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video, un: momo-chan~♥

Name: Momo
Date: July 6, the day after eclipse shenanigans
Format: Video

[It's been a little while since Momo's had to network post about anything, but the video opens on him leaning against what appears to be the back door of a cottage, with a wide grin that reveals his sharp canines.]

Hey everyone, I've got a weird question, but before that, I want to answer a couple of other people's weird questions! Since we just got a bunch of newcomers, I was thinking of doing a PSA kind of thing on my radio show tonight - answering questions people might still have that haven't come up yet or they might feel awkward asking in person. So if any of you new guys have any questions, even if you want to ask them anonymously, ask them here and I can give you an answer before I roll it into the show tonight! And oldbies, if there are any useful things you took a little while to learn that you think might be good to know for a newcomer, let me know! It'll all be here too, but the show will let me put it all in one place so you all don't have to dig through a bunch of conversations for the useful stuff, and maybe find some more detailed answers for anything I'm not sure about.

It'll be at 10 tonight, so you know. I do mean any questions! [His wink at that is innocent enough, but he's definitely implying that since it's late night, the nature of the questions doesn't matter so much.]

And now for my question... [He turns his phone around to show his backyard, which is fairly large since he lives in a cottage, but currently entirely occupied by garden stuff.] Does anyone know what options I have for getting a water feature or something that a merrow can comfortably fit in? I've got a fair bit of space to work with like you see here, but I don't think they have like...portable pools in this time, and I actually haven't seen much of how they build proper ones here and how long it might take. So if anyone knows a little more about construction and timing for that kind of thing, I'd be really grateful! Or if there's any weird magical alternatives I don't know about that I should look into.

Anyway, that's it for the moment, so let me know, okay? [He turns the camera back towards himself to wave with one red-nailed hand before the video ends.]

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[Momo has a decent reason to worry, considering how well he knows Yuki. But while it took Yuki a moment to get his thoughts together, his conviction when he truly decides to do something is just as strong as Momo's. And he decided in that moment, after Momo confessed, that he would reciprocate with everything he had, as much as he possibly could.

Is that level slightly different for last-night Yuki and right-now Yuki? ...A little. But it was far from moving too fast. Somehow, it was a relief. It might be hard for him to say it, sure. It's much less hard for him to feel it.]

What's going to change? It's not like we aren't close publicly to begin with. Maybe... [Oh god. Oh no. Not this. But he knows it's true. There's creeping dread about his revelation just now, as Yuki realizes... he might have to discuss things. Things like desires and boundaries. Do they have to? Can't they just feel it out? Ahh...] ...Maybe we should talk about it. [RIP Yuki. He's looking at Momo with very mild concern, like what he's saying ought to be obvious, but what if it isn't? What if he's not being demonstrative and clear?] I'm comfortable with you. Things are different here, too. I mean, I came back here expecting you'd even want to Bond with me. ...Eventually.

Whatever you want to talk about. I'm all ears. [He is...not quite obvious enough about what exactly he's referring to talking out for Momo to pick up on it, but at least he's open to talking in general. Then again, he's rarely not when it comes to Yuki.

As for the matter of Bonding, though, Momo brightens up a bit.] Right! I've been meaning to ask you about that, I just thought you'd want some time to settle in...the first full moon is usually safe, and I think yesterday being an eclipse helped, but after that it gets risky for Monsters. Especially if you resist the change. It'll be easier on you if we Bond as soon as we can.

[It took Momo a while to get around to it, and he had his familiars in the interim to make sure he didn't go off, but like hell he's letting Yuki make the same bad life choices here that he did.]

Maybe I should've explained this sooner, but between the time I was here when I came out of the puddle, and when I showed up through the mirror? Some time passed. I mean, some things happened.

[Things involving his past, his skeletons in the closet, and the people he loved the most. Which was honestly why it was so (comparatively) easy for him to tell Momo he loved him... It was still hard, but it would've been infinitely harder otherwise.]

So, because of those things, I was already... [Urgh.] More than fine. I was holding back because of business things before, not because I didn't care about you like that. So, because it's different here... If there's nothing getting in the way... [Hand over face, hand running through hair, brain not working...] And even if it is, we just use the Bond as an excuse, right? [Yuki's logic.] So the sooner we do it, the easier it is. [A beat.] I wasn't thinking about the Monster stuff at all.

[How is it so hard to say that he is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, one hundred percent good and fine and happy with being Momo's? All he can do is smile apologetically about being on a slightly different page, there.]

[Momo was already from pretty far along himself, so he can understand what might've happened to make Yuki open up a bit to those feelings. He's had a tiny bit "happen" too since then, but that was quite brief compared to what Yuki probably knew about before he came back.

It's kind of cute watching Yuki fuss himself about having to talk about feelings in the moment, and it occurs to Momo that this is probably why he keeps hearing Okarin mention fire extinguishers when Yuki manages to say anything emotional to him.

As if to reassure Yuki that things are fine, he first clutches his cheek in his usual dramatic manner for when they're doing their act.] If you say it like that, I'll start to think my first Bond was cheating on you...

[Though he can't say Lio doesn't fluster easily enough to make a joke of it. His hand drops from Yuki's hair to take his hand instead, between both of Momo's.] I think it'll be fine. The entertainment industry here...or the audiences here, too, have a different feel to them. And they're really open about all kinds of relationships because of how important Bonding is. So I would've asked to Bond with you anyway, but I don't think we need it as an excuse. If you're sure you're happy with me, then I want to take the chance not to hold back while we're here.

[They'll go back eventually, may not even remember what happens here, and probably have to wait years before they might be able to do this again. But maybe some part of them will recall this and know that it's something that can wait for them whenever they reach the point they have to age out of the idol industry.]

[Momo, if you could just stop making him confront difficult things and maybe let him go back to bed, or have some delicious brunch, or play some music, he'd have a much better time of things. He actually makes a face at the mention of the other Bond, not a look of disgust, but a distinct look that says he hadn't thought of it that way, and now he's worried Momo is going to think of it that way, and it's too early in the morning to accidentally create emotional land mines with anyone because it never ends well for him when he does.

He waves a dismissive hand at that, just before Momo takes it in his own. That's still... Bridging the mental gap between performative skinship that maybe meant something they couldn't talk about and Actual affectionate gestures might take him another minute. He's saying it's fine, but he's looking down at their hands now with rapid blinking and a bolstering shift of his shoulders.]

Okay. Well. I'm happy with you.

[Wow that sounds so. Boring? Underwhelmed? He doesn't mean for it to. It's just the simple, blunt statement of the fact that Yuki's feelings are the real deal. And that Momo brings him joy he can't put words to. And comfort, too. And support. And... about a billion other things. He's cant think of anyone else worth crying over quite like he has Momo.]

You mentioned a few things before, but I know you were just letting me get grounded before you launched into everything. I want to know about the industry here, sooner rather than later. If you already have a foothold, I have a long way to go, but with a little work I'll catch up.

[A pause.]

...I have a lot of questions about Monsters and Bonding, too. I mean, specific ones. I don't know where to start. Maybe I should've asked at the meeting, because asking you for help is... You're already trying to build me a pool in the back yard, aren't you? Which, by the way, better come with a cute cabana peach, and maybe a swim-up bar and grill?

[Grin. A little joke.

Yuki's awake now.]

[Momo would pat Yuki on the head when he makes that face, because he's been one of the people trying to convince reluctant Bonders that Bonds do not in fact have to be That Serious all the time. But then his hands are occupied and he doesn't really feel like letting go of Yuki's hand for that, so he'll just have to survive with a reassuring hand squeeze.

Considering Yuki's general lack of ability to beat around the bush about anything, he isn't expecting anything more flowery than what he gets, and the sincere little smile that comes of it says he's perfectly happy with that.

It is probably a good time to get their information straight, and Momo is all ready to take that seriously before Yuki comes for him with the spoilt rich teenager requests and he puffs out his cheeks dramatically like this is totally Abusing His Position.]

You'll get a cute peach either way, but I don't even know how advanced the pools here are, let alone if I start trying to put extra things on it...Haku and Sen still need somewhere to burrow, too. [Offended. But he lets it slide a moment later.] I don't want you running off to the Wilde again, is all. It's dangerous out there, even when they had that area sectioned off for people to let off steam.

[Another squeeze of his hand, this time more of a protective gesture.] I'll answer what I can and what I've heard about the Monster and Bond stuff. Entertainment's an easier topic anyway, so we can get into that afterwards.

[It's important to their work, but he'd consider the former topics more generally important to have answers on quickly.]

[Yuki shakes his head at the comments about the pool; if Momo's not actually offended--and Yuki's banking on him not being so--it's perfect timing for Yuki to lay some things out.]

I'm not letting you do crazy stuff for me. I'm serious. I'm fine with the tub, if it's all I've got. Besides that, the Wilde wasn't all that great, anyway. Too many nosy people.

[Anyway. That's been said. And it took about the totality of Yuki's emotional energy for the day, so he just stares down at their joined hands for a moment before moving to intertwine their fingers. It was easier last night, sure, but it's still fine, right? He looks to Momo mildly questioningly, verifying.]

Monster stuff... Mm. I guess I'd be better off asking another merrow some of it, but I wonder if there's a chance it'll be different from when I was here before. Do people usually keep changing, or does stuff settle in?

A pool isn't that crazy! [Hilariously enough, it's easy now to tell that Momo was faux offended about the extra requests, because he sounds more legitimately offended at the idea that Yuki wouldn't let him build a pool in the backyard for him. He even pokes his tongue out as an admittedly rather petulant way of saying Yuki can't stop him. It's...technically Momo's house, he was here first.

Thankfully, he seems delighted enough at Yuki being the one to lace their fingers this time that the offense slides off his face like rain, and he squeezes Yuki's hands with his fingers and a soft smile on his face.]

It'll definitely be longer-term than before, that change for you guys was...ridiculously quick. Sometimes people don't get changes at all the first month. Usually you'll slowly develop things over the course of a few months, so you'll stop changing eventually, but it'll take a while. It's more likely stuff will happen on the full moons, or I've heard also if you leave the city, but that's probably less of a problem for you.

[Yuki being a homebody and all.]

A pool just sounds like a lot of work.

[Momo doesn't need to work so hard! Yuki swears he sort of has his shit together these days and doesn't want to be a drain on Momo's resources. The Bond sounds like plenty enough. Then again, Yuki's not totally in the know yet, despite his best efforts.

When Momo's tongue pops out in challenge, Yuki just looks away with a slight wry smirk. That's his stubborn, amazing Momo. He'll never let Yuki win the fights he wants to win.

But then he looks back, and moves in a little closer. It's awkward in a way, but he's more comfortable with Momo than anyone else.]

I guess we'll cross the leaving town bridge when we get famous enough to tour. [Tipping his head a bit, Yuki smiles again.] As long as you'll still love me with weird tentacles, I'll deal.

[He will not in fact deal. He will fight it the whole way. Honestly. It's funny in concept but eight legs???]

I'm not going to build it all by myself... [Mostly because it'd just be inconvenient, make it take ten times longer and probably not be half as good as getting someone who actually knows how to make that sort of thing make it. Momo is good at a lot of things, but poolmaking was not among the million part time jobs he did when he was younger.

He still looks a little bit hesitant about taking the initiative to come closer himself, but it's in a similar way to when they started working together - that faint air of am I allowed to do this. He isn't going to put any more distance between them, at least, and his thumb runs thoughtfully over one of Yuki's fingers at the claim that he'll deal.]

I'll always love you, even when you're old and grey...er, so of course I'll still love you like this. But you're stubborn, so I want us to Bond as soon as we can. It's really dangerous to resist the transformation if you're unbonded, and I know you will because you don't like it.

[His Bond with Lio came out of the other man trying to resist the transformation and ending up on the brink of losing it in his second month. He's not taking the risk of that happening to Yuki.]

It still sounds like too much work. Not that I can stop you.

[Yuki raises the hand that's unoccupied, tucking some of his currently unruly but unquestionably gorgeous hair back over his ear. There's a false start, his face going a little pink, before he awkwardly rests his hand on Momo's shoulder. He's still feeling this out. It's easy when you don't care, fake it, it's acting, or boredom, whatever... Just... When he cares it's vaguely mortifying. After the years of casual touching, it meaning explicitly more sets Yuki back a bit.

His fingers slide over Momo's shoulder, resting at the side of his neck as he presses their foreheads together.]

I definitely don't like it. Why did I end up a fish-guy while you're a super cool, ultra sexy witch?

[Momo puffs his cheeks out in exaggerated stubbornness at that first remark, as if to say that yes, Yuki can't stop him even if it takes a lot of work. It might take him a little while to figure out the logistics, but it's something he wants to get to as soon as possible so Yuki has a place to go that's not the bath, the river or outside the city walls.

Even the resting of their foreheads together is enough to make Momo a little pink, but he leans into it, almost looking like he's wondering if it would be okay to go for a kiss. He takes one hand off Yuki's, still holding on with the other one, and rests it around the back of his waist, fingers lying at the base of his spine. It would probably be more suggestive if he didn't choose about that moment to poke his tongue out petulantly at Yuki's description of their positions.]

Of course it sounds unsexy when you say it like that, but merpeople are plenty sexy! Do you think I'm going to be able to handle you luring me from the depths like a shirtless sexy siren!? Meanwhile if I want to look any sexier it's either an illusion or I have to go out and learn transformation magic!

[He can do one extremely minor transformation spell of turning his nails into claws for when he needs to disguise himself as a Monster, and that's it. Though it now occurs to him that maybe he should learn some kind of tallening spell.]

I could just wear a shirt.

[Cheeky, isn't he? But they're close, and he's nervous somehow, uncertain, and being a pain in the ass is an accidental (?) defense mechanism, so please forgive him, Momo.

This closeness is comfortable, even if it's different from back home, more intimate, loaded with a delicate sort-of commitment made when emotions were off kilter and words came too easily. It was hard for Yuki to accept that he loves Momo, but it happened back home, far away from here, and long enough ago that Yuki saying it was infinitely harder than Yuki feeling it. A certain restlessness creeps in, like he's not sure what they said was really said, but here's Momo, sliding a hand around him, being so adorable and coy and Yuki's heart thuds in his chest too hard for just a moment.

He takes the hand at his waist as a sign to move in closer, he's allowed to--no, it's what Momo wants, and it's what Yuki wants, too. So he has no choice but to pull his head back slightly so he can move his body in closer. He smiles at Momo's petulance, because it's Momo, because it's charming, because maybe he deserved it, but he won't let him get away with it. Leaning in close again, pressing his body against Momo's, he cants his head forward and settles his lips near his partner's ear.

Payback.]

If you go around making yourself sexier, I'll just get jealous.

It'd just be see-through because of the water, though!? [Congratulations Yuki, he gets one of Momo's exaggerated loud moments for that one. Though it's clearly not in a bad way, because it's more of an exaggerated fluster than anything else. He'd probably have a hand over his mouth in true scandalised fashion if they weren't otherwise occupied.

Despite the placement of his hand, Momo seems a little stunned for a moment when Yuki moves closer, a remnant of those times he was shocked to even have Yuki's attention on him. He had to adjust to that, but now he's right here and close and despite everything, a little bit of Momo still treats it like having his favourite celebrity single him out.

Any attempt at recovery he might have had goes out the window when Yuki presses against him and his lips are right next to his ear and the actual words don't really matter so much because Momo lets out a tiny, overwhelmed sort of sound the minute he feels breath against his ear. His grip on Yuki tenses, but at the same time, it's less of a discomfort and more of a mindless and reactionary mine before he gets his head back on his shoulders, so Yuki doesn't pull away.]

I... [Words are hard, words other than you're so handsome are always hard when Yuki is out to ruin him like this, but they're in private and there's nothing saying he has to keep a certain decorum here. And when most of his brain isn't working currently, something has to fill in that gap.]

[So instead of words, he twists on his heel and pulls Yuki with him, bending him back over the counter that divides the lounge from the kitchen. The hand on Yuki's waist darts up to catch his other hand so Momo can press both of them down against the cool stone and quiet his teasing for a few seconds with a deep kiss with just enough teeth to also be a sharp rebuke.

With what had happened the previous night, Momo had been a little bit hesitant to begin with, but that feral part of his brain is apparently very sure it happened and counts and having the rest of his brain shut off briefly by Yuki antics means that's just here for the few long moments he drags the kiss out for. All's fair in love and war, or something along those lines.]

[Right. Yuki wasn't ready for that reaction at all. But this is his sweet, passionate Momo in action, isn't it? With all that passion leveled at him, it's almost hard to breathe, to think, to do anything but react. So as he's pushed against the counter, hands taken, pinned, Yuki makes a sound that's half surprise and half something unspeakable.

But is it unspeakable? They're dating now, he thinks? He's pretty sure that's what happened last night, and why he slept with his arms around Momo, and why he's kissing him right now. So... Maybe it's fine if he just responds and lets things go as they will.

Yuki's fingers tense under Momo's, that kiss leaving him breathless for a split second as his eyes slide closed. When his brain clicks back to sort-of functioning, he's throwing his own power into the kiss, responding with soft sounds that he's pretty sure register as pleasant, and that might skirt right into sensual if he's not more careful. Being pinned by Momo is new, something he never considered, something he's swiftly deciding he likes and wants more of. This is a better good morning than coffee or breakfast or anything else. It's a full dose of Momo, and it's leaving Yuki inexplicably (to him) kind of desperate for more.

All's fair? Then Yuki thinks it's fair to keep his eyes closed when Momo finally breaks away, to chase the kiss like a man needing an oasis in the desert.]

...I told you not to make yourself sexier, and you did the opposite...

[While Yuki's eyes remain closed, Momo settles back into awareness in the moments after he pulled away - or, perhaps more accurately, it's the transitional moment or two where he stows away that ferality back in the darkest edges of his head where it usually lives. Though Yuki's chasing of the kiss is tempting, he is kind of in the middle of something and it's probably not the time to be letting his feral out for longer than a few moments.

His grip on Yuki's hands loosens to a more relaxed interlace of fingers, but he doesn't move back just yet, because Yuki bent back over the counter is a very nice view and he doesn't want to relinquish it just yet. Though he hides that ulterior motive under the wounded pout he gives at that remark and the slight pink on his cheeks from his more fanboyish side slowly combusting in silence.]

What else am I supposed to do when you get that sexy yourself? I can't think when you're like that, I have to just act on instinct! Haven't all those romantic dramas you and our juniors end up in taught you anything about taunting the hidden beast!?

[He definitely says that last sentence in a tone more characteristic of his exaggerated joke complaints, but at the same time, Momo does kind of go off like a saucy werewolf bodice-ripper protagonist sometimes. It's just that the saucy and bodice-ripper parts hadn't really come up until now.]

[Yuki's eyelids flutter open, a little frown on his lips because he half expected Momo to kiss him again. How in the hell is he being so needy when it comes to Momo? Maybe it's because he's tired? Maybe it's because he's actually completely enamored? Well, whatever the case, even in this not-so-comfortable position he tries to relax a little.

He might also have a foot rubbing at Momo's ankle, whatever.]

It's more romantic with you. The real thing's better.

[Oh, now it's Yuki's turn to look away with a mild pout. Acting taught him that one, too.]

But if you don't want me to be sexy, and you don't want to be sexy, that's just how things have to be. We'll both have to be completely not sexy until further notice, so you can go get things done and not become a depraved beast.

[Momo's just going to stand on one leg for a moment and chase Yuki's foot with his to try and rub it in return. It's fine, this is clearly how affectionate behaviour works.

His flush gets a few shades brighter at the idea that Yuki enjoys doing this with him, but of course, it doesn't last long in the face of even the insinuation that Yuki could not be sexy. Momo swells up in dramatic stage offense enough that it's almost possible to hear the exaggerated tone before it comes out of his mouth.]

But there's no way you can be not sexy, ever! It's like expecting water to not be wet!! Even if it's something I can do, you're not the one who's going to turn into something scary and feral if you're exposed to too much sexiness!

[This conversation has gone completely off the rails already and there is no actual solution incoming here. But clearly Yuki not being sexy isn't it regardless of any other details.

Also he's still not letting Yuki up. It might've just slipped his mind in his fake dramatics at this point.]

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