The Arcana Characters X Reader

Lucio - Insecurities

You sighed longingly as you stared at lucio admire himself in the mirror. Even though his skin was an ashy pale colour, he still managed to look nice all of the time. You watched his prosthetic arm comb through his locks and comb it back.

“Why are you staring at me?” lucio asked as his burning red eyes shimmered towards your direction. You were too busy looking at him to even notice his attempt to communicate with you. Lucio scoffed at this and snapped his metal fingers, “Ay! (Y/N)!”  he rested his other hand on his hip.
You jumped in place and looked up at him. You blushed to feel his red eyes burning into you. “Uhm..uh...I was spacing out I guess..” you sighed and looked away from him all guiltily.

“Oooo..were you spacing out from how gorgeous I look~?” he puckered his lips at you, but frowned to see you didn’t do that awkward smile. You didn’t even try to keep a serious face. He floated to the ground and formed some legs. “If you wanted to look at me so bad i would have allowed it~” he giggled and sat down next to you.

“Heh..right…” he mumbled and stood up from the bed and stretched. You needed to get out of there, “Uhm..I need to head out! That case isn’t gonna solve itself!” you smiled awkwardly and quickly ran off.

“But...we already know julian is not it...i told you.” lucio frowned and squinted at your running form as you slammed the door shut. “I know your game.” he slowly floated upwards and seeped through the walls, following you outside to the fountain.

He watched as you sat down near the lip of the marble fountain and scowled at yourself in the reflection. You traced your fingers along your cheekbones, jaw line. “Ugh why are you so upset all of the sudden.” you frowned and shook your head, still glaring at the reflection. You just felt so small around other people, plus you compare yourself to everyone around you.
“Ok I know something is wrong. What is it! It’s making me upset!” lucio stormed out and plopped down next to you. “You are glaring at your reflection and you lied to me earlier.” he squinted.

“Lucio I don’t want to talk about it…” you glared and looked away from him. “You wouldn’t understand, And I bet you don’t even care! Just...go back to admiring the castle...or looking around, or whatever.” you rolled your eyes and crossed your arms over your chest.

Lucio’s eyes widened at your sudden sharp tone then bit his tongue. “Well, why would I admire the castle when I can admire you~” he cooed and tucked a lock of hair behind your ear. He was testing you.

“There is nothing to admire here.” you mumbled, you didn’t want to look at him because you felt even more pathetic than you already did. Asra scolded you for attaching lucio to you, and now you were crying in front of him..looking vulnerable.

Bingo. Lucio was expecting this response. “Oh (Y/N), there is a lot to admire about you, you know.” he smiled and gently cupped his real hand under your chin and pulled your gaze to his. “Your eyes..your cute little no-”

“You are just trying to make me feel better.” you smacked his hand away. “How do you feel so confident in yourself all of the time? You wouldn’t understand...and I don’t want your help.” you looked away.
You couldn’t see it, but the former count was glaring angrily. “I have many insecurities! Maybe you shouldn’t be such a jerk and assume such things!” his glowing eyes narrowed at your figure. “I can’t even name all of them..bu tone that I thought would be obvious was this damn prosthetic arm that everyone has to see.” he flung the gauntlet off.

You turned around to face him to meet and angered expression. “Lucio...i-..” you frowned and looked at his arm that was scarred and torn. “I’m sorry..I shouldn’t have acted that way..” you mumbled and looked down.

“Now will you please listen to me my little rose…” he lifted your chin up once again. “You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen.” he smiled, it was sweeter than any of the smiles he would flash. “Dearie, I could go on with how many wonderful qualities you have about it.” he smiled and trailed his hand down to hold yours.

You felt your heart flutter as you looked up at the taller man. He had that same soft smile on his face, which was quite odd. “Lucio..that..” you stammered. “That was actually sweet of you..” you didn’t know what to say. The most egoistic person just complimented you. But did he really mean it? You looked down at the glowering thought.

“And I mean it…” he pressed his lips against your hand and trailed them up to your shoulder. “If I were not a damn ghost i would prove it to you~” he winked with that crooked, sly smile. You could feel your skin tingle as if his lips were actually against you.

Your face flushed red at the sudden comment and rolled your eyes, “Whatever...you're just saying that…” you chuckled and shrugged your shoulders.

You felt yourself get scooped up from the side of the fountain, you were being dipped by lucio who had the confident grin on his face. “Is that a challenge I here? I do love my challenges…” he purred and wiggled his thick brows at you.

A yelp escaped your lips as your
clung your arms around his neck, with a shy awkward smile. “Then I guess it would be…” the smile only grew bigger.

“I’ll remember that when I become human again.” he giggled and pulled you back up so you were smacked close to his chest. He smelt like fire, and burning wood. His eyes went half lidded as he admired your face, cupped your face with his hand.

You looked up at him with the same heart eyes, then jumped whenever you heard asra yelling at you.

“First you attach him to yourself now you are romancing him!” he frowned, he looked more hurt than angry.

Lucio quickly pulled away from your form and hid his arms behind his back.

“Sorry..” he whispered to you.

“It’s fine...asra is just being weird..” you groaned and closed your eyes.

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