guuuuuuh, i don't even know where to start except for guuuuuuh, let me yell fondly at you for a bit, oh my goodness. i love spy AUs, and this one's no exception :D i like how you can feel the tension upping the longer oikawa stays in that ballroom, even as he's doing his damnedest to seem as at ease as possible... and then the oikage. the implied history -- and, consequently, elephant hanging over their heads -- is. woah, okay, here is me, having a Lot of feelings. i mean:
Oikawa doesn't want to spend the evening with Tobio, he tells himself quite sternly.
yes, he very much wants to avoid kageyama, that's why he needs to remind himself of that. but you know, the situation calls for it, so he'll deal because he's a Professional. oikawa, please. there's also the bonus that even as he claims he'd rather not be with kageyama, he still recognises so much about kageyama, as well as the discrepancies where kageyama's grown, or changed, and oikawa... doesn't know how to deal with that? doesn't know if he wants to deal with feeling something about that. and i like how he forcibly tries to keep control despite -- because?? -- of that:
"I thought you might have lost the hang of it, Tobio-chan," Oikawa teases, unable to stop the hint of an edge creeping in underneath his voice, the challenge inherent behind the words: show me that you haven't.
oh my gosh, i am probably intrinsically incapable of leaving short comments, look at me CONTINUING TO GUSH AT YOU (quietly screams). but!!! but! one last thing: the injury, and kageyama's reaction to not so much the injury itself but to being pushed further away by oikawa because of it.
There's another little flash across Tobio's face, and this one Oikawa still knows well enough to place. It's hurt, hurt that Oikawa has snapped at him when he's only — what, offered his concern? Called attention to Oikawa's momentary, damning weakness? Tobio knows about the first time— the last time— he knows about Oikawa's ankle. His utter foolish transparency is the sort of careless misstep Oikawa cannot tolerate.
i honestly shrieked a little irl, then scrolled up to check and, yep, oikawa can't read kageyama's expressions as well as he used to but hurt is still something he knows how to identify? PLEASE TAKE MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS, oh my god. thank you so much for filling this! <3
Re: FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T
yes, he very much wants to avoid kageyama, that's why he needs to remind himself of that. but you know, the situation calls for it, so he'll deal because he's a Professional. oikawa, please. there's also the bonus that even as he claims he'd rather not be with kageyama, he still recognises so much about kageyama, as well as the discrepancies where kageyama's grown, or changed, and oikawa... doesn't know how to deal with that? doesn't know if he wants to deal with feeling something about that. and i like how he forcibly tries to keep control despite -- because?? -- of that:
oh my gosh, i am probably intrinsically incapable of leaving short comments, look at me CONTINUING TO GUSH AT YOU (quietly screams). but!!! but! one last thing: the injury, and kageyama's reaction to not so much the injury itself but to being pushed further away by oikawa because of it.
i honestly shrieked a little irl, then scrolled up to check and, yep, oikawa can't read kageyama's expressions as well as he used to but hurt is still something he knows how to identify? PLEASE TAKE MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS, oh my god. thank you so much for filling this! <3