phainons misinfo shenanigans coming to a stop when irontombs thoughts about you start to worry him and make him fear for your safety (and the universe ig) he starts to cave and reluctantly give legitimate advice and pointers to irontomb, knowing that if irontomb is pleased with you and your reactions, you're less likely to be hurt in the long run
ALSO irontomb clocking this and realizing phainon only cooperates when he feels like you're in danger and starts using this to its advantage when phainon gets too comfortable fucking around.
Irontomb: Why are they upset with me?
Phainon: Who knows
Irontomb, exasperated: They have no reason to be. It's not like I [vaguely yandere-esque threat]
Phainon: ...You didn't laugh at their joke earlier.
fjskdkdkd sorry it's almost 3am I can't come up with anything better but this was on the brain ( > / / / < )
YESSS that was one of the other major distinctions I was thinking of at first idk if I wrote it down, but it's really impatient! And smart, ofc 💔💔💔 so as much as id love phai to go around making it mad forever, I feel like it realistically wouldn't be that long bcuz at some point IT starts doting you less because it feels like it has to and moreso wants to, which makes him really nervous bcuz 😭😭 he was funny convinced he was doing it for the sake of appearances (and it was, at first, but now that's changed and he's like ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh).
That is to say it would start noticing anything contradictory..... it knows all your habits and hobbies completely and any small human things it wouldn't understand at first has been straightened out; everything is second nature to it now, so it catches on soon enough he's messing with it. Worst case scenario, at some point IT just stops trying to talk to him all together because it's reached a state it doesn't need to, it has you all figured out. The day Irontomb actually starts finding you funny and not just laughing to appease you is the day he realizes it's in too deep ！Σ(￣□￣;)
"Sometimes I really miss them when I'm off for the day and wish we could be handcuffed together or something but I don't think that's normal 😔😔"
"Please don't confess anything like that to me again"
I think the best (or worst jdjsj) part about IT dangling you over his head is like, it doesn't have any intentions to give you back lmao and there's really nothing phai can do about his situation rn so any threats targeted towards you are really for the sake of freaking him tf out
"You know I can delete them from existence at anytime right" "poof! like they were never there :D"
"WHAT"
"So now that you know that.... can you tell me what I should give as a gift when I see them, I'd really hate to ask again"
