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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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..."

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

no bulba don't hit me

deal with it

rude...