[Rin laughs at that, arm slinging back around Haru's shoulders companionably, like Haru hasn't just insulted him right to his face and pretended to ignore him in favour of a book. Haru can be perplexing as fuck, but he can be perplexingly funny, too. Rin is always caught unawares, by how funny Haru can be, in his weirdness, in his unrelentingly unique view on the world]
[he doesn't understand, but that's one of the reasons he likes Haru so much in the first place. it's maddening, how stupid they are, how stupid their relationship is]
Like I want to look like a box fish! What's so charming about a square head, anyway? Too much chlorine has messed up your eyesight, I think. -- The pipefish is more charming, if anything.
[he doesn't let Haru keep waxing poetic on his now beloved boxfish, flipping to the frankly adorable pipefish]
[informs Haru, because he is in fact a nerd]
They're in the same family as sea horses and sea dragons, so the male carries the eggs when they mate, but they're weirder than that. Some mate for life, and some only mate in like, harem-style fish orgies. [a dumb snicker] They really decide their own love lives, I guess.
[ it is, quite frankly, a bit difficult for Haru to keep up the complete apathy he had prepared on his expression once Rin shows off the pipefish. an attempt is made, sure, but his eyes tell of an instantaneous enamored feeling that is impossible to hide.
even as Rin rattles off stupidly on his fish facts -- his lewd, weird fish facts. though Haru's not too fazed by them. the ocean had its ways, and Haru respected them. even fish orgies. ]
And you would mate for life? [ if you were a pipefish. ]
[Rin is smug and pleased, as he watches Haru's expression; really, he had absolutely no chance -- who could resist a fish as cute as the pipefish? and that's not the only exotic fish in his arsenal, either. of course, he'd flipped through the book one last time the night before to familiarize himself with it, just for an occasion that might arise just like this (where he could show off and be right and maybe beat Haru at something, like who was the bigger jerk)]
[but then of course, Haru throws off all his plans with dumb, embarrassing questions, and Rin gives a startled, nervous laugh]
What are you asking that for? You know it's different with people versus fish, right? Fish don't date, or fall in love, or anything...
[this is embarrassing. he hates Haru. he should have just shown him the most poisonous, creepy looking one, but he'd wanted charming, and now here they are, with Rin explaining the dokidoki facts of life, and how they have nothing to do with Finding Nemo]
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[he doesn't understand, but that's one of the reasons he likes Haru so much in the first place. it's maddening, how stupid they are, how stupid their relationship is]
Like I want to look like a box fish! What's so charming about a square head, anyway? Too much chlorine has messed up your eyesight, I think. -- The pipefish is more charming, if anything.
[he doesn't let Haru keep waxing poetic on his now beloved boxfish, flipping to the frankly adorable pipefish]
[informs Haru, because he is in fact a nerd]
They're in the same family as sea horses and sea dragons, so the male carries the eggs when they mate, but they're weirder than that. Some mate for life, and some only mate in like, harem-style fish orgies. [a dumb snicker] They really decide their own love lives, I guess.
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even as Rin rattles off stupidly on his fish facts -- his lewd, weird fish facts. though Haru's not too fazed by them. the ocean had its ways, and Haru respected them. even fish orgies. ]
And you would mate for life? [ if you were a pipefish. ]
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[but then of course, Haru throws off all his plans with dumb, embarrassing questions, and Rin gives a startled, nervous laugh]
What are you asking that for? You know it's different with people versus fish, right? Fish don't date, or fall in love, or anything...
[this is embarrassing. he hates Haru. he should have just shown him the most poisonous, creepy looking one, but he'd wanted charming, and now here they are, with Rin explaining the dokidoki facts of life, and how they have nothing to do with Finding Nemo]