[WEEK 1, WEDNESDAY SOMETIME: Akira]

[spinatalltale]

[hey Magilou is doing cartwheels on the beach!! why?]

[BECAUSE SHE CAN, THAT'S WHY]

[she's also wearing this now because eventually people have to see how bad her fashion senses are]

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[jokered]

[and yet, somehow it worked.]

I'd have to know what you have to offer.

[aside from comedy and dramatics, of course. it's not like she's really made anything known to him, after all.]

[spinatalltale]

Other than comedy and the joys of my company. . .

[. . . and actually, she hesitates. because the third thing she would have offered would have been the use of her malak artes. her strength in a fight]

[and she doesn't have that right now]

[with a furrowed brow, she folds her arms and looks away, tapping her foot against the ground]

I suppose if we manage to find strawberries, soy sauce, cooking wine and liquor, I could make you my special strawberry so-- I mean. Strawberry jam.

[jokered]

[well, that does sound good, admittedly. but...]

Do you really think we'll be able to find any of that? [realistically speaking.]

Maybe we should aim for something simpler. [he might have a suggestion in mind, but he doesn't offer it up immediately because he wants to frame it properly.]

[spinatalltale]

[WELL HE HAS A POINT]

[and she has no clue what he's scheming]

Then how about pan-seared fish with a roasted coconut topping! I doubt this island has the proper spices for me to truly bring out the flavor of the seafood, but it should still be fintastic despite the scarce resources.

[jokered]

That sounds good.

[puns and all, that does legitimately sound pretty delicious. maybe he's just a hungry, growing teenage boy though.

who knows?]

I wonder if that's fairly equivalent, though. I'm teaching you something big here.

[spinatalltale]

[maybe the scarce food situation is getting to him!!]

. . .

Spit it out.

[no beating around the bush, here]

[jokered]

[he's not really trying to beat around the bush—that's not his style. he was legitimately deciding on how to approach it.

which is why when she says that, he'll respond unfazed.]

I want to hear more about you. Beyond your comedy routine.

[akira?????????]

1/???????????? I'M SORRY

[spinatalltale]

[um]

[spinatalltale]

[what]

[spinatalltale]

[no seriously, what]

[spinatalltale]

[NO ONE EVER!! ASKS!! HER THESE THINGS!!]

[spinatalltale]

["are you okay, Magilou?"]

["tell me about yourself, Magilou"]

["you're a good person, Magilou, even if you pretend not to be"]

["you actually helped me"]

["thank you, Magilou"]

[spinatalltale]

[and it hasn't even been a week]

[spinatalltale]

[either way, she isn't bothering to mask her facial expressions in response to his question, so he'll get a nice view of the spectrum from off guard surprise to irritation all in a matter for seconds]

OKAY DONE

[spinatalltale]

[-- and then she's smiling again, clapping her hands together and doing one of her trademark twirls, balancing forward on the tips of her toes with her arms extended to her sides]

Oh my, where do I begin! Should I begin with my birth, which occurred at the very bottom of the ocean? I popped right out of one of those ocean vents like a butterfly in a cocoon, you know! It took me two days to reach the surface-- which, by the way, is the world record for the longest time anyone has managed to hold their breath underwater.

After that, I began my rampage across the world! Terrorizing villages and stealing small candy from children. ☆

[jokered]

[he's kind of just giving her a flat look. obviously, his sharp eyes didn't miss a single one of those expressions.

honestly...

he kind of gets it.]

You could just try to refuse outright if you're going to make up stories.

[called out.]

[spinatalltale]

Whaaaat? Are you saying you don't believe me?

[no reaction this time around]

Oh oh, maybe I'll give you my volcano birth story! That's the one I told Lewin-Lief. I was sort of going for a theme here, though.

Fire versus water!

[jokered]

[. . .]

Too evasive. Kind of try-hardy.

[geez! even he's not this evasive about his life.]

[spinatalltale]

[her eyes gleam]

But it gets the point across, doesn't it? Haven't you noticed?

I don't do subtle!

[jokered]

You don't do subtle, but you do evasive pretty well.

[spinatalltale]

You know, that makes two of us.

[:)]

[jokered]

Maybe.

[hm.]

But you haven't really asked me anything, either.

[spinatalltale]

Oho, is that all it would have taken? Then spill to me everything, oh Newt McGecko! Tell me your hopes, your dreams, your wishes for the future! I am but a captive audience, bewitched by your guile!

[she's being overdramatic again]

[jokered]

It might be easier if you asked something I could actually answer.

[does he mean because he's unwilling or because he really doesn't have an answer? we just don't know.]

And maybe if you didn't deflect that off of yourself immediately, too.

[spinatalltale]

[she's taking it to mean the former, honestly]

Deflect? Why, Mr. McGecko, I have no idea what you mean.

[PLAYIN' DUMB]