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Thanks for putting up with me when I was a feral child. Do you want to meet Maribelle at some point this month? btw: she's actually really cute!

It's not a problem! You were pretty well-behaved. :)

I would love to meet Maribelle, actually. I'm glad you came around to her!

I apparently stole a whole ass cake and ate it in a park. I ran into you post food. She tried to protect me and we've tormented Marik. 10/10. Best doll child.

What, and you didn't invite me?

...You know what, actually probably for the best. I was [WAS, okay bitch] a sugar hound as a child, Yugi gave me some Kinoko no Yama and I practically vibrated out of my skin.

[He considers bringing up how he had demolished an entire box of profiteroles the Ring-Spirit had brought him once and basically descended into hell, then thinks better of it. Annie makes him want to talk about chaotic moments in his life but he does have a filter.]

Marik probably deserved whatever torment he received, for the record.

That was BEFORE we met. I guess I wanted to be Cake God. He keeps picking on Altair. Especially since I was his fake wife in the doll house. :| Idk how I feel about that honestly. Altair is being good to me. He just doesn't like PDA. I feel like he's afraid of me being used against him sometimes. Sorry. This was supposed to be about Maribelle being cool. She's been making my bad moments less bad.

That's fair. I wouldn't mind being a Cake God.

[Ryou you can't eat all that fucking cake. You'll give yourself a wicked bad tummyache.]

Hmm. Do you want me to try talking to Marik? I can't make any promises that I can stop him from messing around, since he's pretty hardheaded, but if I can't, then maybe I can convince Atem to? Marik will listen to him.

[Perish the thought of apologizing. Ryou doesn't even bring it up, because he doesn't want Annie to think he's bothered by her saying what she wanted. That's what he appreciated about her. Their conversations were very candid.]

I'm so glad our tiny reign of terror didn't actually happen. Speaking of, I'm learning how to make a cake robot basically. I'm not sure it will help. Altair is actually pretty sensitive. He just doesn't come off that way. He has so much trauma I'm trying to help him unpack too.

[ Annie sighs a bit. There's so much stuff. ]

He has trust issues too and Marik poked at that. He reacts like an angry tom cat when Marik is around. And we (Marik and I) were fake married in the doll house. Altair is a troll. They get territorial and I'm his girlfriend. You can see how that'd make things uh, not ideal? I think Marik laid off a bit on the teasing. It's just perception and reality are both different.

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I think I'm still going to tell him anyway. Marik can't be allowed to do whatever he wants to the detriment of others, it's not fair.

He...has his own peculiarities, for reasons that it's not my business to disclose, and what I can disclose isn't really relevant so...look. I'm just going to tell him and if he doesn't like it he can get over it.

Maybe it wasn't either of your faults that you were forced into a fake marriage during the dollhouse thing, but that doesn't mean he has to antagonize your actual boyfriend. If it was me, I don't think I'd care for that very much.

-True. I noticed enough to recognize Marik needs people who care. Sometimes you show you care by calling that person out. You should care enough to want them to grow as a person. It does make me uncomfortable. I hate seeing Altair get upset. I also get that Marik might not understand how I don't like it. Sometimes especially around this time of year I get really depressed. I just need something to go easy. Like my boyfriend not getting wound up so tightly.

You're right. About Marik needing people who care about him and that he needs to be called out so he can grow, but...like I said. Stubborn.

[Ryou has to think though. Does he care about Marik that much? Is he that invested in someone who did bad thigns to him?

...The answer, after seeing him as a child especially, is definitely yes. He's not sure how he feels about that fact. But...Ryou wants to give Marik a chance. At any rate, that's not the main topic at hand, is it?]

You know, if you're not careful I'll save up a bunch of money and buy you and Altair a mini-vacation, just so you can spend time away from all of this nonsense. I could do it, you know. You have a birthday coming up.

I think you really could use it. Both of you.

You deserve calm.

Do we need to friendship bully him into being better?? Or peer pressure? Ugh. He won't see us as his peers. He's too much like me and at my most diva, I assume I'm better than people.

[ She does think she's cooler than some people. ]

Yes. But I also have almost no staff for the bakery. Getting away is hard. I would take a blanket fort.

Ha ha ha. Good luck with THAT one. But I think he does like making friends. He's just weird about everything. I swear if I have to hear about another one of his plans, it'll be too soon. He still thinks that it was him who

[Wait. Shit. He never told Annie, did he?! Oh no, he doesn't know if he wants to tease her like he would Celeste or Horatio...

No. Nope, he's gonna tell her.]

Hey Annie. I don't...remember telling you this, what with everything going on and all. But.

I'm dating Atem? So. I think I just wanted you to know that, after everything we've spoken about.

[No. He has not climbed him like a tree.

~~but they haven't been strictly pg-13 the whole time either so she wins.~~]

I'm stubborn. Haven't you met me? lol I care about him. Heck, I care about all of you. I want people to be happy. That takes work. Oh. I missed out on whatever fun you had with that. I'm really happy for you both! I did talk a bit about LGBTQ stuff with Atem at one point. I'm not exactly straight you know. I just happen to be dating a guy right now.

I suppose I'm in good company then. :)

[They're both about as straight as a circle, it seems. Ryou never really thought about liking a boy until...well. Atem. But he wouldn't want to walk it back, and he's sure Annie feels the same about her attractions.]

Fun is a strong word but...he did ask me out on a Ouija Board, and that is terribly attractive, especially when you're already forcing the narrative in a stupid dollhouse.

Anyway we didn't really tell anyone because there were so many people trying to get us together that we thought it'd be a fun game.

I definitely wanted you to know though. You were very supportive even when I was being stupid...

The reason I brought it up though is because Marik thinks HE got us together. So...that's a thing.

I wasn't out back home either. There was always 'expectations'. Legacies. Oh. My. God. That's the perfect way to ask someone out. That's super cute! I can see why you'd hold back. Fun to tease us all and see how long it would take us to figure out the truth. I'm kind of sad I'm not as familiar with the people you hang with besides, um. RS. He and I are close. I hope that's not weird for you? He and I have a complicated friendship, but he IS a friend to me. He almost became instrumental in terrorizing this creep who was stalking me last "Ryslig Christmas". I'm here for dunking on Marik too. :) He needs it as much as I'd like to be his friend.

I am going to assume we're talking about the Ring-Spirit...because RS sounds like shorthand for that.

And listen. Just because he and I had a difficult past doesn't mean I think he shouldn't have friends. I came to peace with what his presence here actually meant for me, and we argue constantly, but...I'm glad that he has friends like you here.

Especially if he helped protect you from a stalker, that sounds awful! Honestly, as if we all don't have enough going on!

Oh and, if you want to talk poorly of Marik I suppose that's alright as well, he's very, um.

Much.

Yes, very much.

[That is another complicated relationship. Ryou is so tired of complicated relationships...]

It is. Honestly? He's been better to me than some of my other earlier acquaintances. I can actually call him my friend BECAUSE he was willing to tell me off when I acted shitty. Others encouraged bad behavior. I was going to have him help me scare the pants off that guy! I think RS had no idea how scared I was. But he did make me feel safer. Marik is complicated. Let's agree to not bring him up too much unless the other person needs advice. My only thing is: he needs to stop picking on Altair. :|

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<WhiteWizard> this is old i'm sorry. Dx you may ignore if it's too old!

<a.dyer> cw: stalking ALSO: you are good I just needed to think on where to go!

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