#!raphael

the question is whether he invents a whole brilliant scheme to smuggle her through the gates or whether he just walks in wearing a suspiciously large trench coat... and of course i think the latter option is much more fun

michael, watching raphael scuttle awkwardly through the gate in a new coat twice his size: i'm sure that's not suspicious at all

raphael's new coat, sotto voce: it's getting kinda hard to breathe in here

raphael: (starts scuttling faster)

I feel like this alone would probably be one of the reasons Raph would be uncertain at first when he realises he's catching feelings, despite him being the one to basically make the first move (?)

Oh and also if you have any more ideas for the sillies,please share them!! I genuinely love the throuple :3

oh yes that'd probably be a point of conflict for him. i think for him, his time in the devildom is a bit of escapism - he can sort of forget the celestial realm status quo, quietly tuck away discussion/thought of the war, etc. raphael in general is just going "i'm not thinking about it" in terms of the complicated stuff - 'let me just have this simple thing', essentially, which is why he's the only one being normal about the relationship

at first he also doesn't realise how deep it goes. when he's making his first moves, it's less "i want to initiate a relationship" and more just an abstract "i want to be close" in general - a lot of spur-of-the-moment wants that he indulges because they feel quite inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, and he is not going to examine any of that, thanks very much

Like, he’s obviously scared of her so he starts leaving little tributes to try and appease her the way one would leave tributes to say, Poseidon, to try and appease him for good sailing

But he obviously doesn’t want to get too close and spook her so he does that thing you do with feral stray cats where you try to get closer but not too close to where they’d attack

Ik has no idea what Raphael is doing. She just thinks he’s kinda weird

ik is early to class and sitting alone in the classroom waiting for everyone else to get here. the door slowly slides open. raphael peeks inside. ik says "hello". he just blinks with oddly wide, almost frightened eyes, then withdraws again

a minute or so later, he creeps in, still not saying a word. he stops five paces in and stares at her for a moment, then looks back and forth as if expecting someone to show up. when no one does, he very quickly walks ten paces further in, then stops at the far end of the bench ik is sitting on. he sets down a little box. he turns and speedwalks back out of the room.

I think Luke should either be Spiderkid’s biggest fan or biggest anti but not know it’s Ik

raphael points at ik like "simeon this aura simply is not normal" and simeon is just all innocent "huh what are you talking about?", meanwhile ik is holding a dresser twice her size in one hand and making casual conversation with solomon

lol i have no idea how luke wouldn't figure out that ik is the tiny vigilante who also has spider powers, unless he specifically is somehow never privy to her powers... maybe everyone assumes he knows but luke has just, by sheer coincidence, never witnessed her doing anything out of the ordinary

he's like the mum in phineas and ferb in that simeon will be like "wow luke look!!!" while ik is bounding up the rad clock tower, but then luke turns around and suddenly ik has fallen through a window and is nowhere to be seen

Girl maybe makes it to waist height

solomon absolutely points and laughs every time raphael shows fear. simeon tries to be more tactful about it but it's clear to anyone watching that he's holding back a little giggle

simeon's like "oh raphael you don't need to be so nervous, ik wouldn't hurt a fly" and then raphael grabs him by the shoulders and whispers furiously "YES SHE WOULD SIMEON SHE'S A SPIDER THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT THEY DO THEY HURT FLIES AND THEY EAT THEM"

Meanwhile Raphael, who got dragged along again, is slowly inching his way out of the room while he’s distracted, planning his next offering to appease Ik

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mephistopheles has prepared a slideshow with flashcards and a laser pointer and he uses raphael as an audience while he rehearses his presentation about why this all STUPID and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves, and lord diavolo please come to your senses soon

raphael nods politely whenever mephistopheles turns to him for approval, but his eyes are darting to the door every ten seconds and anyone watching from the outside is just going to think he was kidnapped somehow. in fact ik does see this while out for a trek on the rad walls when she walks by the window, and immediately comes in through the window to make sure everything is alright

He tries to bundle her up in a blanket and kidnap her every time

Raphael starts praying for him not to bring Ik’s attention to him

everywhere he looks it gets worse. the small human child is plummeting large distances, hanging from sheer heights, almost getting crushed/stabbed/blown up, giving him 1000000 heart attacks per second

mephistopheles becomes like team rocket constantly trying to capture pikachu, except he believes he is 100% in the right (and he is probably the most reasonable person in this situation)