#I love Mark/Vicky so much... they're so weird about each other and the fact that his flesh burns when they touch is my everything

[fountainpenguin]

Hc: tootie’s actual name is trootie, but she couldn’t pronounce it years ago and it stuck with her

That's similar to my headcanon. I gave her the spelling Trudy, although "Tootie" was used as a nickname (like Tootsie Roll).

I did a search to see if it comes up in my files, and here's a scene I wrote in 2020 that makes me laugh (ft. aged-up Tootie now using her birth name):

Molly looked curiously at Trudy, tapping a finger against her lip. “Didn’t she move to some small country in Europe with her boyfriend or something?” “Husband, actually. She’s really the queen of this micronation they rule together.” Trudy’s eyes turned misty behind her glasses. “I wonder how she’s doing right now.” Since Tootie asked a valid question, we may as well pause our brunch date for a moment and take a brief trip one million million miles away from planet Earth. At that precise moment, Queen Victoria could be found sprawled across her royal mattress (which was, of course, stuffed with wads of cash for extra padding) in her second-favorite set of skull and crossbone pajamas, snoring half-contently. Each of her arms hugged a fat sack of coins with a ridiculously elaborate Yugopotamian money symbol printed on its front in blue. The covers tangled around her legs in a cyclone, which was the only reason she hadn’t completely rolled off the bed to the floor. Rolled off the side, it’s possibly worth mentioning, that her husband normally tried to claim for himself whenever he spied enough room to place a tentacle. As for her husband? King Marqavalier had just made the mistake of attempting to hold his wife’s pale human hand in her sleep. The death-defying trial proved successful on occasion, but that night turned out not to be tonight. He was now rinsing himself down furiously in the royal bedroom’s private muckpool wing, mumbling a variety of incoherent curses he’d picked up during his time on Earth, even though he wasn’t certain what they meant and happened to be using every single one in all the wrong ways. Back in their bedroom, Vicky murmured in her dreams and rolled over to cuddle with a third bag of taxes she had personally collected from the royal manure connoisseur earlier that day.

Along the Cherry Lane

Tootie growing up to live a relaxed life because her sister is in a loving relationship with an alien who adores her and she gets to rule over a bunch of people who are super into her way of threatening them with axes, my beloved...

Actually, do you think Mark gets huffy when Vicky threatens their subjects with weapons? We know driving a spear into the tentacle is a courtship signal for Yugopotamians and I feel like he probably had to have some talks with her about why she can't just attack people.

Vicky at a royal banquet: /throws an axe at the butler Mark: I'm being cheated on

Of course, the beauty of their relationship being that Mark spent 50+ years on Earth learning human culture, and would probably NOT interpret this as cheating and would instead interpret it as super hot the way he did when his ex almost sliced him to bits and threw him in the dungeon, but-

[jensensitive]

Hey, I don't know if you write meta but I have an ask about UKCON 2018 J2M panel. Once Misha mentions the shirt, Jensen starts acting weird and moves around the stage. He even starts rumbling and says something like "I want to keep my friend cuffed".. What are your thoughts? The story starts at around the 57.00 min mark of the video

it's such an awkward story, isn't it, they're so awkward about it. I didn't hear "I want to keep my friend cuffed" though, what would that even mean lol.

My thoughts on it is mostly just that it is genuinely pretty innocent. That the explanation is a real one, and the reason for it was ostensibly a practical one to both of them. But at the same time, Jensen does get so giggly and blushy in a way that shows that, honestly he really loves that they were found out for it, and he loves what it made people think, either because it's just amusing to him or because he likes the idea of people knowing/thinking he and Misha are sleeping together. And I do also think he just enjoys seeing Misha in his clothes. I mean that's pretty much fact isn't it? He wanted Misha to wear that shirt he brought to jib that still had the tags on it. He likes dressing Misha, and he likes Misha wearing his clothes. I think it is in part a kind of sweet expression of possessiveness on his part. But that is only part of it, I do think that just having a bunch of clothes he can't wear and needing to pass them off to someone else is also genuine.

And on Misha's part, I don't think it's done entirely without any sentimentality either. Wearing someone else's clothes usually carries with it thoughts of them, whether that's annoyance at having to wear your sister's old clothes (been there) or joy and warmth in getting to wear someone you loves jacket (been there) or giddiness at getting to wear someone you like's shirt. I think when Misha's wears Darius's clothes, he thinks of Darius. When he wears Vicki's clothes he thinks of Vicki, and when he wears Jensen's clothes, he thinks of Jensen. Just like when you get a gift from someone, you often think of them when you use it, like that but more. And if he didn't want to wear Jensen's clothes, then he wouldn't, he certainly doesn't have to. I guess it could be "ugh I don't want to wear Jensen's clothes, but I like the style and don't like shopping, so I might as well wear them," but idts. I think he wanted to wear them, probably in part, lbr, because Jensen wanted him to wear them. Or maybe he's just entirely devoid of that associating clothes with their people thing, maybe he is idk.

But either way it doesn't necessarily mean they're a couple or they're sleeping together or even that they have romantic feelings for each other, I think it's mostly just a good indication that they're very close good friends who enjoy each other's physical presence, because wearing the other's clothes is like an extension of that.