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Cœur qui soupire n’a pas ce qu’il désire
Dec. 8th, 2015 11:12 pmIn the grand old tradition, if you'd told Lyle Norg when he'd first joined the Legion that he'd one day catch himself checking Brainiac 5 out from across the lab, he'd have at least be skeptical. Sure, he'd have been willing to admit that Brainiac 5 (later 'Brainy', at least partially against Brainy's will) wasn't too bad to look at, but he was also an arrogant and prickly nasshead who preferred to either ignore or hurl insults at Lyle, and Lyle had a policy about not getting involved with sentients like that no matter how appealing their features might be. Though, admittedly, Lyle's "Darkseid II" crack had been ill-thought out. His bad.
But here they were, several years, mishaps, battles, presumed-deaths, and a slowly growing friendship later, and Lyle was definitely checking Brainy out from across the lab. Because apparently Lyle's metaphorical heart was apparently as sensible as the rest of him -- i.e., not very.
Whoops.
On the upside, Lyle suspected he wasn't completely doomed to pine -- Brainy had planted a kiss on him once, after the thing where Lyle jumped in a boom-tube to an unknown location, shouting that he trusted Brainy to find him over his shoulder (see: sensible, not very). It had been a kiss on the cheek, which could technically be read as platonic affection if it weren't for the fact that Brainy had neither before nor since planted a kiss on anyone else, as far as Lyle knew. They'd never talked about that, because Darkseid had shown up and then they just...hadn't. Lyle was kind of regretting that now.
Still, now that he was aware he was checking Brainy out, he couldn't unrealize it, which meant that he had to do something about it. And while ignoring it seemed appealing, Lyle figured that would not actually work out the way he wanted. And saying "hey, I think you're attractive, wanna date?" was also out of the question because wow, no.
So that left flirtation. Lyle was good at flirtation.
"Hey Brainy," he called out, "what's your schedule look like this week?"
But here they were, several years, mishaps, battles, presumed-deaths, and a slowly growing friendship later, and Lyle was definitely checking Brainy out from across the lab. Because apparently Lyle's metaphorical heart was apparently as sensible as the rest of him -- i.e., not very.
Whoops.
On the upside, Lyle suspected he wasn't completely doomed to pine -- Brainy had planted a kiss on him once, after the thing where Lyle jumped in a boom-tube to an unknown location, shouting that he trusted Brainy to find him over his shoulder (see: sensible, not very). It had been a kiss on the cheek, which could technically be read as platonic affection if it weren't for the fact that Brainy had neither before nor since planted a kiss on anyone else, as far as Lyle knew. They'd never talked about that, because Darkseid had shown up and then they just...hadn't. Lyle was kind of regretting that now.
Still, now that he was aware he was checking Brainy out, he couldn't unrealize it, which meant that he had to do something about it. And while ignoring it seemed appealing, Lyle figured that would not actually work out the way he wanted. And saying "hey, I think you're attractive, wanna date?" was also out of the question because wow, no.
So that left flirtation. Lyle was good at flirtation.
"Hey Brainy," he called out, "what's your schedule look like this week?"
