[ ONLY GILBERT ... ONLY GILBERT WOULD DO SUCH A HALF-ASSED JOB OF CONVINCING HIM ... like half the time he keeps everything under wraps whenever Gilbert comes by, but thinking badly of his adopted siblings is such a new concept to him. That and no one tells him anything. Jerks. He deserves to be on the in-crowd and get informed with all the bullshit that's gone down since he kicked the bucket. It's not vilification, exactly, but on the receiving end Elliot's voice comes off as particularly judgmental, slung into the phone like an immiscible insult. ]
I don't know. I was hoping you knew something about it, seeing as how he's always concerned about you when you land yourself in trouble.
[ AKA why are you friends with Oz? Why is anyone friends with Oz? Why is Elliot himself friends with Oz? Vessalius's only (questionable???) charm points are his absurd optimism in the middle of crisis, and that's saying something. When it comes down to it, Elliot will hate you forever for abandoning him for a rabbit boy, a girl, and then Gilbert's own feelings, respectively, because it doesn't automatically relate to him in some way. This is what the call's really about. Ten entire tons of abandonment issues barely concealed by his own self-denigration in the matter because Gilbert never picks up the hint until it smacks him squarely in the face. ]
Both. It's not as if I care about what you do in your free time in particular, but if you don't even know what Vincent's been up to, you must be in trouble. It happened quite a while ago.
[ He's not helping matters digging his own grave, but Elliot's trying harder than he ever did when he was technically alive, so it matters that he's reaching out (or so he'll convince himself of, in the end). ]
[ IT ALWAYS GOES LIKE THIS WHY... does the cerealian university here have 'how to not fail at being an older brother class 101... because maybe Gil needs to enroll in this stat!!
Gilbert winces slightly because he can hear that sound even without seeing his younger brother in person. But, the tone is in fact the biggest reason and not so much the suggestion.
Vincent throwing a Baskerville child out the window isn't what he'd call "trouble"... at least, not in him being any more concerned about Vincent than he normally is. So, at the beginning, he's trying to piece things together; but as Elliot continues to talk, Gil comes to slowly realize the question is less about what's wrong with Vincent right now and more about why Gilbert is being such an incredible failure at keeping an eye on things one would think him better at.
The abandonment issues, as always, are still going over his head in soaring waves, Elliot did nothing wrong to deserve having siblings like this! The abandonment is over his head, but at least he gets (and takes the opening) for a moment. ]
...First, though, do you remember being some place else like this before coming here?
[ He's never asked, and honestly he's never cared to worry about it until just now, thinking it might shed some light on how easy or difficult (aka: stupid) this explanation is going to be as it comes out of his mouth. ]
[ It's okay, Gilbert, he knows that even if you've got the emotional tactility of a lima bean before it's promptly run over by a motorcycle, your heart is in the right place. So you weren't there for his poignant death scene, or like, present in his life at all when it didn't directly correlate to Oz in some way, but respect's there. Deep, deep, deep down where he acknowledges that he would've been a good trillion times more fucked-up if he'd only had his blood siblings to account for. And while Gilbert is no shining paragon of virtue, Elliot takes everything he says to heart with esteem, because in the end he really is no more and no less than the person he's always been.
He stares down at the audio function of the CereVice, ruminating upon how to tackle the question and its implications.
A protracted sigh, and then: ] ... No, I don't. Were you somewhere else before this?
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I don't know. I was hoping you knew something about it, seeing as how he's always concerned about you when you land yourself in trouble.
[ AKA why are you friends with Oz? Why is anyone friends with Oz? Why is Elliot himself friends with Oz? Vessalius's only (questionable???) charm points are his absurd optimism in the middle of crisis, and that's saying something. When it comes down to it, Elliot will hate you forever for abandoning him for a rabbit boy, a girl, and then Gilbert's own feelings, respectively, because it doesn't automatically relate to him in some way. This is what the call's really about. Ten entire tons of abandonment issues barely concealed by his own self-denigration in the matter because Gilbert never picks up the hint until it smacks him squarely in the face. ]
Both. It's not as if I care about what you do in your free time in particular, but if you don't even know what Vincent's been up to, you must be in trouble. It happened quite a while ago.
[ He's not helping matters digging his own grave, but Elliot's trying harder than he ever did when he was technically alive, so it matters that he's reaching out (or so he'll convince himself of, in the end). ]
... You can tell me what's wrong.
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Gilbert winces slightly because he can hear that sound even without seeing his younger brother in person. But, the tone is in fact the biggest reason and not so much the suggestion.
Vincent throwing a Baskerville child out the window isn't what he'd call "trouble"... at least, not in him being any more concerned about Vincent than he normally is. So, at the beginning, he's trying to piece things together; but as Elliot continues to talk, Gil comes to slowly realize the question is less about what's wrong with Vincent right now and more about why Gilbert is being such an incredible failure at keeping an eye on things one would think him better at.
The abandonment issues, as always, are still going over his head in soaring waves, Elliot did nothing wrong to deserve having siblings like this! The abandonment is over his head, but at least he gets (and takes the opening) for a moment. ]
...First, though, do you remember being some place else like this before coming here?
[ He's never asked, and honestly he's never cared to worry about it until just now, thinking it might shed some light on how easy or difficult (aka: stupid) this explanation is going to be as it comes out of his mouth. ]
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He stares down at the audio function of the CereVice, ruminating upon how to tackle the question and its implications.
A protracted sigh, and then: ] ... No, I don't. Were you somewhere else before this?