[ There's a lot that goes unsaid there, and Freddie, all but fresh out of the military, presses him to elaborate on none of it. Toki doesn't have to—so much of their grief and stress was conveyed in the silent space between each other as they sat side-by-side in Iraq, in Syria. It was their own version of a tether, maintained simply by being present.
And, though he's able to have deeper conversations about these things if feelings are offered up, in this situation, simple, unquestioning presence is the best way Freddie knows to offer comfort and reassurance in turn: to simply exist as a shoulder to lean on, should Toki so choose. ]
Have you been up to much? The apartment's looking sparse. I need to build something before I lose my mind.
[It's nice to have someone there when he can't really put the words together, even without a language barrier as an excuse. He's always been something of the most... vulnerable of the people he knows, but feelings just aren't metal.
It's nice when he doesn't have to contend with that, though.]
I feel you. I've been making, uh... a chair. A really big one. There's all these bears here that got kind of fucked up, so I started putting them together...
[He trails off. It sounds a lot weirder when he actually talks about it.]
[ What the fuck? ...Well, he's creative. And European. Freddie supposes he can't judge. ]
You're going to have to elaborate, because you have to know I'm now imagining, like, a horrible Elephant's Foot made out of Beanie Babies, and I really don't want to go to sleep thinking about that tonight.
[ Pretty avant-garde. Probably the kind of thing that some millionaire on the Upper East Side spends like a hundred thousand dollars to have in their home so that the other millionaires can recognize who designed the chair and form their opinions of the owner around that. Good on Toki for getting in on the ground level, he supposes. Guy has to spend his free time somehow. ]
I can't say what I've been making is that useful. I've mostly been trying to pick up what I can where I can to get back to making models. Haven't found any glue, though.
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And, though he's able to have deeper conversations about these things if feelings are offered up, in this situation, simple, unquestioning presence is the best way Freddie knows to offer comfort and reassurance in turn: to simply exist as a shoulder to lean on, should Toki so choose. ]
Have you been up to much? The apartment's looking sparse. I need to build something before I lose my mind.
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It's nice when he doesn't have to contend with that, though.]
I feel you. I've been making, uh... a chair. A really big one. There's all these bears here that got kind of fucked up, so I started putting them together...
[He trails off. It sounds a lot weirder when he actually talks about it.]
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You're going to have to elaborate, because you have to know I'm now imagining, like, a horrible Elephant's Foot made out of Beanie Babies, and I really don't want to go to sleep thinking about that tonight.
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[But then he thinks about how many different kinds of chairs there are, so he has to figure out how to specify.]
Like... a throne, I guess. It's gonna be really big when I'm done.
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[ Pretty avant-garde. Probably the kind of thing that some millionaire on the Upper East Side spends like a hundred thousand dollars to have in their home so that the other millionaires can recognize who designed the chair and form their opinions of the owner around that. Good on Toki for getting in on the ground level, he supposes. Guy has to spend his free time somehow. ]
I can't say what I've been making is that useful. I've mostly been trying to pick up what I can where I can to get back to making models. Haven't found any glue, though.
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[The more he questions it... the more he questions it. What's his angle here?
Oh well. He's happy to just talk crafts and models and everything else that he doesn't have to question so much instead.]
Oh, I found some glue! You can have some if you want.
[He's always happy to share his finds, especially with people he shares hobbies with.]
Got a couple different kinds at a craft store... I guess people don't take as much stuff out of those as places with medicine and stuff.