#lately i cant think of anything other than diamant fire emblem

[successeurdiamant]

diamant and affection

(warning that it's a little spicy at the end, but not overtly nsfw. engage didn't give me nearly enough of diamant--)

To preface, Alear kind of seems like they'd be the slightly clueless type when it comes to understanding people have different standards of affection. I mean with how open some of the cast are with each other, Alear might see their own actions as very tame compared to some of the other unhinged things they've heard and seen.

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And maybe your way of showing affection would be perfectly tame to most, but for Diamant, your affection is one of the few things that can break his composure completely.

Diamant had seen you as the Divine Dragon, a deity, an ethereal being, for a long, long time, and this impression he had of you meant he didn't know how to act casually around you at first. 

Even now that you are together, promised to each other, he still isn't completely used to you showing him affection in front of others. Not just because of who you are, but also that he's never been the touchy or affectionate type towards those he was close with either. He'd always been the type to feel a little awkward with hugs from family and preferring to give his close friends a hearty pat on the shoulder. 

So when you sneak up on him for the first time, just before dinner, and give a hug to him from behind, it catches him off guard. It triggers his reflexes, and he immediately places his hands onto your arms, before he realizes that it's you from the height of your face pressed against his back, and your comforting, familiar presence. He'll feel flustered for a moment as he turns around to face you, his heart skipping a beat after seeing your beaming smile. He'll get a little more flustered if there are others around, to the point where he has to hide his face behind his hand and clear his throat.

If you tell him you missed him, he'll look around for a moment (to see if the coast is clear) and give you a tight hug in his strong arms, and speak gently in your ear with that incredibly addicting voice of his that he misses you too. If there are others around, he'll ruffle your hair with a short chuckle behind his smile and tell you that he has something to tell you in private. 

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Once you're alone, he'll ask you just for the sake of confirmation if it's really okay for you to display your affection like that in front of the others, given your station. He does enjoy it, but it will still take him a while to fully process that you're really his partner. The Divine Dragon that he'd thought of for his entire life as the most perfect and beautiful being to ever walk the continent is his bethrothed.

But if you ask him if you should stop showing him this affection publicly, he'll immediately tell you no. The thought of you no longer running to see him with your lovely, excited smile is a far worse prospect to endure than any amount of embarrassment he could possibly feel from being caught off guard.

Now, what about the way he shows you affection when you're alone together? Well, that's part of why he asked you to come see him privately in the first place. Once you're done with your initial conversation you can tell his gentle eyes have ignited with a bit more passion. He'll pull you into his arms tightly and speak in a lower tone than usual, warning you that he'll have to get back at you for making him feel flustered in front of everyone today. When he succeeds at getting a reaction out of you, a hitched breath or a gasp, he'll laugh and apologize for teasing you. 

Depending on where you want things to go, you might have the most affectionate cuddling in your life, where he holds you close to him and runs his fingers through your hair, whispering how breathtaking you are to him against your skin. His embrace makes you feel safe and protected, the way his strong arms and large frame wrap around your body, somehow both tightly and carefully as if you were something precious and fragile in his arms. You could easily drift off to sleep in his loving embrace.

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Or... you could tell him that he doesn't need to apologize for teasing you, because you want more. And you'll get to experience a completely different kind of affection from him, that only the Crown Prince of Brodia can give you.