I'm not giving up, kicking off the rust
The cut of noise over the distance has his head whipping around, breath sucking in sharply as he blanches suddenly now that the moment is here. He stills at once, hands falling lip at his sides as he turns to face the approach of Koa. A litany of possible things to say whirls through his mind. He'd considered making a list, but had more or less created a speech inside his mind, one he'd been repeating. It should have been good as locked in a steel trap by this point, but the moment his eyes land on his cousin, it all goes poof!
All thoughts scatter the moment Koa's chipper greeting rains down over the distance. It's a jarring ease to the fight or flight response he feels flooding him. It makes him feel crazy for a moment, as if this can't be reality, because how are two colliding things that different. Maybe he's dreaming? Maybe Koa has amnesia? MAYBE, he has amnesia? On the verge of glitching out, a shaky laugh is all that manages to escape, part of it a squeak.
Fortunately, there's enough time from the greeting to Koa's actual arrival for Kaisel to reset. A nice, whispered, what the fuck? does the trick. Though, he's wary as Koa settles in for the fight, his hand a clear invitation, his words even more so. This is more familiar and expected, even if it's still weirdly calm and pleasant. "Uuuuuh." His features pull up into a question on one side of his face, but his body moves into position, comfort in the habit. "Are you talking to yourself now?" he tosses back the tease, because that's easier than anything else at the moment.
With a low breath, Kaisel moves, closing their distance and leaning in with a jab-cross combo towards Koa's left side, just trying to punch through the start of this with brute force, though there's no major intent behind the hits - just a reason to make Koa move and tap some sense into him. "I'm in love with Flora and we're living together and we're dating now and I'm SORRY but she's important and I'm gonna marry her some day and you BETTER be ok by then and be my best man." He vomits it all out as a deluge of words, figuring they could fight through the nuance.
1/4 Kaisel jab crosses at Koa's left side (lightly)
All thoughts scatter the moment Koa's chipper greeting rains down over the distance. It's a jarring ease to the fight or flight response he feels flooding him. It makes him feel crazy for a moment, as if this can't be reality, because how are two colliding things that different. Maybe he's dreaming? Maybe Koa has amnesia? MAYBE, he has amnesia? On the verge of glitching out, a shaky laugh is all that manages to escape, part of it a squeak.
Fortunately, there's enough time from the greeting to Koa's actual arrival for Kaisel to reset. A nice, whispered, what the fuck? does the trick. Though, he's wary as Koa settles in for the fight, his hand a clear invitation, his words even more so. This is more familiar and expected, even if it's still weirdly calm and pleasant. "Uuuuuh." His features pull up into a question on one side of his face, but his body moves into position, comfort in the habit. "Are you talking to yourself now?" he tosses back the tease, because that's easier than anything else at the moment.
With a low breath, Kaisel moves, closing their distance and leaning in with a jab-cross combo towards Koa's left side, just trying to punch through the start of this with brute force, though there's no major intent behind the hits - just a reason to make Koa move and tap some sense into him. "I'm in love with Flora and we're living together and we're dating now and I'm SORRY but she's important and I'm gonna marry her some day and you BETTER be ok by then and be my best man." He vomits it all out as a deluge of words, figuring they could fight through the nuance.
1/4 Kaisel jab crosses at Koa's left side (lightly)
Kaisel
I keep acting tough but maybe I'm not good enough
Wearing a watery blue, faded and stretched-out sparkling hair tie on his left wrist
