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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
This is how I treat you. The date started and ended the second I took you to the one place.

[ he gives thorns a light kick. ill-advised, given the armful of groceries, but he needs to stave off the aggression somehow before he explodes. ]

What, did you want the full real-date treatment?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ elysium is desperate to cling to one thing is solely his and it is his self care routines... and thorns just comes in and sloppily stomps all over them...

listen, he maybe bad at skincare and any hair care that isn't simply putting shampoo in, but he at least knows how to take a bath. it's fine. any time elysium looks too apprehensive, thorns just pauses to think his house with his fingers.

baby..... ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Would the real experience have a second rat?

[ no thorns is counting all of it... no wonder elysium is struggling, if this is how they all go.

yes thorns made them stop there, but elysium is the reason they left the other spot early so thorns blames him still. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ the truly infuriating part is that they've washed each other perfectly fine before, but now, after one (1) incident he's suddenly acting like thorns had committed the gravest betrayal imaginable. he is innocent… kind of… no one would blame thorns for not being able to keep up.

still, thorns doesn't seem intent on terrorising him this time so he eventually eases into his touch—though, not without a few false starts, double-checking that thorns isn't plotting anything with the occasional accusatory look thrown over his shoulder.

he may be nerfed with his single-toned hair, but if he doesn't uphold his title as the sexist man on terra, then what is he? who is he?? it's his whole brand. no bully.
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ his intrusive thoughts flare again. no one else in the parking lot, and they're outside the scope of the few security cameras that dot the ceiling. he could literally commit a crime and get away with it………? ]

You say that like you didn't just sabotage me. [ why does he have to defend himself. this is stupid. ] Who lured the first rat in to begin with? You practically left it an open invitation with all your crumbs.

[ okay well elysium gave him snacks to begin with but details!!!! who told him to be a mess!!!!!!!! (there may not even be a mess.)

to keep from physically shoving thorns, he folds his arms across his chest instead—totally natural, not at all defensive. he huffs.
]

Besides, what would you even know about dates, huh?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is so overdramatic and for what

when thorns finally finishes up, he just drapes himself against elysium's back and bites his shoulder annoyingly. when you try to punish someone with something you usually give them for pleasure. ]


See? I took care of you.

[ one point for thorns ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he knows nothing... thinks about how this started with him going on dates with that one guy except he had no idea they were dates.

thorns glares at him, and then he just decides to kill elysium once they are inside and he isn't holding groceries. die!!!! ]


I know enough.

[ no. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ punishment would be leaving him alone but at that point they would both combust. ]

You did…

[ vaguely wonders if thorns is trying to get him to lower his guard so he can get him when he's vulnerable. this thought is written across his features before he simply decides to splash thorns with the showerhead because he can. ]

I missed a spot, oops.

[ this is why thorns is always retaliating, -1 point for elysium ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ cool. now they're just locked in a dramatic stare-off.

for once, he doesn't rattle on at thousands of miles per hour. he only meets thorns' gaze and holds it, brow arched.

thorns, you are so full of bullshit…… but he is not saying that aloud.

at least

he thinks thorns is full of bullshit? he hopes thorns is full of bullshit? he ends up looking so intense about this.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ OKAY.

thorns just picks elysium up, walks over to the spring, and drops elysium inside. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that's one way to hurt his ass

okay. he is not the type to go down alone in these situations? he yelps, quickly grabbing onto any part of thorns he can to drag him down with him. this is not a pool and they're about to get banned so quick if anyone catches them in the next ten minutes. this is likely a generous estimate.

their bath…
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is so full of bullshit and elysium isn't calling him out on this, so he may still win this...?

thorns stares back at him. they are really just at their apartment building doing this for no reason. at least be stupid inside, idiots. ]


Well?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ help

thorns sputters out water, and then just grabs onto elysium to make sure he does not go anywhere... this is fine. ]


Stop moving so much.

[ thorns is the one who threw him in. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they are not them if they aren't making themselves other people's problems.

he continues to stare… thet could've left it at a tacit agreement that thorns is, indeed, full of bullshit but he had to provoke elysium again.
]

Oh. You needed me to say it aloud?

I don't believe you. You're two for two on not being able to tell you were being taken out on dates. And, I'm not counting the one that happened just now—not that it should even count.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that one meme where it's like aren't you forgetting something? and it's not about them. elysium doesn't think it's fine, actually. ]

You want me to drown?

[ they can wrestle in the hot springs. sure. it's probably good for their muscles. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the way that thorns doesn't really care about any of this but this now feels like a challenge and he doesn't want to lose? this is so idiotic.

hmmm. he keeps walking. ]


I'll find a date.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd never let you drown.

[ he will, however, pvp him apparently.

and then he just tries to hold him still. shhhhh. ]


Let's settle down.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he scurries after thorns. he isn't done here? how dare he walk away… ]

How am I supposed to judge your date? You could just say you went on one and it went well and I wouldn't be able to say anything?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WHAT IS HE, A CHILD?

he bristles again by instinct, just barely holding back from smacking thorns' head.
]

I'll consider it if you kiss me.

[ bribe him ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ help

thorns just stares at him for a long moment, before he finally just leans in to give him a rather soft kiss. and then another. ]


Now?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ at least he expresses himself and isn't thorns who just stares at him until he figures out what he wants.

but the soft kiss is nice… he will settle and look only a little put out.
]

Okay.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well.

yes, that is exactly how thorns was going to do. now he's mad that elysium called him out on that as well. ]


What do you suggest?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-25 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I took you on one. Isn't it fair you do the same?

[ in his mind he's going to critique every moment of it and make thorns' life hard for no reason. in reality

well

who knows!!
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Come on, we finally have our bath...

[ it took them way too long to get to this point and they also almost killed each other somehow? so much water is now outside of the spring, but they can just... clean that up when they leave... no one has to know. ]

Does it feel nice?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns is still counting the rat incident as part of the date so the bar to beat is literally on the ground right now.

he just has to have no rats. ]


Fine. Are you free tomorrow?