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Charmed by the idea of Seb genuinely making an effort to get along better with Haley once he and Alex start dating. She was too generous in giving up the Flower Dance for him not to, tbh. He's very aware of how much he owes the Queen for that.

They might always snark at each other bc that's just their personalities, but the tone of it gets less mean and more teasing as time goes on.

They both rly just needed to see that they're actually Good People underneath the sarcastic and judgmental fronts they put up to protect themselves.

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what is your cosmic persona ?

tagged by: stolen from @royaletiquette tagging: @fckurselfie (whomever!), @dovaeh , @thrillvibin , @gloryundimmed (ammon), @un1awful , @unladielike , @etherealguard and YOU!

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Seb doesn't need to do the ick test again. His multiple bingos there haven't changed.

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I wrote about it in an ask to uni (no pressure, just referencing <3 ), but Seb had a very real near-death experience with gloom down in the Depths early into the Upheaval. Exploration into it was still new, so the effects of it were still being studied. Malice from before wasn't as widespread, so it wasn't as well documented.

He and Link were fighting a group of monsters when Seb took a blow from a Moblin's club out of the darkness and flew straight into a puddle of gloom. Considering the enemies and their weapons are always both coated in it and it was a strong blow at that, he'd already taken gloom damage before being forcibly soaked in a not insignificant amount of it at once.

His heart damn near stopped on the spot. It felt like poison, seeping into his skin even through his stealth armor and sapping his life away like nothing else had before. He barely managed to roll himself out of it quickly enough to Not Die, but it lingered and burned and filled him with so much more pain than malice ever had that he still felt like he might as well be. He could scarcely breathe, even see.

Link got him under a lightroot in time to help clear the immediate effects but he'd still needed a day or two of bedrest and sundelion consumption to fully recover.

Needless to say, ever since that experience, he dealt with a very understandable fear and caution around it. He pushed through it, of course, and he's conquered it by the time Ganondorf is confronted, but that was a long process to overcome.

Malice had been painful when encountered, but gloom...

It was little wonder how Link had lost his arm, and it was a miracle the man could still function despite having so much of it still in his system.

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[ Look ]

|| @devilsprophet

[ LOOK ] sender holding receiver's jaw and turning their head to look at them

He jumped at the sudden touch, having becoming quite unused to it over the months of his imprisonment. He hadn't felt much of anything this entire time, other than something cruel from any of the Yiga before Astor saw fit to take him in. Now, at least, the thieves mostly left him alone.

His captor had seemed rather hands-off thus far, which only made this instance entirely unprepared for.

If he could bare his teeth like a rabid animal, goddess, he would. His brows immediately furrowed up at the sallow-faced man in his glare, hackles raised, body tense as he stubbornly jerked his chin back away from him. As if he were offended that he'd touch him at all. Not desiring any such thing from him, no matter how starved of it he might be.

Disturbed by it almost seeming gentle in nature, a mockery of the soft tenderness he'd known from Link. He had no right encroaching on a territory that wasn't his.

"Don't."

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been reworking my seb design to fit my characterization of him better heehee

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It's a little thing, but I think we should normalize the sender of memes linking back to said meme in the ask itself. Especially if the meme is older. You already have it right in front of you and it saves us a little extra work linking back ourselves.

I've had a couple people do that for me unprompted and it's appreciated tbh!

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Hey there, travelers of Hyrule! If you love the Zelda franchise, we’d love for you to join the Legend of Zelda RPC! We’re looking to bring our Hyrule community to life and could really use more active players to interact with. We’re especially hoping to see some familiar faces from Breath of the Wild, Age of Calamity, Tears of the Kingdom, Age of Imprisonment, and any other canon or original characters you want to bring from the Zelda franchise.

No matter your experience level with Zelda lore, everyone is welcome. Come explore, quest, and make this rpc bustling with life again!

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ready for another day of torturing myself and wasting my own time

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me: i'm gonna do completionist stuff in totk so I don't have to put it down yet :)

me:

me: god, this kingdom is fucking huge...

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@fckurselfie from here

Maybe Link's general expression of touch had rubbed off on him, over the years.

It just... felt nice to do. It always had, perhaps enhanced with the slow but steady evolution of their relationship together. Touches steeped in meaning, a quiet expression of care and affection when a moment silently called for it. That was what had driven Sebastian to lie by his side and idly play with his hair, now, while enjoying his partner being able to truly relax, tonight. Unable to ignore the warm swell in his chest from the sight.

He looked forward to new moons just for this, the closest to contentment he'd seen in him yet while resting in the flowers he loved so much.

A gentle smile was on his face as, in his own creeping little trance, he gently undid Link's hair and sifted his fingers through it. He liked it down like this where it could be, most; maybe it was seeing him in such a natural state, a wild and messy one so uniquely his, that endeared it to him so. This physical part of him that could still let go when their weapons could be put down.

The side of Link that he was privileged to be privy to.

He'd lost focus somewhere along the way of where his bare fingertips brushed, both weathered hair and warm skin touched in his slow and lazy journey. Sebastian hadn't even truly noticed how he'd naturally migrated near his ear until Link snapped him back to focus with a gasp and a near jolt back away from him, both of their eyes widened with a startle as a result.

Had he gotten so comfortable that he'd forgotten to watch for signs of discomfort? He hadn't noticed anything amiss until now; no, his partner had seemed to be happy to let him do as he'd wished. This was abrupt, sudden, and without any discernible explanation. His hand hung in the air, fingers curled in with his confusion.

Did he look... flustered? Embarrassed? So used to Link's emotional reservation, even the smallest display seemed so glaring and grand. He'd been mostly convinced that not a thing could truly ruffle his feathers or seep into his skin, at this point. Sebastian blinked, sincerely not understanding where he'd went wrong despite the apology.

"It's okay, I'm sorry, was that ba--?"

Cut off by that notably shaky hand grabbing his before it could fully withdraw and tugging him back in when he'd started to sit back up. Now back in the grass with him, catching the way his breath shook, the look in his eye he'd never seen before when briefly locked with his that caused a stutter of his heart, the tremble in his body, but... not from what he could deduce as anxiety this time...

... The way he so deliberately moved his hand back in place for him, cupping his slightly reddened cheek, fingers back beneath an ear that seemed to twitch with anticipation...

He wants me to touch him...

... Sebastian couldn't place why that turned said heart's rhythm from a stutter to something quicker, why he found himself so keenly focused in a way that felt beyond just Link's comfort, but...

He swallowed and slowly acquiesced, much more careful and attentive now as he drifted his fingertips up just enough to trace the bottom rim of his ear, faintly brushing its outer shell along the way. Barely noticing how his own breath had quieted as if to be sure he could hear the faintest noise from him. Ready to move back away again... and ready to stay for as long as he'd have him.

"... This is okay...?"

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idr what I made Seb's blood type before, but what if I went rly extra and made it Rh-null

the "golden blood"

what then

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my favorite trope is when someone believes they’re hard to love and someone who loves them like it’s breathing.

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at the Stardew Valley Fair when married to Sebastian:

then why are you smoking about it??

sweetie. please talk to me. what did the fortune teller show you

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I sincerely suspect that chemo made my ADHD worse, so I'm sorry to everyone I owe stuff to. I'm watching my brain flit between five different things in the span of minutes, more than it used to. Chemo brain was a recurring side effect through treatment, so that's not a surprise I suppose. Maybe adjusting my medication now that I'm done might help, but we'll see.

In the meantime, it's just gonna come down to what calls to me at any given time. Your patience is appreciated. <3

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Therapy is not enough I need to uppercut my father