#on the other hand ephael's crisis would be more along the lines of oh hell there goes my dream of escaping to the secular world...

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

the appeal of Tesilid/Hestio is that hestio would be extremely upset about it. Him, crushing on this mf who's always so stiff and is a doormat who can't look out for himself and whom he's been ribbing for years and who is also very very handsome?!?? blasphemy!!!! Multiple years of denial and you would need to pry a confession out of him. Affection disguised by sharp comments and yells.

((now imagine if he hasn't done shit about his feelings until Tesilid's regression starts. Some timelines he confesses. Some timelines they get together. Some timelines he never does a thing; but now that Tesilid has lived rounds where he does, he can see through his bravado. Does Tesilid reach out first?

Dozens of get-together plots playing out, but there is never a happy ending; not in the long run. Tesilid wakes up to a new Hestio that's not the one he left.

Some timelines Hestio is greeted by an unusually familiar Tesilid. Some timelines Tesilid inexplicably avoids him, and when Hestio tracks him down he looks at him like he's one wrong move away from crumbling apart. Like Hestio's presence itself hurts him. Whatever the fuck did he even do?))