#and also I'm pushing away as soon he tries so cuddle but wh

[blutprinz]

why I'm upset when he falls asleep? Also why I'm even more upset when he's not paying attention or falls asleep while we're watching a show together?? Am I dumb?????

[apompkwrites]

in your arms || aether, bennett, chongyun

masterlist characters: aether, bennett, chongyun genre: fluff summary: in which their s/o is in desperately need of cuddles. notes: ah i miss cuddles :(( if you can't tell from how i write cuddling, i'm big on physical affection like hugs and stuff. can't do that now tho :( also, hun is a petname i use like... all the time. idk man, i just really like it :D

aether -

i feel like this boy gives some of the best cuddles.

i like to think he's the "older" twin out of the two.

on the coldest nights of their adventures, him and lumine would cuddle up next to each other next to a fire to keep warm (platonically of course).

if you're in teyvat after he's lost his sister, he'd put everything into those cuddles.

he misses her so much and he hates the idea that one day, you'll be gone too.

although he held high statuses in both mondstadt and liyue, aether still preferred to camp outside the city limits.

something about the calm and quiet outdoors brought peace to the otherworldy traveler.

and you never really minded it.

as long as you were able to be next to him, you were content with any living condition.

luckily, it never really affected your nightly cuddles with the blond :)

one day you both split up to handle separate commissions, right?

one brought him all the way to mondstadt while yours required you to head to liyue.

this commission, however, was one you didn't particularly enjoy.

it wasn't because you couldn't handle, because of course you could.

in fact, it was purely because of the neverending stress building on top of you.

so once your commission was complete, you definitely were in need of some good ol' aether cuddles.

you waited for him by your usual spot, the aching feeling in your chest growing more unbearable as time went on.

until eventually--

"(name)! sorry, did you wait long?"

"we brought you some food to make up for it!"

the familiar voices of of your beloved traveler and his emergency food companion called out to you from down the path.

aether was running over to you with paimon in tow.

and you, desperately wanting to wrap your arms around him, ran over to him and met him halfway down the path.

before he could talk again, you had already jumped into him and were squeezing him as you wrapped your arms around his shoulders.

"wh-whoa! (name)?"

instinctively, he'd wrap his arms around you.

he wouldn't need to ask about how your commission was, he could already tell by how tight your grip was around him.

"c'mere."

he'd pat his hands on your legs, signalling for you to jump up into his arms.

and, of course, you do.

he still needs to set up your tent and all, but he doesn't want to let you go either...

next best plan? just build the tent with you in his arms.

it'd take him longer than it normally would since he was busy holding you, but he'd get it done.

paimon definitely wants to tease the two of you, but she'll save that for tomorrow when you're feeling better :)

once paimon disappears to wherever she goes, it's just you and aether in your tent beneath the moonlight.

you're both accustomed to the hard floor beneath your tent, but that never mattered.

all that mattered was that the two of you were together.

if you're still awake, he'll whisper some stories of how his day was and what happened during his commission.

i like to think his go-to position for cuddling would be the honeymoon hug?

i mean, like i said before, cuddling is something that reassures him that you won't be leaving anytime soon.

so something like that type of cuddling where your both holding each other is his absolute favorite.

but if you're in need of comfort, he'd be laying on his back with you on top of him, his arms wrapped around your waist and hugging you close to him.

he likes to talk to you, surprisingly.

i mean, we've seen how quiet this boy is.

but with you, he'll talk to you even after you've fallen asleep.

"i know today's been kind of rough on you, hun... i hope just being here with me, holding you close to me, is enough to help comfort you."

bennett -

bennett... has absolutely no experience in cuddling whatsoever.

you'd have to be the one to help him out.

he's always afraid something will go wrong due to his bad luck that he's tried his best to stay away from intimate things like that.

plus, he's also very energetic and jittery so cuddling isn't something that's crossed his mind to begin with.

you'd be the one to show him all of the different positions you could do, include those where you're just sitting next to each other.

he's definitely touchy since he's never experienced this before.

still kinda hesitant though because of his luck ://

he needs a lot of reassurance from you before he even thinks about fully cuddling in his sleep.

in fact, a lot of the time it'd be you who's cuddling him after a bad day.

i think his favorite position before fully allowing himself to cuddle would be ones with lingering touches.

like a simple arm slung over the shoulder and your legs crossing each others' in your sleep.

those small gestures.

but once he's used to cuddling...

he loves the idea of having you hold onto him while sleeping.

kinda like the sweetheart cradle with you being the one to hold him.

he just needs that reassurance that you're okay with him and his luck won't do anything to change that.

but sometimes you need to be cuddled too.

you're day has been rough, what with the countless things you needed to do that day (be it because of procrastination, schedule mishaps, etc.)

you'll head towards the adventurer's guild in search of bennett.

his dads all know you, of course, so whoever meets up with you takes him to wherever he is.

you wouldn't need to say a lot to bennett for him to know something's up.

probably just a small hum or murmur would be enough to clue him in.

you'd drape yourself over his back, wrapping your arms around his shoulders and digging your nose into his neck.

he'd jump for a moment, thinking someone else knocked into him because of his luck.

but then he realizes you and he relaxes.

he'd bring his hands up to rub your arm, hearing your muffled whines as he does so.

his dads would already notice you're having a bad day, so they don't say anything that'll disturb you two.

honestly? bennett would probably want to cuddle with you right then and there.

he's not one to get embarrassed too quickly, so he wouldn't mind.

but his dads bring up a good point that you both should probably be resting in an appropriate bed instead of the floor or a bench.

so the two of you would head home as soon as you could!

bennett would talk your ear off about his adventures that day.

if you don't wanna talk, he can do enough for the both of you!

anyway, you'd both head home and jump into bed as soon as you can.

he'd instinctively go to your standard position but then he remembers that you're in need of some well deserved cuddles.

so instead, he'll be the one to hold you close.

he'd let you rest your head on his shoulder or chest.

you could trace the scars running up and down his arms.

he'd rub your back lightly while talking about his adventures again.

he'd tell you tales of the mare jivari he's heard.

and when you're off to sleep, the stress leaving your system, he'd continue to rub his hand along your back.

"how about tomorrow we go on an adventure? just me and you. we could do whatever we want to get your mind off of things..."

chongyun -

this poor boy doesn't cuddle a lot!!!

he's gotta stay cold, y'know?

as much as he'd love to just wrap his arms around you all night, he can't...

but he will try!

he'd definitely try to push himself near the beginning of the relationship.

i'm talking forcing himself to cuddle all night, no matter how hot it gets.

but, as the loving s/o you are, you tell him that it's okay he can't do the full body cuddles like other people.

but he still wants that touch, even if it's a little.

his cuddles are the ones where only a certain body part is touching the other.

like his arm is up against yours or your legs are touching.

those types.

he feels bad he can't do more though :((

he for sure owns those cooling blankets, even if it isn't for cuddling.

if you're under one of those, it's more likely for him to try and give you a hug as you both drift off.

he'd eventually separate from the hug if he's feeling too hot.

and as much as you're okay with those small cuddles with fleeting touches, there are times where you just need a good cuddle full of hugs.

he'd come home from another day of trying to exorcise evil spirits, wanting to simply fall into bed where he knows it's nice and cool.

he'd greet you once he walks into your bedroom but he'd notice...

you're wrapped up in your blanket and hugging your pillow tight, acknowledging his entrance with a simple nod.

he doesn't know what's causing you to feel upset or stressed, but that doesn't really matter anyway.

he'd hop into bed right next to you, slowly unwrapping your body from the blanket.

you're still clutching onto your pillow once the blanket is gone.

he'd have to turn you over for him to even be able to look at you.

you're resting your cheek on top of your pillow while looking up at him with tired eyes.

he'll cup your cheek with his hand, smiling softly when you nuzzle into his cold palm.

he would stay on top of the sheets while you're lower body is tucked underneath it.

he'll rub his thumb along your skin, watching as your eyelids flutter every now and then.

"have you been awake long?"

you shake your head.

"i see... come here."

he'd open up his arms, a gesture you hadn't seen for a long time.

this one, however, was different.

he didn't have a forced smile on his face and his arms weren't tense like before.

this time, he had that soft smile you'd always see when you two are enjoying popsicles together and his arms were relaxed.

you'd scooch over the bed, tossing your pillow behind you as you nuzzle into his chest.

he'd let out a quiet chuckle before pressing a quick kiss to your forehead.

"i'm sorry i don't do this often."

"...it's okay. i like our cuddles no matter what."

"but you deserve this every once and a while."

you'd just hum in response, smiling at the feeling of his thumb rubbing your skin.

he won't talk as much as the other two, opting to keep the calm silence in your room.

you could hear his quiet breaths and his heart beating in his chest.

and you fall asleep to it, the feeling of his arms around your body permanently marked on your skin.

"i normally... get too hot when we cuddle like this. but now... it's feels really nice."

[sleepyfan-blog]

"What I'm Fighting For." Dreamswap in which Cross and Error fight with their lives to protect an incapacitated Nightmare from Dream. All three narrowly escape with their lives.

Fandom: Dreamswap by @onebizarrekai

Characters and pairing: DS Error, DS Cross, DS Dream, DS Nightmare, DS Ink, meme squad poly

Warnings: violence, cursing

Word count: 1,480

Summary: In which the meme squad gets their asses handed to them.

“Surely you realize how foolish it is to stand between me and my quarry.” Lord Dream called out, looking every part the avenging angel, his claymore pointed directly at Cross, who was bodily blocking Nightmare from his sight. He was speaking to both him and Error - who had rushed over, his strings already extending from his hands and eye sockets, determination brimming in both of their auras.

“FUCK YOU! We won’t let you kill Nightmare!” Cross growled, summoning a half-dozen glowing red daggers and launching them at the golden dickhead.

Dream raised a browbone at the other, dodging the predictable attack and slashing at the other with his claymore in a heavy, two handed strike “I have no intention of killing Nightmare at the moment. I will capture him. Stand aside and I will spare your lives.”

Cross just barely managed to raise his large hack-knife style sword up in time to block the attack, though he grunted a little and swayed - if he dodged, the attack would have hit the unconscious and bleeding Nightmare.

“Bullshit! Nightmare’s told us all about your horrid experiments on him, when you’ve managed to get your claws on him in the past!” Error growled, his eye lights brightening with fury as he sent his strings after the other’s soul.

“I am trying to understand the nature of his being. He is a negative spirit, and I am attempting to find out how that is possible, in order to correct it. You do not wish him to be dead, yes? Neither do I. I do in fact, have a vested interest in Nightmare staying alive. So why do you fight against me?” Dream pressed, easily dodging Error’s strings - slicing them several feet shorter with an attack - and jumping upwards, soaring a little to avoid Cross’ bone attack.

“… What the actual fuck do you mean by that?” Cross and Error spluttered at the same time, glaring up at him as Error wrapped his strings around Nightmare and pulled as Dream landed where Nightmare had been seconds before.

“Oh? He hasn’t told you two about…? Hmm, how interesting. It seems that he doesn’t trust you as much as I thought he had. Well, at least that means he does have some prudence, buried beneath the stubborn pigheadedness of his.” The lord of light smirked, dodging one of Error’s Gaster blasts, shattering it and several of Cross’s gaster blasters as well. It was a pity that he couldn’t summon such weapons himself - but as neither he nor Nightmare were Sanses it made sense that they didn’t have access to a Sans’ magical attack.

“I don’t give a shit what weird, twisted history the two of you have!” Cross bristles, his eye lights burning brightly as he tried and failed to dodge another one of Dream’s attacks, stumbling a little as the other managed to leave a nasty six inch gash across one of his legs. He pushed himself up to standing, if he was going to die, he was going to die on his feet. “I fight to protect my boyfriends! I fight to make sure that we can be free of you and your high handed bullshit.”

Error nodded, a fiercely determined expression on his face as he held Nightmare closer to him. He called out loudly “Yes! We fight to  protect one another from those who would use or hurt us because of their own twisted reasons!” They’d helped him regain his voice and his confidence… Kept him from slipping back into Blue’s twisted manipulations. For that he’d march into hell for either or both of them. He yelped a little and rolled, twisting so that Ink - who had come out of fucking nowhere couldn’t hit Nightmare with a splatter of Ink that would bind him in place.

Instead it bound Error’s feet, causing the glitched skeleton to stumble and fall, but he sent a hail of bones after the soulless traitor as Cross cut him free. Error was just barely able to summon a gaster blaster directly in front of the both of them - to take Dream’s next sword-slash as neither of them had been prepared to dodge or move. Not while they were also trying to keep the unconscious Nightmare out of their grasp.

Cross muttered under his breath to Error “Get a portal open - I’ll do what I can to keep them off of us… Just - don’t think too badly of me, yeah? We… We all keep stuff from each other. Never forget that I love you both.” With that the monochromatic skeleton kissed him on the teeth - before pressing a light kiss to one of Nightmare’s cheeks and shoving the both of them as far away as he could with Blue magic, whipping around and growling, little red Xs glitching along his injury, flickering a little and seemingly starting to heal the damage. Cross summoned several dozen gaster blasters - along with half as many determination red knives, throwing the knives at Ink while he caused the blasters to attack both of their enemies in a seemingly random pattern in an attempt to keep them so focused on him that they didn’t try to go after the other two.

Error nodded, doing his best to start to open a portal to the omega timeline - they would need to hide there for a while with Core. It was taking longer than it should be, and, as he noted in distress, it was taking much longer than it should - and Cross was slowly but surely being pressed back towards them, despite doing all he could to keep both powerful enemies off of them. The glitched skeleton had just gotten the portal open when he heard a gasp and a loud

“FUCK ME!” From Cross, the other stumbling to his knees, clutching his chest, starting to bleed and shake, with Dream pulling back for another strike.

“NO!” Error yells, feeling himself start to glitch out a little. He shoves Nightmare through the portal, his strings managing to wrap around Cross and drag the other just far enough away that he doesn’t get hit by either Dream’s or Ink’s attack. A split second later, Error teleports over to Cross, throwing him through the portal as he launches wave after wave of bone attacks at both of the smug bastards, screaming and furiously protective, dodging and cursing as he keeps getting pushed closer and closer to the portal. He’s about to close it - as Cross is safely through it, when he feels something tug on his strings and he goes flying through the portal.

Error shuts the portal, even as Dream and Ink charge towards him, the latter hissing obscenities as they are unable to follow after him. “I… Wh-what?” Error splutters out, confused.

Cross is firmly holding onto several of his boyfriend’s strings, the navy threads wrapped firmly around his arms “What, you didn’t think that I was going to let you die, did you? I love you both. Let’s.. Let’s go to our back up place in this place and eat spider donuts and cider until we stop bleeding - after we get Night to the closest healer. I think I see a storyshift Toriel close by who’ll fix him up.”

Error nodded, and the both of them carefully carried the unconscious Nightmare over to the Toriel, who was more than willing to heal all three of them. Nightmare woke with a groan, summoning his spear and staring around blearily “I… I thought I got jumped on by Dream - fucking asshole… Ughh what truck hit me?”

“Dream. Dream did. Why didn’t you call for help as soon as he was on your ass? Or teleport out of there? We had all the stuff for our picnic ready and we saw him looming over you like the fuckin’ bird of prey he is and had to drag your unconscious ass here. Nearly ganked the three of us.” Cross hissed, protective and worried, kissing Nightmare silly.

“I tried. He was on me too fast for me to do anything - and I was trying to fight him too quickly to do anything but trying not to die.” Nightmare grumbled, kissing Cross back just as fiercely.

Error hesitated for a moment - but his desire to hug them eclipsed his haphephobia - so intensely grateful that they were alive that he lightly touched one of both of theirs’ shoulders - getting both of theirs’ attention, their eye lights widening simultaneously in surprise. “I… I’m just so glad that we’ve all managed to survive… Let’s just… Let’s just go to the couch, watch undernovella and cuddle, okay?” The other two nodded and the three of them exhaustedly made their way home, piling together on the couch with Nightmare in the middle, two blankets draped around the three of them as they watched the soap opera, slowly relaxing enough to fall asleep in a contented pile.