#INTENDED xiefan

[thorns-without-a-rose]

and i dont blame you if you want to

bury me in your memory

im not the girl i ought to be

[zdux]

Thank you for letting me know ^^ I’d like to request Xiefan (romantic) hcs and Eli+Aesop (platonic) hcs ☺️☺️

Of course! Sorry it took me a while to get around to this, my classes started up again recently.

XieFan (Romantic)

God I think about them everyday

I care them so much

I'm gonna talk about them both before and after the flood

Before the flood:

They were inseparable. No matter what happened or what they were ordered to do, they would find a way to do it together.

They were together for a longgg time. They stopped calling it "dating" after about the first year, because at that point they knew it was forever.

Unfortunately they did work at the same place, so it needed to be a little professional

But that wouldn't stop them from sneaking kisses during patrols, or running off during their breaks to go cuddle under a tree

That was actually their favorite thing to do, sit under that tree together. They had two different ways of sitting there.

Sometimes Xie would sit with is back again the tree, his legs criss-cross-apple-sauce. Fan would lay his head into Xie's lap, and Xie would play with his hair or hold his hands.

The other days, Fan would sit with his back against the tree, with his legs almost the same way. Xie would then crawl into his lap and rest his head on Fan's shoulder/chest. Fan would wrap an arm around him, gently doing the little thumb rub on either Xie's waist or upper thigh. Every once and a while he would plant a kiss on his forehead, or tell him to look up and kiss his lips. Xie would keep his hands and legs tucked into himself and just lean on Fan as much as he could.

After the flood:

It was all pain for a while, with only one of them being able to be in the real world at a time.

The only time they ever got close to seeing each other was when they would switch places. As they sank and rose through that muddy goo, they would reach out and try to grab each other's hands, but they were always just an inch too far apart.

Eventually, they had no other option but to look for help.

And so they met Yidhra.

When Xie first saw her servant wandering the manner, he thought she was a survivor who got lost on the hunter side.

But they began talking, and eventually Fan was brought out to show Yihdra what exactly they meant.

When she saw their transformation, she knew immediately that she could help, and her follower told them this.

Though there was a price.

As Yidhra herself was not allowed in Duo matches, they would have to do them for her and bring her as many different things that they could from the matches, which was quite the fair price for what she was doing for them.

She was able to alter their curse and allow them to both be in the real world. So long as the moon was visible at night, the curse would be weakened.

Once she did this for them, Fan eagerly sprinted back to his room, opening the window and beaming when he could clearly see the moon.

He sat on his bed, placing the umbrella in front of him, closed his eyes, and whispered Xie's name.

He sat there, eyes still closed. He heard nothing, he had no idea if it had worked, when suddenly there was a cold hand on his cheek.

He opened his eyes in a flash to see Xie sitting in front of him, smiling so big with tears pouring down his face.

He also began to cry, grabbing Xie and pulling him into a hug.

They wrapped their arms around each other, crawling onto one and other, getting as close as they could in order to make up for years of lost touch. They both sat there on their bed, crying and smiling and kissing the tears off each other's faces.

After that, things were a lot easier on the two of them.

They still were apart a lot, as the curse was wrong during the day, and on night's where one couldn't see the moon they couldn't be together, but every night they could they cherished.

Aesop & Eli (platonic)

These two made for quite interesting friends, that no one really expected.

Aesop was quiet, and very private. Eli was shy, but sociable once he felt comfortable with someone.

Somehow, the two kept being put together in a million different situations, which made Eli comfortable enough to talk to him.

At first it was just small talk, which Aesop despised, and after a while he told Eli to either talk about something worth talking about or shut up.

Eli wasn't expecting this, and out of surprise ended up quieting down

Aesop then realized that what he said may have come off harsher than intended, so he quietly asked what the snake on Eli's blind fold meant.

Eli was happy to talk, and did most of it.

Cue that one meme that's like: Talks a lot Listens

with the characters doodled underneath

As they hung out more and more, Aesop had started to explain embalming to Eli, and while it did make Eli a bit nervous, he recognized and admitted that it was a stable job. Sadly, people passed away every day, and embalming was an essential part of the post-mortem process

He actually ended up apprenticing under Aesop, and learning how to become an embalmer.

It was through this that Aesop started to question some of the things about death that Carl had taught him.

While Eli would be working, studying, or observing Aesop, he would make little hopeful comments about how he hoped their soul rested well, or that they lived a full life, or that they were in the after life they believed in.

These comments made Aesop start to question his view on death, and for that he appreciated Eli, he always appreciated those who's words could make the mind real, even if it wasn't intentional.

Personally, I like to believe that they were both able to leave the manor and start a new embalmer's office in a new city together, where Eli would have his soon-to-be wife move to, and finally live the life he wanted, with his best friend and the love of his life by his side.

As for Aesop, he also wanted this. Though he was used to it, he did not enjoy being alone. Corpses could only provide so much company before it wore a person down, and he enjoyed the idea of working alongside Eli for the foreseeable future.

I really liked writing these, and I thought it was a strange coincidence that Eli and Aesop were the first two survivors I ever really played in IDV & they were who you asked for. I hope you like it!!