#fell first fell harder

[interconnectedmatrix]

What if...?

A silly way of Solomon's devotion. Where was this at the start of the game? I'm not so sure. Although, I'd love to expound on this idea — atleast, for the purposes of a trope I come to love. Let's call this: "Tell me please, why can't I?"

♡.. Imagine a time where it began as the other way around: MC pining after Solomon. Had the human exchange student crave for human interaction in the literal incarnate of Hell? Go figured, it's in their nature. Of course they'd cling to him. Who else was the safest option?

♡.. Many moments pass and MC connects to Solomon like a missing thread. MC is his constant reminder of his lingering humanity, no matter how far gone he thought he was. Seeing the MC talk more about the Human realm: friends, family, places and even the most mundane things like ignoring stupid injuries, or multitasking on errands— it's almost nostalgic despite the many years the sorcerer had lived.

♡.. When MC finally builds up the courage to finally confess to Solomon, he was... shocked? Humanity was an odd topic; anthropology explaining the details of this race to a T. Solomon at this time thought that MC might as well have fallen for the demons. Like the toy they all were.

♡.. And what did he say? What did he say that determined the course of their relationship?

— "It'll pass."

♡.. He had an advantage. He was supposed to be able to become the first to MC's heart — the advantage of both being human. He and MC getting together causes the least amount of issues, but what did he do? He let them be. Let them bond with the brothers. With the others.

♡.. He only viewed them as a pawn in this endless game of life.

♡.. After that as some time came by, their relationship seemed to have continued on as normal. One might say that he and the MC had developed a friendship of sorts. This bond strengthened further when he sees them alone at the school dance — "shall we lonely singles dance together?"

♡.. That's how it should've stayed. His heart shouldn't have had a mind of his own. At night, he couldn't help but recall all their moments spent together. Solomon could no longer count the days he imagined their smile, their laughter, all that made them human...

♡.. As soon as he felt that spark — like a truck ran over him in his deepest nightmares, he realized: "oh fuck..." the platinum blonde muttered in cold sweat, panting as his mind continues to wander. He's awake. He is awake. But is he? Why is it that he's stuck in this dream?

♡.. Like a demon, Solomon felt tempted. Although, isn't that just human nature? — "what have you done to me?"

♡.. Now he knew how MC felt. And even if they was an attempt at the confession, MC's options were limited.

— "I love you like no other. Please, I... I don't want to lose you."

♡.. So they picked the least broken of the bunch.

— "I'll learn how to love you again."

♡.. It was a sentence of bliss, but to the sorcerer, he lost. Which is why when they were given the opportunity to go to the past, Solomon got to spend every moment with MC.

Every moment to enter their heart again.

To quote: "The whisper of love in the morning. Do you hear it? It's beating for you loudly."

Ah yes Solomon, aka mister "shady sorcerer who can't cook" but also "I lost my chance and now I'm taking it again." Inspire by the "fell first, didn't fell" and "fell later, fell harder" dynamic. I was inspired by how domestic Solomon acts towards MC in NB — like they were a married couple. As much as I love the demon brothers, this one got my heart... Again, just a "what if," takes inspiration from canon but I tend to deviate a LOT if that makes sense ;v;

Anyhow, have a nice day~! Tell me what you think of this scenario? Let me know your thoughts! 🫶

[maychild]

listen, respectfully, i wholeheartedly believe tharn fell first and phaya is falling harder.

did we forget the first ep and the flashback to how they met before training started??? when chart was being an ahole at the restaurant, picked on tharn, and phaya had to kick his butt?? remember that scene?

phaya took tharn’s arm, dragging him out, and tharn’s look said, i’d follow you anywhere and anytime, my love.

AND THEY HAD JUST MET AHAHDJDJSJS that scene is still making me insane four episodes later

AND EVEN YAI KNEW IT AND HE DIDNT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE RESTAURANT

i know it was a comedic scene and so easily dismissed but that is totally where everything started for them, i truly believe (in this life)

[macaulaytwins]

do you ever have a “fell first” “fell harder” moment but it’s with you and one of your ships? like you get into them because of one character that you love and then slowly you fall for the other member of the ship just as hard as the first character?

[theyaresogay]

Final results are in!

[liloublack-lupin]

Idk about y’all but this is how it goes for me :

Barty « fell first » Crouch and Evan « Fell harder » Rosier

Lily « fell first » Evans and Mary « fell harder » Mcdonald

Marlene « fell first » Mkinnon and Dorcas « fell harder » Meadows

Sirius « fell first » Black (but wouldn’t admit to it ) and Remus « fell harder » Lupin

James « Fell first » Potter and Regulus « fell harder » black

[moonymiel]

i think one of my favorite things about wolfstar is that there is no way they fit into the "one fell first and the other one fell harder" trope. because even if one of them fell first, both of them fell in a rolled down a flight of stairs- tripped over their boots and knocked their chin on a pointy corner- their stomach hurts from trying to keep in the feeling- can't sleep and can't eat when the other is hurt- would crawl to the ends of the earth on scraped hands for the other- can't look too closely at each other when they're sleepy and soft, because it's more intimate than staring at each other's souls- will argue with too much fire in their voices because they need the other one to stay- linked pinkies when they can't hold hands- possessive saliva sharing is as comforting as a wedding ring kinda way. like their devotion for each other is just as all-consuming and ridiculous and authentic and basic to their nature for both of them. equally as down bad, both are just as whipped stupid for the other. no fucking way one loves the other more. and y'know what? good for them!

[justaz]

lance fell first, keith fell harder

[fiveninetyeightt]

abed fell first, troy fell harder

[sexc-snail]

I'm a huge fan of the "falls first/falls harder" trope but not depicted as 'this one fell in love shallowly without thinking about it and the other loves them more'

I like it when it has to do with How they fell

Like, they're both at the top of a set of stairs and theyre both crossing the same difference to both end up at the bottom

But one walked down the stairs slowly, acclimatizing to the difference in height and accepts that (they think) they are the only one in love bc they're used to it. They spent time on every step (crushing, butterflies, thinking about them, etc. All the stages of falling)

And the other just fucking faceplanted

And don't be mistaken - they still experienced every step

But while the person who fell first stood on the steps, this person cartwheels ass over head on every step. They hit the bottom at light speed with broken ribs, a dislocated jaw and several teeth missing.

And while the person who fell first is acclimatized, the person who fell harder acts like a cat that wasn't allowed to smell it's new home under the door and is wondering where the fuck they are. Person A is so normal about everything bc they're used to it but Person B is rabid and will bite if they don't hold hands RIGHT NOW

[svnflowermoon]

"one fell first and the other fell harder" no no no listen they BOTH have to be insanely down bad for each other, and they fell at the same time it's just that one had the common sense to realise it and the other was an oblivious idiot

[gelly-fsh]

Dear writers on Tumblr I have a question.

I don't know if it's just me or it's a general thing, but I feel like in the trope of 'Fell first x Fell Harder' the one that confesses their feelings first is the character that felt Harder IDK. Like I just think it's a matter of balance yk? Like oh you have yearned in silence for over 8 years??? Ok hon you will have your crush confessing their undying devotion to you in 3 to 5 business days dw <3.

I know everyone can do whatever they want but this just makes sense to me while I write that trope honestly.

[rath1444]

Prince Henry fell first.

Alex fell harder.

[dawningfairytale]

alright okay i should be working on my overdue assignment but instead i'm here. so sometimes i hear "a fell first, b fell harder" suggests one person in the relationship doesn't care for the other as much (b cares more for a). i get that, but i do want to show what i think is trying to be suggested for that dynamic.

in this graph, the x-axis represents equal feelings. assume once they intersect they continue along the x-axis (bc i couldn't put that into the graphing calculator). also assume that any value on the y-axis greater than 10 is neutrality of equal standing. it doesn't make a difference if it's 10 or 100, it's just general positive vibes (because i didn't know how to fix it in the graphing calculator). y values 0-10, therefore, indicate the process of falling in love and deepening feelings. x values indicate the amount of time passed.

let the blue line represent character a and the red line represent character b.

in this example, character a's feelings become romantic more quickly than character b's, and, once romantic, consistently deepen (this is a theoretical model, most of the time fanfic characters are not this chill). for 80% of that time, character b is stagnant in a state of romantic neutrality towards character a (because, again, i couldn't figure out how to get the graphing calculator to do what i wanted). however, after 8 units of time pass, character b quickly falls in love with character a (comparative to the speed at which character a fell for character b). they fall harder because when you fall faster there's more of an impact. i think. i don't do physics. however, they both reach the x-axis (in this case dating or endgame) at the same time. they both feel the same amount for each other, just the time and speeds at which they got there were different.

basically, they love each other equally they just got there differently. yahoo!

[winter-spark]

Okay, so for Juza celebration week day 3, I'm gonna discuss some Juza ships and the questions of who's more fun to see pining, who fell first, who fell harder. (I hope this counts lol. The prompt is favorite relationships and I could instead talk about his friendship with Omi or Sakyo or something but here I am choosing to go the shipper's route instead lol.)

Before I start, I do want to say I sorta see Juza as demi. Demiromatic, demisexual? Both? Maybe. One of them? Definitely. Is this important for the post? Well, I'm not posting anything else this week so my headcanon has to go somewhere. Also yes. because this is a ships post. Read: not really but still.

Okay first up Juban:

For Juban it is obviously pining!Banri. I think also it's definitely a Banri fell first, Banri fell harder situation. I'm sorry I don't make the rules I just follow the feelings. Like, Juza is just trying to vibe and eat his food Banri, get up lol. I think in this case Juza's not pining lowkey because he'd rather not think about it. Like why think about how they'd be as a couple when a confession would make him want to cut his tongue out. Well, maybe not his tongue because boy's gotta eat but like a confession to Banri? That would never make his to-do list. I fully heartedly believe that whenever he realized he liked Banri he imagined Banri laughing at him and locked it up. Not that the feelings are gone but like he's filed it away as 'no' or 'never gonna happen' so he's content. (So kinda like Muku but a completely different vibe.) Either way, that's what is most fun to me for them. Like I'm sure pining!Juza is fun but for Juban and their canon dynamic, it's more fun to think about it as Banri just trying to attain his crush's attention and it almost working but also sorta backfiring on him, like that's just how he flirts. I wanna say "good luck getting together ya goobers" but somehow it doesn't feel impossible to me even with this set up lol. Like I dunno exactly how for suresies, I just know it's plausible. Right now I'm thinking either they'd fall into a relationship like it just sorta one day they're dating and nobody talks about or really adresses it until like months later OR sorta an argument into confession type thing, like maybe one of them is being sorta annoying (out of concern or something but whichever on of them it is he's not gonna say it at first) and they end up in an arguement about whatever it is and then the other is like "why do you even care?" and I'm not a great writer but like then either comes in a flat out confession of sorts or it's bit more arguing that like lowkey forces em into a confession. (I have one more alt but that's bcuz it was a chat post that I could see being them and I might just post it as a chat post some day. idk we'll see.)

Okay so, I'll be honest I'm not sure I'm knowledgeable enough on other Juza ships but I do want to consider two more because I'm curious. I'm not fully sure I ship them but I think the possibility is interesting. So yea I'll literally be typing those as I think. (the previous section was kinda like that but it was originally barely coherent tags for another post lol)

Next up, Tenma & Juza:

(I'm not especially sure I actually ship them so much as a couple of weeks or so ago I read their card bonus story thing (cross backstage?) and thus I'm curious as to see them a bit more.) So, lol this is gonna sound repetitive but I do think pining!Tenma/Tenma fell first is more fun to think about because I think based on that short and Tenma being like "I don't/didn't need your help but I'm going to help you out because I don't want to owe you anything which I sorta already don't because I didn't ask for your help" can very easily be translated to "It's not like I like you or anything" in a romantic reading of their relationship. Like I sorta imagine it as Tenma trying to do nice things for Juza but always having/giving a flimsy excuse for why he's doing it. And the moment Juza is like nice to him back Tenma gets lowkey(but probably actually highkey) embarrassed. And I think it'd be funny if Tenma convinces himself that his crush on Juza is actually Juza having a crush on him because "of course, he has a crush on me, that's not a foreign thing for me, people get crushes on me all the time" Yuki: "What are you muttering about? It's breaking my concentration." I'll be honest I'm not entirely sure who would fall harder(at this rate it's likely it'd probably be Tenma ngl but it could be Juza idk), regardless I do think Juza probably really admires Tenma and his acting and he probably has a decently easy time telling him that and the following interaction would be something like: Tenma(probably somewhat embarrassed): Well of course you do, don't you know who I am? Juza: ??? Yea? That's why I'm talking you??? Summer Troupe: lol! Autumn Troupe: *facepalm* Tenma: *more embarrassed* I think Juza developing a crush on Tenma in this scenario is funny because he'd probably see Tenma as a little awkward and weird but finds it somehow endearing, but it's partially because he's seeing that even someone as famous and popular as Tenma struggles to talk and get his point across to people at times, or maybe that's just a bonus. Either way, Juza is very willing to take the time to understand Tenma even at his most confusing because Juza has been misunderstood his whole life pretty much. Idk if this paragraph sounds right, if you guys don't think so, I'm sorry for being wrong &/or this not making sense. Update! Because I've realized that would line up more with early-on stuff. I've remembered that I've seen two comics with them interacting. One was the one where Tenma was like 'Juza let me thank you by taking you to this pancake(? it was something sweet) shop I passed by', and Juza was like 'alright let's go'. & Tenma led them to a Ramen shop like 'I coulda sworn it was here', & as they eat the noodles Tenma's like 'I'm really sorry', & Juza's like 'these are good too'. & then the other comic with them that I saw was the one where them, Tsuz & Tai were heading home from the college together getting a lot of attention from Tenma's fans and Tenma apologized and Juza was like 'Let me know if any weirdos try to mess with you' and Tenma's like 'thanks! -^^-' (which is so much growth from the cross-backstage thingy). That was their interaction there. So now I'll update the thoughts with that dynamic in mind. I mean uh I feel like that other stuff is still plausible just as they bond more, Tenma's more comfortable with flat-out showing his gratitude and joy and stuff. I feel like as a couple they'd sorta be like Tenma's the super supportive I'm gonna do a bunch for you boyf and Juza's the protective one, you know? Like Tenma would but something sweet on his way home because he feels Juza's been doing a lot and working hard, and Juza would, whenever he can, accompany Tenma home so he doesn't have to deal with being approached and so he doesn't get lost. Probably results in a lot of impromptu dates at cafes and stuff.

And lastly, Sakuya/Juza :

(Because while I know nothing about them as a pair/their dynamic and I don't quite ship them, I think they could be very cute ngl (aka I want to ship them. I mean come on they're so intrinsically similar yet so different at the same time) So for starters, this is a demi x demi ship in my head. They are both demi to me. Demiromantic or demisexual? Both? Hmm pretty sure Sakuya is demiromantic(or maybe gray-romantic) but if he's not demisexual he's definitely under the ace umbrella in my head. As for Juza, see above. Okay so to me Juza definitely fell first. (See? I do think Juza can fall first.) As for pining, I am leaning towards pining!Juza but I'm curious how pining!Sakuya would be in this dynamic in particular. Maybe I'll let these two have mutual pining. Actually yea, that could be fun. Lol how I'm imagining it now is them using their shared passion for acting to try to impress each other not realizing the other is already impressed with them. Like, if this was a mutual pining story a very "hey wanna see this play with me" & "I've been practicing this part really hard, I hope he's watching me perform" with a "oh my gosh he's so cool" type deal from both of them. It'd be very cute, in my humble opinion. Also, I sorta think it's completely plausible for them to fall equally as hard for each other. idk, I don't make the rules. More importantly, they're a pair who'd be tired in the morning because they spent all night together... practicing acting! They'd help each other practice acting a lot and probably loose complete track of time lol. (Have they had a bonding event yet? I haven't read it if so.) But like back to the falling equally hard thing I think it's just that when they both already think the other is super amazing they're both only gonna appreciate the other more once they find their footing as what they can do for each other as a couple. Like Idk. Idk. It's hard to say one of them fell harder after they literally got mutual pining when the whole point of this format was to be like 'mutual pining is fine but have you considered how fun it'd be to focus on [name] pining' they broke my format. But they were cute about it so I'll let them slide.

So yeah Happy Juza week, this has been on the three Juza ships that compel me the most currently.

Actually, the order I did them is funny because like I thought I'd have almost nothing in the Tenma section and knew I was putting pining!Tenma then pining!Juza in the Saku/Juza section so I put Tenma/Juza in the middle but now it's kinda like a sliding scale. Like Tenma/Juza is the middle ground between Banri/Juza and Sakuya/Juza. Like energy/vibe-wise you know? And that's funny to me. Also lol that I actually had a lot more to say about Juten(?) than I thought I would.

[whimzak]

If someone doesn’t become the, “fell harder,” to my, “fell first,” I’m going to “fall” off a cliff.

[mxgreentoons]

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