[ he's just going to stand there and watch laurent's battle with the bottlecap with one eyebrow raised. arles city's most popular superhero, everybody.
(he would have taken it from him in another moment, probably. he wouldn't have made laurent ask.)
what he does do is sweep into the kitchen and start pulling out shit to make dinner. his contract literally does include menial labor bullshit like acting as laurent's personal assistant (one of the first times they'd ever spoken, laurent had coolly ordered him to pick up his dry cleaning), but this is just something they started doing one day and then forgot to stop. like any other rich asshole laurent has groceries delivered and can't cook to save his life ("that's what other people are for, damen"), so it's a coin toss between takeout and damen channeling his inner housewife, and he needs something to do with his hands. watching laurent sweat and writhe on white hospital sheets reminded him too closely of his father, still in the slow process of dying from his NEXT abilities burning him up from the inside. a fever instead of an open flame.
that will probably happen to damen, someday. just one more thing to look forward to, if laurent's rabid 'fans' don't murder them both first.
confessing he'd been worried would be stupid, so he keeps his voice as light as laurent's, even if he hasn't had as much practice at coming off nonchalant. it's not like they don't risk their lives every day. what would be the point of getting upset or yelling at laurent to be more careful? the most he'd probably do in reaction would be to arch a brow and ask if random outbursts were a cultural thing. ]
Maybe if you wore a mask out of uniform like all the other heroes, people wouldn't have such an easy time targeting you in the middle of a crowd. Nobody knows I look like.
[ gladiator had eyes of glowing gold and hair of fire with his powers activated, and even the damianos costume had included a helmet. many of the other heroes changed their hair color in costume or had voice synthesizers, or had masks to obscure their features when out of uniform. royal is the only hero that goes around with his real face and his real hair and his real voice without trying to hide a thing. ]
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(he would have taken it from him in another moment, probably. he wouldn't have made laurent ask.)
what he does do is sweep into the kitchen and start pulling out shit to make dinner. his contract literally does include menial labor bullshit like acting as laurent's personal assistant (one of the first times they'd ever spoken, laurent had coolly ordered him to pick up his dry cleaning), but this is just something they started doing one day and then forgot to stop. like any other rich asshole laurent has groceries delivered and can't cook to save his life ("that's what other people are for, damen"), so it's a coin toss between takeout and damen channeling his inner housewife, and he needs something to do with his hands. watching laurent sweat and writhe on white hospital sheets reminded him too closely of his father, still in the slow process of dying from his NEXT abilities burning him up from the inside. a fever instead of an open flame.
that will probably happen to damen, someday. just one more thing to look forward to, if laurent's rabid 'fans' don't murder them both first.
confessing he'd been worried would be stupid, so he keeps his voice as light as laurent's, even if he hasn't had as much practice at coming off nonchalant. it's not like they don't risk their lives every day. what would be the point of getting upset or yelling at laurent to be more careful? the most he'd probably do in reaction would be to arch a brow and ask if random outbursts were a cultural thing. ]
Maybe if you wore a mask out of uniform like all the other heroes, people wouldn't have such an easy time targeting you in the middle of a crowd. Nobody knows I look like.
[ gladiator had eyes of glowing gold and hair of fire with his powers activated, and even the damianos costume had included a helmet. many of the other heroes changed their hair color in costume or had voice synthesizers, or had masks to obscure their features when out of uniform. royal is the only hero that goes around with his real face and his real hair and his real voice without trying to hide a thing. ]