[ Alberto sits up when Luca mentions Luz's name, raising his brows. But when Luca likens her to Giulia, finally Alberto perks up a little, a hint of a smile twitching at the corners of his mouth. ]
Heh... I thought that the first time we talked, too! Luz would definitely get along with Giulia, ha.
[ Reserving comment on whether that's wholly a good thing, but it overall sounds like it is now. Alberto's gained maturity enough to have let go of most of his jealousy and resentment toward Giulia — most of it. He's young, and feelings linger; Giulia was his second friend ever apart from his dad and Luca, and it turned sour between them pretty quick — not that Giulia had much hand in that. They'd resolved things by the end, but it was primarily oriented around their mutual love for Luca, rather than for each other. They didn't get much time to make up themselves, after all, before she and Luca headed off for school; even after the race, Alberto spent most of that night privately arguing with Luca's mom, after he'd sent Giulia off to distract Luca on the Vespa. And while he had a more-or-less great time living with her dad, it was short-lived, because so soon after those couple weeks, he ended up here in Kaisou — so it's all not quite fresh anymore, but... also not quite healed. He's still grateful to Giulia as a friend — but really for Luca's sake. There's a small part of him that feels some undue triumph that Luca lives with him now, albeit by some cosmic chance, so it's been even easier to move on from grumping about a complicated friendship. Giulia's a good kid, she's fun, she's cool, she's smart, she's kind, she's funny, she's an expert on human-ing, y'know, being a human — Giulia's great! ...So if she were here, it'd probably still be annoying.
But he's learning to be less needlessly competitive, and especially wants to put deliberate effort into checking himself now that he and Luca have been reunited. They don't need a repeat of Portorosso. But for all the similarities they both apparently see between Luz and Giulia, Alberto has no reason to be threatened by Luz. She's not going to "take Luca away" from him. They've butted heads already, but in a funny, friendly, challenging way — teasing like friends do. Which is nice. New. Luz is pretty great, too, but without that undertone of unnecessary rivalry, there's nothing annoying about how great she is. Still, one important element hangs in the air, and Alberto opens his frame up a little, sitting normally again, crosslegged now, shedding some of that pouty-ness slowly in a weak attempt to lighten up. He's eager to move away from the topic of Bruno or Giulia, anyway. ]
We could tell Luz, but the thing is: I've never met her-met her. We've only ever talked on the Everything Machine. Weird, right? So we should probably, eheh— meet... before I'm like, "Heyyy, by the way, guess what, I'm not human!"
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Date: 2022-08-21 04:29 pm (UTC)Heh... I thought that the first time we talked, too! Luz would definitely get along with Giulia, ha.
[ Reserving comment on whether that's wholly a good thing, but it overall sounds like it is now. Alberto's gained maturity enough to have let go of most of his jealousy and resentment toward Giulia — most of it. He's young, and feelings linger; Giulia was his second friend ever apart from his dad and Luca, and it turned sour between them pretty quick — not that Giulia had much hand in that. They'd resolved things by the end, but it was primarily oriented around their mutual love for Luca, rather than for each other. They didn't get much time to make up themselves, after all, before she and Luca headed off for school; even after the race, Alberto spent most of that night privately arguing with Luca's mom, after he'd sent Giulia off to distract Luca on the Vespa. And while he had a more-or-less great time living with her dad, it was short-lived, because so soon after those couple weeks, he ended up here in Kaisou — so it's all not quite fresh anymore, but... also not quite healed. He's still grateful to Giulia as a friend — but really for Luca's sake. There's a small part of him that feels some undue triumph that Luca lives with him now, albeit by some cosmic chance, so it's been even easier to move on from grumping about a complicated friendship. Giulia's a good kid, she's fun, she's cool, she's smart, she's kind, she's funny, she's an expert on human-ing, y'know, being a human — Giulia's great! ...So if she were here, it'd probably still be annoying.
But he's learning to be less needlessly competitive, and especially wants to put deliberate effort into checking himself now that he and Luca have been reunited. They don't need a repeat of Portorosso. But for all the similarities they both apparently see between Luz and Giulia, Alberto has no reason to be threatened by Luz. She's not going to "take Luca away" from him. They've butted heads already, but in a funny, friendly, challenging way — teasing like friends do. Which is nice. New. Luz is pretty great, too, but without that undertone of unnecessary rivalry, there's nothing annoying about how great she is. Still, one important element hangs in the air, and Alberto opens his frame up a little, sitting normally again, crosslegged now, shedding some of that pouty-ness slowly in a weak attempt to lighten up. He's eager to move away from the topic of Bruno or Giulia, anyway. ]
We could tell Luz, but the thing is: I've never met her-met her. We've only ever talked on the Everything Machine. Weird, right? So we should probably, eheh— meet... before I'm like, "Heyyy, by the way, guess what, I'm not human!"