[Hinata may not be aware of this, but the communicator shows his starts and stops, the several minutes in which he struggles to put a brave face on what feels like a desperate situation. Rin watches, and waits, for the text to finally come through, and when it does -- he's not surprised that it's a kind of useless bandaid, a shoddy cover-up for insecure feelings that didn't make it through the filtering process]
[Rin isn't Makoto, who is soft and careful with other peoples' vulnerabilities, a warm bath of acceptance; he's the wave that crashes over the wall. he can't help being that person, even as full of unsure holes as he is]
huh? "try out best?" what is this, the first day of orientation? that's way too vague to be helpful.
[a screenshot suddenly comes through, of the program Dirk designed especially for him. Hinata can see some of the categories Rin's already input, and maybe Rin would be embarrassed to do this if Hinata hadn't admitted his own feelings first. some of the categories are things like Land Training Progress and Swimming Goals, expected of an Olympic hopeful like Rin. but other categories are more along the lines of Hinata learning programming, things like Combat Training, Base Repair, Exploration Progress, Local Lifeform Research, and Assistance to Clinic. more embarrassingly, there are the categories of Crew Dynamics and Appreciated Cooked Dishes and Social Connections Made]
ask dirk for a copy of this application. it's been helping me focus and locate areas of weakness, and figure out what i can accomplish every day to get better.
[you can't move forward without a plan -- that's just called getting lost]
Re: text
[Rin isn't Makoto, who is soft and careful with other peoples' vulnerabilities, a warm bath of acceptance; he's the wave that crashes over the wall. he can't help being that person, even as full of unsure holes as he is]
huh? "try out best?" what is this, the first day of orientation? that's way too vague to be helpful.
[a screenshot suddenly comes through, of the program Dirk designed especially for him. Hinata can see some of the categories Rin's already input, and maybe Rin would be embarrassed to do this if Hinata hadn't admitted his own feelings first. some of the categories are things like Land Training Progress and Swimming Goals, expected of an Olympic hopeful like Rin. but other categories are more along the lines of Hinata learning programming, things like Combat Training, Base Repair, Exploration Progress, Local Lifeform Research, and Assistance to Clinic. more embarrassingly, there are the categories of Crew Dynamics and Appreciated Cooked Dishes and Social Connections Made]
ask dirk for a copy of this application. it's been helping me focus and locate areas of weakness, and figure out what i can accomplish every day to get better.
[you can't move forward without a plan -- that's just called getting lost]