#obssessive neat freaks unite

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i do love a good ball

I was worried about it ruining the weight of the confrontation, so we'll go with the kiss after. As for what happens after i think it could be a sweet moment to have martin being asleep when luciano returns home. he's on the couch in a very awkward position because he was waiting for him to return all this time. Luciano is ready to go to bed but he feels kinda bad about it, and well he cant leave martin like that on the couch, he got hurt recently and this position is very bad for his back etc so he carries him to his bed and goes himself to the couch (or alternatively, martin sleepy pulls him like a kid with a teddy bear and traps him so yep i guess they're cuddling again. It's only weird if you make it weird luciano)

I think as long as we dont stretch the timeline too much (i say two weeks MAX) we wont have to explain it too much, and sebastian just saying he's having a hard time tracking martin or daniela down should be enough. Besides, unless luciano is willing to pay martin's rent somewhere else, where would he even go? So I think there's no need to over-explain this as long as it doesnt go on for much longer than a week or two. As for the apples we can sure find another way, but i also dont think we necessarily need to. For alfred to make a move, martin has to be out of the house (unless he invades like i suggested on that other scenario) but since he got hurt and then stopped actively searching after putting on the signs, he might not leave the house that often. Or when he does he goes with luciano straight to work and alfred doesnt get an opportunity. It's not hard to believe he wouldnt get many chances to offer three apple in the span of like 10 days. We can also just add more apples? five instead of three? I say he gets his second opportunity when martin and luciano go around the city leaving the 'lost princess' signs around (im loving the idea of an ugly drawing on dani glued around the city, i doubt a newspaper would agree to print it and idk if martin would grab the concept of the internet enough to understand how it would help, plus it's the funnier option). Anyway, it goes as you'd expect, alfred offers some kind of apple dessert for martin and luciano doesnt let him eat it.

As for the third apple, i think we can include a restaurant scene. Maybe luciano wants to take martin out on a fancy pizzaria (say what you will about brazilian pizza - the pizzarias from São Paulo are actually famous due to the number of italian immigrants. Pizza from Rio is a whole different beast) since he has apparently never tried one before. They have a nice sort of accidentally romantic night, but alfred dresses as a waiter tries to offer martin an apple drink as courtesy. Luciano knows the place so he's not suspicious at first, but he does insist on taking a sip first to make sure it is not too strong for him (i'm guessing no alcohol on fairy tale world either bc yk kid-friendly). The "waiter" insists he cant take a single sip, that it is all for the other gentleman, and then luciano suspects. Thats no way to speak to a costumer, so he calls his good friend the manager (luciano is a lawyer so i'm assuming he's like well-off and well-connected and has friends who own fancy pizzarias) and asks him if he has ever seen this man in his establishment. The manager immediately tells him that no this man is not part of the staff and alfred has to run off, once more having his plans failing thanks to luciano.

I like the idea of two almost kisses, so i think this could be the night of the first one. I just dont really know how to get there so i'll leave it to you if you have any idea :D The same to how we get to the second almost kiss, right before dani shows up.

I think martin's first reaction seeing dani is surprise, but when she jumps into his arms he'd sort of fall into prince charming out pilot and spin her in the air and all that, which will just make luciano VERY confused (which is good, we need him confused and insecure for alice later :D) and make their goodbye all the more awkward

As for the carnaval idea, i see problems and potentials, but i cant help feeling the problems are bigger ones. I'm in no means a carnaval expert, i havent been to that many, but unless another brazilian reading this wants to intervene i guess my general knowledge will have do.

First problem is that we loose the romantic atmosphere completely. Carnaval is not romantic, it is loud and dirty and everyone is making out on the streets. There are even couples who break up before carnaval so they can fully 'enjoy' the holiday. No slowdancing, no dancing up close, etc. Also i dont know if luciano would want to take this martin to carnaval, really. He'd have to go to a more kid friendly one because he'll basically have to babysit, he can't drink his ass off or go around hooking up with everybody :( Another huge problem is that if luciano is part of a escola de samba he'll be INSANELY BUSY in the entire scope of our timeline, which means he wont really have time to spend with martin. This goes into overthinking territory, we can always just ignore this aspect, but in terms of verisimilitude, it is definitely a problem.

As for the potentials i see mostly what you have suggested, it is fresh and different and i look on the good parts of this world and dragon alice would look cool. Also back on the sex talkTM i can totally see luciano awkwardly giving martin a quick sex ed in practice class himself, because well he's going to a party where a lot of people will definitely want to hook up and if he's interested (which luciano lowkey hopes he's not but yk maybe this conversation can happen before the almost kisses) then he needs to carry some condoms and yk be smart about it. He talks mostly assuming martin would only be interested in ladies, and when martin asks what he should do with a man luciano kinda panics a little and asks if he'd want that, to which martin shrugs and says he saw it in the videos and etc. So luciano explains concepts like douching and top/bottom and lord he never expected to give lessons to a grown ass man about these stuff but martin is asking a lot of questions and he cant help but wonder why. Though tbh this is the kind of thing we can find a way to fit without the carnaval.

If you want to change the ball for another party, i say festa junina has a much better potential for romance, you can dance close together (not SLOWdance but yk couples dance), there's less alcohol and more warm food, there's a mock wedding and songs about finding love etc. Though we loose completely luciano dressed as prince charming, loose the slow dance and the dragon doesnt have much place, so i'd still stick with a fancy ball so we can keep the romance atmosphere and the dragon

@oxiosa and I are out of control in this Enchanted AU and our first post is already too big. It’s mostly detailing the fairy tale, and you can read it here if for some reason you keep up with our chaotic brainstorming.

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