"A rebel from the start. He probably shouldn't have been surprised when we made trouble." He sounds fond, again, there are a lot of mixed feelings he has for their mentor. But Heimerdinger did favor students who were bold and brilliant, who pushed the envelope and didn't always follow the rules. He never would've expected that pushing Viktor and Jayce together, even briefly, would have led down the path it did.
And Jayce is grateful, how else would they have met? They'd been technically in the same place for years and never crossed each other's path. Jayce was very absorbed in his illegal study, after all. He let no one in on it, but he was always the top of his class, he managed to juggle all of his studies well. It didn't exactly afford himself time to make friends. Story of his life. But it was all a choice. His work over his life.
It's no wonder he ended up really bad at balancing the two when he suddenly had a life outside of science. No practice.
"Rock and crystals." Jayce chuckles. "I was in the forge early, already making tools, so I would've wooed you with them." His father was serious about getting him skilled at tool making as a child, and he appreciates that a lot of it is natural to him now. But it was another way that made him different from other kids.
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Date: 2022-04-17 08:17 pm (UTC)And Jayce is grateful, how else would they have met? They'd been technically in the same place for years and never crossed each other's path. Jayce was very absorbed in his illegal study, after all. He let no one in on it, but he was always the top of his class, he managed to juggle all of his studies well. It didn't exactly afford himself time to make friends. Story of his life. But it was all a choice. His work over his life.
It's no wonder he ended up really bad at balancing the two when he suddenly had a life outside of science. No practice.
"Rock and crystals." Jayce chuckles. "I was in the forge early, already making tools, so I would've wooed you with them." His father was serious about getting him skilled at tool making as a child, and he appreciates that a lot of it is natural to him now. But it was another way that made him different from other kids.