“You can talk about it,” Legend assured him. “It’s okay. It was a long time ago that he passed.”
“I sort of modeled myself after him.”
Ahh. He knew it might be a sore subject for Legend.
Oh hell yes. So this big important guy Legend is comparing Kid to was already Kid’s role model. Kid is already trying to be like Hero, and Legend just reinforced the idea that he’s succeeding.
Legend studied the boy. Red and gold body armor and a red-tinted visor. There were additions that seemed to be more recent, judging by the lack of wear and tear, but if he looked past those, if he imagined the boy with a helmet covering that brown wavy hair, replaced the red with blue chain mesh, he could see the resemblance.
So basically, the Ravenclaw version of the Wards’ Gryffindor Kid.
“I can see that.”
“I didn’t mean to copy him, or to ride off his fame or anything. I was younger when I started, I totally meant it to be respectful-” Kid Win stopped as Legend raised a hand.
You can just hear Kid getting slightly more frantic as he goes along here, trying to make sure Legend doesn’t think he’s disrespecting the man’s dead friend.
…friend? Legend does seem to have taken Hero’s death hard. That’s very much believable and understandable with them being good friends, but it did just occur to me that Hero might have been more than that to Legend.
“It’s okay. I think he would be flattered.”
How does Legend keep finding all the right things to say?
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