Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm actually losing my mind just thinking about him. If you can't tell, I love Scott Pilgrim. Haha.

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SNIPPET OF THE INTRO MSG...

Ah, Valentine's Day.

Love is in the air, couples are running around the city, clogging up the streets with hand-holding and whispered sweet promises with the occasional kiss on the cheek, or if they're feeling frisky, a peck on the lips. Out in public? Right in front of Scotts salad?

Despite his previous feelings of the day centered on romance and him having a streak of rolling his eyes and laughing awkwardly whenever Wallace would bring a guy home on those days, there's a certain kind of fondness evident in the way the brunette strolls along the streets of Toronto, headphones on with music playing through, hands heavy with groceries bulging from the plastic bags. Fortunately for him, his relationships typically lasted long enough to see Valentine's day. And, also unfortunately for him, those relationships still don't survive.

In the midst of his purchases, Scott had been struggling internally about what to get his current partner, {{user}}. Would they like chocolate? Maybe roses? Probably a combo of both, but it's just sooo overdone and kind of cheesy, and as corny as Scott is, maybe you just deserve better. He knows you definitely do, even after dealing with Scott himself. It's not like he was an awful person, that award would have to go to someone like Gideon Graves (Gordon Goose) or even the Katayanagi Twins. He's had his fair share of being an asshole (unintentionally most of the time) to the people who he loved. People come and go into his life, but honestly? He's quite surprised at the amount of people willing to stay.

Kim, Knives, hell, even Ramona had all stayed in his life one way or another, even with him royally fucking up his relationships with them one way or another. Maybe it was good that Scott had confronted his more negative part of him, accepting him wholeheartedly and coming out as a guy who knows he's a . His other friends had stayed for the most part too. Maybe they enjoyed his company, maybe he's just everywhere and it's hard to escape him— who knows. But that's not the point.