#also i did project onto ash a tad wee bit with a few things but

[laurancebian]

OKAY I WANNA ELABORATE so

ash (my oc) went to the guard academy with laurance (they also met there) and he was like the only person they really socialized with. so naturally they become besties and eventually ash is like "u like women. im a woman (but not really bc they come out as non-binary later). lets date" and laurance is like "weird but ok" then ash is like "oh im an idiot i dont like u i just think ur cool also im a lesbian haha thats so funny" and they're besties until they graduate the academy and go their separate ways

eventually they reunite in phoenix drop in s1 bc ash met aphmau on some journey during early s1 and was like ":0 is that a fucking letter oh my god where does it go let me take it" bc they're a postman after not being able to find a job as a guard in o'khasis (that's a story for another post though) and they stay in phoenix drop n reunite with laurance after he returns from the nether and things continue as normal

until towards the end of s2 when laurance is having all his issues n ash is like trying to console him and he gets irritable and is like "leave me alone ive got this you dont need to baby me" and ash is like "?!??! im trying to help you let me know how i can help you then ??" and it leads to this whole fight which ends in ash getting their ass kicked

THEN EVENTUALLY in around somewhere shortly before when s3 would begin ash is in the nether and runs into laurance. immediate fight the two try to straight up murder each other (im serious ash gets stabbed a few times and laurance almost gets baked alive in a lava lake before zenix shows up to scare ash off)

so they spend sometime apart until eventually ash comes back into the nether bc they've been killing non-sentient shadow knights after they figured out how and they're abt to get #destroyed on shad's orders who's like "i have got to do something abt u"

BUT ash manages to like barely escape (bc they got lucinda to get them a SHIT TON of strength potions) gets discovered by laurance whos like "there is someone dying on the floor. maybe i should do something" and sorta helps ash BUT when ash like regains consciousness laurance is like "ur gonna get ur ass outta here and never come back fucking loser"

but ash 1. doesnt have the strength to make it back themself bc of a curse where they're sensitive to like nether magick n stuff like that and being in the nether makes them weak when they spend too much time there and 2. refuses to leave without laurance

so ash apologizes to laurance for not respecting his boundaries and also trying to kill him and laurance is like "whatever" (and ends up accepting and apologizing in turn for almost killing them twice later)

so now ash is slowly dying in the nether and manages to convince laurance to leave with them then they leave and they're besties again

also i revamped my old aphmau oc i made like 6 years ago and. things r different now. i sabotaged their relationship with laurance for funsies bc. in their original version they were dating laurance and i was like "i can work with that"