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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]

...Where have you been?

[The looking like that is implied, but probably not difficult to interpret.]

Here, you just see if you can figure it out.

[GOOD. YOU PLAY FOR A WHILE. LET HIM OGLE IN PEACE.]

[lapidarius]

Nowhere that important. [Completely oblivious to the implied connotation in favor of videogames, Kakyoin turned his attention to the handheld.] I was just out with Polnareff for a while.

[starmark]

You look cute.

[He scoots over, hooking an arm around Kakyoin and dragging him up onto the mattress in more of a lounge than a sitting position.]

What were you doing with Polnareff?

[lapidarius]

Oh...we were talking about Buccellati and he showed me how to play pool. Apparently I'm pretty good at it.

[Completely focused on fighting the accursed onion, Kakyoin let himself be pulled around with just that as a remark.]

[starmark]

I'm not surprised. It's a lot of geometry.

[He is so much better at snuggling than at video games. This plan that was not actually a plan worked out perfectly.]

[lapidarius]

That's just about what I said. I'd never played before, but it's much simpler than it looks.

[Kind of like he seemed to think this game was.]

See, look--if one of them falls asleep you can just switch to another one or use an item to wake it up.

[starmark]

Oh.

[MENUS: HIS ANCIENT NEMESIS.]

I just kept hitting "attack" because I wanted it to kick its ass.

[lapidarius]

Just because that works in real life doesn't mean it applies here.

[you can't ora-ora all your problems.]

You have to use strategy once in a while and plan out what you're doing.

[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?