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[arf]

Yo! It's your favorite Taichi Nanao. (Formerly ~wanwan! I'm going for a cooler image!) I hope everyone's happy and healthy. It looks like Iris is starting. Good luck, Irises... there sure are so many cute people going around this time of the month.

I need a little help!

What are everyone's favorite pick-up lines? Giving or receiving. Let's hear them!

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[arf]

[ he likes hikaru's username it's easy to figure out who he is ]

It's my name though!? Σ(°ロ°)

Well what am I supposed to do then... The only love letter I've gotten is from a 6 year old..! It was very sweet but a little out of my age group!

[irritated]

maybe change it then?

that's weird. why was she doing that? anyway, it isn't even hard to make girls like you and you're not hopeless looking.

[He's legitimately trying to be helpful here.]

[arf]

I just changed it! It was wanwan before and that was a mistake!

[ Sougo is bullying him. But to be fair, Sougo will bully him no matter what and Taichi doesn't actually mind it that much, he's determined to befriend him. ]

Easy for you to say! You've got height on your side and the cute flower-like badboy style!

[ ..At least that's the impression he got from Hikaru trying to mess with him. ]

[irritated]

did you seriously make it wanwan before?

[This entire conversation is obviously poor Taichi getting judged.]

how do you think that's my type?! you really are bad at this!

[arf]

Well, I get compared to a puppy a lot.. and since I ended up Sanguis with puppy features and animal characteristics are super celebrated here I thought it would be a good name.

Well I barely know you and when we met you were out of sorts, so I don't know what makes you popular yet. I'd have to study you! I'm an expert at popularity [ except when it comes to himself, he can't seem to get it to work ] and your good physical features seem to by your face, your awesome/unique hair color which reminds me of those um.. orange daylilies? And you were trying to mess with me a lot when we first met, and you're pretty cute so..

Cute flower-like badboy style!

[ He has no idea about the twin and only has a little peak into Hikaru, this is what his first impression is! ]

[irritated]

yeah. for a fetishist or something. bad choice.

[Hikaru can safely say nobody's ever compared anything about him to flowers before. There's something that does make him question how Taichi apparently views him but not too deeply. When you're part of a host club, you also just look at people like that and he was the son of a fashion designer. It wasn't that strange.]

i haven't been called cute since i was like. 4. but BZZT! wrong. i'd say good try but it wasn't really a good try at all. i'm obviously the little devil type. i like to play jokes and everything. i played a joke on you first thing. pranks don't make somebody a bad boy.

[arf]

I'm not a fetishist! ｡ﾟ･ (>﹏<) ･ﾟ｡

"Little devil type"...? A prankster? I haven't encountered one before! Can you tell me more? I've got to take notes.

[ He is, in fact, going to write this down in a journal. ]

[irritated]

ʱªʱªʱª (ᕑᗢूᓫ∗) sounds like something a fetishist would say [He went out of his way to go above and beyond for that one.]

the little devil type is all about mischief. we play pranks and make jokes all the time. boredom is the enemy~

you get it?

[arf]

That's a cute kaomoji, I want to steal it. ٩(◕‿◕)۶*:･ﾟ✧

Got it! I'm writing this down, don't worry. Are you really popular where you're from?

[ He's more than happy to learn. ]

[irritated]

a pervert and a thief? ╮(︶︿︶)╭

but pretty much. i was apart of a host club back at school.

[What great modesty he has there.]

[arf]

Hehe, my street cred is going up.

[ For kaomojis.. well, he's only joking anyway. This guy just admitted he's a prankster, so Taichi can take anything teasing as a joke now. It's fun. ]

A host club!? That's so cool! I want to see you in action!!

[irritated]

probably not the take away from that!!

[It really is the best idea not to take Hikaru too seriously when he's like this. He gets bored quicker with no reaction. The true power move.]

well. i don't have the second half to my act but i guess i could probably manage something.

[arf]

[ Taichi doesn't even know wtf a power move is, he's just used to being the butt end of jokes so he knows how to take a metaphorical punch. ]

Ohh, you act in a pair? Hehe, we usually do street acts like that where I'm from. They're really good for publicity. Though I guess it wouldn't be the same as a host club... man, I really want to see one up close... I could get so many tips...! I bet you're so popular!

[ He'll need a whole new notebook for this?? ]

[irritated]

yeah i was. [Look at that modesty!]

but performing on a street and wanting to write down tips is kind of weird?? if you want girls to like you then that probably isn't going to appeal to them. ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌

[arf]

No it isn't! Actors do street acts all the time. It's part of how we advertise for the theater.

I don't just write down tips, I keep notes on anything I find useful. Those are just for me though, I wouldn't present those to girls!

[ He has volumes of notebooks that he takes.. ]

[irritated]

oh. you're one of those street actor types i've heard about. [The struggle of the common man and their rise to fame. Classic.]

but you know who else does that? serial killers keep notebooks like that.

[arf]

Stage actor! Street acts are for good improv practice for when we have improv battles against other troupes!

[ Look, Taichi's world is a little off the rails for actors. ]

I'm not a serial killer!

[irritated]

can't you just do some improv on stage? it feels like giving away your skills for free? [Even if he isn't as focused on money as his one friend, he still is the son of two people who run their own businesses.]

sounds like something a serial killer would say (;-_-)ノ

[arf]

Well, we do adlib on stage so every performance is unique but mm.. well, we get tips! But the theater is in serious financial trouble due to some stuff before we all got employed. We've done a lot to get it back up and running! We get food and a place to live and everything, too, even if Sakyo-nii yells at us if we stay in the shower for too long.

What would an innocent person say?

[irritated]

What kind of sad story is that? It's like something straight out of a movie! Geesh...

How do you guys advertise? You know, for your shows?

The more you defend yourself then the guiltier you sound! Everybody knows that.

[arf]

That is how it is! At least we're not in debt to yakuza anymore! Though he's still a good pal. :D

Kazu-kun handles a lot of it, but we have social media, a website, flyers, advertisements, improv battles, and I'm sure we'll participate in a lot of competitions in the future, especially since we're going to need to challenge God Troupe for the top spot on Veludo Way.

That doesn't make any sense!

[irritated]

wait you're friends with the yakuza? well. don't tell girls that. unless you want a girl attracted to bad boys but you definitely can't keep that up.

what do you mean it doesn't make any sense? of course it does. it makes perfect sense. when people get the most defensive, you know it means they're the guilty one!

[Not how that works at all and maybe he's messing with him.]

[arf]

Hehe, he's more like.. Dad-like than anything. He's scary when he yells, but he obviously loves the theater. He's a member of our troupe, he's super cool. Don't girls have to be into a bad boy to be into me anyway? I've got dyed hair and piercings, my teachers yell at me all the time for it.

They also sound guilty if they admit guilt!

[irritated]

that's being unruly. hardly being a Bad Boy. there's a major difference!

the key is indifference.

[This might be bad advice for the sake of being bad advice.]

[arf]

I'm also really bad at school! My teachers call me a delinquent all the time.

Trust me, being guilty gets you caught. Anyway, I'm the type who fesses up when I do stuff so I just make sure I don't find out anything I'm not supposed to! I couldn't kill anyone! You have to believe me, I'm innocent!

[ '_' He's already had his stint as a bad guy, thanks. Probably in a way that would absolute horrify Hikaru, actually. But he couldn't take it, so he knows very well he wouldn't be able to get away with anything. ]