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TRIPLE ICON COMMISSION FOR weirdoofdoom!!!! THE FRIEND ASKED ME TO DRAW HER KIDDOS FOR PACSONA AU AND…….oh gosh who is that dashing masked stranger in the middle??????????????? WHOOOOOO KNOWWWWWWSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I HOPE YOU LIKE THEM CLOVER <333333

Oh man though.  OH man, I love the hair!!  I have no idea how to draw Clovis’ hair like that myself, but you got it spot on!  Same with Desi’s, and White Phantom’s hair is so nice too~  All swoopy and flippy and not in his face.  Y’KNOW, LIKE SOME ANIME HERO TYPE SHIT :3c

And oh my gosh Clovis is so cute in this pic, what a bby :’’’) he loves his bf so much, even if his bf IS pretty embarrassing some times…..and also embarrasses him……….humiliation all around.  And then Desi’s goggles are so perf!!!  Nice and a bit translucent, perf shade of blue 8D  and then all the love to White Phantom’s eyebrows.  All of it.  Eyebrow expressiveness game is super strong B)

“I guess it’s better to hit too hard than not hit hard enough,” Benji mused. “Except…during practice of course.”

Wouldn’t do to break someone’s nose or foil on his first day back but Clovis’ request caught him a little off guard. He had no idea where the other boy lived and what he wanted to ask him…but-

“That’s fine with me,” Benji said. “Truth be told I was wondering about two or three things myself but wasn’t really sure about how to broach the topic with everybody else present…”

He had never been one to let on that he often didn’t know as much as he claimed to (or would like to know) and especially in a situation where people were coming to depend on him in some way or another…well, he didn’t exactly want to look like the weak link so soon after joining the team.

Whatever....he just had to roll with it, now.

“Uhhh, I’ll meet you in front of the gym after practice then, Senpai!” Clovis nodded affirmatively.  He gave Benji a semi-awkward, not-thought-out thumbs up, then backed away, still smiling.  “I have to head back to practice, I think I’ve been on break long enough,” he chuckled.  “So....see ya!”  With that final goodbye, he jogged off, a pressure lifting from his chest.

“No, mira, la cosa es que no puede poner la carne en el adobo antes de las papas,” Jeong said in an exaggerated whisper punctuated by snickers as Benji’s eyes strained to keep his eyes focused on the page in front of him.

“No entendido, pero supungo que el cerdo sera mas tierno si no cocinas del fuego,” Clovis said a little uncertainly as Jeong tried to contain what sounded like a small hissing earthquake of laughter as though what Clovis had just said was the funniest thing anyone had ever said. 

Benji closed his textbook with a snap, turning around in the library chair to look at Jeong and Clovis. 

“I know you’re talking about me,” Benji said, earning a look of confusion from Clovis and an innocent look from Jeong. 

“Wow, ego much?” Jeong snorted. “As a matter of fact I was just giving Clovis here some advice about how to make the leftovers I brought for lunch yesterday.”

“And that was just the most hilarious thing in the world was it?” Benji said. 

“Pork is funny sometimes,” Jeong said with a toothy grin that set Benji’s neck hairs standing on end. He thought of saying something and even opened his mouth to squeak something out before turning around, dropping his books in his bag and disappearing through the back door, muttering under his breath. 

“But…that’s exactly what we were talking about,” Clovis said. 

DUMB BOYS YOU SAY??? ))

This was a bad idea. This was the worst idea. Why did he even have this idea? Was it to be cool? Maybe. Was he jealous? Probably. Was he somewhat desperate to find something he could be good at to make Jeong like him more?

…Yes.

He’d only sort of stumbled across the semi-surly, grumbling thug of a boy, but when Clovis looked at him he saw…someone he’d wanted to be a little more like. Someone who didn’t seem to care, someone who followed his own beat, someone like his senpai. His…really cool senpai.

‘Course, he wouldn’t say that out loud, especially not when he’d been focused on trying not to trip during one of the more complicated dance steps Jeong had been trying to show him.

“Okay, dude, it’s like this. Pay attention, aight? It’s Left, step, right, step, one-two, step, back, step. See? Not too hard.”

Clovis nodded. Yes, it was too hard…but he wasn’t going to admit it. Instead, he’d tried the step for the fourth time, keeping his steps slow and deliberate so as not to trip over himself. He’d seemed to get it the first time, and his heart fluttered slightly when Jeong gave him an approving smirk, but it was short-lived, as his friend had then requested from the top and all the way to where they’d worked so far.

It had gone smoothly at first, Clovis being careful not to accidentally tangle his feet together as Jeong mirrored his steps to help him keep rhythm, but as the music moved faster, Clovis’ steps got sloppier and sloppier until both boys had ended up on the floor in a tangled heap. Clovis had to slap hands on either side of Jeong and hold himself up to keep from accidentally knocking heads with him.

“S-Sorry, Senpai!!” Clovis stammered, staring down at the older teen.

“Ughn…s’okay, amigo…it was an accident, right? But uh…” Jeong shifted slightly.

“Uh…wh-what, Senpai?”

“Yer knee’s really close to my dick…”

"Is there? I should be okay then!" Logan was checking his wallet now and saw he had more than expected.

He felt his foil break in time and thankfully stopped short of skewering his partner through the padded jumpsuit. 

Fortunately broken foils weren’t all that uncommon but Benji had been whipping his sword around with an unusual amount of fervor, applying a little more pressure than strictly necessary and rending the thin metal in half. 

"Take five!" Benji called, walking over to the trashcan and dumping the broken sword in the bin. 

Working with the club had given him more clarity after school in the wake of his rescue. He found himself calmed by familiar patterns of attack and defense that didn’t involve horrible monsters or bolts of elemental energy.

It took him a moment to realize someone was speaking to him and he turned around to face Clovis with his faceguard tucked under one arm. 

"Ah…Clovis, right?" Benji asked, glancing at the team working across the gym. "I forgot you were on the boxing team as well…"

He wondered if punching monsters in the face differed from punching his fellow teammates and if it was possible to grow strong enough to beat them just by practicing with other students. 

He looked at the broken stick-sword in the trash bin when prompted, smile fading a bit.  Hitting too hard, huh?  "Hah, I've been doing the same, lately.  Er, not breaking swords, but, uh, hitting a bit too hard."  Well, there wasn't really any 'hitting too hard' in boxing, but he had gotten some comments about it, at the very least.  "Never quite feels like I'll be able to get strong enough just training like this..."

Logan smiled as Clovis continued talking. Maybe they would get along well. What were the chances he’d meet a friend this early? “Yeah, I think I get you,” he finally said once Clovis had finished.

Logan visibly perked up at the sound of an arcade. “Really? Cool! I’m sure there was one back home, but I was never able to stop by very often.”

Logan was about to question the statement about Boxing Club until Clovis waved it off as a joke. “Uhh… That would be great, actually, since I just moved. And I don’t really do much… Mostly video games, books… Not very interesting, I guess.”

Clovis, that was the name. He had stuck out compared to the rest of the students, considering he looked pretty different from the rest.

"Uh… sorry," Logan apologized, taking his hand and shaking it a little. "Yeah, Logan. Nice to meet you."

It didn’t seem he was upset, so maybe he was like a welcoming committee member or something? Either way, it felt nice that someone had come by to say hi to him.

The first day of school hadn’t been very eventful. Logan been introduced to the class, and had heard a few names but he’d forgotten them all almost immediately. He’d probably recognize their faces though, it was just names he had a problem with. Either way, it had pretty much been a normal day at school for him, even if the building was different.