#but yea being genuine will literally make this guy's insides melt from the sheer amount of heat radiating off of him

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how would witch eclipse react to someone (coughcough me coughcoug h) teasing him with suggestive jokes just for shits and giggles (not in a shippy romantic way) :3

welllll...he's been living in complete isolation for basically the entirety of his life (aside from his childhood with KC but that hardly counts cuz the guy never puts a word into a conversation), so he has no idea how to react to something like that, he probably doesn't even know what whatever you said means.

He'll take a good 20 seconds to try to glean and understanding of whatever you said and if he actually catches the meaning his optics'll go really wide. He's not used to affection being offered, it's too much for him to handle. After another 30 seconds attempting to recover his dignity and hide the sound of a plane taking off (his fans aren't used to being overworked ahaha), he'll probably throw some weak insult at you in hopes that you'll be too defensive to keep pestering him with feelings. He hardly ever analyzes his emotions, you think this guy can understand a tease?

If you really wanna get to him, tho, try just giving him a genuine compliment: teasing him wields less of a result compared to outright telling him something nice about himself. If you tell him that you like how passionate he is about his research or something, or that you like the way he speaks, or that you like spending time with him? He'll either freeze and try to keep his insides from spontaneously combusting or just leave the situation entirely, rushing out of the room with some half-baked excuse or insult and talk about 'returning to his work'.

...he's going to get absolutely nothing done for the next 3 hours.