#insert that meme of the horse on the beach staring out at the ocean with the caption “man”

[phoenix-flamed]

Life update: I'm still alive, just vibing still. I'll be back around soon!

[dewmie-in]

I want to hear about dewmie for the meme thing! Even if you were going to do it anyway XD

who hogs the duvet - going with the “Dewey and Jamie parallel Ruby and Sapphire” theory, I think Jamie tends to run cold. Bill needs like -1 blankets most the time, so he’s fine with Jamie having 7.

who texts/rings to check how their day is going - Jamie texts, Bill calls - but they have an unspoken agreement to only do it once a week because they both have to work on being too clingy.

who’s the most creative when it comes to gifts - Bill, but he’s awful at it initially. 

who gets up first in the morning - I am so over-invested in my headcanon that because of their jobs, they have to get up around the same time - and they are the first people they see in the morning, even before they get together.

who suggests new things in bed - Jamie at first, but the process becomes more collaborative over time.

who cries at movies - this is another one of those things where it’d be Jamie first, but eventually Bill would be just as bad. Sweat less - cry more!

who gives unprompted massages - Bill. Jamie’s mail bag gives him backaches occasionally.

who fusses over the other when they’re sick - They have only ever been sick at the same time. Bill makes sick food like soups and junk, Jamie ventures out to buy sick food ingredients and medicine.

who gets jealous easiest - I am so seriously predicting in canon it’s Jamie.

who has the most embarrassing taste in music - oh they’re both insufferable, but for different genres. They eventually combine MP3 collections and begin singing each other’s songs all the time. Buck is so embarrassed by it he eventually jumps out a third story window.

who collects something unusual - Jamie collects random crap he found on the beach while staring wistfully at the ocean, while Bill is a weirdo 200 year old gem experiment and keeps mementos from his previous forms.

who takes the longest to get ready - Depends on what for; if it’s a ‘going out’ type occasion? Jamie. If it’s just a regular workday, Bill.

who is the most tidy and organised - About the same, but Bill is more meticulous. Jamie’s apartment has tidy stacks of books, scripts and stolen mail and stuff, but he still mops the floor and things. Bill has all city council meeting agendas and minutes in the enitre history of Beach City perfectly filed away into alphabetized binders on a twice-weekly dusted shelf.

who gets most excited about the holidays - Bill. He has epic Insert Winter Holiday Light Battles with his neighbors and it’s the one thing money-wise he really lets himself splurge on - his power bill is astronomical during wintertime.

who is the big spoon/little spoon - they swap, but Bill prefers to be the little spoon and finally admits it after like a year of them being together.

who gets most competitive when playing games and/or sports - I would love for this to be Jamie’s one super-aggressive thing he does. Like he wins a game of Parcheesi or whatever and just spikes the entire game like he’s just scored a touchdown.

who starts the most arguments - Jamie, mostly because Bill is bad at communicating and tries to pretend everything is fine, especially early on.

who suggests that they buy a pet - I could see Bill cooing over a pet and Jamie encouraging him to adopt it. (We’ve seen a portrait of Bill on a horse before - maybe he’d like to keep horses?)

what couple traditions they have -

Jamie regularly finishes his route and goes to his regular ‘stare are the ocean and think about life’ spot. If he’s had a bad day, he’ll send a text with a code word, and Bill will go out onto the beach and deliver a donut and an iced tea. They sit together in silence for a couple minutes before Bill has to go back in.

If there’s a thunderstorm in the weather forecast, they try to turn it into a date and find a special place to watch it.

They had a HIGHLY awkward conversation of ‘who does what when two men date each other’ and Bill had a bit of a crisis over whether or not to buy Jamie flowers. They don’t do gifts on Valentine’s Day as much, but intentionally buy each other flowers because of that conversation.

what tv shows they watch together - Jamie obsessively tracks whatever the SU equivalent to the Eurovision song contest is each year. Bill is skeptical at first but becomes almost if not more into it than Jamie is.

what other couple they hang out with - lol they’re losers and have no other friends. Bearing in mind I think Dewey is actually much older than he looks, and Jamie is between the Cool Kids’ and Parents’ ages, neither of them fit in, really. I think it’s something that initially brings them together, in fact.

how they spend time together as a couple - At first, they would try the over-the-top dating thing with beach picnics and trips to the amusement park and stuff - they’re both romantics at heart, after all - but those dates meet with mixed success.

So, they soon just begin to sit and talk, like how they did before they started dating - getting to know each other better and start to get a real sense of structure behind their relationship, where they can grow as people together.

who made the first move - with lots of mutually tense, awkward moments beforehand, Jamie would break down and finally try something. Bill initially panics but eventually comes around.

who brings flowers home - Both. See above.

who is the best cook - I’m still clinging to my headcanon that Jamie’s one big lapse in his adulting abilities is cooking - he lives off of uncooked ramen packets and half-completed scripts. If he’s having a ‘fancy night’ he’ll eat a discount wheel of brie with a stale baguette and pair it with six dollar wine.

Bill has raised a kid, and I think he did so completely by himself, so being able to cook a nutritious meal is considered a Necessary Parenting Ability to him. By default he’s the better cook, but after he helps Jamie learn the basics, Jamie would be the more inventive cook out of the two of them.

[phoenix-flamed]

Oh, I was going to share a fun fact! (And by "fun", I really mean, "wow that kind of sucks a little.") A while back, I'd been talking to @eikonbound about timeline stuff for an RP we're going to do, and for the first time, I actually sat down and thought about just how long "Miles" had spent as a Bearer.

After doing the math, he would have spent at the very least 10 years enslaved -- and the 10 years would only be the case if he was one of the number that were lucky enough to be liberated early on. (To note, however, that extra year is based on me taking a creative liberty that it would take a little bit of time for the original Hideaway to be set up enough to be inhabitable, and for Cid to build up connections across Storm in order to make the liberation of Bearers possible. That extra year can and will vary from RP to RP with applicable characters!)

But even with the number of years set as 10, that means he hadn't been at Hideaway for very long before Clive and Jill first showed up there.