pocky meme, musebox edition

[jokered]

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akira

[jokered]

[spinatalltale]

[who knows what Akira is doing at the moment! but whatever it is? there is suddenly a pink witch appearing in his vision from above! she's upside down. why is she upside down. is she just leaning over him from behind? is she hanging from the ceiling rafters? IT IS A MYSTERY]

[also she's got a stick of pocky tucked in her mouth. it's chocolate]

I have been informed that today is a national holiday!! ☆

[jokered]

[he will applaud her muscle strength if she's hanging from the ceiling rafters, in all honesty.

though the other truth here is that he absolutely wasn't paying attention to the date, so even though it's november 11th, he's.

??

he figures she's just snacking.]

National holiday?

[also throwing him off because it's not?? an actual holiday?? magilou pls.]

[spinatalltale]

[the Internet told her it was a National Holiday and the Internet never lies]

[she points to the pocky in her mouth like c: c: c: and wags her brows at him]

International Pocky Day! The National Holiday where couples everywhere give each other kind of gross kisses with food in their mouth.

Or something like that.

[THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT SOUND ROMANTIC OR DESIRABLE AT ALL. . .]

[jokered]

I don't think that counts as an actual holiday.

[...

this also doesn't tell her his stance on it, but that's because he's a punk.]

[spinatalltale]

[hey rude!! she wiggles the pocky in her mouth as if to say, come ooooon]

What? I'm starting to think they need someone to check the veracity of the claims people make on the Internet!

[jokered]

The internet is a den of lies.

[it's fine, though.

because akira is just going to get up and meet magilou at the pocky.... and then just take the whole stick into his mouth and bite it off so he can kiss her.]

...I win.

[punk.]

1/2

[spinatalltale]

[WHAT]

[WHAT!!]

[HER BRILLIANT PLAN HAS BEEN RUINED!!]

[spinatalltale]

[she turns a little red and quickly chews and swallows the tiiiiny bit of pocky she has left in her mouth, before immediately swapping it out with a fresh stick. this one is strawberry]

Again. No cheating this time. I will not be bested so easily!

[jokered]

[it was worth it for her reaction, honestly.]

It's not cheating, it's being ambitious.

[:D]

[spinatalltale]

[he's super good at getting those sorts of reactions from her, tbh]

Calm down your ambitions, heart breaker, and at least let me feel like I'm being clever for once.

[jokered]

[she makes it easy.]

Okay, okay, I'll play by the rules.

[even if he hates rules! but he'll bite off a more fair amount of pocky this time.]

[spinatalltale]

[hey, so you know what Magilou does]

[she learns by example]

[so while she scolded Akira for not following the rules]

[she is totally going to take a leaf out of his book and lean forward to BITE OFF THE REST OF THE POCKY so she can kiss him first this time]

[nyehehehehehe]

My victory!

[apatheia]

[2B just wanted to take a walk through the city in peace, people staring at her and blindfold or not, but instead she comes back to Leblanc relatively quickly. Only now she has an armful of assorted Pocky boxes.]

There are a lot of people handing these out today. [That's all the explanation she gives, but there's clearly a why evident in her voice. At least now Akira and Boss have free food??? Sure????]

[jokered]

That's... a lot of Pocky.

[like, way more than necessary, it's kind of comical in a sense. he looks amused by it, even as akira does at least move over to help her put them down without dropping them all over the place.

this is fine.

he'll probably explain it in a second, he wasn't even thinking about the fact that it's 11/11.]

[apatheia]

It is, isn't it?

[It's good to get confirmation that this isn't exactly normal at least... Once they're all out of her arms though, she lets out a small sigh. It's not like it was tiring to carry that all back, but it was kind of overwhelming when people just kept forcing them onto her.]

They were insistent that I have it with me for some reason. It's just food, right?

[jokered]

It's a pretty normal snack, yeah.

[...

but why would she be given boxes of it suddenly...

...

.....!]

Wait.

[akira, please.]

Today's the eleventh, right?

[apatheia]

[nodding] November 11th, specifically.

[Waits for an explanation of this grand mystery..!]

[jokered]

Ah. Pocky Day.

[well. it's a half-explanation.]

[apatheia]

[She picks up one of the boxes to peer at it. That sure is "Pocky" written right across the center.]

... There's a day to celebrate one specific food? [O.......kay then...............]

[jokered]

It's an unofficial day.

[he offers, amusedly.]

Four sticks of Pocky laid out looks like the date: 11/11. So people buy a lot of Pocky on that day. Sometimes, they even play a game with it.

[it's fine, he can absolutely understand why this would sound weird to her, at least. even trying to explain it sounds weird, considering it's the sort of thing just ingrained in their cultural consciousness in japan.]

[apatheia]

A game?

[What kind of game could possibly involve a snack like Pocky... Wait.]

Is it a "food fight"? [She's trying here, okay.]

[jokered]

No, it's a lot less messy than that.

[he'll open one of the packages of pocky, offering her a stick.]

I'll show you how to play. First, you put one end of the biscuit in your mouth and hold it there.

stahn

[majinken]

harold

[probings]