#AND ALSO prinz is a knight he can protect hestio

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

hi guys, may i introduce you to the concept of ailette/hestio

If hesphael is ephael giving in to hestio with some jibes that have little to no heat behind them, then ailette/hestio is ailette returning hestio's energy even more and hestio not being able to take it. Ephael teases hestio with a ☺️ or 😄 face while ailette is like >:)) and she does not pull punches. she would embarrass him happily and watch him combust. They compete on a bunch of inconsequential things and hestio loses 80% of the time because ailette is just too cool like that.

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

taps mic and clears my throat. good evening everyone. can we please consider shipping hestio with literally everybody else and to take a moment to marvel the world of flavours it opens us up to:

hesphael (hestio/ephael): childhood friends to lovers, sunshine and brooding dark person, person who always dashes ahead and person who reels them in (both ways, but in serious situations ephael is the one holding hestio back). best friends who are always in sync. constant good-natured ribbing, idiots to lovers

teshes (tesilid/hestio): doomed lovers. love cannot save us but it can certainly destroy us. maybe loving and being loved is just as bad or perhaps even worse than being loveless when youre a regressor. exploring the effects of regression on tesilid. if only we had the transmigrator's privilege (COUGH COUGH). could you please look after yourself? i am begging you. guy who values self-preservation and opportunism x guy who values principles and selflessness above all else. immovable object x very weak force; even if hestio had managed to convince tesilid to prioritise himself, it would have been for naught, because tesilid's destiny was always to have his very soul and character broken down and destroyed. doomed lovers. all of hestio's efforts and love are futile, even though it was all there. i wish we could grow old and die together, but i am perpetually only able to meet the young you. you are right in front of me, but i miss you.

reed/hestio: hestio being scared shitless. and also [redacted for spoilers]

ailette/hestio: also constant good-natured ribbing like hesphael - except ailette always comes up on top and hestio absolutely cannot take what he dished out. damsel in distress (hestio the fragile supporter) x OP knight in shining armour (ailette). hestio is almost perpectually blushing. they also trade tips on how to take care of their long luscious hair.

prinz/hestio: prickly and high-strung guy x calm and polite knight dynamic, similar to what you would find in teshes. except prinz is capable of looking after his own interests. maybe even a side dish of past one-sided teshes angst, because prinz' usual demeanor is literally just 0th tesilid but without the doormat philosophy that drives hestio crazy. (what could things have been, if tesilid had been allowed to look after himself?) [hey who let tesilid in here this isn't about him]

hestio/bianca: two dark-haired squishies with resting bitch faces. bianca has enough money to pamper hestio and i think that would be very funny. hestio also is absolutely NOT the kind of person bianca would want as a spouse (she had always planned to marry a talented knight, and he doesn't even have aura!) which adds an additional layer of angst and complexity and tension.

hestio/raewyn: raewyn also has enough money to pamper hestio. and he is also a dignified knight like prinz and characters like that are such a cute foil to hestio's loud bossy energy. raewyn protecting hestio.... 🥺🥺