Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Noa at DU.
Title: Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Noa at DU.
Fandom: domino_uni, an AU YGO RPG.
Pairing: Seto/Noa.
Rating: PG-13ish/
Warnings: Incest. Male/male. Transvestism.
Word Count: 1, 263
Summary: Time for Noa's (nkdigik) side of the story. Although they're not in strict chronological order, I'd say that this is the first part, Seto's is the second, and the two of them together is the third part. vs_malik, hope you like your three-part gift. ♥
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Noa at DU.
1. When he was little, Noa was the middle child. He’s still the middle child, but it doesn’t feel the way it did when they were young and all shared a house together. Mokuba’s in school and Noa’s now sharing a room with Seto. It feels more like being the youngest than being the middle child. Or maybe like being Seto’s twin.
2. Noa’s computer chair is an exact match of Seto’s, except for the color. His is black. Seto’s is white. They’re both recliners, upholstered in leather, and comfortable enough that Noa can lean back, close his eyes and fall asleep. At the start of the university year, he found himself doing that a lot.
3. He’d wake up in his own bed; Seto could always carry him over without waking him up. He wasn’t big enough to carry Seto when Seto fell asleep at the computer, but he could bring over a blanket and tuck Seto in, so that was what Noa did for his brother instead.
4. Seto doesn’t do that any longer, but that’s because these days, Noa is out clubbing more often than not. When he comes back, it’s late in the night already, and Seto’s still up, typing at his computer. Noa watches the straight line of his brother’s back as he slips off his high-heeled shoes, and resists the temptation to try throwing them at Seto to see if that’ll get an acknowledgment of his presence.
5. Noa doesn’t get any reaction from Seto when he slams the bathroom door either, but he hadn’t been expecting any. When Seto has his headphones on, the only way to contact him is through IM or e-mail - he’s dead to the world around him.
6. In the bathroom, Noa wets a makeup remover pad with cold cream and wipes his face. Black mascara smears under his eyes and eyeliner smudges in crazy streaks of blue right up to his brow bone. The dark red of his lipliner stays stubbornly on but the glittering red lipstick comes right off, as does the creamy blush that lends his cheekbones definition. Noa always takes a second to just stare at himself in the mirror, half-pretty and half-messy, then goes on cleaning himself off.
7. When Noa goes to bed, it’s with a wet face and in silk pyjamas, a luxury that he’s picked up from Seto. He wishes Seto good night quietly, then turns on his side, away from Seto, and stares at Seto’s empty bed with open eyes. When he falls asleep, it’s to the sound of typing.
8. There’s a heavy weight on Noa’s chest when he wakes up in the morning : Defeb. The monkey has decided to perch itself on Noa’s chest, and stare at him until he wakes up. Seto normally shoos Defeb off when he tries things like that but today, Seto is sleeping. The covers are pulled up to his neck as usual, and when Noa glances over, Seto has that slight frown on his lips that hints his dreams aren’t entirely pleasant. Noa pulls Defeb under the covers to try to cuddle him, and falls back asleep.
9. The scent of coffee wafting through the room is what wakes up Noa the next time. There’s a hot mug of it on his bedside table; whenever Seto makes coffee, he makes some for Noa as well. It confuses Noa sometimes how Seto can pretend to be so alone in a room that’s clearly shared, but he drinks the coffee anyway.
10. Noa once let Defeb sip at some of his coffee, then found out the hard way why exactly one didn’t give monkeys caffeine. Defeb’s gone by now anyway, resting on Seto’s shoulder and chattering excitedly. Seto can’t hear Defeb because he’s typing, but he reaches up every so often to pet Defeb anyway. Noa watches for a little, hair sticking out oddly at the back because he just woke up, then trudges into the bathroom.
11. Once he’s clean, he pauses in front of the mirror and just looks at himself. Morning ritual time. The mirror is fogged over; all Noa needs to do to see Seto in place of his own reflection is to squint slightly. He smiles, and everything’s blurred enough that he can believe it’s his brother smiling back at him.
12. He won’t put makeup on until after he’s gotten his brother’s approval; one day, he knows he’ll get that small, rare smile for real.
13. Beauty magazines often contradict each other, so Noa still isn’t sure if it’s best to put on the eyeliner first, and then mascara or the other way around. He prefers black mascara with shades of blue/green eyeliner, then eyeshadow of a brighter, paler shade, with either clear lipgloss or sparkling red lipstick for clubbing nights. He only has two shades of blush, but that’s all he needs.
14. The buckles of the high-heeled sandals he puts on are smaller than baby’s teeth. They make him shift his weight forwards and try to push out breasts he doesn’t have but can fake the appearance of with a judiciously padded baby blue tanktop. A white shirt, rolled up at the elbows and unbuttoned, helps conceal his shoulders and the slim muscles built up through the self-defense class.
15. Noa very, very rarely wears trousers these days. Or even shorts, unless they’re short-shorts, the kind with frayed ends that are shorter than the boxers he’d normally wear. Skirts, pleated ones, are his attire of choice, and black is the most common color for them. Bright, jeweled hairclips are stuck in his hair carefully, and when Noa exits the bathroom, he thinks of winding staircases and all those stupid teen movies where the Ugly Duckling freakgirl suddenly became beautiful.
16. If his life was one of those movies, Seto would have been stunned by Noa’s transformation weeks ago, would have swept Noa up in his arms and… and… Noa’s never really sure where the rest of the story is supposed to go. Nobody on campus really knows it’s Seto that he wants. Everyone gossips, but everyone gossips about everything, so nobody believes that story anymore than they believe that Noa’s a sexbot or an alien.
17. If anything, Noa thinks that Seto would be the sexbot. He’s the one trying to make himself into a machine. Just not for sex. Noa’s not sure why Seto wants so badly to be separate from humanity, but thinks it has something to do with the gloves that Seto started wearing suddenly and never takes off in public. He thinks also, that it’s connected to how Seto dropped art, and instead went into learning graphic design online.
18. All of those are only guesses. Noa will never ask Seto about it.
19. Instead, Noa picks up his mug of coffee and perches on the side of his recliner, kicks his legs and sips at the drink until it’s finished. Then he reaches for Seto’s - less sweet, Seto doesn’t like sugar as much so puts very little in - and tilts it to his lips. There’s a red smudge of lipstick left behind on the rim of the mug when he puts it back down again, and Noa’s only taken the tiniest of sips.
20. Seto doesn’t protest either the theft of his coffee or the marking of his mug. Noa looks forwards to the day that he can mark Seto directly without it being filtered through an innocent coffee mug.
~Fin~.
Fandom: domino_uni, an AU YGO RPG.
Pairing: Seto/Noa.
Rating: PG-13ish/
Warnings: Incest. Male/male. Transvestism.
Word Count: 1, 263
Summary: Time for Noa's (nkdigik) side of the story. Although they're not in strict chronological order, I'd say that this is the first part, Seto's is the second, and the two of them together is the third part. vs_malik, hope you like your three-part gift. ♥
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Noa at DU.
1. When he was little, Noa was the middle child. He’s still the middle child, but it doesn’t feel the way it did when they were young and all shared a house together. Mokuba’s in school and Noa’s now sharing a room with Seto. It feels more like being the youngest than being the middle child. Or maybe like being Seto’s twin.
2. Noa’s computer chair is an exact match of Seto’s, except for the color. His is black. Seto’s is white. They’re both recliners, upholstered in leather, and comfortable enough that Noa can lean back, close his eyes and fall asleep. At the start of the university year, he found himself doing that a lot.
3. He’d wake up in his own bed; Seto could always carry him over without waking him up. He wasn’t big enough to carry Seto when Seto fell asleep at the computer, but he could bring over a blanket and tuck Seto in, so that was what Noa did for his brother instead.
4. Seto doesn’t do that any longer, but that’s because these days, Noa is out clubbing more often than not. When he comes back, it’s late in the night already, and Seto’s still up, typing at his computer. Noa watches the straight line of his brother’s back as he slips off his high-heeled shoes, and resists the temptation to try throwing them at Seto to see if that’ll get an acknowledgment of his presence.
5. Noa doesn’t get any reaction from Seto when he slams the bathroom door either, but he hadn’t been expecting any. When Seto has his headphones on, the only way to contact him is through IM or e-mail - he’s dead to the world around him.
6. In the bathroom, Noa wets a makeup remover pad with cold cream and wipes his face. Black mascara smears under his eyes and eyeliner smudges in crazy streaks of blue right up to his brow bone. The dark red of his lipliner stays stubbornly on but the glittering red lipstick comes right off, as does the creamy blush that lends his cheekbones definition. Noa always takes a second to just stare at himself in the mirror, half-pretty and half-messy, then goes on cleaning himself off.
7. When Noa goes to bed, it’s with a wet face and in silk pyjamas, a luxury that he’s picked up from Seto. He wishes Seto good night quietly, then turns on his side, away from Seto, and stares at Seto’s empty bed with open eyes. When he falls asleep, it’s to the sound of typing.
8. There’s a heavy weight on Noa’s chest when he wakes up in the morning : Defeb. The monkey has decided to perch itself on Noa’s chest, and stare at him until he wakes up. Seto normally shoos Defeb off when he tries things like that but today, Seto is sleeping. The covers are pulled up to his neck as usual, and when Noa glances over, Seto has that slight frown on his lips that hints his dreams aren’t entirely pleasant. Noa pulls Defeb under the covers to try to cuddle him, and falls back asleep.
9. The scent of coffee wafting through the room is what wakes up Noa the next time. There’s a hot mug of it on his bedside table; whenever Seto makes coffee, he makes some for Noa as well. It confuses Noa sometimes how Seto can pretend to be so alone in a room that’s clearly shared, but he drinks the coffee anyway.
10. Noa once let Defeb sip at some of his coffee, then found out the hard way why exactly one didn’t give monkeys caffeine. Defeb’s gone by now anyway, resting on Seto’s shoulder and chattering excitedly. Seto can’t hear Defeb because he’s typing, but he reaches up every so often to pet Defeb anyway. Noa watches for a little, hair sticking out oddly at the back because he just woke up, then trudges into the bathroom.
11. Once he’s clean, he pauses in front of the mirror and just looks at himself. Morning ritual time. The mirror is fogged over; all Noa needs to do to see Seto in place of his own reflection is to squint slightly. He smiles, and everything’s blurred enough that he can believe it’s his brother smiling back at him.
12. He won’t put makeup on until after he’s gotten his brother’s approval; one day, he knows he’ll get that small, rare smile for real.
13. Beauty magazines often contradict each other, so Noa still isn’t sure if it’s best to put on the eyeliner first, and then mascara or the other way around. He prefers black mascara with shades of blue/green eyeliner, then eyeshadow of a brighter, paler shade, with either clear lipgloss or sparkling red lipstick for clubbing nights. He only has two shades of blush, but that’s all he needs.
14. The buckles of the high-heeled sandals he puts on are smaller than baby’s teeth. They make him shift his weight forwards and try to push out breasts he doesn’t have but can fake the appearance of with a judiciously padded baby blue tanktop. A white shirt, rolled up at the elbows and unbuttoned, helps conceal his shoulders and the slim muscles built up through the self-defense class.
15. Noa very, very rarely wears trousers these days. Or even shorts, unless they’re short-shorts, the kind with frayed ends that are shorter than the boxers he’d normally wear. Skirts, pleated ones, are his attire of choice, and black is the most common color for them. Bright, jeweled hairclips are stuck in his hair carefully, and when Noa exits the bathroom, he thinks of winding staircases and all those stupid teen movies where the Ugly Duckling freakgirl suddenly became beautiful.
16. If his life was one of those movies, Seto would have been stunned by Noa’s transformation weeks ago, would have swept Noa up in his arms and… and… Noa’s never really sure where the rest of the story is supposed to go. Nobody on campus really knows it’s Seto that he wants. Everyone gossips, but everyone gossips about everything, so nobody believes that story anymore than they believe that Noa’s a sexbot or an alien.
17. If anything, Noa thinks that Seto would be the sexbot. He’s the one trying to make himself into a machine. Just not for sex. Noa’s not sure why Seto wants so badly to be separate from humanity, but thinks it has something to do with the gloves that Seto started wearing suddenly and never takes off in public. He thinks also, that it’s connected to how Seto dropped art, and instead went into learning graphic design online.
18. All of those are only guesses. Noa will never ask Seto about it.
19. Instead, Noa picks up his mug of coffee and perches on the side of his recliner, kicks his legs and sips at the drink until it’s finished. Then he reaches for Seto’s - less sweet, Seto doesn’t like sugar as much so puts very little in - and tilts it to his lips. There’s a red smudge of lipstick left behind on the rim of the mug when he puts it back down again, and Noa’s only taken the tiniest of sips.
20. Seto doesn’t protest either the theft of his coffee or the marking of his mug. Noa looks forwards to the day that he can mark Seto directly without it being filtered through an innocent coffee mug.
~Fin~.