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slumberinglabyrinth · 4 years

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not to create depth where there isn’t any or anything but literally everything that people hate or otherwise vilify Faye for is clearly the direct product of her having a life-threatening and traumatic experience as a literal 8 year old (and Ram Village not having any therapists :^U) and while yes, in execution it created a character that comes off as heavily one-note for the vast majority of her appearances -which, to be fair, still serves as more than enough to be a point of contention for people who aren’t into that kind of thing- there’s nonetheless plenty of evidence that there’s far more to her than just being yet another character with an unrequited crush on the dashing main character

She becomes attached to the point of an unhealthy fixation to Alm because she feels that he was the one responsible for saving her, and since this occurs when she was so young its no surprise that those feelings transform into romantic affection or at the very least feelings that Faye interprets as attraction even if they may truly be something more along the lines of appreciation

She comes to view Celica as a rival/antagonist to herself, consciously because she considers her as a rival in love (which is certainly aggravated by Celica being physically out of the picture for half of Alm’s life having done nothing to assuage his feelings for her) and potentially and almost certainly subconsciously due to the role that she played in the attack they faced as children. Celica isn’t to blame for Slayde and friends appearing in Ram Village 9 years ago, but memory is a fickle thing and memories of traumatic events even more so and it isn’t unfair to say that Celica’s presence certainly didn’t help resolve the situation.

If you choose to decline to recruit Faye with Alm and instead recruit her with Celica before you reach Act 3 (did you know: you can do that), Faye’s really pissed at that Alm Just Up And Left and is, in fact, quite happy to see Celica. There admittedly isn’t much to go off of for this because she doesn’t have any additional dialogue if you recruit her with Celica, but she nontheless will go with Celica if you turned her down with Alm (unlike Silque, who, while she still has lines if encountered by Celica, will not go with Celica)

This is reading pretty far into this, but it’s pretty strong evidence that Faye doesn’t actually love Alm, and that she just thinks she does because as long as you recruit her during act one she never has any sort of impetus to reevaluate her feelings and figure out how she actually views him. By being all “lol nope, you’re not coming with us” to her, Faye has been given the harsh wake-up call that she otherwise never gets; Alm choosing Celica over Faye every step of their journey doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like her, just that he likes Celica more. Even being told “I don’t love you in the way you love me” in their a support still carries the subtext of “but it’s not that I dislike you”, but by leaving her behind she’s forced to confront the fact that he didn’t like her enough to bring her along which causes her introspection to spiral from that into realizing “hey maybe i don’t actually want to date him” and then, from how glad she is to see Celica after being left behind, she would go from that to “hey maybe i didn’t actually hate Celica”

“Faye’s a Yandere XD” is like. okay sure you could read her “I’ll fight all your enemies for you, Alm!” support as that if you have a really shaky grasp on what a yandere is (hint: it’s more than just “I’ll commit violence in the name of love!”) but in the context of everything else it’s a young woman both desperate to prove herself worthy to the one she loves (who does not love her back in the way that she loves him) while also now being suddenly thrust into a situation where she, now more than ever, wants to keep him safe. Faye’s never been to war before, but she’s smart enough to realize that she needs to take this seriously in order to not die and if she can impress Alm and keep him safe while she’s at it? three birds with one stone.

“haha wow faye got alm a bunch of steaks for valentines day, look at how unhinged she is! lol” Alm’s only favorite taste if we exclude the obviously non-canon 7-11 dlc? meaty. you can do the math. Rudolf, who does some Kinda Stupid Things but is otherwise an intelligent man in full possession of his mental facilities, gets his son and his nephew each a fancy dagger, and from that we can infer that Valentines in Valentia isn’t just a holiday where you get people you care about chocolate or flowers and are done: it’s more along the lines of a broad ‘gift giving’ holiday (like. idk. a ‘fully secularized christmas’ or something) and in that context getting a person you’re fond of something they’d like getting them their favorite food is (surprise!) perfectly normal. She does get him way too much, but it’s just in line with Faye’s tendency to overdo things.

“she never moves on” yeah uh. funny how childhood trauma and the maladaptive coping techniques used to survive to adulthood just don’t ever really go away. they get weaker and have less sway over a person as they grow and mature beyond them, as can be seen in her willingness to marry someone else in her ending, but they never truly disappear, as can be seen in her continual attachment to Alm despite being married.

“she’s singularly fixated on alm, even to the point where her support with Silque is all about Alm” yeah and then Silque/Faye A is the exact opposite of that. Of course she goes into it being all “not alm? not interested” since it’s consistent with who she is but the support itself is just the victim of the “three conversations per pair” rule because it just. ends prematurely. Silque approaches Faye in C, Faye gives her ‘response’ in B, and in A Faye realizes “hey i was kinda a massive jerk, sorry” and says so to Silque and if they had even a single additional conversation it’s clear that following this progression that Faye would become more and more open to the idea of allowing more than just Alm into her world.

#faye fe #fe15

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bisexualshrug · 5 years

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Uh has anyone given you the OTP numbers either SUPERIOR SHIP Paige & AJ? Cause if not I’m giving it to you. 11. 14. & 17. The ultimate lesbians.

11. Do they get married? Who proposes and how?

Okay so Paige and AJ are JUST friends. I mean, technically, they are BARELY even friends. So they are absolutely NOT in love. That’s ridiculous. Actually, Paige just finds AJ really annoying, but AJ like...won’t leave her alone. So, they hang out or whatever. But not because Paige WANTS to. It’s like...forced on her, alright? Back off.

So, anyways they’ve been kinda friends (NOT in love though) for years. And all of the sudden AJ is pestering her every day about how AJ is lonely and sad when she goes back home. And they should just move into together. Because Paige flies home with AJ more than she goes to her own home (Paige would argue this was not true...she could be wrong). And they are best friends so they would be great roommates. So, after weeks of constant badgering, Paige is like ugh okay fine whatever. Let’s live together. And AJ is happy and excited and kisses Paige on the cheek which is gross and DOESN’T feel nice.

And then AJ is like ok! Let’s pack your stuff and move into my place in Colorado. And Paige is like...don’t you live in New Jersey?? And AJ is like nope ! Moved to Colorado a month ago. Which is exactly when AJ started pestering Paige about moving into together. Which is weird. And makes Paige a little paranoid but whatever fine. Paige doesn’t really care where they live because they’ll be on the road most of the time anyway.

So they move in together in Colorado. And it’s kind of weird. I mean, Paige and AJ aren’t there often. But whenever they are, all the couples in the apartment complex wanna go out with them? And it’s very double date like but AJ assures Paige that everyone knows it’s not. But AJ always grabs Paige’s hand on the not double dates and clings to her and kisses her cheek again. Which is all gross and weird...but Paige just doesn’t push her off because hurting AJ is basically just kicking a puppy. And Paige doesn’t wanna look at her dumb completely NOT cute pouty face.

But everyone in the entire complex is ALSO really weird. They stop her in the hallways and are like “How are you and AJ doing? Still happy? Going strong?” And like...why are these people so intense about roommates?? Paige just lives with AJ. And travels with her. And works with her. And spends almost all of her time with her. But none of that involves sex so they clearly are not dating. And sex with AJ? Ew no no no. Paige is NOT attracted to her. She’s especially not attracted to AJ when she climbs into Paige’s bed at night in extremely tiny shorts and insists they need to cuddle and- whatever okay she doesn’t need to justify herself to you

But then she’s walking back to their apartment with food from AJ’s favorite takeout place one day and their neighbor stops Paige and tries to have a conversation with her. Which is mostly just annoying bc Paige is hungry and also AJ is waiting for her and this is supposed to be their last night at home before going back on the road. But anyways Paige is half listening to this lady when she suddenly asks “How is your wife doing?” And Paige is like great this woman doesn’t even know who she is. So Paige is like “Oh, you must be mistaking me for someone else. I’m Paige. I live in this apartment right here.” And the woman laughs “Oh yes. With your wife! Short one, quirky but very sweet.” Paige freezes and is like “excuse me a moment.”

And then rushes inside her apartment. AJ sees her and grabs the food and kisses her on the cheek. And Paige just stares at her in disbelief. And finally forces out “Why did our neighbor think we’re married?” And instantly AJ drops the food on the counter and freezes. Paige can already feel a migraine coming on. AJ slowly turns around and laughs “About that” and then makes a run for the door. But Paige grabs her by the waist before she can escape and wrestles her down to the couch.

And what follows is the most insane story Paige has ever heard in her entire life. AJ was...trying to common law marry Paige....behind her back. Without telling her!!! Without dating her!! AJ has been trying to MARRY her for MONTHS. She told Paige that she did research and in Colorado the requirements for common law marriage are cohabitation (check), a reputation of being married (check...thanks to AJ telling everyone in their apartment complex of their common law marriage), conduct which demonstrates intent (okay how the HELL did AJ file their taxes as joint MARRIED and Paige DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT), and the final one being consent. AJ said she had everything but the last one, which she was working on.

Paige sits on the couch in disbelief, frozen still for an entire 15 minutes. No movement. No speaking. Just staring at the wall. AJ is... she’s CRAZY. She’s INSANE. What the HELL is wrong with her??? Paige is just going to stand up, pack her things, and move the hell out of this apartment. Get the hell out of here while she still can...Wait why isn’t she standing?? GET UP. LEAVE. GET OUT OF HERE. FREE YOURSELF WOMAN.

But the only thing Paige can do is turn and look at AJ. Who is staring at her worriedly with tears in her eyes. Nervously playing with her hair, but eyes never wavering from Paige’s.

Oh God. Why. Why Why Why

Paige kisses her.

14. Are there any love rivals?

Paige hates CM Punk with a burning fiery passion. Because AJ has this almost hero worship, mentor relationship with him going on. “Oh Punk is so funny. He’s so smart. Did you watch his match last night? Pipebomb pipebomb pipebomb.” If Paige hears “Punkie” one more time she’s gonna punch a hole through a wall.

AJ does not do all of this on purpose because Paige is hot when she’s jealous. And Punk is definitely not in on it (he is. They’re both evil shits).

17. Describe or write a really fluffy scene.

I’m going to save writing an entire Paige/AJ scene later. Although that day might very well come. But not today. Because my marriage description answer was already too god damn long sdlsd

Here’s a description of After Paige Finds Out about the common law marriage. After Paige composes herself, she gives AJ a long, emphatic lecture about how it’s wrong to marry people without their permission and shouldn’t you already be aware of this?? And AJ very seriously listens to her the entire time, looking like she’s absorbing information she’s never heard of before in her entire life. And at the end AJ is just like “Gotcha. No more marrying you behind your back. Makes sense.” And Paige is like how the hell do I wanna kiss this girl right now and not get a restraining order??

But she DOES just want to kiss AJ. And sitting here thinking about it? Okay she also probably wants to hold AJ’s hand more and go on (real) dates and buy AJ chocolate on Valentine’s Day and not ever move out. All the gross disgusting couple stuff. Oh and sex. Yeah absolutely she wants sex. 100%.

So after finishing her lecture she asks AJ out on their first official date. And AJ squeals loudly and literally leaps in Paige’s arms, legs wrapped tightly around her waist. And Paige closes her eyes and tries to clear every single dirty thought out of her mind. Because they haven’t even been on a date yet, and Paige knows how to treat a woman.

So Paige plans out the date and they get ready in their separate rooms. And Paige snuck out earlier that day and bought AJ this comic series she knows AJ has been wanting for weeks. So she knocks on AJ’s room door and hands AJ the comics. And AJ geeks out and Paige is barely able to stop her from canceling the date to hide away in her room until she’s read the entire series. Then, AJ kisses her in thanks and Paige can feel herself grinning like an idiot. She schools her features back into place bc she’s not some schoolgirl with a crush here.

Paige takes AJ to an arcade and AJ is like an excited kid. Literally, she spends part of the night actually playing an actual child at airhockey and losing (on purpose to make the kid smile). And Paige plays games with her too but watches her sometimes. And it’s fun. But God...AJ is so beautiful. The night is perfect. AJ has a blast. And she’s carrying around the biggest armful of tickets in the entire place. She’s passing by kids who are staring at her tickets in literal awe.

Then...before they get to the counter. A fan comes up. She’s a little girl. Maybe around 7. And her Mom says she’s AJ’s biggest fan. And AJ grins so wide and shoves all her tickets into Paige’s arms. She scoops the girl up into a hug and excitedly starts talking to her. Even though they were about to leave, AJ plays a few games with the girl and then takes a picture with her. Gives her one last hug. Then walks over to Paige. She takes her tickets back. But then she walks back over to the girl and gives the girl all of her tickets.

The Mom is beyond thankful and the little girl looks at AJ like she’s her superhero. And then AJ walks with her to the counter. The little girl happily gets one of the biggest prizes on the shelf and thanks AJ with the tiniest, cutest voice Paige thinks she’s ever heard. The Mom and daughter leave after that and AJ skips back over to Paige happily and kisses her on the cheek. She asks if Paige is still ready to go and Paige just stares at her and nods dumbly.

AJ smiles and grabs her hand, tugging her out of the arcade. On the way back, AJ mentions how cute the girl was but says nothing else about it. Instead she talks happily about how much fun the night was with Paige and how perfect of a first date it was.

And Paige drives the car trying her best to listen. But the only thing she can think about is how kind AJ was to that little girl. And how she doesn’t think a single other person on the WWE roster (herself included) would have done all that. And AJ did it without a single hesitation. When she didnt have to. God help her.

This woman is absolutely crazy. But...maybe.. it wouldn’t be so bad to be married to her after all..

#bc idk what to tag them as #paige/aj #paige #aj lee #this is long as FUCK #damn #i love them #OG lesbians #rheaschild

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iggytheperson · 6 years

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14, digimon - I KNOW I'm going to like it :D

[Send me a number prompt and I’ll write a drabble]

#14 “We’re in love with the same person. Friendships have been built on less common ground.”

1,300 words, under the cut

Miyako’s plan had seemed perfect at the time. Make chocolates for Ken, go to Tamachi after school the day before Valentine’s, drop the chocolates off in his shoe locker. Ken would’ve already gone home. Anyone still in the school would be working or doing club activities. She could get in and out undetected.

But what she hadn’t expected was to turn into Ken’s row, and find Daisuke. Holding a red and pink box in his hands. Putting that box into Ken’s locker

.It was so entirely unexpected that she ended up dropping her own box. Which had the effect of causing Daisuke to notice her.

The second Daisuke made eye contact with her, she snapped out of her stupor and took off running. She didn’t stop until she was on the train back home. She also didn’t realize that she’d abandoned her homemade chocolates, either. It was disappointing to think that all her effort would go to waste, but there was no way in hell she was going back for them now.

She’s lying in bed about an hour later, contemplating what the hell she should do, when her sister yells that she has a guest. She hopes to god that it’s not Daisuke. A few seconds later, there’s a knock on her bedroom door.

“Miyako? Can I come in?” It’s Daisuke.

She doesn’t answer, hoping maybe by some miracle he’ll go away. She should’ve expected that he’d barge into her room without waiting for an answer anyways.

“What do you want.” She snaps, not bothering up to get up and actually look at her visitor.

“Well, I thought you’d be worried about your chocolates. I don’t know when you noticed that you dropped them, so I figured I’d just tell you that I put them in Ken’s locker for you.” He says nonchalantly.

That gets Miyako’s attention. She sits up and stares at him.

“You…put them in Ken’s locker?” She asks in disbelief.

“Yeah, they were for Ken, weren’t they? I mean, his name was on them.” Daisuke says almost nervously. What the heck?

“I mean yeah, but…weren’t those chocolates that you had for Ken too?” She asks dumbly.

“Yup!” Daisuke responds cheerfully.

“So you…have a crush on Ken?” Miyako continues.

“Yup!” Daisuke says again.

“…Do you not get that the reason I was giving him chocolates was because I like him too?” Miyako questions. She doubts that Daisuke could possibly be that dumb, but it’s the only thing she can think of to explain Daisuke’s behavior.

“What? Of course I understood that! How dumb do you think I am?” Daisuke cries indignantly.

“Trust me, Daisuke. You don’t want to know.” She replies. Daisuke moans and dejectedly flops face first onto her bed, whining into the sheets. Miyako rolls her eyes and laughs at him. But then she remembers how weird he’s being and stops.

“…So you…aren’t upset that I like Ken?” She asks, still dumbfounded. Daisuke looks up at her with pure confusion on his face.

“Why would I be upset? You’re weird, Miyako.” He says decidedly.

“Weird? You’re the one who’s being weird! You seriously don’t hate me now or anything!?” She shouts disbelievingly.

Daisuke looks even more confused.“Why would I hate you!?” He cries, sounding incredibly distressed.

“Because…because!” Miyako stumbles, trying to come up with what should’ve been an obvious answer. “This makes us like…love rivals now, or something.” Is what she eventually comes up with. Daisuke stares at her slack jawed for a few seconds before abruptly bursting into laughter.

“What!? W-what’s so funny!?” Miyako stutters in embarrassment.

“Oh my god that’s so stupid!” He chuckles.

“No it’s not!” Miyako retorts weakly. He bursts out laughing even harder.

“Yes it is! You think I’d hate you for being in love with Ken!? What kind of sense does that make!? I’m in love with him too, weirdo!” Daisuke mocks.

“And that makes us like, in competition or something, right!? Aren’t you upset about that at all!?” She yells.

“God no! You’re like, the one person I’d want to be competing with!” Daisuke says with a big dopey grin on his face. Miyako finds herself even more confused.

“…What? Why?” She asks dumbly.

“Why wouldn’t I want you as my rival? Even if I lose, my best friend is going to have someone great as his girlfriend, so I’ll still be happy! That’s like, the best possible thing!”

“You…wouldn’t be mad at me for stealing him from you or something?” Miyako asks hesitantly.

“Pfffffttahahaha! No way, that’s dumb! If he likes you, then he likes you, that’s not stealing him from me. Sure, I’d be sad, but I’m not going to go around blaming you for making yourself happy! I’m not 11 anymore, jeez. I’m capable of growing up, y’know…” He says, jokingly pretending to be offended.

“So you’re not going to be mad if I end up with Ken?”

“Nope! The only way you’re going to make me mad is if you win and then you break his heart. And if that happens then I think that as his best friend, I’m legally allowed to murder you.”

“I’ll keep that in mind then.”

“So, you think I’m great?” She asks out of the blue one day. She doesn’t know why she hadn’t thought about it at the time, but now that she thinks about it that’s actually kind of weird.

“Yeah! I mean, you are kinda mean sometimes, but I probably deserve at least some of that…But you’re like, super smart and confident and cool and stuff! You’re totally great!” He declares.

“Gee, thanks!” She laughs.

“…And for what it’s worth, I think you’re pretty great too.”

“So Ken, are you into any girls?” Daisuke pries in the middles of a group picnic. Ken’s face goes red and he buries his head in his knees.

“Oh, there totally is, isn’t there? Do we know her? Is it one of us? Miyako?” Daisuke asks, jokingly poking at him. Miyako tries to wrap her head around what the heck Daisuke is trying to pull as Ken attempts to sink into the ground. But she’s not one to miss an opportunity.

“What’cha hiding your face for, Kenny? Is my beauty just to much for you to handle?” She asks, striking a pose and getting a glare.

“You wound me, Ken!” She laughs. “What, you don’t think I’m pretty?”

“I-It’s not like that! Don’t put words in my mouth, Miyako!” Ken says in distress.

“Then what’s up? Oh, oh, could it be that it’s a guuuuy?” She asks, getting a small, overjoyed thumbs up from Daisuke.

“W-what!?” Ken sputters as he turns into bright red tomato.

“Oh, I totally hit the jackpot, didn’t I?” She says as a gigantic grin grows on her face. For some reason the prospect doesn’t break her heart at all. Weird.

“Shut up Miyako! Don’t make fun of me!” Ken snaps suddenly. He’s clearly just embarrassed, but Miyako can’t help but notice that Daisuke looks kind of shaken.

“He didn’t mean it like that, Daisuke. He was just flustered.” She assures him later.

“You don’t know that…” He mutters.

“Nope! I don’t! But you don’t know that I’m not right, either! Stop sulking, it doesn’t suit you!” She says, grabbing him by the chin and forcing him to look up.

“And besides, you aren’t allowed to just give up! That would be the most disappointing way to win ever!”

“How did you learn how to paint nails so well?”

“Jun taught me.”

“That’s a miracle if I’ve ever heard of one.”

“Oh shush. Now hold still and tell me how that plan of yours went.”

“He didn’t notice even a little bit. God, we fell in love with an idiot.”

“We sure did.”

“It’s so weird that we’re friends because of this, y’know? This is like, the exact opposite of what tv always said would happen.”

“We’re in love with the same person. Friendships have been built on less common ground.”

#daiken #kenyako #daisuke motomiya #miyako inoue #ken ichijouji #fanfic #replying #ask meme #kindnessemitsagoldenlight #this ask activated all my yue/nodoka emotions #bless your soul rexy #that's just an actual tag now

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