It was a long time ago.

[ ... awkwardly tries to just go back like that didn't happen... ]

But. Uh, yeah, it's like. Everyone thinks you get babied when you're the youngest. But that's not necessarily the case.

[ he is fine with that. ]

Yeah! Like, god, I have to play the nagging mother role with the rest of them half the time, and then they have to nerve to tell me I have it the easiest??

Right? Like, how do I have it easiest? I feel like I took on more chores if anything.

[ she didn't. ]

[ he also really only does do this half of the time and the other half he DOES expect people to do everything for him just because he's cute. ]

Sooo annoying.

[ she's not spoiled by her family... but she sure got used to be spoiled by other people and is now stupid about it. ]

And everyone says I got the "weird genes." What does that even mean.

What does that mean?

[ unfortunately he and his brothers all have the exact same genes...... ]

I don't know. He said I have weird ankles. I have normal ankles!

Weird ankles?

[ ...glances down at her ankles i guess??? what makes an ankle weird?? ]

Okay, well, they're not weird.

I know that already!

I'm just verifying as a neutral third party!

Well thank you...

You're welcome...

[ ... ]

When you're not play-fighting. [ chalking up any of his complaints to just 'play-fighting' is kind of rude but okay. ] Do you get along with your brothers?

I mean, we do a lot of stuff together, and it's usually fun, so yeah? But they're also kind of toxic. Like, any time they see me succeeding at doing something on my own without them, they get all vindictive about it and try to sabotage me.

Oh. Well that sucks... Like—what sort of success? They just get jealous, or what?

Yeah. Like, the first job I got, they all came and made a huge scene during my shift in front of the manager and all the customers. And this one time when I went on a beach trip with some friends, they followed me there so they could lie in wait and then carry me off and tie me up whenever it looked like I was starting to have fun.

That's like... actually bad...

[ she was hoping for something funnier. damn. ]

So, what, you just can't tell them when you have anything to be excited about?

[ these things are all 100% played for comedy and they're very goofy they're just NOT FUNNY FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE!!! ]

Basically, yeah. But then they get mad that I didn't tell them things when they eventually find out.

[ the cartoon funny doesn't translate!!! :meowno: ]

Well that's their own fault for acting that way!

Exactly!!

[ huff. ]

So. Anyway. It's complicated, I guess is the answer.

I always... hear people say stuff like that. That having siblings is complicated. Like siblings love and hate each other at the same time.

But it was never like that for me. [ even her complaints about being the youngest sibling were... mostly just her joking. ]

[ it was never like that for the magnus brothers either!!!!! cries i did the worst brother 180 here ]

Ah... Well, I think ours is kind of an extreme case, since we're all identical and there's so many of us.

[ even if they weren't out of a gag anime, it's an inherently messy situation when you and your best friends are all competing for attention from the moment you're born and all seen as interchangeable by people on the outside. ]

...Yours was a pretty good guy, right? I think that makes a difference, too.

[ help me not the polar opposite brothers ]

Right. I feel like the comparisons are bad enough when you're just normal siblings, but all being identical must make it way worse.

[ people not being able to tell them apart, or identifying them only by their differences. she feels like either of those would be annoying. ]

... He was, yeah.