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Prompt 2: You're singing in the rain ♪♫♪ Just singing in the rain! ♪♫
Man, if Reiki had ever needed an impetus to put down his current sewing project and ******** off into the night to do some magical girl nonsense? Facebook had given it to him in spades. Via some of social media’s nonsensical friend-of-a-friend post-sharing garbage, he’d seen an engagement announcement post from one of his old classmates from Meadowview. Reiki hadn’t liked Madison very much back then and she hadn’t liked him either, but she was one of the people who hadn’t totally gone missing since graduation, or fallen into a mysterious coma that had never ended, or anything like that, which made him really, really want to be happy for her and whatever brick-faced white guy she’d apparently fallen in love with at college in Massachusetts.
Instead, all he’d felt had been an itch to get out of his own head. Who cared that it was raining? Hopping around rooftops in search of anything that looked like trouble gave Reiki something to do with himself other than sit around and obsess about his objectively terrible taste in men. Greg, who’d tried to change everything about him, cheated on him besides, and tried to change everything about Justin on top of it. Levi, who was too good for him and had too much else going on for Reiki to even remotely consider that he might have rated. Faustite, who may or may not have still wanted that date, but even if he did, he already had a harem of significantly more impressive boys who were actually with the Negaverse, and it was hard for Reiki to imagine that Faustite had any real use for a boy who was tall and loud, but not particularly special or unique.
(Also, Faustite was a General-Sovereign now, which probably meant all kinds of additional scrutiny that might not or might not have allowed any room for fraternizing with a hot mess Mirror-Thing who really didn’t want to be a Mirror-Thing anymore, and he’d sure tried to do something to Cybele’s Starseed that night outside the bank, and Reiki had a lot of questions about what this all meant but he had serious doubts about any of it being good. Plus, he actively wanted to join a contingent of senshi and Knights who……probably had a lot of very unkind things to say about Faustite, some of which were probably fair, given his usual temperament and behaviors, and others of which……well. Reiki suspected several complaints about Faustite only really amounted to <******** him for being half-youma.”)
Seriously, what unlucky b*****d was Reiki going to crush on next?
“Frustrated, sitting at home,” Reiki sang, more for himself than anyone else. “Life’s too short to spend alone.” Bless the dulcet tones of Pansy Division for existing and giving Reiki a way to stop completely obsessing about his own feelings—or, rather, voicing them without needing his own words. All the better for him to focus on feelings around for youma auras, or otherwise search for Trouble. “So you throw some clothes on that tired body, venture out and try to meet somebody. But it’s a temporary gaaaain, to tide you over and keep you from going insaaaaane.…”
Kyusxxeisha no Hikari
