"It wouldn't feel right to... do this without giving us both some time, I think."
〔Sif looks away from you.〕
"But!" You stumble over the word, "Um! Later doesn't mean never!!"
〔You clumsily reach for one of your earrings and take it off. Even when you sleep, you wear studs. It feels kind of strange to go without!〕
〔You're not sure why you picked up the chain in the House. But... it gives you the chance to do this.〕
〔You hook it through one of the chain links and carefully slip on the back.〕
"So... until we're both ready. Until we know for sure! How about a promise?"
"A promise?" Sif echoes.
〔With all the caution in the world, you slip the chain around Sif's neck. They don't flinch. And... neither do you.〕
"A promise to come back to it eventually. We have time."
〔You do have time! Real, moving, twisting time! To think about things!!〕
〔Sif clutches the earring around his neck and smiles shakily.〕
"A promise."
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I love love love how Larian made Astarion:
Avoiding having sex with Tav altogether if you kinda have a wholesome relationship after he confesses that he really likes Tav for real and not just to secure himself a protector/ally. It’s so cute that he just takes some time to figure out what sex means to him in terms of genuine connection with someone and not just a manipulation tactic which has been a behaviour forced on him by Cazador 😭
He is sooo insecure about it, that I already found two instances of him mentioning it: when twin drows in Baldur’s Gate offer their services either to Tav or both to Tav and Astarion. He refuses and asks if the reason Tav would want this is the lack of sex between them. And the second time when Halsin offers to have a poly relationship and you ask Astarion about it (which he is in general chill about) but once again asks Tav if the reason is not Astarion not having sex with them.
Poor Astarion is still having fear that the only thing that can make someone be interested in him is sex. It makes me feel stuff 😰
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Y'know how there are animals that can tell whether a person is trans before they do because they either really love or really hate a gender and apply those feelings to the person even before their transition?
Anyways imagine Tim where she finds out he's genderfluid purely because the Toy Soldier completely changes the vocabulary it uses for him sometimes for no easily discernable reason. It took everyone a few decades after Tim joined to even realize half its vocabulary was so heavily gendered at all l because it is A) from a planet most of the others are not from and B) Tim was born nearly four whole centuries after its vocabulary became archaic.
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Just gonna leave this here-
Alhaitham was more or less comfortable with his life before he met Kaveh. Sure, he wasn't jumping for joy every second, but it was good enough. After his grandmother passed, he no longer felt any vibrant emotions. Even if Alhaitham never made that connection himself, while he wasn't entirely miserable, he wasn't necessarily happy either.
And then he met Kaveh. Emotional, vibrant, cheerful Kaveh.
Unlike him, Kaveh felt every emotion at one hundred percent, and was extremely expressive, which may have been a little off-putting for Alhaitham at first. But, before he knew it, he found himself to be quite comfortable with Kaveh. More than comfortable. In fact, it was only with Kaveh when Alhaitham's lips would turn upwards ever so slightly.
It was only after their falling out when Alhaitham realized...
He was....happy, with Kaveh. An emotion so foreign he only recognizes it when his presence had been stripped away.
It was only when Kaveh had moved into his house, the one they had technically gotten together, when he felt that feeling rush through him once again. Even as they argued, even as Kaveh called him frustrating, Alhaitham couldn't help but enjoy every second of it.
Kaveh, a few months into their newly-found relationship would point out that Alhaitham never really seemed happy back in their Akademiya days.
Alhaitham answered simply, not looking up from his book;
"The only time I've ever truly been happy was when I was with you."
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hello :]
that's a big bulk of pictures but I had so many ideas to draw that I literally had to stop myself from drawing too much lol
had so much fun stylizing them (if that's okay ^^') and thinking of their different dynamics ur ink is especially fun to draw they're so cool...
drawing ur designs also made me notice a bunch of different little details like nightmare having his little gang's souls on his chest, of the lines on dream's and nightmare's faces, or ink's flowy scarf and a bunch of other stuff. and these little details make me appreciate them even more :}}}
DUDE OMG OMG I AM FREAKING OUT SO BAD /VPOS
THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD IN YOUR STYLE!!!!!
AND THEY WAY THEY ACT!!!! AUGH........it's so real.........you did so well with their characters...I.....guh.......I am diesing........
ALSO YOU NOTICED NIGHTMARE'S NECKLACES!!!! AHHHH!!!! I'M SO GLAD YOU DID!!!! I WILL EXPLAIN THAT IN THE TAGS
THIS WAS SO FUN!!
I wouldn't ever mind doing something like this again in the future, your art and ideas are so cool and I absolutely adore them!
Thank you so much for doing this with me! This was genuinely such a pick-me-up for my mood <3
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