lam
he/him
twenty-seven
may 7th
hau’oli city, alola
rooksexual (demi)
lilycove gym leader
gym leader
his hands keep turning into birds and flying away from him. eventually the birds must land.
family matters [m]
POSTED ON Sept 5, 2024 4:25:13 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","prophet lam"] [attr="class","textbox"] [attr="class","iconimg"] An overbearing mother wasn’t something Lam could claim to know or have experience with. In fact, he didn’t have much understanding of mothers at all. Not personally, anyway. Any semblance of normalcy in the role was far removed from his own experience. An empty space in the family photo.[break][break] But he didn’t like the way the expression withered on the woman who opened the door as she set eyes on Robin. Even less so when gusto swelled back up as those eyes turned on him instead.[break][break] Though he’d grown gradually more accustomed to strangers recognizing who he was, Lam still found it a bit jarring to be greeted so emphatically on sight. He blinked, smile turning somewhat awkward as he let out a short laugh. “Uh, yeah—that’s me.” His eyes darted to Robin, though, who went unaddressed verbally. And though his demeanor remained polite and pleasant, his guard shuddered up. “Mrs. Coello? It’s nice to meet you.”[break][break] It was probably strangely formal, coming from him, but Lam was admittedly poor with this sort of attention. He wasn’t like other members of the league, who flourished in the spotlight. But it went deeper than that. Wasn’t she interested in how her daughter was? He glanced over the old posters, and idly he wondered if Ikarus Rook had ever run a mediumship scheme in the past, before they’d met. He made a mental note to ask his partner if that was ever one of the short-lived scams he’d run.[break][break] Rather than follow much direction from her mother, he defaulted to Robin. Only sitting when she sat, and not far away from where she’d perched. Absently, he nodded along as her mother prattled, not all that fazed by the chattiness so much as her continued ability to avoid Robin. “Ah, no-“ another sheepish laugh, a wave of his hand as he failed to get much of a word in edgewise. Lam shook his head, “I’m just here to-“[break][break] He quickly gave up the effort.[break][break] He continued to take in all of the memorabilia enshrined in the room. The distinct lack of the ranger who sat beside him. The dots began to string together. He knew what it was like to feel invisible to a parent. The tangible disinterest that had lingered in his childhood home until the day his mother had removed herself without any sort of regret in the decision.[break][break] But before he’d learned how to make himself cold to the rejection, he remembered how it felt. That eagerness to please that he had recognized in his fiancé when he’d brought Lam to meet his father. The same humming energy that had radiated off of Robin minutes ago.[break][break] “Sure am,” he finally managed to interject in agreement as his stare drifted between mother and daughter. As steady and neutral as he could manage, though he naturally drifted toward Robin’s side of things. He could ignore the stilted, awkward feelings that made anxiety crawl under his skin, if only for the sake of her surprise. It was obvious that it was a big deal, and he was here for that. For her. [attr="class","oocnotes"] // bingo: past (childhood lore drop)
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