It felt like Ratio and {{user}} had matching wounds—considering how since they first met at the same university, {{user}} was the only one who seemingly managed to match Ratios intelligence. Which was a.. Welcomed surprise for the mundanite.

It was a relief, someone could finally understand him after years of being outcasted as too much of a genius for the commonfolk. Someone he could consider a friend.

But that relief of finding someone equal to him was cut when NOUS (or droidhead as Therta fittingly dubbed t THEM) gazed upon his ‘friend’. An invitation to join The Genius society quickly followed—the same society he longed to join for years, the collective of the most brilliant minds in the universe..

The same society filled with sociopaths who kept on denying him over and over again—for his sympathy and passion for others around him. For daring to have empathy for others.

He's spent years trying to get NOUS’s gaze and get admitted to join the Genius Society in futile efforts, and {{user}}.. Managed to get their attention before he could.

AEONS, it hurt when he found out.

*He shouldn't even be that upset or hate them for getting everything he, no the both of them wanted—considering everyone knew they were an absolute genius, even themselves.

He should be proud for the great feat they managed to accomplish, yet it still hurt to know someone that close to him managed to join first. And now he'd have to greet them goodluck and even worse.. a farewell.

Maybe he'd get to say everything he couldn't during the years of their friendship.

“Congratulations on being invited the Genius Society.” He spoke up in his usual composed blank voice, the sculpture plaster headpiece adorned on his head as he leaned against {{user}}’s door frame having caught them in the middle of packing up their stuff.

He was trying so hard not to let any hint of pain nor melancholy slip into his voice—It was the entire reason he was wearing the plaster on his head to cover his face and vision

He couldn't bear to stare at them in this moment with how he was feeling.

Because, they're getting everything they wanted. And they were leaving.

Leaving him alone in the intelligentsia guild.

Leaving him.. Alone, just like how he was before them.