week four | mingle

[showhost]

Welcome to your fourth and final week, teens!

There aren’t many changes around the house today: it seems everyone is dialed in on what needs to be done and the upcoming week. Everything that was on the fritz last week is now back to normal, aside from the Dress Up Your Blorbo curse. You can still do that at will.

Anyway, it's fine that all seems quiet.

There’s plenty going on anyway this week.

Dates | Embrace Space | Property Damage, etc | CR Event | A Thing
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Submissions

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[counton]

[ A small nod. He and Ritsuka had come to an agreement on this one, and they'd decided to avoid any lip to lip contact with other people, even if in theory neither of them are overly bothered by the other one giving a quick peck to their various friends here. ]

I could do that one.

[titlecard]

Alright. Uh... sorry if this is weird.

[ And he'll, uh. Use his hand to brush Lessing's bangs out of the way before leaning down to place a little peck on his forehead.

Yeah he's definitely feeling the awkwardness, but at least it's done!! ]

[counton]

[ If it's weird, then Lessing isn't showing signs of being bothered by it. His eyes snap shut as Mark pushes his hair out of the way, and he remains almost unnatural still as Mark moves to get the kiss done with quickly.

And when it's done and Mark is backing up, Lessing is helping(?) by acting like nothing happened as he looks down at Mark's card. It's as if they have just been chatting this whole time, and didn't stop for one of them to plant a soft little kissie on the other one. ]

So we still need to find someone who is willing to do a spider-man kiss with you.

[ A pause. ]

I know I said I wouldn't do it, because I assumed it wasn't like the ones that specify you can kiss other places, but I'm not actually sure what that means.

[titlecard]

[ He wasn't sure what he was expecting, but Lessing just carrying on like that... He's a good guy.

Though Mark is rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly even as Lessing moves right on. ]

I'm... pretty sure it's supposed to be on the lips, yeah. One person is supposed to be right-side up, and the other upside-down... I can do the upside-down part. I just, uh... I'm not sure with who?

[counton]

[ At the very least, he's not an easily phased guy. ]

It just has to be someone comfortable with kissing you, right? That shouldn't be hard to find.

[titlecard]

R- really?

[ Still. Still not entirely used to that concept, ]

[counton]

[ Another person would notice that stammer, and give Mark a little pep talk here. They'd tell him that he's handsome, likable, and a good guy. Of course someone would want to kiss him!

Lessing does at least note the stammer enough to not go with his first impulse of "probably", and at least say something a little kinder. ]

Sure. Most of the contestants here aren't dating yet.

[ This was probably not actually kinder, even if Lessing... attempted. ]

[titlecard]

[ It's okay, Mark doesn't have enough self-esteem to interpret that poorly. Instead he just looks up at the ceiling for a moment, thoughtful. ]

I mean... I guess that's true. [ wobblehands on when in the timeline this is taking place and if Mark is actually dating yet, but it's fine, the bingo sheet is just for the game anyway. It doesn't actually mean anything. ] Besides, this is just for the game, right? It doesn't have to be a whole... thing.

[ That would be wayyy more awkward than giving Lessing a little kiss on the forehead. ]

[counton]

[ The forever tricky in between stage of a relationship, where you're not sure if you're just gayly arm wrestling a boy in a fit of sexual tension, or actually dating him. We've all been there.

... Okay, only Mark and Josuke have been there, but that's still a significant percentage of people in this house. ]

Right, I'm still doing some of these regardless.

[ Just clearly not all of them, since he shot down the idea of kissing on the lips. ]