Audience: Mahito

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[IT IS FUN. SEE. Mahito's momentarily distracted by the flurry of bubbles that rush by, reaching out to snatch one from the air seemingly on reflex before he turns back to Pride. Life sucks and then you die BUT!! Sometimes you get to blow bubbles and braid hair first, and ain't that just what living is about?

Anyway, with a curious smile:]

Can I try?

[:)]

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[they watch him get distracted by the bubbles, almost amused.

and then, after a long moment, they sigh, and slip the hood back.

behold, a man. stop guessing my fucking characters. anyways, a small, kind of gaunt man, with coarse black hair that's pulled back into a ponytail. his gold eyes are catlike, a slit pupil. he has long, pointy ears, dark circles around his eyes, and fangs that poke out from his mouth. but the most important thing to note is the thorn crown made of pure gold around his head. it seems to be growing in and out of his skull, and digs in painfully here and there.

he just scowls slightly in mahito's direction.]

Like I said. Might be difficult.

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[HIS TINY ATTENTION SPAN...

But he has patience when he needs it, and he will wait patiently for Pride to make their decision! When the hood's off and aki is proven right once more, he'll just perk up a little, interested and curious! He's not sneaky about giving his wholeass face and head a look-over, and then he just nods and gives a thumbs up.]

Nice face! [Thank you Mahito.] I like the color of your eyes. That looks pretty painful, though... Does it hurt? Would it hurt if I accidentally bumped it or something while I was working?

[RANDY your GAME OF THRONES CROWN.]

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[he just scowls a little at the compliments. don't scowl, you stupid ass.]

... Yes, but I have a high pain tolerance. I don't care.

[pride has been through some shit.]

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[HE'S OUT HERE......... Mahito laughs a little at his prickliness because he can't help it, shit's hilarious.]

Eh, that's pretty impressive... I'll still be careful, though! I'm good at working with finicky details and small things, so it should be fine.

[His gumby hands. But!! He'll shift a little, turning to face Pride more directly and hold said demon hands up first, nodding.]

Is that a yes?

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[he looks a little reluctant, but.]

... Fine. [he GUESSES you can touch him.]

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Yay!

[JUST YAY... He will gladly scoot over, reaching up with his little demon hands to gently and carefully start loosening the ponytail.]

--Hey, why d'you guys wear the hoods and stuff, anyway?

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[they sit very, very still.]

I usually wear hoods. This was not a huge change in... fashion. For me.

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[By their powers combined, maybe Mahito won't accidentally doink him on the crown.]

Oh... Huh. Was there any reason? Just something you liked to do?

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Easier to fade into a crowd, mostly.

[thanks for not doinking his crown :(]

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[Sometimes, a curse can control their inherent impulse to do harm! Especially when not dealing with wholeass regular full humans. God bless.

Anyway, after that's all settled, he'll start working on a braid. He's styled Medb's hair several times for trial, so he is unfortunately very good at it for reasons that are even worse.]

Hm... I guess, yeah. Though I think in some places, wearing a hood would just draw more attention your way. Not like that for you, huh?

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Not where I come from, no. But not a lot of people pay attention to me in the first place.

[which suits him fine.]

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Good for you, huh? Since you don't like dealing with people!

[He read the brackets with his third eye.]

Must be pretty overwhelming for you here, then. You guys always end up with everyone's eyes on you, huh?

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[aki out here using his insider knowledge]

The week that I had to be out on the floor will never happen again. [stares into the middle distance.]

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[LOOK sometimes you remember the things a Pride said to you in your very first conversation. Also, he's a raccoon.]

That's good, at least! --Oh, hey, speaking of. I heard from some people that you do like the chapel and from some people that you don't. Which is it?

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[squint.]

I don't hate it. But I don't particularly like being there, either. Who said I like it.

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[PRIDE your CHAPEL RUMORS.]

Uhhh... I think Gojou Satoru heard it from someone? Or something? Someone mentioned it in trial too, once... maybe. [Now he's squinting too and pausing in his braiding as he tries to remember. it is i aki who cannot remember but fortunately mahito is a fucking idiot too]

...Don't know! But I remember hearing it, 'cuz I tried to avoid that room when I tracked him down earlier.

[Gojou in the tearoom... Tracking him down for hell.]

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[this game of telephone...]

Not a fan of chapels in general. [he is very patiently letting mahito do this and it's awful.]

I don't care what you do there. Just don't touch the garden.

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[Truly hilarious. He's heard at least two times that Pride likes the chapel and that it's important to him.]

Huh. Well, okay! I was always gonna avoid the garden anyway, you know I like it there.

[Resuming his braiding! He's getting closer to the thorns, but he does unfortunately have a lot of dexterity, so he's being very careful about it.]

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[these people out here making assumptions and not asking pride himself]

Mm. I appreciate that you do. [yay braids...]

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[Sometimes you gotta just ask the raccoon yourself.]

Does anyone not? I'd be really surprised. I feel like enjoying nature is one thing most of us share.

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They don't enjoy it enough to not destroy it.

... The people here have been good about not tracking blood through the roses.

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Hm... I can take a shovel to their kneecaps for ya, if you want!

[Mahito just casually like "you want me to murder the guys messing up your garden? I'll murder the guys messing up your garden."]

But that's good, at least! I'm glad they're playing nice.

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[he seems amused by that.] I wouldn't stop you.

[pride,]

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What names are we looking at, then?

[HE SAYS CASUALLY, LIKE THERE ISN'T A GENUINE RISK HE WOULD GO AFTER THEM. Good thing he does get sniped, good lord. For now though, he's still carefully working his way around Pride's head, but seems to be making good progress. Is he weaving a crown braid on a guy that has a crown coming outta his wholeass skull? He might be.]