[This shouldn't hurt. It shouldn't hurt Ryou. Oh, Atem wants to play a game. If Amanda hadn't thrown her reverse bear trap into the vortex he'd coat it in salt and wire it to his jaw after shoving the key into the victim's own stomach, here's what happens if you lose--
It shouldn't hurt Ryou. So, Atem rearranges their hands, so that his is on the back of Ryou's, holding it by the undamaged skin, fingers curling around it where they safely can.
He doesn't want Ryou to just be someone Atem gets experience on. He's not sure that's how Ryou meant that last bit, but he wants, needs, to make sure it isn't that.]
No -- that makes it sound like you're a NPC enemy, who's gone at the end of the fight!
[So. In the dweebiest nerd move ever, Atem suggests an alternative way to look at it, as his other hand comes around to hold Ryou's too, carefully avoiding the burns.]
We're on the same side. We're in the same party! We'll level up together.
[Was there anything else Atem wanted to disclose, going into this? If there is, he can't remember...
He really wishes he already knew how to do this, so he could come in, sweep Ryou off his foot, treat him how he deserved to be, be able to trust himself to know what to say...but he doesn't. So, since he can't, he'll have to set expectations for dating an amnesiac murder ghost and spirit of vengeance, and accept that mistakes will happen, and hope that Annie's right about how as long as you're honest, you can talk through them, and it'll be all right.
Snake faces reach for Ryou. Are they good? Is this all right? 🐍 boyfriend? 🐍]
cw more violent fantasies!
It shouldn't hurt Ryou. So, Atem rearranges their hands, so that his is on the back of Ryou's, holding it by the undamaged skin, fingers curling around it where they safely can.
He doesn't want Ryou to just be someone Atem gets experience on. He's not sure that's how Ryou meant that last bit, but he wants, needs, to make sure it isn't that.]
No -- that makes it sound like you're a NPC enemy, who's gone at the end of the fight!
[So. In the dweebiest nerd move ever, Atem suggests an alternative way to look at it, as his other hand comes around to hold Ryou's too, carefully avoiding the burns.]
We're on the same side. We're in the same party! We'll level up together.
[Was there anything else Atem wanted to disclose, going into this? If there is, he can't remember...
He really wishes he already knew how to do this, so he could come in, sweep Ryou off his foot, treat him how he deserved to be, be able to trust himself to know what to say...but he doesn't. So, since he can't, he'll have to set expectations for dating an amnesiac murder ghost and spirit of vengeance, and accept that mistakes will happen, and hope that Annie's right about how as long as you're honest, you can talk through them, and it'll be all right.
Snake faces reach for Ryou. Are they good? Is this all right? 🐍 boyfriend? 🐍]