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Growing Closer

GROWING CLOSER

On occasion, the fun in playing a romantic relationship is not actually playing the relationship proper, but the build up. The characters grow closer, frozen hearts can thaw, emotional barriers may fall, and insight is gained, both about self and potential partners...

...plus, it can be entertaining as all heck to play either a. awkward dancing around the subject, if your character is that type, or b. embracing all that warming up. A little of column A, a little of column B may scratch an itch you never knew you had.

Play one little vignette in time. You may find yourself craving some more.

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[ he's incredibly awkward with romance and is always unnecessarily rude in his comments BUT HE REALLY WANTS TO GET MARRIED, OK, HE'S VERY SERIOUS... ]

(Has had the worst luck with dating so some happy can help, M/F and any modern cross fandom is fair game, also voicetesting)

(ota. Rusty muse.)

[ makio's been into gross no-strings-attached sex for most of his life so it'd be nice to see him being confused about how to be soft and deal with feelings and so on and so forth :'|

cue: lots of confusion, terrible poems, awful metaphors, and makio trying not to make a penis reference once every five minutes ]

[Cain is a particular person who can be flirty as fuck if she gets along with someone (also bring on the video game marathons!) But intimacy takes some courage.... She is the reincarnation of a god, after all, and the whole immortality thing is pretty heavy.

[Muse strongly prefers men, and anyone who addresses her as he/him get bonus points. Please see journal for detailed character information!]

[Well they DID have a confession of love with each other last we checked on them.... maybe we can follow that up with them getting over the TOTAL AWKWARDNESS of all that?]

[ Aoba is pretty awkward and easily embarrassed where these type of things are concerned because he doesn't have a lot of experience. His level of awkward is pretty dependant on the other person though - if they're also awkward it's gonna get so much worse, but if they're not it'll be easier on him. ]

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[Add a dash of elegance with a healthy helping of confidence all mixed in to create a coyly decorous tsundere.]

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[After the English teacher leaves, there are ten minutes until the biology teacher will walk in. Takao could be considered admirable for using this time to diligently study - however, he's mostly glaring at the pages of the textbook itself, not written notes of his own, and anyone in really close communication with him about daily affairs would know that this is the symptom of not taking any time to study the night before. The white sheets of paper reflect the summer sunlight relentlessly; Takao rubs his temples. His eyes are getting sore from trying to flash memorize these diagrams of the respiratory system. Trachea this, diaphragm that. So much pointless vocabulary. His only solace from the stark text is the shade provided by his gargantuan best friend sitting nearby. You know what, there's only so much he can do to study in ten minutes. Takao plunks his chin in his hand, elbow right over the page (who cares), and asks a question that's been in the back of his mind lately.]

Hey, Shin-chan. Do you know "CPR"?

[He uses the English loanword; it had come up, in passing, during a skit they'd recently been forced to shadow-exercise, an item in a list of one character's skills. All these little moments to form a gestalt.]

[Unlike his partner, Midorima is well prepared for the exam and by all accounts should be confidant of the results. Except... Cancer is ranked 8th today. A fact that has him putting his bandaged hand over his lucky item, a latest manga cover. He spent last night carving out a new lucky pencil and double checked this morning that it was indeed in his school bag. At this point, he'd done everything he could to circumvent his bad luck.

It's these thoughts that take up his attention when Takao turns to talk to him, the unexpected question momentarily pulling him away from them.]

....?

[For a moment, he's puzzled by the sudden question but he's quick to find his wit and recall it from memory.]

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. [He pushes up his glasses.] It's the most essential factor for saving a victim in cardiac arrest out of a hospital.

Of course, I know it, nanodayo.

I'm certified.

[What do you take him for Takao.]

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Wow, I didn't know they gave out certificates! Why don't your folks have it hung up with all your other prizes in the display case?

[He's been to Casa Midorima a hundred times so he's sure he would have noticed by now! The truth is that most certifications are distributed in business card size to provide portable credibility in dangerous situations. Takao not knowing this lends quite a bit of credibility to his explanation for having these questions in the first place.]

I actually don't know much about it, there wasn't a pool or anything in my middle school.

[Like his parents would place anything less than a competitive trophy in there.]

It's an essential skill to have, not something designated to pool areas.

Have you ever actually done it outside of practice? Like in any place, someone at a restaurant choking on food or whatever.

[Takao has never seen it in real life! It's a mysterious separate side of Midorima, like most of this career prospect stuff.]

..... No.

[Not... exactly. He pushes up his glasses.]

It doesn't matter. What's important is being trained for a situation that requires it not how many times you use it.

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Maybe. I don't know, I've never seen someone almost die in real life before so if it were me I might freak out once something bad actually happened. But I guess "Takao, this is why you're no good, nanodayo".

[He picks up his own non-lucky pencil and wags it scoldingly to go along with the impression.]

[His eyes narrow just slightly at that impression, but he's not a child to be baited so easily, and instead responds with: ]

An astute observation.

[He picks up his lucky item and brings it closer.]

But you can't go through life with that kind of worthless attitude, Takao. If you already think you're incapable of being useful in a life or death situation, then you will be.

...you know, I never thought of it like that before!

[It's such classic Midorima, though. That just by thinking hard enough, being conscientious, practice, precautions - that life and death itself is within the grasp of a single human being. Maybe the biggest favor Takao could perform for him is provide an opportunity to practice like it's the real thing.

As Midorima picks up his book, Takao returns his eyes to his own texts, tapping a few words with his pencil (the eraser end, he isn't supposed to write in this school copy of the book and definitely not doodle, he'll get scolded again). The test will be starting any minute now.]

[At least he's listening. It's all he can hope for and all he can spare at the moment. Once Takao goes back to his text, Midorima concentrates on his pre-quiz ritual. He sets his lucky item on top of his school bag where can see it at all times and pulls out his specially made rolly pencil. By the time he's done the teacher is already asking the class to clear their desks and hands out the quiz.

Midorima is one the first to finish, but instead of handing in the quiz he takes the extra time read over his answers making extra sure he didn't misread a question. Satisfied, he turns in his quiz setting it out of mind while the teacher moves on with a new lesson until the end of class.]

[Yeah, Takao definitely finishes much later but turns it in immediately and before all the time has run out. Then it's time for the lecture. Fwah, boring... he has something else in the back of his mind.

LATER. They're at the pool. After a grueling session, Nakatani announces a five minute break, during which time third-stringers may leave at their discretion.

Takao has lunged down underneath the surface of the water during the second to last rep. And then not surfaced for the last rep. And then still not surfaced during the announcement. After that is around when he begins floating with his face and stomach flat on the surface of the water. This is how it looks right??? Momoi tested him about the time this almost happened to Kuroko.]

[Midorima had pulled himself out of the water once they made the announcement. He may have worked hard but he also knew the importance of rest. Once he was out of the water, he removed his cap, nose plug and googles before reaching for his bottle. He wiped off the excess water and set the bottle down as he looked around feeling something out of place. Without his glasses he could only see blurs of shapes, still... something was missing... or rather someone.]

Takao!

[Someone ran up to the edge of the pool, as Midorima raised his head.]

He's not moving!

[Midorima was instantly on his feet, eyes squinting but it didn't matter he couldn't see without his glasses--]

Move!

[He pushed past a first year and dove into the water.]

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[Takao already is starting to have some misgivings about this plan. For one thing, his lungs are beginning to burn slightly after like half a minute of this; he hadn't bothered to bring nose plugs, so some water is in his nose already, and more has to pass into his mouth for realism. And Midorima's shout cutting through the room...

He resolves that the worst part is keeping his eyes closed - not seeing the look on his face - as he dangles, alone, with his arms inching further and further towards the floor of the pool]

[He finds him near the floor of the pool and wraps an arm around his midsection before kicking up and breaking through the water a few seconds later. He barely has time to breath before he's swimming toward the nearest ledge where he pulls him out of the water with the help of their teammates.

He still can't see and but he doesn't need to, he takes control of the situation and yells at one of the players to get help while he drops down in front of him dripping water everywhere and gets to work with the first set of compressions, while his eyes focus on the blurred figure beneath him.]

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