Yeah, I can basically pinpoint the discomfort between them to this:
Soubi is a very very private person, if not quite antisocial; it usually takes concerted effort from the other person to find out anything about him and even there he tends to hand it out in little crumbs. So he arrives in camp, and basically immediately discovers that he was apparently here before and has no memory of it. Among other things, what that means is he can't quite help being a bit cautious around Rikuou because he doesn't know how much Rikuou knows about him and the conversations they had have revealed it's quite a lot more than he's told most people. From his perspective, he can't control the circumstances Rikuou received this knowledge and, hell, doesn't even know what those circumstances are and 'how' Rikuou got through to him to HEAR these things in the first place. He doesn't even know what Rikuou does and doesn't know. And he doesn't know, basically, anything about Rikuou (a fact not helped by the fact that he basically doesn't pry into other people's lives much at all because lolol faux detachment, just pick up whatever people say to or around him). Not to mention that one of the very first things Ritsuka told Soubi is that he'd been sleeping with Rikuou in his bed lolol so he knows Rikuou and Ritsuka are close and has no first-hand knowledge of how this came about or the exact form it took.
Add in that we haven't threaded them all that often (though I'd love to thread them more!) and Soubi's actually making more of an effort to be friendly and get along than is easy for him -- Rikuou's been friendly to him and obviously likes him, and Rikuou and Ritsuka are extremely close, and so he's casual-friendly when he deals with Rikuou, but inside he gets very... nervous? Cautious.
WE SHOULD BE POSTING TONIGHT ACTUALLY it's Soubi's 1-year anniversary :')
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Soubi is a very very private person, if not quite antisocial; it usually takes concerted effort from the other person to find out anything about him and even there he tends to hand it out in little crumbs. So he arrives in camp, and basically immediately discovers that he was apparently here before and has no memory of it. Among other things, what that means is he can't quite help being a bit cautious around Rikuou because he doesn't know how much Rikuou knows about him and the conversations they had have revealed it's quite a lot more than he's told most people. From his perspective, he can't control the circumstances Rikuou received this knowledge and, hell, doesn't even know what those circumstances are and 'how' Rikuou got through to him to HEAR these things in the first place. He doesn't even know what Rikuou does and doesn't know. And he doesn't know, basically, anything about Rikuou (a fact not helped by the fact that he basically doesn't pry into other people's lives much at all because lolol faux detachment, just pick up whatever people say to or around him). Not to mention that one of the very first things Ritsuka told Soubi is that he'd been sleeping with Rikuou in his bed lolol so he knows Rikuou and Ritsuka are close and has no first-hand knowledge of how this came about or the exact form it took.
Add in that we haven't threaded them all that often (though I'd love to thread them more!) and Soubi's actually making more of an effort to be friendly and get along than is easy for him -- Rikuou's been friendly to him and obviously likes him, and Rikuou and Ritsuka are extremely close, and so he's casual-friendly when he deals with Rikuou, but inside he gets very... nervous? Cautious.
WE SHOULD BE POSTING TONIGHT ACTUALLY it's Soubi's 1-year anniversary :')