Can You Tell Me You Love Me Very Much Please

insp.

It’s so cute when people tell me to just get over it and stop playing the victim as if I had a choice of living in an endless loop of my trauma everyday

scared someone will see right through me and know one of my deepest desires is to be taken care of

the urge to fall to the ground throwing a tantrum sobbing really loudly but like in a super angry way y'know what i mean

Ushijima having nearly fluent English proficiency and the rest of the team is like "sure his dad is in america that makes sense ig" until Shirabu one day is like "wait no his dad is Japanese why would they need to speak English?" and Ushijima is always really confused by their questions. Leon asks like "hey how did you get such good English?" and Ushijima is like "Practice and repetition???" which doesnt help any of them figure out why until they eventually write it off as like "well Ushijima tends to be an overachiever, whatever" and move on. It isn't until Tendou hears Ushijima explain that he did, indeed, learn English because his father moved to America that he's able to piece together that that he doesnt mean "I learned it to communicate with him" but rather "I learned it because I thought I'd be able to go with him," and that evidently that didnt work but the skills stuck around anyway. just in case.

tendou and ushijima feel like a bonded pair of cats