#or however that works i don't think age gap counts when there's immortality involved because there's no irl equivalent

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Regardless of my actual opinion, the teen romance novel-esque argument that Joshua is 90 years old at the time of TWEWY would make JoshNeku infinitely funnier to me. Nearly a century of existing and Joshua has not learned one single iota of emotional maturity in any of it. Immortal brat.

There's no way he's ever living this down. Neku learns in three weeks what took Joshua decades. He learns how long Joshua has been around and starts addressing him exclusively as "grandpa" until it loses its effect and therefore its shine. He asks who gives Josh his sponge baths now that Kitaniji's out of the picture. Joshua, who hasn't aged physically in 75 years, mentally in 80, and emotionally in 87, would be incredibly susceptible to these insinuations from his fifteen year old boyfriend, who has this sense of humour honestly because he's still human fifteen as opposed to dead godling fifteen.

Joshua can't come onto him anymore because Neku will ask if he's sure sure he won't break a hip. Neku insists he's the sugar baby and only here for the money and assets because Joshua's personality is nothing to call home about. Neku answers Joshua on the phone with "what's up, cradle robber?" Every argument Joshua thinks he's winning can be easily derailed by pointing out he's the one that decided to date a teenager. Neku buys Joshua hard candies and shitty dime-a-dozen impact font gag gift shirts fairly regularly.

Joshua wears them out with him.