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Valentine's Writing Tag (in... June?)

For reasons I still do not entirely understand, I have decided to stay up until almost 6 in the morning answering something from almost four months ago. Because that is a very good and normal use of time. Luckily I don't have anything else to do today, or I'd be screwed at this rate....

I was tagged by @sleepy-night-child for this! I would tag other people, but I don't know who the heck I'm going to tag for this normally, much less almost four months after the fact. If anyone else is similarly bored though, I won't rat you out for saying I tagged you.

Anyway, here are some romantic details for the story Verräter!

1. Which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

Look, I wouldn’t recognize romantic chemistry if it fell out of the sky and fractured my skull on its way down. But based on my essentially non-existent understanding of this sort of thing…

Helmina and Theodor

Ernst and Lina

Sophie and Hans (???)

2. Which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

Ahh… well. There’s always going to be ships. But romance is still not really my thing, so I’ll take some wild guesses. Since almost all of my characters are already in established relationships (and I’m only getting around to answering this during pride month), I guess I’ll assume we’re mostly doing non-official LGBTQ+ ships now.

Otto and Johannes

Otto and Ernst

Otto and Paul

Theodor and Hans

Ernst and Hans (gotta get that enemies-to-lovers dynamic in somewhere)

Löhlein and Hans

Johannes and Hans

Johannes and Dr. Drittich

And, knowing shippers, literally every other permutation, some of which will probably involve Jaeger somehow. Regrettably. (But seriously, please don’t ship the dachshund….)

3. Which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

Ernst and Lina, for now. Most of the others are paired off already, and I’m not enough of a romantic to bother with the minor characters’ love lives.

4. Are there any established relationships in your WIPs? If so, how did they meet?

Yep, there are several!

1. Johannes and Magdalena

Johannes finally managed to seize political control of Großsachsen, but the rest of his Party (let’s be honest, it was like 95% Otto) thought he needed a wife to be ‘relatable’ and to have someone to consult for matters requiring a ‘feminine touch’. Magdalena was suggested for being a well-bred woman with the correct political views, and a meeting was arranged at a local coffeehouse.

2. Otto and Josephine

Otto hosts a lot of parties. Like, a lot. Theodor used to attend them, and eventually started bringing his then-girlfriend sometimes. Eventually Otto decided to inquire about this new woman, and then they at least knew the other existed.

3. Theodor and Helmina

Theodor got completely drunk off his ass one fine night. So drunk, in fact, that he ended up knocking on the door to the townhouse his grandmother used to live in and essentially shoving his way in, ignoring that Helmina was quite clearly not his grandmother. And then he proceeded to blather about how terrible his love life was going for the next two hours or so.

Eventually, out of desperation to get the random sobbing drunk out of her home, Helmina “agreed” to go on a date with him on the condition that he went and sobered up somewhere else. For better or worse, Theodor was still just sober enough to scrawl it out in his diary, so Helmina ended up going on that date.

4. Hans and Sophie

Hans went to a bakery intending to purchase some bread. But then he saw pretty girl and, being a testosterone-fueled 20-something, naturally decided he rather liked pretty girl. After several minutes of flirting, he finally bothered asking her name. She… was not initially terribly impressed with him, obviously, and wanted his name to try to ignore him. Unfortunately, Hans is a very, very common Großsächsisch name, so that didn’t help much.

5. What’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

Not sure how applicable this is for me, but I came up with a scene that I may or may not be semi-planning on using, possibly.

A and B have been lightly dating for some time. Neither side has quite gotten to saying the magic words, but things seem to be going fairly well anyway. A has every intention of saying it, but they just haven’t quite worked up the nerve to spit it out yet. Perhaps there are some moderately elaborate plans, or lots of practicing in the mirror, but anyway A just can’t quite say it yet.

However, B thinks A doesn’t actually like them. Maybe just not romantically, maybe not at all, but at any rate B thinks that A just doesn’t have the heart to break things off and is hoping the relationship will just sort of whither up and die on its own. After thinking a few hours longer, B goes to A and decides to end things, admonishing A for being too cowardly to just tell them if it wasn’t working.

Cue A panicking and finally managing to spit it out. Profusely. While very much trying not to cry, and only almost succeeding, because... what does B mean, B doesn’t think they love them?!

[caspia-writes]

Verräter Incorrect Quotes: Ernst Schneider Edition

Same thing as the last two times—@sleepy-night-child, anyone can feel free to use this as some sort of tag game if so desired, and the URL is https://perchance.org/incorrect-quote-generator.

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Ernst: *seductively takes off glasses* Ernst: Wow... Lina: *blushes* Haha... what? Ernst: You're really fucking blurry.

Ernst: I only have two emotions: exhaustion and stress. And I’m somehow always feeling both simultaneously.

Ernst: I'm not a morning person. I'm barely even a person.

Ernst: I don’t think the therapist is supposed to say ‘wow’ that many times during their first session with a client, but here we are.

Ernst: Let’s write Drittich a friendly note, shall we? Dear... Incompetent... Dumbass...

Teacher: Your child was in a fight. Lina: Oh no, that’s terrible! Ernst: Did they win?

Ernst: What the fuck is wrong with you?? Johannes: What? No good morning? Ernst: Good morning, what the fuck is wrong with you??

Otto: When do you usually go to sleep? Ernst: Whenever I collapse is entirely up to the gods.

Ernst, sniffling: Calm down, I’m probably not sick. It might just be allergies. Otto: Okay, tell me this: are you like, really tired? Ernst: I have depression, what do you think?

Fritz: What is your favourite mythical story? Ernst: The Story Of My Will To Live. Fritz: I don’t think I’ve heard of that one before.

Ernst: Not gonna lie, I'm kind of afraid of Hans... Theodor: As you should be. Ernst: No, for real, they're kind of- Theodor: As. You. Should. Be.

Ernst: What’s your favorite color? Hans: Stop asking stupid questions. Ask me something logical and mature. Ernst: How many moles of sodium bicarbonate are needed to neutralize 0.8ml of sulfuric acid at STP? Hans: My favorite color is pink.

Patient: You... you saved me. You're not a beast at all. YOU'RE A HERO, AN UGLY UGLY UGLY HERO! Ernst: Call me ugly again, and maybe I will eat you.