01 -- Two Boys and a Bed -- Video

[flamesbond]

[A general Mognet post today because Lea and Isa need anyone who can help.

Lea points his camera at the mess of wood and metal that is going to be their bedframe.

Eventually.

He hopes. Currently it’s just a disaster with Isa sitting in the middle of it, fuming and sweaty. Their apartment, like so many, is powerless.]

So...anyone know how to read backwoods Wutaian? At least I think that’s what the directions are in...or was it something else, Isa?

I think that’s what it is.

[He squints at the directions before holding them up for Lea’s phone to capture.]

[And yeah, it’s some dialect of Wutaian that two boys from Kalm would never have learned to read. Lea sighs]

Never buy a bed from a backalley furniture store, guys. Even if it’s a great deal for a queen-sized bed.

[Yes. Two teenaged boys got one queen-sized bed. No, they don’t see a problem with this.]

Okay, you’ve asked. Turn that off and go change the laundry to the dryer already.

You nag, you know that?

I wasn’t nagging. Nagging would imply I asked you more than twice.

[He pauses.]

You’re not still filming this are you?

[Lea snorts]

I'm getting it, I'm getting...Nag

[It cuts off.]

Comments

[video]

[aiza]

No, he shouldn't be. But he doesn't know when to stop talking. Ever. He even does it in his sleep.

[video/action]

[flamesbond]

Bite me!

[action]

[aiza]

No thanks. I might catch something.

[NOT HERE]

[backwatertrooper]

[He's just going to pretend he didn't see this, ok.]

[video]

[backwatertrooper]

Uh-huh. [This is Cloud staring, nodding slowly and then looking away. There might be a blush.]

... well I guess you're... even now?

[Or something.]

[video]

[aiza]

Not even close, but I'd prefer to not be murdered in my sleep for telling you more than that.

[video]

[backwatertrooper]

Please don't. [He snorts, shaking his head and peering at Isa through his bangs.] I wouldn't want your death on my conscience.

[video]

[aiza]

Don't worry.

Re: [video]

[backwatertrooper]

Right. [He smiles faintly.] I'll... be over in a few hours, then.

[If he doesn't die of embarrassment in the meantime, that is.]

[video]

[swordoath]

At least it's better than snoring.

[video]

[aiza]

Snoring is easier to tune out. One of his cousins snored. It's a little harder to tune out someone yelling in your ear while you're both fast asleep.

[video]

[swordoath]

Being in the military, I can tune out a bunch of people snoring. Loud snoring? Yeah, no big deal. So many guys do that, you know?

Nope. Not Cloud. He was just so tiny and petite and crap. It was like listening to a tiny kitten snore.

Had the sneeze to match too.

[video]

[backwatertrooper]

[Oh, come on. What has he (and his older self) done to get dragged into these reveals! But that's apparently the same, which shouldn't be surprising but still.]

Zack. No one needs to know that!

[That? That's a really embarrassed hiss.]

[video]

[swordoath]

[ eh? ]

Oh... I wasn't really talking about you but... That's good to know.

[video]

[backwatertrooper]

You already knew that!

[pause, and if this blush could just go away that would be good.]

... even if... it's for me here that's---

[If he'd just not said anything... But how couldn't he when that applied to him too? Which, well. Why wouldn't it!]

Still me.

[He's not pouting.]

[video]

[swordoath]

Already knew you were and or are and adorable kid? Yeah. Yeah I did.

[ oh don't be fooled, Cloud. he knows full well what he's doing. ]

[video]

[backwatertrooper]

Zack!

... that's not---

[He's going to go hide in the mountains somewhere at this rate and never, ever come down. This is not helping other problems he might have actually half-way acknowledged in Nibelheim.]

Not what I meant!

[He'd try to say more but he's getting pretty tripped up.]

[NOT HERE]

[notachocobo]

[ZACK HE IS SERIOUSLY GOING TO END YOU.]

[video]

[aiza]

That's... [Isa pauses to try and come up with the right response that won't get him killed by either Cloud. He can't. There's no safe way to say it.] Strangely adorable.

[video]

[swordoath]

Despite how he appears now, he was a very adorable kid!

[video]

[notachocobo]

I hate you so much right now.

[video]

[swordoath]

I don't hear you denying it!~

[video]

[notachocobo]

You're just talking to hear yourself talk now.

[video]

[aiza]

I believe it.

[He's seen younger Cloud, so yes, he knows.]

[video]

[swordoath]

[ he really is trying to get the attention off of you and your friend here, man. ]

If you watch them both really close, you'll notice how they both duck their heads down into their scarf or shirt collar when they're embarrassed. Or flustered.