dear_mun | (no subject)

Heh. [ He's not sure what to say to that - the momentary melancholy or the fact that young!Luke has an outfit like that. Would saying that he'd look cute be weird? ]

No one on Coruscant knows how to dress themselves, I've noticed. If wearing the same five shades of brown and grey over and over is considered high fashion there, I wouldn't take "badly dressed" as an insult.

[ Says the guy who wears Jedi robes in-game more often than not, but to his credit I never said that they were standard brown ones. ]

To be fair, I've seen a couple wearing muted blue, too. But civilian fashions do seem to favor drab colors. It might be the war.

Might be. Or the fact that it's winter.

[ There is something odd about this conversation... ]

So, I've kind of been wondering, since I met your younger self... do you remember that?

I'm at around the point where my mundane is considering canon updating... him, so for this, yes.

Oh! [ fffffffffffffffff man, this time thing is confusing. ]

... Hey, you'll be taller than me! Again.

[ :D ]

A little. I'm sure I'm disappointed that I never did get very tall.

At least it didn't take you 700 years to break the four-foot mark.

There's that.

Sorry for the weird question earlier. I thought you were from after I first met you.

But you seem younger than that? This is so confusing.

[ Not really any more confusing than when you look like a kid, grow up, and then slowly recover hundreds of years of memories and fail to have a consistent mental age. Cephiro has no room to complain, ever. ]

Don't worry about it - it's dear_mun, and mine doesn't even know when she wants me updated. She's taking that as an excuse to play fast and loose with what I know - I'm only about twenty-five, though.

That would be a quite an update. [ furrows his brow ] I thought you'd be maybe seventeen.

A little older than that. If you want me at nineteen, there's the doesntneedeyes account - though even then, I'm more serious than I was at seventeen.

Well, I meant that's where I thought she'd update you to. Going from thirteen to twenty-five seems like a pretty big jump.

Going to seventeen would just make me into an outright teenager. [He laughs.] I was only sweet when I had to be, then. That was the year that Biggs and Tank left, and I didn't have anything to do with anyone who even wanted to see the other side of Tatooine.

I doubt you were that bad.

Then again, I think I forgot what teenagers are like until I met some at CS. So, perhaps I should defer to your wisdom here.

I must have complained so much when I was that age... It was also that year that I killed someone for the first time. One of the Sand People. [Distantly:] Sometimes it feels like I've never stopped...

Anyway. It is a big change, and something my mundane has to be certain about. It would mean that I could handle darker and more stressful events, but something would be lost, too.

[ Sighs. ]

Yeah.

It kind of reminds me of when I grew up.

In Edensphere?

[Self-deprecating] I'd be a little ashamed to be seventeen in Counted Stars. So many of the people there did so much by that age, but I was about as much of a child then as at thirteen. It was just legal for me to drive and fly.

Yes, that one. From everyone else's perspective it'll be like you'll just suddenly grow up one day. Re-introducing myself to everyone was awkward when I did it, and at least I was still basically the same person. You'll have changed quite a bit.

[ tilts his head to one side ]

That's nothing to be embarrassed about. You were seventeen, and you apparently had a pretty sheltered life up to that point. Anyone who would look down on you for that is pretty immature herself.

[ slight smile ]

Yes... I'll remember having been there, but it will be hazy at first. Especially with the canon point.

Sheltered by some definitions. My foster parents tried to keep me safe, but it was Tatooine. I just didn't get much done. [His head ducks slightly.]

I don't think I'd be able to blame River or anyone else for being impatient with me at that age. I wasn't particularly graceful about what I wanted, or the little I'd done. Puberty isn't kind to anyone.

[ Luuuuuuke. You have no idea how ridiculously self-conscious you sound right now. You're still that little boy with his first zit. ]

Whatever. [ shakes his head ] Truth be told, you're probably just as difficult to live with at any age. I can't speak for everyone else, but I don't care that much because I love you regardless.

Sometimes I wish I had met you in chronological order, though.

[Luke smiles.] There's a reason I didn't argue with the 'clearly insane' part of this username. Not that I agree, but I've heard it said often enough, and I know why people say it.

But... thank you. It means a lot. I hope you will always consider me a friend.

It would have been something to see, wouldn't it?