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Display Name: Huvrye
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Notes: Post ageswap event

What's an angel?

I mean, I looked it up, and it looks like it's some kind of religious thing? But the information doesn't always match, and people keep asking me if I am one, so...I don't know.

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un: Leon, voice

[faceguy]

Dude, are you sure when they ask that they aren’t just hitting on you?

Voice unless noted otherwise

[effiomsfavorite]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[Absolutely flat. Why would anyone even want to hit on him?]

[faceguy]

Hey, just making sure! It’s a pretty common pick up line on Earth.

“Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?”

But it’s played out if you ask me.

[effiomsfavorite]

[......]

Okay, one, what's heaven? And two, does that work?

[faceguy]

Paradise in the sky where all the gods and angels live. Some people think if you’re a real good boy on Earth you get to go there too.

[His family kind of has their own afterlife situation happening, but he grew up in America so he knows the pop culture version.]

I guess it works if you’re going for cheese and the person you’re hitting on isn’t lactose intolerant.

[effiomsfavorite]

So more religious stuff.

[It probably only applies if you actually have a soul, so no reason for Huvrye to dig into it.]

[He has to stop and look up "lactose intolerant," but at least he's trying.]

There have to be better ways to do that.

[faceguy]

Oh yeah, for sure! If you wanna pick up a hottie you can't start with the lamest lines that every other schlub uses.

[Said like he's ever tried to flirt with someone in his whole life.

Or like he wouldn't use a pun-based pick up line if he did.]

[effiomsfavorite]

[Huvrye has been out of his depth for most of this post, but this is an entirely different flavor now.]

Okay then, how do you do it?

[Just because it doesn't apply to his life doesn't mean he's not curious.]

[faceguy]

[He is asking the wrong person if he wants actual dating tips but there's no way Leo will back down now.]

Oh, you know. You slide up to them with your slick moves and then say somethin' real cool. Somethin' to let them know that you're the one they've been looking for.

[effiomsfavorite]

[...that is the vaguest advice he's ever received in his life. He's starting to wonder whether Leo has any more romantic experience than he does, and given that his consists mainly of "it exists" and "it's a civ luxury," that's not exactly great.]

[It will also not prevent him from digging.]

Okay, but how do you know they're the one you've been looking for in the first place?

[faceguy]

[Cut him some slack, most of his social circle is related to him.]

You get butterflies in your stomach, they get your heart racing, it feels good when you make them laugh…

Stuff like that! [He’s going off movies and TV.]

[effiomsfavorite]

Romance novel stuff.

[Not that Huvrye has read any himself, but he hears things.]

[faceguy]

If they put this kind of stuff in books it can't be wrong, right?

[effiomsfavorite]

I don't think that's how it works.

[Please tell him you don't believe everything you read, Leo. Please.]

[faceguy]

[To believe everything he reads he would have to read at all.]

Yeah you're right, books are dumb.

But I mean, there has to be some kind of feeling, right? Even if it's just that you think they're hot and you wanna kiss 'em.

[effiomsfavorite]

[Yin isn't here - and boy, is that a hole in his life that Huvrye has really been feeling - but he can see Yin's expression at that assessment, and he has to argue.]

That's not what I said.

[Just because he doesn't read doesn't mean books aren't important! ...to some people!]

I guess? Or maybe you just have to like the same things and also each other.

[faceguy]

[Leo has his own bookworm-shaped hole in his life, but it's one he likes to antagonize. Even if his brother is not here, saying things that would rile him up is in Leo's blood.]

But is it wrong?

[Anyway!]

You can feel that way about friends too, so there has to be something different. [He thinks? He's pretty sure? Is it becoming increasingly obvious he's never done anything with anyone before?]

[effiomsfavorite]

Yes.

[It sure is the blind leading the blind up in here, regardless of whether either of them want to admit it.]

Well, when you figure out what it is, let me know.

[faceguy]

[So out of their depth, these too.]

Sure, you'll be the first one I call if I- next time I kiss someone.

[That was obviously sarcasm but also whoops, nearly slipped there.]