Well that gave Aoba a jolt. Not to any such extent as interpreting that as Declan’s age, no, not when he was obviously an adult man with adult cognizance and capability, who had lived at least some degree of an ordinary human life before he’d been resurrected…but in the sense that given how he spoke of the war, and how many accolades (useless or not) he’d accrued on those charts, Aoba had managed to come around to thinking that Declan’s fight with the Darkness had been going on for decades.
His thoughts fell upon something half a weird coincidence and half an absurd thought, which made it to his lips in the process of his thoughts restarting.
“Geez…if my first portal had dumped me here instead of Steelport, I could have shown up on your rebirthday instead,” he spluttered a little, rubbing the back of his neck as he did his best not to let his thoughts spiral off onto any more upsetting thoughts regarding the Guardian’s short span of…second life.
“I don’t think you have to change anything you don’t want to,” he answered instead, unhooking his feet and starting a slow spin back to the ‘correct’ orientation compared to the ship. “I’ve kept my hair like this for all twenty-three of my years. Maybe some of it is necessity, but this just works for me, too. If yours works for you, you don’t have to listen to anyone saying you should change it.”
Even if he would look all the more impressive if his eyes showed all the time.
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His thoughts fell upon something half a weird coincidence and half an absurd thought, which made it to his lips in the process of his thoughts restarting.
“Geez…if my first portal had dumped me here instead of Steelport, I could have shown up on your rebirthday instead,” he spluttered a little, rubbing the back of his neck as he did his best not to let his thoughts spiral off onto any more upsetting thoughts regarding the Guardian’s short span of…second life.
“I don’t think you have to change anything you don’t want to,” he answered instead, unhooking his feet and starting a slow spin back to the ‘correct’ orientation compared to the ship. “I’ve kept my hair like this for all twenty-three of my years. Maybe some of it is necessity, but this just works for me, too. If yours works for you, you don’t have to listen to anyone saying you should change it.”
Even if he would look all the more impressive if his eyes showed all the time.