puppycrush2 | week one

[SHE WILL ALWAYS BE PLEASED BY GIVING SOMEONE A FRIGHT, SORRY RYUJI

But maybe she deserves it for going through with this truth booth, assuming all the votes add up accordingly. She looks at him, levelly and without much expression (though he shouldn't take this as any sign of... anything, really, that's just her default.)]

Ritsuka made a compelling argument. That you're a potential Watson to a Holmes. [??? What?? She doesn't explain further.] Though I was under the impression that maybe the idea as a whole came from you to begin with...?

[ IT'S FINE, HIS HEART CAN TAKE IT.

Look, he's not reading into anything. Because. Well. He gets the impression she is just Like This. ]

I — okay?

[ Watson to a Holmes. That's. A book thing, right? ]

The idea — ah. Okay, so, yesterday I said I'd be cool with goin' into the truth booth and Ritsuka asked me who with but I didn't really know who. So, she said narrow it down to three and that was kinda, I mean, that was hard. But then today she asked me if I'd thought about it and it's like, yeah, kinda? I was thinkin' about who of the group of us I'd like to get to know better. N-Not like, ohhhh, we're perfect for each other or anythin' because that's some crazy talk, it's been a week. But like, who did I think I might be chill with? And I thought of you 'cuz you're pretty cool and you really know who you are and what you're about which I admire.

[ TAKES A BREATH ]

And... I get the feelin' you'll understand me, if I tell you a bit more about me. Like that conversation I promised ya. [ He wants to tell her about being a Phantom Thief!! Not because he thinks she'll think it's cool. But because he thinks she'll get the why of what they did. ] So, all that, I figured of all the people here, if I had to try the truth booth, I wanted to try it with you. And if we're not a match, that's okay 'cuz I still wanna get to know you anyway.

[ haha wow look at him go ]

[Jesus Christ.]

[Oh, he has a lot to say on the matter. He must truly be nervous — or, alternately, he did put much thought into this. Both could be true.

Wednesday lets him say his piece all the way to the end, her dark eyes seeking his face the entire time. As though she’s looking for some flaw in the logic, just through her stubborn instinct of digging in her heels alone, but she’s finds that there’s… really nothing there to dismantle. Nothing that she feels like she must challenge, besides.

Once more, she feels a bit self-conscious, not the same brand of “nervousness” as Ryuji when it comes to the truth, just Wednesday Addams levels of pause. To know that she might step into the truth booth and be met with failure is maddening; finding success instead would be satisfying, but also… Then what?

…well, maybe it’s just as simple as Ryuji says. Just get to know one another. Nothing is set in stone.

It’ll be fine, either way.]

Ryuji, if you think a failed truth booth is going to stop me from wanting to have that conversation, then you’ve underestimated my interest in all things delinquent. [(positive)]

Whatever the result, we can talk more later. Though I'm obligated to warn you that you may be getting more than what you possibly could've bargained for.

[Which is fine, though, because none of this is an actual commitment.]

[ OH MY GOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSH THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL UGH!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE SHOULD'VE SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DID SHE END THEIR TIME TOGETHER SO LAMELY?! SHE SHOULD'VE SAID SOMETHING COOL LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!

WEDNESDAY TRULY IS PEAK COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]

[ Her response is enough to kind of... pop the bubble of nerves in him. He felt so conflicted over this, was he pressuring her, was he not, etc. But he wanted to make it clear — he's not thinking of this as them owing each other anything! Just...! It'd be nice, is all, if they end up matched. That's what he thinks.

So he laughs a little, getting the last bit of nerves out of him, and then smiles at Wednesday — bright and sunny. ]

Fuck yeah, I'm glad to hear it.

[ She got a full f-bomb...! ]

And you know what, Wednesday? I could say the same to you.

[ After all, who could guess "Ryuji and his friends fought Yaldabaoth and won"? ]

[A WHOLE F-BOMB, JUST FOR HER

His nervousness dispenses, and it just bolsters how happy he seems to be. Wednesday never knows what to do with such things, so stark against her own personality, but even she isn't so socially inept to believe it isn't... flattering.

Her lips quirk a little.]

I look forward to finding out why that might be the case.

[Yeah she has no clue and she's in for a surprise; Ryuji's experiences are easily like... 200 percent more wild than hers, and that's saying a lot.]

So. Temper your nerves for tomorrow. We shouldn't fear the truth booth, it should fear us.

[ It's definitely a contrast. His expressiveness versus her... not. But he doesn't take it as a bad thing and when he does get the gift of her tiny micro expressions, he feels even more delighted!

Yeah, this is nice. ]

You're right! We're the dangerous ones here, we're the threat.

[ guys, it's just a truth booth ]

I'm hella lookin' forward to it now!

[ he still has zero clue what he's supposed to do in it ]

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