#teklav

He has a goddamned Honey Badger for a lusus. A creature known for being uncaring and aggressive has raised him since birth.

This has made him a very irritable person, lashing out at people that he really does care about and just generally being a complete dickhead to everything. This makes his friends treat him the same, which only makes him angrier and lash out more.

So he's in this perpetual cycle of him essentially degrading as a person, becoming more and more like his lusus, which is actually his greatest fear because he is absolutely terrified of the thing.

And then along comes Mina. This wonderful and caring human girl that sees past all the anger and false attitude and saw the sad and pathetic troll hiding it all

And she does her very best to show him that someone cares. And she becomes the one bright thing in his life. The one thing he looks forward to. He smiles when other trolls talk about her. Her name alone has such a positive effect on him

But he doesn't know how to deal with these sort of feelings. He's never actually felt this way towards any single thing before. So he does what he's good at. He lashes out at her. She becomes the target for his anger.

All because he's too much of a coward to tell her how he feels and he doesn't know what to do with those feelings.

So after everything, after that last conversation they have where he blows up on her, they finally meet. And he apologizes. He apologies for ever staining her life.

And then he dies against Pyllos. 

HAHA

FEELS

[01:30] SQ: yOUrE In lOvE wIth A hUmAn gIrl

[01:30] IC: tht s 4 ludcrous noton

[01:31] SQ: nO It Isnt

[01:31] SQ: thAt ExplAIns why yOU tAlk tO hEr

[01:31] SQ: All thE tImE

[01:31] SQ: And gEt snAppy whEn All Of Us dO

[01:31] SQ: why yOU smIlE whEn shEs mEntIOnEd

[01:31] SQ: And yOUr fAcE gEts All grEEn

                The blond rested her hands over his shoulders as he sobbed. Mina had no idea how long the two sat there on the ground while the boy cried. But he needed it. She could tell how much he needed to cry. He didn't do it very much. I mean, this was his father he'd just ousted. The person who, for better or for worse, raised him... Teklav was strong in an odd kind of way, and what he'd just done proved it to not only her, but himself.

                 She let out a quiet sigh and cracked her jaw, licking her lips apprehensively. Mina looked down at the boy, the jumbled  up red headed mess that was Teklav. Her hands quickly moved to his face to pull him up.

                She dabbed at his tears with her sleeves and smiled at him. "That was very brave Teklav." The girl said simply, nodding at him as if to add extra reassurance. The red head stared at her, taking off his grasses and wiping his eyes. "Sorry Mina." He managed to sputter out.  The girl shook her head at him, ruffling his hair. "You're very brave." She repeated.

Teklav's voice shook in an almost hysterical chuckle. "Did I impress you or something Mina...?" He gave a forced looking smirk at the young blond. Mina smiled and nodded a bit. "Yes Teklav. I'm very impressed." Teklav looked down and snorted, gasping for air breathlessly. "That's a laugh...! I'm not brave.... I was so scared!" She hushed him, pulling his face up once more to look him in the eye. "Teklav, I'm a psychology major. I know for a fact that bravery is not the absence of fear, it's the decision to go through with something you know to be right, no matter how scared you are." He scoffed a bit. "Mina that's a load of shit."

                The girl leaned forward and kissed his forehead, then his nose and then finally his lips. "It's not. I promise. And you know that when I promise something, I mean it." Teklav fished for air for a moment before closing his mouth and nodding limply, his lower lip twitching slightly. "Come on now, don't cry Grumpy...! You've been so brave lately. What's happened to you? I've known you for two years and I've never seen you this way before until recently...!" She giggled, brushing his hair from his face. The redhead met her gaze finally. "You happened Mina."

                Mina paused and stared back at him for a moment, having not expected him to say that. The girl wrapped her arms around him and held him to her chest. "What do we do now since  I've destroyed both of our family relations." He asked, his voice muffled slightly by the mass of her being. Mina closed her eyes and hummed as he wrapped his arms around her in turn. The girl  exhaled suddenly, opening her eyes and pulling away from him to look him in the eye.

                "Let's run away together." the words spilled from her mouth so quickly and fully he almost didn't catch them at first.

                "...What?"

                "Let's run away together!" She repeated.

                "You have to be joking me." He said, raising an eyebrow at the small girl. But Mina was dead serious, her brows furrowed and an uncharacteristically devilish grin was sprawled across her soft features. Teklav continued to watch her face, but she stayed constant. He rested his head atop hers suddenly, closing his eyes and sighing. "Mina, you want to run away with me?" "Yes I do." "What about school, work, everyone else." "Do you honestly think any of that really matters as of now?" He pulled back to look at her once more. The blond girl grasped his hand and pulled it up to their eye level. "What have we got to lose Teklav?"

                He paused to think about that. But the more that he thought, the more he realized that the answer was simply... Nothing. They had nothing to lose.

"Dad?"

Teklav stood stunned in the doorway to his home, Mina behind him. His father, a giant, hateful man, stood up from a chair. "Yeah, it's me." Teklav placed his arm in front of Mina, as if to protect her, "What the hell are you doing here." His father sneered and took a step forward, "Don't you dare talk to me like that. You didn't answer when I called you, I was worr-" He was interrupted by Teklav closing the distance between them. "Worried? No, you don't get to be worried. After all this time, after fucking me up, you don't get to be worried." Both his father and Mina were stunned, hell, even Teklav was surprised by himself. His father popped his neck and growled, "Now you fucking listen to me." Teklav bored a hateful gaze into his father, so full of rage that even he couldn't make eye contact with the young man. "No. I am going to talk, and you are going to listen. I spent years trying to please you. Hell, my whole life I've tried to live like you because THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WAS RIGHT."

Teklav stepped away, gripping his hair and trying to catch a breath, but before anyone could react, he swiveled to face his father again. "You taught me be tough, but dammit, you also taught me how to be an unloved, hateful, bastard of a man. I have hated myself for years because of you!" His rant was brought to an end by a hand slamming into his cheek, sending him back a few steps.

Tears sting the angry boy's eyes as his father grabs his wrist, pulling him in close. "Now you listen to me, I was the father you deserved. You're the reason your mother left." Teklav pushed the man harder than he had ever before, breaking free of his grip and landing on the ground. Mina ran over to him and helped him up, wiping his tears away for him. "Thanks Mina." He heard his father chuckle and his words made his blood boil. "Heh, so you actually found someone who can stand your sorry ass? I feel sorry for her." Teklav's eyes widened and he gently moved Mina away, challenging his father once again. "No, you are not allowed to do this. I was the one who made Mom leave? I bet she just couldn't stand you, you miserable sack of anger. Mina makes me happy, and you know what else? She makes me strong. She makes me too strong for you to be able to break me."

Teklav stood strong now, gripping Mina's hand to keep him that way. He wouldn't let this man speak again. Not now. "You are no longer worthy of being in my life, Father.When you leave, and you will as soon as I am done talking, you will no longer exist to me. I will block your number, and hell, I might just move. You aren't allowed to fucking taint me any longer. You are the reason I lashed out at Mina, the one person who actually cares and really loves me. But we're happy now, and that means you aren't allowed in my life any longer. Now. Get. The Hell.OUT!" He stared at his father for what seemed like ages before the man walked to the door and left, not another word spoken.

Teklav stood still for ages before Mina broke the silence. "Teklav... Come here." She stepped towards him but he instead made his way to the chair his father had been in, and gripping it, slammed it on its side. His knees began to quiver and he was soon on his hands and knees, sobbing. Mina walked over softly and pulled him into her embrace, letting him cry into her lap.

(I'm making their first kiss actually after Teklav's meeting with her parents and his rant at them. So here you go.)

Teklav stood alone in the park, snow falling around him. He hadn't spoken to Mina for days, not since his outburst at her parents. He frowned, annoyed at himself. Why the hell did he do that? "I mean, they deserved it." He thought aloud, "They deserved more than that really. Oh god, Mina is probably pissed at me..." He felt deflated, disappointed in himself. He should have thought more clearly before going off like that. "I should call her. Apologize, if she'll let me." He knew she'd let him apologize. She was always great like that.

He flipped his phone open and pressed 1,her name popping up on the screen. He remembered the teasing he endured when Cytera and the others found out he had hotkeyed Mina's number to the first button on his phone. He shook his head to focus and gingerly pressed the Call button, as if the phone was a dangerous object. He held his breath as he heard it ring, and couldn't help but smile a bit when he heard her pick up. "Mina? Yeah, hey. It's Teklav. I was um... I was wondering if you wanted to meet up? I'm at the park and it's really nice out and I... I wanted to apologize in person." While she responded, Teklav found himself nervous. He hadn't been really nervous for such a long time. Well, that was a lie, he was nervous when he and Mina got back to her place after hanging out to find her family there...

"Oh, you're hanging out with Cytera? Well... Bring her if she wants to come. I could use someone to keep me from chickening out if I fumble over my words." He chuckled at himself, and felt a bit more confident when he heard her giggle in return. "Alright, I'm by the ice rink, on the left side. I'm wearing the really long scarf this time. Haha, yeah, that one. Thanks for coming. Alright, bye." He smiled at his phone as he closed it and slid it back in his pocket and waited.

Mina and Cytera were there in under half an hour, but any part of Teklav that was impatient shut up when he saw them. "Hey Cytera. Thanks for coming, Mina. I jus-" He was interrupted by a tight hug and Mina's voice speaking over his own for once. "Want to learn how to ice skate?" Teklav stared down at her, surprised. He had expected anger or something over what he had done, not... that. He looked over to Cytera, who simply gave him a shrug and a smirk. She was obviously enjoying this, like always. "Um... sure. Cytera, can you hold my bag? My camera is inside and I don't want to fall on it." She gladly took the bag, a devious look in her eyes. Teklav didn't even begin to concern himself about what she was planning. Mina look up at him and held out a pair of skates. "I bought these on the way. It was easy since I knew your shoe size." He laughed as he took them, kicking off his own shoes, "I always wondered why you asked me that."

As they stepped onto the ice, Teklav immediately began to regret this, clutching the railing. "I don't think human beings were meant to balance on sharp blades on fucking ice. Why did I agree to this?" Mina giggled and took some of his scarf, wrapping it around her neck. "There. Now, you've got a tether." Teklav stared at her and the scarf, biting his tongue and deciding not to fight her logic. When they finally got farther in, Teklav began to struggle, looking for something to hold onto. And then he felt Mina take his hand in hers and time seemed to stop. He looked at their intertwined hands like it was something he thought wasn't capable of existing, then he looked at her, and he did something he felt was right for once. He pulled her in and kissed her.

The kiss seemed to go on for minutes, nothing else mattered. Just her and him and this kiss. Then there was a flash of light and snickering, breaking Teklav out of the spell. He pulled away from Mina and opened his mouth, trying to summon an apology. Mina was silent as well, her cheeks red, but then suddenly something came to her. "Was that flash your camera, Teklav?" A short choking scream came out of the boy and he turned to see Cytera holding the camera up and laughing loudly. He slowly unwrapped the scarf from his neck and handed it to Mina. "CYTERA. DAMMIT WOMAN. I'M GOING TO FUCKING... GYAH!" He stumbled to the edge of the rink and began to climb over, Cytera hopping away as she laughed. Mina watched the scene, still partly dazed by everything, and finally laughed as well, skating over to calm Teklav down.

(Or therapystuck as Lily and I now call it.)

Decided to post random headcanons about Teklav and his life.

His dad (Originally his honey badger lusus) only really ever makes an effort on Teklav's birthday, on which he sends him money and gives him a phone call. After meeting Mina's parents though, Teklav decides to ignore the call for the first time.

After Teklav ignores the call, his father actually makes an appearance at Teklav's place, wherein they get into a huge fight and Teklav actually stands up for himself for once against his dad.

As much as he acts like he hates his friends, he almost always goes to them for help and advice, Cytera especially.

Teklav used to want to be in theater, but his dad disapproved of it.

Despite his lack of effort in taking care of himself, Teklav's place is rather clean. Except around his computer, where he wastes a lot of time playing games.

The few things that make him genuinely happy are; the smell of roasting coffee, beating a game, improv acting, and Mina.

I'll do more once I come up with more.

Teklav: Well... I guess it's time for me to leave. I really don't think I could stand for much more of this.

Mina: Oh, alright... Thanks for coming over, Teklav.

Teklav: Of course. *He gets up and walks to the door before turning around.* One last thing. *He shots an apologetic look to Mina.*

Mina: Oh no...

Teklav: Mina is a great girl. No, she's a fucking amazing girl. And it infuriates me that all of you moronic bitches would dare pick apart who she is and her actions. She's cute, intelligent, and the nicest person to ever grace this miserable planet and probably the nicest person you'll ever see, despite none of you deserving her attention and love! She's made me a better person and I don't think I could keep going without her supporting me. So maybe you should look at the black holes where your hearts should be before tearing into her! Goodnight all of you disgusting cockwhores! *He turns on his heel and exits the house, slamming the door behind him.*

Mina: I...

Her family: ....