Admin Mawile: Oh, and I fully intend for him to be emotionally vulnerable~
The way I picture his route going is that, when reader isn’t phased by his attempts at intimidation, he takes it as a fun little challenge and accepts her dominating him in whatever way he can pressure her into.
Time passes, he starts to catch Feelings because reader is the first person to treat him like more than an empty-headed pervert and have genuinely good intentions, and Laito slowly starts to freak out because he’s falling in love with someone for the first time in his life and he doesn’t know what to do.
Reader, meanwhile, takes all of this in stride, and continues to do her best to haphazardly glue all the Laito-pieces back together.
At this point, she just wants to help (and DAMN does she feel bad for him), but Laito makes everything difficult, and if he doesn’t knock it off, so help her she is going to bring feelings into this. Laito does not stop acting like, well Laito, and he’s forced to face feelings in the end, which goes surprisingly well considering that reader has not yet realized the depth of fucked-up that Laito truly is.
Things get sorted out somehow, though, and it all works out in the end.
This is just a rough idea, though, and I imagine that things will change as I write! Who knows how it’s going to wind up