#Dariax get behind me

[towards-toramunda]

Can’t believe I just saw someone call Dorian orym’s best friend FEARNE CALLOWAY GET BEHIND ME

[kymal]

also to the person in the tags who said every single on of liam's characters' ships with a man are overrated you are soooooo right for that and sooooo brave

[tiredqueermushroom]

all of exu trio please?

Dorian

First Impression:

You're gonna be my favourite. There's more hidden underneath that classic bardic charm.

Impression Now:

Omg, he's just like me fr fr. An anxiety ridden master compartmentaliser, who is desperate for parental approval and desperate to strike out on his own. God I love him.

Favourite moment:

The entirety of episode 105 from summoning coriolis to his conversation with his father 10/10 no notes.

Honourable mention: His speech to dariax about real evil also "Kill your mother."

Idea for a story:

Just pure silken squall exploration. I want to know how dorian mastered his compartmentalision skill, more dorian childhood/lore please mister daymond!

Unpopular opinion:

A lot of people only like dorian because they ship him with orym and it's very obvious. So of the most egregious dorian takes come from these people, because they don't view him as an independent character but rather an extension of orym (disclaimer, I like do/my don't come at me.) Some of yall are weirdly racist about Dorian, especially when trying to 'defend' orym from rightful critism, it's kinda crazy.

Favourite relationship/s:

The exu trio! They keep each other grounded and sane. They also can see through each other's masks better than anyone else. Also, they shared a bed together what's not to love.

Favourite headcannon:

He's autistic! Also that hair is super important to squall culture, so dorian having his hair up and therefore shorter is his way of mourning cyrus.

Fearne

First impression:

I love this ditsy girl!

Impression Now:

Omg you are so much deeper than I gave you credit for. You hide your complex and real feelings behind a mask of smiles and giggles. Bet you related hard to when dorian said he finds strength in a smile, huh?

Favourite Moments:

It's a tie between the coin flip resurrection and the aftermath of watching ashton die. In both these moments, we get to see behind the mask fearne wears and get a peek at how much she is both terrified and angered by the idea of losing her friends, her family.

Idea for a story:

An in-depth exploration of her feelings of guilt about reviving orym instead of Laudna and how this interacts with her feelings of discomfort about being pressured about the shard. Specifically, her feelings around laudna and Imogen, saying they were disappointed in her during the truth trial.

Unpopular opinion:

Same issue I have with Dorian. A lot people don't care about how deep of a character can be with most of her bigger moments being overshadowed by other characters or not given the attention it needs. Some people only like her as the big-breasted ditsy thief.

Favourite relationship/s

Fearne & Orym! They both care about each other so much that they don't want to worry they other, so they lie/ tell half truths to each other. Orym would follow Fearne to the ends of the Exandria, and Fearne would carry him on her shoulders the whole way.

Favourite headcannon:

The coin actually landed on Laudna, but fearne could not and would not be able to stand the loss of her bestie, especially so soon after losing dorian. No matter what the coin said, she would have chosen orym, and the Fey are inherently selfish after all.

Orym

First impression:

Woah, slow down lil man you can only fit some much grief in your tiny body.

Impressions now:

My god I don't know how you can keep fitting all that grief and guilt in there!

Favourite moments:

Definitely, him crying at dorian, telling him he doesn't have to protect everyone. Orym had been carrying the weight of protecting everyone for so long, that he forgot that he's a person, not just a sword and shield to be thrown in front of people. Also, any time he's said he misses dorian because it sounds like an I love you. So much of how orym loves has been defined by longing and missing will, so naturally missing dorian is as easy as loving will. Bonus, him dancing in the rain with otohans sword and carrying that heavy weight with him was so cinematic.

Idea for a story:

Orym apologising to Dorian for his comment about cyrus during the post downfall talk. To recognise that he didn't trust that dorian would ultimately choose to save people despite his opinions on the gods. Especially after dorian revealed how heavily cyrus' death weighs on him as well as how important trust is to him.

Unpopular opinion:

While I acknowledge that orym has gotten some bad faith criticism in the past that doesn't mean all criticism he receives is unfair. Case in point, in some people's attempts at 'defending' orym after people were rightfully put off by his comment about cyrus. Some started using racist language towards Dorian and robbie, e.g robbie needing to watch his tone or that dorian needs to be 're-educated'. Which is especially crazy considering robbie is a native man. All that to say, orym is not above criticism and some of yall need to stop acting like it.

Favourite relationship/s:

Exu trio! Orym's need to protect fearne superseding his own safety is so juicy, he would die for his bestie. That man is so painfully in love with dorian that it makes him look stupid lol. The need to depend on someone vs the fear that the minute he let's his guard down everything will come crashing down. Both of them keep orym grounded, fearne reminding him how to let loose and dorian reminds him that he doesn't have to shoulder every responsibility by himself and that he can share his burdens.

Favourite Headcannon:

He has a tail and obviously he has PTSD. But the first night dorian was back was the first time he's slept well in a long time. The bed was perfect.

[immeasurable-depths]

So I’m slowly getting on board with Dorym because it seems like something Liam is really keen for, even though I didn’t really see it at the start of the campaign. And who doesn’t want to see Liam playing gay angst??

But even those few hours of the Crownkeepers has just reminded me how much I shipped Doriax…

So anyway NOW I can’t get the idea of a Doriax fic(let) of the immediate aftermath of the CK fight, that first night in the wilderness of Dorian and Dariax alone, Opal’s suggestion finally wearing off.

TLDR - Dariax is desperately trying to find a way to comfort his friend from this great loss, and also process his own feelings about losing Opal, and they end up hooking up.

They don’t talk about it the next day; nothing needs to be said, just two friends just trying to fumble through their grief and support each other. It’s not a big deal.

And then they go to a bar, and Dorian leaves Dariax behind.

So we have Dorian returning to Bells Hells, processing his rage, his grief, his loss - and also experiencing a small gay panic crisis and trying to reckon with the fact he just abandoned Dariax - for his own good, to keep him safe - immediately after they’d just done… that.

And he finds himself, finally, back with Orym. Who is going through his own grief and rage and processing it very differently.

…

I just think it would be interesting (heartbreaking), yknow?

[anonymouszephyrus]

Hi. I'm so fucking far behind (may make a critical role blog but I just need to ask someone this.) I'm in the middle of Episode 93 of Campaign Three.

[ Spoilers for anyone ]

Why did Dorian leave Dariax? People are assuming it was his way of trying to get Dariax into a "normal life"

After their talk and like how Dorian wanted revenge and stuff, Dariax to me felt like he said something that just tipped Dorian off? Not in a bad way, it was like "Oh.. we aren't on the same page" sort of way. Like, Dariax feels so similar to Cyrus in Dorian's eyes, maybe he didn't want what happened to his brother to happen to his friend.

Sure, the way he just kinda made Dariax perform in that tavern and leave him like an abandoned puppy left a sour taste in my mouth, but I would understand why he did it... to a degree. Dorian isn't a bad guy. He's just grieving, sad.

Was there anything Robbie or Matt mentioned in like- the talks about this?

[genderless-ghost]

watching the four sided dive up to ep 93 just made me so happy with all of the behind the scenes info about everything but it especially made me so happy with the discussions about orym since he is my fave from campaign 3.

just his arc being the soldier arc, he’s not getting worse he is just being ground down by the stakes and war. liam saying he is trying to keep his light but he is being ground down and aimee made a point of saying his wounds were being reopened and that’s exactly what it is. he was made to be a protector and he is in the position where he’s protecting so much more now and has more people he cares about to protect, specifically against the threat that set him on this journey

it’s also so nice seeing liam’s thoughts because while all of bells hells are broken and that is how they connected to each other, orym is a lot more reserved and shy about how he feels; he internalizes a lot of his issues because the others are a lot more visible and messy about their issues and he feels he has to keep his stuff tucked away to protect them and help with their issues. and i think that makes a lot of the others, unintentionally, think he has his shit together more and they don’t check because they think he’s good. like i love bells hells, but it has to have hurt a lot to have to consistently remind the others that his family was murdered for a test run by these people. and he is reasonably frustrated that ludinus and the others are so sure that things will be fine without the gods but look at their track record and their agendas with no guarantee that it will go well, with the damage going to the ordinary folks.

he has so much care and empathy for the others and i really want to see him releasing some of those pent up feelings he has, especially regarding the deal he made with nana morri to keep everyone safe at his own expense. like his whole thing is keeping the others safe at his own expense, taking hits so they don’t have to. i think maybe his husband did that for him and it ended up being a hit he couldn’t come back from due the poison thull used, and i think it’s highly possible orym could die and it would be from taking a hit he couldn’t come back from to save one of the others.

i also just am so excited for a full dorian orym conversation because he has been kind of mythologizing dorian and missing him so much and especially with liam saying that orym does have feelings for dorian he just doesn’t think it’s reciprocated or mutual, it’s gonna be so good, especially with liam saying that dorian has been a light that’s helping him keep going.

(unrelated but aabria saying that laerryn is wandering the astral sea looking for evandrin, how dare you keep breaking my heart, and matt’s best case scenario for dariax also broke my heart: he’s waiting for them to come back and find him, if they don’t he could be manipulated down some dark paths)

[cringefaecompilation]

the most dimension 20-ass moments in critical role so far

most of exu because aimee and robbie have huge d20 player energy, but these moments in particular:

fearne's shitty accent when she was faking being a ship's cook "NANCY! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" "mother." "did you touch the circlet?" "yeah! that's how you hold stuff!" "if you were any gemstone, what would you be?" "i'd be a diamond cause they're hard as i am- WAIT NO NO NO NO" orym eating his own weight in pies dariax making it sound like one of opal's bullies sharted her pants with thaumaturgy

the fearne, orym and dorian intro where dorian goes "fearne, is this ship going to stop?" and she replies "i dunno, i think we're gonna crash :D"

"I NEED MORE CHILDREN!"

everyone miming eating breakfast sandwiches when they can't find bertrand

orym nearly getting bh killed because he said cake sucks to eshteross' face

imogen asking pretty out on a 3 (4) person date to help her friends not get caught, the resulting date and rejection, and all the times it gets brought up again

"maude."

"i was trying to keep a low profile!" "YOU'RE DRESSED AS THE NIGHTMARE KING!"

"HE PROPOSED!"

"what's wrong, daniel?"

everyone piling into an elevator at the same time and liam miming getting his face smashed into the wall

the entire twilight museum bit, but mostly just orym getting blocked from helping the gang three times in a row

"want some candy? wa-wa-want some candy?"

fearne spending her turn keeping watch by breathing a smiley face into ashton's head and then going back to sleep because she forgot they were taking turns

xandis

end episode "oh! right. hondir." start episode back up "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FORGOT ME THIS IS SUCH STUPID BULLSHIT!"

the karen culling

the entire first half of ep 33. esp fcg driving the crawler and ashton screaming "YOU ARE TOO OLD TO DRIVE"

"WE DON'T LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND" followed by everyone but ashton falling off the airship

"uh. guys. bones. fast. bones. lots of bones coming this way."

after a solid month of agonizing over laudna being possibly permadead she's brought back with a slap

"oops. i did it again"

fake orgy leading into horse fearne

ashton's offscreen sidequest and him using a 6th(?) level spell slot just to say "okay"

fearne's horrifying nana revealing she's got a juice bar

the goat float

"ALRIGHT, GUYS! WE'RE EATING JERRY!"

"he's OUR problematic beast!"

orym's mom showing everyone his little baby boots

a drag queen calling ashton hot after he barges in and throws trash on the floor for them to make an outfit out of

everyone interrogating an evil sword that clearly only lies and getting more and more pissed off at it as it does

orym talking to his dead family whilst laudna and chet fly overhead shooting bees at each other

feeding shithead to fcg

fearne nearly dying after spooning a pirate, getting him together with a girl that's crushing on him, and them both being so happy that they throw bh a party

"THERE WAS. NO. LIMBO." and orym quietly takes away the limbo vine

the literal shitstorm given to the party by Mi

hotboxing a tree

"TAKE YOUR NINTH LEVEL SPELL AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS" was ic and i stand by it

wok sledding

imogen intimidating a reilora and then BOOKING IT behind a rock to gasp for air

[bardicindignation]

If they somehow run into Dariax I imagine it goes a little smth like this:

Orym, with his 31 pp, noticing before anyone else: Kiss 'im kill 'im or both, time to decide

Deni$e, knowing what he means but how???: what?!

Everyone else knowing fuck all: what????

Orym: *sprints over, tackle hug*

Dariax: hey!! What're you doing here?

Deni$e, seeing him now: DARIAX ZAVEON YOU PIECE OF SHIT

Dariax, panicking: shit! *tries to hide behind Orym*

Deni$e, advancing: DON'T YOU HIDE BEHIND ORYM YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID FACE ME ASSHOLE

Dariax, still calibrating, bless: what!?!?!

Orym: *isn't super sure he wants in the middle of this, but doesn't actually want Dariax to die so is staying put unless Dariax moves*

Rest of the group: what the fuck?!?!?

Deni$e: I CANT BELIVE YOU--Orym, sweetie, please get out of the way

Orym: *is still conflicted*

Deni$e, pissed but does like Orym: I'll only kill him a little bit

Orym: *dodges Dariax's grabby hands to move out of the way*

Dariax: *90% loaded* Deni$e?!?!

Deni$e: YEAH ITS FUCKIN ME...*continues rant, maybe punches Dariax a little*

Other Crown Keeper with Dariax: hey, Orym, what the fuck?

Orym: so this is Dariax's real ex

Rest of team Issylra, and Crown Keeper: !?!?!

[waltwhitmansbeard]

“ can i hold your hand? “

“ can i hold your hand? “

He'd never say so out loud, but Orym knows he's the dad friend of the Crown Keepers. Between Dariax, Opal, and Fearne, someone's always making an impulsive decision that has the group two heartbeats away from terror and certain death, and Dorian...well. Dorian's Dorian. So it's up to Orym to keep spirits up, to keep food in bellies and heads on straight. He nudges Fearne away from trying to eat the mysterious fruits and reminds Dariax that he doesn't exactly have the spare gold to gamble away with this roadside scammer. He makes sure everyone gets up in the morning and actually gets to sleep at night. And it's nice, having a role, having people to take care of again. It reminds him of better days, simpler days.

It doesn't escape his notice, then, the night he sits around the dying fire, keeping watch while his friends sleep, that one of his friends isn't sleeping. Dorian's eyes are closed, but Orym can tell by the too-quick rise and fall of his chest and the unnatural stillness that he's faking it. He lets him pretend for a little while, hoping sleep might find him naturally, but eventually he whispers, "Hey Dorian?"

The eyes creak open too slowly, a poor performance from one normally so skilled. "Orym?"

"You okay?"

Dorian sits up. His confused look falls away when he sees Orym watching him intently. He shrugs. "Can't really fall asleep."

Orym scooches over so they're sitting shoulder to elbow. "I could tell." A pause. "You wanna talk about it?"

Another shrug. "I was thinking about my brother. Sometimes I kinda feel like a dick for leaving the way I did."

Home. It's always home, the glinting in the corner of your vision, a song stuck in your head you can never whistle away. "Do you think he's mad at you?"

Dorian sighs, and for a moment, Orym's reminded of Will, who used to sigh like that whenever he had bad news to deliver. "Yeah, I do. Or maybe not. I'd be mad at me."

Orym thinks about how he left Zephrah, about who he left behind. "Yeah, I get that. But, you know, I'm glad you here. For what it's worth."

He watches the stars dance in Dorian's eyes as he smiles. "Yeah. I'm glad I'm here, too."

He nudges Dorian with his elbow. "But you really ought to fall asleep. Dariax is gonna start snoring soon and then we'll all be awake."

Dorian laughs and slides back down into his bedroll. Orym stands to return to his watch position, but Dorian whispers, "Orym?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think...can I hold your hand?"

A flash, cherry blossoms on a rolling hill, the first rays of morning and the Zeph'aeratam, side by side. "Yeah, Dorian. You can always hold my hand." He slips his hand into Dorian's, comically small by comparison, but Dorian's fingers are long, lithe, perfect for plucking out delicate tunes, and when Orym laces his own between them, the night doesn't seem to stretch out quite so long before him. He watches Dorian fall asleep, slipping away like a bloom caught on the wind, and Orym can't help but imagine how the pink morning skies of Zephrah might look on the rich blue hues of his skin.

[fortunesfaevor]

Like I get circumstantially why it had to happen, but I don't understand why Dorian would leave Dariax behind. It kills me.

[divinesouldariax]

For the fic asks! 5, 6, 13 (or in phrasing I like, are you a pantser or a planner?)

(Also i’m sorry you’re having such a bad pain day 😞)

(<3 thank u I appreciate it, I'm tryin to push through)

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

Hmmmm...well, never say never, but I've had a document for over a year with just the line "Grief, like love, could be found in the little things." and it was going to be about Percy seeing little reminders of his siblings in the members of Vox Machina and just processing his grief through those reminders. But I never developed any specific ideas beyond that, I just really loved that first sentence so I saved it.

6. Are there any fics from others you reread all the time?

Ah man, I gotta admit, I reread my own fics/prefer writing to reading and don't often reread other ppl's fics. I'm awful at using bookmarks on AO3, I have so few.

13. How much planning do you do before writing?

If it's a multichapter fic with an actual plot, I do a lot of planning. Usually just a basic outline with informal/stream of consciousness descriptions of what happens in each chapter. They can get really long. My notes document for The Path We Walk (which includes the outline as well as the notes I took while rolling fights) is 7,000 words. A lil example of what that stream of consciousness looks like, from chapter 10's notes

Chapter 10: Orym’s POV. Gets to Dorian and cut him free, Dariax sprouts wings and flies Dorian away, and Orym sneaks off, still invisible, to meet up with them a ways off. Unfortunately, Dorian getting freed is noticed. Dariax leaps in to protect them, grabs Dorian and gets the fuck out, Orym attacks and becomes visible. Dariax (once again) has to leave a friend behind, and he fucking HATES it. But he does it anyway, because Orym made him promise that Dorian would be the priority, and Orym promised not to get into a fight he couldn’t win and to run away instead. Of course, it’s not as easy as that, but then, weirdly, Generic Hobgoblin #3 starts absolutely fucking up the other hobgoblins with like, weird smites and magic and shit and Orym is just :eyezoom: WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE. Saves that hobgoblin’s hide by throwing a dagger before they could get hit bad by Crossbow Guy. Still, once the other hobgoblins are dead, Orym is on the ground, very very injured but still ready to stab a bitch.

Thank you so much for the ask! :D <3

Send me these to distract me from my pain spike?

[piratespencil]

!! 👻🤖🎁?

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

Idk if it's my wildest headcanon but here's one I've been thinking about (and sort of picking away at writing a fic about) for a while now: When Luc is a teenager, he decides that he wants to go to the Soltryce Academy, because he's grown up learning magic from Caleb and Essek and Veth, and magic is cool. And even though Caleb teaches there and recognizes that Luc isn't going to go through the same things he went through, it still makes both Caleb and Veth panic and Luc almost has to run away from home to sneak into the school before Yeza manages to calm Caleb and Veth down and convince them to let him go... Luc is talented but also an Absolute Menace at school lmao.

🤖 Are non-fandom friends aware that you write fanfic?

Lol yes... I have no shame when it comes to telling people that I write fanfic haha.

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

Here's a little sneak preview of the next chapter of my Bell's Hells modern au. ;)

“And I had to get another twelve stitches here,” Laudna says cheerfully, flipping her long hair forwards and leaning over to give Opal a clear look at the long, crooked scar that winds from the back of her skull down her neck.

“Whoa, that’s gnarly!” Opal says, equally cheerfully. Dariax leans over her shoulder to get a better view and whistles appreciatively.

“Scootch over,” Ashton says, and Laudna obliges, her hair still flipped over her face like she’s the girl from The Ring. Ashton hands her the drink he fetched for her, and she somehow manages to take a sip behind her curtain of hair.

“Fuck, I leave for one minute to grab drinks and I come back to you spilling your life horror story to these guys?” Ashton asks.

Laudna shakes her hair out of her eyes enough to grin at him and says, ��Well, they asked!”

(Ask me more fanfic questions?)

[ohsweetflips]

me when dorian says to fy'ra that he will do whatever it takes to keep his friends safe: :D

me when i remember that dorian's alignment literally just changed because he promised the spider queen that he would do whatever it takes, no matter the cost, if it meant that his friends were safe: >:D

[stardustedknuckles]

What if druidcrafted things die when their creators do. What if Dorian has a flower from both of his friends and one night, the day after he tells Orym not to die, the blue one of the pair wilts in the middle of dinner. It's Dariax who notices, but Opal who pulls it so softly from his hair - just as the cream, pink-striped bell beside it closes and withers.

"I'm sure it's fine," says Dariax after the moment of silence, and his voice doesn't shake. Not really. "They can probably only have so many of those going at once, you know. I'll bet they're having a flower competition."

There's a skittering getting louder in the back of Opal's mind, but she bites her lip and offers Dorian a tense smile as he fumbles for the sending stone, Dariax reaching to hold his hands steady lest it fall.

Dorian offers a nod of thanks and holds the stone tightly, focusing on the smell of trees and cherry blossoms. It's alright. It has to be. "Hey Orym? You there?"

There's room for more and a big, desperate part of him wants to fill every word, but this message only has one purpose - any response will do. Anything at all.

Silence, crushing the air around them and powdering Dorian's ribcage, and then -

"What the fuck," Opal says flatly, "is up with the sky."

Dorian turns his eyes to the window behind him and feels his heart stop at the sight of Ruidus, flaring like a sore - angry, wounded, and red as blood. The opposite of all things green and growing - malevolent, hungry, vengeful. Dorian doesn't know much about Ruidus or forgotten gods, but he knows a storm like he knows his own name.

"I have to go," he says, eyes fixed to the sky. "I have to - look after Cyrus for me. I'll be back." And heart in his throat, a storm of his own brewing within, Dorian makes for the door.

[fia-bonkginya]

Orym, Dorian, and the conversations in between (a critical role c3e2 missing scene)

As they walked across the stone bridge towards the warehouse, following Imogen's lead, Dorian hung back, nodding at Orym to join him. Fearne gave him a look, eyebrows raised, but whatever was in his face must have been good enough for her, because she nodded at him once before trotting forward to chat with Laudna.

"Hey," Dorian said, voice soft, once it was only the two of them, a few steps behind the rest of the group.

"Hey," Orym responded, looking him over with a critical eye. "You alright?"

Dorian huffed a laugh. "Believe it or not, that's what I wanted to ask you."

Orym raised an eyebrow. "You're the one who got knocked out cold in that fight. I'm glad our new shiny friend is so giving with his magic, since with Dariax away, you're our best healer."

"Right, yes," Dorian admitted, rubbing the back of his head. It still ached, a little bit, his vision going just a little fuzzy around the edges if he turned his head too quickly. "You got a little messed up too, though." Orym was always good at hiding his pain, but Dorian knew him well, and could tell that he wasn't quite walking right, one leg never straightening out all the way, and he was a little more hunched in on himself than usual.

But Orym just smiled, the quiet kind that he didn't show to many. "I'm fine, Dorian."

Dorian exhaled, his breath coming out slow and steady even while his heart raced with the after effects of adrenaline. That would be with him the rest of the day, he knew. "You scared me," he admitted, after a moment of silence, broken only by their companions' quiet chatter in front of them.

"Sorry," Orym said immediately, and Dorian almost laughed.

"You're not," he said, "but I appreciate the sentiment."

Orym winced, just a little. "We've been in fights together, you know I can handle myself, don't you?"

"I do," Dorian said readily, and it was the truth. "But the way Esteross just threw you on the ground like that? That scared me. How easily he was able to do that." He exhaled again, and it wasn't quite as steady. "And I could tell what you were doing, stabbing him in the foot like that. You were moments away from passing out, and you were still trying to keep him focused on you, right?"

Orym glanced away from him, not responding, and Dorian knew he was right.

“You can’t keep doing that,” Dorian said, trying to keep his voice soft. “Throwing yourself into danger like that. Sometimes it’s okay to let someone else take the hit.”

Orym scoffed. “You took a hit, and you didn’t get back up. I took several, and I had enough in me to keep fighting. This is what I do, Dorian.”

“It won’t be for long if you keep this up,” Dorian snapped, his words coming out louder and harsher than he meant them to. In front of them, Fearne tilted her head, still facing Laudna but with one of her ears flicking back, and Dorian couldn’t find it in himself to be upset that she was eavesdropping.

Beside him, Orym’s face was perfectly still, his eyes trained steadily on the road in front of them.

Dorian forced himself to stop breathing, feeling the comfort of the silence in his own body. “I’m sorry,” he finally said, releasing the breath after a few minutes, feeling calmer, now. 

Orym sighed, his shoulders lowering, his head ducking down in acknowledgement. “I get it,” he said, “and I’m sorry, too. Really this time.” He glanced up, a smile starting to tug at the corners of his mouth. “Believe me this time?”

“Yeah,” Dorian said, matching the smile, “this time.”

With a huff of almost laughter, Orym turned to face forward again. “If I promise to be more careful, will you promise the same?”

Dorian blinked. “What?”

“You’re forgetting how this started. You got knocked out in that fight. I know we’re traveling with this crew now, but when I go down, you’re the first person I look to for help.” He glanced up again, eyes sincere, and Dorian felt something clench in his chest. “If you go down, there’s nothing I can do. Let me do my job, and make sure you’re still able to do yours.”

Slowly, Dorian nodded. He was still struck, sometimes, by Orym’s trust in him. “I hope there’s not a next time, but if there is, I’ll be ready to pick you up.”

[demigoddessqueens]

Hi, VM + MN first hug anon back again because you made me greedy for more - the same thing but with CC + BH?

Oh bdjsosojdje 🤣😆 I’m glad you liked the hug ones Anon!!

Getting a hug from their crush…,

Imogen - freezes up for a bit but relaxes along with a shy smile

Laudna - you hug her?? You like her…like that?? Oh well now she’s trying to hide behind her hair with her blush

Chetney - little bit antsy but slowly relaxes into the hug

Fearne - hugs back tightly as well along with one of her usual quips, “if we were stuck like as trees I wouldn’t mind”

FCG - oh he’s all down for hugs and thinks it’s the cutest thing ever

Fy’ra Rai - equally hugging back just as much because she doesn’t want to let good things slip away

Orym - honestly…he needs it. Melts completely into the hug

Opal - absolutely!! Loves the attention

Dorian - little bit shy about it but is a fan of those over the shoulder tight hugs

Dariax - turns it into a bear hug 🤗

Ashton 💚 - tries to act cool about it but is also last to let go after a long time