...hm. It's-...We've gotten better at it, but that doesn't make it simple.
[Kakyoin fell silent after that, pulling his knees to his chest and folding his arms over them. There was an answer to this question and he knew it, but it wasn't one which was easy to form from the general haze of miscommunications and arguments and apologies and just experiences.]
Sometimes we just understand one another. Usually when we have to fight someone, but it applies in other situations too. We're a team that got to know each other under some high-tension circumstances--it was either adapt to reading him and understand what he was going to do next, or fall behind and put everyone at risk for it.
[He'd caught on fairly well, if he said so himself. Jotaro was not an easy person to understand on sight, but Kakyoin always had an eye for detail and nuance. And in turn, hadn't Jotaro learned to see what no one else ever had in more ways than one?]
But you can't...rely on that all the time. [Taking a slow breath and idly tapping thin fingers on his arm, Kakyoin started to piece together what he wanted to say.] Don't always assume you know what the other's thinking, because sooner or later you'll be wrong. And sometimes...things need to be said rather than left as something you think is just understood, so it can be clear without any room for misunderstanding.
It's hard--almost impossible, sometimes. But the best advice I can give is just talk, and listen to each other when you do. Sometimes it feels impossible, or hurts more than I can even describe. But keeping everything quiet is going to hurt much, much more.
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Date: 2016-12-26 08:41 pm (UTC)[Kakyoin fell silent after that, pulling his knees to his chest and folding his arms over them. There was an answer to this question and he knew it, but it wasn't one which was easy to form from the general haze of miscommunications and arguments and apologies and just experiences.]
Sometimes we just understand one another. Usually when we have to fight someone, but it applies in other situations too. We're a team that got to know each other under some high-tension circumstances--it was either adapt to reading him and understand what he was going to do next, or fall behind and put everyone at risk for it.
[He'd caught on fairly well, if he said so himself. Jotaro was not an easy person to understand on sight, but Kakyoin always had an eye for detail and nuance. And in turn, hadn't Jotaro learned to see what no one else ever had in more ways than one?]
But you can't...rely on that all the time. [Taking a slow breath and idly tapping thin fingers on his arm, Kakyoin started to piece together what he wanted to say.] Don't always assume you know what the other's thinking, because sooner or later you'll be wrong. And sometimes...things need to be said rather than left as something you think is just understood, so it can be clear without any room for misunderstanding.
It's hard--almost impossible, sometimes. But the best advice I can give is just talk, and listen to each other when you do. Sometimes it feels impossible, or hurts more than I can even describe. But keeping everything quiet is going to hurt much, much more.