Kakyoin, he has everything he needs inside himself already. It's just a matter of convincing him it's there. I tried for the longest time to get him to listen to me, to believe in how magnificent he is. What worked in the end was—
[He cocks his head up at Polnareff, a glint of mischief in his eyes.]
Back when people first started disappearing, months before you got here, when Mista left and Abbacchio and Narancia and Fugo. Kakyoin was trying to make me feel better, you know, and I didn't want him to, and we . . . didn't argue really, just it was more combative than usual, I suppose. And we ended up falling into this competition, who can compliment the other best. If it's a competition, he always puts in his all.
That's what I've found that works. But you didn't hear it from me.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Kakyoin, he has everything he needs inside himself already. It's just a matter of convincing him it's there. I tried for the longest time to get him to listen to me, to believe in how magnificent he is. What worked in the end was—
[He cocks his head up at Polnareff, a glint of mischief in his eyes.]
Back when people first started disappearing, months before you got here, when Mista left and Abbacchio and Narancia and Fugo. Kakyoin was trying to make me feel better, you know, and I didn't want him to, and we . . . didn't argue really, just it was more combative than usual, I suppose. And we ended up falling into this competition, who can compliment the other best. If it's a competition, he always puts in his all.
That's what I've found that works. But you didn't hear it from me.
1/2
[He has never been more proud of his small son.]
Shit, that's perfect! Now I just have to figure out a way to get him into that kind of competition-- ahh, but that'll be--
no subject
--probably hard, actually, I can't just go up to him and start aggressively telling him he's great. I mean, I could, but he'd get suspicious.