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proxysproxy) wrote2012-06-27 02:12 am
proxysproxy) wrote2012-06-27 02:12 am
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No 1 Dad - A Siren's Pull drabble
The things Vincent did for Pino. He sighed as he walked down the street, holding a hand-painted coffee mug in one hand and the little AutoReiv's hand in the other. They were on their way to the place where Proxy One spent his days, and all because Vincent couldn't bear to say no to the girl who had been his closest companion for months.
All he had agreed to do, at first, was help Pino with a Father's Day gift. She wanted to paint a coffee mug, and Vincent was happy to help. But then she insisted that he should make one too, and his protests that he didn't actually have a 'papa' (not as she understood the word) fell on deaf ears. His eyes had fallen on the second mug, on which was inscribed the phrase 'No 1 Dad', and, not wanting to disappoint his young friend, he muttered, "Well, I guess I could give it to Proxy One." The irony of doing so and the unintentional pun on his progenitor's name had struck him as funny at the time. For Pino's benefit, he made a thoroughly ridiculously production of decorating the mug, and had a lot of fun.
But he didn't really intend to go through with it. He had no idea how Proxy One would react. Would he be angry? What would he think of Vincent? He wasn't exactly a happy families sort of person. It wasn't as though they even had that sort of relationship. After all, the first time they had met, they had fought to the death. And you could make a good case for Proxy One being the worst 'father' ever: not only abandoning his 'son', but saddling him with the very same task that brought Proxy One himself to such despair. Vincent didn't crave his original's approval, but he did want to keep his respect. There were only two other Proxies in all of Siren's Port, and it would be hard enough going if both of them thought he was an idiot. (It was probably too late to change Re-L's opinion of him, but she had a big advantage over Proxy One in that she was the one Vincent was in love with.)
Again, however, Pino had insisted. So Vincent had decided they would come during the day, when Proxy One couldn't come out, and mail the mug to him. He knew this would only delay the embarrassment. He knew that this could probably be interpreted as a cowardly gesture. But he really, really would rather not do this. And he couldn't say no to Pino.
All he had agreed to do, at first, was help Pino with a Father's Day gift. She wanted to paint a coffee mug, and Vincent was happy to help. But then she insisted that he should make one too, and his protests that he didn't actually have a 'papa' (not as she understood the word) fell on deaf ears. His eyes had fallen on the second mug, on which was inscribed the phrase 'No 1 Dad', and, not wanting to disappoint his young friend, he muttered, "Well, I guess I could give it to Proxy One." The irony of doing so and the unintentional pun on his progenitor's name had struck him as funny at the time. For Pino's benefit, he made a thoroughly ridiculously production of decorating the mug, and had a lot of fun.
But he didn't really intend to go through with it. He had no idea how Proxy One would react. Would he be angry? What would he think of Vincent? He wasn't exactly a happy families sort of person. It wasn't as though they even had that sort of relationship. After all, the first time they had met, they had fought to the death. And you could make a good case for Proxy One being the worst 'father' ever: not only abandoning his 'son', but saddling him with the very same task that brought Proxy One himself to such despair. Vincent didn't crave his original's approval, but he did want to keep his respect. There were only two other Proxies in all of Siren's Port, and it would be hard enough going if both of them thought he was an idiot. (It was probably too late to change Re-L's opinion of him, but she had a big advantage over Proxy One in that she was the one Vincent was in love with.)
Again, however, Pino had insisted. So Vincent had decided they would come during the day, when Proxy One couldn't come out, and mail the mug to him. He knew this would only delay the embarrassment. He knew that this could probably be interpreted as a cowardly gesture. But he really, really would rather not do this. And he couldn't say no to Pino.