"You didn't answer my first question, Goro. Am I your prettiest friend?"
He takes off his glasses and bats his lashes again. He most certainly does not step away, but in fact, he leans in closer. Leaning down so that he has to look up at Akechi. If this gives the appearance of 'blow job' eyes, that's not what he was going for, and he will die on that hill.
"I appreciate how honest, you're being with me lately. It feels like I'm finally getting to know your details. Crossing the T's and dotting the I's. Do you use product in your hair or do anything special to it? It looks very soft. May I touch it?"
Is it cheating if Ren is his only friend? He uses that term loosely, even so, and Ren is rapidly approaching a level of frustration he didn’t think possible.
Why are the glasses off? There’s a brief moment of panic, where every muscle in Akechi’s body tightens, taut, as if ready to lash out if Ren were to make any further advances.
The questions about his hair calm him. Those, he can easily list off answers from his interviews, a nice and easy canned response, but the request to touch it?
“I already know telling you no is futile,” he mutters, trying not to let the venom seep out. “You may touch the ends.” Just the ends, Ren. If you dare to pet him, he may strike. Or something. It doesn’t stop an irksome red from spreading over his face again.
"C'mon, you should know me better than that." He puts his glasses back on then reaches forward, each hand on either side. He takes the ends in between his fingers and just plays with them for a moment. It is soft; very nice. He can't help but wonder if it's soft all over, but he was told just the ends...so he'll stick with just the ends.
His fingers keep at the ends, but they make their way to the back of Akechi's head. He's slow enough to be stopped but also enough to show Akechi just what his plan is. "You haven't thought about cutting your hair? Or a perm? Never had the rebellious phase of wanting to cut or color?"
“No,” Akechi says quickly, almost defensively. His hand reaches up, as if to swat away Ren, but he stops halfway through the action. “My mother’s hair was like this, maybe a bit longer. It’s one of the few things I remember about her.”
There he goes again, dropping needless information about himself that only furthers the hypothesis that there’s something about Ren that gets people to open up and trust him. Ugh, disgusting.
Akechi flinches just a bit and reaches up finally to gently move one of Ren’s to the side. “Have you? Or has that rebellious spirit of yours only been recent?”
two bros chilling in one personal bubble, centimeters a part cause they're not--
Oh, there's a chord. Understandable. Ren nods, what else can he do? He does like it when Akechi shares details about his mother. It almost feels like she's stopping by whenever he does it. He'd like to go visit her one day...
"It's very beautiful," if they were in the Metaverse, he'd bring up a strand to his lips and kiss it. Very debonair. But they're not in the Metaverse. They're not Crow and Joker right now. So he lets his hand be taken away.
"I've wanted to get my tongue pierced before. I thought about it. Started saving up for it, but then the law decided it hated me personally and now I'm here. What do you think? Should I get one?
throwing gloves at each other and dancing under a big heart, so straight
A tongue piercing? Now that’s something he hadn’t pegged Ren as wanting. Perhaps he’s misjudged his adherence to social norms and expectations. Foolish to think, given Ren’s own brand of rebellion, but… Interesting
“They’re difficult to hide. If you’d like to lean into the delinquency angle, by all means.” Just saying, society at large tends to judge on first impressions, as unfair as that may be. Akechi knows that intimately.
He refuses to mention any other aspect of the piercing. If Ren is fishing again for comments about the added benefits of a piercing, he won’t touch that with a ten-foot pole.
“No, you’re missing the question again. Do you think I would look good with a tongue piercing?” He leans back enough and sticks his tongue out. It’s far out enough to give a good view, but it rests on his lower lip so as avoid looking like complete punk. Yes, he’s trying to look a little hot, but with something like this it’s a toss up.
“I’d probably wait until my second year of university. Already a little bit more established and my sordid past,” yes he even makes air quotes, “is far enough behind me.”
Akechi exhales, a little frustrated, a little flustered, and awkwardly shifts his weight to one side.
“I think it would be fine.” A dismissive shrug; noncommittal as to whether he thinks it adds to the look or not. “As I said, it’s your decision in the end.” What a cop-out. “I don’t know why you’re so interested in my opinion on it.” Okay, one statement too far.
I like imagine Joker is a Hungry Hungry Hippo every time Akechi says something he can latch on to
“Of course I’m interested in your opinion. I’m interested in all the things you say. I’m interested in you.”
Oh, um. Maybe a little too vulnerable. Bring it back a bit. “You called me pretty after I told you like it when the right people call me it. You want to be my ‘right person’, don’t you?” He reaches out to Akechi’s hair and touches the end of a strand.
“I wanna know what else I could do to have you call me pretty again.” His tone is light and he’s only half joking. A very ‘only if you wanted to’ type of tone. He’s also trying to see if he can keep up that blush Akechi’s been wearing. It’s a good look. Ren likes it. A lot.
Akechi feels like Ren is slowly clawing his mask off and it’s so uncomfortably vulnerable. The conflict in his chest swirls, vision blurry and unfocused for a second. He isn’t good for Ren, he isn’t good for anyone. How did that saying go? You can’t love someone else until you love yourself first. How laughable.
His knee jerk reaction is to spin this back on Ren before he can say something damning. So, “You are one of the prettiest people I know. Far more real than most of the other celebrities I know.” There, that perhaps will work. Or blow back up in his face.
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He takes off his glasses and bats his lashes again. He most certainly does not step away, but in fact, he leans in closer. Leaning down so that he has to look up at Akechi.
If this gives the appearance of 'blow job' eyes, that's not what he was going for, and he will die on that hill."I appreciate how honest, you're being with me lately. It feels like I'm finally getting to know your details. Crossing the T's and dotting the I's. Do you use product in your hair or do anything special to it? It looks very soft. May I touch it?"
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Why are the glasses off? There’s a brief moment of panic, where every muscle in Akechi’s body tightens, taut, as if ready to lash out if Ren were to make any further advances.
The questions about his hair calm him. Those, he can easily list off answers from his interviews, a nice and easy canned response, but the request to touch it?
“I already know telling you no is futile,” he mutters, trying not to let the venom seep out. “You may touch the ends.” Just the ends, Ren. If you dare to pet him, he may strike. Or something. It doesn’t stop an irksome red from spreading over his face again.
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His fingers keep at the ends, but they make their way to the back of Akechi's head. He's slow enough to be stopped but also enough to show Akechi just what his plan is. "You haven't thought about cutting your hair? Or a perm? Never had the rebellious phase of wanting to cut or color?"
ren you’re very heterosexual
There he goes again, dropping needless information about himself that only furthers the hypothesis that there’s something about Ren that gets people to open up and trust him. Ugh, disgusting.
Akechi flinches just a bit and reaches up finally to gently move one of Ren’s to the side. “Have you? Or has that rebellious spirit of yours only been recent?”
two bros chilling in one personal bubble, centimeters a part cause they're not--
"It's very beautiful," if they were in the Metaverse, he'd bring up a strand to his lips and kiss it. Very debonair. But they're not in the Metaverse. They're not Crow and Joker right now. So he lets his hand be taken away.
"I've wanted to get my tongue pierced before. I thought about it. Started saving up for it, but then the law decided it hated me personally and now I'm here. What do you think? Should I get one?
throwing gloves at each other and dancing under a big heart, so straight
“They’re difficult to hide. If you’d like to lean into the delinquency angle, by all means.” Just saying, society at large tends to judge on first impressions, as unfair as that may be. Akechi knows that intimately.
He refuses to mention any other aspect of the piercing. If Ren is fishing again for comments about the added benefits of a piercing, he won’t touch that with a ten-foot pole.
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Yes, he’s trying to look a little hot, but with something like this it’s a toss up.“I’d probably wait until my second year of university. Already a little bit more established and my sordid past,” yes he even makes air quotes, “is far enough behind me.”
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Akechi exhales, a little frustrated, a little flustered, and awkwardly shifts his weight to one side.
“I think it would be fine.” A dismissive shrug; noncommittal as to whether he thinks it adds to the look or not. “As I said, it’s your decision in the end.” What a cop-out. “I don’t know why you’re so interested in my opinion on it.” Okay, one statement too far.
I like imagine Joker is a Hungry Hungry Hippo every time Akechi says something he can latch on to
Oh, um. Maybe a little too vulnerable. Bring it back a bit. “You called me pretty after I told you like it when the right people call me it. You want to be my ‘right person’, don’t you?” He reaches out to Akechi’s hair and touches the end of a strand.
“I wanna know what else I could do to have you call me pretty again.” His tone is light and he’s only half joking. A very ‘only if you wanted to’ type of tone. He’s also trying to see if he can keep up that blush Akechi’s been wearing. It’s a good look. Ren likes it. A lot.
HAHAH that visual is killing me
His knee jerk reaction is to spin this back on Ren before he can say something damning. So, “You are one of the prettiest people I know. Far more real than most of the other celebrities I know.” There, that perhaps will work. Or blow back up in his face.
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