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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[starmark]

Video games don't let you do that. You just have to play them the way they allow you to. Because of how they're programmed, right?

[He could set the onion on fire if this were real life. He carries a lighter. He could definitely do that.]

Did you beat it yet?

[lapidarius]

Right. There isn't a button for 'punch the onion', so you have to be clever about it.

[jotaro please.]

Of course I did--here. [Kakyoin held the game up to hand it back to him, sighing in joking exasperation.]

[starmark]

Thanks.

[Welp, he's back to playing again. Time for more trekking through the Ilex Forest. Deedley-deedley-doo.]

Did you catch it, or just knock it out?

[lapidarius]

[Which, naturally, gave Kakyoin a perfect opportunity to do the snuggling now that his attention was not otherwise occupied.]

I caught it.

[starmark]

I can't believe how good at this you are.

[DOOT DOOT DOO DEE DOO. What a multitasker he is, cuddling on one front and wandering around on the other.]

...So you had a good time with Polnareff?

[lapidarius]

It shouldn't surprise you that I have a wide range of talents.

[or 'kakyoin noriaki is a large moody ginger cat', exhibit A]

Yeah. We actually had fun with everything.

[starmark]

That's good.

[beedle beedle beep bop boop woop.]

...Hey, look. This butterfly is pink.

[GUESS WHO JUST]

[lapidarius]

...Is...is that supposed to happen?

[oh my god you two]

[starmark]

I don't know. Usually they're more blue and purple. Maybe this one is radioactive or something.

[DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE.]

...Do you think I should have my crocodile bite it? I could run away.

[EoH Kakyoin, who survived long enough to embrace the wonders of every gen of Pokemon, is screaming right now.]

[lapidarius]

I really don't think radiation is a thing here.

[Across the multiverse, he just put his head in his hand and repressed the inexplicable desire to throw a 3ds at his boyfriend's head for no reason.]

Do you have one already?

[starmark]

No. I haven't been collecting any of the bugs, they seem like they're pretty weak.

[Also: they are not water types, and therefore not cute enough to be a part of his roster.]

...We could catch it and name it Jolyne.

[lapidarius]

...

[hearteyesmotherfucker.gif]

Okay. Go ahead and catch it, I think that'd be nice.

[starmark]

[joke's on them IT'S A BOY BUTTERFREE]

Okay. I'm going to shoot it with water first. Then I'm going to bite it.

[A SOUND STRATEGY]

[lapidarius]

Right--that one's weak to...fire, I think? So water should be okay.

[starmark]

Okay.

[And off he go.]

I'm glad you had a good time. And decided to dress up.

[lapidarius]

He mentioned something along the lines of wanting to see how it looked, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.

[...]

On top of that, he may have sold you out regarding how interested you were just hearing about it. So this was actually timed quite well.

[starmark]

He did, huh.

[Well. There may need to be revenge in the near future for that.]

...It looks good. But maybe it's still missing something?

[lapidarius]

He definitely did.

[sorry not sorry polnareff.]

You think it's missing something? Like what?

[starmark]

[He sets the Game Boy aside momentarily — WHICH IS MADNESS HE IS IN BATTLE WITH A SHINY AND HE IS NOT CATCHING IT JOTARO YOU MADMAN — and reaches over, lightly threading his fingers through Kakyoin's hair and playing with the strands with a deliberate sort of suggestive intent.]

You could...maybe, put your hair up...?

[lapidarius]

[EoH Kakyoin would have a very different set of priorities in this situation. Fortunately for all involved, this one had his attention on the correct thing, which was tilting his head into Jotaro's hand like an affectionate housecat.]

Hm...you're right, whatever was I thinking? It was careless of me to forget something like that.

[starmark]

...So will you? Maybe?

[SORRY EOH KAKYOIN DON'T HAVE AN ANEURYSM OUT THERE IN PARALLEL SPACE.]

[lapidarius]

[TOO LATE]

I might be able to do that. [Hierophant snuck out from its user's shadow, quietly rummaging through a drawer and pulling back to drop a hairbrush and a familiar cherry blossom pin into Kakyoin's hand.] How do you think it would look best, since you were the one to so thoughtfully point out what I've overlooked?

[starmark]

...Leave a little bit around your face. Kind of wispy, like you look in the mornings when you've just woken up. And then the rest...pinned.

[lapidarius]

Have I ever told you that you give excellent advice? [So, of course, Kakyoin committed the cardinal sin of disrupting The Noodle(tm) and started brushing his hair back into a different arrangement.]

[starmark]

Not usually. You're too much of a know-it-all for that.

[But he's teasing, man, he's just watching intently and enjoying the show.]