Prompt: 1. Fixative
Character(s): Danny
Word Count: 270
Rating: PG
Warning(s): None
Everyone has their roles and his, he has long since discovered, is in the tightly small niche of the glue that pieces things back together, the middle ground, the devil's advocate, and the fount of useful advice and comparative remonstration.
He is the necessary viewpoint on the team, in his social group, in his family, he is one of the few cast as the wise, the knowledgeable, the outside input.
Danny knows that the pay-off is that he is the one who is always likeable always stable in conflict and issue.
The negative to his position in the social hierarchy is that it makes him hopelessly sexless and objectified by his roles.
He is the fixture that holds it all together, the mortar that fills the cracks in the foundation that threaten to topple things.
It's comfortable, and everyone abides by the unspoken terms of his role and is relied upon as the only thing, the only person, who is unchanged by fights and successes and failures of everyone around him.
But the problem is that comfortable gets boring and he wants to be somewhere where nobody has the expectation of him to be stable, he wants to be unbalanced and partial to one side more than another, he wants the conflict of a relationship or of being an absolute asshole not only when it's called for but because he simply wants to.
He wants to stop putting everyone else together and fixing things they break.
He wants to be brash and hasty and have someone pick up after him every once in awhile.
He wants to make an impact.