Paris x Reader (Platonic)
In Which Paris Appreciates Tea
You were visiting Lily again, but this time Yumi answered the door.
You knew the basics about Yumi's situation. She was a psychic, her nightmares were prophecies, and she had a doll named Paris that was sentient. She lived with her two adoptive mothers, and Lily babysat for them while they worked.
"Hi, Yumi. How are you today?"
She let you in, "I'm alright. I didn't dream last night, so Paris is here."
"That's nice. Are you enjoying your time together?" You set your stuff down next to the door.
Yumi smiled, "Yep! Earlier, I was teaching him how to knit. He still drops stitches here and there, but he's getting the hang of it."
"That sounds so fun! And how's Lily?"
Yumi grinned mischievously, "Lily is making Paris try on comfortable clothes."
You paused, "And what does that entail?"
Lily popped into the room, "Sourcing clothes from some old dolls of mine and -" She ducked as a pillow flew over her head and into the wall beside her, "hiding his suit when he isn't looking."
"I would quite like to have my suit back before it gets wrinkled," Paris entered the room after Lily and turned to you, "Hello, so lovely to see you today."
Paris was wearing a black cable knit sweater and some gray sweatpants. His red socks were the only thing that wasn't pilfered, it seemed, as he was wearing them.
"Well, that outfit certainly looks more comfortable that your suit. Does it feel more comfortable?"
Paris crossed his arms, "It's. Complicated. I don't mind the feel the cloth, and it is much a much looser fit than my suit."
"So it's comfy?" Lily grinned.
"Lily, if I say this outfit is comfortable, will you give me my suit back?"
You interrupted them, "Look, Paris, I'm genuinely asking, are you more comfortable in that outfit? You don't have to be more comfortable in it. It's alright if you'd prefer your suit."
He paused, "I. Um. I prefer my suit, I think."
"Alright, Lily, could you please give him his suit back." You felt like you were scolding a child.
Lily crossed her arms, "I dunno. I think I may have forgotten where it is."
"If I need to help Paris find it, then I won't be able to give you or Yumi any of the sweets I brought until its found."
"Ok, I'll go get it!" And Lily scrambled off.
Paris walked after her silently.
You went through your bag to uphold your end of the bargain, pulling out Circus Animals, cookies, and some flan pudding.
You also pulled out a box of hot hands. When you saw them, you thought of Paris. He seemed to get cold rather easily.
Once every one was comfortable in the living room, you made the sweets available. Lily immediately grabbed one of the puddings while Yumi opened one of the bags of circus animals.
You turned to look at Paris, who was just watching the girls enjoy their sweets, "Paris, do you feel cold often?"
"Hmm? Oh, its complicated. To put it simply, I am effected by the temperature, but I am a toy," He smiled to himself, "It doesn't effect me like it does you humans."
"I've seen you wear scarves before, though. Does the cold make you uncomfortable?"
"Yes, but it won't kill me," Paris narrowed his eyes at you, "Why are you asking me about this anyway?"
You put the box of hot hands on the table, "Do you know what these are?"
He sighed, "No, what are they?"
"These are Hot Hands. They're air activated heat pads."
Paris looked confused.
"Hold on, I'll get one out for you to figure out," You opened the box and took out a packet. Then you opened one of the compartments of the packet and tossed the Hot Hand in Paris's direction, "They can get pretty warm."
Paris looked up, eyes wide.
"Not warm enough to melt anything. It just might get uncomfortable."
"Oh, okay. So, there's no bad chemicals in these? They're safe?"
You. You almost forgot. He was around 80, wasn't he.
"It's safe. You won't kill anyone by having it out. Just don't open that little bag, and it is safe."
Lily snickered at Paris, and he glared back at her.
Yumi watched as they started to bicker before turning to you, "Can I have a hot hands?"
"Of course, here," You opened the other compartment, and gave her the little heat pad.
She smiled, "Thank you!"
While Paris and Lily continued to bicker about the safety of modern things, you started to consider making a cup of tea for everyone. Paris wouldn't be able to drink it, but you felt he might appreciate the heat and maybe the aroma. Was he able to smell? Oh well, you can ask him later.
You got up and went to the kitchen to make tea. Lily had gotten Paris started on how dangerous things from his time were, so you reckoned they wouldn't notice you making tea.
Yumi liked her green tea mildly sweet, and Lily always wanted more honey in her black tea. Paris never asked for tea, but maybe he'd enjoy some lavender tea? It is supposed to be relaxing. And doesn't it have a stronger aroma?
Lavender tea it is then.
After you made everyone else's tea, you made your own and returned to the living room with the mugs of tea.
Lily and Paris were still going on about how the times have changed while you put the tea down in front of their respective people.
Yumi looked up, "Thank you." She looked back over to Paris and interrupted his spiel about killer chemistry sets (that Ivan didn't even make) by giving him the mug you put in front of him, "Your tea is ready."
Paris did a double take, "I don't- I can't drink tea, why did someone make me tea?"
"I made it for you," You shrugged, " I don't know how much you'll enjoy it, but I thought you might like a cup of tea."
He frowned, "But I'm just a toy. I can't enjoy tea; I can't drink it," Paris looked down at his mug, "You just wasted a tea bag on me."
You chuckled, "Well, I think you feeling included is worth more than a tea bag. Don't worry about drinking it, me or Lily can drink it later."
His mouth clicked shut and he remained silent as he cradled the warm mug in his hands.
Lily shook her head and turned to you, "I was learning about so many things. Apparently old refrigerators could blow up."
"Oh good heavens. I'm so glad I wasn't alive for that."
She nodded, "Ditto. Anyways, where did you get these puddings, they're really good!"
"You know that green and white pharmacy on the corner? They have all sorts of stuff."
The conversation continued while Paris looked into his mug of tea. His mug of tea. That you made. For him. Even though you knew he couldn't drink it. You said he was worth it. But was he? Paris couldn't taste the tea. It smelled wonderful though. And it was quite warm.
This was nice. You were nice. Maybe. Maybe he would make himself tea in the future.
His reflection in the goldish brown liquid smiled back at him.
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Your tags under the pokemon poll are SO TRUEE and it hurts how many people dont understand that
I grew up in the change from pixel art to 3D and have nostalgia for bw, xy AND sm. So i think because of that, I can see the good and bad in all the games but don't feel like any of them 'peaked''. They're all different games, so they are really hard to compare.
On a related note tho, its so sad to see so many fans praise one of my childhood games and not the others. And like, I get it because gen 5 is more similar to what they grew up with.....but every time I say I love xy, sm and even swsh i get told they are terrible and usually imply that I shouldnt like them :/
That only happens online, though......irl all the fans ive met, no matter their ages, just say something like 'i didnt like it, but i'm glad you did!'. Growing up in irl fan spaces and having to move online during corona was AN EXPERIENCE omg
Yeah! It's super interesting how much we are affected by nostaglia.
There's usually a pattern you can notice with this stuff too. There are two lines that go up as time goes on. The one everyone talks about as being great and the newer one people hate on, usually to do with nostalgia of the now older original audience of the game.
My full reply got long so putting it under a read more skfjsh
My first Pokemon game was Colosseum, so gen 2/3 pokemon and gen 3 sound effects are pretty nostalgic to me.
Then I grew up mostly playing Diamond/Platinum/PMD2/Ranger2. I LOVED Team Galactic. I restarted the games so many times just so I could play through the story again with Cyrus and the Galactic Grunt theme. (I have also played through pmd2 many many times). I remember in my early teens seeing people on the internet hating on DPPt a lot and it making me sad. I recall someone saying that the gen 4 Pokemon sucked and I remember thinking "aw I guess they're right, some of these pokemon are really boring or annoying" and then I learned later that the pokemon I was thinking of were all gen 1 pokemon sdfkjsh
Gen 5 was hated when it first came out because it wasn't very fun for new players. I bet it also didn't help that the advertising for B2W2 was pretty poor and also came out after the 3DS did. I didn't even know it was a sequel until years later. That's why they went in the complete opposite direction for gen 6, and added gimmicks!
I have heard multiple people call the designs from gen 5 horrible over the years (And they're all wrong). Those comments are nowhere NEAR as frequent now, but they almost always come from people with nostalgia for the ones they grew up with.
I was 13 when BW first came out. I think I've only beaten it once, MAYBE twice. I'm not entirely sure why, because I was still replaying DPPt a lot. I would guess it's because the game is super linear in terms of gameplay and every playthrough will start exactly the same. You don't really get to make decisions on your team and how you play until later. Kid me loved the beginning of the main pokemon games the most because they were the most fun bits to play usually. So I suppose when you've already played it once, the beginning becomes quite boring.
And to compare. I did not like XY when it first came out. I was 16 and very against change and also my fav types at the time were dark and dragon so fairy type was the worst thing ever. I said previously that I really liked Team Galactic, so Team Flare was just a bootleg version of them to me. BUT I did immediately replay the game when I finished it. The character customisation plus the huge dex gives the game a lot of replayability. Because while I didn't like a lot about the game it was still fun to play, and it was the first time online was really accessible to me. I went back to 2013/2014 on my blog and there's SO much positivity about the game it's amazing! Over time people only remembered the bad parts and started hating it. I bet there'll be an influx of nostalgia for it before long. We can even see it in the hope people have for SV having Kalos DLC.
I need to replay sun/moon or play USUM because in my brain currently it sucks. But I'm very aware that that's because I only played it once, it's been years, and I played it when I started to grow out of Pokemon. So I'm excited to play it again now that I can appreciate it better. (Also the Sun/Moon anime is my fav so I have a lot of love for the characters now)
And finally, I loved SWSH! I didn't finish it the first time I tried to play it. Mostly because I spent HOURS trying to get a shiny hatenna before doing the fire gym skdfjhs. But then I SPED through the game with a bug type only run before Legends came out and I really enjoyed the story! One of those things that's more enjoyable if you're only focused on enjoying the story (and playing the game through with a joltik as the lead and trying to make sure they stay strong enough to beat the game with pfft) Also Leon was the first ever Champion I actually thought was cool and enjoyed seeing while playing the game (as ridiculous as his outfit is)
If I were to logically plot out the best for me based on how nostalgia works and taking into consideration that public opinion ABSOLUTELY influences me. I would have said BW was the best and XY(or SM) was the downfall, even though I had way more fun playing XY than BW as a kid
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