Title: brown
Rating: G
Fandom: Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side, specifically TMGS3
Relationship: Bambi/Taira Kenta
Wordcount: 350
Short summary: Even the most ordinary of “brown” is something.
Kenta would consider himself a most ordinary guy. He’s roughly average height. He’s average at school and sports. He doesn’t consider himself handsome, but he wouldn’t say he is ugly either. He really has no standout features. Except maybe his brown hair, but even that is a common enough shade among young men and women.
For his whole life up until recently, Kenta had subscribed to the notion that because he is ordinary, that means he is relatively unknown, in the background, and meant to stay in the shadows. Sure, he has made some friends, has gotten along with his classmates throughout the years, but he was never anyone’s first choice or special interest. And he hadn’t minded since no one else was particularly special to him for more than a passing moment. Not until Bambi.
Somehow Bambi makes him feel that it is fine to be “ordinary”. Well, he would have considered himself fine with being ordinary, but Bambi makes him feel truly comfortable with being ordinary. Being an ordinary man with a girlfriend he loves and treasures, an ordinary man who just wants to be by her side and make her smile.
It’s amazing that this is enough for the extraordinary Bambi to be happy, but she too is just human. Inside she has the same wants of an ordinary woman. And that’s why they match.
Yes, maybe Bambi’s brown hair is the stuff meant for poetry, with its silk and shine, and maybe Kenta’s brown hair is the stuff meant for advertisements where companies try to sell specialized shampoos and conditioners. But in the end, brown hair is something else they have in common, just like brown eyes and pink lips and peach skin.
And it’s the many things they have in common, all those little things that Kenta didn’t pay attention to before, that make up their relationship. Every small gesture of affection, a brush of fingers, even just calling out each other’s names and meeting gazes… Now he has the confidence to say that even the most ordinary of “brown” can be something important too.