OOC: Ficlets: Timeline
Kristoff is 6. He misses Mama, but he's happy in the castle. So many books. So much to hear about. And the Master is wonderful. He couldn't ask for a better parent. If only Kristoff knew what all the wrong things were, so he could know when to stop talking...
Kristoff is 8, and He Is Doom --- wait. No he isn't. How absolutely shameful to have been impersonating him.
Kristoff is 12. Earlier today, he applied knowledge --Doom's knowledge -- of optical heterodyne detection in a new way and disrupted the neural disarrator that was...presenting a significant annoyance for the Master. Now, Doom's taking just a moment amidst other things to say it was quick thinking. Kristoff feels so proud. He's a good son.
Kristoff is 15, and he's soundproofed his room in the Baxter Building because he can't stop crying, and they must not know.
Kristoff is 18. He's learned how to make malted milkshakes. He'd only really ever had one once before, with Cassandra, years ago. But he'd gotten the hang of them quite easily, and they were a reasonably good thing over which to sit with Vincent and discuss the fact that Some Things Just Are Not Done. Many things, in fact.
Kristoff is 22, and looking up at his beloved Cassandra as she explains she is 'not ready'. He schools his face to salvage his dignity.
Kristoff is 24. He's reading over his soon-to-be-published article on complex projective manifolds -- he's fairly certain not a shred of it came from programmed knowledge, but he doesn't really expect anyone to believe that -- when the phone rings. Designated tone for the high school. Probably just another minor infraction or disturbing a skittish faculty member, but despite experience and knowledge of his brother's capabiities, Kristoff can never quite help the little surge of concern for Vincent's safety.
Kristoff is 39*. His hair is already filled with grey. He blames the Richards blood and fools like the one to whom he is speaking. "Why?" he asks. "You are going to do it because it is the right thing to do, because it is very economically viable, but most of all, because I told you to, and as much as I do not wish to interrupt whatever Vincent may be doing right now, I can assure you that you want me to do so much, much less."
That's done now. It's good to be the Master of Latveria's big brother.
*Not, of course, inevitable.
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