#violent red

oh my god i have so many (p.s. my zones/danger days knowledge is a bit rusty, so forgive me)

-kobra learns that he is trans from a BL/i "be a better human" manual. he'd never really thought much about his appearance- there weren't many mirrors in his apartment that his mother or pois hadn't broken, but nonetheless, he just didn't care. what he had known was though is that he wasn't whatever people thought he was, but naturally, he couldn't communicate this. party poison is in re-ed one day during what mom and dad call "summer", and kobra is reading, keeping his head down, lying low so the crows don't send him to re-ed, too. flipping through manuals, he kinds pasted-in accounts of long gone juvie halls spitting about revolution, how they are the unclean, never washed, pure color that BL/i speaks ill of. they talk about gender and expression and pronouns and kobra just about collapses. he tells poison when they get home. they say they've always known. well, that's news to him.

-not talking much as a kid, kobra and poison end up teaching themselves sign language, and it gets so garbled throughout the years that they end up having their own language. when coming to the zones, jet and cherri are almost 100% sure they know sign language. until they meet the venom siblings.

-kobra had really bad acne as a kid. i just don't know how to elaborate but i have so many Thoughts about it.

-those who don't know the kobra kid- and even some who do- take him as calloused and unforgiving. have you ever seen him smile behind that helmet, seen his eyes squeeze tight and his face go red behind those glasses? no, no one has, unless you're in his crew and when someone tells you this, you laugh in their face but not dare confirm or deny. cherri cola wouldn't ever tell you that the kid is his first and only love in a way that isn't nondescript and vague. he wouldn't ever tell you about how kobra cooks him breakfast and taught him how to wash the girl's hair, and how kobra steals his jackets and always hides them in different places. party poison would surely never tell you the way they became the venom siblings or how the name was a mix from something found in a BL/i manual and something their grandmother called them. they would never tell you about how much kobra tells them that he loves them or to be careful every time they're separated, and that the only thing that can lull the kid back to sleep is poison singing songs.