Hugging the Swapped!Sinners to Make Hurting Teddy Bear Jealous!
DONGBAEK freezes in place for a moment. She raises her hands, debating if she should push you or let you be. The last time she experienced affection like this was so, so long ago. And one that she didn’t initiate at that due to her friends’ — well, ex-friends now — timidness when it came to physical touch and affection.
“…Fine,” she relents quietly.
Her hands fall back to her side and she leans into your hug; allowing herself to bask in your affection, even if it’s more a mere moment and even if it was done to piss off an abnormality.
HOHENHEIM looks at you, then at Hurting Teddy Bear stomping its foot like a child throwing a tantrum.
“Manager, it seems that your actions have upset Hurting Teddy Bear,” he states as his gaze remains on the abnormality. He doesn’t hug you back but he doesn’t push you away either; waiting for you to pull away instead so that he may engage in combat.
If you wanted to hug him then you should’ve waited until you were at a safe place. That said his exact thoughts on your sudden embrace depend on the situation, such as whether you brought a bleed team to the mirror dungeon or not.
DULCINEA freezes up on the spot. She has never been in this kind of situation before nor was she really shown this kind of affection, especially with her past in the parade where her role was to be admired but never to be touched. If it weren’t for her ability to keep herself composed no matter what the situation is, then her face would’ve burst into a shade of red.
“…Manager, this isn’t the time,” she speaks with an ever so slight tremble to her voice as she places her hand on your shoulder and hesitantly pushes you way.
She will refuse to speak to you about this afterwards, however if you ever hug her again then she may let your embrace linger for a little longer. Maybe.
LUCIO tenses up the moment he feels the smallest hint of your touch. “Manager,” he utters out, his voice usually devoid of emotion now tinted with a plethora of them. “I doubt this is the appropriate time to be hugging someone.”
Yet he can’t bring himself to push you away, and if you keep hugging him then he’ll eventually find himself melting into your embrace and letting his guard down; hesitantly embracing you back.
Do note that he will probably have to bandage you up later as Hurting Teddy Bear will be able to ambush the two of you while you’re busy hugging one another.
VESPA does not respond, not at first. His eyes stay on Hurting Teddy Bear as the abnormality throws a fit the moment it sees your arms wrap around him.
For a second, he considers pushing you off him both for his safety and as a way to calm down Hurting Teddy Bear, but if you’re hugging him here in the first place then you likely knew what you were doing and it wouldn’t be wise of him to go against your plans.
“Manager, I doubt this was a smart choice,” the words escape from him anyway.
JIA QIU looks at you questioningly but sees what you're going for a moment later. He wraps one arm around you, holding you close and secure as he adjusts his grip on his staff; ready for the upcoming fight.
Though he has his own thoughts regarding your decision, he trusts and believes in your capability as a manager enough to go along with whatever you're planning.
What he doesn't trust, however, is for you to stay a safe distance away from the abnormality considering your decision to egg on its jealousy. So he'll deal with that issue by keeping you by his side.
CATHERINE hugs you back without hesitation. She got the same idea as you when she saw Hurting Teddy Bear but didn’t have the authority to act on her own to test her idea nor did she want to act on her own without any input from you. So when you give her the opportunity to do so, she happily accepts it.
“Looks like it’s jealous~” she sings as she pulls away from the hug, her eyes focused on the abnormality and a smile attached to her lips. She gently nudges you to the side before taking on a fighting stance, ready to beat the jealousy out of the abnormality and reap its rewards.
QUEEQUEG believes that your judgement is best — you are the manager after all — so when you hug her, she doesn’t hesitate to hug you back. Besides, maybe you just wanted a hug despite your current location and she wasn’t going to be the one to deny you a hug.
She’ll wrap her arms around you tight and give you the best hug that she can offer. She’s not ignorant of the seething abnormality behind her but she’s not concerned about it either. Protecting you comes first, and with you here in her arms like this, protecting you is easy. Hurting Teddy Bear would have to get through her before it can hurt you.
SONYA chuckles, his eyes flitting back and forth between you and Hurting Teddy Bear; glimmering with amusement.
“Was this what you wanted, manager?” he teases, wrapping his arms around you and giving you a small squeeze. Happily playing along with your plan to make the abnormality jealous.
DEMIAN floats away from your grasp before you can even open your arms to hug him. “Eyes on the abnormality, manager~” he lightly chides you with a teasing tone.
If you only wanted a hug then he would’ve let you, but since the reason you wanted to hug him was to make something else — Hurting Teddy Bear — jealous, he plays around with you instead.
Don’t worry though, he’ll come to hug you on his own accord later since he doesn’t want you to feel too bad about not getting a hug from him earlier. Preferably at an inconvenient time as well so he can scare you.
MOSES lets out a sigh, yet she wraps her arms around you nonetheless. “I doubt this was a wise decision, manager,” she speaks quietly, hoping to avoid Hurting Teddy Bear hearing her words in case they might escalate the situation.
“However, if you decide to go through with this then I’ll be by your side,” she adds as she pulls away. Though she’s more than aware of the fact that the abnormality will attack sooner rather than later after your hug.
YURI’s face immediately bursts into shades of red. “M- Manager!!” she protests, hurriedly placing her hands on your shoulders and lightly pushing you away from her.
It’s not that she wants to reject your affection — it’s something she hasn’t felt in so long and there’s nothing more she craves than a proper hug, or even a pat on the head — but she doubts that doing this in the mirror dungeon, and right in front of an abnormality at that, is a smart decision.
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Dongbaek | Hohenheim | Dulcinea | Lucio | Vespa | Jia Qiu
Catherine | Queequeg | Sonya | Demian | Moses | Yuri
Dulcinea’s skin is soft and delicate unlike the many bloodfiends you met.
“I’ve been taking special care of my skin long before I became a bloodfiend,” is what she tells you when you ask her about it. Yet whenever you bring up her past prior to becoming a bloodfiend, she refuses to answer. Not that you mind.
Her fingers are long and slender; interlacing with yours whenever you held her hand. Her thighs are plump and soft; you might never get to feel her skin against yours, but even through the fabric of her skirt they make for great pillows in the few times she allows you to lie on her lap.
Despite looking so ephemeral in the distance during parades, Dulcinea's touch and presence both brings you comfort.
Her Scent
Bloodfiends carried with them the scent of blood and death. Dulcinea was no exception aside from the fact that she used perfumes to hid that very scent.
“It would be unbecoming of a princess to carry the stench of blood,” was what she told you when you asked her about it… before spraying her favourite perfume on you to cover your own, human stench.
Her role in the parade was a delicate one. She must maintain and play her role properly so the humans visiting La Manchaland remain enchanted by her very presence. As such, Dulcinea has a preference for floral scents— something familiar to humans and appeals to their noses most of the time.
Roses, jasmines, gardenias, hyacinths, orchids… She doesn’t have a preference between those perfumes, so she’ll usually put on the first one that you give her. If you hand over the same one time and time again, then so be it.
Her Taste
Dulcinea’s skin carries the same taste as the flower perfumes she uses, though she won’t let you kiss her if you approach her right before the parade starts or during it.
However, during the evening and night in the chance that she’s free, she’ll indulge in your wants and desires so long as the two of you are somewhere where the other bloodfiends — or humans, if some happened to stay behind so late — can’t find you.
Despite taking on a role that seems so fragile, her skin doesn’t break easily despite its softness as you leave love bites along her neck and collarbone. Whatever marks you do manage leave always heal up within minutes anyway. Something that will amuse Dulcinea if you pout or sulk about it.
Her Voice
Dulcinea’s voice was pleasant yet stern at the same time. Appealing, but cold.
It was a result of her being a high ranking bloodfiend, specifically a second kindred. Not to mention her role as the princess of the parade. She must sound pleasant so that the humans may keep admiring her and her children know that they are loved still, yet she must remained cold to them all the same lest they developed the desire to step out of line.
With you, however, she allowed herself to become a little softer. A tad kinder. Her manner of speech stops being princess just the smallest amount and a little bit more casual instead.
If nothing else requires her attention at the moment, and if she has the time for it, then gently humming to a tune to help lull you into sleep is one of her favourite past times. It’s a shame in her eyes that it doesn’t happen often enough.
Her Sight
In Dulcinea’s eyes, you are a strange individual.
Even her most obsessive human fans didn’t dare to come too close to her lest they be kicked out from La Manchaland, and yet here you were. A human. Courting her.
In Dulcinea’s eyes, you deserve every drop of her adoration even if she doesn’t say so.
The parades slowly became something that she lamented due to the time she had to spend away from you. The one joy that she derived from them nowadays was whenever she’d feel your eyes looking up at her figure in the distance; nothing but sheer admiration in your gaze as you did so.
But even then, she preferred the times she spent with you in private much more. Moments when you can see her true self were rare, but precious. Only with you did she get to wind down after a hard day, helping her relax and easing her through her prolonged starvation with your presence alone.
Perhaps one day, she will be able to get away from La Manchaland and live somewhere quiet with you.
