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“...That’s thoughtful of you, but where do you come in that whole giving spree?” Aoba does his best to remove the scoff that’s all too-there, replacing it with sincerity. 

Season of giving was undeniably a shift in moral right before the new year. 

The thoughtful, selfless, more thoughtful types that did him in.

Who was he kidding. “Who’s getting you a gift?” 

She’s a complete goody two-shoes, that’s why he doesn’t second guess her mumbling. Without anyone to argue with him? She’s inevitably “Miss Right”. 

She rubs him the wrong way, but he’s not about to refuse butting into her thoughts. If to feed into her uprighteousness, he chimes in.

“...Miss, you wouldn’t happen to know the nearest route to a subway, would you?”

He’s painting a clueless image of himself, but he’s been here long enough to navigate the city better than her. 

Language. He’s had his share of explicitives, in one ear out the other. The gang uses it, more like a currency, -- and none of them sound all that great using it. It sounds more outlandish when the sigh itself sounded like it should be from none better than a grunt.

So why the awful mouth, but the hair that ...that feels like winter came early. 

Funny enough, she sounds lonely. The realest quick-acting remedy for a long night ahead of a girl?  You play up the act of a teen barely anyone can tolerate.

You annoy her. “Sounds like some-one can’t sleep alone! -You don’t see that often.” Aoba rubs at his arms to will his rising skin away, he cracks an eye open, “...Especially.” His voice lilts, almost giving himself away. 

Send “´͈ ᵕ `͈” for my muse’s reaction to yours suddenly holding their hand.

The light turning blue, she quickly noticed the other not flinching at the change in traffic lights. With that, she grabbed his hand and gently pulled him forward, nearly having to help him cross the streets with the lack of awareness he was displaying.

▲  five time my muse thought about kissing yours, and the one time they did.

☠  five times my muse thought about hitting yours, and the one time they did.

★  five times my muse thought yours looked breath-taking, and the one time they voice it.

❤  five times my muse says they don’t love yours, and the one time they admit it.

▼  five times my muse has caught yours getting off, and the one time they help out.

♫  five times my muse swears it’s not a date, and the one time it maybe is.

☪  five times our muses almost hold hands, and the one time they do.

☁  five times my muse has thought about yours, and the one time they do something about it.

★ “Someone left their nachos here…”

   Someone’s runt is on the loose and she appears to have came straight out of a candy store. 

Standing in line for more than 20 minutes is pain, running into a girl without any adult supervision taking what’s hers in plain sight is. 

...Terrifying. 

Aoba smacks the variations of sauces next to the half-empty bin of nachos and shakily sighs, reaching into his pocket for a trade token of truce. 

While she stuffs her face, grazing like a cow and slumping on the lunch table he reaches to her hair to give a ...one, two tug. 

“Depends on your bias, really. I didn’t think creeps were so open, but each to their own, It’s. All the same, yeah?” 

“Buy me a drink! I like boba. You can let go cause you look like you need the carbs,” Aoba turns his phone towards the gamer, underlining the significant ID with his thumb.

“I’ll order for the both of us! Bubble tea is daunting for first timers.”

Enthusiasts.  “Want to get that off your face?” The kid parked right in front of the store with high end trim? It makes a pretty laughable display. “It’s not exactly easy to meet new people when your color isn’t red.” What’s the meaning of this? Aoba doesn’t ask. “

I figured a small ‘improvement meme’ would be a fine idea for RPers looking to brush up their skills and topple weaknesses, so here it is. Feel free to use the symbols or go for a more in depth response. Yes, you can send any of these to me too. 

☢: You need to work on character responses, they tend to be bland. 

✄: Your RP responses are really short/ could have more effort put in!

Σ: You’re messing up your punctuation here and there. 

▼: Try to improve your spelling/Grammar

☯: Try to open up to more RPers, you’re great, but you’re missing out on a lot of potentially amazing RPs!

▲: Try to be more positive on yourself, there’s no reason to hate on yourself so much. 

☠: You need to be more respectful. 

✈: You need to improve your action sequences or reactions of characters. 

❤: You’re doing amazing, we can always improve but every RP I read of yours is a joy.

✉: Message more RPers and get some more activity going please. 

Ⓐ: Fight scenes could use more work. 

❥: Romantic Scenes can be awkward, do your best to improve on this, and look out for common pitfalls!

☁: You might want to take another look at your character/characters and work on them a bit more. Every great character has a flaw or two. 

Even so, that doesn’t make her any more accepting of it.

     ❝ Uh yeah, I know it’s hotter here, ❞ she starts, eyebrow quirking slightly at the stranger. ❝ But I haven’t had the chance or luxury to change out of my clothes. Haven’t you considered that I just came from a cold place? ❞ with that she crosses her arms lightly, adding a quiet huff at the end of her sentence. What’s this guy’s problem?! What ever happened to common decency?

WELL EXCUUUUUSE HIM, BUT HE’S NEVER DEALT WITH SNOBS BEFORE.

   she takes this about as well as how sour her scowl is. he’s baffled a full pause before he has a good response for her. 

“You can’t just leave. It ...doesn’t work like that.”

he thinks of giving her time, he’s contemplating it. to come full circle, confess how stupid she feels. realize she’s the one that needs help, that kind of NEEDS, to start asking favors. 

and SOON, before she bakes and overheats like the lobster getup she’s ...not sporting. not killing it. she just might be be able to kill it somehow, with that a-grade personality of hers. 

that’s what they’ll be looking for.

he’ll give her time to think it over. with a sharp mouth like that, she’s probably not stupid.

it takes him more than she does to bounce back, cross and totally offed by her attitude.

but he’s back.

“I mean, everything’s on “sale” right now. It’s summer. If you’re broke, you can just tell me where they put you, you can owe me one.” 

“I’ll track you if you don’t. You’ve got manners or something, you’re not a thief.” 

“I know a place. We can probably find something if we hurry.” He flicks a hand in her direction, “Since you look so much like you know what you’re doing.” He taps a location into his phone, “You’ll be lost for hours if you don’t.”