013 ☀ Phantom Thieves, Magilou

[jokered]

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[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]

[virtuale]

He should know better, fandom always takes the unshippable ones and runs with it.

[She doesn't even miss a beat with that. And then, to Akira:]

Oh well. If you like her that much, I guess it's fine.

[Shrug!!]

I can tolerate. [Probably.]

[jokered]

I think she proved herself plenty shippable.

[just saying.]

But I'm glad to have the Oracle seal of approval anyway.

[spinatalltale]

[stops pinching Akira's cheeks and just. settles herself against his shoulder. hmph]

Only tolerate. . .

[virtuale]

[A shrug.]

Tolerate. Maybe, maaaaybe "accept", depending on how things go and how annoying you are.

No promises though.

[jokered]

Futaba has high standards. Don't take it too personally.

[akira still accepts her, so it's probably fine.]