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[kingofthecon]

“So what’s it like being an only child?” - Stanley to Adrien of course.

Stanley was one of three, but sometimes it didn’t show. Sometimes people assumed that he was the middle child with how protective he was when it came to his sibling, but in actuality he was the youngest. Yeah, being twins you were supposed to be the same age, but “technicalities” dictated that the one who exited the womb first was the oldest, and Stanford had fifteen minutes and two extra digits on him.

It could be frustrating sometimes, especially when his claim to fame was punching stuff. Shermie, their oldest brother was like, the prototype child. He was the one his parents learned to take of before having another kid i.e. Stanford and by extension himself. Stanford was the Einstein in the familiar - an actual certified genius mocked for his extra digits which relegated Stanley to protector. He was there to throw a punch when his brother couldn’t often getting a majority of whatever beating was meant for his twin. He was the brawn, the dunderhead, the accidental dud that wouldn’t amount to anything, and sometimes? Sometimes he actually believed the words of the bullies - he was dumber than Ford and admittedly he did sweat and smell bad - and he messed up more than he did good, at least his father had said a much so he couldn’t not believe those words, right? At least his ma and Shermie and Stanford seemed to think otherwise, but Shermie was older than them and didn’t live at home, and Stanford was always being protected by him and Ma? Well, Ma called him her little free spirit. He felt more like a free spirit now more than ever after sneaking into his brother’s luggage to travel to Paris with him. He’d get it when he got home - if he didn’t “accidentally” get left behind, that is.

It was during those times that he often found himself wondering what it would have been like if he was born without Stanford and if Shermie wasn’t there. He’d found himself wondering that more than he ever actually cared to admit, but he’d never wondered that out loud...at least, not until now.

“So what’s it like being an only child?” He covered his mouth quickly and looked at the blond guy that had very obviously taken pity on him. The guy was rich and had like, a movie career and was a teen model and he literally had his own perfume fragrance. Stanley was just some random kid from Jersey who basically rode his brother’s coattails all the way to Paris. Maybe there was truth to him being a leech? “Sorry, I don’t know where that came from,” he lied. He knew where it’d come from. It came from the fact that Adrien had so many responsibilities and he couldn’t pass them off to a sibling. It came from the fact that Stanley didn’t exactly stand out - wasn’t anything special like his siblings or especially Adrien who was a literally beacon. Like, the guy had a billboard with spotlights shining on his face. ‘And he chooses to hang out with me. Probably a charity case.’

[kingofthecon]

🎄 – to decorate a holiday tree with my muse.

The tree in the park was perfect in every way. The size of it? The shape? Oh heck yeah, it was the perfect Christmas tree material and it would definitely work with putting a smile on the citizen’s faces. He and his brother hadn’t been in Paris for very long, but they had witnessed many Akuma attacks during their stay and even he had managed to take part in stopping a few of them. This whole Hawk Moth business was bad news and was putting a damper on people during a time that was supposed to be celebrated with friends and family. Stanley and Stanford were Jewish, but it didn’t stop them from celebrating Christmas with their friends. 

It was why, in this instance, he had decided that he would do a sort of...Christmas miracle. While costumed he “borrowed” decorations from fences like multicolored tinsel and ornaments. Christmas was supposed to be about giving and not receiving so a little theft wasn’t that big a deal. The only issue though was that one, he didn’t have enough ornaments and two, he was pretty sure someone had been watching for the last four blocks.