You're going to act like it's not a big deal, if I tell you. You don't want it to be a big deal. You want it to just be the way things are. You want anyone to have been able to do what you did. It'll piss you off, that nobody else would.
[ He shifts just slightly. It's not a meaningful movement, just something. So this is less a stupid, playful embrace in the middle of a business that thankfully doesn't have any customers right now and more- still stupid, but if he lowers his head so he's whispering into Jotaro's ear it feels less so. This was an arrangement appropriate for certain types of emotional vulnerability but not others, but here they are. ]
You don't want us to love you for the reasons we do. You want us to love you because you look nice and do things to make us happy and know more things about otters than I do. The little things. The easy things. The replaceable things. The things anyone could do. And we do. But those are the details. The things that you could take away and we'd still love you. You don't really want to hear the big things. I can tell you, but you'll act like it's nothing.
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[ He shifts just slightly. It's not a meaningful movement, just something. So this is less a stupid, playful embrace in the middle of a business that thankfully doesn't have any customers right now and more- still stupid, but if he lowers his head so he's whispering into Jotaro's ear it feels less so. This was an arrangement appropriate for certain types of emotional vulnerability but not others, but here they are. ]
You don't want us to love you for the reasons we do. You want us to love you because you look nice and do things to make us happy and know more things about otters than I do. The little things. The easy things. The replaceable things. The things anyone could do. And we do. But those are the details. The things that you could take away and we'd still love you. You don't really want to hear the big things. I can tell you, but you'll act like it's nothing.
[ He kisses below Jotaro's ear. ]
That's why it's just for us.