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tee-hee-heidi · 8 months

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For the oc ask game 💤 🤍 💘

Hiiiii!! Since you didn’t specify which OCs you wanted to ask about I’m gonna talk about my Mythical Lovers because they’ve been on my mind A Lot lately (I’m also planning a couple of things for them huehue stay tuned) I hope that’s okay ^^

💤 Sleeping symbol - is your OC a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? What are their sleeping habits.

Promachos: definitely a light sleeper, but after decades of training in the Spartan army he’s developed the skill of instantly falling asleep basically anywhere. Bedroll? Cold hard ground? It’s all the same to him. He’s also capable of waking up fairly quickly too, and push through the morning grogginess almost immediately, since being alert on the battlefield means the difference between life and death. Despite this, he doesn’t wake up at every minor sound every night, and has learned to subconsciously differentiate between a random, non important sound (a companion snoring, a critter shuffling in the bushes) and something worthy of his attention (his name being spoken, orders being given etc.). He’s a side sleeper too, full foetal position.

Crino: probably the heaviest sleeper, especially during winter, the cold makes her sluggish. She’s the type of person who gets groggier the more she sleeps so she tries to wake up at a reasonable time. She can’t exactly afford to spend the whole day sleeping since she lives alone with Sakis. He’s also the one who wakes her up when she can’t manage on her own. She usually sleeps on her back or snuggled up to Sakis.

Sakis: kind of in the middle? He’s not a particularly heavy sleeper but there are times when he won’t wake up even if you shake him. He also a serial cuddler, and will have trouble falling asleep if he’s not hugging someone.

Ares: doesn’t need to sleep (he’s a God after all), but he wouldn’t mind cuddling huehue. If he slept I guess he’d be like Promachos, quick to wake and ready to act.

🤍 White heart - What are three of your OC’s neutral/questionable traits?

Promachos: cannot stand spicy food. Spartan cuisine already had the reputation of being flavourless and terribly simple, and it’s not like there were any spices in the syssition so even the smallest amount of pepper will have him wheeze and cough. Other neutral traits of him… uuuh he can’t stand the feeling of hair on his head (that’s why he keeps it shaved so short), and while they taught him how to read back in Sparta, he’s never been exceptional at it, he’s barely literate.

Crino: she can hunt and is fairly skilled with the bow. Her most favourite hobby is the loom, she likes to make cloth to sell and barter. She’s a bit hairier than a “traditional” nymph, but that’s okay, her boys love her anyway. And lastly, despite being a nymph, her knowledge about plants is fairly limited. Her mothers never really taught her anything since they kinda expected her to just “tag along” them and learn through observation, but she was always too preoccupied with playing and doing kid’s stuff, so she never really learned. Sakis has helped her a lot with this. Last but not least, she can’t read. Her mothers tried to teach her but it was exceptionally difficult for her (she has undiagnosed dyslexia) so after a certain point she just gave up completely. Whoops these might be more than three I hope you don’t mind.

Sakis: the only one who can actually read and write. He’s a great poet and play writer, but only Crino knows about this. After a lifetime of being ridiculed by his (much bigger and stronger) brothers, he’s a bit insecure about his masculinity and usually comes off as a rude and aloof to people who don’t know him. His horn was chipped during a prank his brothers pulled on him, when they left him in the woods and he got lost and almost hunted to death by humans, which in turn made him very distrustful of them. It’ll be some time before he can fully accept Promachos in his life.

Ares: uuuuh this is gonna be difficult because he’s not as developed as the others (RIP). Despite being the God of War, he’s a rather sweet guy? He’s a mama’s boy and Hera loves him. All the other gods treat him with respect but also consider him a bit of a meathead (especially Athena, who’s always a step ahead of him, with her superior strategies) so he’s usually left in the background while they make the Big Decisions. This hurts him quite a lot, but he’s never told anyone yet. ALSO Im aware this is gonna get me crucified but he hasn’t had any children yet (Deimos, Phobos etc. do not exist here) so he’s Just A Guy at the moment.

💘 Heart with arrow - What and/or who do your OCs consider the most important to them?

Promachos: uuuh a lot of things. At the start of the story I’d say the most important thing to him is his polis. He’s lived his whole life for the sole purpose of defending Sparta and bring it to glory, despite not finding any joy in this. The only people he would actually miss from Sparta are his friend Miltiades and Philarchos, a young boy he was mentoring before leaving for war and never coming back. As the story progresses I guess his priorities will change.

Crino: I’d say the most important person for her is Sakis. He’s her best friend, her confidant, and someone who finally doesn’t try to push her to change in any way she doesn’t want. Promachos will also become part of this circle (and Ares too) but only later in the story. As for physical things… I guess her loom and bow are pretty important for her, but the things she loves the most is a little garden Sakis made for her with herbs and plants she can easily recognise. She loves that garden and keeps it to the best of her abilities.

Sakis: Crino. Definitely her. She’s the most important person in his life, and basically the only person he feels truly comfortable around. She knows everything about him (even the most embarrassing secrets) and supports him in every way. He loves her very much uwu Promachos will also become very important to him, but at the moment Sakis sees him more as a person to look up to. He sees him as the ideal man (tall, muscular, imposing, masculine etc.) but doesn’t know about Promachos’s past and the horrible things that shaped him into what he is today. He’ll learn eventually. As for important things that aren’t people… his leopard pelt is pretty up there. I’m still figuring out Sakis’s backstory a little bit, but I liked the idea that the pelt was a gift from Dionysus himself, when Sakis was chosen by the god to be part of his spring procession.

Ares: GOD this is difficult agh. I’d say the most important thing for him at the moment is Promachos for uuuh story related reasons. He’s been watching over Promachos for a long time and really really likes him. I’ll explain better in a later post detailing the storyline, because this thing is already long enough lol, just fyi Ares has been crushing on Promachos for a pretty long time at this point.

Aaaah thanks for the ask!!! I really like doing these kind of things, it keeps my brain working. My askbox is always open anyway, so if anyone wants to give me an excuse to rant about my OCs and WIP I’ll be more than happy to answer

#mythical lovers

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stayarmytinyzenmoa-l · 1 year

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Been a while since I updated y'all on P-Chem guy huehue

Short Version: I friend-zoned him.

Long Version (aka why ima be real it's mostly me complaining and being disappointed because I really wanted this to work out but I digress) under the cut:

Remember like last month when I was like "P-Chem Guy told his parents we were dating when I made it clear to him that I wanted to get to know him first before committing to anything"? Yeah, it got worst.

So, like, I kinda mentioned it here somewhere but we went on a date back in December and I think I said something like "it went well I think" okay actually it didn't I just really tried to see the bright side of things but when I really looked into it it was actually really... disappointing.

Now wait let me preface this really quick, J (P-Chem guy, I don't want to write it out all the time so we'll call him J lol) is actually a really sweet guy. Like I can easily see myself falling for him if I met him before I had like two other failed situationships and even more failed talking stages. And quick reminder that J and I were friends before we considered dating so there's that.

Anyway... onto why I decided to stop things now, and it all stems from that date and it extends to now (putting a very important label despite me telling him otherwise and telling very important people aside ofc).

Firstly, I'm the one who asked him out on this first date, technically. And, yeah, 21st century, right? The girl can take initiative as much as the guy can, but please remember I'm Filipino and my parents are hardcore traditional as in they wanted J to go through the whole courting process and everything, which I told him about and he literally did nothing about it but continuing on. He basically texted me "hey, the year is going to end soon if you wanted to do anything together before then" and I was like "yeah, I'm down to do something together." Now, I copy pasted what he said here. And I'm pretty sure with how he worded it he was going to follow up with an offer and ask me out. Bzzt, wrong. His next message was "okay, let me know what you want to do."

Bruh.

So anyway I wanted to get to know him better anyway and I was a little annoyed that he didn't follow up on that message because I'm a firm believer in if you want to do something then plan it yourself don't thrust that responsibility onto someone else. This mainly applies to when the plan only includes yourself and one other person btw but ugh I ended up telling him that we should go to a cafe then after lunch. I italicize that for a reason. And, maybe this is me being petty, but we both acknowledged that this was a date, and he didn't even pick me up :/// Like, I know that's a small thing but really? You made me plan this then I drove myself to the agreed area? It was kind of disheartening because like... bruh, I wanna be pampered okay? Plus that's like a courtesy thing anyway, especially since he was the one who confessed first but whatever I guess.

I wanted to keep it casual so I told him that we could meet up after we lunch time for like a dessert run. That's why I planned to meet at 3pm, after lunch. So we go to the cafe, get our orders, it's nice and all. Now there were two people sitting next to us talking very loudly about something that shouldn't be talked about in public so I gave him the universal silent signal of "we should leave now" (for those who don't know, I looked at him, widened my eyes a little, and glanced to the exit before nudging my head toward it). And what does this guy do? He looks at me and goes on his phone for a bit. I was flabbergasted, but I thought, eh, he's a guy, I shouldn't expect much from what I've experienced before. And I don't know how to explain this correctly but like... it was so awkward. More awkward than any first date I'd been on. I wasn't expecting it to be awkward because it had never been awkward between us before (remember we were friends at first). He's just a dry conversationalist and I really didn't vibe with that. Every conversation I started, and every conversation he ended. I'd ask something like "oh how do you like the coffee here?" He'd say "it's nice." And that's it. But, anyway, moving on.

So we end up going to a bookstore like a block away just to kill time. Wasn't in my plan, I wanted to leave right after the cafe, but I trapped myself by asking if he had any plans that day (he said no) and I said that I didn't have anything pressing either (ugh, bad Crys). Now, if the cafe was bad, this was worst. He didn't say anything to me. I couldn't even think of anything to say to him because I've been the one initiating the conversation the entire damn time. So, I thought, okay let's go somewhere with a common interest. So we walked over to the manga section and still nothing. So, I asked, "hey, which anime or manga have you read?" And he says "recommend me some." BRUH I asked first and he's just... not going to answer okay. It was here I found out we also have like... drastically different genre tastes. I love shoujo and slice of life and he's really more into shounen and isekai but ehhhhh I was willing to overlook that. But like... what I wrote in this paragraph, yeah, that was the full extent of our conversation there.

We leave the bookstore and now we're just walking. It's still awkward. I feel like I need to fill the silence with whatever so I'm just waiting on him to do it because I've done it enough already. And finally, FINALLY, he starts a conversation.

By telling me his family drama.

Yum, okay, it's better than nothing, I guess, but like... how am I supposed to respond to something that came out of nowhere and that I have no experience on (let alone a place to give my opinion on). But, this was the calm before the storm. We walk back to the cafe since that's where we parked and he says something like "are you hungry?" A pit formed in my stomach. "I'm alright, you?" I threw back at him. "Yeah, I haven't eaten today." AH I felt like ripping my hair out. I told him, I told him we'd meet after lunch, I know I'm making a big deal out of nothing but like I already ate because I was pretty sure we'd just be coming here to drink coffee but nope he had other plans. So we end up walking to a fastfood restaurant and he goes "oh I thought this was an actual restaurant" (my guy, we're in a food court) but like we end up turning around and we go to the one "actual restaurant" there and it's a really pricey sushi bar (I'm talking $30 for a sushi roll y'all) and like, I'm kinda uncomfortable because I wasn't hungry so I can't really eat my money's worth but he insists and I didn't want to be rude so we went anyway and argh this was even more awkward because we were just eating in silence and that's normal yeah but the silence was so awkward and heavy and I felt so uncomfortable with it because like... I guess I was just irked that it happened, ya know? At this point i just wanted to go home.

After that we kinda walked around the area again, inside and outside of stores, it was still awkward, conversations ran dry, everything. And I was just so... disappointed by everything. I put so much effort into preparing for this too, I chose a nice outfit that was a little out of my comfort zone, new shoes, hell I even curled my hair nicely, and this? I know he's a guy, but he really just pulled up in jeans and a plain white shirt. He didn't even do his hair like he usually does or anything and like I get we're friends but at least put some effort for a first date, but I digress, he is a guy, I don't know why I put my expectations up.

The end was boring. We just said goodbye to each other and I guess we hugged too but it was even more awkward like... geez, I was so disappointed with it but I tried to push it all aside to look at the bright side of things. I texted him later that night that I had fun because I didn't want to hurt his feelings but that was that.

And that's just the date, yeah, so much happened there but, I figured, I should give him more chances because what's one date, right? Nah, I started noticing smaller things that I just can't vibe with in the long run, and a lot of these are going to sound petty or me being bitchy but like I just can't overlook them for some reason.

He texts every day - See, this is normal, but at one point it started feeling like a chore for me and that was a tell tale sign that whatever I thought we could've had fizzled out. That and I've never been a huge texter, or caller for that matter, I'm just so busy with my family and my school I don't have the luxury of texting often

He buys my pricey gifts - Don't twist this the wrong way, I don't mind gifts, but I'm the kind of person who feels like they have to "match" gifts. Like, if I get a $20 starbucks gift card from one person I'll give them a $20 gift card back because to me, especially when you're starting out, it's just the least you could do, maybe it was the way I was raised but like getting someone something less than what they've given you before feels disrespectful in a way. And see when I tell this to other people they're like "aww but that's cute!" I'm talking $60 and up gifts, guys. I don't work, I don't have an income, I can't match that. Hell, if I didn't end things last week he would've bought me $150 converse which I definitely do not like to receive as a gift. When I buy expensive things I buy them for myself because I earned enough money to afford it. And before that he was going to by me $200 Doc Martens that I definitely put my foot down and told him not to buy me something expensive. Because imagine how I will look in front of people? In front of his family? Oh, J's buying her nice things and she can't get him anything better than a coffee mug. It's for my own pride too, as horrible as that is. Leading to my next point

He oversteps boundaries - No means no, that's important. When I tell him that he didn't have to do something or that I don't want him to do something involving me that is final and still he does it anyway. Like the above point, I told him that receiving expensive gifts makes me uncomfortable and still he does it or tries to, and I even I told him multiple times that I didn't like it. I tell him that I don't want something he's offering me and he leaves it with me anyway, he's told my friends that he thinks it's me being cute and being nice, it's not. When I say no, I mean it. But he just ignores that for some reason, and I can see it becoming a problem in the foreseeable future. I've already mentioned the whole telling his parents we're dating when we were just talking thing so I'll leave this there.

Let's just say you can tell he lives alone - Now this one's just me knitpicking but like... He never pushes his chair in, he doesn't really clean up after himself (he does a little so I'll give him that I guess), his "idle behavior" when he's with the whole friend group is to play games on his phone, and his motto is "I kinda just do my own thing" and I realize these are small things but like they just got on my nerves for some reason.

Dry everything - Like I said, dry conversationalist and dry texter.

He doesn't get a lot of social cues - Quick preface, he's neurotypical, he's told us before so we just took his word for it. Usually I can overlook this, but see the date above. I'm sorry, I know it's mean, but I can't see myself with someone who isn't on my same level of understanding. Like, how could he not tell that I was that uncomfortable? I've had to tell him plenty of times before that I was uncomfortable in certain situations and like a few times is fine but it started to get constant. He's even told me before that he doesn't care to take the effort to learn these cues, and that really kind of hurt me.

Our maturity levels are different - This was actually pointed out to me by my best friend after I told her I friend zoned him. She said that we were just on different pages completely. Objectively, I was just more mature than him especially in the realm of dating, hell, he didn't even know what a talking phase was. Doesn't mean that he lives alone means that he's more mature than I am, we as individuals see things in different ways and turns out it was just way too different for it to work out.

But... yeah. It was just so much, and I even thought of just toughing it out because I didn't want to ruin the friend group dynamic but fuck I gotta put me first, I can't put myself through that and I can't lead him on like that either so I called it off now before it could become something worse. Of course this is all my side, I'm pretty sure he thought things were going well, and it's not like I gave up. I did my part in communicating my feelings and all but like I was the only one doing that so it felt like I was the only one with problems or whatever and that made me feel even worse.

AITA? I'm half kidding

#crys talks #personal

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