AU!even if you don't want to (tropheesy angst)

prologue:

Warnings:
Swearing

Authors note:
Here we go again.
The grind never stops, ig.
Gotta grind and work hard to gain them 300+ followers back, can't be too hard, right?
Also I just realized I was using double prime and not quotation marks I'm going to cry
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Cheesy has always been quite the happy fellow. He was never that serious, atleast that's how some people see it. He always cracked jokes in serious situations, trying to lighten the mood. He was always smiling, always cheery, always just being himself..

“hey, microphone!” cheesy calls out, running over to microphone.

“what is it now, cheesy?” microphone asked. She sounded so irritated and annoyed.

Cheesy felt his smile falter a little at the response, but he didn't show it and continued sounding happy.

“have you heard about the cheese factory that got destroyed? There was a lot of.. debrie! Haha.. get it? Cuz..” cheesy starts to trail off, now feeling a little akward.

Microphone let's out a sigh, deciding mot to be so mean to cheesy this time.
“you know, you should have confidence in your jokes and not explain it, so it's more funny.”

Cheesy nods.
“yeah sure I'll.. I'll do that, thanks for the advice mic!” cheesy runs off again.

“he's so energetic.” microphone thinks out loud.

Cheesy continued to wander around, he was bored, he doesn't really have any friends, something you don't expect from such a cheery person like him.

When he has no comedy shows, he wanders around the hotel in search of other people to share his jokes with. He's trying his best to be funny. He just wants validation and to make people laugh, he wants to make people smile, he wants to be of use.

The fact that most people who come to his comedy shows are 40-50 year old dads don't really make him feel that useful but hey, atleast he has an audience that actually like his jokes.

He spots salt and pepper and smiles, they look like they need a joke to cheer them up.
“hey, salt and pepper, so have y-”

“shut up, shut the fuck up, GO AWAY.” salt yells at him.

“aaw.. shucks.” cheesy looks down and walks away slowly.

Pepper puts a hand on salt's shoulder.
“cmon salt, don't be like that.” she turns to cheesy and calls his name.
“cheesy, come here, we're sorry for yelling at you.”

Salt glares at pepper.
“peps, are we seriously doing this?”

“we could be his friend, I mean, we do need more people in our gossip group. Maybe he knows secrets? who knows? Please, now that I think about it we should add him to our gossip group, please salt please please” pepper tries to convince salt to let cheesy hang out with them. While cheesy is smiling wide and standing near them like a golden retriever.

“..fine.” salt says.

Cheesy giggles.
“so, uh.. about this gossip group, I'm interested."

Salt hums.
“eh I'll add you in our group chat later, for now we have to uh.. do something important."

Cheesy furrows his brows in confusion, looking at the two.
“What do you mean something important? You two do nothing but walk around the hotel whispering to eachother and being lazy, if anything you just don't want to talk to me you off brand yarn haired doll looking motherfuckers”
..... Is what he would say if he was a complete asshole. Instead he just kept those thoughts in his head and walked away.

As he was wandering around, he bumped into trophy.
“watch where you're going!” he yells.

Cheesy holds his hands up to his chest defensively.
“sorry, I didn't mean it-!” he nervously stammers out.

Cheesy was scared of trophy, trophy was much stronger and has a reputation of being violent and unpredictable. Yet despite all the red flags, cheesy can't help but slowly develop feelings towards trophy. He wants to be trophy's friend and maybe even get him to change but cheesy knows that that's close to impossible.

As trophy grumpily walks away, cheesy can't help but stare for a while, trophy's muscles, his voice, his.. everything. It took everything in his power to stop from squealing right then and there.

He walks away, blushing a little.

Maybe one day he gets the chance to talk to trophy more.

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720 words.
Short, I know.

Also I just realized that cheesy acts like Steven universe sometimes. (Without all the trauma)