@slimequest: not the anon but the traditional interpretation is that prince is a class that inverts its aspect, which is why dirk has such a tight lid on his “heart”
sorry you said ‘invert’ and i immediately broke out into hives
also wait a fuck, keeps a tight lid? who are we talking about? the boy who built Jane a protector bunny and the SECOND it was activated messaged her to check she was okay? and then joked and jibbed with her about teaching her the ironic arts? or the guy who weathered an intensely uncomfortable series of romantic advances from roxy before still reassuring her that “I already have enough to do with you, and I like it just fine”? Or the dork who earnestly tried to get Calliope to share her friend-fiction with him and was bummed when she said no? or Dirk Fucking Strider, who fell in love with a guileful boy living scared in a room and sent a steel avatar of himself to protect him so he could explore the hellmurder island he was stuck on?
that dirk strider?!
sigh. when are people going to understand the key to understanding all the alpha kids is knowing that every one of them is a liar.
anyway.