@pittdpeaches BAM FANART.
I am actually so glad that this chapter had some emotionally intelligent Mei, because I never see that, and she’s usually only used as a plot device in Spicynoodles fics so THANK YOU.
Normally I would only expect pure angst to impact me so much, but Redson being vulnerable and actually processing his emotions destroyed me-
Also the callout from Mei that he should get therapy made me laugh more than it should have.
also I hate drawing fancy hairstyles but this was actually for n bc I was high on adrenaline and dopamine.
for funnies here’s my immediate reaction to finishing this chapter:
Why are we not booming with Orm x OC fanfics? Has no one watched Aquaman 2?? Why do we not rave over the dethroned king's redemption arc??? So much potential here I'm actually overwhelmed with my non existent choices.
never had more inclinations of being demisexual than the way I went into last week not fussed at all by tommy kinard/lou and now four days later - has it only been four days?! - I have spent every waking minute falling in love with Tommy through a hundred gifsets and metas and stories and I think he's SO attractive now. help
Your First Kiss comic made me remember of this (I forgot who drew this, sorry)
YES YES YES!!!
This is exactly what I want—full-blown awkwardness! I want them both to stutter and look away from each other because they're too flustered to keep eye contact for the rest of the day.
X would be drowning in a sea of thoughts. It makes him clumsy, and he messes up some of his paperwork too. He is overall just a mess, and everyone around him can notice it, but he keeps insisting that he's fine. Alia still forces him to go to med bay to get a proper scan because, according to her, his internals are about to fry.
Zero would be taking mental notes of how distracted he is now, even when X isn't around. Zero is a warbot; he doesn't like how this could cause conflict when he's out on a mission, so he turns to what he knows, the training simulator, to correct what he sees as a disadvantage. Failing to 100% some routine training would really annoy him, and he knows why! He knows exactly why it agitates him!
There might be one way to rectify this.
Accept his invasive thoughts as an objective and go find X.
I just got to the grave scene in the astarion romance route.....and it's so well done I wanna SCREAMMMMM. The way it portrays intimacy, boundaries, physical and inner self. ARRGHHHHH . So so good cannot think of a game that has come close to portraying this before. Needing to regain trust of your sexuality and sense of self, and how a loving patient partner is so vital to that. So nice to see a companion not just be an opinionless sex doll for the player to "romance" whenever they want. Like they do not even show any nudity? Or take off clothes? It's a kiss but that is enough its everything. I love my problem vampire boy and I CAN and DID fix him.
Hey there and thanks for the ask! Now this was a fun one to think about...
As you can see I already find it compelling because, to the surprise of everyone, I'm always down to add another Ainu/Elf ship to my collection. I also think that Elrond would be particularly well-suited for a water spirit, not only due to family ties to the sea, but also because I have this headcanon that pretty much all water Ainur (that is Ulmo, his Maiar and all the Maiar who either serve him part time, have served him at some point or serve someone else/nobody but are water-adjacent) fall on a spectrum of water personality, where one end is the stormy, capricious kind (think Ossë) and the other is the chill, go with the flow kind (think Uinen); I think that, regardless of where this Maia would be, their could be a cool dynamic with Elrond.
As for it making sense, well, that ties into what I already mentioned plus the proximity of the two plus the fact that any Ainu can probably sense the Maia heritage of Melian's descendant and might find them particularly interesting.