#once mark starts seeing m!cesar as his own person their bond really begins flourish

[mustangs-flames]

ok this might be weird to say but I actually really, really love how you’ve pushed so hard on the ‘mimics can still attain a full feeling of humanity, maybe even more complete, than if they were in love’ as an aromantic person it feels so so wonderful to read. because I’m touchy, I like hugs and kisses and doing things what generally a lot of people would consider romantic but it’s NOT !!!!!!! so a lot of what Cesar goes through in the story kind of hits home in regards to it being completely non-romantic. it’s not even exactly platonic either, I personally think it’s a difficult thing to define and can only really be spoken for by the people who are IN that relationship. In general I think defining love to any concrete label is stupid in general but that’s a different conversation. anyway. sorry. I really like the way you write relationships in this story it’s so so so awesome please keep doing it!!!

No, this isn't weird at all! I'm glad you like the angle that I'm going with regarding mimics and what it means to gain humanity and to experience it. I didn't want to fall into the whole 'romance is the most human thing of all' thing because 1. I think that's not true and 2. it's such an overdone trope, which is why I think I want to contain that kind of thing to its own story set in the same universe but following another mimic and human entirely.

I want the core story of HTB to explore a lot more different types of love, some of which, like you said, go beyond platonic and can only be defined by those in the relationship/bond that is being shared. I think Mark and mimic!Cesar very much (eventually) fall into that category, of having a bond that transcends anything humans can ever hope to put a name to. It is simply him and Mark, and Mark and him and yet is so much more than that all at once. They just kind of complete and get each other in a way no one else does, and they come to care about each other so much despite all of the mess it takes to get there. Idk, it's very hard to describe because there really is no label for it, but I think exploring that bond throughout the story as it progresses is going to be so interesting and fun! I'm actually looking forward to seeing what kinds of interpretations people have about them!

#hail true body #mustang answers! #htb mark owens #htb mimic!cesar #htb prophecyduo #once mark starts seeing m!cesar as his own person their bond really begins flourish #and i am very excited to reach that point in the story #because they care about each other so much!! #literally would die for each other #which is so funny when you remember how they started out #love that for them. i love that they love each other like that #modern day saint and his sword of tamed darkness