#also like tifa in final fantasy VII and Adrian Chase have a lot of shit in common and I can’t stop the comparisons

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Guys, I was playing Final Fantasy VII Remake earlier, saw this image, and it gave me a Chris/Adrian Vigilmaker fic idea.

For those who don’t know- in FFVII the main character Cloud runs into a girl who gives him a flower that symbolizes ‘the reunion of lovers’. He proceeds to run around, and he fights with it attached to his person until he later runs into his childhood friend Tifa for the first time in years.

When she asks what it is he gives it to her knowing good and well what it means. When Tifa asks, “for me?” Cloud blushes and shrugs it off like it’s no big deal, and Tifa treasures the flower after, taking care of it and fawning over it.

Now I need THIS but Chris and Adrian.

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It’d take place in an AU where Chris knew Vigilante was Adrian Chase before prison.

Like, I’m not a writer, but here’s a snippet/outline of what I picture.

It’d been years since he was locked away in prison, years since he last saw Adrian, but he had fond memories of the time they spent together before. He misses him. Fighting beside him as Vigilante was amazing, sex with him was even better, but he’d never admit that Adrian’s smile was what he liked the most. It’d take 40 years but he swore the first thing he’d do when he got out was make the younger man smile again.

After only serving 4 years and getting shot in the neck, he gets to go home earlier than he ever expected. He doesn’t waste the chance. He knows what he’s going to do first.

Adrian is super into flowers, and he once mentioned his favorite flower was the yellow lily. It was a rare color for a lily which apparently made it special. The flower when given to someone meant ‘the reunion of lovers’ and Adrian said he’d always dreamt of someone giving him one someday. Chris made fun of him in the moment, but the more time he spent away from the brunette the more he thought about the flower’s story. He always thought about how much he wanted to give Adrian one when he finally got the chance to return to him.

When he gets out of the hospital after almost dying that’s exactly what he does. His plan is to surprise him. He drives hours out of the way for the rare colored flower and buys the one single yellow lily the florist has in stock.

That night he drives to Adrian’s apartment, flower clenched tightly in his big hand, almost crushing it. When Adrian opens the door, the shorter man almost passes out from forgetting how to breathe. His green eyes go wide and lips get caught on a word he can’t seem to form.

When he finally does remember to breathe he can’t speak, can’t even put thoughts together, so he just smiles that giant, ear-to-ear, dimpled smile that Chris loves.

It’s then that Chris forgets to breathe himself, in awe that Adrian is standing right in front of him looking as beautiful as the day Chris last saw him. He boldly hands him the flower, never looking away from his face.

Adrian still can’t speak, but when he takes the flower and realizes just what it is, he feels his smile damn near rip his face in half so he has to close his lips around it to ease the tight feeling.

“A yellow lily?” His voice is a whisper.

“Yeah,” Chris says, “I remembered.”

Adrian caresses the flower petals with timid, soft fingers for a few seconds and the entire time Chris can’t do anything but stare at the man in front of him like he’ll disappear if he looks away. When Adrian meets his eye again, he gazes at him with more love and admiration than Chris feels like he’s ever deserved.

Annnnnnd you get the point!

… like GUYS ITS SO ROMANTIC! I can’t write for shit, but I want it so bad😭😭😭😭 also flower boy Adrian is present here and I won’t rest until he exists.