Akudama Drive Brawlhood short stories

Pride

⚠️TW: homophobic slurs⚠️

"HEY GUYS! LOOK!"

Swindler ran into Brawler and Hoodlum's rooms and woke them up with her screaming?
It was 9am and everyone was still either asleep or doing their own thing.

"What! What happened!?"

Hoodlum woke up startled as he tried to look around for the reason for Swindler's yelling but she was just in his door way looking at him with the biggest grin ever.

"Why are you smiling so big?"

At this moment Brawler walked in rubbing his eyes. That told Hoodlum that he woke up recently too.

"Look at what's on TV! You guys won't believe it!"

With that, Swindler ran down the hall into the living room with a tired Brawler and Hoodlum following her. The TV was on the News channel and they were talking about a parade.

A Pride parade.

Hoodlums eyes widened as he looked at the colors of the flags and the smiles on everyone's faces. He has always seen these parades from afar but now, he wanted to be apart of it.

"It's just a stupid parade, what's so special?"

That's when the three Akudama turned to see Courier talking with the others behind him.

"It's actually really special Courier, the LGBTQ community fought long and hard for their rights."

Hacker was giving him the just as the others took a seat and continued to look at the TV.

"Well what if we all go this year? To celebrate the victory of love."

That's when everyone looked at Swindler. Some looked confused while others looked intrigued.

"HELL YEAH!"

The sudden burst of Hoodlums voice scared Swindler for a second as he looked like a kid on his way to a candy store. He was the most excited of the bunch.

"Well, if my bro is going, then I'm going too!"

Brawler stretched out one of his arms around Hoodlums shoulders causing Hoodlums cheeks to turn a bit red.

"I'll go if Swindler goes~"

"At least it's something to do. I have been bored lately."

"I'll go because I know you shitheads are going to drag me into it anyways."

"It does look a little bit fun."

So for the first time in a while, all of the Akudama agree to do something together.

🏳️‍🌈PRIDE PARADE🏳️‍⚧️

The group was watching the parade move along, looking at everyone and everything. It all looked so nice and happy. It was full of color and warmth.

After the parade the group went to some of the shops. Of course the group split up to look around, Swindler and Cutthroat were looking at pins, Courier was looking at a gun shop, Doctor was looking at some outfits, Hacker was not really looking for anything.

Brawler and Hoodlum ended up looking at some of the flags and shirts. Each was trying to tell the other how the sayings on the shirts described the other perfectly.

"Come on bro this shirt is just YELLING your name."

"I don't know brother, this one literally LOOKS like you."

The two kept laughing and having a good time. Eventually, the two went to the next store, but not without buying a shirt or two.

While Brawler kept looking around Hoodlum wanted to try on his new shirt in the fitting rooms. It was a grey shirt that had a pansexual flag on it and read 'Pan and Perfect'.