#these are all platonic except maybe? katerina and ninian depending on what you think!

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🎰 + ingrid!

( ship roulette / @tempestried )

under the cut because it’s long !

kellam & amelia

i can see the two of them being really good friends? amelia likely reminds him of his daughter, or if he doesn’t have her by then, probably reminds him of ricken. they both seem to be stubborn about things they’re passionate about, and have big hearts, so he’d want to take her under his wing. also bonding over enjoying cooking? and the pain of wearing heavy armor lol

overall he’d just. think of her as a daughter eventually, or similar to ricken, because she’s young and wants to help people however she can. he wants her to be happy, but also careful.

oscar & veronica

veronica gains another dad: the novel 

parental instinct definitely takes over here. after raising both boyd and rolf, caring for veronica would just come naturally to him? he doesn’t agree with what she’s doing, not at all, and maybe tries to steer her away from that once or twice but probably. stops eventually. he would stay with her even after his contract is broken because she’s just? she’s just a child, he can’t just leave her behind even if she’s with other capable heroes, because he’s come to treat her as a younger sister, but also the very concept of abandoning a child leaves a bad taste in his mouth from his mother abandoning him and his brothers.

berkut & ingrid

this just makes me really sad bc like he’d see ingrid’s berkut with her and see how happy he is? he has a friend he can trust in, and he’s actually happier, and he reacts so. bitterly. because why does that berkut have an easier time making friends than he does, what makes him anymore deserving of friends than him, and really, he’s just. sort of a brat at first until ingrid gets through to him. definitely picks a lot of fights because of his temper and just? he wants attention any way he can get it, even if it’s negative

if it’s witch berkut?? that’s even sadder. because then ingrid sees her best friend 1) as a witch and 2) acting and feeling the same way as fallen celica, lost and uncertain, like he’s forgetting someone or something

gabriel & ingrid

okay honestly my dumb monkey brain read this ask and thought “ oh, just ingrid! “ and did only ones with her so i rerolled, but i wanted to keep this one because it’s. well, interesting, so here we are

gabriel and ingrid would. conflict terribly, i think. ingrid is compassionate and cares for her heroes on a deeply personal level, she just gives 110% for them all the time, and gabriel. doesn’t. he’s not that type of person, he’s got a mentality of ‘keep your distance from everyone’, so he has his chosen few heroes, and as far as he’s concerned, they’re all who matter. they would have similar views on the whole ‘surtr is bad’ theme and maybe some other common goals, but he just isn’t as kind or caring as she is. i think his coldness would grate on her, to say the least.

katerina & ninian

mom club?? mom club???

katerina is a very rough and tumble type of woman, and she’d take to ninian very quickly? she’s always down to make friends, and even though she can be kind of blunt, she’s able to. calm down a bit because i can see her being a little too much for ninian at times. katerina would definitely try to help her with her shyness though; she’s always willing to help, but she won’t push her.

also talking abt the struggles of raising dragon-blooded children?? her husband and her son are both manaketes as well, so not only would ninian’s status as a manakete not be weird to her like at all, she’d understand what it’s like for her with roy because she deals with the same thing with xander.