[This is something much deeper on Break's side, too, and for a long moment, his smile becomes decidedly far away. Something fond, but...helplessly wistful, in a way, something he can't help but close his eye to. The expression is accompanied by a brief movement at his left hand as he shifts to run his thumb over the tattoo that wraps around a certain important finger, just as though he were fidgeting with a real ring.
Break has developed an anti-corruption tattoo habit over the past year and while he makes no effort to hide them, he also doesn't bother explaining a single one of them unless asked directly. This one he elaborates on least of all, simply calling it "a reminder of someone very important." It's entirely possible that those who don't pay much attention assume that it's for Qrow -- the flowers are sort of rose-like and pink is a reddish color, so surely it isn't worth a second glance and Break's just got it really bad for this guy. But the truth, of course, is that Qrow is not Break's first any more than he himself is Qrow's, and in fact that certain important someone is the one who started the long process of opening him up so that he could become everything he is to those he's met in Trench.
This smile is for memories like the way Shelly Rainsworth would laugh with delight when he was so bold as to sneak into her bedroom through the window to avoid the other servants, and how she inevitably noticed when he disappeared for entire days and would answer by lingering long at the tea table with a single macaron left on the tray, waiting for him.]
...I think that -- those who truly understand how to love people like us realize...to be thought of as a home we can come back to when the sneaking is done is, perhaps, the greatest honor we're able to give.
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Break has developed an anti-corruption tattoo habit over the past year and while he makes no effort to hide them, he also doesn't bother explaining a single one of them unless asked directly. This one he elaborates on least of all, simply calling it "a reminder of someone very important." It's entirely possible that those who don't pay much attention assume that it's for Qrow -- the flowers are sort of rose-like and pink is a reddish color, so surely it isn't worth a second glance and Break's just got it really bad for this guy. But the truth, of course, is that Qrow is not Break's first any more than he himself is Qrow's, and in fact that certain important someone is the one who started the long process of opening him up so that he could become everything he is to those he's met in Trench.
This smile is for memories like the way Shelly Rainsworth would laugh with delight when he was so bold as to sneak into her bedroom through the window to avoid the other servants, and how she inevitably noticed when he disappeared for entire days and would answer by lingering long at the tea table with a single macaron left on the tray, waiting for him.]
...I think that -- those who truly understand how to love people like us realize...to be thought of as a home we can come back to when the sneaking is done is, perhaps, the greatest honor we're able to give.