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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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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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