IC Inbox Meme

[winterbolt]

IC Inbox Meme


How it works:
-Each comment thread is a different character's inbox. Texting, emailing, etc.
-Leave them a message!
-TFLN, misfires, buttdials, or maybe your character straight up needed to contact mine urgently for some reason!
-Wash, rinse, and repeat as desired!

Comments

[soundmind]

Uh...

[That doesn't really help the confusion.]

Yeah? Ken, why were you talking to Blair?

[samsa]

[Blair. He was talking to...Blair...right...]

I uh...Blair...called me first.

[soundmind]

...[That expression.

Blair called him? What for? She only has a Gear so she can relay messages to Maka about what Rockets are doing.

Oh god.]

What...what did she do? What did she say? ...Are you all right?

[samsa]

No no, I'm okay! Ah...

[Aaaah]

It- it's nothing important, really!

[soundmind]

[Nnnno, no, don't talk like that, now she's really worried.]

Ken...don't take what she says seriously, she's--she just likes to play tricks and--

[A horrified moment of silence for Maka to remember that Blair commits these pranks while taking her form.]

...Oh my god. Oh my god, Ken, what did she say. Please tell me, I need to know how much she's in trouble.

[samsa]

She...she um...

[Oh my god Blair why did you do this to him why.]

It was...I thought she was...you, for a minute. She was saying that...she liked me but- but I know now she was just trying to play a trick on me!

[He's talking too fast yet he can't bring himself to stop.]

[soundmind]

...Eh?

[That's...it? She just used her face to say "I like you"? Blair's tricks are usually much meaner than that, why would she--]

Of course I like you. You don't need to be told that, I thought it was pretty obvious.

[samsa]

[Hhhhhhnnghh.]

N-no, I know that...but I think she meant like...you know. Like like.

1/who even knows

[soundmind]

...

[For a second, Maka's mind completely shuts down--exactly as Kaneki says "you know..."]

[soundmind]

...[Then it snaps back on and she's able to process it.

LIKE like.

Blair told him, using her form, that she like liked him.

Maka's not saying anything but the bloom of red taking over her cheeks and ears show, yes, she got the message.]

3/4 okay

[soundmind]

[She's pissed and horrified at the same time, Maka's not exactly sure how to vocalize it.

A fake love confession?! How shitty!]

[soundmind]

...Well.

[Deep breaths, Maka, don't let your brain get consumed in rage.]

Of course you know, I wouldn't tell you something like that just for no reason.

[N-no, Maka meant to say "over the phone" or "at all" but somehow her words fumbled up and it came out as "for no reason."]

[samsa]

Ah...?

[No reason? What is that supposed to mean...]

Well I...I was wondering why you called my Gear, but...then I noticed her eyes were a different color.

[Also fangs. He's pretty sure Maka doesn't have fangs.]

[soundmind]

Fake confessions are probably the worst thing someone can do to a friend, and you already know I hate lies and tricks.

[O-obviously.]

She knows better, she could have changed her eye color, I think she was mocking you or hoping you'd figure it out yourself.

[Depending on how irritated she is at the moment, no, Maka generally doesn't have fangs.]

[samsa]

[Well that just makes him feel even worse for falling for it, which is evident by the way his face is quickly turning redder and redder by the minute.]

I see...

[But then he pauses, glancing away for a moment.]

I should be ashamed...unable to tell your lustrous orbs apart from that of an imposter.

[HE'S KIDDING, HE SWEARS HE'S KIDDING please know he's kidding]

1/2

[soundmind]

[For a moment, Maka doesn't say anything--she's too stunned. Did Kaneki just say that? Is this Kaneki she's talking to or did Blair pull another ruse on her?]

[soundmind]

[It sounds like something out of a cheesy badly written--

Wait, Blair doesn't READ, she wouldn't know about purple prose.

OH. OH, IT WAS A JOKE! Maka's expression splits into a grin and she starts laughing.]

Oh no, Mr. Kaneki, what will we do now if you can't even tell me apart from a mischievous Pokemon? We might have to call the engagement off!

[She's joking too Rikki please don't take her seriously.]

[samsa]

[Thankfully Rikki fell asleep some time ago, so she didn't hear that. She's so used to these shenanigans by now that it's just routine at this point.]

What a travesty that would be indeed, I'm sure. But I learned eventually, so there is no need to break my poor, desolate heart!

[soundmind]

Surely, true love will shine through in the bleakest of hours.

[A pause, she tries to recompose herself.]

...I mean, no offense, but I doubt we'll be the next perfect romance that everyone wants to read about. We don't have protagonist potential.

[Another pause.]

But you're a good actor anyway.

[samsa]

Yeah? I don't think I'll be quitting my day job or anything, but...thanks.

[soundmind]

...[Well. At least she knows he's not pissed off about Blair saying weird things to him while disguised as herself.]

Hey, uh...I wouldn't tell you over the phone like this if I had something like that to tell you. You know that, right? I'd tell you in person.

[But you wouldn't actually tell him in the first place, Maka, so that's only a half-truth.]

[samsa]

Yeah, I know. I...found that to be a little strange to begin with.

[...N-not that he was expecting to be told something like this at all.]

[soundmind]

I mean at least I'd buy you coffee before you had to reject me, anyway.

[Ah. There's the weird self-deprecating humor people have come to...know and.......know from Maka.]

It's weird that she even played a prank like that anyway, must have been talking to Rise or something.

[samsa]

[It's a little sad, how much he's come to expect idle jabs at herself like that. He doesn't say anything, but the shift in his expression is always enough to express how he feels about it.]

...Rise? Why?

[soundmind]

[And his shift in expression is read by her as a reaction to the comment about Rise rather than her jab. As always.]

I'm starting to think...she thinks that we should--you know--be a couple. Like, how she tried to push for us having matching costumes your first Halloween here? I didn't get it at the time, but I kinda noticed...comments she was making and I put it all together.