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The 40 days holy water conversation is interesting, because Maki almost brought it up in her plot yelling. To her, that was an example of her providing information and trying to help (Intensity didn't actually know holy water burned hell-touched people before Maki mentioned it) and Intensity making his own irrational plans (there is just no physical way you can keep yourself submerged in holy water for 40 days even if it didn't burn like acid), and then refusing her help (she really wasn't trying to nitpick and criticize, she wanted to talk through his plans and find something better). If she had known the holy water was something important to him personally, she would have understood better why he was talking about plans that were completely ridiculous, but as it was she was just like ??? why is this the thing you are focused on?? Surely there are other things to do that you can actually do??

"If you were underwater for 40 days I'd miss you" was also less a real complaint and more an attempt to show him exactly how ridiculous that plan was with a ridiculous complaint about it. The fact that he took it as a genuine statement of what she thought was most important ties into something else she sort of felt in the most recent argument, which is that Intensity thinks she's a lot more focused on strictly emotional things than she actually is. E.g. when she says "I want someone I can work with," she is not (just) being sentimental about wanting a personal connection and feeling like her current ones don't fit the bill, it is a literal, practical statement that she has been attempting to do a lot of things both plot and personal all on her own that it would be really helpful to have someone on her side for, and she has in fact asked people for help explicitly and not gotten it pretty frequently. (As well as obviously offering to team up and having people decline or just go off on their own.) So Intensity talking about how she hadn't ever cared about keeping in the loop on information and cared more about "having a partner" than actually accomplishing things really did sting a lot, and she does have some lingering doubts about if that's how he's been thinking about her the whole time. Does he really think she's that incompetent!! So probably that will come up again at some point.


DATES THOUGH.

Ari was saying that B can loop Maki into his planned fashion show and she can talk Intensity into doing a couple's look with her, and I think that would be super cute. But that's not quite a date. (Though Maki would be into doing further dressup with just the two of them if she could convince Intensity that's not stupid.)

For a Classic Date the first thing that comes to mind is that they should go to the amusement park... she went there with Yugi and rode a couple rides once when she was sad but otherwise amusement parks are completely foreign to her experience. Probably that could come up in a way where he feels the need to prove something to her?


How is Intensity doing at juggling his three big relationships and how does he feel about that?