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check this out. the leader of that stupid INX group wants to ask me out on a date. hes been trying to get my attention by spray painting buildings. im all up for art but NOT when it reeks of desperation.

( ooc: you don't have to watch the whole video, but this is what I'm referring to. )

[Of all the texts Ekko expected it was not this, but honestly he's also not questioning it.

And no, Ekko is definitely not feeling some type of way about the president of the Jinx fanclub apparently trying to date her like a little creep. He is very cool and totally above it. Absolutely. Shut up.]

I knew those losers were up to something weird

[The Firelights have been ignoring them because they're harmless. Alright, except for occasionally spraypainting over their graffiti to tick them off, but that's neither here nor there.]

[ooc: omg the way she makes gun noises when she's shooting 😭 I love Jinx]

weird AND pathetic! its going to take more than a few drawings to get this HEART. a guy (or girl or WHOEVER!!) has to do smth thatll RLY mind blow me just to get me to look their way. like steal smth rly useful for me. or OR make smth super useful for me. and they have to look attractive, duh. this leader guy is all buff but no brains. i wouldnt be caught DEAD w/ a dummy. i can just. make one if i want a dummy to hang w/. someone w/ the smarts who can challenge mine. and someone who knows how to use a wrench and work in that elbow grease. now THAT is hot.

( ooc: she is adorable, yes. )

Edited 2023-07-17 14:54 (UTC)

[LISTEN. Ekko is totally not giggling & kicking his feet about meeting literally all of this criteria. IS that a coincidence?? He types and deletes like 15 texts, honestly]

Okay noted you have a list of demands

What's useful for you?
Is it more guns & bombs

[Does that make it look like he's making plans??? Asking advice?? It's too late to delete now it's been sent.]

I didn't even know you were looking

ooooooooooo thats a toughie!!! hmm hmm HMMMM. ill say gun for now. bc i make my chompers all day, all night. getting parts for them is way easier to me than a gun. i only have one gun and i love him LOADS dont get me wrong. but he is starting to stick u know? and i cant figure out why!! i took him apart and back together and he is still sticking. i think he needs a new trigger or spring. and i cant find new parts for him anywhere! ill give anyone a big fat kiss if they can just fix THAT w/ him.

( and this poor girl still hasn't figured out that these messages are not being sent to chuck. )

yea well u know. a girl gets a lil lonely sometimes. and when ur dad is the big boss around here, its not so easy. i mean i can go in and out whenever i want but sometimes he gets antsy if im gone for TOO long and sends ppl to check up on me. he thinks i dont notice them creeping around and watching me but i SO do.

Yeah you're only going to find gun parts in the junkyards that the Pilties use
But you can just re-tighten the spring by compressing it between a couple of nuts on a screw and then hitting it with a blow torch

[Hey Ekko, don't give gun repair advice to the person who shoots at you the most???]

Ew he does that?
I thought the eye of zaun thing was just ironic or whatever

[Because, you know, the eye. Can she tell it's not Chuck yet]

( ... oh chuck. you're sounding suddenly smart. )

wow. didnt know u had a good brain on u chuck. why are u just a barkeeper????? its not THAT bad. it shows that he cares. so... thats nice to know.

[Wait what? Is this Jinx just being her usual incomprehensible self, or is this something more?? Give Ekko a second]

Who tf is chuck
What do you mean barkeeper???

[Gross he is not touching that with a 10 foot poll, it's way better to be No Parents McGee trust him Jinx]

wait. this isnt chuck???????????? who is this????

Ekko??

[Why is this on him all the sudden!!!]

( ekko... )

( WAIT. SHE'S BEEN TEXTING EKKO THIS WHOLE TIME?! thank goodness she is by herself in her lair, otherwise there's screeching and a crash of her phone getting tossed cross the room. her hair hasn't been braided yet so she'll sit for a few moments with her hair tug over her face to comprehend all she just confessed so far. )

( this is fine. she's smart, she can somehow turn this whole thing around and make it look... smooth. after composing herself, jinx walks on over to grab her phone -- nice, it's not broken. just a little cracked. )

well well well, if it isnt the bug who wont stop buzzing around my head. guess ill be saving this number so i can always reach u!

You texted me!

[It's sorta working because now he's just flabbergasted. So were they not flirting then? NOT THAT HE WAS FLIRTING. He does not scream and throw his phone but he probably lays face down on the floor for a hot second, metaphorically if not physically.]

And it has a block function, so

[So there!!]

i did.

( a pause and she thinks eh, why not? jinx wasn't lying when she said a girl gets a little lonely. )

what about u? are u looking?

Edited 2023-07-20 16:57 (UTC)

[Oh no, he did not think this through. On a whim he decides to be honest, it's not like this conversation can get much more embarrassing, right? Right??]

I don't know, I guess I haven't really thought about it
I don't have the time for it really

[Thank your dad for that, Jinx!!!]

Besides not all of us can have dorky little fan clubs

dont have time for it? thats weird. i figured u being the leader and the annoying savior boy that u are, u'd have everyone falling on ur lap.

I can't just date someone in the group if I'm the leader

what about outside of ur hive? theres so many zaunites out here.

Nah you're the one with the fan club
I don't have any buff brainless copycats out there trying to ask me out

( ... should she? fuck, why not? tonight's been dull. )

so ure completely free, huh?

[For everyone else? Not really. But for her, well,,,]

About as much as you are, I guess

[Is this flirting now?? It feels like flirting but it did also feel like flirting in the first half of the conversation so]

gotcha.

( that seems to be it, but then: )

so hypothetically speaking... IF u had the time, what would u be looking for? guy? girl? human? an oovi-kat? a vastaya? or just whatever?

( ooc: just linking you what those species are. )

Edited 2023-07-22 05:35 (UTC)

[Okay, okay, she admitted stuff. He can admit stuff. It's not a big deal!!!]

Well it wouldn't really matter what they look like, could be any of those
They just have to be inventive & artistic & interesting to talk to. I'd want to share hobbies, you know? So we could spend time together
And they couldn't be predictable. That would be so boring

[So..... Jinx]

Being able to throw a punch doesn't hurt either [Being deadly is hot!! That's not his fault!!! (It's the brainrot that you get automatically when you live in the Lanes, probably.)]

hmmmmmm... they sound like a knockout, all right. speaking of inventive im going to try out this gun advice u gave me. if it works, guess that it means i owe u a big kiss huh?

Edited 2023-07-22 05:54 (UTC)

[He should definitely not say "yes" to that. (But, yes.)

Because, oops. He did do that, didn't he?]

How about you just don't shoot it at me anymore?

BZZT BZZZT!! SORRY, OUT OF THE QUESTION!!! take it or leave it, ekki ekko~~~~ laaaaaaaast chance. im counting down! 10 9 8 7 38 39492 74 3 2

[omg]

You can't count it down, you haven't even tried fixing it yet!

im changing the rules.

( ooc: timebomb, timebombx2, timebombx3. )

( the one thing jinx really despise is the holidays. because the holidays are when everyone in the whole world acts so obnoxiously annoying and go completely overboard with gifts, smiles, and make such a big fuss over it. and one of the worst holidays of all is valentine's day. the girls squealing and showing off to others what they got from the their lovers like it's some competition. and their other half either spend way too much money or sweat bullets in a panic on what to get them. because whatever they got them the year before couldn't be repeated. it's all stupid as far as jinx is concerned. but perhaps her sour mood kinda plays a part that her and her ex-boyfriend chadd broke up last year. so coming into school with balloon hearts, box of chocolates, cards, and flowers are just an eye sore.

grumbling and trying to avert her eyes to all of it, she gets stopped by the community club. the girls ask her if she would like to purchase a colored flower for someone for them to give out between classes. there's a small glare she shows in exchange, but the teen ends up saying, "sure". because every valentine's day so far, she always purchased a yellow friendship rose to ekko and vice versa for him. it was... like their thing. best friends and all that. but if only they had a black rose for hate she could give to chadd. anyhow, jinx coughs up a dollar and fills out a little form -- signing her name (not anonymous), have the flower addressed to ekko and for the yellow one. and taking a quick glance at the others ( pink flower = i have a crush on you, red flower = i'm in love with you/i love you ), a subtle thought if she would ever receive either of those. but who would ever be remotely interested in her in that way? jinx isn't exactly the cute barbie doll girl type and speaks in bubbles and glitter. )

( the first warning bell brings her out of that thought and she readjusts her backpack strap to head towards her first class. thank goodness her class isn't far and also thank goodness ekko is in this one. maybe the two of them can crack jokes on how dumb this holiday is. it'll definitely make her feel better and not think about her failed relationship with chadd. and hey, at least she will come out of this day with one flower than none. )

Edited 2023-07-28 04:00 (UTC)

[Ekko is usually ambivalent towards the holidays, but he'd almost pulled an all-nighter laying in bed debating furiously with himself about how to handle the Valentines flowers situation, so he's feeling a little salty himself.

It's not that he was desperately waiting for Chadd to be out of the picture or anything, he likes to think he's pretty chill in general and he's also just happy to be her friend, it's just that after they broke up he genuinely ran out of reasons not to tell Jinx that he's been crushing on her. Especially with Vi away at college, and not there to give him an intensely embarrassing shovel talk. He's just been coasting for so long on the familiar boundaries of their relationship that it feels like admitting to anything would throw a wrench into the middle of the well oiled machine of their friendship.

Which is a really lame excuse, because he knows Jinx and if she's not interested she'll just say so and then they'll move on. But that knowledge didn't stop him from spending most of the night going in circles and talking himself into and out of changing the color of his order. Or planning to place one anonymously. Or just sticking with yellow and not saying anything for another year, running the risk of watching Jinx get into another relationship with some other absolute doofus who clearly just thought she was hot and didn't seem to understand literally anything she said or did. Ekko would know, he was there for what felt to him to be a solid half of their weird conversations, and watching Jinx butt her head against the brick wall of his empty brain was painful to behold (even if he knew better than to say anything at the time. Being Jinx' bestie doesn't mean he was safe from her wrath.)

In the end he bucked up, walked into the club room first thing, and then stared at the ordering form for so long that the poor girl in charge had to wave her hand between his face and the paper to snap him out of it. In desperation he'd marked down for both yellow and pink—less embarrassing than red if she hates it—and then signed his name quickly before he could chicken out. He high-tailed it after handing over his two dollars to avoid looking anyone in the eye, though he probably should have stayed and asked when the flowers would be handed out...

When he spots Jinx coming through the door after the warning bell he cracks a grin, trying not to look like he's up to anything. Not that he's up to anything. God, Valentine's day sucks.] Hey. Good morning. [Is his voice higher than usual? He clears his throat.] What's up?

( when he cracks her that grin, it's very contagious and she can't help but to give one right back. but that's magic about ekko -- he always know how to bring her back around when she's feeling grumpy. sure, it's not one-hundred percent always but a good ninety-eight. jinx swings her backpack down on the floor as she takes her seat next to him, settling in. )

Mornin', Knucklehead!

( a teasing nickname with a poor attempt to wiggle her nose to him. she then leans over to her backpack to unzip and fish out all the books and folders she needs for this class. )

— Oh, y'know, the same. Girls squealin' in my ear. The best alarm to help you wake up.

( she plops all of her materials on her desk -- literally all of her notebooks and the school book are graffitied in doodles (woops. you know she'll get in trouble for that at the end of the year). but along with that, jinx pulls out two wrapped chicken biscuits then lightly tosses one over to her friend. )

Snagged us some breakfast from the cafeteria. You're welcome. Can ya believe they up the price for these for fifty more cents?

[Ekko catches the tossed breakfast, rolling his eyes.] Didn't they promise not to change any more cafeteria prices in a newsletter last year? [Why is he asking that like he expects Jinx to have bothered to read the newsletter? Who can say. It's a good distraction, though. He unwraps his biscuit, squinting at it to see if there's any change in it that would have warranted a bump in price. Obviously, there's not, because it definitely came pre-packaged and maybe frozen like everything else in the cafeteria.

They probably don't think too much about it. For all the kids that live on the right side of Piltover, fifty cents is nothing. But for kids like him and Jinx, it's certainly more annoying.

Ekko huffs a sigh before he works up a rant about politics and class this early in the morning. The bell always goes off right in the middle of them and then he just has to sit there in heated silence through lessons that he doesn't actually learn anything in. He takes a bite of his biscuit to head himself off at the pass.] Are you coming to robotics club today? [They don't have a tournament coming up so Professor Heimerdinger doesn't require attendance to stay registered, but Ekko goes whenever he doesn't have a shift to work after school, and it's always the most fun when Jinx is there too.]

( she shrugs to him at his first question because yes, why would she read the newsletter? jinx cares so little about this school and spends half of the time in detention. but silly enough despite her getting in trouble, her grades are straight As, which teachers try desperately to get jinx to just behave properly because they feel she has so much potential. but she can't necessarily help herself, though. the impulses sneak up on her like a snake and she runs with it after. maybe she has some sort of mental illness going on, but not like she'll ever look into it. or want to.

unwrapping her own breakfast and taking big bite out of it, jinx looks over at their classmates to see who's present today and who isn't. so far it seems that everyone seems to be here today, but still no teacher yet. strange because mr. talis isn't usually late? before jinx could answer the question about the robotics club, a small group of girls enter their classroom in loud giggles -- carrying a stuff teddy bear, pink and red roses, and chocolates. her mood sours immediately back from before as she eyes them taking their seat and cluck along like stupid hens. )

Sure. Not like I got any mushy plans today.

( one of the girls in the community club trails on behind with a box of those colorful flowers in her arms. by the quick glance of it, it doesn't seem a lot of them in her bunch, but whatever. she doesn't care. also where the fuck is the teacher at? the less she can hear the dumb cheerleaders, the better. )

[Ekko misses the obvious dip in her mood, because he's busy choking on his breakfast.

He can't believe they're doing it in first period. It's like they're setting it up to cause the most drama. How did they even have the time to sort all the orders out? Does this happen every year? It never seemed like a big deal to him before, and he finds himself struggling to remember previous Valentines days, the order of things. (He remembers Jinx being a whole lot more into things last year when her and Chadd were still together. That's neither here nor there!!!)

He usually gets a bunch of yellow roses, sometimes a pink or two—he's pretty popular with the Zaun half of the school—but whatever fleeting relationships he's had haven't overlapped with the holiday so he's never ordered anything other than yellows before himself. When the flower girls approach the back of the room where he and Jinx are sitting, both grinning very evilly if you ask him, he tries not to sink down into his chair like he's being lectured by Benzo for getting caught graffitiing the back of the school with Jinx.]

Uh, thanks. [He mutters as he takes his own roses, a small bunch of all yellows, and pretends to be very busy reading the name cards on them as he hears her turn and offer Jinx her flowers with a completely unnecessary flourish. Why did he decide to be brave in such a public way again?]

( she didn't expect the community girl to hand them all out now, either. but jinx assumes with the cheerleaders gushing over their valentines gifts, the girl felt it's the perfect time to ride the high of it -- who knows. she expected ekko to at least get one yellow rose that's from her, but not a small bunch. that's a good thing though because she'd hate to see her friend not getting more than a single. he's a good guy and deserves all the best things, in her opinion. so when he takes all his roses, she smiles warmly at his direction.

when it's jinx's turn, she expected a yellow rose too. just a single and nothing else. but to her surprise, she not only has a yellow and pink one but... two red ones. her eyes widen at those colors and wants to ask if there's been some sort of mistake or something, but suddenly she doesn't know her vocabulary. the girl, on the other hand, starts to grow impatient and says in a snooty tone, "well? are you going to take them or not?" )

U-Uh...yeaah.

( she's hesitate, but she grabs a hold of those roses and simply stare dumbfounded at the pink and reds as the community girl bounces off to someone else. who would had gave her these? the yellow is definitely ekko, for sure. but... the pink? the reds? could it be from the same person or different people? and right before she could even look at the names that are tagged to them, mr. talis bursts into the classroom in stumbles and slams his weekly planner on the desk.

he frantically apologizes for his lateness and tells everyone in class to settle down and put whatever that isn't for this class away. so jinx sets the roses down on her right side of her (easy for ekko to take peek of the names if he wants) as she wraps up the remainder biscuit. if he decides to look at the name of the reds, it reads: CHADD for both. it looks like someone is trying to worm their way back in. )

[Red??? With Mr. Talis launching right into his lesson for the day when he sees that everyone has put their things away (undoubtedly as a tactical move to avoid having to answer any questions about where he was), Ekko is stuck distractedly sneaking glances at the roses.

When he realizes who they're from, his eyes immediately narrow. Their breakup had been pretty explosive and final, Ekko would know he was absolutely caught in the blast radius, there's no way the idiot thinks he's coming back from that. Right?? Right???

He stews on that for about half the lesson before he manages to get back on track when Mr. Talis pointedly clears his throat and repeats a question for him in front of everyone, and before he knows it the end of class bell is ringing. Great, and he has Chadd in his next class. Maybe it's for the best that Jinx hasn't seemed to notice who any of her flowers are from? Ekko stands up with admittedly more haste than usual, stuffing his things and his poor bunch of yellow flowers directly into his backpack.]

See you during lunch?

[Everything is normal and cool, don't worry about it!!]

( the entire lesson, she was itching to see who the roses were from and sure, she could had casually peeked and read the names, but mr. talis seemed highly stressed. besides, one girl already got scold for fiddling with her own roses several desks ahead of them. and if she was planning to be with ekko in robotics club after school, she better not rock the boat this time. the class does go on and when it's over, jinx notices just how quick ekko gathers his things. she squints at her friend in confusion and wheels begin to turn to activate a line of questions for him.

'are you okay?', 'woah, what's your rush?', 'what? suddenly don't want to walk with me to my locker?'

but all of those questions seem to barge together into a big traffic jam of mess and she couldn't get any of them out of her. )

Yeah! Yeah, uh. See ya then.

( was he upset that he didn't get any red roses? he didn't seem like the type to care about relationships, so she assumed anyway. because for as long as she knew him, he had always been about making things or repairing things -- similar to her. but with class now over, this does give her a chance to look at those roses now. so still in her seat, she picks the four up -- looking at the obvious ones, the reds. and seeing it's from you-know-who, her face falls in irritation. ugh. jinx should had known the reds would be from him and not anyone new in her life. and she is going to make a suspicion that the pink is from him too. in fact, she really should just toss these three in the trash and keep the yellow one seeing it's from someone who actually gives a damn about her.

but from some reason, maybe it's her woman's intuition, that tells her to read the name of the pink rose anyway. and when her eyes gaze over, her heart sinks drastically to her stomach and a big wave of shock hits her like a train. this... this isn't from —.

...

wait a minute. waitwaitwait fucking wait! jinx jolts up her head to look to the left of her, but ekko seems to be already moving fast. )

Ekko? Wait, hold on!

( gah! she needs to hurry up and pack everything together before he gets away. not even caring for the tidiness of her belongings, jinx jams everything in her backpack (especially the red ones), but carefully keeps the yellow and pink in tact with her hands. she stumbles out of her desk and swings the backpack over her shoulders -- hitting a student from behind. )

Fuck, watch it, will ya?!

[By the time she calls for him to wait he's swept up in the tide of students leaving to meet up with their own flower givers or recipients, and when he gets deposited out in the hall by the rush sheer nerves make him strongly consider ducking away to his next class.

But he got her the flower because he wanted to tell her, not because he wanted to run away. And if she's not interested she's not interested, surely it's better to go in to a class with Chadd knowing that that rather than just wondering, right? Especially since now he's Mr. Two Red Roses, the dickhead.

So Ekko sucks it up, and when she manages to jostle her way out to the hall as well he's waiting, gripping the shoulder straps of his backpack so hard they might end up permanently crinkled. When he sees that she's only still holding two of the roses—the ones he sent—he actually manages to make some eye-contact.] Hey. [Wow, apparently he's going to make Jinx do all the legwork to get this conversation started. He just doesn't want to start scrambling to explain himself in a way that will deposit his foot firmly in his mouth until he gauges how Jinx actually feels about the pink rose! It's not cowardice, it's tactical!!]

( thank goodness he didn't get away from her and she manages to catch her breath a little because she had a full mind to just sprint to get to him. but luckily, it didn't came to that. but now here they are in the hallway in the middle of all the students chatting and moving to their next class or lockers. )

Hey. ( okay, that's a start but what she should say next? jinx is a little floored if she's honest and this is something she hadn't seen coming at all. she wants to think back to see if he had been dropping hints, but their friendship's been running for a decade maybe? it feels like it. and even if she wants to sit and think about, she can't right now. there's only a limited time until she won't see him until lunch. her gaze is down at the roses, the pink one now in her right one to separate the yellow. )

Uhm... — So how long have you've been....

( she'll just let that trail off in the atmosphere. it's still a little unsure he feels this way about her. and for the two of them ever dating being a possibility, somehow... it never crossed her mind. )

[Is that... good or bad? Ekko hesitates, keenly aware of a couple of the other students stopping to stare. He definitely should have made a run for it after all.]

Um, well, awhile I guess? [That's unhelpfully vague!! He's definitely had a crush since they were little kids, but he didn't really see it for what it was except in hindsight. Mostly when both he and Jinx started trying to date other people, and Ekko realized he didn't feel the same with anyone else as he did with her. That maybe best friend feelings weren't all he had, because no one else stacked up, and boy did he try to make it happen. Then she started a surprisingly long relationship with Chadd and he just figured it didn't matter because she was already taken.

He flicks his eyes over to glare at a pair of very obvious onlookers, and luckily direct staring is enough to chase them off in a flurry of giggles, before he sighs.] I made it weird, didn't I? [He figures he should be nice and give her the opening if she wants to let him down easy. Or whatever Jinx' extremely blunt version of letting someone down easy might be.]

Woah, a while, huh...?

( had she been so self-absorbed in herself and her own things that she didn't see it? jinx definitely paid attention to his troubles and what not because what kind of best friend wouldn't? but gosh, she does feel like an idiot for not picking any of this up and now she's confronting all of this right in the middle of the hallway with girls giggling. and ekko isn't the only one who shoots death glares at the onlookers -- and still doing that until he sighs. quickly, she spins a look back to him then says suddenly in little sputters: )

N-Nono! You didn't make it weird! You're good! Uh...

( it's really hard to get her thoughts together and think of what to say with there's so many people around and the clock ticking. clearing her throat, she fiddles with the yellow rose at first -- breaking the stem so it wouldn't be too long before sticking it behind her left ear. )

How about this: Since we, uh, gotta get to class and all that junk -- we'll chat more about this at lunch?

( with the pink rose, she does the same with the yellow by snapping the stem then places it behind her right ear. once that's all done, she peers up to her friend with a small yet sheepish smile. )

We can sit outside in the commons area and eat. People won't be so focus on us then.

( probably a crappy move to leave ekko hanging a little longer until lunch, but... the fact she is tucking the pink in her hair might mean something? although, jinx did the same with the yellow rose. )

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modern AU high school. see pics below to get a better feel of this prompt

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