Yugi!! Has come a long way. Maki used to barely know how to talk to him, and now he's one of her top important/trusted people.
Yugi occupies a fairly unique position for Maki where she is both completely confident he is a genuinely good person who tries to avoid hurting people, and yet doesn't think he's naive or a hypocrite. Him being clearly nervy but still friendly after she slit his throat in PPP was the big turning point there. Often when "good" people are nice to Maki she feels like it's because they have convinced themselves that she's not actually bad/wouldn't actually kill someone in cold blood/etc, and she just... doesn't want to engage with people on that premise. But Yugi clearly knew what she could do!
At that point she was still mostly engaging with him in relation to King, because that was easier for her, but as they spent more time doing things for King or just doing things, she got a lot more comfortable with him. And as she got more comfortable with him, they got beyond small talk to things that she could actually relate with him on more. Liar Hell was also a big turning point; modelling together was definitely a bonding experience, and she really appreciated the extent to which Yugi was keeping in touch with her and inviting her to plans, as much as he could. She's had such bad experiences with that it was kind of a first! So by that point she trusted and appreciated him a lot and was pretty solidly relating to him on his own terms.
Lingerie modeling and talking about lingerie modeling for King also started the shift into thinking about Yugi and sex in the same space. Like she's mentioned, she deeply appreciates being on the same page with Yugi about things there (the... horny and not particularly jealous page) - she can allude to something and Yugi can pick it up, vs any of her more oblivious friends/boyfriends who can make her feel self-conscious about wanting sex too much. This is why, when C put Yugi on a list of potential one night stands for her, she had to think about it for a minute - Yugi is not her type to be immediately attracted to, but she felt like they were probably interested in some of the same things, and more importantly felt like they could be comfortable with and trusting of each other enough to experiment without it being (too) awkward or weird even if it didn't go well. And then obviously she had her sex dream and it did go well. That particular scenario might have gone less well in real life - Maki being on the receiving end of bondage is touchy, and the fact that it was a dream was soothing her anxiety a lot. But Yugi being capable of being confident/toppy was definitely something she was super into, and overall the level of... desire? Shameless "I want to do this thing because I think it's super hot" tone. Is something she deeply appreciates. (She appreciates this with Intensity also.) And that's something he did when they decided to mess with some bondage in real life too.
So she's into it now. She half-proposed to King that they should have a threesome the other day but is pretty sure she'd have better luck approaching that from Yugi's side. Look. It's fine.
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Yugi occupies a fairly unique position for Maki where she is both completely confident he is a genuinely good person who tries to avoid hurting people, and yet doesn't think he's naive or a hypocrite. Him being clearly nervy but still friendly after she slit his throat in PPP was the big turning point there. Often when "good" people are nice to Maki she feels like it's because they have convinced themselves that she's not actually bad/wouldn't actually kill someone in cold blood/etc, and she just... doesn't want to engage with people on that premise. But Yugi clearly knew what she could do!
At that point she was still mostly engaging with him in relation to King, because that was easier for her, but as they spent more time doing things for King or just doing things, she got a lot more comfortable with him. And as she got more comfortable with him, they got beyond small talk to things that she could actually relate with him on more. Liar Hell was also a big turning point; modelling together was definitely a bonding experience, and she really appreciated the extent to which Yugi was keeping in touch with her and inviting her to plans, as much as he could. She's had such bad experiences with that it was kind of a first! So by that point she trusted and appreciated him a lot and was pretty solidly relating to him on his own terms.
Lingerie modeling and talking about lingerie modeling for King also started the shift into thinking about Yugi and sex in the same space. Like she's mentioned, she deeply appreciates being on the same page with Yugi about things there (the... horny and not particularly jealous page) - she can allude to something and Yugi can pick it up, vs any of her more oblivious friends/boyfriends who can make her feel self-conscious about wanting sex too much. This is why, when C put Yugi on a list of potential one night stands for her, she had to think about it for a minute - Yugi is not her type to be immediately attracted to, but she felt like they were probably interested in some of the same things, and more importantly felt like they could be comfortable with and trusting of each other enough to experiment without it being (too) awkward or weird even if it didn't go well. And then obviously she had her sex dream and it did go well. That particular scenario might have gone less well in real life - Maki being on the receiving end of bondage is touchy, and the fact that it was a dream was soothing her anxiety a lot. But Yugi being capable of being confident/toppy was definitely something she was super into, and overall the level of... desire? Shameless "I want to do this thing because I think it's super hot" tone. Is something she deeply appreciates. (She appreciates this with Intensity also.) And that's something he did when they decided to mess with some bondage in real life too.
So she's into it now. She half-proposed to King that they should have a threesome the other day but is pretty sure she'd have better luck approaching that from Yugi's side. Look. It's fine.
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