#nate really -gets- queer love like quite nobody else imo. i think a lot of us have felt or experienced something like this

[magistralucis]

What if literally the only reason Yenekh got sick was because Oltyx was sick and he didn't want him to suffer alone 😭 It's like he said in Reign, 'our kind seeks company, always'. Yenekh didn't even need the endgame revelations about the Flayer Virus to feel that way, no one did, pretty much everyone who'd laid oculars upon Oltyx read him for what he was. Imagine Yenekh realizing he's changed for the first time, the sheer terror and confusion he must've felt before Mentep's wisdom held him over. Slowly understanding, as time passed, that all that was happening here was that one heart had found another... and this knowledge doing literally nothing for Yenekh's anxieties, because he knew Oltyx didn't know and wasn't willing to understand. Adoring Oltyx to the point of metamorphosis, adjusting his very sense of self to Oltyx's presence, knowing that Oltyx would willingly sentence him to one million years dungeon catacombs ghostwind for being what he was. Love is a powerful, powerful feeling, such a strange and perilous yet radically transformative thing