Yes, distractions... *just got distracted by new HwD chapter release...*
Ratri is adorable. Even setting aside the overt possessive actions, like his angry-about-Narada sex, Ratri is incredibly insecure about his relationship with Kai. He met this great kid with a lot of potential and he spent probably months training him and getting closer to him and the moment he gets to sleep with him the guy turns out to only be interested in his sister (which by that point we can probably bet that Ratri knew "Maria" was his sister). What a way to hurt a man's ego. And we can't even fault him for keeping his distance from Kai long after the issues of the first two chapters are settled. Ratri still believed that Kai loved Maria, not him, and only stayed with him as a secondary choice (even though Kai shot his sister in favor of staying by his side). Even after they start sleeping together again (at the end of volume 1) there is no actual (only perceived) assumption of romantic interest between them (though I absolutely adored Ratri's "You should go home with 'that girl,' it'll be better for you--*kiss!*"). As Kai is the type to simply do whatever it is that Ratri asks of him, how is Ratri supposed to know what Kai really wants?
I think the thing with Nozomi happened the next morning and Ratri and Kai are simply early risers? Or maybe they had such fabulous reunited!sex that they stayed up all night doing it and then took a shower and changed right before Nozomi woke up and found Coyote gone?
I think Ratri starts his relationship with Kai under the same assumption that Maria had of him (and how she claims that like her, Ratri was also drawn to Kai's innocence/purity), that he was a genuine and trustworthy guy, which is really sweet and not that far off from the truth, but equally tragic for their early relationship. I don't get the impression that Ratri agrees to sleep in the same room with Kai after they have sex after that first time. We never see them like that, it is true, and it seemed that even through volume 2, Ratri had the habit of sending Kai away when he didn't have "use" of him.
I think it would be a great premise for a fic and you should totally write it, just like I should get around to finishing the post-Steal Moon Ratri/Kai fic I started writing last year. ^_^
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Date: 2008-08-26 03:56 am (UTC)Ratri is adorable. Even setting aside the overt possessive actions, like his angry-about-Narada sex, Ratri is incredibly insecure about his relationship with Kai. He met this great kid with a lot of potential and he spent probably months training him and getting closer to him and the moment he gets to sleep with him the guy turns out to only be interested in his sister (which by that point we can probably bet that Ratri knew "Maria" was his sister). What a way to hurt a man's ego. And we can't even fault him for keeping his distance from Kai long after the issues of the first two chapters are settled. Ratri still believed that Kai loved Maria, not him, and only stayed with him as a secondary choice (even though Kai shot his sister in favor of staying by his side). Even after they start sleeping together again (at the end of volume 1) there is no actual (only perceived) assumption of romantic interest between them (though I absolutely adored Ratri's "You should go home with 'that girl,' it'll be better for you--*kiss!*"). As Kai is the type to simply do whatever it is that Ratri asks of him, how is Ratri supposed to know what Kai really wants?
I think the thing with Nozomi happened the next morning and Ratri and Kai are simply early risers? Or maybe they had such fabulous reunited!sex that they stayed up all night doing it and then took a shower and changed right before Nozomi woke up and found Coyote gone?
I think Ratri starts his relationship with Kai under the same assumption that Maria had of him (and how she claims that like her, Ratri was also drawn to Kai's innocence/purity), that he was a genuine and trustworthy guy, which is really sweet and not that far off from the truth, but equally tragic for their early relationship. I don't get the impression that Ratri agrees to sleep in the same room with Kai after they have sex after that first time. We never see them like that, it is true, and it seemed that even through volume 2, Ratri had the habit of sending Kai away when he didn't have "use" of him.
I think it would be a great premise for a fic and you should totally write it, just like I should get around to finishing the post-Steal Moon Ratri/Kai fic I started writing last year. ^_^