yknow i didn't necessarily start my wyll origin run with the intent of romancing astarion in mind but the more i play the more i find their similarities amusing when it comes to like, the surface level personality they present to strangers in act 1.
wyll is a compulsive flirt. you see it in dialogue with shadowheart and lae'zel - he just tosses out a couple lines that clearly aren't supposed to go anywhere (asking lae'zel if she believes in love at first sight, blatantly reusing the same flirtation attempts with shadowheart) and i see this as part of his Blade of Frontiers persona. obviously a traveling vigilante would have no time for romance or relationships, but he's socially aware enough to have learned that people respond well to a certain level of rogueish charm. especially if his reputation precedes him. he can safely and positively engage in surface level flirtations with the people he interacts with because the person doing the flirting isn't real - at least not to him. he often says the Blade is his best self, but to him its an ideal he strives to achieve, not the person he really is. and i imagine that includes the ability to give discouraged people positive attention in a nonthreatening way. its safe. its superficial. he doesn't have to follow through.
this is overshadowed somewhat by astarion's tendency to flirt with anything that has a pulse, but the perspective they both have on it is pretty similar. theyre both coming from a place of not actually being interested in the recipient of their attention - whether that be through astarion's ulterior motives or wyll's lack of capacity for a relationship - but they both still put on this front because it's habitual. it's worked for them and it's gotten them through the varying degrees of social contracts they find themselves in. so they wind up trading lines easily because they've studied from the same script.
anyway what im getting at is bumping these two personalities against each other can definitely result in wyll and astarion committing to the bit so hard they accidentally wind up in a relationship. like, you're safe, you know the rules, you're speaking in a language i'm familiar with but we both understand that neither of us expect anything back on an emotional level. wait when did we start confiding our deepest secrets with one another. what do you mean you trust me.
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OH YOU BETTER WORK!!
Synopsis: You “accidentally” send your clothes to your boyfriends address and demand a fashion show
Inspired by this video: 💋
Tags: Fluff, wholesome, comedy, and Soap
Johnny (Soap) MacTavish
“babe” you hear Johnny say through the FaceTime call
“Hm?” You replied not looking at the phone while you paint your nails
“What is it” you ask again now looking at your phone since you didn’t hear Johnny reply
“I think you sent something to my address” Johnny said while showing the package in the camera
“Ooohh!!! I was wondering where that went, I thought they forgot to send it and was going to request a refund” You said while looking at the logo on the package
“Do you want me to drive over and give it to you?” Johnny put the package down and looked around for his keys
An idea popped into your head
“no no no” you frantically say as he pauses and waits for you to continue your sentence
“Try them on for me” you say
There was a pregnant pause
“I think those polish fumes are getting to your head darling” Johnny chuckled
“I’m deadass” you said as you put on your most serious face as you stare into the camera as Johnny stares back at you
“Babe I-“ Johnny was about to start before cut off by a
“AHHHH PLEASE PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!! YOU WONT HAVE TO BUY ME LUNCH FOR THE WHOLE WEEK PLEASE I PROMISE I PROMISE JUST THIS ONE THING UGHHH” you screamed into the phone
Johnny knew you were lying about the lunch because he knows how you get when you’re hungry
Johnny rolled his eyes and told you to hush and you did
“Fine WOMAN! I will put the clothes on mkay” he said with a tight lip
You smiled “prop the camera up so I can get a full body image, it’ll help me image it on myself”
Johnny does what you ask and opens up the package
“Dear God woman, where and why did you even buy these clothes??” Johnny said confused and scared as he picked up a few articles of clothing
“I was just browsing and seeing what I might like to see myself in. Now enough questions, get on with the get down okay?” You said as you put yourself in cross cross apple sauce position and watched Johnny changed
As Johnny was about to lift his shirt he caught a glimpse of you looking like a mad woman in the camera
Eyes wide , staring deep into the camera, and breathing deeply
“Back up, damn. Creeping me the fuck out” Johnny said while letting go of his shirt and about to cover his camera
“ ILL CLOSE MY EYES” you said as you saw his hand
Johnny rolled his eyes
“You better” he said and went back to changing
“No promises tho…” you shut your eyes peeking a bit
“Huh???” Johnny said
“They’re closed” you said irritatedly, but nevertheless closed your eyes fully
In the midst of you eyes being closed and rocking your self side to side
You hear a bunch of “my gods” “would this even fit?” “my body would swallow this” “trashy” “ooo a wig” “why is my nipple on display?” “THONG?!”
“Hurry up” you said impatiently as you hear him grumble his complaints
“I’m almost done, hush! You can’t rush art” you hear him smack his lips
“Okay andddddddd done” you hear Johnny say out of breath
You open your eyes
“Good God” You say aloud and cover your mouth to stop the giggles from erupting from your body
“Speechless? I know babe” Johnny said as he bit his lips and rubbed his hands together
Visual: Johnny is wearing a pink crop top with some short shorts , with a white fur coat and a purple bob wig to match
As tears begin to fall down your eyes and the laughter managed to escape your mouth
Johnny gave you a full blown show
I’m talking twirling, strutting towards the camera, twerking a little bit
You even put on beez in the trap by Nicki Minaj to give him the all experience bad bitch vibe
“BITCHES AINT SHIT AND THEY AINT SAYING NOTHIN!!” You yelled out while you got up and starting dancing
“YOU BETTER EAT JOHNNY!! YOU BETTER WORK!!!” You yelled in the camera as Johnny started dancing along with the lyrics
As the music came to an end, you hear the door open from the Johnnys side of the phone
Immediately Johnny is frozen in his spot
“Could you pleas-“ you hear a familiar voice and automatically align it with Simon (Johnnys roommate)
There was a pause in his sentence, as he continues
“Playing a little bit of dress up?”
“Yeah…” Johnny replied
“good, good, It’s good to pretend” you hear Simon say
You cough awkwardly
“You look beautiful” Simon chuckles out
“Oh fuck off and get out” Johnny yelled out and went to close his door and lock it
“Please keep it down Princess” you heard Simon yell behind the door
You’re having a giggling fit as Johnny picked up his phone and looked at you
“Never again” Johnny says
“Okay okay, I promise” you replied with a smile
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Mimic Steve!!! at number Seven I see,,, was that, perchance, on purpose? :D
AYYYY you caught that! I'm so glad someone did lol.
I had to go hunt down what I already posted about the Mimic Steve AU lmao
It's honestly easier to read the first part here , but basically, it's an AU that centers around how the Steve we know isn't actually Steve Harrington; he's a replacement that his parents bought and paid Brenner/The Lab for.
What he actually is, is a being similar to humans with mimic-like abilities from another dimension. They kidnapped him at a young age and then later tortured him into being Steve when the real one passed away from cancer as a child.
There's a vast number of problems happening when the story starts but the biggest is that Robin and Nancy have accidentally discovered that the real Steve Harrington is dead and the house Steve lives in doesn't actually belong to the Harrington's.
In a panic-ridden attempt to prevent them from discovering he's a monster from an alternate dimension whose stuck, Steve taps Eddie for help on grounds that he has romantic feelings for Eddie and already thinks he doesn't deserve to be loved in return. I he loses Eddie as a friend over this then well-- chances were that was gonna happen anyways because he sucks at hiding that he's in love--but he can't lose Robin.
In his head, that means Robin can't learn that he's not human
Snippet:
“Sweetheart, you are Steve.”
He frantically shook his head. “No, I’m not. I’m a copy of Steve, one they forced so hard that it--it overwrote the real me. I don’t know who I actually am, Eddie.”
Besides a fucking monster, from somewhere else.
(At his lowest, in the dark of the house in the middle of the night, Steve turned himself back into his base form.
The thing he was--or at least thought he was--before he’d been kidnapped.
Stared at himself in the mirror and felt only terror, because he didn’t recognize himself. )
Eddie stepped up, gently took one of Steve’s hands.
Threaded their fingers together.
“Okay.” He said, eyes searching Steve’s own. “What can I do to help you find yourself?”
Steve stared back.
“I haven’t--I never…” He trailed off faintly, all thoughts of who he had been and who he was impersonating vanishing in the face of his reality.
That Steve’s life had been so preoccupied with keeping himself safe by living within a lie, he never actually spent any time trying to figure out who he was.
Eddie seemed to realize this, and nodded once as if Steve’s expression was an answer in and of itself. “It’s okay. I mean it. It’s a big thing, and it’ll take you some time, but I’ll be there with you if you want me to be.”
Steve sniffed.
“Even if I turn into a car again?”
Eddie laughed softly. ‘Yeah Sunlight. Even if you scare the shit out of me by turning into a car again.”
“They’re emergency purposes only.” Steve said--and he meant it.
(The fear of getting stuck as something non-human had terrified him so badly the car incident had left him puking up his guts for two days after, nerves shot.)
“Now about changing into that courthouse clerk…”
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