Audience: Mahito

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You do remember you guys have tattoos, don't you...

[MAHITO.]

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Yeah, and? Am I supposed to remember 'em?

[HIS ATTENTION SPAN AND TINY, TINY MEMORY, LUST!!! IF HE CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER SOMEONE'S NAME WHY WOULD HE REMEMBER THEIR TATTOO.]

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[THEY JUST? GRAB HIS STUPID HAND AND WAVE IT?]

You could at least look!

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[HE LETS HIS STUPID HAND BE WAVED AROUND... Honestly deserved.]

I do! And then I forget. [Is. Is that better or worse.] C'mon, gimme a break, I've never had to care about remembering this many details about this many people at once before.

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[idiot! fool! they keep waving it around!]

You could put in a little effort if you're gonna put in a ton to kill them anyway.

[they don't like killing but they can also acknowledge that mahito is just. this way.]

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[WAAAAAAH LUST IS BEING A BULLY.]

Fiiine, fine, fine! I'll remember stuff! More stuff. At least their name and where they were, okay? Is that good?

[IS THAT GOOD??????]

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[yeah surprise lust is actually big bully.]

That's a good start! You gotta do your best to do it, okay?

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[The inner bully revealed... He huffs, shaking his arm a little so he can retrieve it.]

I'll try... People are such a pain to keep track of.

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But I bet you keep track of all sorts of other stuff, don't you?

[take your arm back.]

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Yeah, but it's important stuff.

[Like Virginia Woolf quotes, apparently. With a sigh, he lingers on the sample for Paranoia Survivor.]

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Hm...tell you what. If you get a higher score than me, I'll stop bugging you to remember basic information. Okay?

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[PERKING UP. Less because he wants to not use his memory braincell and more because he just digs competitions in general...]

Okay, sure! One shot only, yeah?

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Yup! Make it or break it. Think you can keep up?

[they also like competitions. terrible.]

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[VERY TERRIBLE why do they vibe.]

I can! But I'll have to do better than that, huh? Ready?

[When they give the okay, he'll slap the start button and launch them into another round of DDR. God.]

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You bet! [AND THERE THEY GO. rng a winner because lust is always good at this.]

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[im not rnging a winner i refuse to let mahito have anything, he is losing.]

--Wah, you're really good at these, aren't you?

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I've been dancing since I was really little. This is pretty easy for me. [haha.]

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[POUTING ABOUT IT as one does when they lose.]

Ugh... Well, fair's fair, I guess! But we should compete at something I've got the edge in sometime.

[He doesn't know what the fck that might be, it's fine.]

Why've you been dancing for so long?

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If you ever figure out what that is, tell me! It'd be fun to compete in something new. [haha.]

What do you mean why? I just like it a lot, so I started doing it all the time before making it a career.

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[PUNK. There's just a little hum of acknowledgment though, because he sure will do that.

As for the second part:] Oh... I figured maybe there was a reason for you to start so early. [A little shrug! He does not know how humans work perfectly.] It's pretty rare for humans to find something they're good at and really like enough to stick with at a young age.

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You think? [they hum to themselves, doing another neat little spin.] I don't really know why. I've always just liked moving my body even if there isn't any music. I don't think I can imagine not dancing, even though I think my producer wanted me to focus more on my singing now instead.

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Huh... Are you some kinda idol or something?

[Have they already told him this?? i aki do not remember but fortunately Mahito has holes in his brain anyway.]

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Yeah. I'm most famous online right now, but I've been trying to get more work for myself.

[they don't seem to mind sharing that.]

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Oh! [...] Ooooooh.

[As some of the things they said in their first few conversations finally click into place... God.]

Isn't that a hard job? Is it fun?

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It can be hard, but it's really fun! I love my fans and getting to do my live streams and stuff, but trying to get other work is taking a long time. I don't mind though.