#but can apply to platonic too

[sparks-chaotic-cove]

I want to sit in silence with you.

I want to watch the sun go down.

I want to see the stars emerge,

their twinkling lights like the hope in our eyes.

I want to see you smile

I want to hear your laugh

I want to hear that grin on your voice

when I squeak in shock of something going wrong

I want to hear you ramble

I want to hear you joke

I want to hear your words,

whether story, worry, or pokes.

I want to hear your heart

I want to hear your mind

I want to be a witness to all that is inside your heart

[waitineedaname]

not romantic or platonic but a secret third thing (bonded pair)

[hanafubukki]

Thinking about Baby Malleus being mad at Lilia.

Baby Malleus who has some control of his powers and uses it to find the darkest and deepest corner of the castle that’s hard to reach.

He would fit, whether it’s under a bed or in some corner of a room being covered by wardrobes or something, and he would stay there.

He’s angry at Lilia and won’t come out. Lilia is too big to reach him and his arms too short. There’s some magic at play too.

Baby Malleus would stare at him petulantly and turn away in a huff. Lilia pleading for Malleus to come out and he can’t do anything because his magic is stronger than he expected.

Lilia didn’t know what was worse.

Malleus throwing a tantrum and burning his hair or this.

Where Malleus is oddly quiet and out of reach.

[It reminds Lilia of those times when Malleus was still in his egg. When he was trying desperately to hatch him. He was just as quiet and lonely. It makes Lilia that much more desperate.]

And it’s definitely this, when he’s so far away from him. It makes his heart ache.

When Malleus calms down and he’s in Lilia’s arms once more, Lilia breaths a sigh of relief. His arms that much tighter around the little one.

He won’t loose him again.

His son.

[hnbka]

i think the reason i hate childhood best friends to lovers but not when theyre mlm/wlw is because when its a het ship, people expect them to date as children/teens, so most of the movie/show/book is denying romantic feelings, rather than expanding on the once thought to be only platonic feelings in mlm/wlw ships

[bittasol]

i think it’s be really fun to come up with names for different duos and trios and groups etc, esp if they dont already have one. i think its common in most fandoms to give ships little nicknames but i think it’d be fun to do with platonic dynamics as well! not necessarily a shipping™️ thing. so i made a little list with some m!ik ones, some are based off different translations or arcs, some are based on aesthetics and/or personalities, etc + if u have some as well id love to hear em!

[ MISFITS / THE 13 CROWNS OF BABYLS ]

( trios )

love trio - iruma/clara/azz (alt. soulmate trio/playmate trio)

boku trio - iruma/lied/purson (alt. kitten trio)

losers tent trio - lied/clara/soi

( duos )

young king duo - iruma/lied

music/musical duo - iruma/purson

love letter duo - iruma/elizabetta (alt. pomegranate duo)

dragon fruit duo - iruma/clara (alt. certified duo)

He duo - iruma/azz (alt. class k duo, stove burner duo)

grape duo - purson/clara (alt. recorder duo, pennywhistle duo)

stupid/dummy duo - azz/clara (alt. snack patrol duo)

gentleman duo - azz/caim

temperature duo - kerori/azz

stellar plate duo - kerori/clara

lovey dovey duo - elizabetta/clara

go girl gaming duo - elizabetta/lied

snowflake duo - elizabetta/kerori

smooth jazz duo - elizabetta/purson (alt. music class duo)

sandbox game duo - lied/clara

gaming battler duo - lied/nupie

roblox duo - lied/jazz

serpentine duo - jazz/azz

trickster duo - jazz/allocer (alt. clever duo)

mammatus cloud duo - agares/clara (alt. cloud gazing duo)

fever dream duo - agares/azz

day dream duo - agares/elizabetta

frost duo - agares/kerori

onigiri duo - agares/gaap

tiara duo - sabro/elizabetta

[ OTHERS ]

( trios )

adult trio - opera/kalego/balam (alt. housepet trio)

( duos )

kouhai duo - opera/robin

top dog duo - opera/kalego

bird of prey duo - kalego/balam

wicked duo - iruma & kalego

[thegoldencontracts]

Do you think Azul is capable of falling in love? I mean, the way he sees love as transactions and weakness to be exploited makes me question this thought.

Oh my god anon I'm so happy you asked about the transaction thing because I have SO many thoughts...

Can Azul Love?

This is just a quick analysis my brain spurred off into.

First there's this scenario I made specifically about this concept - Azul Falls In Love And Can't Handle It (Just wanted to link it instead of repeating everything in this post)

But even in other fics, I love exploring that concept! Because - to me, at least - love isn't always a choice. It becomes a choice later on. That sounds confusing but allow me to clarify.

There are two types of feelings commonly known as "love" that I'm referring to - Infatuation, and love. These two have nothing to do with age, or even a person's maturity level. Infatuation is the first part of a relationship or a pre-relationship stage, where every interaction gives you butterflies, you feel like you're on fire every second you spend, and all that good stuff.

Love is a choice you make. You're not getting butterflies anymore. You are choosing to build a life with someone, to be there for them even without the boost of infatuation.

Infatuation can come and go - it's pretty short-lived, in all honesty. Love, on the other hand, is stable and much longer-lasting when requited. You care deeply about a person, in spite of all their flaws or weaknesses.

Very few people can't feel infatuated - even Aromantic people can end up experiencing the same thing, just from a platonic angle, where you really admire someone to the point of glossing over their flaws.

Azul is no exception. He can get infatuated with someone too. He's not immune, and god, he hates it. Seeing you gives him butterflies, he wants to do everything in his power to make you happy, but why? This isn't supposed to be how he acts!

Love is a separate matter. Love requires a level of emotional maturity that - let's face it - not many Night Raven students have. Azul would have to care for you in spite of your flaws and choose to invest his time into a relationship with you despite potential losses like time for his business. He'll have to choose you despite the lack of chemicals in his brain encouraging him to do so. And, in his current state, I'm not quite sure if Azul is capable of that.

But the thing is, Azul isn't stagnant. It may not seem like it, but he is gradually growing. And he's definitely capable of love - even if it isn't romantic - just look at the way he talks about his family! I meant it when I said I wasn't sure. Though there's a chance he might not be able to make that choice, there's a chance he can, too.

And hopefully, when the time comes, and Azul and whoever his partner is are a good way in their relationship, and the chemicals finally wear off, he can make that choice.

[57sfinest]

something that’s been on my mind a lot also is like. the potential for conflict between kim and harry because of harry’s can-opening. 

kim is obviously deeply repressed and while that’s not necessarily a good thing, and he’s not necessarily happy about being that way, it’s also not up to harry to decide that he needs to be exposed. harry can be good for kim in this context if and only if it’s kim making the decision to open up. it can be good for kim if kim is like “there is no way i can ever be as openly fucked up and embarrassing as this guy. he is a freak and a disaster on a level i could never aspire to. so i guess it’s fine if we’re friends. he can know me a little bit.” then it’s great and they foil each other well and their relationship can be healthy and fulfilling for them both!

but there’s also a version of their relationship that starts out okay but goes down in flames because harry just can’t help himself. he either can’t or won’t stop the prying and kim has no inclination to let harry in. there’s a harry that will push kim’s buttons and provoke him and say or do awful things just to see how kim reacts. there is a kim that has no tolerance for harry’s behavior, no desire to play along, and not enough patience to give him more than one or two chances. and kim wouldn’t be wrong for that! kim has no obligation to give harry chances and no obligation to be vulnerable just because harry wants to know he smoked weed back in his 20s (which is a small complaint of mine. as funny as that dialogue is, i kind of wish that even passing that check didn’t actually give you a secret. kim deserves to be able to say no and doing so is way more consistent with his character.)

yes, sometimes kim NEEDS that little bit of pressure from harry so he has an excuse to do something he wants to do anyway, but that’s exactly it: it’s something he *already wants to do*. like the jackets or the dancing or the cryptid talk. harry’s blundering lack of reservations is an excuse for kim to loosen up on his own- it absolves kim of ultimate responsibility, protecting him, and that allows him to *do* things, freeing him. done this way, the dynamic can be healthy and mutually beneficial. but it’s also good to acknowledge the ways in which harry can try to expose kim in harmful ways that drive them apart.

[yurishica]

Wolf and Diane headcanon from me.

I hc that in Diane's criminal years, her personality was similar to Wolf's in the start of the first movie. She kind of sees her past self in him.

Actually I'm not sure if Diane really was a part of The Bad Girls in her criminal years, because in the first movie when she talks about it, she doesn't mention having allies (nobody knew her real identity + it's possible that the bad girls band didn't exist back then). Though, maybe Diane just didn't want to talk about it back in the first movie. If she had her criminal band, Diane could relate to Wolf even more, because she knows how it feels when you leave your friends behind and probably she didn't want him to go through it.

Also I hc that Diane is a little older than Wolf. If he's is 31 y.o., she's probably around 35. I need more male and female couples/duos where woman is the older one tbh.

[isan0rt]

See, here's the thing about Dedue and the non-Dimitri members of the Faerghus Four. They're not his friends. Ashe and Mercedes are his friends, Annette is debatable, but Ingrid, Felix, and Sylvain he is not even looking to be friends with.

They're his in-laws. In-laws that, at least in the Academy phase, he doesn't even particularly like.

Like, if not for Dimitri, he would absolutely not talk to those people. He's making nice with them because they're the closest thing Dimitri has to family that's not actively trying to murder either of them, and they're important to Faerghus so Dimitri has to have a relationship with them no matter what, and it's important to Dimitri that they and Dedue at least kind of get along with each other as much as possible.

But Dedue isn't trying to be friends with them! Dedue is like, I'll go to the family holiday party because it's important to you but if Felix starts talking shit or Ingrid says something racist then I'm not going to be the one to deal with that. They're your relatives and I'll be nice but that's your problem. He's not looking to be close with them, he just wants to have a halfway decent relationship with them for Dimitri's sake and like no more than that.

And they improve a lot in their supports, especially after the time skip, especially in Three Hopes, but like. The relationship there is still fundamentally in-laws. It's just a graduation from "shitty in-laws I'm putting up with" to "in-laws I've come around on and can have a decent-to-good time with." Depending on what supports you get they can even graduate to "in-laws I actively like and admire." But like. He's still hanging out with them because they hang out with Dimitri. He's not hanging out with them for their own sakes.

Dimitri has one important familial relationship with them and another vitally, crucially important relationship with Dedue. Both are fascinating to explore and I love to explore them. But they're completely different relationships.

Like they're not all a big five-person friend group, Dimitri is in the position of having to like. Try and keep the peace between his extended family in all but name who he still loves, and the person who has been the most important person to him for his entire teens so far. Even if Dimitri were tired of his friends' shit personally he can't just stop talking to them, they're the future leaders of their houses, the only houses that are all in behind House Blaiddyd and not fomenting assassinations. He HAS to maintain a good relationship with them for Faerghus.

Dedue gets this. He'll play nice with them. He knows Dimitri also needs them on his side if he's ever going to restore Duscur, but he doesn't have to like them. He'll save their asses on the battlefield for Dimitri but he's going to go hang out with Mercedes and Ashe after.

[squuote]

saying I ship them is not enough, I need to carefully and intricately explain exactly how their dynamic works and what they mean to each other and how they rely on the other in a detailed fashion that encapsulates exactly how their relationship effects me as a person. I need to put their relationship in a way that is more than just ‘I think they should kiss’ because kissing is gross and I think they should fight each other and fight for each other instead as an act of love. And because there’s so many ways to love, defining it through only a small selection of actions does it no justice. I need to explain the ways they care for the other, especially the parts that are never spoken. The intricacies of love as a concept that aren’t bound to a simple romance will be spilled once I get my damn hands on it

[hedonistbyheart]

Avatars of the cosmic and living force.

[glimblshanks]

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[sing-me-under]

*stands at the top of a stage with a megaphone *

LET BATMAN HAVE FRIENDS.

[enjomo-arch]

the  art  of  fighting  being  a  love  and  affection  display.  blah  blah  blah  ace's  ideal  way  to  voice  his  interest  /  love  /  crush  is  playfighting.  a  lot  of  physical  touch  stimulant  for  him,  closeness  and  also  the  fact  that  ace  was  kind  of  always  used  to  fight  for  something.  food,  survival,  money.  you  can  imagine  ace  probably  at  least  once  threw  hands  for  that.  he's  also  a  jungle  child,  a  man  strong  like  an  animal  and  has  just  as  much  endurance.  

so  i'm  talking  like  break  his  nose  and  kiss  him,  pull  his  hair  until  they  get ripped  off  of his  skull  and  cuddle  with  him.  ace  likes  "violent  affection",  rough  lovemaking.  he's  used  to  it,  he  won't  be  harmed  badly  anyway.  i'm  telling  like  if  he  doesn't  walk  out  of  the  bedroom  with  a  broken  nose,  massive  amount  of  bites  and  hickeys  then  what's  the  point  even.  

[found-wings]

Gods, you ever listen to a song that reminds you of a duo so badly but. the song is fucking romantic based and you don’t see the duo as romantic because RAAAH ME WHEN!!!!

For The Dancing And The Dreaming my beloved, giving me so many good vibes for so many sillies where it‘s like. THEY ARE BESTIES THAT‘D DO ANYTHING TOGETHER AND CHOOSE EACH OTHER FIRST, FUCK THE WORLD, ITS THEM AGAINST THE WORLD!!!

They love each other so much in all the ways they can find, in ways that are different from each other and yet lead back to the other, they’d do anything for the other to keep them safe & sound, hold each other close to hide them from the world

I am so normal about this

ALSO THIS SONG FOR ANY SILLIES REUNITING???

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Tbf canon did forcibly remove Norman and Emma from the trio for roughly two years </3 Not to detract from the point you're making though.

Also feel like @thedoodlenoodlesuniverse's trio dynamics graph is still fairly accurate (original deleted, reblog here)

Eternally grateful I've never come across jealous/spiteful Norman and Ray fighting over Emma, or jealous/spiteful Emma and Ray fighting over Norman.

(although I do subscribe to the headcanon of Norman having a pang of jealousy over how much time RE got to spend together before their reunion in the Paradise Hideout with how he tends to navigate extremes at that age, but it’s of a very specific variety. Seeing how close the Grace Field escapees have become during their near two years out in demon world and how that shared trauma brought them together could be a mixed bag for him, with the aching reminder that he wasn’t there with them, didn’t share those memories with them after a lifetime of being together, and the initial flare of jealously turns into shame over thinking it in the first place when 1) he’s mad at not being able to have been there with them‚ not at them, 2) how selfish it is to still want that when they already went through his death once and now will have to go through that a second time, and 3) he spent so long isolated and effectively helpless in his immediate circumstances while at Lambda and suffered for no justifiable reason that it manifests in a festering internal rage, which heartbreakingly can never be given a satisfactory answer…so basically banana_slug_army’s Interwoven lol)

full score trio 😔