Chroma: Danny

[9mon]

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[gogoghostpowers]

Just, uh...don't tell anyone about it, okay? I don't like people knowing.

[9mon]

[He nods. There are some things Kumon doesn't like talking about either.

Like right now when a different bubble comes upon him and his instinctively touches it. A memory plays (until 2:00).

You're confronted with Yamaguchi, the person you formally made a battery with and you're accused of making fun of the baseball team. You find yourself unable to defend yourself, listening to what he's saying and curling in on yourself until a different teenager steps in.

Azami, grabs Yamaguchi and starts putting pressure on his arm. You yell not to hurt his arm- Confronted with Azami, Yamaguchi runs away.

Kumon looks awkward after it concludes.]

[gogoghostpowers]

...whoa, what was that about?

[9mon]

I quit baseball and joined the theater... so he thought I was trying to make fun of the baseball team...

It all worked out in the end, at least?

[gogoghostpowers]

Dude. What a jerk. How is you joining the theater supposed to be making fun of the baseball team?

[9mon]

We were doing a skit about baseball, so... It probably looked like that to him.

He's really not a bad guy, he just had a lot of feelings about it.

[gogoghostpowers]

Hmm. Maybe. [ Danny is maybe a little bit biased against jerk jocks with a lot of bravado. ]

Did he at least stop being a jerk to you after that?

[9mon]

Yeah... There was a lot of stuff I couldn't say back then.

But we've both accepted it.

[gogoghostpowers]

Well...that's good, right? Right?

[9mon]

Right! He's still in baseball and I'm in theater and it's all good.

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh good. And that other guy, he didn't actually break anyone's bones or anything?

[9mon]

Azami hasn't broken anybody's bones. I mean, not as long as I've known him.

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh. That's...good!

[9mon]

The first time I met him he beat up some guys who were trying to beat him up. So he probably could break bones if he wanted to?

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh. That's, uh...that's good security, at least, right?

[9mon]

Yeah. Azami's so strong.

He's actually two years younger than me. Kinda hard to believe, right?

[gogoghostpowers]

Wait.

That guy is fourteen?

[9mon]

[what are they feeding these kids.]

Yup!

[gogoghostpowers]

Ugh, no fair. How's anyone supposed to take people like us seriously when there's kids like that running around?

[9mon]

[He laughs a little.]

Sometimes middle schoolers are just really tall.

[gogoghostpowers]

Yeah, well, they shouldn't be. It's not very fair to the rest of us.

[9mon]

What you do is way more important than how tall you are.

["this fits all the girls and danny"]

[gogoghostpowers]

Pfft, easy for you to say, Mr. Tall Guy.

[9mon]

I'm not even that tall. And besides, I think what you can do is really amazing! I can't land a whole space shuttle.

[gogoghostpowers]

[ blinks. he...really thought kumon was talking about the powers there. ]

It's, uh. I mean, it's not hard to learn--I just spent a lot of time playing aviation sims and stuff. I guess they really are accurate.