[it's still strange, to hear sizhui call him uncle so confidently. as a child, he hasn't quite wrapped his mind around it yet. this new guardian is not the one person he knows, a father who he cannot see often due to the very man's medical condition.
xichen finds he doesn't mind it. he hopes he is at least has as good of an uncle as his own is, that he manages to give the child this young man once was a childhood until wangji is able to take the reigns.
he feels unprepared still but it is a role he can slip in to, take on when he does not understand what role he plays to others in this world other than someone looked at with pity for an inevitability he has not experienced yet.
he shakes his head slightly, trying to ground himself. he watches as sizhui draws.] You underplay your skill in this. [soft, amused and warm.] Perhaps Jingyi will pose for you if you need a model for the last? [a pause.] Are rabbits the best because you have the most practice? [a-yuan likes the rabbit patch after all, though they've only been a few times now.]
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xichen finds he doesn't mind it. he hopes he is at least has as good of an uncle as his own is, that he manages to give the child this young man once was a childhood until wangji is able to take the reigns.
he feels unprepared still but it is a role he can slip in to, take on when he does not understand what role he plays to others in this world other than someone looked at with pity for an inevitability he has not experienced yet.
he shakes his head slightly, trying to ground himself. he watches as sizhui draws.] You underplay your skill in this. [soft, amused and warm.] Perhaps Jingyi will pose for you if you need a model for the last? [a pause.] Are rabbits the best because you have the most practice? [a-yuan likes the rabbit patch after all, though they've only been a few times now.]