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Attention.
That is what most people want in the world. Ranging from social media to relationships. Of course, not all people want it since they’d prefer to seclude themselves in solitude. As for Ike, he prefers to not have the spotlight on him at all. Not because he’s touch starved or “hates” everyone– Ok, maybe a bit touch starved, but he’s just shy when it comes to getting attention. Things were fine and dandy until a certain fox-like detective came on rolling into his life like a bowling ball.
When Mysta Rias came into his life, Ike finally understood why people crave attention. Having a doting boyfriend like Mysta would sure to spoil Ike sometimes. Sure Mysta could be awkward at times with affection, but it adds to his charm of a wild personality. Cuddling, kissing, holding hands– All of that spoiled Ike so much that he would always squeal in happiness. Cutest couple ever, right?
Yet, what could have possibly happened to have Ike sitting in the living room of Luxiem’s AirBNB, ranting to Vox Akuma about Mysta’s current actions at the moment? Was it an argument or is it–
“Ike, calm down–”
“I am calm, Vox!”
“You sure don’t look like it”, Vox sweats as Ike sends him the sharpest glare he could muster at the moment. Vox whistles at the glare before Ike begins to shout again.
“I just want to know why my boyfriend is ignoring me!” Ike shouts with a pout on his face, leaning back on his sofa chair, crossing his arms with anger and frustration. Vox laughs at his actions before he begins to lean forward, definitely interested in what their favorite fox boy has done to anger Luxiem’s beloved novelist.
“Y’know, usually I’d find this cute but I’ll just listen on”, Vox teases as Ike rolls his eyes at his compliment.
“Shut up, Vox.”
“Ooh, spicy– I like that from the man of sex”, Vox continues to add on as Ike groans again from Vox’s comments. Vox chuckles at Ike’s reaction before saying, “Sorry sorry. Boy problems, I get it. What has our adorable fox done to make Mr. Eki appear?”
“First of all, 'Eki' doesn’t exist. 駅 ( eki ) is a train station.”
“Uhuh, alright train station boy, tell me all about him ignoring you.”
“Ugh.. Mysta is almost always giving me affection and stuff– Right?”
“Lucky him–”
“Vox, you have a boyfriend?”
“Yeah, I know– I just wanted to tease, heh”, Vox looks at Ike smugly with a teasing smile before Ike stares at him, dead expression and all. Vox purses his lips, deciding to shut up for a bit just to avoid Ike’s actual frustration.
“Anyways.. I just wanted to know what’s been going on recently. Like, what the heck!”
“Well uh– What happened recently?”
“Well let’s just start before we had our whole Luxiem vacation, alright?”
“Mhm”
“Well, I was just casually eating my caviar toast and chilling on our sofa, right? Then, I see Mysta come out of our bedroom. So, I said, ‘Good morning, Mysta!’ and– And he just stared at me with a red face! Like, red red face… Then, he just immediately walked to our bathroom and locked the door!”
“Did he happen to do this on the way to the airport?” Vox asked as he watched Ike leaned in to grab a snack that was laying on the coffee table. Ike leans back, slamming his back on the seat grumpily before he opens it, chomps on a chip, and nods passionately to Vox. The whole visual was funny itself. Vox watches a gentle (kind of) human being like Ike turn into a grumpy princess in minutes. Usually, he wasn’t like this, but these moments of Ike made it endearing for Vox to watch.
As Ike swallowed his chip, he continued, “When we got to the airport– He wouldn’t even look at me! So, I tried to get him to speak and dude– Dude. When he responded to me, his voice was like– Shaking a bit.”
“Shaking?”
“Yeah! Literally, I thought he was scared about the plane, but that isn’t possible because he rode on planes before we started dating! I mean, he could’ve possibly developed a fear after we started dating, but.. We rode on the plane a month ago!”
“Yeah. He also sounded pretty excited for our trip to L.A. as well”, Vox pointed out as Ike nods in agreement. As Vox nodded at Ike to continue, Ike began to ramble, “The entire plane ride, like, he just slept. He was dead asleep. When we arrived in L.A. and took a taxi to get to our airbnb, he just.. He doesn’t look at me! What did I do?” Ike shoves a chip in his mouth as Vox begins to ponder for a moment. They both had no context as to why Mysta was ignoring Ike, so Vox decided to go through classic scenarios in his head.
“So, I have two cliché scenarios in my head that could possibly explain things.”
“Okay, spill it.”
“So, the first one being that Mysta is cheating on you. However! Even if he might still be into NTR, I’d doubt he’d cheat on you just because he kept ranting to me about how much he was in love with you for a whole year. Also, Mysta isn’t the type of person to cheat! He’s a sweet boy, so I doubt every single cell of my being that’s the case”, Vox says as Ike nods in agreement.
“Yeah, I’d doubt Mysta would cheat on me considering he’s definitely not the type of person to do that. What’s the other suggestion?” Ike asks as Vox nods to continue on.
“Maybe he had a dream involving you?”
“A dream? Like, anime cliché kind of dream?”
“Yeah, I guess. Yet, that doesn’t make any sense– Ignoring you throughout like.. The plane ride and as soon as we got into our airbnb? There’s no way someone could ignore you based on a dream they had.”
Ike groans before he looks at Vox with sad eyes, “I just want his attention man.” Vox begins to frown due to Ike’s energy shrinking by the second. Determined, Vox wanted to cheer Ike up with some sort of plan.
“There there pretty boy, we should come up with an idea to get his attention.”
“An idea?” Ike asked as he placed his chip back down, swiping his hands to get the crumbs off. Curiously, Ike leans in towards Vox to hear Vox's suggestion. Vox smiles and responds, “Yeah. An idea to get this rat bastard’s attention. A pretty boy like you needs to be spoiled, y’know?”
“Hm. For once, I’m gonna listen to your plans.”
“That’s my boy!” Vox cheers as he gets up from the sofa with a huge smile on his face. Ike chuckles at his reaction, glad Vox was just as passionate as Ike in this situation. Vox looks at Ike with his hands on his hips. Ike sighs as he smiles at Vox’s reaction, “Alright. So, what’s the plan?”
“Well– Do you remember the last time Mysta saw you trying out lolita dresses? Wig and all?”
Ike looks at Vox suspiciously before slowly nodding, “Yeah… He was speechless for the rest of the day. Where are you going with this?”
“Well, I’m so glad you asked, my boy! How about we go cosplay shopping and get you some fancy new outfits to get your foxxy-man-of-a-boyfriend's attention!” Vox exclaims excitedly as Ike just stares at him with a deadpan expression. It was a typical suggestion from Vox, no one could deny that. Ike takes a deep breath before letting out a guttural sigh.
“No, we are not doing that.”
“Why not?”
“Why cosplay out of all things? Where the hell are we supposed to find a cosplay store in L.A.!”
“Tsk tsk tsk, L.A. is filled with cosplay stores, Ike Eveland. Cosplayers are everywhere!”
“I don’t think we can do this.”
“Do you want your boyfriend’s attention or not?” Ike froze at Vox’s question. Taking a moment to bury all of his pride, he begins to reason with himself. Mustering most of the pros and cons of Vox’s silly idea, he determined that the majority of this plan has pros in it. The pros being: getting his boyfriend’s attention, getting his affection, and getting more affection and attention combined. As for cons, there are none. Ike stood up with the most serious expressions he has ever made in his twenty-or-so years of his life.
“So, care to make a deal with the devil?” Vox asked with an all-knowing smile, his pale yellow eyes staring at the novelist’s beautiful golden eyes.
“Call a taxi, we’re going shopping.”
As the red-blue pair sets off to who-knows-where in Los Angeles, there sits Mysta, Shu, and Luca under the umbrella in an outside restaurant. How relaxing, isn’t it? A nice, sunny day where the palm trees sway with the wind. A beautiful day except for the fact Mysta had his hands digging into his face, ranting to his friends. Shu and Luca, his brother and best friend, looked at the poor fox with concern. They didn’t know if Mysta was crying or what due to his red cheeks.
That is until Mysta looked up with bags under his eyes, they realized he wasn’t crying. He’s just going through his weekly emotional breakdown about Ike being the shining star of his life. “ Oh, an average day ”, Shu thought as he began to relax into his seat, messing with his hair. Shu messes with his sun hat a bit before Luca leans into the table, looking at his best friend curiously.
“Mysta, you good?” Luca asked, chuckling a bit as he watched his friend groan in somewhat pain. Mysta looks up at the sky, looking at the clouds before deciding to confront his own feelings or not. Mysta decides to look down again, staring at the lovely couple in front of him before responding.
“Yes, I’m doing awesome! Great! Cool!”
“I can sense the sarcasm in that”, Shu smiles as Mysta begins to whine at his brother’s observations. Shu laughs at his brother’s whining before Luca holds his hand, playing with his dainty fingers. As Luca played with Shu’s fingers absentmindedly, he began to ask Mysta some questions.
“So, what’s the rant for this week, huh?” Luca asked as Mysta pouted a bit, pulling his hand up to hide his face in embarrassment.
“Do I really talk about Ike that much?”
“Yup!”
“Ugh– Whatever! I was talking to Shoto and we were discussing our boyfriends and cosplay. We were watching this movie, and Shoto mentioned how pretty Ike would look good in this one character’s dress.. Not gonna lie, he’d look great in anything. However, the more I thought about it– I just think he’d look so fucking perfect in it. Like, ok.. It was a maid dress– Not that.. Him being a maid is hot (I mean, he’d be hot), but it’s the fact he’d look so elegant with a long dress–”, Mysta begins to ramble about his boyfriend again. Shu chuckles as Luca lifts up Shu’s hand to kiss it. Shu rolls his eyes before Luca looks up at Mysta again, still going on about his rant.
“Literally, the apron makes me think about having some kind of domestic as fuck life with him! Like he’d be cooking and I’ll be watching him while his apron gets all messy. Then I'll.. like– Put the apron on and be like ‘Honey! I got this!’ You know?”
“Marriage proposal, ayo?” Shu teased as Mysta’s face began to flush a bright shade of red at the thought of marrying Ike and having some sort of domestic life with him. Spending the rest of their days in some nice house, away from the internet and only focusing on each other. Never in a million years did Mysta think that would be the life for him; however, Ike is his home as like the rest of Luxiem. Yet, Ike had a special place in his heart.
“No! Hell, I can’t even face him right now because of this stupid thought of him in a maid outfit!”
“Why?” Luca asked with a small tilt on his head. Shu looks at Luca with a smirk, knowing what he’ll do.
“Because I think about him wearing it a lot!”
“Why?”
“Because he would look pretty in them..?”
“Why?”
“Because I’m fucking in love with him, Luca! You would be the same way if Shu puts on those long ass maid dresses!” Mysta shouts, causing other customers to look at them with questionable looks. The other customers began to whisper as Mysta shrunk a little from embarrassment. Shu began to react to the comment, his face flushing red at the embarrassing thought. Luca turns to Shu with an excited face, and, instead of answering, Shu pushes his boyfriend’s face away before looking at his brother.
“Is that why you were ignoring him all morning?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, you can’t ignore him forever. Like… He’ll get sad, y’know.”
“I know, Shuey. Yet, I don’t think my heart can handle this.”
“You’re down bad, not clickbait”, Shu chuckles at his brother as the waiter walks up to the three of them with their food, piping hot but outright delicious. Mysta looks down at his food, frowning a bit as he thinks about Ike, “ I know that I’m hurting him somewhat, but every time I see him.. I can’t really handle myself. I hope I get over this soon. ”
As the three of them enjoyed their food, they began to talk about other subjects to take their mind off of things. Dancing, laughing, speaking–all of them were enjoying their moment together. As the three got up from their seats, paying the bills and all, they began to walk back to the airbnb. As they were enjoying the better sights of L.A, Ike was groaning as he kept yelling at Vox to pull the corset tighter. To put this into perspective, there they both were, standing in Ike and Mysta’s bedroom as Vox tries to pull the corset tighter on Ike’s waist. Admittedly, Vox was trying his best but Ike is currently trying to cope with Mysta’s actions.
“Vox, pull tighter!”
“How much more should I pull?”
“Ugh– I don’t know, Vox! Hah.. This isn’t gonna be worth it. What if he doesn’t react?”
“It’s going to be fine! If he doesn’t like it, at least we can have a photoshoot to post stuff!”
“Maybe.. Also, Vox pulls the strings harder.”
“I’m trying my best, boy! There– Is it tight enough?”
Ike nods as Vox sighs and begins to tie the strings of the corset. As Vox finishes, Ike lets out a huge sigh before walking towards the shopping bags they brought home. All three bags were different costumes, and Ike dreads the thought of embarrassment. He didn’t know if this was all worth the cost. As Ike was lost in thought, Vox observes Ike’s attire, cooing at the novelist's cute look. Instead of his usual gothic lolita dress, he decided to go with a light blue lolita dress, showing Ike’s shoulders. As for Ike’s wig, it was loosely curled with light-blue bows holding the half-up pigtails. Generally, it fits the whole adorable vibe of the dress.
“You look adorable, Ikey!”
“Ugh– What if he doesn’t react?” Ike turns to Vox with a frown as Vox pats Ike’s back, trying to reassure his favorite blue man.
“If he doesn’t react, then we’re going to use Plan B!”
“And if he doesn’t like Plan B?”
“Then, we’re going to have to use… Plan C..” Vox nods with faux-seriousness as Ike groans at his demon friend.
“I’d rather go to Plan C than Plan B.”
“What’s wrong with Plan B?” Vox asked as Ike gave him a deadpan expression.
“You really wanna ask me that?”
“I think bunnies are cute, mind you!”
“This isn’t for you?!” Ike shouts in bewilderment as Vox laughs at his reaction, looking at the novelist fondly before Ike rolls his eyes and continues, “Anyways.. I think we should go back to the store and return this. Maybe go for something different? The cosplay store has a huge section so..”
“I like it though!” Vox exclaims. Before Ike could respond to him, they both heard the doorbell. The red-blue duo froze as Ike began to shove Vox out the door. As Ike was shoving the demon with all of his might, he whispers, “Open the door Vox! I can’t let Shu or Luca look at me like this!” Getting Ike’s message, Vox abruptly walks downstairs to get the door. As Vox makes his way to the door, Ike keeps pacing around the room until heard Luca’s loud, booming voice. “ What did I get myself into? ” Ike thought as he took a deep breath, “ Vox is right. If Mysta doesn’t like this then.. I’ll just wear this for a photoshoot– ”
“Honey, I’m home!” Luca shouts as Mysta, Shu, and Vox’s laughs could be heard.
“What do you mean ‘honey’? I came home with you”, Shu teases out loud as Mysta’s chuckle could be heard from downstairs. Ike gulps as he begins to make his way to the floor mirror, trying to calm himself down. He turned a bit, admiring the sewing work of the dress.
“ I’ve never worn something like this before. It’s so pretty.. ”, Ike thought as began to weave his fingers through the curls of the wig. Taking his mind off of things, he began to observe the dress in detail. However, his thoughts were interrupted when he heard footsteps heading up the stairs. As the door opens, Ike hears a gasp as he turns around to see Mysta with a gaping mouth. The two of them didn’t know what to say or do. Mysta was flabbergasted at the sight of Ike. As Mysta was staring, Ike decided to sputter up some words of surprise.
“O-Oh, uh.. Mysta!”
“I–Ike.. Um'', Mysta gulps before slowly closing the door. Mysta’s eyes were wide open as he scanned Ike’s attire. “ Fuckfuckfuckfuck ”, Mysta’s thoughts repeated over and over as he kept looking at Ike. He looked absolutely adorable at the moment, his kissable face made apparent as Mysta’s throat suddenly felt dry.
“Ehm… What do you think of my outfit? I– Uh.. Just bought it”, Ike asks nervously before taking a step towards Mysta. As Ike took a step forward, Mysta took a step back. “Eh? Mysta?” Ike spoke as he tried to take further steps towards Mysta. However, the detective kept walking backwards. Slowly, Mysta backed into their shared bathroom before slamming the bathroom door.
“Mysta!” Ike shouted as he heard ‘Click! ’. The bathroom door had been locked. Ike walks up to the bathroom door, knocking on it, before asking, “Are you okay, Mysta?” Suddenly, noises of falling objects came from the bathroom as Ike heard the sounds of loud coughing.
“Y-Yeah! I’m doing great right now! Awesome, amazing! Just uh– Give me a moment to um– Fuck. What the fuck was that word again– Give me a minute to compose myself”, Mysta responds through the bathroom door as Ike smiles to himself.
“Are you sure? I heard you coughing and stuff”, Ike began to tease. He knew what was going on, he wasn’t that stupid. He knew that Mysta liked it considering his reaction; clearly, he liked it since this was a common trope in stories for a reaction. Ike just needs to physically see him.
“Yeah! I’m uh– Okay!”
“So, can you come out?”
“No!” Mysta shouts with a red face. He was clearly worked up at Ike’s presence at the moment. “Why?” Ike shouts back as he begins to pout. Mysta begins to cough again as he responds, “Your outfit is making me feel things..”
“Oh, so you think I look good?” Ike asked as Mysta coughs, “Yes– Uh, can you change out of it? Just for my sake?”
“No! I want you to look at me and tell me your opinions!”
“No!”
“What– Why?”
“I don’t wanna!”
Ike pouts before quietly walking away from the bathroom door and out of their shared bedroom. When Ike walks out, he walks down the stairs with an annoyed look on his face. As he was walking down, he noticed Vox, Luca, and Shu were having a conversation on the couch. However, Luca stopped mid-speech before looking at the blue boy. “Hm, what is it Lu–”, Shu pauses as he follows Luca’s gaze towards Ike. They were all frozen before Vox quietly asked, “So.. Did it work?”
Ike groans before stomping his way towards the three of them. “Clearly not considering my annoyance right now”, Ike begins to pout, crossing his arms as he stares off into the distance with a pissed-off face. Shu asks, “Woah Ike.. Uh– What’s this for?”
“It’s for my boyfriend who obviously won’t give me any attention for whatever-the-heck of a reason!” Shu’s eyes widened, obviously knowing the reason for the whole problem to begin with. However, he decided not to say since he wanted to know where this was going.
“So you wore a dress for him?” Shu chuckles as Ike sits next to Shu with an annoyed look. Ike leans back onto the sofa, looking at Shu before nodding.
“Yeah, it was Vox’s idea. He said something about cosplaying because of Mysta’s reaction the last time I wore something.”
Shu and Luca looked at each other, knowingly, before Luca began to smirk. Obviously, Luca was cooking up some sort of scheme to help Ike’s problem, but also to screw with Mysta. Truly, it was all out of love of course. Luca began to lean into his boyfriend, whispering, “Should we help them? Suggest a little bit of cosplaying ideas?” Shu turns to his boyfriend, nodding as Vox and Ike look at each other across the coffee table. The two of them didn’t know what the two were stirring up. As Ike was about to ask something, Shu began to speak up.
“So, before I start– Did you two buy any other cosplays?”
“Yeah, we bought…”
It had been two days since Mysta’s first reaction towards the lolita dress. Best to say that he reacted terribly, but also greatly. Essentially, it was a half good half bad reaction to say the least. After that day, Mysta refused to look at Ike; of course, he snuck glances at Ike when Ike was asleep. Yet, no one needed to know that aside from Mysta himself. Mysta loved his boyfriend, but it was hard to face Ike since Mysta’s imagination is very much active. Aside from Mysta’s reaction, Ike and Vox ended up adding two new members to their little operation: Shu and Luca. While Mysta was hiding in Ike and his shared bathroom, they decided to do some last minute planning. Aside from going straight to Vox’s original Plan B (Plan Bunny), they decided on the next best thing: Plan CO , also known as Plan Cosplay.
Here’s the plan: buy convention tickets last minute, everyone wears Genshin Impact cosplay, get Ike in a Ganyu cosplay (especially). Of course, this was difficult to do in a singular day. However, the four men were too invested in this plan, so they bought the tickets and went to a cosplay store the day before the event. This leads to where Ike is now: standing in Shu and Luca’s room so Shu could help Ike put a Ganyu cosplay on.
“Woah..”
“I can’t believe I’m doing this..”
“You look good Ike!”
“Thanks, but.. The fact that this is all for my boyfriend is crazy.”
“You’ll be fine, Ike! Just imagine this as us going to a convention.”
“Shu, we are going to a convention though…”
“That’s what I’m saying! We’re doing this as a group cosplay, so we’re chillin’”, Shu reassures his best friend as Ike groans. Shu closes the bell-like collar on Ike’s neck. Ike turns around, seemingly in distress as he begins to ramble again.
“I don’t know anything about this game! I just know Mysta plays it. Like– Am I even wearing this costume right?”
“I mean, it looks like it in the photo–” Shu lifts up his phone to show a picture of the character. Ike stares at the photo before looking at Shu with a sigh.
“Still, I don’t know anything about this game.”
“Neither do I, but look at us! We’re our colors!” Shu pipes up as he backs away from Ike to do a tiny twirl in his Keqing cosplay. Ike stares at his friend, watching as Shu messes the hems of his dress. Shu chuckles a bit before he messes with the pigtails of the wig. It’s safe to say that Shu was having fun, though it seemed quite embarrassing for the sorcerer. Ike continues to sigh, seemingly jealous of how Shu could be relaxed for the majority of this.
“I don’t even know if Mysta likes this character..” Ike worries as Shu tilts his head.
“I mean, I know it’s one of his favorites!”
“Who are his other favorites?”
“Uh– This purple lady who pulls a sword from her chest.”
“You know damn well I can’t wear anything like that–” Ike joked as Shu began to giggle a bit. As Ike stares at his best friend, he smiles a bit before pointing out, “You know.. For someone who gets flustered easily, you really are excited to cosplay huh?”
“Trying new things is cool, heh– It’s not my thing, definitely. Yet, if it makes you feel any comfort then I’ll definitely join you on the experience”, Shu responds with a smile. “Why you little…”, Ike pouts before dragging Shu into a big hug. It wasn’t a tight hug, but it definitely showed Ike’s gratitude for his best friend. Shu shifts awkwardly into the hug before slowly wrapping his arms around his best friend.
“You ready?” Shu asks as he pulls away from Ike. He stares at Ike for a moment, fixing the horns on Ike’s head. Ike grunts, fixing his wig a bit before nodding.
“Let’s get this stupid operation started”, Ike responds as Shu nods with a smirk on his face. Ike lifts up his arm, nudging Shu to wrap his arm around his. Shu stares for a moment, shyly wrapping his arms around his best friend’s before walking out of the room. They were nervous, but their adrenaline kicked in as they both saw Vox and Luca knocking on Ike and Mysta’s bedroom door. Curiously, they walked over to see what was going on.
“Mysta, you bastard! Get out of there boy!”
“No! I don’t wanna!”
“We got a convention to go to! Don’t you want to join us?” Luca shouts as Mysta pauses his shouting for a moment to think.
“Yes– But no? Maybe! Agh!” Mysta yells as Ike stood quiet, frowning at his boyfriend’s response.
“Are you really just going to stay in your room all day?” Luca asked as Mysta began to mumble a bit. It was clear that he already felt guilty to deny them. In turn, Vox began to reason with Mysta, shouting through the door. Luca pouts before he turns to see Shu and Ike standing there together. Luca was about to say something until he saw the frown on Ike’s face. It wasn’t normal for Ike to have a genuine frown like that. It hurt both Luca and Shu’s heart to see him like this. Determined, Luca pushes past Vox and begins to bang on the door louder.
“Mysta Ri-ass! You’re gonna make Ike lonely! Surely you don’t want your sweet cutesy-wootsy boyfriend to get all alone, now do you?” Luca teased with a light-hearted tone. Ike chuckles a bit, slowly smiling at Luca’s words. Shu tugs Ike’s arm, giving him the reassurance he needs.
“I don’t want him alone but–”
“Mysta, my boy, if you don’t want your boyfriend to get whisked away by me during this convention– Get your ass out of this room”, Vox says before Mysta immediately opens the door with a flushed face.
“You have a boyfriend you bast– Wait, are all of you in Genshin cosplay?” Mysta asked, blinking a bit in surprise.
“Can’t go to a convention without a cosplay, my boy”, Vox comments as Mysta was looking at his friends, observing all of their cosplays. Vox, of course, had a Zhongli cosplay on due to his voice. Also, it is probably because he was a Zhongli main. As for Luca, he had an Itto cosplay on due to the obvious parallels. He had abs, chest, and attitude that could definitely compliment Itto’s actual personality. For Shu, he had a Keqing cosplay which brought Mysta to surprise. He never thought his brother would ever wear something like this, so he’s most definitely impressed.
Lastly for Ike, Mysta’s jaws dropped to the floor. Ike was Ganyu, of course, and he looked gorgeous in the cosplay. To compensate for the lack of the obvious assets, the bodysuit hugged Ike’s figure beautifully. Mysta stared at Ike’s face for a while, blushing at the way Ike was looking down nervously as his makeup was hiding the majority of his flushed face.
“ I think I’m going to die here ”, Mysta thought. As Mysta was absolutely swept up in Ike’s beauty, Vox coughs which fully interrupted Mysta’s thoughts. “So uh– Are you going to join us?”
“Uh– Well, like.. I don’t have anything to join your little group cosplay.”
“Well, I have this Hu Tao cosplay for you! We don’t have to all match considering Luca is literally not from the same region”, Vox responded before shoving the Hu Tao cosplay in Mysta’s hands. Mysta clenches the costume before his brows begin to furrow.
“Aren’t the rest of you from Liy–”
“Nevermind the logistics, boy– Just put the costume on.”
“What about the wig?”
“Oh, Ike can help you put it on! It’s all in Shu and Luca’s room–”
“Nononono, it’s fine! I’m okay!”
Ike frowns at Mysta’s rejection for his help, Ike begins to clench his sleeves as he looks at boyfriend with a pouty face. Mysta looks at Ike, clearly affected by the way his boyfriend began to pout at him. “ Shit ”, Mysta thought as Ike slowly pulled his arms away from Shu. Mysta’s heart breaks at the sight before he bites his lip, clearly going through his personal dilemma.
“Yeah, Ike can– He can help me, nevermind”, Mysta takes back while Ike looks at Mysta, seemingly surprised at his change of mind. Ike smiles as he walks up to his boyfriend. Mysta began to sweat as they all scattered around, preparing for the convention. When they got everything sorted, Ike thought that Mysta would give him some sort of attention again when they reached the convention. Surely, Ike being one of his favorite characters would mean something. Yet, Mysta kept avoiding Ike’s eyes and only looked down with a blush on his face. Overall, the mission failed.
Time for Plan C.
It has been a day since the convention, their vacation nearly coming to an end. It was an odd vacation to say the least. Of course, Mysta and Ike are not having the most fun out there due to Mysta’s little “situation”. Yet, there is some time left for them to relax, let’s hope.
“Damn it!” Mysta shouted as he began to push the shopping cart around with Luca wandering off. Luca and Mysta were at the grocery store, currently looking for some ingredients for Vox’s special dinner tonight. As the duo begin to walk near the spice isles, Mysta continues to grumble about Ike again. Distracted, Luca picks up some ground pepper before turning around to see Mysta’s hands buried in his face.
“Uh, Mysta? What are you doing?”
“Wallowing.”
“Heh, wallowing my ass…” Luca comments to himself before Mysta looks up at him with a glare. Mysta lighting shoves Luca, pouting at his joke.
“Fuck you”, Mysta said as Luca began to laugh out loud.
“I’m with Shu though!” Luca responds as Mysta begins to sputter at his comment.
“That’s not what I meant, you bitch! Also, I’m with Ike!”
“Hm..” Luca hums, mumbling about Mysta’s words to himself as he puts the ground pepper in the shopping cart. Luca takes the shopping cart from Mysta and begins to walk off to the dairy section, letting Mysta follow along. As Mysta drags his feet, Luca turns around with a small smile on his face.
“Seriously though, what’s up?”
“Huh?”
“What’s up?”
“Ugh… You already know what I’m about to say though.”
“It feels better if you’d actually say it though, no?” Luca reasons as Mysta sighs in agreeance, “It’s like I fucking jinxed myself saying, ‘Oh! If Ike wears a maid dress, I’ll–’ I’ll.. Fuck, I don’t know– Coom? Shit! I don’t even know– Augh… Anyways, he’s been wearing all of these cutesy outfits since I’ve said that. Literally, I don’t know how much longer until I lose it and explode myself to Ike.”
Luca lets out a laugh as he picks up some butter. As he puts the butter in the cart, he turns to Mysta, “Well– Why are you holding back? You barely talked to your boyfriend this entire trip because of your little issue, bro. Surely he feels pretty lonely without you.”
“I’m holding myself back because what if he thinks I’m weird for thinking that kind of stuff about him?”
“Mysta, you’ve been with Ike as long as I’ve been with Shu. He’s already heard you say ‘weird’ stuff before.”
“Yeah, but this isn’t the same as before! Before that, it was all jokes and mild attraction. Now it’s like… I want to treat him like a prince with the utmost respect and love. If he hears me think about that stuff– He’ll think I’m fuckin’ weird!”
Luca hums at Mysta’s response, pushing the cart absentmindedly as Mysta follows along. “I mean.. You’ve seen each other in many weird situations, right? Yet, you still felt respect and love for him even though it was all weird situations. You’ve imagined him with fishnets and told us about it. Ike figured it out, but he never judged you for it. Honestly, he embraced his fishnet stuff more because of you. Same here now!”
“What do you mean ‘same here now’?”
“I mean, Ike has probably figured out about your thing for his cosplays, right? Maybe that’s why he’s been wearing all of this cosplay stuff. He’s just embracing you”, Luca gives a white lie. He knows that Ike has no idea about the cosplay issue, he’s just following Vox’s original plan. Yet, for the sake of reasoning with Mysta, he lies. It’s okay to lie, right?
“How would he even know?”
“I mean, your reaction makes it obvious, in my opinion”, Luca admits. That part is true, Mysta was easy to read. Yet, Ike being blinded by his want for attention really could blind him from the obvious truth: cosplay was the main reason. Mysta stood quietly, slowly realizing that he’s been hurting his boyfriend due to his silly issue. Mysta frowns as he looks at Luca, eyes facing the floor.
“I’m a bad boyfriend, aren’t I?”
“I don’t think you are. I think you just need to trust Ike more. Like– Trust him to where he won’t judge you. He already knows your weird kinks, you’ve been with each other for years, bro!” Luca smiles at him. Mysta grew quiet as they eventually reached the check-out line, waiting to pay for their things. After paying for groceries, the two of them began to walk back to the AirBNB, hurrying a bit to prevent the butter from spoiling. As they hurried back, Luca began to bang on the door, trying not to drop some of the grocery bags. It took a few seconds until the two of them heard giggling on the other side.
“Uh what’s going on dude?”
“I don’t know, Ri-ass.”
Suddenly, the door swung open with Vox having the biggest smile on his face. Shu was right behind Vox, seemingly in a good mood. “Come on in, boys! Here, let me get that for you–”, Vox said as he took all of the bags from Mysta hands. Confused, Mysta tugs the bags a bit, “Uh– I can carry them on my own?”
“Yeah, but you might want to go to your room”, Shu responds with a small snicker, looking up at Vox with a smug face. Vox smiles back, winking at Shu even though it looked like a blink since his hair was covering his other eye. Curious, Mysta tilts his head at the meaning of Vox’s message.
“What do you mean by that?”
“Ike is in a bit of a pickle right now.”
“Huh? What do you mean by that–”
“Well, my boy…He’s got a bit of a problem and he kind of needs–” Vox was interrupted as he shoved all of the bags into Vox’s arms. “Oof!” Vox huffs out as Mysta makes a beeline straight towards Ike and his room. He hurried up the stairs, eyebrows furrowing with concern.
“ What the fuck happened to my blue boy? ” Mysta thought as he swung the door open. As Mysta scans the room, his eyes then focus on Ike in all of his glory. Ike was wearing an elegant long maid dress. The apron hugged around his waist, and the headband sitting on his head made him look cute. This time, Ike didn’t wear any wig, so when Ike turned around to meet Mysta's eyes, his fluffy hair bounced.
“Mysta–”, before Ike could say anything, Mysta immediately turned around. He was ready to walk out of the door before Ike growled, stomping his way towards him. As his heels clicked on the wooden floor, Ike pulled Mysta by the collar of his shirt. Ike pulls him away from the door, not letting his collar loose. Suddenly, Ike slams the door shut, locking it before turning around to look at Mysta’s flushed face.
“Ike wait–”
“No more waiting, Mysta. I’m sick of you ignoring me!”
“Ike, please–”
“Is this what you wanted?” Ike confronts as he walks up to Mysta, dragging him by the arm and pushing him against the door. Mysta gulps as Ike slams the palm of his hands beside Mysta’s head, essentially kabedon . Mysta tried to get a word in before Ike began to speak, “Before you speak, you better give me a fucking kiss right now, Mr. Rias.”
Mysta froze at his demand. Honestly, Mysta thought his boyfriend was about to kill him. Mysta shrugs in his head, preferring to kiss his lovely boyfriend than getting killed by him. So, Mysta pulls his blue boy in for a kiss. Ike immediately melts into the kiss, letting his arms relax so he could kiss his boyfriend deeper. Eventually, they run out of air as Ike pulls away, saliva following their lips as they depart from each other. They began to breathe heavily, Ike’s eyes hooded as he looked at his detective with a huge pout on his face.
Mysta began, “Ike, I-I know you’re angry but–”
“Angry? Angry!” Ike shouts as he takes off his maid headband, clutching it as he continues, “I’m frustrated as to why you aren’t giving me any attention! I had to get Shu to tell me the whole entire reasoning. A movie, are you serious? Mysta Rias! I haven’t been getting any attention because of a movie? Helvete!”
Mysta began to sweat under Ike’s gaze, “I can’t help it– I didn’t wanna lose it and make you feel weirded out because of my imagination”
“That you want a domestic life with me? How was that weird?”
“It wasn’t just domestic life, okay! There were other things about you wearing a maid dress that made me freak out!”
“I’ve been dating you for four years, Mysta! What are you even saying?”
“Fine, fine! I’ll tell you everything, okay? Just– Can you let me go, this position is going to make my heart shake”, Mysta confesses with a red face as Ike huffs. Ike began to back away, crossing his arms to stare at his boyfriend. Mysta gulps at Ike’s face, blushing as he begins to admit to his feelings.
“Okay so– Uh.. It all started when Shoto said you’d look good in a maid dress. Then I ended up thinking about having a domestic life with you, being married and shit because I thought you’d look really cute with an apron. Like– I don’t want you to be a maid, but wait– Ugh! I want to treat you respectfully as another human I like! Yes! Then, I was like… Am I weird for thinking this shit? You looking pretty in anything is going to make me lose it and and…” Mysta rambles on as Ike’s shoulders begin to relax a bit. He sighs at his boyfriend, shaking his head at his long rambles before inching closer to him.
Mysta notices and shifts backwards until his back hits the door again. Ike lifts up his arm to place his palm next to Mysta’s head. Ike looks up at his boyfriend, clenching his apron with his other hand. Mysta looks down at his boyfriend, his rambles turned into small mutters. The two stared at each other for a moment.
Ike smirks, “So.. All of this was because you wanted to have a domestic life with me? You know we already live together, right?”
“I meant.. Domestic life as in we get married and move far away, no internet and all.. Just us two.”
“Is this your way of a marriage proposal?”
“Nono! This is way too messy for a marriage proposal”, Mysta denies as Ike begins to laugh. The mood suddenly shifts into something more positive as Ike leans up to give Mysta a light kiss.
“Honestly, I can’t even be mad at you anymore.. Just, never ignore me again. You got me lookin’ for attention and everything. Doing all of this cosplaying for you embarrasses me, hehe..” Mysta’s shoulder relaxes at Ike’s comment before leaning in to hug Ike, wrapping his arms around Ike’s waist. Ike chuckles, clearly happy with getting what he wanted for a whole week: attention. Something that many people want and desire. As for Ike, he wanted Mysta’s attention.
‘Attention is what I want’