Brutus & Odin, bonding, for penfold_x
I'm not sure whether to put this one on AO3 or not -- might be too self-indulgent? IDK? What do you guys think? I'd say I'm worried about clogging the tag again but lololol half the Brutus tag is me, so.
( Brutus swims, and there's no way out )
( Brutus swims, and there's no way out )
Oooooh. I know I said it when you first posted but, oh, Brutus.
the lines of his face rearranging as though a mountainside decided to get up and walk away.
This description is still amazing. I want to be you when I grow up.
They wanted to cut it off and give you a hook instead, something terrifying.
Your ability to get into the Capitol mind is amazing! So sick and out of left field, but of course they did
The rich, heady scent of Two. Of victory. The geode pokes him in the elbow, a reminder, as he tears the roll to pieces and eats.
bb!Brutus cuddling his rock=new favorite thing. Also, that Odin brings him to eat what he had in the Arena, that it's still that symbol for him, is fantastic.
He's dropped at least twenty pounds since the Arena, and he feels the loss as though they did take his hand.
Ohh, yes, I can see how Brutus would feel.... insecure? incomplete? being in such comparatively 'weak' shape.
like striking a chisel into a flaw in a slab of marble.
Again, how do I get to be you?!?
It's the medicine that's making him like this.
OH NO D:
You never have to go back there again.
YOU DO THIS JUST TO BE CRUEL TO ME
I love it
He should be better than this.
Oh, baby, no.
"I shouldn't need them. I'm weak."
ASDFJ;ADHGLAK *flaily hands*
He can't make his mentor proud by curling up with a blanket and watching terrible television all day.
Oh, I can feel him tearing apart!
"I will hurt you if that is what you need," Odin tells him in his ear, his voice low and serious and intense. "But I will always, always put you back together."
OMG this is so intense and brutal and Two and I can't even...
"Brutus. You think that your prize for victory is living alone and untouchable. This is not true. Others will always be able to hurt you, not just me, and not just as a test. Your winning did not exempt you, and your obedience will not always save you. But just as there are threats, so there are allies. You will never be alone, never be isolated, from either help or danger."
PRESCIENT ODIN. Oh, you just summed up the next 25 years and... *flaily arms*
Odin smiles, and his eyes are shining, too, so maybe he's right, maybe weakness doesn't always mean death and shame.
*limitless joy*
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I'M GLAD THIS WORKED OUT, I had a lot of trouble getting Brutus to talk because he was like, I AM THE LONE ISLE OF BRUTUS, EVERYTHING IS FINE AND I NEED NO ONE. In the married AU I can just ask Frigga, but I was SOL here. XD
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