Delicious in Dungeon | Self-Hatred by Proxy

[fairyfic]

Rating: G

Fandom: Delicious in Dungeon

Characters: Kabru, Laios Touden

Relationship: Kabru & Laios Touden

Words: 200

Content Warnings: Ableism, internalized and otherwise

Tropes: Autistic Character (Kabru & Laios Touden), Character Study

Summary: Some say that what you hate in others are things you hate in yourself.

My final contribution to the People with Disabilities Drabblefest on Dreamwidth! Filling the prompt, "Two Disabled Characters' Relationship".

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Kabru hated Laios being so purposefully obtuse.


Kabru was doing everything right. He was playing by the rules — if Laios had been too, Kabru would have won by now. But Laios wasn't.


Kabru continuously tried to approach him, but was continuously blown off. (Rude.) When they properly met for the first time, he smiled warmly, but Laios didn't seem to care. (Smiling wins others' favor.) He ate harpy eggs. Kabru ate HARPY EGGS. (Monsters, in his throat, in his stomach, claws digging into his stomach-) And still, Laios continued to test him.


It was a test, wasn't it? It had to be.


There is no other reason that anyone would be so unblinkingly honest. Everybody else had the common courtesy to put some effort into understanding others. Why did Laios get to opt out of eye contact, performing expressions, swallowing his interests down to an acceptable level? Just because it was unpleasant? Everybody else did it. What made Laios special? (How did Laios even still have friends?)


So, these were 'tests'. Poking and prodding at Kabru — trying to see if, when someone else broke a rule, Kabru would follow. Act less like a human.


He wouldn't. Kabru was perfectly normal.

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Obsessed with the concept of Kabru being irritated by Laios because he's simultaneously angry that Laios dares to not mask, and insanely jealous that Laios gets to not mask. What a little freak (affectionate)