week three | dates

[marriagebroker]

Here we go again.

You all better kiss.

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[fireball]

[ oh great he's just taking her hand like that. Cool. Thanks.

She is hardly aware of the instructor at all. Instead, Luka gets a flat stare. ]

Do I look like I have?

[ why is there so. much. fabric... ]

[beatmatching]

And here I was trying to give you a compliment~. [ #debatable

but yeah tbh he assumes most people don't know how to waltz and if they do, they definitely don't know how to do it as well as he does. ]

You know how to follow along, don't you? I'll lead. [ which is what he prefers to do even if it's not traditional. ]

[fireball]

[ #debatable.

She continues to give him a flat stare, but, seeing as how she has little choice: ] Just don't drop me.

[ It is very much a threat, or at least as much of one as she can muster. ]

[beatmatching]

I'd never. [ here they go~

actually luka will take it relatively simple to start even if poppy will very much feel like she's at his mercy. ]

[fireball]

[ Here they go... She's being led by Luka, and, oh.

Wait.

He might actually be really good at this. She isn't tripping over her dress or anything, she's actually keeping up... And so she can take a second to look up at him in surprise. ]

You really are good at this...

[beatmatching]

No, I'm the best in my universe at it. [ he brags, but it's the truth.

time to dip her-- ]

[fireball]

[ Why does that even sound like the truth. Ugh—

And then her eyes go wide as she's dipped, Poppy letting out a waugh sound. Almost like Waluigi. ]

What are you doing!

[ And yet for as much as she expected to be lying flat on the ground right now, she... isn't, so she blinks owlishly up at Luka. What is he doing. ]

[beatmatching]

[ help.

that almost gets luka to laugh which is a feat, since he's performing right now! poppy is powerful... ]

Making everyone else jealous of us. [ there are some oohs and ahhs from the rest of the class because he made that look SO easy. ]

[fireball]

[ Luka can mess with a sitcom character at his own peril.

Meanwhile, she is continuing to blink up at him — at least until the oohs and ahhs reach her and inadvertently fuel her own ego, even though she really did nothing here.

So, god help her, she smiles up at him, devious. ]

Well then, keep going.

[ Let everyone continue to see how awesome they are she is!! ]

[beatmatching]

Now you get it. Isn't this better than a planetarium?

[ a better partner would tell her to hang on, but he does not. what luka does do is grin back, move them to the center of the room and then he lifts her.

strike a pose poppy!

luka is a twink yes, but his physical training was all highly tailored to make sure he could do things like this. ]

[fireball]

[ She could still object — being able to just sit and not do anything in a planetarium while looking at pretty colours might win out over being swung around, actually — but objecting is difficult, on account of the whole being swung around thing without warning. ]

Wh— aaaahh!

[ She does not strike a pose. She's more just holding onto him very awkwardly. And she can't even say anything because she literally told him to keep going.

So she's just going to kind of stand there and ruin Luka's rizz, probably. ]

[beatmatching]

[ ...so he's actually really used to his partners being 🧍‍♂️, so he knows how to completely sell this; by being extra himself, which involves lower her to the ground with one hand while he strikes a sensual pose.

there is no losing in a performance if luka is your partner. ]

Close your mouth.

[fireball]

[ Ohhh here she goes back down to the ground again. Poppy just kind of goes limp, like she's accepted her fate. This is happening. (And Luka isn't going to drop her, because that would be way too big a blow to his pride.)

That command, though.

...

She sticks her tongue out at him instead, which I tragically do not have an icon for, ]

[beatmatching]

[ ah, she would, wouldn't she? in another universe—

luka would absolutely bite her tongue hard enough to be of real concern. but in this one— ]

Isn't there a saying about curiosity killing the cat? [ he transitions them into a regular step. ]

[fireball]

[ It's probably for the best that he's being normal in this universe.

Up she goes to a regular step; in her tongue goes, back in her mouth. She's being civilized again, making some kind of an attempt to match his steps. ]

What, are you a cat or something?

[ Is he the cat who's going to get killed, ]

[beatmatching]

No, I'm a pet-human.

[ animal on animal violence just happens sometimes, u know?

he doesn't drop a step in finishing out the song. ]

[fireball]

[ ... This guy.

She's too conflicted in her innate dislike for Luka and apparent ability to pity him both, so Poppy just snaps her mouth shut and follows his lead (not that she has much of a choice).

It's probably fine. ]