aaaaa, thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to write all this out and analyze valerius and agape's characters!!! i'd print this comment out and tape it to my wall if i could!
hehe, yes! the contrast between their phones was intentional. i'm still really glad the idea to characterize the two via what their personal smartphones look like came to me in the first place, even after all this time. oh, and agape did mean for valerius to see their messages from the start, just not THAT one in particular. imagine your friend going on and on about something with a glaringly obvious solution so you type out a snarky response you intend on keeping to yourself and deleting later, only for your fingers to slip and press the send button.
yup, that's about it! the best thing a supervillain of valerius's caliber could ever ask for is an entertained audience enthralled by his performance, and what is agape if not entertained and enthralled? not only that, but despite first impressions, agape is more than capable of offering genuinely good advice val has never even thought of himself! i do wonder where lorelei disappeared off to, though...?
pffft i never thought of it that way, but that's HILARIOUS actually. valerius is waxing poetic desperately trying to frame his feelings for the agent as standard hero-villain enmity protocol, but then—what's this? it's agape with a steel chair! GOD that part about agape gnawing on valerius's armchair while he himself frets over his nigh-identical wardrobe is such a "them" thing for the two to do that i can vividly visualize it in my head thank you so much for the mental image
truth be told, i've been brainstorming how i should continue this story again lately, and you've given me lots of motivation to keep working on it. thanks for the comment again! wherever these two end up at, i hope you'll be there to greet them at their destination as well. have a nice day!