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[ Maverick's courier fees are too expensive and Toki should've just broken up with Kano via text

But this is also where Maverick is wrong, Kano turning in his seat and looking immediately excited about the suggestion of a giant non-hollow cake. ]

No, no, no! Your idea is better!!! If we get a giant non-hollow cake, we can have a giant hollow cake and more cake! Even if you don't like sweet stuff, stuff like that's good for bargaining- remember that well!!

[consider: everything in life is too expensive.]

Do you know how long it takes to eat a fucking regular-ass sized cake? Fucking birthdays, would have leftovers for a while. That shit'll go bad way before we pawn it all off on a bunch of poor bastards.

Cakes aren't just for eating...~

[ You know what else cakes are good for? smashing into people's faces. ]

Or for popping out of?

[Though if someone was going to do that...he'd really prefer, like, a model or something.]

Giant cake, hollow or not, sounds like way too much of a pain in the ass.

[ This isn't about Maverick, though, or Maverick's money or credit line, it's about Kano and his ridiculous expectations and him toeing the line to see why this is where Maverick draws his line. ]

Eh~ How come flying me to Canada isn't a pain, but buying Ellie a cake is? You love her just as much!! I know you do!!!!

Ha. You fucking wish.

[why he would wish that is ????? but: Mav doesn't love Ellie as much as he loves Kano! Or as much as Kano loves Ellie! Or as much as...either of them loves cake??]

Flying you to Canada is a fucking pain, anyway, bad example. Here, I'll agree to a small cake or a couple cupcakes.

[ Does Ellie like cake? Who knows, I'll need to ask Ichi. But does Kano like cake? Not at all. Someday, Maverick would learn that, and that it's also the same with chocolate milk and milkshakes and hotel mints. ]

One small cake, as long as I get to tell them what to write on it!!!

[Kano... How is he supposed to give you what you want if you don't actually tell him?]

What if I want them to have to write "tabarnak"?

[ He's been asking for a motorbike all year and at the end he had to get it himself, telling people what he wants doesn't go anywhere. ]

What's a tabarnak?

[He also told Maverick that the motorbike was 1. a cover, 2. funded completely by Toki a while ago.]

Ehh... It's like some cuss on sacrilegious steroids in québécois.

[ Those words in that order mean absolutely nothing to Kano. Forget the biology book, he should put his memorization to use and read a dictionary. ]

Hm~ If you can spell it, I'll let you write it. But we're also going to draw stars and hearts on it!!

Sounds like a deal to me.

[ Ellie is going to get mixed messages from this cake but she would probably be delighted anyways and that's what matters most! ]

Okay, okay, here--

[ He hands Maverick a sharpie and holds out his hand, palm down. ]

[...First he's gotta check his pockets to see if this is his sharpie and Kano stole it at some point, like a jerk. Then he will more-than-contentedly write "tabarnak" on Kano's hand. Voila.]

[ it's hard to keep track of whose sharpie is whose, especially as Kano never actually bought any of these writing utensils himself, but he will let Maverick take the sharpie, turning his hand this way and that to admire the writing. ]

Can you make it rainbow?? With sparkles?!??!

[ He could do both those things himself, but... sparkles that will last even after Ellie punches him in the gut, can't pass up that chance. ]

[narrows eyes...........]

I'm colorblind.

[He can't do a rainbow!!! He can, actually, but he's stupid. And he's...pointedly ignoring that sparkles bit.]

Then it'll be good practice for you! Make it as many colors as you can imagine-- it doesn't even have to be in the right order!!

[ And after he manages that, Kano will request sparkles again. Baby steps. ]

[As many as he can imagine............

Well. He's seen plenty of pride flags, and he knows what those look like to him, so now Kano can enjoy that, too.]

[ Hm. One out of six isn't completely terrible, but it's still pretty terrible, huh? ]

Here, gimme the sharpie back real quick, I want to try something.

[Yep. His eyes super suck. Have the sharpie back...]

[ It really sucks, Maverick's missing all the best colors. Yuya's colors probably look fine to him, and that's the most ridiculous thing. Kano takes the sharpie and scribbles across the back of his other hand, something vaguely square shaped, and then leans over and does the same to Maverick's. For Maverick's scribble, Kano casts the illusion to make it rainbow— the full gradient of hues from red to violet across, saturation from white to black going down, all the colors that are possible— and then holds his hand up next to Maverick's. ]

Alright, now make them the same.

[why this.......at least he can get rid of it when he wants. He sighs and rolls his eyes before glancing between their hands. Making it...the saaaame... Adjust here, there, and everywhere... There! It matches.

It matches perfectly, a beautiful spectrum of every color imaginable.]

You're so fucking stupid for thinking that would work.

...Haha, who's stupid?

[ It's okay, it's okay, it's enough that he knows. Kano places both his hands side by side and holds them up next to Maverick's, the palette on one hand, tabarnak on the other, the same pallete on Maverick's hand ]

Now, again, make 'em the same~

[Kano is stupid, and stupider for making him go through and match this hand, too, when obviously!! There is no fucking rainbow!!!

Tabarnak is now rainbow. Not that Maverick can tell.]

What, the solid color lettering wasn't enough for you? Needed that fucking gradient thrown in there?

Mmhmm, yep~ And don't forget the sparkles!!

[ He didn't forget.

And, he doesn't forget what the colors looked like before Maverick changed them over to rainbow, holding the tabarnak hand in front of Maverick so he can glitter it, while he holds his other hand with the palette up above his face and stares hard at it. ]

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