#Miss Naomi x Sportacus

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for Naomi x Sportacus and Lorelei x Doc Ock:

"What would their song to each other be?" and "How did they know they were right for each other?"

So going with Lo/Doc Ock first for a change:

Their song is definitely something a bit older, considering Otto's... well, a bit older. Otto prefers Sinatra, while Lo likes the sort of stuff her dad used to play on the radio when she was a kid. Her pick would be "Time After Time" as covered by Tara Morice.

As for how they knew? It was... not really a particular moment, so much as a gradual feeling over time. After the initial confession from Otto, they dated for a while, and slowly realized that... yeah, they wanted to keep this, the laughter and the strange science conversations and having no clue what the other is talking about and the slow-dancing at 2 AM to Sinatra. This was something special.

(Although Lo realized when she woke up next to him one night and found herself feeling safer than she had in years. That was also special.)

Alright, now the other two.

Naomi's song for Sport is "Overjoyed" by Matchbox 20. Sportacus can't really pick a song, because he never really cared about love songs before falling for them. Now all love songs just make him think of Naomi.

... Weirdly enough, they figured it out because of mud. One of Robbie's plans had resulted in a lot of sports equipment ending up in the mud after a long rain. Naomi and Sport were busy grabbing everything and bringing it out - none of the kids wanted to, because it was too messy - and he accidentally splashed her by stepping too hard on a puddle. She gave him a long, quiet glower... and then splashed him back.

It devolved into a full-blown mud fight, both of them laughing their heads off, before Naomi slipped and fell in the mud. Sport tried to catch her, but she ended up pulling him down right next to her. They both just devolved into a fit of laughter, and both had the same thought -

I could do this every day.

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🤝🫶 actually curious for both ships :D

🤝: How did they meet in the first place? What was there first impression of each other?

Lo/Doc Ock:

They met in battle, lmao. Lo-as-Luminous was called for backup by Spidey, and proceeded to have the absolute shit scared out of her. She was not prepared for Doc Ock to be that large or the actuators to be that imposing.

Their first proper conversation would actually happen months later, but what a hell of a first impression. You can read it here!

Miss Naomi/Sportacus:

Naomi runs the library on Lullaby Lane, which has a... lackadaisical relationship with space and other places. She walked to Lazytown the first time basically because that was the way the road went that day, and once she arrived the route sort of "locked in".

Interestingly, between her wide-brimmed hat and ever-present parasol, the neighborhood kids actually mistook her for a witch at first. ("What kind of witch wears all blue?") Sportacus had to be called in when Robbie roped Naomi into his latest scheme, also thinking she was a witch ("No, seriously, where are you getting this from?!") and she wasn't able to diffuse the situation on her own.

🫶: Who ended up falling first? Which of them actually realized that they’d fallen in love first?

Doc Ock x Luminous:

Lo crushed first, but Doc Ock fell in love love first. In this verse, rather than dying in the accident that caused him to become Doc Ock, his wife Rosie was "the one who got away" - someone he regrets never really trying for in college, so she's alive but somewhere else and not his wife. (We don't demonize canon women for ships in this house.)

Doc Ock fell for her because she was passionate and kind, even in the thick of the AI controlling his brain. It only got more pronounced when he was finally freed from it - but Lo never noticed, because she was busy telling herself his flirtations were making fun of her.

Lo was aware of her crush the entire time, though. It was exhausting.

Miss Naomi/Sportacus:

Sportacus was infatuated first, but they fell in love at about the same rate. What's interesting is that Sportacus met Naomi after the majority of her personal growth - had he met her before, the romance would have been a lot more mismatched, because she was not ready to let herself love anyone.

Sportacus knew how he felt way before Naomi, but was shockingly patient about it given his go-go-go attitude. It was always Naomi making the next move, opening up, and expressing things first - and sometimes she would realize what she was saying as she was saying it. It was sweet, but also very funny.

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🦅💕😑 for both ships again!

🦅: How good are their friends at being wingmen? Do they even help at all or just sit back watching the pining with a bag of popcorn?

Doc Ock x Luminous:

They have exactly one person in common and it's Spidey. He is so on board because, honestly, he needs something happy in his life and they're both really good allies post-movie (Ock lives in this verse) and like... he's trying. He is. But calling attention to the very obvious energy between them kind of makes things worse for a long while.

Miss Naomi x Sportacus:

So the kids in Lazytown do not notice what's going on until they do, but one very funny wingman is Robbie. It only lasts an episode - his logic was that "Sportaflop" wouldn't be able to save the day if he was distracted in love, promptly disproved by both when his alarm went off and both rushed to help - but he was actually pretty effective at orchestrating time for them to be alone, which they mostly spent talking and working up the nerve to ask each other out.

On Naomi's side, her library (yes it's alive) had a weird tendency of locking Sportacus in whenever he visited, but only when Naomi was also inside. It's not subtle about it.

💕: Who confessed first and how? Did it go as planned or did shenanigans ensue?

Doc Ock x Luminous:

Shockingly, Ock did. It was post-movie, when he'd finally gotten a new inhibitor chip and was able to think clearly. Learning he'd been under the control of an AI really messed with Lo, and basically threw every interaction, especially the flirting, into question.

She'd essentially tried to avoid him for weeks after that, feeling confused and guilty, until he finally got her to talk with him while cleaning up the remains of the machine. That was when she explained how confused and conflicted she felt, because if he was controlled by an AI, how much of that was real? And his response was that was the only thing that was real, the one thing the actuators didn't push him to do. And he didn't want to lose any chance at still knowing her when he was finally free to do so as himself.

They had their first proper kiss that night.

Miss Naomi x Sportacus:

Another surprise, but it was Naomi! Sportacus knew he was in love with her way early into their friendship, (elves are just kind of like that), but he also just enjoyed the process of getting to know her and finding more things to love.

Naomi, meanwhile, was pretty fresh out of a journey of self-actualization and finding herself in the wake of delayed but immeasurable grief, so her experience with love was a bit more rocky. It wasn't that she didn't want to fall in love, it's that she didn't know that's what was going on. Her life had essentially been on pause for the last decade, so piecing herself back together was an ongoing process.

Anyway, she figured it out in the middle of the night while talking to the library and her companion puppet, Ragamonster, who's also alive. She spent a week trying to find the right words to say to him before settling on her usual strategy - being indirect while thinking she was being direct.

Sportacus got a lot of oranges for a couple weeks before realizing she was trying to flirt with him.

😑: How easily do they get jealous and how do they handle it?

Doc Ock x Luminous:

So the funny thing is both get jealous, and handle it very differently; Doc gets territorial while Luminous gets self-conscious. Otto tends to become much more aggressively flirty and hands-on when he's making a point - not to the point of being threatening, but enough that the back off is heard loud and clear.

Lo, meanwhile, tries to improve herself - styling her hair, dressing more provocatively - and Otto has to scoop her up and dote on her until she's reassured that she's the only one for him.

Neither ever takes it out on the other, though. That's not the kind of relationship they have.

Miss Naomi x Sportacus

This is such a complete non-issue it's not even funny. Naomi trusts Sportacus too much to ever get jealous and, like, the absolute biggest risk is Robbie getting roped into a sickeningly sweet throuple. There is zero concern about potential rivals for their affection on either side.