their shit out.

Kal is very, very touchy when he gets comfortable with someone. Teunis is not super comfortable with this, especially in public, which is part of the reason they didn't work out when they were hooking up. Teunis is more about acts of service because he can tell himself it's what he's choosing to do, and he has much more complicated feelings about touching and being touched.