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“So about the whole genderfluid thing, how does it work?”
Atsumu looks to Adriah, “how does it work?”
“Yeah, like how do you know if you’re like, a guy or a girl?”
Atsumu hums, closing their eyes.
“I don’t!”
Adriah blinks, “huh? You don’t?”
“Nope!” Atsumu smiles wide and cheeky, “But that’s because I’m never a ‘guy’ or a ‘girl’. In other words, I can’t answer your question because you asked it fundamentally wrong.”
“I see... or well, more like, you lost me.”
Atsumu laughs and points outside their window, “see those clouds? What shape are they?”
“Um, cloud shaped?”
“Well yes, but what if I tried to ask you to find me say.. a perfectly circular cloud? Or a perfectly square cloud? Would you be able to find one? No! That’s cause clouds don’t follow rigid rules, there’s no way to categorize all clouds into two groups.”
Atsumu looks outside the window, and Adriah comes up to look with them.
“Theres ways to describe clouds, of course,” Atsumu continues, tracing the silver linings, “cirrus, nimbus, cumulus... hell you could even mix it up for real crazy shit like ‘altostratus’ or whatever. And even if you hadn’t spent too long watching cloud documentaries with your brother, you could still think of other things.
“You could call a cloud big, or small, thick or whispy, maybe its a storm cloud, maybe its a towering monolith, sometimes they’re white but sometimes they’re pink or orange and purple...”
Adriah blinks slowly, seemingly lost, “so what you’re saying is it’s complicated.”
“Hahaha, only if you want to really get into it,” Atsumu looks at Adriah, “but your question wasn’t that, it was ‘how do you know what you are on any day?’ Well dear Thomas, if I asked you what shape the clouds are on any day, what would you do?”
Adriah purses his lips and quirks his eyebrow, “I’d look outside to check?”
Atsumu smiles wide, the corners of their eyes crinkling, “mhm! Just that simple.”
The two look out at the bright blue summer sky, the clouds white and fluffy and framing it so perfectly one just has to wonder if it truly was just a sight brought on by chance. Adriah smiles, feeling like he understands his teammate just a little more.
“Just that simple.”