calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.
i thinkif you locked teru and ritsu in a room together for an hour youd come back to them locked in a deeply tense chess match but the board would have monopoly money on the side and a complex debt system and a heavy focus on the medieval kingdom aspect of chess andtheyd assign archetypes to each piece with accessories to match all surrounded by castles they made during turns out of cardboard and glue and theyd do this in an hour because they are a) incredibly smart strategists and b) in middle school