Dearest Prince,
After your totally telepathic call for more of my ideas I am once again here in your inbox. We all know that Leone is a unique yandere as in he doesn’t make his affections known and even goes out of his way to visible hate on his darling. I ask you to share with us which others would play “hard to get” with their respective loves.
Should you not be satisfied with just this, a follow up i have is which of them would crack first should their darlings clearly show that their intentions with them are of the romantic nature? (gift giving, compliments, checking up on them often, etc)
With much love and adoration,
Samantha
Leone, Leone. My sweet Leone. Plenty of yanderes put up a facade for their darling, or are just constantly masking, but none quite play hard to get like Leone does. Usually yanderes will act nicer, take Bruno or Narciso for example. I have a sort of mental category that I have my dear old man in, and I have a few others in that category, but none quite act like... that. Pannacotta, Yukako, and Narciso are all of the same caliber (to me, at least), yet they don't put on an act for their darling. Well. That's not quite true. They do, in their own ways. Just not in the way that Leone does it. Perhaps I'll talk about this mental category at a later date. When prompted. Prompt me.
I'm tempted to include Pannacotta, as he can be standoffish and cruel when he first meets someone, but I just don't see him like Leone. He can sort of be, he'll scoff and call his darling all sorts of names out of embarrassment and even sometimes long for her to do things to him, seek him out or touch him some sort of way, but he only likes that in theory. He doesn't truly want the things he fantasizes about because there's no safe way to do it. Usually those who are playing hard to get want someone that will see through it, it's a game that will get them what they want, attention or affection or otherwise. Pannacotta would likely freak out, to put it gently, if his darling thought he was playing hard to get and pushed him. Not the type of boy- oh, so sorry, young man- to be pushed. There's also the fact that Pannacotta can possibly, genuinely, loathe his darling. Is it really playing hard to get if he wants her pretty little head on a stick? Is it truly? Is it playing hard to get if he just hates her, and yet can't get her sweet, stupid face out of his head? Perhaps it's not something to ask him about. Her Highness loves questions, however.
So who does act hard to get, and actually wants something to be done about it?
Well, let's give the old man some attention, and really look at his psychology, first. Leone longs to be chased. He huffs, and he flips his hair, and he scoffs, and he scowls, and he wants to be wanted. As all yanderes of this niche do. Leone's mood swings kind of, sort of (See: Sarcasm) ruin his life. It can be very jarring to deal with him at times. Hot-and-cold. He's the type of man that will play with Narancia early in the morning, let him hang from his arms like a he's a sort of human jungle gym, but when the afternoon rolls around he's back to scoffing and huffing and bitching about how loud he is. When it comes to his darling, one day he'll be attentive and the next he'll walk out of a room the second she comes in. She saw you. Why would you do that.
The answer is for attention. He's attention seeking. It's all for attention. He's deeply obsessed and needs a small little hit so he acts out. So, to answer your question, attention seekers who do not care about attention being positive, or prefer it to be negative. My histrionics and my borderlines, my obsessives and my possessives.
And where does that bring me to? Well, the prince of British horse racing. Diego.
His pride blinds him, at times. Well. Often. Diego seeks world domination and yet he himself craves being dominated. Average brat, really. He's the type of man that requires a handler, yet the idea frightens him, so he becomes flighty the second someone actually wants him. I often find myself thinking that Diego is the type of traumatized individual that thinks "If you love me, you'll sexualize me" and "If you love me, you don't sexualize me" at the same time. He's never happy. He gets that attention he acts out for, it frightens him, he avoids his darling yet still feels strongly for them. He doesn't get that attention, he continues to act out and will become aggressive to receive anything.
He'll insult his darling, harass them, demean them, anything that will get him a reaction. He'll flirt, and peacock, he'll give all sorts of things a good try. As long as Diego makes a mark in his darling's memory, it's all going according to plan. When Diego spouts his usual pompous nonsense, all he's really saying is "Look at me! Adore me! Love me!"
And God, is he screaming it. Diego has the audacity to out perform his darling and then dream sweet dreams of them on the same night. He's better than you, you need to accept it, okay I love you goodnight where's my forehead kiss. I'm not even covering his random mood swings and his tendency to (laundry list of complaints).
It's more bearable when Hotpants is reigning him in, but since that relationship isn't romantic in nature, he'll continue to seek out what he really wants regardless of his hindrances. Once his heart belongs to someone, his tail only wags for them. It's only good if it's you.