[He hates crying, barring circumstances where he's doing it just to be an asshole, or to get himself out of something; but genuinely crying makes him feel like shit, all it results in is red eyes and a headache, without actually solving any problems.
But sometimes there's not much he can do to stop it, although Lup's words remind him that they're in public, and even if he's hidden against her, the last thing he's going to do is have this reunion where other people can see it.]
Hold on.
[Taako casts teleport, taking himself, Lup, and the dropped umbra staff back to his place, to the bedroom that's so obviously his, the chaos and contents of it couldn't belong to anyone but him.
He wants to keep hugging her, but he also wants to look at her, so she compromises by pulling back just enough to hold her face in his hands, looking at her like he hasn't seen her in years (he hasn't). The disguise self spell he uses to keep himself pretty is dropped, suddenly, because he doesn't know if he can put into words what's happened, since she's left, but the time that's passed is so much more obvious now.
And he looks so much less like her, something that hurts in ways he can't describe.]
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But sometimes there's not much he can do to stop it, although Lup's words remind him that they're in public, and even if he's hidden against her, the last thing he's going to do is have this reunion where other people can see it.]
Hold on.
[Taako casts teleport, taking himself, Lup, and the dropped umbra staff back to his place, to the bedroom that's so obviously his, the chaos and contents of it couldn't belong to anyone but him.
He wants to keep hugging her, but he also wants to look at her, so she compromises by pulling back just enough to hold her face in his hands, looking at her like he hasn't seen her in years (he hasn't). The disguise self spell he uses to keep himself pretty is dropped, suddenly, because he doesn't know if he can put into words what's happened, since she's left, but the time that's passed is so much more obvious now.
And he looks so much less like her, something that hurts in ways he can't describe.]