#hhhooookay this is a long boy

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Hello!!! 1, 2, 8, 9 and 12 for the domesticity meme, pretty please !! I love your blog, by the way!

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1. how did they first kiss?

this totally depends on the timeline i’m writing. i do have a headcanon that at the end of a perfect survivors’ run, markus and connor have their first kiss right before markus’s speech, and it’s a totally in-the-moment thing. they’re heady on adrenaline and victory, standing just a little too close, and neither of them mean for it to happen, really. it just does. and then connor is closing his eyes, and markus’s hand is on his waist—

hair-trigger allies aren’t supposed to kiss like they’re giving into gravity. it’s complicated, to say the least.

2. who flirts more?

awhile ago somebody brought up flirty markus, and i haven’t slept the night through since. it’s such a good concept. for connor’s sake, he asks consent for any physical affection—public or not—but there’s no stopping this man when it comes to sentimentality. he’ll say these casually sappy things all the time; calls connor baby and lover and tells him how much he misses him when they’re apart. he’s the charismatic leader of a social movement, so, yeah, he’s pretty good with his words.

on the other hand, connor is an absolute master of flirting via thoughtful gestures. he’ll bring markus small trinkets and tokens when he finds them, memorizes markus’s schedule and visits him in the quiet moments, documents little conversations they have and sets them aside. markus spends one evening over dinner waxing lyrical about the application of a priori knowledge to androids, and the next week, connor brings him the complete works of immanuel kant. and oh, boy, is markus head over heels in love.

8. do they have pets?

in this one fic i read, nothing like love, connor brings home fish for his and markus’s apartment, and markus has a crisis because (and this is way over-simplifying it, but whatever) keeping things captive because it’s supposedly what’s best for them hits a little too close to home. that’s pretty much been my approach to it ever since.

generally, markus is uncomfortable with the idea of pets and owners, although i do think he eventually warms to the idea of spending time with connor and sumo. it helps that it makes connor happy, which as far as markus is concerned is one hell of a motivator.

9. do they act different in public and at home?

oh, for sure. like it or not, both connor and markus have reputations to uphold, and that means putting up a barrier of professionalism whenever they’re in public. as people become more receptive to androids’ integration into society, they relax their boundaries just a little; let their relationship filter through the cracks in small ways. a shared smile, or linked fingers under the table. it’s a slow burn, but it’s progress.

on the other hand, that means they’re twice as affectionate with each other in the privacy of their own home. coming back from a long workday and melting into each other is a much more common occurrence than they’d have people think. they decompress and banter and roll their eyes at the day’s events and whatever uptight politician is trying to pull the strings this time around. an onlooker would notice they’re easier around each other. softer.

12. favorite non-sexual activity?

honestly? sleeping. it’s intoxicating. androids don’t need to sleep, of course, but deviants feel the consequences of a burnout that much more intensely, and rest is both a powerful tool and a delightfully unnecessary pastime. markus and connor, workaholics as they are, are a little bit addicted. they’ll go to sleep early and wake up in each other’s arms, and it feels good enough to be dizzying.