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giorno "menace, pronounced like versace" giovanna ([personal profile] digiorno) wrote2016-10-06 10:24 pm

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buongiorno! sorry i missed you; i'll happily get back to you as soon as i'm done with whatever business i'm on. leave a message!

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unholey: (SMILING? ☠ it's always darkest before)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-04-16 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is no chance, in any shape, way, or form, that Giorno's gesture was anything but intentional. Fugo knows it. And yet here he is, a little dazzled just by-- how it feels, to have someone move underneath his hands. To have Giorno move underneath his hands. Wow, is a thought he has, immediately followed by, this is nice.

Sitting in a library and the smell of books, which is quickly being overwhelmed by Giorno's perfume, with this amazing boy in his lap and underneath his hands. Talking about the study of flirting. God, it's stupid.]


[Wistfully:] Usually, I'm just happy to see you smile. If I can manage that, I count it as a success.

[He's so in love with him. It leaves him foolish and a little dizzy every time he thinks about: the fact that he can say that to Giorno, I love you, ti amo, aishiteru, and Giorno will say it back to him.]

Hm. There really are a lot of variables when it comes to flirting, aren't there. Nonverbal cues, delivery, tone of voice, expression... [Fugo's thumb fondly brushes the curve between Giorno's neck and shoulder, up and down.] I might have to make a list. Come up with a formula.
unholey: (SMOOCH ♡ I looked all around)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-04-22 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, there it is. The smile he was hoping he would get to see. Not that he doesn't love Giorno's smiles-- because he does. He loves Giorno's wicked smiles, sharp and toothy, his perfectly practiced charming smiles, bright and dazzling, and he even loves the smiles that aren't really smiles at all. (As much as they hurt. As much as they mean that everything is wrong.) But he has a special place in his heart for these soft, subtle smiles.]

Is that so? [He reaches out with his other hand, the one that isn't busy tracing the outline of Giorno's neck and shoulder, to settle in the dip between his waist and hip. He leans in close, foggily murmuring:] I'd like that. I'd like that a lot.

[That's... really all he can manage, before he just. Gives up on flirting, gives up on words entirely, in favor of just kissing Giorno. This kiss is slower and softer; unhurried in its affection, lingering in its sweetness. He's not worried about the time. They have all day, for whatever else Giorno has planned.]
unholey: (SHY ☠ that I never forgot)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-04-24 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't that be my line? [It's good that Giorno didn't pull far away, because that might actually count as a crime in the pit of lawless anarchy that is Ruby City. Fugo chuckles and, oh, he really can't stop smiling. He can't even pretend to be skeptical or stern or whatever. He's too happy, too dazzled, too content in his own skin to pretend to be anything what he is.] If I had been on my feet earlier, you would have knocked me right down to the ground.

[Reluctantly, his hand drifts down to rest on Giorno's hip proper. If he's going to talk about the skirt, he ought to call attention to it.]

This skirt looks pretty on you. And your tights, um-- they bring attention. To how slender your legs are.

[He. May have also sort of forgotten about the present. He'll be excited about it later, but right now-- God, Giorno is cute today. He squeaked when he was kissed. He's rosy and freckly and has their foreheads pressed together, so how can Fugo be peeved about his hair being tugged. And shy as he is, he doesn't deny or try to wiggle out of Giorno's accusation of cuteness.]
unholey: (SHY ☠ that I never forgot)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-04-24 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. Here are a few.

[Even though he's not the one being complimented, Fugo's pink all over. He reaches with both hands for Giorno's face, fingers sliding into his hair, his smile wide and wondering.]

Your hair... you usually tie it back. And that looks good too, very dramatic, very bold, completely unforgettable. I usually don't get to see it loose unless you're brushing it. But when it's loose like this, it frames your face and makes your jaw look rounder. Softer. [Fugo could probably run his fingers through Giorno's hair forever. He loves the texture of it, the feeling of all those curls and waves slipping through his fingers. But he pulls them out this time to carefully touch Giorno's face as he continues to speak; his brows and the bridge of his nose, the crest of his cheeks.] You're not wearing any makeup today. I can see your freckles and that, um-- that makes me think of the spring and the summer and wonder if they'll get any darker when we get more sunshine.

[Giorno's makeup routine fascinates him; how he so carefully draws lines around his eyes, darkens his lashes, evens out the tone in his cheeks, brings out the shape of his mouth with bright splashes of color. The result is Giorno, only more intense. Intense and bright and perfect. Again, Fugo's hands drift down; this time, they come to rest on Giorno's shoulders.]

Your shirt... you look very good in colors like this. I think they're... jewel tones? Is that what they're called? This shirt is purple, but it's so bright and I think that makes your eyes look brighter. It makes your everything look brighter. And I get to look at your neck and shoulders and-- [Ah. Here he goes. Fugo's pink briefly flushes darker into red, but he manages to get the word out:] stomach.

[Here is another fact that Fugo can't quite manage to say: because it has such a high waist, Giorno's skirt naturally draws the eye to the gap between the hem of his shirt and the top of his skirt. He can't not look at it.]

You look so comfortable. And happy. You've been smiling a lot today, which is the cutest thing of all.
unholey: (SMILING? ☠ it's always darkest before)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-04-27 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[He ... can't just reply to that. He needs a moment, even floating in all this happiness, to make a circle with his arms around Giorno and draw him in; lean back into the armchair, close his eyes, and curl closely around this boy who's staked out a claim in the unsteady ground of his heart. Listen to him breathe. And just let those words sink in, float down to come to rest at the center of his collection of countless little observation collected through the six months they've lived together.

Objectively speaking, Fugo is not a safe person to live with or be close to. After all, Purple Haze is always with him. And no one knows better than Fugo how little control he has over his own Stand--or his own temper. There is a simple, undeniable, certain risk to associating with him.]

[And yet, Giorno feels comfortable with him; enough to share a bed with him, both on nights where it's hard to sleep and nights where it's easy. He makes Giorno happy, in so many little ways that it would be silly to try and think of them now. Giorno feels safe to simply be himself; to be a boy who likes wearing skirts, someone in love with more than one person, a cunning criminal with dangerous ambitions, the young man who grew up as a child who was told over and over again that he wasn't worth it and there was no place for him. And all of the other things that Giorno is.]

[When he's finally ready to make words, he has to admit:]
Probably not as much as you would like me to. But, when I'm with you...

[Fugo trails off and opens his eyes again. He sort of wants to shift around so he can get a better look at Giorno; the way they are now, the most he can see is the top of his head, the set of his shoulders, and the curve of his spine. But he doesn't want to move him, either, not when he can feel how happy Giorno from the smile on his jaw.]

I feel very loved. I feel-- unique, in all the world. Not because of what I've done or what I can provide for you. Just by being. [Somehow. He wonders, some days, if he'll ever simply understand it in the way others surely must.] Thank you for telling me. Knowing you feel that way... I don't think I have the words for how happy I am.

I love you. Ti amo. Aishiteru.

[He understands why Giorno used that particular word. Extraordinary: very unusual, remarkable. He knows fear, has lived with it and carried it with him so long. He understands, so well, how unheard of it is to feel that way around someone; to have that sort of faith and trust in someone simply for being there. It's amazing. It means the world to Fugo to know that Giorno feels safe to be himself with him.]
unholey: (CONTENT ☠ "this piano is free")

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-07 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Ever since Kurama shared with him the meaning of oak-leaved geraniums and lily of the valley with him, Fugo's done a lot of reading about flowers; he's been pouring over old-fashioned books, printed a hundred years ago about which blossom means this and what color meant that. And so he found heliotropes. Little flowers who, according to the legend of Clytie and Helios, dutifully follow the sun as it makes across the sky.

Most of the books he's read told him they mean devotion. But they also mean love. The bouquet he asked Kurama to make for him, that he'll pass along to Giorno later-- it's a little silly, how blunt and clumsy the message is. But what he means to say when he gives Giorno heliotropes and pink peonies is this: I love you, always; now and forever.]

[Like a heliotrope, Fugo turns to face the warmth of Giorno's smile. He looks at him like he's shy, which he is, and with the sort of smile that can only be categorized as hopelessly in love, which is undeniably true. He doesn't shy away from what Giorno has to tell him; sighs when he's kissed, perfectly content just to be in this moment.

Content enough, apparently, that when the kiss is over he leans forward when Giorno pulls back because he doesn't really want it to stop. And he's content enough to laugh when Giorno relocates one of his hands, eyes bright and playful, even though he can feel himself going red.]


Ti amo, Giogio. [He darts forward and kisses Giorno's cheekbones, then his jaw. And since Giorno so helpfully put his hand there, his fingers slyly curl up to tickle a spot near his ribs that Fugo has learned makes Giorno giggle when it's touched.] Later, I promise. When we go back upstairs.
unholey: (SCARF ☠ I made a mistake)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-07 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
No tickling. [Fugo agrees to this demand peaceably, mentally adding for now to it. Because he loves making Giorno laugh like that too much to give it up even for a day. He tips his head to the side, resting his temple on the back of the armchair and keeping his hand on Giorno's waist, and listens to Giorno talk. And then he takes a moment to think on the subject himself, turning it over in his head.]

Before today, [he starts, eyebrows coming together; he's still thinking, even now.] I thought I would never want to dress up for anyone again.

[To be respectable, to be obedient; to fall in line with what he's supposed to be. He did that for years and years, until one day he was just-- sick of it.]

But I like this. Because what you're wearing-- I can tell you were thinking of me when you picked it out, because of the colors, but they're still clothes you like. And I think it's those two things together that makes me smile the most. [He quirks a smile and taps his fingers, pinky to thumb, up along Giorno's side.] Laughing, though. That's just you being you.
unholey: (? ☠ every step that I take)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-13 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Whoops? Fugo chuckles and then, because he didn't really mean to tickle Giorno again with his fidgeting, adjusts his arms in a loose embrace around his middle. Best to remove the temptation.]

Well. You are pretty.

[Fugo says it plainly, as if this is just a simple fact--because to him it is. On an every day level, Giorno's very pretty; when he wants to be, he can be devastatingly beautiful. And he's not self-conscious about it either; in fact, most of what he likes to wear (even his most masculine of clothes) draws attention to that. And Fugo mulls over it an honestly embarrassing amount. The only reason he doesn't comment more on Giorno's prettiness is his own self-consciousness.]

It felt sort of like a movie. You know, one of those silly romantic ones. I always thought it was stupid when there were shots highlighting how beautiful the protagonist was and her designated love-interest just stared at her like an idiot. [He sighs, a little pink around the edges.] ... guess I know how that feels now.
unholey: (GLANCE ☠ so tonight I'm gonna)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-14 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, wait a moment. You need to explain something. [Fugo reaches for Giorno's shoulders, carefully readjusting him so he can see his face without interrupting Giorno from his bang-fiddling.] What do you mean I was "too pretty" in this sweater?

[Fugo's brows come together as he thinks back on that day. Their retroactive official-- ... anniversary, that's what it is, because that's the day they started dating to think back on how the conversation. It was cold, so he was wearing this sweater, that... yes, that's right. Giorno gave it to him. Pushed it into his arms that morning while he was still very drowsy and cheerfully pulled a promise out of him that, yes, he'd wear it and, yes, it would be specifically on that day.]
unholey: (LAUGHING?? ☠ I've been a fool)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-15 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Fugo listens to this with wide, wondering eyes. With all their shuffling about, his sweater has settled unevenly around his shoulders and he's too distracted by Giorno's pretty hands to fix it-- which, of course, means that one of Giorno's pesky marks is peeking out along the edge of the garment's collar. He grows steadily rosy the longer Giorno goes on.

And... he's floored, really. Too pretty! That's the turn of phrase Giorno is using to describe him sitting on a bench. Eating a sandwich.]


Giogio, you... [Fugo doesn't laugh. No, not at Giorno. Never. Why would he ever laugh at his boyfriend, who's never been silly a day in his life? Fugo smiles, the corners of his mouth twitching up, and bites his lower lip. No, he shouldn't. And then he reaches out to hold Giorno's face, wondering if what he says next will make the cheeks under his thumbs puff up or go red.] You're silly. I love you.
unholey: (SMILING? ☠ it's always darkest before)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-15 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[With enough time, repetition, and supporting evidence Fugo's warming up to it; this idea that Giorno thinks he's cute. And now, he's becoming increasingly adamant that Fugo is pretty. Fugo is used to looking in the mirror and seeing someone strange--someone who will stick out, no matter what. He's not sure what to do with this idea that Giorno thinks he's cute. He knows it leaves him feeling flustered, fluttery, and-- pleased? Is that what this is?]

It's not a bad thing. [Fugo affectionately runs his thumbs over Giorno's puffy cheeks. It's cute, when he does this. Cute and very silly. He loves it. He then pulls his left hand away, precisely tracing the shape of Giorno's brow and the curve of his jaw with his fingers.] I'm glad you changed your mind and decided to said something. Both back then and today. I'm very happy right now.
unholey: (? ☠ every step that I take)

[personal profile] unholey 2017-05-23 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah. He's been whapped. Giorno is serious about this. Fugo takes the envelope with a bemused look on his face, testing the weight of it as he turns it over in his hands.]

This is going to take a while even for me, you know. [He slides one finer under the seam and makes as neat of a tear as he can without a letter opener and pulls out the packet of paper Giorno managed to cram in there.] How did you even get this to seal?

[But, okay. The sooner he reads whatever-this-is, the sooner they can get back to... wait. Wasn't all of that kissing and sweetness a distraction from the rest of the date Giorno had planned? Hopefully Fugo hasn't put them off-schedule.

-- right, right, he needs to read this and stop being distracted by tangents.]

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