Tidus doesn't expect it, even if he's the one to go no, that's not how you do it. That you have to be louder, throw your voice and all into your cheers, scream and shout until your lungs give out.
Because that's a different world. That's for a different place, a different time; and he never expected it to come forward, for Roland to entertain it. Wiping off that face of self-satisfaction to an unguarded surprise--because he doesn't know how to guard against this. He doesn't know how to react, despite how his stomach flutters, despite the small voice telling him he should laugh. But the rest of him is too caught up in the moment to, and... ]
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Tidus doesn't expect it, even if he's the one to go no, that's not how you do it. That you have to be louder, throw your voice and all into your cheers, scream and shout until your lungs give out.
Because that's a different world. That's for a different place, a different time; and he never expected it to come forward, for Roland to entertain it. Wiping off that face of self-satisfaction to an unguarded surprise--because he doesn't know how to guard against this. He doesn't know how to react, despite how his stomach flutters, despite the small voice telling him he should laugh. But the rest of him is too caught up in the moment to, and... ]