040 » if nobody's holding you back from me

[kochan]

[mishima himself isn't entirely sure if he agrees to go to ryuji's house out of friendship or because he's being pressured into it. it's hard to say no to ryuji, just because of the sheer force of the other boy's personality, but more than that, it's sort of exciting to be invited over to someone else's house. mishima doesn't often get invited to things. he invites other people. he invites himself.

honestly, ryuji's attempt at hospitality is even a little cute. chips, snacks, and vending-machine drinks: this is, pretty much, how one would expect two guys to hang out. maybe it's weird that mishima has to measure his life like this, by how much it seems like experiences he's heard about or seen on tv — but it's just how he's learned to survive social exchanges.]

Uh, you know I'm the only one with hypno powers, right?

[sakamoto has other powers. persona phantom thief powers. if he knew just how jealous mishima was, he'd kick him out of the house immediately.]

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[kochan]

...Alright.

[there's something odd, again, about mishima's smile, and maybe if ryuji was just the slightest bit sharper, he'd notice it. maybe if he wasn't quite so trusting, so unguarded around fragile, spineless, pathetic mishima, he'd be able to get himself out of this.

but this is the devil's pact he's forged, and in this situation, mishima gets to feel like the smiling devil.

he lifts the pendulum — or rather The Pendulum, that wonderful, sparkling distraction — by its crystal, taking a moment to clear his throat and work himself into his hypnotist's voice.]

We'll do it like last time, okay? Focus your attention on the crystal, and take deep breaths...

[thuggish]

[ any chance of escape that required some modicum of sense on ryuji's part was already a lost cause, even before command of his mind was surrendered over to a weirdo of mishima's ilk. he sees that smile tugging the corners of the other boy's lips. he sees it, and as per usual thinks nothing at all.

then he sees The Pendulum swing and something in ryuji just melts. ]

... You sound real creepy when you talk like that, dude. You know that...?

[ tough words, from a boy already giving the crystal his undivided attention. because just as before, ryuji wants to be hypnotized — even more than before, now he knows that it works. now that some part of him he doesn't realise is there remains yet entranced, but a word away from dragging him back into dreamland.

with a sigh, he exhales. in, out, left, right, ryuji's posture already relaxed, eyes close to half-lidded. ]