[The context dims some of the anger the young Guardian was previously experiencing, although Rex is still the first to step backwards to break away, surprised by the similarities between this and his own childhood. Only in his own personal case, he was very clearly meant to be an anomaly. Equal parts superhuman and prepubescent, his small body and ability to turn mundane objects into weapons of mass destruction had allowed him to slip in and out of places without ringing any alarms. Nobody knew that jacks or yo-yo's could be turned into the kinds of things that could blast through the skulls of foreign diplomats, and a thirteen year old boy would never make it onto a list of suspects in the investigations for arson, murder, and international terrorism.]
Oof.
[What concerns him, and forces the young Guardian to be sensitive for once in his goddamn life, is that Dimitri had viewed himself as an adult in that moment. The blond hails from a different time, and if the prince were any other normal teenager, Rex would make light of how fucked up it is that the both of them had seen the inside of a human head before grabbing their first hot-girl boob.]
Guess that was Mortal Kombat about 200 or 300 years before Mortal Kombat was even released, damn!
[It's not a joke that Dimitri will understand, but it's something. A breather. Rex had taken years to come to terms with the gravity of what happened to him, and in a way, he is still grieving, processing. When Eve bid him goodbye, for real, that time... She didn't even look angry, just disappointed. Like him screwing Kate and screwing up was supposed to happen, or that she should've seen it coming.]
Was that your first time straight up slicin' and dicin' a guy?
[He blurts this out casually, but there is an air of sentimentality tinged in the uptick of Rex's pitch at the end. The redhead maintains a tone that lacks shock or judgment.]
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Oof.
[What concerns him, and forces the young Guardian to be sensitive for once in his goddamn life, is that Dimitri had viewed himself as an adult in that moment. The blond hails from a different time, and if the prince were any other normal teenager, Rex would make light of how fucked up it is that the both of them had seen the inside of a human head before grabbing their first hot-girl boob.]
Guess that was Mortal Kombat about 200 or 300 years before Mortal Kombat was even released, damn!
[It's not a joke that Dimitri will understand, but it's something. A breather. Rex had taken years to come to terms with the gravity of what happened to him, and in a way, he is still grieving, processing. When Eve bid him goodbye, for real, that time... She didn't even look angry, just disappointed. Like him screwing Kate and screwing up was supposed to happen, or that she should've seen it coming.]
Was that your first time straight up slicin' and dicin' a guy?
[He blurts this out casually, but there is an air of sentimentality tinged in the uptick of Rex's pitch at the end. The redhead maintains a tone that lacks shock or judgment.]