What Do You Value The Most About Living With Michael? (see I Can Be Nice)

what do you value the most about living with michael? (see i can be nice)

gee gregory who let you have a zombie dad / father's day asks

★ — For a second, it seems as though he doesn't want to answer. Gaze flickers down, off to the side, focussing on nothing in particular as if somehow looking at nothing will save him from view. Teeth worry at his lower lip, a small sign that his hesitancy to answer isn't from indignation but from nerves. There's an almost imperceptible way in which he makes himself smaller, the shrinking of his shoulders, the way his fingers fidget despite the way he tries to ball them into fists.

It's always been easier to pretend staying with Michael was purely out of convenience — it wasn't like he had anywhere else to go, after all. But that wasn't the whole truth. Gregory's already run away from one home. He wouldn't stay in another if he didn't want to.

"Michael's ..... y'know. He cares, I guess."

A pause, followed by a deep breath. His gaze lifts, shoulders following alongside as if gaining a moment of confidence, but it only lasts for a quick second before it all falls once again.

"And it's not just cause I'm a kid, and he has to care. It's — he never acts like he expects me to be different."

Even when he's being a jerk, lashing out and running away, intentionally making everything difficult, because if Michael is going to give up on him Gregory would rather see it coming than not. Michael never gives up. Michael doesn't hold it against him. Michael doesn't expect Gregory to be anything other than who he is, even during the times when all Gregory seems to be able to do is show him the worst aspects of himself.

".... I've never had someone like that before."

Neither romantic nor sexual nor platonic but a secret fourth thing (bonded like stray cats who cannot be adopted separately)

quick doodles

no, I haven't cried 5 times because of how cute and wholesome freddy is no nope

every day I think about the tlou au it makes me feel absolutely insane there is so much to explore in that verse

the only time gregory actually looks at peace and like his defenses are lowered is when he's sleeping and that kills me a little bit