smash_logs | CUPID MAN SHINES DOWN UPON THE SCHOOL (Open to all)

Who: YOU and YOU!!!
What: CUPID MAN
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: February 14th – time varies
Warnings: People in strange love times.

Instructions: Start up threads, make sure you include everyone in your cupid group (So Lash's group would be Cyrus, Hawke, Lash and Ron) and there is no real need for a tagging order. Someone can show up later after people have been hit with an arrow etc. When you need Cupid Man, go post in the OOC post.

Note: Don't forget Morty's fortunes! They are amazing and awesome and go post in them, NOW.

Ahh what a fine day for causing trouble!
Robotnik was nowhere to be found (Good), but the Mega Twirp had found himself back in their school (Bad). Of course Wily couldn't risk doing this back in Capcom, oh no. Nope, if he was going to test this little robot, built upon leftovers from his nemesis shitty inventions, OH he was going to test it on Smash Academy.

Cupid Man was a state of the art Robot Master (tm). Designed to look a bit like a cupid, it had both stealth and a weapon which could amusingly switch how a person felt about the other. And what a perfect time to test this than Valentines!

...no he wasn't bitter at being FOREVER ALONE. Or being a Virgin Man.

Regardless of what you might think of him, he was totally crackling away at his home base, watching how this would all unfold.

And what a good time would be had by all.

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CUPID MAN!! Ye was here to save the day! Uncloaking nearby, what little they might have heard was the sound of a machine bow being cranked up before two pink love beams hit them right square in the chest.

[Feel free to do this or 1, but this is what I rolled for the both of you;

Bulba = 8- Hands don't go there: Uh you can't seem to control your hands anymore and they just want to touch the other person a lot. In places they would not normally let you and...WOOHA bad hands!

Marie = 8- Hands don't go there: Uh you can't seem to control your hands anymore and they just want to touch the other person a lot. In places they would not normally let you and...WOOHA bad hands!]

Then he disappeared.

Had he heard something? No, probably not. At least that's what he thought, and suddenly there was a flash of pink and Bulba distinctly felt different than he had a moment ago. What was... He gingerly felt around his chest. No, that was all right. This was weird. Out of vague concern for himself, Bulba looked over at Marie and...

...and...

That fluttering feeling of his heart should have been a lot more concerning at the moment, but he hardly noticed. I'm so handsome ~~and also my shirt opened??~~.

"Do you... want to go do something...?"

With the flash of pink, Marie curiously felt his stomach drop. He had definitely heard something weird, too. No one else seemed to be around, so he figured it must have been Bulba who had made the odd sound. He glanced back, just as the Squirtle had spoken.

...He'd really never noticed how... cute he was before.

And Marie was quickly hit with an intense wave of anxiety. His cheeks reddened. It all seemed so sudden, but Marie realized that he was in love with Bulba. He was both excited and sickened by the idea. An empty feeling in the pit of his stomach reminded him that he would have to tell Red. He worried Bulba wouldn't like him back; why would he? Marie had always been a jerk to him in the past... All at once, he was filled with an insane amount of regret.

Why hadn't he realized this sooner? Marie felt like he was about to cry, he was so nervous.

But Bulba had asked him if he wanted to do something together. Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but it was Valentine's Day. Maybe that meant he was interested? Probably not! But maybe! Arceus, he was nervous.

"I, uh... Yeah... If that's okay..."

Oh. Oh he had said yes. That was unexpected. It took him until now to notice that he had started to drool while waiting on bated breath for Marie's response. It had been the most important moment thus far. And he had said yes. Everything was soaring and much more wonderful than it had been before. Why had he ever been upset? Bulba hastily wiped his mouth and a brilliant smile lit up his face.

"Of course it's okay!" He assured him warmly. It was the most okay thing of the day.

This strange new whirlwind of emotions were familiar. He understood the desire to take Marie's hand and nuzzle the spots on his face and... well he couldn't really make him feel any sweeter at the moment, but the feeling was still there. There was an underlying anxiety that matched up well with Marie's. This was going to be difficult to explain to Green. He'd worry about that later.

Bulba eased in closer to the other, careful not to just bust into the timid Ivysaur's space all at once. It would be horrible if he ended up just annoying him altogether again. "Whatever you want then..." He suggested. "I'd like that."

Bulba's drooling was noticed, and Marie immediately worried he had done something wrong. Unlike the Squirtle, Marie wasn't able to save his worries for later. Every little thing seemed to tie the knot in his gut tighter and tighter. Hopefully he wouldn't cry or puke or anything similarly embarrassing.

In the back of his head, he wondered if he would find Bulba as attractive as he found him now. It was a little weird, but Marie found his own smile to be completely charming. He had the overwhelming desire to sit Bulba down and count every single freckle on his own face. Or stare deeply into his red eyes. ...Weird.

Nervously, he smiled back at Bulba. It usually took much longer for him to be so willing to let someone else as close as he wanted to be to Bulba right then. As the Squirtle eased closer, Marie matched him.

"I just want to spend the day with you," he blurted out. His eyebrows knit together nervously and his smile disappeared. What if Bulba thought that was weird? Too forward? Out of character? ~~Well, yes...~~

It was now that Bulba thought he understood part of the reason why so many people wanted him to smile more often. It was lovely. He wanted him to smile more and more. Somewhere in the nexus of his thoughts was the realization that this was a weird thought process. It was not a very loud thought though. The louder thought was how pretty his eyelashes were. That was normally a mild sore point for him, but right now he couldn't imagine why.

Marie moved closer and he felt a nervous thrill. I just want to spend the day with you. As out of character as it might have seemed, it delighted him. But then the Ivysaur's smile disappeared, and that was the exact opposite of what Bulba wanted.

"Then it's yours," he said quickly, boldly taking Marie's hand in his.

Even under the love spell, Marie didn't react to sudden physical contact well. Instinctively, he jerked his hand away as soon as Bulba grabbed it. He hadn't meant to; he'd actually done the same thing to Spinny multiple times while they were dating. It was an unfortunate, nervous habit of his.

But it was so much more frustrating to have done it to Bulba. The idea of holding hands with him filled him with an uncomfortable, but excited, feeling of butterflies. Maybe he was just reading too much into it, but that had to mean something. And he'd just gone and screwed it up. Marie tried to recover by reciprocating the gesture and offering Bulba another timid smile.

"Sorry..." he mumbled.

The Squirtle had been instantly convinced that he had done something wrong and a sense of fear seized in his chest. He hadn't meant to make him uncomfortable. Stupid. Bulba glanced away, afraid that if he looked at Marie he'd see the return of the other boy's annoyed expression and things would be back to how they normally were. He didn't think he'd be able to bear that right now.

The touch of Marie's hand made him jump. When Bulba looked up, surprised, it wasn't the sour expression he had been expecting. That was another smile. Bulba swallowed back the nervous lump in his throat, daring to believe that this was what was happening. "It's okay," he assured him. Marie's hand felt very nice in his, he decided. Bulba gently tightened his hold. "It's completely okay..."

"Can I take you somewhere...? It might be a little boring for you though."

And Bulba's hand felt nice in Marie's as well. Or, rather, his own hand felt nice in Bulba's. Or... something like that.

Bulba's assurance had seemed so genuine- and punctuated with the tighter grip on Marie's hand- that the Ivysaur let out a tiny relieved sigh. There was still the incredibly troubling and tormenting reminder- that he was going to have to tell his team about this- that kept Marie's expression tense. He was trying to relax, though. Really.

It sounded stupid and cheesy in his head, but Marie honestly couldn't see how going anywhere with Bulba at that moment could be boring. As long as he was with the Squirtle, he really didn't care where they went. Even if it made him outrageously nervous...

"Yeah, sure..."

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no bulba don't hit me

deal with it

rude...