013 ☀ Phantom Thieves, Magilou

[jokered]

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[spinatalltale]

Selfish?? Sometimes?? Hey!

[HOW DARE HE CALL HER SELFI--]

How dare you say I'm selfish only sometimes. I'm selfish all of the time! It's always about me! The Great Magilou is too villainous and self-focused to care about what happens to the peons of this world!

[. . . oh. . .]

[okay Mags]

[virtuale]

[... Squints!!

She just turns to Akira, and:]

You have the weirdest taste.

[jokered]

[and yet? akira seems to be pretty amused and endeared by magilou's dramatics. he's used to them by now.]

Is it surprising that I'd like someone with a flair for theatrics? [honestly, she's one of the few people he's met that can keep up with his theatrics.]

[spinatalltale]

Hmph. I'd be a very bad performer if I didn't have said flair for theatrics.

[comedians gotta be dramatic, Futaba!!]

[virtuale]

Yeah, but she thinks she's a villain.

[Just. Pointing that out, even as she idly wraps an arm around her legs and rocks in place on the booth chair. Which squeaks under her shoes. Squeak squeak squeak. Sorry, Sojiro.]

No matter how you look at it, that's weird or tryhard.

[jokered]

Hm.

[he pauses, and then notes.]

She's like us.

[...]

Someone who might be remembered as a villain, no matter what actually happened.

[spinatalltale]

[WOW, HEY]

. . .

[she wants to yell STOP MAKING ME SOUND LIKE A GOOD PERSON!! but. maybe she'll just. give them both a deadeyed stare instead]

[virtuale]

[......... Huh! A shrug.]

Y'okay.

[She just...accepts that, apparently??? Okay. She's fine with it, either way, sipping her coffee.]

[jokered]

[that was easy.]

You can keep looking at me like that Magilou, but you know I'm right.

[they fought for somewhat similar things, after all.

also he's just a punk.]

[spinatalltale]

[S. . . STOP]

Why can't you accept the fact that I'm just a very, very, very, very bad witch!

[virtuale]

Eh.

If Akira says you're a good person, I believe him. [SHRUGS. Akira's a good judge of character, and he's her big bro, and he's The Leader.

It's fine.]

[jokered]

[magilou isn't ready for this coffee sibling tag-team, probably. but akira doesn't relent, because it's nice to have the upper-hand with hassling her.

#romance.]

I'll make sure to never betray that trust, Futaba.

[he speaks only truths about his witchy girlfriend.]

[spinatalltale]

[AUGH!!!]

[she sinks lower in her seat, tugging the hood over her head and pulling it shut because NO, SHE IS NOT READY FOR THE COFFEE SIBLING TAG-TEAM]

Ugh. I feel like I caught cooties, or something.

[virtuale]

[Futaba sticks her tongue out at Magilou.]

Good, because I caught a case of the TMIs from your spit-swapping earlier.

[Futaba???]

[jokered]

[futaba...]

I think that might be a minor exaggeration.

[spinatalltale]

[SUDDENLY]

[LEANS FORWARD]

[until her face is like]

[centimeters from Akira]

[like she's gonna kiss him again]

[Magilou no, cut the PDA!!]

[virtuale]

[Magilou no.

Yeah Futaba is just burying her hands in her arms and--]

Ewwwwwwwww. [So drawn out, so rude.]

[jokered]

[rude, futaba.

even if akira seems content to not gross her out too much—instead, while not moving his face, he just reverses the roles a bit with magilou...

and grabs her nose lightly.

ha! take that!]

[spinatalltale]

[WOW]

-- hey! Don't steal my schtick!

[she protests in a very nasally voice. RETRIBUTION]

[virtuale]

[Yeah, Futaba's just snorting softly.

Bwaha.

Which she might actually have said out loud, under her breath. Like a nerd.]

[jokered]

I'm a thief.

[casually!]

If I've already stolen your heart, all that's left is to steal your schtick.

[at least this should continue to be entertaining for futaba...?]

[spinatalltale]

[pinches his cheeks!! and stretches them out sort of like she was with Bienfu earlier, only less painfully]

You do know this means war, right?

[virtuale]

[Oh my god.

Futaba just rolls her eyes at this display, and then:]

So...what. Murder happened, and you picked up a witch girl from it?

[Weirdo.]

It's not like that's a very romantic setting.

[jokered]

Don't you know what war is good for?

[absolutely nothing, tbh.

so he turns his attention back to futaba, shrugging even as magilou is pulling at his cheeks. why is he like this?]

It wasn't. [a romantic setting, that is.] I guess you can say... the high stakes of the situation changes things, though. I didn't think it would happen either, but... it did.

[spinatalltale]

[why are they both like this, poor Futaba. YANKS ON HIS CHEEKS SOME MORE]

Honestly, I think he heard me call myself unshippable and took it up as a personal challenge.

[. . . she jokes]