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<IBUKI> hello!! ibuki mioda here!!! ﾟ.+:｡(≧∇≦)ﾉﾟ.+:｡
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09/05
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why?
are you thinking of learning japanese, lucas??
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My name just means "light" I'm pretty sure, what's cool about that
You know I wouldn't say no because it's what you speak, right???
Sometimes it's weird to think we talk funny to each other
Thought of it because over on the network Jackdaw is talking about how names are a big deal where he's from, but still
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(where ibuki comes from, if we kept all the meanings the same, you'd probably be "kira"! and i think i like "lucas" a lot more.)
and you don't talk funny to me! even back home, i was pretty dang good with english, you know!
but ibuki wouldn't mind being your foray into her language, either!
are you having name troubles?
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Do I even seem like a light guy to you sugartits???
[As in... what. "Do I seem lighthearted", "do I seem Wholesome and Pure", or "do I seem like I weigh less than other guys probably do", because, I mean, you know she'd. Probably answer two of these in the affirmative.]
Haha yeah I like "Lucas" better too, no offense.
Guess that's my first lesson though.
Well yeah kinda, but it's not about this though, even if it doesn't mean anything special I'm still fucking Lucas.
[Are you, now.
...'Eyyyyyyyyy...?]
Just got curious is all, because yeah it's not like I know more than like 10 words in Japanese
Yet anyway. :)
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[She means it lovingly. Honest.]
but isn't it kinda related to "lucifer"?? THAT'S cool, right???
but if it's bugging you, ibuki's kind of been wanting to give you a nickname...
and ibuki would be happy to be your teacher! we can start off easy, like how to translate all of metallica's songs into japanese!!
["Easy"???]
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Right???
LOL yeah no though, you've got a point!!! Even more fun seeing as my folks were fucking Catholics. You give your fucking """beloved""" son a name like "Lucas" anyway
What have you been wanting to call me
[That's... with a swoop like a head-turn from one point to the other, on his end of the line. His eyes... narrowing, upper lip pulling higher over his teeth like he, well, like... is concerned over response being more immediate...!]
Sounds like fun.
[HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE FACT THAT THAT WOULDN'T, IN FACT, BE "EASY".
HOW BETTER TO TEACH SOMEONE THAN THROUGH SOMETHING THAT IS FUN???]
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and now she can have you help!!
[... This gets followed by a pause, though, seeing as how, well.
The only other thing she could say here is...
The nickname she was planning on giving him...
She honestly kind of waffled on even mentioning she had one, since it feels so shmoopy, but at the same time -
He said he wants her to act more like a "girlfriend", right?]
ok, ibuki's gonna tell you, but you can't let your head pop from how good it is!!
and you can't give ibuki shit for cheesiness, either!
after all, we've been a thing for so long, if i didn't come up with something soon, the god of romance would certainly strike me down on the spot... but!!!
lukie.
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[God bless 'im, he's getting bolder with. Text embellishment.
...Except don't bless him, God, he has sinned too many times, and continues to sin.
...Except he's Fog, so... a God has already blessed him...?
...Also. There's a good 'n gratified laughing-eyed smirk on "god of romance" and a tip rocked back a tad on his end, but it rests a little on a rock back in, brow liftin' in the middle as he doth interrogate the screen with a just-open and still slightly curved mouth...!
...C'moooon girl...! Give give give...
-- Oh, hello -- ]
Holy SHIT
[SSSSSSORRY, IBUKI, WHERE YOU TWO IN THE SAME SPOT THIS VERY SECOND, YOU'D... PROBABLY BE SWATTING HIM AND TELLING HIM THAT "I TOLD YOU NOT TO GIVE ME SHIT" OVER THE NOISE HE'S MAKIN' AND THE GRIN HE'S ALL LURCHING TOWARD THE MONITOR WITH...!
BECAUSE YEAH, THAT'S CHEESY AS HELL, IT'S PRICELESS, BUT -- !]
I fucking LOVE it.
[...THAT IS FAR FROM A BAD THING.
C'mon, Ibuki, while you said you liked it because it wasn't schmaltzy, this is the man who started calling you "sugartits".]
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... He loves it?
Even though it's cheesy? And goofy? And stupid?]
really? really really??
are you sure you're not just saying that cause ibuki's the one who came up with it??
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...He does a lot of things with spite! But. "Liking" isn't one of them! With regards to goofy things.]
Do we ever lie to each other???
It's fucking cute.
[...This iiiis, chances are, the first time she's ever seen/heard him use that word outside of a playful context - e.x. "we're just a couple a' cute little doggies!" - or her asking him if she's cute. 'Mean, like, yeah, she is, but "pretty" and "hot" are the schools of compliments his mind most naturally go to.
For the record, though, this is still him calling her cute. "Look at you - tryin'a get all sweet and romantic now and doing something so goofy!"
Iiiit's without a lick of mean spirit or sneakiness. It's all genuine endearment, plus, well... an airy bloom and rise of warming, swelling, glowing pride off the "tryin'a get all sweet and romantic" component.]
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... But she can tell this isn't.
It's something about him calling it, specifically, "fucking cute". Rather than just... "cute".
That's some deliberate emphasis right there.
She can't help staring at it for a moment or two, before firing back -]
sooo...
that means you want me to use it, right? especially since you're right, you're totally right! we DON'T lie to each other, not even once!
so that means you DO want ibuki to use it, right???
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The emphasis was... not lacking in significance, whether he knew it or not. (He definitely did not.)
He... lets his smile sag on his end of the line, for a split-second - just off that thought of "Ibuki hates cutesy romantic stuff, she's gonna be pissed at me, ain't she -- "
-- But. He sinks at the monitor a moment as if he's... being scolded over something he thought was a good idea and still thinks could have been one if you had just given it a chance...! when her first-first response comes in.
...Only lasting in the moments before "you're right". He -- turns his head up again, grins deep once more with the batter of the biggest moth in his chest...!]
Yeah.
Fuck, no one's called me anything but Lucas since I was a little boy
Would be nice and cute and just us.
[This time, he is playing the "cute" card deliberately. As a "selling point" to Ibuki, who loves cute shit.
"Just us", though, is... "so I really would really, really love it, and know you would like that, too".]
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She started this, after all. Hell, if she was mad at anyone, it's herself.
... And it's not even "mad", either. More just playful cringe at actually coming up with such a shmoopy nickname, but... she really does wanna use it.]
... just us?
you really think so... and that it's US...
well, ibuki wants to use it! but i'm not sure i'm ready to use it in front of EVERYONE, so if i start off only using it when it's just you and me, then that would be okay, i think
but ibuki really wants to warm up to using it in front of people, too!
... lukie (・ω-)～♥
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That said, he's still just... lightly laughing into settling as she types...! This fuckin' girl...!]
I'm game for that, sugartits. ;)
[...His face sort of -- blanks with a blink, mouth opens, the tiniest tense of his brow, is he... he's missing something, looks down at the keyboard like he's expecting it'll just click when he sees the right key before -- ]
<3
[THERE, SHE SENT A HEART, AND NOW HE'S SENT A HEART, DIDN'T COME NATURALLY SO NO WONDER THAT DIDN'T OCCUR TO HIM THAT THAT'S WHAT WAS MISSING -- lookin' at the screen again like "...was I... supposed to do that...?"
-- Before, pff, picking up another... slanted smile.]
Lukie and Ibuki
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But then, right when she's partway through typing a message -
A heart appears.
...
And then, right when she's partway through typing another message after she's already backspaced it all once, the rest appears, and she can't help the real-life laughter she's let out with it.]
kyaaaaaa...! has lukie secretly been an embarrassing romantic all this time!? has he been waiting for his ibuki to give him the cutest nickname in the world just for this!?
lukie and ibuki!
ilukiebuki!!!!! (ᗒᗜᗕ)՛̵̖
i lukie-lucky-love it!!! (●♡∀♡))ヾ☆*。
tell ya what!
you've been really good at being nice to people lately and telling ibuki about all your escapades, so from here on out, the more you do that, the more ibuki will try to use "lukie" in front of more than just you, too!
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...Then again, when does it ever not.
Rests into another... tug of a smile. Practically dark-eyed, but with a... not-unpleasant little turning tug in his chest.]
I really been doing that good a job, huh
[Iiiit's. Still not that he has much personal investment in "being nice", alas - makes it hard to so much as read that without a flicker of "ffff, like fun, I've been doing real good at being nice" when you know for a fact you ain't a nice dude - but, well...
She's been helping with nice an' sneaky recalculation, there; maybe he'll notice it eventually.
And hey, there's always something of a rise to savor when someone whose opinion you do actually care about tells you you're doing a really good job at something you want to impress.
...Also, he didn't really answer, soooo - ]
Deal. :)
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so that's why i'm happy you've chosen to accept my offer, and the deal staaaaarts
badum badum baduuuuum
... today!!!
i'll start calling you lukie with just you and me as of right NOOOOW
and then, next time you tell me about a good job you've done with someone, i'll move onto using it in front of someone we can trust!
dunno who yet!
but someone!
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-- Keep stroking that vampire ego...! Which was stacked on top of an ego that was already way too large, way too heated, and more than self-stroked regularly enough.
But yeah! That feelin' he had is... swelling...! 'Long with his smile...!]
Ok but can the person I'm nice to be just anyone??
Does it have to be someone new or can I just hang out with 2D again???
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After all, she actually finds it kinda cute.
He's getting all puffy over just being called "Lukie", really...]
yep, it can be aaaanyone you want!
but you gotta TRY to make it be someone new, okay? at least once in a while!
and ibuki doesn't count either, of course!
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...They just stem and branch from "I wanna call you 'Lukie'"!]
Well I'm not dumb, Ibuki!!! :(
If I tried you or Bert or Wrench or Aunamee or Lup you'd know I was cheating!
[HA HA... AUNAMEE.
LUP. 8,)]
Do I get anything extra special IF I make it someone new, though???
[Heeeee's foolin'...!
...But also genuinely curious both re: the answer and if he can finagle.]
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but that's the thing, ibuki was a little worried that if she didn't say it, you'd think it was a loophole and try to be all smart and sneaky about it...
so she made sure to say it!
but if you DO make it someone new...
... hooow about ibuki keeps a punchcard and puts stickers on it everytime you're nice to someone new!
and once you fill out one side of it, you get a prize!
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...NO, SERIOUSLY DO. 'Cause he's a-tittering to himself about that, as well...! Thoughts between "I MEAN, YOU'RE RIGHT, I MIGHT HAVE, FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES" and lighthearted, aerated "heyyyyy, gal! Whaddyou think I am, a lawyer...?!"
BUUUUT...]
Holy shit what kinda prize???
Extra kisses or a love song or what????????
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... Because she thinks he is the smartest guy around.
That said, no, she thinks she's the opposite of a lawyer!
But also snaky.
He's snaky.]
both good ideas, but the official ruling will beeeee
(badum badum badadadadadaaaaa -
TISH!)
whatever lukie wants! anything and everything! if you can think of it (and it won't get ibuki killed) it's now a prize!!!!
how's THAT??
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Pffffnnnngrh, and he's... honestly snickering a bit over the written-out drumroll...!
Buuuut... his grin spreads like a net over the heat-blast up in his chest in his chest on those terms...!]
Oh my god
For real?????
[SSSSSPEAKING OF HER BEING THE BEST, APPARENTLY.]
Why the fuck are you so good to me, YOU GOT YOURSELF ANOTHER DEAL!!!!!!!!!
[YOU SURRRRE KNOW HOW TO INCENTIVIZE A MAN, IBUKI.
...Aaaaa moment, also, as he... thinks he's being sly...! Just for shits 'n giggles - he ain't expecting this to be taken as a serious question...]
What if I say that I want you to call me Lukie to everyone????
[Speaking, as well, of him being snaky. Good ol' narrow shit-eating grin, as he tips side-to-side, adjustin' his lean in and out away from the screen...!]
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