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Yugi!!

There are a number of parallels between Yugi and Shuichi (V3's protag boy) - cute, nerdy, needs to build some self-confidence. However it should be noted that while Maki is eventually very close to Shuichi, she doesn't really respond to him much at all for the first third of the game, and then is intensely awkward about it, until they're both hanging out with Kaito as Kaito works on Shuichi's self-confidence and Maki's ability to people, and they both improve enough at their respective things to relate to each other.

SO THAT'S THE BASELINE WE'RE WORKING FROM, and there are some similarities with her relationship with Yugi. He's a nice boy!! But Maki both just doesn't understand what makes a person be nice, and doesn't really know how to deal with someone she doesn't know well just being nice to her. Combine that with Yugi's relative timidity and Maki's tendency to be unintentionally abrasive (which is something she knows about herself), a lot of her early interactions with Yugi were very tense for Maki. Not because of anything he was doing, because he was actually being very kind and helpful, and things like taking her to the amusement park or the cafe date were actually very nice for her and reassured her that not everyone hated her now. But she didn't really know how to respond, and didn't want to do anything to put him off when he'd only been nice to her, but didn't really know how to avoid that either.

The big shift was obviously PPP! Where Yugi tried to defend her when she was helpless and Maki got ordered to kill him. It being Yugi means this was more traumatic than it would have been if it was most anyone else, because as mentioned, he's a nice boy who has only helped her and she doesn't want to hurt him. So she had some level of worry this had just irrevocably ruined the relationship. But then instead of blaming her or being more wary of her, Yugi actually reached out to her and approached it like they were both the victims. Which is obviously true, but she wasn't expecting it from him, especially so soon after. That made her a lot more comfortable with him in the sense that he clearly wasn't just being nice because he wasn't clear on what she was capable of - though she still doesn't really understand why he approaches things the way he does.

But!! She wanted to help him, and here was a clear hurt she could attempt to address. Of course she still wasn't confident in her ability to do anything herself, but that's why she proposed they have a trio outing with King. And she feels like that outing was definitely successful - everyone was cute and had a good time!! And Yugi even invited her to help try to cheer up King later, which was also extremely meaningful for her in terms of a display of trust.

So overall Maki is a lot more comfortable around Yugi now! She doesn't have that same tense wariness that she's going to do something and hurt him/make him turn away from her, because clearly if that was going to happen it would have happened already, or that he's being nice for some weird reason, because he wouldn't invite her to something with him and King if he didn't genuinely think it was a good idea for him to be there.

She still doesn't feel like she understands him very well, though. The closest she got was after the castle game when she was talking to him about wanting to be able to do something, and trying it and just making things worse, because that's definitely a feeling of frustration and distress that she can relate with. But in a more general sense she still doesn't understand what motivates him to be the way he is. (Largely because "he's just a nice person who thinks the best of people and wants to help" is not a motivation that fits in her worldview.) So she wants to work on that because she would like to be closer with him.


Side note, she was talking to King about the King/Yugi/Maki doujin he got, and King offered to let her keep it, and she was like...... wouldn't it be weird for me to keep a sexy doujin with Yugi in it though. We're not involved like that. And King said Yugi keeps a collection of stuff too and he could ask Yugi if it was okay. SHE DECLINED. If someone is going to ask Yugi about that it is going to be her. Otherwise that's weird. I don't know that she would actually do that, but they should talk about their doujin collections sometime regardless.

On the specific topic of King/Yugi/Maki, Maki kind of feels like her life would be easier if she was into Yugi and they could complete the triangle properly (as I have discussed on plurk, Maki likes triads a lot), but she is currently not really. Some of that is the feeling that she still doesn't know him that well, and some of it is that one of the big things Maki is attracted to is the absurd self-confidence that people like Intensity or King have, which she obviously has not seen from Yugi at all. She could end up pushed that way if they get closer and she sees more of him with a sense of conviction, though.


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