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[Unfortunately, he is distracted by the chips and the chip bag. And by having good company where he can just chill on the bed with them with snacks.]

You think this place'll trick us somehow?

[Just a thought.

Yosuke can wiggle the booklet out a bit. It looks something lole a manga or a comic. It's... a BL. More specifically, it seems to have a pregnant dude on the front with his boyfriend? husband? Extra hilarious. Not the mpreg BL romance series.

Not Ryuji having it.]

Isn't it always? [ tricking them, he means. reaches for another chip in the meantime. ] Nothing here is as it seems, but I mean... we're getting closer. I can feel that much. I just kinda get the feeling once we get to where we're going it's gonna be worse somehow.

[ why. do you have this. ryuji? better question, why is yosuke still holding it and blinking at it. just kind of casually looks at the cover and flips it over to read the back. this is possibly the same one tsukasa had at the library, too, so this is weird. ]

[WHY THIS ICON!!!!!!

He holds the bag so Yosuke can pilfer chips as needed, and he does the same when Yosuke isn't.]

Yeah, I know, it's just--

[Casually glancing over. Haha, Yosuke has the mpreg book. Wait. YOSUKE HAS THE BOOK!!!! He double-takes, then chokes on a chip. The bag jostles and chips spill out.]

Wait, dude! It ain't what it looks like!

[ funny.

bringing chips was a good idea except now it's two dudes on a bed eating snacks and looking at omega mpreg. ]

Hey! [ there go the hard earned chips!! (these are not hard earned.) ] I'm not even sure what it looks like here? What is it supposed to look like then?

[ because it LOOKS like you were READING THIS before he barged into the room RYUJI. never mind the little bit of embarrassment from yosuke the longer he looks at this stupid thing. ]

[AAAAAAAAAAA. YOSUKE IS HOLDING IT!!! Okay, okay, relax. Relax. No big deal. Embarrassment is bubbling up through him. His face is kinda red.

HE IS TRYING TO BE CHILL. He looks like a weirdo loser creep!!]

Tsukasa was readin' one when I walked up, but he wouldn't talk about it! I just got curious, you know? What the hell it was about!

Like--uh, where does the baby come out 'n stuff?

[ he is also starting to turn a little red because he's feeling that embarrassment, and now he also looks like a creep holding this? AH. ]

Oh, yeah, that's what I saw, too. [ ... ] Isn't it just like...

[ ... flips through a few pages to see if he can solve this mystery. ]

... dude, I have no idea! Why are you even trying to figure this out!?

[THE WAY HE SORT OF GETS DOWN ON HIS ELBOWS AND LEANS LIKE HE THINKS YOSUKE WILL SOMEHOW BE THE ONE TO FIND THE ANSWERS THEY SEEK.]

I dunno, dude?! Leave me alone! I wanted to know! It doesn't make any damn sense, okay! Why would they write about a dude being pregnant if it doesn't make any sense?!

They're, like, coworkers, or somethin'. I dunno, the story was weird, but girls like Futaba read shit like this. I just was curious.

[ OKAY. JUST TWO DUDES ON A BED READING MPREG AND EATING SALT CHIPS. he is still turning the pages and he's very confused but also... curious? is this his curiosity or ryuji's? ]

Futaba's one of your thieves, right? Girls are into freaky stuff like this sometimes... [ flip flip... ] At least if they're co-workers at least they can spend a lot of time together. But like... [ stops on a panel of the two leads to figure this out. ]

... maybe they just cut it out.

[THIS IS FRYING ME. They're really out here looking at this mpreg book together in bed.]

Yeah, she's one of the gang. [Who would definitely have mpreg stuff to tease them all with.] Yeah, but like...

[...]

Dude.

[DON'T JUST SAY MAYBE THEY CUT IT OUT. His tummy hurts thinking about it. One hand rests low on his stomach.... He's imagining it. He doesn't like it.]

Dude.

[ LISTEN. his own stomach seems to flip a little in response to ryuji imagining it, but he makes another face. ]

I'm just saying! I don't... know where else it'd come out? [ ... he's furrowing his eyebrows a bit. ] Dude, where do they stick it in though? Maybe...

[ you are both so useless. ]

[The way he thinks his stomach is just doin' little flips continuously because he keeps feeling this idiot feedback loop from Yosuke.]

Through the ass, duh!

[Wait, he gets embarrassed. He didn't mean to sound so enthusiastic about it, he was just exclaiming in horror. Look.]

I mean, like--right? Wait, does that mean the baby grows in some kinda ass sac? Y-You know what, we don't gotta talk about it, or anythin'! It's weird! I w-was just curious, or whatever. It's not a big deal!

[ the look on his face is just :tails: for a hot second as he has to imagine taking it up the ass and then also pushing a baby out of it. anna what the fuck is this thread.

throws the book back between the bed and the wall as he flushes bright red thinking about this. ]

Changed my mind, let's not talk about this. [ ... ] I mean if that's what you think you're into, fine. It's... weird, but I accept you.

[ less internalized homophobia means he can accept ryuji has weird kinks i guess. ]

[MAN!!! He flops over dramatically and pathetically on his back, spread eagle as much as he can without being in Yosuke's way, the chip bag forgotten, ruined on his chest.

Staring into the middle distance at the ceiling.]

It isn't my kink! I'm not into dude pregnancy! I just didn't know how it was possible... Sheesh.

[Quiet for a really long time.]

That Hak weirdo guy kissed me once. I still don't know why he did that.

[ there he goes. he's still leaning up on his elbows and laying back, but he turns his head to look at ryuji again with a raised eyebrow even if he's snickering. ]

Okay, okay. So it's not your kink, fine. [ hehehe... he does not point out that he does not think it's possible (probably? multiverse knowledge is weird.), but he stays quiet for a second to... process... this. ]

... what, he just did it out of nowhere? I thought Hak was kinda taken.

[DON'T ASSIGN HIM PREGNANCY KINK!!!!! He's never going to live this down. Hopefully, Yosuke won't tell anyone, and then no one else terrible can make fun of him because they won't know.]

The hell? He is...? I dunno, yeah, he just did it outta nowhere. He bite me before that, so I assumed he was always gettin' himself cursed. But he said he did it to see what I'd do, or some shit. I don't know what his deal with me is.

[It's cause you made a huge mountain out of the him biting you molehill, idiot.]

[ he won't tell anyone because then he'd also have to admit he was reading it with ryuji. ]

Maybe? I think there's something, whatever, this place has people doing weird stuff all the time. [ ... hak kissing ryuji just to get a rise out of him is a little funny, but he just kind of looks contemplative. ]

I think he figured you'd give him a reaction, dude. Sometimes people just like to do stuff to push buttons. [ ... ] So what did you do... ?

[Admit to your mpreg reading together, Yosuke.]

Yeah, that's why I figured he was cursed. [A sigh. He tries to lazily fix the bag of chips.] I don't know what kinda reaction he was lookin' for, but he laughed after. Bastard.

[There's not a lot of heat to this. More, like, someone really annoying but who you don't necessarily wanna kill.]

I punched him in the face and told him to ask people before he did shit like that. Was just tired of seein' dudes be pervs to people without consent, you know?

[Hold on.]

...Wait, he had been lookin' for you. He didn't say why, but he said he couldn't find you? So he was trying to get me to find you for him. He was probably cursed...

Well yeah, you don't just go around kissing people without asking first if you don't know 'em well, what the hell? [ that's sort of insane, and he's about to go on another tangent with that, but then he blinks rapidly for a sec. this is news to him. ]

... I haven't seen him for a couple of days, and we have the compacts. [ hak? wait, hold on. ] Wait do you think he was trying to find me to kiss me? We played at a few of the gacha machines in the maze and that... got really weird, so...

[ what IF. ]

[Not my account expiring just as I started replying to this tag. HELP ME!!! Anyway. Hak should ask to kiss more people instead of just kissing them because he's stupid.]

I told him he could use the compact, but he just acted dumb, so that's why I thought he was cursed for the hundredth time.

[He glances at Yosuke.]

Probably? I don't know. He was looking for you, then told me he had something to tell me, too, but he kissed me instead. When I got mad, he said he wanted to see how I reacted. I know this week's been messed up as hell... That gacha street was weird.

[ dw really trying to save you from this mess. ]

How does that guy always end up cursed... [ he's just shaking his head. not his circus, not his monkey! ]

Maybe looking for me was actually just an excuse to look for you. I don't think I can look him in the eye for, like, maybe forever. [ GACHA HELL WAS BAD. he takes another few moments to think, reaching for a chip and probably missing to accidentally paw at ryuji's stomach instead before he finds the bag. ]

So like... were you mad because he did it in the first place? Or because he was a guy?

Edited 2025-12-15 02:57 (UTC)

[my god

What the fck is Yosuke trying to grab, a chip, or his dick?! The way the pawing on his stomach makes it drop in that tingling way, but then also it kind of tickles, so he sort of jolts lightly. WHY DID THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN WHILE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT KISSING GUYS?!

Guess Yosuke gets a whole lot of emotions punched back to back.]

Huh? Oh--uh... I-I don't care about that stuff, or nothin'. I mean--if he's into guys or whatever. [Yusuke is gay as hell. Akechi is gay as hell. The girls are gay as hell. THEY'RE ALL QUEER AS HELL IN SOME WAY!!!] He just didn't ask me! He just did it, and I wasn't expectin' it!

N-Not that I would have kissed him if he asked. I mean, I dunno. [Maybe he'd have to think about it and why?] What?

[ TAKE YOUR FEELINGS BACK YOU FUCK! HE DOES NOT WANT THESE!! the way he gets the physical sensations from ryuji but also his own startled responses so he probably doesn't even totally register which feelings are his and which are ryuji's. ]

What? [ the instinctive "what" like he wants to pass the buck on this before he actually registers what ryuji said. right. okay. focus! this is... fine... this is a totally normal conversation. guys talk about girls all the time. this is just guy talk. totally! normal!

granted he's a little surprised even ryuji's fine with guys being into guys and he has to do a little self-assessment about why the fuck he cared so much before. (ryuji dodging the internalized homophobia gene.) ]

... to be honest, I've never really thought about it all that much. I'm not really sure what I would've done if he did come find me to kiss me or whatever the hell he was cursed to be doing. [ idly scratching at his cheek a little and looking at the ceiling. ] I didn't think you'd be... I mean it's cool. That you don't care about it. That's totally cool.

[ a long pause. ]

It sorta feels like a lot of people are just fine with kissing whoever.

[Not them being ever so slightly more progressive in certain ways (but not completely). His vibes are just a kind of curious ????? really.

Idly, he rubs his stomach where the sensation of Yosuke's pawing lingers, but he's looking at Yosuke with undivided attention.]

Here? Yeah, I get the feelin' people are just making out with whoever the hell, especially this week. [Good for them.] You thought I'd hate gays 'cause I like girls...? I mean, some of my friends... uh, they haven't said for real, or anything, it's, like... um, you can kinda tell, ya know? They're still my friends.

[A little shrug.]

I guess I never really thought about kissin' guys. Girls are just really sexy... Then Shadowman had some book about me that had me likin' some maid who turned out to be a guy, and I was kinda embarrassed, and then Tsukasa had that weird as hell book, and then Hak kissed me. Why does it seem less and less weird now?

[ ryuji can look at yosuke and yosuke can look at the ceiling and he bites his lip because red string means he can feel ryuji's hand on his own stomach and it's faintly ticklish which is weird. ]

No! No, it's not... no. [ christ. having it said like that kind of really frames it to him that he's been an asshole in the past, and he belatedly makes a note he should maybe talk to kanji when he gets home. ] It's just different, sometimes. I don't know if people would be that open about it in a place like Inaba, but Tokyo's so much bigger it probably doesn't make a difference.

[ also. he knows ryuji's from the future, so he's sort of wondering how the world's changed a bit. those are shower thoughts for later. as it is... ]

Shadow—Hien? [ this sounds like a hien thing, actually. never mind, that's not important and he shakes his head. ] Forget it, doesn't matter. It's... a lot all at once, right? It's like you kinda get used to it when you never thought you'd even consider it because everybody's just... yeah. [ a pause. ] Oooor maybe it has to do with you having a crush on Akira?

[ SMOOTH, YOSUKE. THAT IS NOT HOW TO EASE INTO THAT. ]

[Thinks about Yoshiki.]

Yeah, bein' in the country would be harder. Everyone would be so damn conservative. [Help them be bisexual.] Hien, yeah.

[Shadowman...]

Yeah, everyone--wait, what?! Huh?! [The embarrassment bubbles up so fast in him.] W-What?! No way, dude!

[Yes, way. Two can play at that game.]

Maybe it has to do with your crush on Yu!

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