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Tantrums aren't for big kids| Team Ties

CG: Impulse, Tango, Skizz

Little/middle: Etho

Prompt: During LimL, Etho gets annoyed at Gem for making (friendly) fun of him and ended up throwing a small tantrum

"I'm not washed up!" Etho yells louder and more childish than his usual funny self. Of course, Gem- i mean Cleo, Scar and Bdubs fell silent, they understood this wasn't a bit anymore, none of them were sure how to react. "Etho... I'm sor-" Before the Cleo pretender could apologize Etho cuts her off  "It's fine." He turned away to go to T.I.E.S crooked tower. It was infact not fine and his expression was quite visible by his eyes and eyebrows. This was his escape server why was Gem here pretending to be Cleo, on hermitcraft, fine being killed 100 times wasn't a big issue but here you can die forever. His mind started fogging with thoughts of him being repeatedly killed by Gem and how she laughed every time, eventually it won't be funny he thought... yet here he is still waiting for that day.

He bumped into the T.I.E.S tower's wall, that was it, no more keeping emotions to himself. He was kicking the sand and especially towards the clocker family's tower and flapping is hands very strongly. Tango stumbled upon the very upset Etho, putting his hand on Etho's shoulder from aback was a bad idea as he got puched in the stomach. "OUCH" Tango yelled. Etho fumbled back to reality "sory, didn't mean to hurt you, you scared me" Etho explains "It's alright kid" he said clearly holding on to his stomach for dear life. 'Kid' he isn't a kid? Why would Tango assume such? Afterall, Tango is a dad, maybe his natural dad instincts kicked in? "You okay buddy?" Impulse asked Tango before seeing Etho standing there "What did you do Etho?" Impulse asked sternly "I didn do anything!! I just did mistake!" he shouted and kicked the sand some more but this time towards Impulse "Woah, buddy, sorry I upset you, I shouldn't have accused you but there is no need to be kicking sand to my face" Impulse apologized and disciplined. The only response he got was Etho crossing his arms.

"How about we go inside?" Impulse proposed, Tango nodded and headed in the tower as Etho still stood between the bridge and their tower shaking his head. Impulse didn't force him anymore and went inside, eventually he'd come in. That's something Impulse was certain of.

After a while, Etho came in, as predicted by Impulse. "Why you don't care 'bout me?" Etho pouted "We do care about you bud, but we couldn't help you because you were throwing a fit" Impulse reassures him "Was not" Etho retorted "Etho, how old you feelin'? like mentally" Tango asked whilst sitting on the floor. Defeat. Tango knew he was regressed so why lie? cuz  if he said anything older than 10 tango would not believe him "eight" he sighed and mumbled. Tango tapped a spot next to him for Etho to sit and Impulse sat infront of them and before they could start talking Skizz appeared "what we doin'?" he asked curiously, Etho, Tango and Impulse exchanged looks 'would skizz be okay with a tween etho?' Most likely. 'would he eventually be a bad influence when Etho regressed as a tween' Absolutely. So they all silently agreed that skizz could know, afterall, he is their teammate and ally. "Well, Etho is regressed to age 8 and was throwing fits so now we wanna know why" Impulse explains "Oh like you" Skizz replies "Hey!" "So why tantrumificating" Tango asked "Not tantrums" Etho said while fidgeting in the sand "Alrighty then, so, why were you upset?" Tango reformulates his question "Gem, pretending to be Cleo, said I was washed up but she kept saying it and it was just digging under my skin" Etho explains "Did you tell her?" Impulse asked "I did while big but then small and angry" Etho tried to not slip any smaller than he was used to "sounds like bdubs" Impulse joked but Etho wasn't having it although the other two snickered "oh come on Etho, that was funny" Tango said "Anyways, I'll go talk to Gem or well fake cleo for that matter, don't you worry kid" Impulse promised. Now petnames, leaning on the blazeborne's shoulder filled with warmth and the strong man fidgeting with the sand next to where Etho was, made him slip smaller than he ever was, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. 3 years old mentally. Tango felt the ninja's body trying to get smaller, curling up into a ball. "Age kiddo?" Tango asked softly. Etho held up his thumb, his index finger and his middle finger to signal 3 "Such a small boy" Tango replied to the gesture. "If someone hurts your feelings that much again, i
I'll always be available for a chat" Skizz reassured him, even if Skizz didn't know how to take care of someone mentally younger but was very happy to just fidget with them and chat.