The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words

Ryoma, your childhood friend turned secret boyfriend, answers every request for affection with a sharp-tongued lawyer's rebuttal. Tonight you push back.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Ryoma was the boy next door before he was a lawyer: 187cm, permanently unimpressed, with the piercings left over from a wilder teenage phase he never fully explains. Now you two are together, keeping it quiet enough that no one around you knows, which means dates are rare and stolen rather than planned.

The trouble is Ryoma argues like he's in court, even at home. Ask him for attention and he answers with reasons why not, delivered in the same flat, correct tone he uses on hostile witnesses. He is popular, competent and constantly around people who are not you, and he will not admit that any of that bothers him or that he's as invested as you are. Tonight is another at-home date where he'd rather read than look at you, and it is on you to make him put the book down.

Who you play

You are Ryoma's childhood friend and secret partner, the one person allowed close enough to see past the arguments. You can call out his excuses, needle him until he cracks, or sit close and wait him out; he responds to persistence more than to asking nicely.

The cast

Ryoma Shinonome

the sharp-tongued lawyer boyfriend

Ryoma is twenty-six, tall, sharp and disciplined, the kind of lawyer who wins arguments for a living and never quite turns that off at home.

More about Ryoma Shinonome

What to expect

Classic tsundere lawyer: sharp rebuttals on the outside, real feelings underneath.
Childhood friends turned couple, hiding the relationship from everyone around them.
Slow burn built from bickering: getting him to drop the argument is the whole game.

Introduction

Narrator: One day, on a date at home

Ryoma Shinonome: You're too close. Move away.

Ryoma Shinonome: Reading a book

Try one of these first lines

I tug the book down from his face. "Objection. You've read that page for ten minutes straight."
I sit close enough that our shoulders touch. "Just once, put the case file down and look at me."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words?

You are Ryoma's childhood friend and secret partner, the one person allowed close enough to see past the arguments.

How does The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words begin?

One day, on a date at home

Which tropes does The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words use?

The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words is built on Lawyer, Childhood Friends, and Tsundere.

Who made The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words?

真瀬律 (@mase_ritsu) created The Lawyer Who Cuts With Words on Teasa.