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It ain't always so bad. I mean, yeah, it fucking sucks, you feel like crap all the time, but...

[He shrugs, perusing the shelves idly as he trails behind Kano.]

You can do stuff about the after. That's how Mama picked me up.

[ That's right, Ramona is a Seer. And if she's managed to get her shit together after getting her mind bombarded with death and destruction in all waking hours, perhaps there's hope for Toki yet. If his personality at baseline weren't already so wound up. ]

Eh... so she saw you in trouble and went to go find you? You're lucky.

[ Maverick was a kid, then, wasn't he... Was he supposed to have died? ...But then, Kano thinks to himself, why couldn't a Seer have seen his own mother's death and prevented that? A backwater town in some trashy neighborhood, the murder wouldn't have been important enough to matter, probably.

He can't find rainbow, so instead, he plucks the separate colors off the shelves and starts passing them over to Maverick. Red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, white. ]

Yeah. Obviously shit still happened, but... I dunno. She was fucking there. That's what I remember.

[They just gotta redirect all his energy. Like into stress baking. Because it probably wouldn't be appropriate to suggest Ramona's most favorite method of coping: having a lot of bombass sex...

Mav opens his mouth to say something, but he's quickly distracted by inspecting each of the bottles to ensure they are indeed different enough to warrant wanting to buy them. Nope, pretty standard variety of colors and not various dumb shades of the same fucking thing.]

White? Who needs white fucking sprinkles?

[ Thanks for not mentioning it, because Toki's method of coping is pretty much that, or at least it's something he does sometimes and Kano really doesn't want to think about it so!!!! have another five jars of white sprinkles added to the pile, Maverick. ]

Me. I need white fucking sprinkles. They're an important part of the rainbow, alright? For when they all melt together~

[Nope. All the white sprinkles get put back.]

[ Hey?? Even the first tube? ]

Why so discriminatory against white?? Don't all colors make white, or something? They should count, too!

[ He takes the whites back and holds onto them, pulling his jacket out to make a little basket with the hem. If he has to be the spoiled child crying and begging for sprinkles at the check out counter, he will be that child. ]

[Even the first one!!!]

Half this shit already looks the same to me, I don't give a fuck about what mixing them all together gets you.

Boo. My happiness is dependent on having these white sprinkles, Mav. Aren't you doing this for my sake? Be a little more considerate for my sake!!

[ Maverick doesn't even like sweet things, right? Sprinkles are sort of weird and chalky and not exactly sweet, but they're made of sugar and should count. ]

[...He pauses, quirks an eyebrow, and plucks a single tube of white sprinkles to add to his own pile.]

Nix three other colors, then.

[ Ugh, what? He has to sacrifice three colors in order to have white? Fine...

Goodbye, orange, green, and yellow. ]

[It's nice of Kano to let Maverick have a victory now and again. He sure looks nice and smug, now.]

Good choice. [Got rid of some weird muddy yellows, there.] All set, cricket?

All set~

[ He can always illusion back those weird muddy yellows, no problem; fake rainbows are just as tasty as real ones.

But alright, alright, time to finalize the payment and get the hell out of here. ]

[Once the sprinkles are purchased, Mav hands them off to their rightful owner and gets a move on. Enjoy it, you weirdo.]

Well? Ready to head back?

[ He'll enjoy it! The white jar gets opened and shaken into his waffle cone to eat on the way back, while the other colors are slotted to be part of more nefarious plans. ]

Yep, I'm ready! Hm, did I say this already? I don't think I did! But thanks, Mav, for taking me out today~

[Monster... He doesn't know why he ever puts up with Kano, but then the little brat opens his mouth and thanks him, and he has to duck his head a little bit to hide the smile threatening to show up all genuine and shit. Gross.]

...Yeah, yeah. Ain't no biggie. Happy to do it almost anytime. It's even fun for me, sometimes.

[ He sees that gross genuine smile of yours, Maverick, can't hide that. But what makes Kano even more glad—relieved— is that, is the admission that Maverick has fun too, sometimes. ]

Sometimes, huh? That's good enough, I'll take it! Next time, I'll choose what we do, so continue to grin and bear it~

[ Like he hasn't been dragging Maverick around all day, and the next time is technically a zoo date or whatever- something more on par for things he likes to do, quiet things. ]

Pfh. We'll see.

[He'll have fun if he has fun!! But he's pretty sure he'll have fun.]

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