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School Romance: Oh, I hope senpai notices me...or the cute class president, or the head of cooking club, or -
Childhood Crush: You've known each other for a long time, but one of you had to leave when you were kids. Now you're back together, and the dynamic is totally different. This also often involves a "childhood marriage proposal," where the naive party promises marriage and the other takes it seriously.
Love Note: The note you left the object of your affection might be a bit passive, but you can't confess face to face!
You're Like Family to Me: The two of you have been close forever, so you've never seen each other like that...until now.
Tsundere: G-geez, idiot, it's not like I like you or anything! I was just worried...worried, okay? Don't make me slap you!
Kuudere/Ice Queen (King): I have no interest in things like "love" or "romance." They are the least important things in this world.
Yandere: You don't like me anymore? How...? Oh, that's alright. I'll make you LiKe Me.
Unlucky Friend: You lost the person of your dreams to someone else, perhaps because of their allure or perhaps because you never spoke up. What can you do now?
Red String of Fate: That person? You know you're totally meant for them! So what if you've never talked? You have the red string of fate!
I'll Cheer You On: Always supportive, always by your side, they're the person you can count on. Why do they care so much, though?
Harem: One guy. Lots of girls. Craziness ensues.
Reverse Harem: One girl. Lots of guys. Craziness ensues.
Head Patting: Apparently a great way to show you care, both for dogs and for humans.
Indirect Kiss: Your lips touched that. Their lips touched that. OH MY GOD IT'S LIKE YOU KISSED.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: I could kill you for what you just did! I could - I could KISS YOU.
Confession in the Heat of the Moment: You're about to go defeat the ultimate baddie. How about confessing your feelings to the person you love? Seems legit.
Food for Thought: I made you lunch. Want to share?
Repaying a Debt: You broke a vase, ruined somebody's priceless something-or-another, and now you have to be their servant until you pay it off!
I'll Be Your Dog: Or you don't owe that person anything, you just wait on them hand and foot and hope they'll appreciate you one day.
The Kind of ____ You Like: You want to change yourself to the type that the object of your desire wants.
One-Sided Love: Sadly, still a trope here. As always, a heart will be broken. But maybe, just maybe, the love isn't unrequited. Maybe the other person isn't aware!
Jerk/Sweetheart: The pairing of a stoic jackass and a manic pixie dream.
Misunderstood Delinquent: You're not what you seem. You just want to give flowers to that cute girl, not run her over with your motorcycle!
Fight for You: I won't lose the hand of my girl/guy to the likes of you!
Sudden Kiss: Kiss from nowhere! There are lots of reasons for this: to stop someone from crying, to make them be quiet, or just to explain yourself when words can't.
Kiss on the Forehead: It's a sweet way to say "I love you."
Physical Difference: Usually size difference - and then, it's usually big guy/tiny girl, though big girl/tiny guy is explored as well - though this is present in a lot of different ways.
Class Difference: You live in a culture that is still greatly stratified by class, whether it be wealth or power structures.
Oh, My Goddess!: Uh-oh, you accidentally summoned an angel/demon/alien/god/goddess. And now they're bound to you forever! But at least you can stay just friends...or something like that.
Teach Me To Become Human: A robot, an alien, a god, a demon, or anything beyond our human knowledge wants to know more about our emotions - from you and your love.
Single-Gender School: For all the yaoi and yuri fans out there, don your uniforms and remember that Maria is watching.
The Silent Protector: In love with his/her charge, but never able to act on it.
The Perfect Waifu/Husbando: They are so graceful, so lovely, so kind, you've really lucked out!
To Make My Beloved Happy: You will do anything for the person you love, even if that means not being with them.
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[[reciprocity's not universally guaranteed, but he's not a heart stomper or anything.]]

[[Gai's absolutely walking on air today. Not that he's come down since the amusement park date, because Don kissing him was just about on par with discovering he was a Gokaiger and/or defeating the Emperor.

Luka's teased him about it, though more gently than her usual elbow-to-the-ribs style of teasing, and when Ahim found out she declared herself most delighted for the happy couple. But Marvelous has been sort of persistently cranky, and Gai's only just starting to notice. Not that it makes a dent in his wonderful mood--on the contrary, he's decided to make a huge plate of chicken wings for the Captain for lunch, just because he's so darn happy and he wants everyone else to be as happy as he is.

Grinning, he plunks down the plate on the coffee table in the common room.]]

Hey, Marvelous-san~!

[[Marvelous doesn't commonly do his brooding and scheming on the couch, but today he felt inclined to spread his formless aggravation out a little more by propping his feet up on the arm of the couch and waiting for someone to come in and get annoyed over it.

Marvelous likes his wants concrete. I want the greatest treasure in the universe. I want curry for lunch. That sort of thing. This cluster of intermingling drives, this he doesn't like. He doesn't like that it's been kicked up like a cloud of long-settled dust, either. He likes, least of all, that if pressed he could sum the whole thing up as 'I want a kiss.'

He likes it so little that when Gai bounces in he's ready to start sharpening his claws on him however he can.

But there's chicken, as it turns out, so until the chicken's gone all is forgiven.]]

Hey.

I made lunch!

[[Well, obviously, but he's way too happy to get embarrassed at himself. He pulls up a chair and plops down in it with a satisfied sigh, pleased with the world as a whole, and beams at Marvelous.]]

My special recipe. Hey, will you tell me what you think of it?

What's so special about it?

[[Marvelous makes every effort to look like he doesn't care enough to get up, snatching a wing off the plate and tearing into it. It's good, which shows in how fast he's reaching for another, but he doesn't know if he's had bad chicken wings before.]]

You're still unusually chipper.

[[Gai shrugs.]] I'm just happy, that's all! And when I'm happy I want my teammates to be happy.

[[It hasn't yet occurred to him that he might be aggravating the situation for Marvelous, because why would it? He's young and in love.]]

Anyway, it's a special recipe 'cause I learned it from my uncle. You gotta make a marinade with lime and soy sauce and a super-secret ingredient!

Yeah? [[Marvelous isn't entirely clear on what a lime tastes like specifically, but he knows it's sour and these taste sort of sour, so that checks out. They're also sweet, which is weird, but whatever.]] So. Did you make lunch for everybody else?

Yup, there's bento for everyone. [[Don's might contain a heart-shaped omelet, but that's neither here nor there.]] But I thought the Captain should try out one of the best Earth foods!

[[Ah, so he's totally clueless. That's probably for the best.]]

Good judgment on your part. [[Yeah, that might come out slurred through a mouthful of food.]] Well. You can shove off if you want, I'm sure you're wanted someplace.

Ah~ Can't do that! [[His grin turns a little sly.]] See, my uncle calls them "cheer-up chicken wings".

[[Not completely clueless. Granted, he hasn't considered there might be a connection between Marvelous's mood and what's been going on between him and Don-san--again, why would he? After all, the entire crew apparently knew about his crush and were entirely okay with it before the actual dating started. Must be something else, right?]]

~~[[Crud.]]~~

Oh, yeah? [[He swings his legs around so he's at least sitting up now, even if he's slouching, and adds another pair of bones to the grisly little pile he's building on the edge of the plate.]] You have anything more to say, or are you just gonna smirk at me?

Well... [[He glances down at Marvelous's little chicken graveyard. It never ceases to amaze him how the captain can gnaw a bone clean in a matter of seconds. Gai's heard piranhas can do that too.]] It just seemed like... maybe Marvelous-san needed some cheering up. And I know my uncle's chicken wings always work on Earthlings!

[[ Ugh, quit being so upstanding, Gai. It's harder to be mad at you. Especially when the reason he's mad is objectively stupid. ]] Don't worry about it. You shouldn't feel like you gotta butter me up or anything.

I told you, I want my teammates to be happy! Plus I'm not giving up on getting you to like Earth as much as I do.

[[His smile's still broad, but something kind of nags at him about how sulky Marvelous is right now. Normally if there's a big ol' plate of chicken in front of him, he'll at least get enthusiastic about the chicken--and even though Marvelous is piranha-ing his way through the pile of cheer-up wings, he doesn't really look all that glad about it.]]

You got a lot of work ahead of you, seeing as I wasn't born there. Food's a good start, I guess. [[He's eating slower now, even if he doesn't realize. Picking more, turning the bones over in his hands looking for meat to scrape off. He's burning more energy than he expected trying to not tip Gai off or outright chase him away and it shows in his face.]]

[[Even Gai, who could probably medal in Olympic-grade obliviousness, can see something's up with him. Marvelous looks... well, he looks kind of miserable. Like he's hiding an injury, almost--which is weird, because he'd expect that kind of thing from Joe-san. Marvelous is always so up-front about everything, after all.]]

Hey... did something, you know, happen?

[[For once it's starting to occur to him that he might have missed something.]]

No. [[Well, that wasn't convincing but Gai's rapidly wearing down his resolve to be convincing. He fills his mouth again, because once the food's gone he can just leave.]]

I just got stuff on my mind. It's not your problem.

But, I mean... [[He fidgets. When it's really not his problem, one of the others will back Marvelous up--and, now that he thinks about it, everyone's been kind of giving their captain the side-eye lately. Like he's a cat who's not ready to forgive anyone for being shoved into a carrier and taken to the vet's office.]] Marvelous-san... keeps kinda looking at me like I did something wrong.

[[His face falls. He hadn't... intentionally been doing that. Maybe a little. He sits back and sighs, contemplating the bone in his hands. He's made several mistakes as of late, the most recent being allowing this conversation to go on so long that he now has only two real options. He can chase Gai off and make him feel even worse, or he can try to explain. He doesn't like either, but one option only hurts him.]]

You didn't, so don't bother feeling bad. [[He casts a glance around.]] It's just, ah. Seeing you and Doc being all lovey is making my brain... do... stupid stuff. It'll stop, so don't worry about it.

Me and... Don-san...?

[[That throws him completely for a loop. Why should Marvelous feel cranky about the two of them dating? In fact--why should he feel anything at all about it?]]

But I thought... I mean, you knew about it before we...

[[A horrible thought occurs to him, and his eyes go as wide as saucers.]]

You don't--like Don, do you--?

No! [[Think fast, Gai, else you'll get a chicken bone right between the eyes.]] And I like you even less, before you ask!

[[Duck! The chicken bone hits the arm of Marvelous' chair, where it leaves a gross greasy mark before sort of slither-clattering to the floor.]] Okay, okay, I get it!

[[Well, that's a relief, at least. Keeps things from getting too weird and complicated and uncomfortable. But if Marvelous isn't jealous of either of them...]]

So then... why?

[[Marvelous leans back and makes a noise like someone squeezing all the air out of a punctured basketball. Why was he doing this? Right, there was food and because there was food he let Gai stick around too long.]]

It's the situation. Get it? [[His tone drips with 'If you get it, please shut up and leave,' but who could count on Gai to pick that up?]]

[[Predictably, he doesn't hear the outstretched claws in Marvelous' voice. Just those words, which make him frown thoughtfully.]]

The situation...?

[[And then a thought kind of nudges its way to the front of his brain, and even if it seems totally impossible, he has to ask.]]

You can't mean--Marvelous wants to have someone precious too...?

Ssh! [[He lurches across the table and clamps a hand over Gai's mouth. Does he care that Gai's face is covered in chicken grease now? No. That and the slight red tinge to his face make it clear that Gai is, at the very least, not wrong.]] Don't just blurt stuff like that. [[He keeps on squeezing Gai's face for a few seconds before, content that his message has sunk in, he releases him and falls back.]]

Captain Marvelous : Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger : I'm finally on time!

TALKIN BOUT LURRRRRVE

WILDCARD, MOTHERLICKERS

guess what. i have the brain of a Human. i have a Human's brain

The Two Steaks Bastard .

my favorites list is an extremely important art project and i'll thank you not to interfere

Well, it'd better damn friday

DisgruntledStepSon

cold butter popcorn. tjust throwing that one out there

(i descend from the heavens) I'm uh, netflix is good

im all about getting out there and putting the posts up like im bad outta hell

out with dentists, in with mouth gurus

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