Having your accomplishments spoken about is one thing..
It's pretty obvious her parents were hoping for a boy and she's had to carry that burden around all her life.
Can we please start calling her the raging lesbian?
Sexuality is another.
King wasn?t exactly thrilled when she heard those words over the RhyDin Rewind podcast.
It was a show she started listening to in the morning while doing her school work. Mostly it was background noise so she wouldn?t get too bored staring at a book for a few hours -- but that day it became something more. Normally Harris and Seirichi spoke of things going on around the city, among other things, and King never was really interested - but whenever the subject of dueling came up, the teen found herself listening more instead of studying..
When she heard her own name as number five on that list? She couldn?t help but be all smiles.. at least until she heard those two sentences. Harris? words were easily taken as a joke, but there was some small twinge of hurt felt.. but it was nothing compared to what came next. King might not seem like the type who hid her sexuality, but her business was her own. Many at her school knew of her orientation -- and maybe a few at the duels who really paid attention.. but she never went around announcing that she was a lesbian out loud.
There were reasons. Unneeded attention was one of them. While it was humorous to see reactions from others to a simple kiss to another girls lips, it wasn?t as if they knew who she was. She was just some face in the crowd without a name. Possibly forgotten after a few days. But this.. This was connected to her name. The name she had started to make in the dueling scene.
?.. It?s not like anyone listens to this sh*t anyway..? She told herself.
But stepping out of the Cardinal Inn to see Franklin trying his best to scrub away graffiti the next day proved her wrong. He told her to stay inside the second he saw her walk through those doors, but she couldn?t do that. She saw the look of worry on his face and that was enough to have her do the opposite of his request. She stepped closer, then back when she couldn?t make out fully what was written.
DYKE BARONESS. Spray painted along the front of the inn.
?.. You shouldn?t have to see this..? Franklin said.
King couldn?t respond. All she did was clench her teeth and run inside.
It's pretty obvious her parents were hoping for a boy and she's had to carry that burden around all her life.
Can we please start calling her the raging lesbian?
Sexuality is another.
King wasn?t exactly thrilled when she heard those words over the RhyDin Rewind podcast.
It was a show she started listening to in the morning while doing her school work. Mostly it was background noise so she wouldn?t get too bored staring at a book for a few hours -- but that day it became something more. Normally Harris and Seirichi spoke of things going on around the city, among other things, and King never was really interested - but whenever the subject of dueling came up, the teen found herself listening more instead of studying..
When she heard her own name as number five on that list? She couldn?t help but be all smiles.. at least until she heard those two sentences. Harris? words were easily taken as a joke, but there was some small twinge of hurt felt.. but it was nothing compared to what came next. King might not seem like the type who hid her sexuality, but her business was her own. Many at her school knew of her orientation -- and maybe a few at the duels who really paid attention.. but she never went around announcing that she was a lesbian out loud.
There were reasons. Unneeded attention was one of them. While it was humorous to see reactions from others to a simple kiss to another girls lips, it wasn?t as if they knew who she was. She was just some face in the crowd without a name. Possibly forgotten after a few days. But this.. This was connected to her name. The name she had started to make in the dueling scene.
?.. It?s not like anyone listens to this sh*t anyway..? She told herself.
But stepping out of the Cardinal Inn to see Franklin trying his best to scrub away graffiti the next day proved her wrong. He told her to stay inside the second he saw her walk through those doors, but she couldn?t do that. She saw the look of worry on his face and that was enough to have her do the opposite of his request. She stepped closer, then back when she couldn?t make out fully what was written.
DYKE BARONESS. Spray painted along the front of the inn.
?.. You shouldn?t have to see this..? Franklin said.
King couldn?t respond. All she did was clench her teeth and run inside.