#vethna romance

[nanowatzophina]

Meet Reynai Kalesko. My main for @exilethegame

Decided I wanted to make an official character sheet/color ref for her so here she be. Might be trying to do this with other interactive fictions too cuz I need to do art more.

[exilethegame]

hi! sorry if this was asked before. If i remember correctly for Vethna + Nikke poly we'll need to lock in into Vethnas rout first. But will it have to be a late lock in or an early lock in?

With how it's planned currently, both lock-in points w/ Vethna's romance will be able to lead into the Nikke/Vethna poly!

[cassynite]

playing sparrow in the exile IF and having a grand time

[galpalaven]

“Y-You don’t seem, uhm… upset? By what I said? Were you…” they trail off, biting their lip, eyes flickering between hers as they look for the right words. “Were you going to… do it…?” Kira laughs again. “Before I looked at you and saw the horror and panic on your face, you mean?” They nod. Her eyes drop to their lips again and don’t move back up until after she speaks.  “...I was.”

I commissioned @vvakarians / @bloodmaledikt for some art of Vethna and Kira from a fic I wrote, and I'm so pleased with how it came out!!! I love them so much Kira especially is absolutely perfect it's so wild to see her so Right.

Love Mal - commission them if you get a chance!

also, go play @exilethegame :3

from the heart

Vethna/Commander, 2.7k words full fic below the cut and on AO3

It’s strange, they think as they settle a little deeper into Kira’s side, head resting on her shoulder, a blanket pulled around their own shoulders, how comfortable this is. The last few weeks had been a nightmare, and it’s strange that they’re glad to be back on the road—that they’re glad to be sat huddled in front of a campfire again in the middle of nowhere. The nights are growing colder, frost settling on every surface by the time they wake most mornings, their breath coming in little white clouds like the smoke they’ve seen Kira blow just for fun sometimes. 

It’s cold tonight as well–one of the coldest yet—but the Commander is warm. Her phoenix blood has her radiating heat like a furnace, even more than the fire, and that combined with the heavy blanket they’d stolen off of her (she’d laughed when they emerged from the shelter they’d been sharing with it wrapped around their shoulders—it had been a parting gift from her sister, but Kira often either didn’t sleep or didn’t use it, so they really didn’t see the harm) has made them a marvelously warm and cozy sorcerer indeed. The others have all gone off to bed by now. The arguments about who would take watch and who could be trusted had only lasted the first week or so of their traveling, and now an easy schedule had been set up leaving the nights almost pleasant as they wound down. Vethna is drifting between the waking world and the world of dreams as they rest against her, body slowly going more and more heavy with the quiet crackling of the fire and Kira’s steady breathing. She’s reading one of their books tonight—a romance book they’d always liked that they hadn’t remembered they’d brought—and they’ve sort of been reading over her shoulder for the past half hour or so. She’d caught on almost immediately, and waits to turn the page until they give her a soft hum of recognition so that she doesn’t cut them off.

It’s disgustingly domestic, and they’re far too warm and content to even have it in them right now to be embarrassed or horrified by it at the moment. 

“Veth, sweetness, why don’t you just go to bed? You’re about to pass out on me and you’re not going to be comfortable in the morning if you sleep like this.”

If the low, smooth tone of her voice hadn’t set their stomach aflutter, the unexpected pet name certainly did. Their cheeks burn, and they tilt their head back to find her smiling down at them, golden eyes reflecting the light of the fire, all warmth and softness and affection. She either didn’t notice that she’d called them a pet name, or she’s gained some kind of confidence in the quiet comfort they’d been enjoying that they’ve yet to see from her. 

She raises her eyebrows at them when they say nothing, grin widening, and they clear their throat softly, turning away and snuggling further into her side, eyes on the fire. 

“Mm. But you’re so warm,” they mumble, fully aware that they sound like a pouting child and for some reason completely okay with it. 

Kira just laughs, low and quiet to avoid disturbing their slumbering travel companions, and settles a little lower against the log where they’ve been sitting, letting Vethna’s head fit quite comfortably in the crook of her neck.

“Alright. If you’re sure.”

They wonder if it’s because she’s also warm that she’s so disinclined to argue with them, or if she’s just also enjoying their company as much as they’re enjoying hers. She goes back to reading, and they pretend to do the same, though they peek up at her curiously after a minute.

She’s so close. 

It’s the closest they’ve been to her when neither of them are having some kind of crisis. Other than that one night they’d had something that absolutely disagreed with them early in their little guarding arrangement that she’d spent holding their hair back and rubbing their back, cooing soft little words of comfort while their stomach roiled in their gut, she hadn’t really touched them like this since. Or, neither of them had touched each other like this outside of when the other one is having a crisis or a nightmare or something. Up close like this, they can see the delicate spattering of freckles across her cheeks and nose. She has a mole on her cheek on the side not facing them that they’ve always known about, but looking at her now they realize that she has another smaller one just under her right eye. Their eyes follow the curve of her nose—a bit more arched than it looks head on—and finally settle on the plush curve of her lips. 

They could kiss her, if they wanted.

The thought doesn’t surprise them as much as they feel like it should as they let it linger. They watch her throat bob as she swallows, and her tongue peeks out to wet her lips as she turns a page, and the thought gets a little louder, a little bolder. An itch to move builds in their chest and–they could do it. And they think, if they’ve been reading her right, maybe she’d let them. Maybe–maybe she’d let them reach up and tilt her head towards them, let them lean in and see if her lips taste like flames, or if they’ll taste more like the berries she’d been eating on periodically all night. Maybe… maybe she’d even just kiss them herself, if they just asked. If they just looked up at her and said, “Kiss me,” maybe she would—

Kira blinks rapidly a few times, tensing a little beneath them, and their heart drops into their stomach.

O-Oh gods. I didn’t… did I?

Her lips curl into a grin as she looks over at them, and the look on her face is…

Oh, they definitely said that out loud.

Fuck.

“I– Uh– Uhm– Sorry, I’m… think I need to sleep more than I thought I did?”

Her eyes are soft as she looks at them, eyes darting across their face, golden depths glittering with amusement and… something that almost looks like disappointment. She huffs a little laugh, sighing a little as she says, “Don’t apologize, please? It’s okay. You can take it back if you want.”

They laugh nervously. “S-So I did… say that out loud, then…”

Kira nods, eyes dropping rather obviously to their mouth in a way that has a wave of heat washing over their skin in a way that has them fighting to keep from squirming, from the crown of their head and all the way down to their toes as if someone had just dumped a bucket of hot water over them. Their eyes dart to her lips as well–they’re parted slightly, and they have to look away before the yearning in their gut can make them do something foolish.

“You don’t seem…” they start, forcing themselves to look back up at her eyes. She looks back at them calmly, though up this close it’s easy to see the way her pupils have dilated as she looks at them. The air between them, which had been so warm and calm only a moment ago, feels charged with something different now. 

Something… electric.

“Y-You don’t seem, uhm… upset? By what I said? Were you…” they trail off, biting their lip, eyes flickering between hers as they look for the right words. “Were you going to… do it…?”

Kira laughs again. “Before I looked at you and saw the horror and panic on your face, you mean?”

They nod.

Her eyes drop to their lips again and don’t move back up until after she speaks. 

“...I was.”

Their breath leaves them in a shaky whoosh, and they know that if they’d been standing that their knees would probably have given out from under them. They shift against her, turning to face her more, eyes on her mouth again, their own mouth running dry. 

They—they want this. 

They want her. 

“Kira, I…” their voice is hoarse, and they can barely hear over the rushing of their own pulse in their ears as she gently closes her book and sets it on the ground beside her, not looking away from them for a second. She reaches up and gently—so, so gently—brushes the backs of her knuckles against their cheek before letting her hand come to rest there, cupping their cheek. Her thumb presses at their lower lip, talon digging in just enough that it sends something foreign shooting down their spine, before they’re reaching up to grab her hand, squeezing her fingers and running their thumb across her knuckles.

No one has ever looked at them like this. No one has ever touched them like this. 

Kira smiles, fingers curling around theirs as she closes the distance between them, though she pauses just before she seals the deal, letting their lips drag against each other’s for a brief, heartstopping moment. Her breath is hot in their mouth as she sighs their name in a low, yearning voice that has goosebumps prickling across their flesh despite how warm they feel right now.

“Vethna…”

Their name has never tasted so sweet.

When she kisses them, the first thing they notice is that a flash of color pops behind their closed eyes. Their breath hitches, and so does hers, as they press in harder, inhaling sharply against her mouth as the same color flashes like fireworks. 

Pink. Pink. Pink. Pink.

Her aura is pink.

Vethna’s hand releases hers, reaching up to cup her jaw, tilting their head and deepening the kiss. There’s a desperation behind the way they’re kissing her that even they don’t understand fully, a need that grips them so tightly that it’s hard to breathe around it. All she does is laugh, though, as they raise up on their knees and their tongue slips past her lips, one of her hands grasping at their wrist as their other hand comes up to cup the other side of her face and her other hand settles on the curve of their lower back. They have half a mind to climb into her lap at this rate, tilting their head the other direction and reveling in the way she meets them with her mouth open wide, fingers digging into their back, pulling them closer. 

Fuck it.

She makes a confused noise when they growl a little under their breath, shoving her knees down from where she’d been curled up. Her hands move away from them, bewildered, but then they’re throwing their leg over her hips and she laughs, hands settling on their thighs– and they’re so glad for the warmth of her mythosi blood as her fingers come into contact with their bare skin. They go to lean back in, but she turns away, and they frown until she reaches over and pulls the blanket off the ground beside them, wrapping it around their shoulders again with a quiet, content little hum. 

Gods…

When she finishes, she looks up at them with a smile so sweet and full of affection that it has their heart racing in their chest. She uses her grip on the blanket to nudge them closer again, chin tilted and eyes half closed expectantly—and they oblige her. Of course, they do. How could they not? Their lips sink back into hers and they pick up where they left off, and it quickly devolves yet again from something soft and sweet into something desperate and hungry. They realize that they’ve been thinking about this for a while—been thinking about the way her talons would feel digging into their hips, dragging down their back. Been thinking about the way her tongue would feel sliding against theirs, the heat of her breath on their skin, the way her hips would feel between their thighs. Vethna rakes a hand through her dark hair—makes a pleased hum when it’s far silkier than they’d been expecting—before they tangle their fingers at the back of her head and pull.

Kira’s sigh almost sounds like a moan, and both of them pause just to grin into the kiss. They open their eyes to look down at her, finding her already looking up at them with a calculating look in her eyes, glowing gold despite the shadow Vethna is casting on her face. They feel her hand slide up the side of their neck, towards the back of their head and–

They laugh, a little louder than she had, when she tugs gently on their hair as well. They lean back into it, grinning as they let their arms slide around her shoulders as she leans in close and lets her lips drag against their bared throat. 

Oh. Oh, they love that.

They hum, pretending that it doesn’t sound quite as much like a moan as it does, and they can feel her smile as she lets her teeth drag against the sensitive skin on their neck. Kira starts to drop hot, open-mouthed kisses in a line down the column of their throat, and they sigh, curling into her. She releases their hair in favor of wrapping both arms tight around their back as she continues to mouth at their neck, and for a moment—wrapped up in a heavy blanket, with the crackling firelight behind them, warm and content, senses overwhelmed with her—for a moment, all they can think is that they have never felt so safe in their life. 

It’s all they can think as they tilt their head and bring their mouth back to hers. She makes them feel safe in a way that they don’t think they’ve ever felt when they’ve been this close with anyone before. Like they know if they wanted to say no, if they wanted to stop and never do this again, they could, and she’d just smile and thank them for kissing her at all. 

They’ve never had that before. 

Against their lips, Kira grins, breath hot and heavy as she breathes one sentence that makes them feel like they might just start floating into the air at any moment.

“You’re the best thing that has ever happened to me.”

Vethna laughs, because it’s really the only thing they can do, resting their forehead against hers and squeezing their eyes shut in a desperate attempt to ground themself.

“Flatterer,” they murmur, but they’re grinning and she giggles as she squeezes her arms around them again. “You can’t just—say something so sincere like that out of nowhere.”

“Is it still out of nowhere if you’re sitting in my lap and have had your tongue in my mouth for the past ten minutes?”

They snort, pinching the back of her neck gently and laughing when she squirms beneath them. “I don’t know, is it?”

When they open their eyes to look down at her, she’s grinning up at them with a look on her face like she is looking at everything she’s ever wanted. They can’t help but lean in and kiss her again—not when she’s looking at them like that.

They’re just starting to really get back into it when a shuffling sound nearby startles them apart, though they don’t go far, turning their heads towards the sound to find Amelia ducking out of one of the tents. She’s gone still at the sight of the two of them, Vethna straddling Kira’s hips, arms around her neck, with her mouth clearly smeared with Vethna’s lipstick. 

A beat.

Kira breaks the silence first, snorting and burying her face in Vethna’s neck to stifle the giggles that follow. Vethan laughs, too, pleased that she doesn’t seem to be embarrassed to be seen by any of their companions.

“I, uh… I’ll take watch now, if you two want to… you know… go to bed,” Amelia says after a moment, grinning at them both.

“Sounds good to me,” Vethna murmurs, running their hand through Kira’s hair. “Good for you?”

She nods, eyes on their lips again. “Perfect.”

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They don’t get nearly as much sleep as they probably should have, but that’s alright. If anything, the look on Sabir’s face the next morning when they both step out with bruising on their necks, is more than enough to put some pep back into their step.

[crqstalite]

some of my most recent poor little meow meows!

my own antonia moreno finally doodled (or known as lady spider-2087, a variation of miguel o'hara's spiderman). she/her. small. buff. consistently the angriest person in the room and likely the only one who goes toe to toe with miguel and comes away unscathed.

my hunter for @evertidings's when twilight strikes -- amali king. she/they, kian romancer (code word for: ready to cause problems alongside rylan for him <3) overly trusting and definitely will probably get her ass handed to her one of these days if she didn't have the gang with her.

my lead for @infamous-if, talis rose or, also known by her adoring fans as aphrodite. she/her, i really need to decide her romance soon before we get the second chapter. too many good options! i think this picture is right after she says good bye to maya and sebastian though. very preppy and sweet, likely trying to get back into seven's good graces and is failing miserably.

and my exile for @exilethegame, ione kalesko -- plaithus' white wolf and current pain in the ass. they/them and a person of few words, currently stuck between whether they're romancing vethna or sabir. though sabir knew a more fun and sarcastic version of them.

[ my actual IF blog is @coruscqte ]

[dropout-if]

Hellö, i saw the amazing list with the love interests and that it was hard to choose your favourite - which I CAN TOTALLY UNDERSTAND!

So I thought 😏… do you have any 5 underdogs in regards of romance? Some you don‘t know if you will hate or love them but that got you curious 🧐

I always have a hard time deciding because I have to admit - and get a lot of hate for it - that most RO‘s do not meet my expectations in the finished games. Ok, i read tons so the quality is mixed, and the big ones keep their promises, but lots of WIP RO turn out 🤨 is this too picky?

Also, i have to admit your IF is one i am really looking forward to. I enjoy your writing and when i saw you swapped for your other IF, i had to follow this one ☝️❤️

So I thought 😏… do you have any 5 underdogs in regards of romance? Some you don‘t know if you will hate or love them but that got you curious 🧐

This is even harder than settling for five I like AAA I'm very "it's all in or nothing" when it comes to characters I either LOVE someone or I HATE them. I really thought this one through tho!

Anyone in Breach who isn't Gabriel or the British siblings.

Jost (The Exile) but I'm incredibly hyperfixated on Vethna and pretty much ignore everyone else dkskd

The cult leader in The Passenger. They made me sorta curious but they're not Roach.

The Ex in the Do-Over. When I get like a really icky vibe about a RO I can't bring myself to love them tho they do make me curious (the bartender my beloved)

Maybe Quinn from Defiled Hearts. They scare me but I want to know what the hell is wrong with them. I'm a basic bitch and love Marcus (he's everything I hate and I love him so much for that ugh) and Camilla.

I always have a hard time deciding because I have to admit - and get a lot of hate for it - that most RO‘s do not meet my expectations in the finished games. Ok, i read tons so the quality is mixed, and the big ones keep their promises, but lots of WIP RO turn out 🤨 is this too picky?

I kinda get it?? You shouldn't get hate for it tho sjsjd That's part of the reason why I personally like flirting with everyone available just to see how it goes. It's nice that the number of IFs and WIPs is so vast tho I think you'll eventually find out the WIP RO.

Also, i have to admit your IF is one i am really looking forward to. I enjoy your writing and when i saw you swapped for your other IF, i had to follow this one ☝️❤️

THANKS! My other IF didn't get abandoned or anything but I really really needed some slice of life.

[amyreads]

Nikke is one love ❤️ Vethna is also one love. Luckily there's a poly planned. About difficult romances: have you read Project Hadea by nyehilism? I think you might like it.

I have read project hadea and every time i read a scene with nash i want to chew glass

[grapecaseschoices]

lets go with a classic: top 5 ifs? (and top 5 ros?)👀

Top five IFs! FIVE?? Let alone some SEMBLANCE [bc it won't be entirely accurate!!] of topness of fiveness?? Sighs.

Okay so this is at least with a demo with a couple of chapters out:

Fallen Hero [dur]

Infamous

Our Life: Beginnings and Always [VNs are IFs!!!]

Speaker the Game

Exile the Game/The Exile

Top 5 ROs [again, a couple of chapters/sceneces of the ROMANCE out, at least.]

F Hauville FIVE TIMES! / A du Mortain THREE TIMES!!

Vethna Mevnrael

Hana Lee [YEAH AT ME ABOUT IT!!]

Who do I talk about a lot?? I don't know! Shadowheart. It counts.

E Taylor /sobs about Scout

[sysba]

I would love to know more about caledith. I've started following you recently so I'm not too sure as to who they are. 👀👀

ok then first off, welcome! and, i am so sorry for what's probably about to happen because i'm not normal about caledith i love them so much everytime someone mentions them it's like i'm being shot directly into the sun,,, you'll probably regret asking but know that i love you for it 🤣💕💕💕🛐

caledith is an original ship between cal (the best character ever created by my bestie @night-triumphantt) and my oc edith. both ocs were created for different interactive stories; cal is/was a commander in the exile, while edith was my first and favourite mc for the wayhaven chronicles. they romanced vethna and a(dam) respectively.

a year ago judie and i joked about edith and cal would be a hot couple, and then we were like. oh shit wait. and realised they would actually be perfect together? so we started sharing oc facts and imagining what their relationship would be like, how would it come to be, first kisses and confessions, etc etc... and ended up obliterating each other because now we're in SO deep that we can barely imagine putting them in their og ifs lmao

so yeah cue today, cal and edith have an overly developed romance which includes a lot of pining, three (3) confessions happening in the span of months, and a Lot of pain and tears (mostly mine, and judie's) not to mention they exist in SEVERAL different universes, including but not limited to: the exile au, music shop au, zombie apocalypse au, cyberpunk au, and more 😂 as you can see. brainrot. i am thinking about them 24/7 at any given moment of my life there's caledith bs happening in the background,,,,

[cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal]

Vethna and Sabir both bitching about how they don't trust each other because they're too similar (while less than ten feet apart) is the funniest thing

Poly romancing them is already feeling like trying to introduce a new cat to your old one

[nanowatzophina]

Been thinking about these idiots again.

I love them.

@exilethegame ((ps. I hope you are taking the time you need to recover… that sound ROUGH. Tho to be fair… when is pain not rough? Or convenient in any way.))

[exilethegame]

Not a question I just need to say I love the wip and I love Sabir and Vethna! Romancing them both is like introducing the outdoor cat(Vethna) you've been feeding for weeks to your indoor cat(Sabir) and they immediately start fighting. Like yeah I totally predicted this but did I try anyway? Yes I did.

why is this literally the most accurate way to describe the two of them my god

[sagedumortain]

!! 💕

✿ with every "!!" i get i'll introduce you to an oc!

meet eloise vamirel 🐺(the exile by @exilethegame)

wolf commander

aggressive personality after her exile

she has a terrible relationship with her mothers

♡ romance: vethna mevnrael

[galpalaven]

Kira my Hero of Ferelden is still into Zevran but I’ve also come up with a wonderful Runaway Tevinter Magister AU for Vethna so Kira is just like Torn between canon and AU lmao

I also moved my old Hawke from being Hawke over to being an Amell, and she’s very in love with Alistair. She is round and sweet and soft and he deserves a squishy giggly sweet gf I think.

I’m playing through DA2 with the poly mod just to see how things play out bc I will never play through the other romances other than Fenris. Koha ends up with Fenris, because he makes her feel safe and she loves the feeling I her chest every time she gets him to grin. He likes when she comes over for drinks and brings her fiddle. One night she teaches him to dance. Another night he teaches her to use a sword. She asks him to teach her Tevene or Qunlat, and in exchange she teaches him the bit of Elvhen that she knows from her dad. One night he comes over while she’s baking challah and she teaches him to make it and they get into a play fight throwing flour at each other. He’s never felt so much like a normal man in his life and he loves her for it.

Nadia Surana, my beloved angry blood mage Warden, is in love with Anders. She had a crush even before he left, and had always admired him for escaping the Fereldan Circle. During Act 2 or the lead up to it, the Hero of Ferelden, Kira, takes off with Zevran to help him deal with the Crows. She wasn’t about to let him go alone, but without the Nobility in Amaranthine, things immediately spiraled. Some Orlesian Wardens came to help them out in Amaranthine with recruits and things, and they immediately demoted Surana as Warden-Constable and acting Commander. They said it was about experience, but she didn’t really believe that. Found out it was about the nobility of Amaranthine that didn’t like her, but that wasn’t the final straw.

Nadia was deep into researching ways to cure the Blight with blood magic, sure she could pull it from the body if she could just figure out how to isolate it in the blood. The new leadership refused to allow her to continue her research—so she said to hell with that and left in the hopes to track down Anders. She’d been putting out feelers to see if she could figure out where he went, more out of curiosity than anything, so when she found out he was in Kirkwall, that was where she went.

She landed in Kirkwall about a week after he and Hawke had descended into the Deep Roads. She ended up taking his position as healer at his clinic while she waited for him to come back.

When he did get back, he was already on edge sensing a Warden in his clinic, but then she sees him and she gasps his name as she runs at him, laughing and throwing herself at him so that she can wrap her arms around his shoulders and hug him tight.

She’s with him up until the Conclave. They have a bit of an argument about her going, but she insists as someone who has experienced both the life of the circle and the life of an apostate AND the life of a warden. Also as a hero of the blight. She had thought to bring about change—she hadn’t anticipated the whole inquisition thing.

[ihopethisendswell]

I haven't played The Evolve in literally forever and I finally stopped procrastinating on it and finished the recent demo and holy fucking shit. I loved it so much. Anyway, here's my mc, Elaine( she/her) ( didn't bother with an original name lol).

Her near the beginning of the demo

Her pre exile

And her as of chapter 5. I think the eye bags might not be needed, but she still fucking tired. Also she decided to grow her hair back.

I would show you her stats but I forgot to save near the end of the demo. Fortunately I wasn't that far behind. To put it simply, she's pretty stoic, but very kind and genuine. She's romancing Vethna. I love them....

Picrew

[theodoravery]

cami | she/her | 21 | argentina

hello! this is a sideblog for all things interactive fiction--choice of games, hosted games, visual novels, romance club, playchoices, love island the game, couple up! & too hot to handle

i follow and like from @celticwoman ♡

feel free to shoot me an ask (or dm) whenever! i'd love to talk ^-^

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♡ favourites under the cut!

♡ interactive fiction (text-based) ♡

when twilight strikes / blane rekner & arion devereux

the exile / vethna mevnrael & sabir du vaelas

shepherds of haven / trouble alder & red antiqua

the wayhaven chronicles / farah hauville & nate sewell

a tale of crowns / rêzan

♡ playchoices (books) ♡

hero / perfect match / the heist: monaco / platinum / mother of the year / the nanny affair / a courtesan of rome / wishful thinking / crimes of passion

♡ playchoices (love interests) ♡

maxwell beaumont / quinn kelly / maria flores / jax matsuo / hayden young / andy kang / sonia alves / annelyse adair / ajay bhandari / kenji katsaros / rafael aveiro / prince hamid

♡ romance club (books) ♡

theodora / arcanum / w: time catcher / the one / chasing you 2 / shadows of saintfour / vying for versailles

♡ romance club (love interests) ♡

maria theresa / vesper / saraswati / walter / bert / tata / friedrich / charlotte / sam / daisy / livius / jack / marcel / heather

♡ love island the game ♡

jake (1) / bobby & marisol (s2) / camilo (s3) / angie (s4) / lulu & gabi (s5) / chloe (s6) / rafael (s7) / jin & claudia (s8) / natasha (s9)

♡ couple up! ♡

colin (s1) / stanley (s2) / laksh (s3)

♡ too hot to handle ♡

henri (s1) / antoine (s2) / poppy (s3)