[Why's he always practically letting the cat out of the bAG? RYUJI? Quickly, he scrubs the back of his head and looks around for some kind of distraction.]
I-It's nothin', man. There's, uh, just--like, this group of people called the Phantom Thieves. They steal people's hearts, or whatever, to get 'em to change! That's all I know! I just follow the phansite!
[ steal people's hearts? to get them to change?? phansite????
ryuji is afraid of letting things out of the bag but the thing is, giyuu has absolutely no context for any of this so it might as well be him talking about landing on the moon. however, he is concerned about the "stealing" of hearts.
it's not literal, right? ]
You steal hearts?
[ and not in the lady killer sense, right? ....not that giyuu has a clue what that is either. ]
[He starts looking around wildly, paranoid, even though there's definitely no one around to really here them.] Come on, man! [AS IF HE ISN'T ALWAYS TALKING LOUD ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE ON THE MOON TO HEAR.]
Don't go around saying anything about it, okay! I'll be in big trouble! I wasn't supposed to say anything! Man...
[Again, he scrubs the back of his neck.]
Look, don't tell anyone, okay? About the Phantom Thieves... but, uh, yeah. I'm kinda... one of 'em, and, uh... we kinda... steal people's hearts. Like--inside, not their actual hearts! It's like a metaphorical thing. We change their desires. Basically, we stop adults from being effin' assholes.
[ giyuu doesn't already fully understand what all comes out of ryuji's mouth (or more like he can't keep up) but when he goes on like this, he can't help but feel as though he's from an entirely different planet.
what does he even mean? what kind of explanation is this? ]
How do you go about doing that?
[ stealing their desires? stopping adults from being assholes? does he not realize he's speaking to an adult??? he'll let that last one go because, well, giyuu. it's fine if someone thinks he's an asshole; he probably deserved it. ]
[DAD JUST ASKS MORE QUESTIONS. This is terrible. This is definitely absolutely like being caught with condoms in your wallet, and you have to explain to a parent why you have them and how the hell they got there.
He wants to die.]
It's a long... [Suddenly, he sighs.] It's a different world, dude. The Metaverse. This app on our phone, it let's us get to a person's Palace. It's, like... this distortion from their corrupt thoughts. They all look different.
Anyway, like, we infiltrate it and try to find the treasure inside, that's their desires. And then we steal it. They fess up afterward because they're completely changed.
Like that asshole, Kamoshida? The teacher who broke my leg. He was abusin' the kids at school, and pervin' on Ann. So we went in his Palace can stole his treasure. It was, like, this crown, but in reality, it was his Olympic medal.
[None of this makes any sense to Giyuu still. IT'S FINE.]
[ SOMETIMES DADS JUST WANT TO LET THEIR KIDS TALK...but yeah, 80% of that went over giyuu's head. even the core concepts of it are iffy. he couldn't repeat this even if he tried. ]
I won't. [ he really won't. though— ] Your teacher broke your leg?
[ he glances at ryuji's leg which is obviously healed by name but there's a trace of irritation when he thinks about it. sure this says nothing about injuries that those who train to be demon slayers suffer, but it's not with malice. not to mention that coupled with the rest of what he can understand of ryuji's blathering... ]
Yeah... [He scratches his cheek with a few fingers.] He tried to get the track team shut down. For his team. He said some shit, and I... got pissed and tried to fight him.
He broke my leg and called it self defense, and everyone believed him because they thought he was some Olympic god.
But yeah! We fought his corrupted self in the Palace and confronted it after, got him to give in. Then in the real world, he ended up confessing and apologizing. We were pretty badass, I gotta say.
[ when he hears how ryuji came to have his leg broken, all he could think is: how tanjiro of him. well, though he doubts that if someone broke tanjiro's leg the person who was responsible for doing that would get away free.
...but that's just a feeling. either way, accomplishments aside, all things he's very proud of ryuji for doing, there is something he must know— ]
[He opens his mouth, shuts it, opens it again. That's evidence enough. For the past moment or two, his leg has been bouncing almost nervously.]
I, uh... ye-yeah. He... is. He joined us because his master turned out to be a real bastard. He was using his students' art as his own. And, like, some real shitty stuff with Yusuke's mom, but it ain't my place to say.
We went in his Palace, too after someone tipped us off.
i keep opening up this catch-all and remembering what i made
[ it's okay ryuji, giyuu isn't going to judge him. he also won't pry more because that is yusuke's story to tell if he ever wanted to bother him about it. ]
...that's an useful ability that you have.
[ and one that he imagines doesn't work here. ]
It's good that you only use it on those who harm others.
[ because even if it isn't explicitly told to him, he honestly doubts that ryuji would use it for personal gain. or, well, his group would. ]
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[Why's he always practically letting the cat out of the bAG? RYUJI? Quickly, he scrubs the back of his head and looks around for some kind of distraction.]
I-It's nothin', man. There's, uh, just--like, this group of people called the Phantom Thieves. They steal people's hearts, or whatever, to get 'em to change! That's all I know! I just follow the phansite!
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ryuji is afraid of letting things out of the bag but the thing is, giyuu has absolutely no context for any of this so it might as well be him talking about landing on the moon. however, he is concerned about the "stealing" of hearts.
it's not literal, right? ]
You steal hearts?
[ and not in the lady killer sense, right? ....not that giyuu has a clue what that is either. ]
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[He starts looking around wildly, paranoid, even though there's definitely no one around to really here them.] Come on, man! [AS IF HE ISN'T ALWAYS TALKING LOUD ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE ON THE MOON TO HEAR.]
Don't go around saying anything about it, okay! I'll be in big trouble! I wasn't supposed to say anything! Man...
[Again, he scrubs the back of his neck.]
Look, don't tell anyone, okay? About the Phantom Thieves... but, uh, yeah. I'm kinda... one of 'em, and, uh... we kinda... steal people's hearts. Like--inside, not their actual hearts! It's like a metaphorical thing. We change their desires. Basically, we stop adults from being effin' assholes.
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what does he even mean? what kind of explanation is this? ]
How do you go about doing that?
[ stealing their desires? stopping adults from being assholes? does he not realize he's speaking to an adult??? he'll let that last one go because, well, giyuu. it's fine if someone thinks he's an asshole; he probably deserved it. ]
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He wants to die.]
It's a long... [Suddenly, he sighs.] It's a different world, dude. The Metaverse. This app on our phone, it let's us get to a person's Palace. It's, like... this distortion from their corrupt thoughts. They all look different.
Anyway, like, we infiltrate it and try to find the treasure inside, that's their desires. And then we steal it. They fess up afterward because they're completely changed.
Like that asshole, Kamoshida? The teacher who broke my leg. He was abusin' the kids at school, and pervin' on Ann. So we went in his Palace can stole his treasure. It was, like, this crown, but in reality, it was his Olympic medal.
[None of this makes any sense to Giyuu still. IT'S FINE.]
But seriously, don't tell anybody, dude!
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I won't. [ he really won't. though— ] Your teacher broke your leg?
[ he glances at ryuji's leg which is obviously healed by name but there's a trace of irritation when he thinks about it. sure this says nothing about injuries that those who train to be demon slayers suffer, but it's not with malice. not to mention that coupled with the rest of what he can understand of ryuji's blathering... ]
And after you stole his treasure, he changed?
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Yeah... [He scratches his cheek with a few fingers.] He tried to get the track team shut down. For his team. He said some shit, and I... got pissed and tried to fight him.
He broke my leg and called it self defense, and everyone believed him because they thought he was some Olympic god.
But yeah! We fought his corrupted self in the Palace and confronted it after, got him to give in. Then in the real world, he ended up confessing and apologizing. We were pretty badass, I gotta say.
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...but that's just a feeling. either way, accomplishments aside, all things he's very proud of ryuji for doing, there is something he must know— ]
Is your friend Yusuke also a Phantom Thief?
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I, uh... ye-yeah. He... is. He joined us because his master turned out to be a real bastard. He was using his students' art as his own. And, like, some real shitty stuff with Yusuke's mom, but it ain't my place to say.
We went in his Palace, too after someone tipped us off.
i keep opening up this catch-all and remembering what i made
...that's an useful ability that you have.
[ and one that he imagines doesn't work here. ]
It's good that you only use it on those who harm others.
[ because even if it isn't explicitly told to him, he honestly doubts that ryuji would use it for personal gain. or, well, his group would. ]