week two | dates

[showhost]

You worked up your courage and asked someone out on a date! Good job!





Now you have to hope the producers are kind re: where they send you.

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will & minami

[showhost]

IT'S...... TIME FOR A HAY BALE RIDE, IT'S...

i'm so sorry

i'm so sorry--

Anyway they're shuffled off onto the bales of hay so a tractor can drive them around. Slowly. It is......... invigorating.

Highlights:

- There is, at least, nice, warm cider
- You are the only people on this ride so at least you have privacy
- When you're done, there's a place where you can dress up in old timey farmer clothes and get a picture taken together

[inparfait]

[ it's fine, it's fine, it's fi-

minami doesn't actually mind the scenery. it's novel! and for his evil hamster brain, that's enough. plus being handed a sweet drink is a good way to mollify him.

but that unfortunately doesn't mean he's going to make any effort to start things here, so that's on will. he'll just be here sipping his cider otherwise. ]

[willandaway]

[I]

[what]

[the fuck]

[IT'S FINE. IT'S NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM RIDING A CARRIAGE BACK HOME? a little itchier, and the company is. . . well. . . but hey! it's fine]

[Will doesn't have any cider for himself, but he does watch in silence as Minami sips at his. this is awkward. he should say something]

[also: nobody told him about Minami's demon reveal, so. . .]

. . . is it good?

[inparfait]

It could be sweeter.

[ like most things! ]

[willandaway]

[Minami likes parfaits, so Will is not terribly surprised the cider isn't sweet enough]

Ah. I wish I had a solution for that. . . I imagine it's just how it's made.

[inparfait]

More sugar.

[ will is trying and minami is being stubborn I'm sorry. ]

[willandaway]

[I'M]

Well. . . yes.

[he feels like SUCH A FOOL]

Have you always preferred sweeter foods. . .?

[inparfait]

[ he turns to face will and looks at him like he has 6 heads.

did no one tell him... ]

I'm a demon I prefer souls.

1/????

[willandaway]

[NOBODY TOLD HIM]

[anyway Sanctism is Catholic-adjacent so I am saying he knows what demons are]

[giving Minami a ???!?!? look]

[willandaway]

[not alarmed, just confused??]

[willandaway]

[??!?!?!!!!]

DONE

[willandaway]

Oh.

[he understands nothing!!]

I see. Do you need to eat them to survive, or. . .?

[inparfait]

Duh.

[ now they're both equally confused help. ]

[willandaway]

[wheezes!!]

. . . is it just me, or are you acting a little differently now?

[inparfait]

[ his face is still :nyaf: ]

I got bored of playing that game so I'm done with it. This is the real me and if you even start to bring her up, I'll throw you out of this wagon.

[ it is a very real threat because the amount of times he almost lost it in their last real conversation was too damn high. ]

[willandaway]

[I'M]

[HE WASN'T EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT! resisting the urge to bury his face in his hands and let out a deep, pained sigh]

"Playing that game. . . ?"

Were you just pretending?

[inparfait]

Obviously! It's what demons do.

[willandaway]

[he sees. . .]

Are you really afraid of sleeping alone, then? Or was that just a ploy to pick on me?

[inparfait]

I'm not afraid of anything. But I am an incubus so sleeping with people is fun!

[ he didn't even give will any nightmares praise him. ]

[willandaway]

I see. . .

[so the drama caused last week between him and Anna was totally on purpose. . .]

What did you gain by pretending in the first place?

[inparfait]

[ he laughs at this, because this is the first time someone's really asked him this question without a degree of assumption. ]

A lot of people will say they'll be forgiving and understanding to everyone and that everyone deserves happiness, blah, blah. But in practice? People aren't like that!

I'm interested in someone who actually means that even if that someone is a liar, a murderer, a criminal, whatever.

[willandaway]

[it helps that Will is aware he truly does not understand Mimami. can't make assumptions if you don't get a person!!]

So you want to see who is still kind to you even after you've revealed to them your true self.

[it's kind of manipulative, Will thinks. . . but Minami is a self-proclaimed demon from hell, so it isn't surprising that he does not have the greatest faith in others]

[inparfait]

Ergh, don't say it like that. It doesn't need to be towards me.

[ sorry he's so confusing will. ]

[willandaway]

[he is destined to not understand]

[a pause. he considers his next question carefully]

Were you always a demon? Or were you a person beforehand?

[inparfait]

People don't turn into demons but they can become all kinds of other things in Hell. I've always been like this.

[ he says with some manner of pride. ]