Venti: I need a best friend, someone to love and care for for eternity, someone who doesn't hold the title of 'Barbatos' over my head, and treats me like a savior. Someone who would love me for me and not what I do/did.
Diluc: *treats Venti with mutual to little to no respect*
Venti: Yes, that one. Thank Barbatos
Platonic diluc and venti is life istg, their relationship in canon is so comforting, everyone who knows venti's identity treats him differently and I feel like he just wants to blend in with his people without being acknowledged as an archon. Diluc treats him all the same, before and after finding out that he's barbatos which, as a venti kin I approve of
They are best friends who give each other reason and comfort your honor
So This friendship is so good, it's why I don't ship them. They are just too good as friends.
Like they are so complimentary. Venti reminds Diluc to relax and have fun. Diluc reminds Venti that there is still responsible in freedom and there are still people willing to make sacrifices for the freedom of others.
Like Venti is much wiser than he likes letting on, and I think he's also the most willing to learn from mortals. And Diluc's one of the best teachers he's had in a long time. I think he finds a quiet wisdom that can only be found in creatures with such lives as mortals. And he sees that as much more valuable than anything the other gods have to say. Diluc is his shining example of that. Someone who keeps falling and keeps picking himself up. A noble soul who tries to do what he thinks is right but is open to at admitting when he's at fault.
Diluc helps Venti see his own shortcomings as an Archon and the shortcoming of the Celesta as a whole. And in return, Venti is always trying to build Diluc up. Helping him as much as he can be the best person he can be.
Day 4 of @cottagecorexboy ‘s Pride Prompts featuring more characters I’ve had since college but not talked about here, a group I’ve taken to calling the Urbex Polycule since part of their story involved exploring abandoned buildings (Do Not Recommend). Also my first poly characters? They did a lot of exploring together as a way for me to explore dynamics that I hadn’t previously.
Barbara Brady and Kyo Himura had been best friends with benefits for years before they met Abram Daniels, a sweet but sheltered guy who was instantly taken with them and had no idea what to do about it. Everything turned out happy and loving so don’t worry. This is probably Abram’s first Pride.
honestly no wonder harrow forced ianthe to lobotomize her so she could save gideon. listen…LISTEN…if i was a secret-war-crime cult nunlet princess worshipped by my entire planet and the only person that (barely) kept me in check was my childhood nemesis—a butch a year older than me, towering over me in stature and physical prowess, and so hot it made my teeth hurt from how hard my jaw clenched in her presence, who wielded a two-handed seven-foot sword and had irritatingly huge biceps and told very lewd stupid jokes and also learned how to wield an entirely new weapon and be my bodyguard with startling accuracy in three months—only to have us finally learn to trust each other because we got invited to a magic murder mystery and then before the bubble burst i spilled the worst secret about myself that i was born because my parents murdered an entire generation and tried to Kill Her along with them and she just wouldnt die, and i told her this expecting a swift death i believed i deserved, only for her to fucking cradle me in her big butch arms and kiss me on my forehead with her soft butch mouth and just. forgive me for a shameful weight ive carried my entire life and then MAKE AN ACTUAL NECRO/CAV VOW with me despite every evil thing i have done to her……to have her tell me, in the end, bleeding and broken after putting up the most beautiful and glorious fight of her life, that she understands purpose and she understands duty and she knows loyalty more fiercely than ever now, that she knows who she is to me, that there is no her without me….to have her backed into a corner and make the ultimate sacrifice…..for me…..to recite scriptural wedding vows of eternity to me in her last wisps of soul-consciousness…..if i thought there was even a snowflake’s chance in the pyre that i could save her by turning myself into her very own locked tomb, i’d be begging ianthe tridentweirdius to crack my skull open and turn me to mush too, goddamn. i understand you harrowhark girl you don’t have to explain a thing to me. god said you couldn’t undo the lyctor’s bond bc it’d kill you. you told god and his angels that not even a lyctor’s bond could outshine the power of female spite and lesbianism and they didn’t listen. they didn’t believe you. but i heard you loud and clear and i was 17 and hormonal and hopelessly romantic not too long ago unlike those fucking dinosaurs and i’m saying it’s valid it’s what i would have done and really everyone should be thanking you for not being worse and more wretched about it, all things considered