Don't own Tales of Arcadia.
"Shannon," Mary whined at her girlfriend.
"Yeah?" she said, not looking up from her video game. Cimmerian Anima or something like that. She, Toby, Eli, Steve, and Krel were all really into it. Mary couldn't really see why. You played as someone with a magic sword and fought monsters. Big deal, that was pretty normal in Arcadia Oaks. Heck, that was literally the job description of Claire's boyfriend, and yet Jim would probably be pampering his girlfriend instead of ignoring her to play video games.
"I want to watch Unseen Mercy." It was an Australian crime drama, as opposed to everyday life.
"You have Netflix on your laptop."
"I want to watch it while cuddled up to you."
"You can cuddle up to me while I play my game, and later we can watch Unseen Mercy."
"Ugh, fine," Mary said, even as she draped herself over her girlfriend's lap. "But I am seriously judging you." She looked up at the screen. "You're on level 176."
"Can you judge me harder? Because that feels more like a compliment," Shannon said, and as she made her character break down a dead tree to get life points she ran her hair through Mary's hair.
"Hit him with the sword!" Mary yelled as Shannon tried to face off against the boss of level 176, the Lich Lord Leexue.
"That's what I'm trying to do!" The alliteration was honestly more terrifying than the way the Lich Lord, but he was rapidly draining Shannon's HP. The two young women groaned as he killed her character. Shannon moved to restart the level, but then looked down at her girlfriend.
"You want to play?"
"Sure, whatever." Shannon moved to start a new game and handed Mary the controller.
"Careful," Shannon said an hour later, adjusting her glasses so they'd stop poking Mary in the chest. "The third boss is ridiculously overpowered. It took me forever to defeat him."
Mary defeated him in five minutes.
"Must be beginner's luck or something," Shannon said.
"Luck?" Mary said, smirking. "Nope. Skills."
"If it's skill then do it again."
"Or we could watch Unseen Mercy like you said we would -" Mary checked her phone "- two hours ago? How has it been that long?"
I'll give imaginary cupcakes to anyone who can guess what the name "Cimmerian Anima" is a reference to.