#even better when it's not mutal pining lmAo

[bonesofchaos]

// slow burn ships are some of my favourite ships. especially ones that start out where they don't like each other that much. not enemies to lovers just kind of indifference, i know you but i'm not that interested in you sort of thing. but they spend time together, maybe it's friend of a friend situation, maybe they have to work together and they realise over time that wow, this could be my person and it's cute and there's some mutual pining and *chefs kiss*

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reread your "the trip sleeping together & mad pining at eacv other" fic recently, so now I Am Thinking. Specifically thinking about how if Laslow is in Pining Central and Selena in Pining Central (Denial District,) what if Odin... kinda assumed they were already dating? They've grown so close since they got to Nohr, touching each other and sleeping together. In stories that's usually what happens when people are a bit into each other!! So it's logical to deduce that 1) everyon has at least a small degree of romo towards each other and 2) the others SURELY picked that up too, haven't they? Circumstances aren't exactly Ideal rn so no one brought it up but surely they all must be aware lf each other's feelings. (*narrator voice* they weren't.)

At first I was like "when did i write a sexy fic of the trio pining for each other while also being friends with benefits" and then I realized oh, you probably meant this fic of them literally sleeping together, lol. (You are dead right that Laslow & Selena are both in Pining Central with Selena in Denial District, lmao).

Also I find this imagery very funny, but I think you could be right.

Odin, with his head in Selena's lap and Laslow rubbing a spot on his calf while they watch the stars: I mean, obviously there's romo going on here. Even I can feel it. BUT in all the best stories (and for Laslow's delicate, romantic heart), it's better that feelings go left unspoken but mutually understood, right? (And then revealed in a dramatic declaration right before a death-defying incident). We all know what's up. No need to say it right now. We don't even have to kiss because it's so unspoken but mutally understood :)

Odin: *refers to Selena & Laslow as his Greatest Companions instead of boyfriend and girlfriend*

Laslow & Selena, laying in bed next to each other and thinking about how they could reach over and hold hands But They Won't: I wanna be a companion... in another way... (but I can't say so)

Laslow, trying to convince himself: Just being with them is enough... yeah.

Selena, also trying to convince herself: I slept with Noire like this all the time. This is no different. I'm just hot because it's stuffy in here. Right, right, right.

Odin: *snoring loudly and taking up half the bed bc he's an atrocious bedpartner and has nothing to worry about in his head*