I've been writing a fic for my unintentionally romantic Zoro posts and it's made me want to expand on one of my favorite things I think Zoro does, which is dressing Sanji. (And a little extra of Zoro taking care of Sanji's hands)
It starts out cause he hates hearing Sanji's bitching about how much work it is messing around with Zoro.
"If you hate it that much stop asking me to get you off, cook." "That's not what I mean shithead. It's just that the only time I have to do this is at night and 'm tired after working all day."
Zoro watches him fumble with the the buttons on his shirt, his eyes are barely even open. Sanji really starts struggling half way up. His eyes well up at the obvious stress he's starting to feel, and his hands are shaking, which is new. Suddenly he remembers hearing Chopper telling him he should take more brakes if his hands are cramping. So Zoro smacks the cook's hands away from his shirt and decides it'll be faster to just do it himself.
"It'd be easier for you to get dressed if you'd stop wearing suits. You do realize you're on a pirate ship, right ?" He doesn't look up from his work even when Sanji tugs at his earrings. "I'll wear what I want, Marimo. And I don't wanna here any opinions about clothes from you."
Zoro rolls his eyes, then reaches for Sanji's pants. He kneels down and goes to pick up his leg, but it moves to kick him in the head. "Oh fuck off Mosshead. 'm not a kid, I can put my own pants on !" Zoro glares at him as he catches the other foot before it can do anymore damage.
"Shut up, I never said you were one !" Then he mubles, "If your hands hurt, say somethin. I can take care of things like this for you." Zoro finishes pulling the cook's pants on for him and it's not lost on him that Sanji's ears and neck are pink. He shoves his hands out in Zoro's face.
"They don't hurt, but Chopper did say that massaging them at night might help sometimes." He fully avoids eye contact when he says it, and a part of Zoro wants to tease him. But he knows if he does Curls will never ask for help again, and he doesn't want to risk it affecting his hands. And well, it was a suggestion from their doctor, so it probably will help.
It does work. Sanji goes to sleep with his hands feeling loose, and when he gets up the next morning to cook, they aren't as stiff as they were the day before. The next time they have a moment to themselves, Sanji doesn't move from his spot on the crate when they finish.
"Well ? Don't just stand there, go get my clothes. And Chopper told me you should massage my hands at least once a week." They both know Chopper meant Sanji should massage his own hands, but Zoro sighs and moves to pick up the pieces of clothing around the room. He decides its easier to resign himself to the whiny monster he's created.
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Frankly I think Alistair being mildly shitty to that mage in Ostagar seems pretty in-character for the guy he is before the massive, life-altering trauma that is the Ostagar massacre wherein he sees all of his Grey Warden comrades, his beloved mentor/father figure, and his beloathed half-brother/convenient-target-of-projection absolutely torn to shreds by literal Thedas boogeymen. IIRC Morrigan and Flemeth both comment on his wack behavior after Ostagar and then by the time we get to Lothering Alistair just fully surrenders any and all responsibility (and, frankly, agency) to the player's Warden for the foreseeable future. It can then take anywhere from a couple IRL hours to the entire second act of the game for him to retake almost any amount of it back. And depending on the player's choices in dialogue, and especially whether or not they choose to romance him, we may only see flashes of that guy we met at Ostagar before he potentially morphs into almost someone else entirely (hardened!King!Alistair). All that to say, I don't actually think it's a useful criticism of "characterization" to bring up Alistair's glibness as compared to his behavior in the majority of the game because from where I'm standing (looking directly at his snottiness about Cailan, his complaints about being assigned to the Tower of Ishal, his Templar-esque focusing on Morrigan and Flemeth being apostates, his generally pretty brusque manner with the Warden recruits) it seems fairly in-line with the rest of his behavior at Ostagar.
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i have decided that my interpretation of c!wilbur’s ominous foreshadowing after the “Bust” stream is that he was suicidal and increasingly planning on committing suicide as his character heavily alludes to (because i believe that negating the suicidal overtones of cwilbur during this portion of his story by saying that he was always only ever planning on going back to utah: # 1 just lessens the impact of everything that happens in this arc, because he wouldve already decided to live thus making all those conversations and apologies forcing him to confront the realities of his own life and death wayyy less meaningful, but most importantly # 2 makes it impossible to provide adequate closure for his character’s deepest struggles because they wouldve never been re-addressed) — BUT that when he finally decided to go through with sending friend to ghostbur thus making the evident conclusion that ghostbur did not deserve to suffer eternally (and by extension and implication, himself, too) he changes his mind and chooses Life :) aka Utah <3
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For the "optimus has a size kink" theoretical oc i exactly imagined a shuttke class mech who is autobot aligned neutral, considering joining the autobots, and as we might be able to guess has never met Optimus before. Someone working with team Prime when they arrive on earth, as an ally and not a subordinate
... so it's an absolute miracle for Optimus and the Prime team.
Ratty is so disappointed in Optimus for being so obviously down bad for this new mech (who now that i think of it could already have been an autobot who just never met Optimus because i mean he's been busy as the lead commander)
But even he admits that out of all the options this is the best opportunity and choice for a partner for Optimus. Oppy's bad taste in mecha is notorious and Ratchet remembers how many times he had to comfort Orion in some lowkey bar as Ori cries over another mech who broke his spark. This time? Part of Ratchet is hoping this time will be less of a disaster. After all he has noticed how hard the war has been on his old friend, how distant and lonely he has gotten.
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