Meh, don't mind me while I get sucked even further down the rabbit hole with this ship.
feverish
Juvia is never one to stick around in one place.
She comes and goes like the rain and unfortunately for Totomaru, who is head over heels in love with the woman, there is no better metaphor for the water mage.
Or is it a simile?
Fuck it, he dropped out of school to join Phantom Lord anyway.
If there anything higher education taught him, it was that he never wanted to lay foot in a building full of blackboards and chalk dust ever again.
Regardless, he wakes from a light sleep that morning by the sound of soft pitter patter on his window, a sudden change from the constant sha-sha that always echoes through the Phantom Lord guild's building whenever the Rain Woman is around.
At first he hated the fact that Jose had ever recruited the miserable teru teru bozu doll because her weather always made his day literally gloomier. The fire mage is a son of the sun, gifted with a spectrum of flame magic, so he quickly disliked the newest water-elemental member of the guild.
But with a few months later, he was starting to not be able to sleep without hearing the constant thunder outside and he started to see the silver linings behind the storm clouds.
And lucky for him, the come and go of the rainfall is how he knows whether his blue-haired crush is near.
So when the sha-sha turns into pitter patter, he kicks his feet out of his warm covers and looks out the window to search for a pink umbrella in the gray cloud-cast outside, and when he spots her, he steps out his second-floor window, without even closing it back up, and catches up to the cutely dressed bluenette.
She turns around immediately, feeling a strange interruption in her rain, and at the sight of him, her eyes roll.
"Why does Totomaru always follow Juvia around?" she pouts, in her adorable third person.
He gives her a teasing smile. "Toto follows Juvi-chan around because Toto wants to," he says, in the same baby-ish voice.
Her eyes narrow and the tone in her voice suddenly grows an edge. She drops the honorifics.
"Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'll catch a cold from being out in the rain?" she scolds.
"Yeah," he agrees, with a smirk. "But she never told me about being lovesick."
Speaking of sick, you sick yet of this ship?
Well, I will go down with this ship, and I will put my hands up and surrender. (white flag) ;)
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