#samcae

[foolinbeans]

"Encountering Sampo again has triggered a sense of... nostalgia... inside you."

[pachimation]

you ever joke about a ship to yourself and then, like, kinda like it? and then you joke about it to friends and it’s totally an ironic thing bc it’s not like you actually like this character and god forbid you actually like this ship. and then something happens but like it’s literally nothing (museum event) and then you take a couple screenshots or like record a cutscene (museum event!!!). and then maybe you wake up after working on ship art of them and like you’re wishing there’s more art for this ship and you’re polling ppl on instagram about what the widely agreed upon ship name is and then you’re like, aw FUCK.

anyway, ah FUCK. they’re actually kinda cute together ngl.

[morimontgomery]

my eyes were opened to samcae recently

[starscr0ss]

these sweet lil dudes + some caelus doodles...

[rice-enjoyer]

samposting + kafkaposting on this fine afternoon. bonus image: what COULD have happened after at part 4 of the museum event

[aviusfiles]

[koiifiishy]

saw a cute base and drew baby samcae bc theyre very cute (base under cut) snow leopard caelus bc i love oko/gemcya's baby leopard caes<3

[ag-si]

[dailysampo]

i know a lot of us see sampo as aspec and/or single/a little shit when it comes to relationships buuut in the spirit of sampo i'm feeling a little mischievous

[gayhonkaiships]

So I just brought Sampo home a few minutes ago and wanted to share soft SamCae HCs to celebrate

He seems impossible to trust at first, but as the journey unfolds, Caelus finds him as harmful as a pebble against the ocean's tirade. March still has issues trusting him, which is understandable, but over time they'll thaw.

As the journey unfolds Caelus unearths revelations and missing pieces of not only himself, but of Sampo Koski. Yes he has his moments, his schemes and even scams, but for the most part, he's a friend. He's detached from mysteries surrounding the Stellaron. Penacony.

After all, that wasn't Sampo. It couldn't have been.

Sampo's comforting. His smile lights up Caelus' heart when all it wants to do is break. Sampo's voice reminds him that innocence still exists, there's always fun to be had, and there is a place to call home. Even in the midst of mysteries and revelations that threaten to break him.

Even as the gale of death still threatens to break him.

Caelus finds himself wandering aboard the Express late at night, mind, heart and body warped from grief. He stumbles into someone and doesn't notice until the warmest, strongest pair of arms wrap around him. A familiar voice kindly asks:

"Hey there, friend! What seems to be the trouble?"

It's the voice that doesn't judge him. It doesn't care about his Stellaron. It doesn't care about any of the mysteries beyond the Express. It doesn't know anything about what happened on Penacony.

It doesn't know about her.

Caelus doesn't speak.

He can't.

Thankfully, the arms don't let him go. And the voice doesn't ask any questions.

[derogatory-squid]

I have a love/hate relationship with Sampo and I project that onto Caelus 😌

[boyslit]

since my brain isn't letting me write new stuff, y'all wanna read the wip i had that sparked every path? it's kind of condensed brain-soup style but has key points and dialogue i wanted to include. :3 the doc name was just "ring"

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(much, much later: a return to belobog for a week. Caelus catches up with old friends and old flames.)

koski came across a ring he's been holding onto for… no reason. reminded him of someone. more sentimental than valuable so he hasn't sold it. it's just cheap cubic zirconia, pretty as it is. he could probably have gotten someone to buy it at a high price thinking it's expensive orange topaz but… the thought of someone else having this sits wrong in his stomach. he's definitely not thinking about it lying in a box in his jacket pocket as he lies with Caelus after fucking. he holds his lover instead and pretends he's not leaving again in three days

catches a ride to the next stop with the express crew. swears he'll get off at the next stop, he's just wanting to make it off jarilo vi and into new markets. there's a whole wide world and new economies to learn to hustle after all. it doesn't hurt he can spend an extra day or two with Caelus.

when they disembark on a lively civship they still spend a couple days together before sampo realizes if he doesn't force himself to let go he's going to cling to Caelus forever

he secrets the ring into Caelus' pocket directly before they leave each other-it's a messy snoggy goodbye ofc. Sampo's off to find greener markets. Caelus is off finding side quests and people to help. eventually he digs in his pockets for money for lunch (some little hole in the wall Dan Heng knew about and only takes cash) and finds the ring. it's gunmetal finish with a brilliant yellow topaz. just like his eyes, even in a marquise cut like his diamond pupils. there's no way it was a coincidence. but why did sampo sneak it into his pocket?

it fits his ring finger perfectly. he feels warm and happy anyhow. it was nice to have something to remember him by since their work was taking them so far apart.

friends comment on ring later. c mentions he found it in his pocket earlier. m and dh exchange glances. "so he didn't propose with it, he just snuck it in your pocket? how cowardly."

"propose? propose what?"

"uh getting married? duh."

"well that doesn't sound like him anyway. is that what people do, ask someone to marry them with a ring?"

"yes????”

"March, he has even fewer memories than you."

"ooh, right. sorry"

cae studies the ring in his hand and thinks. "it's probably just a … a thing. something to remember him." later he snaps a picture of it on his hand and sends it.

c: [left me a surprise huh?]

[it's pretty. i like it]

[thanks <3]

he doesn't expect much in the way of a response but he did get a reply

s: [reminded me of you]

there's nothing else after that and Caelus feels a jolt of nervousness, wondering what's up. he tries to prod with humor

c: [careful, koski. you're getting dangerously close to sentimental~] a tilde to ensure the mood got through

it's a few minutes before he gets a reply. when calls reads it, he wonders if sampo has been writing and rewriting the text. it doesn't sound much like him

s: [i think i fell over that cliff a long time ago]

Caelus feels his breath catch in his throat- a heavy warm feeling collecting in his chest. they were never for talking about feelings. at least not honestly. sampo's dramatic declarations were mostly that- dramatics… but, maybe they hadn't been all bluster after all? Sampo's response hadn't been couched in poetic language. Even through text, it sounded like it had been muttered quietly, something he was terrified to admit out loud but unable to keep in any longer.

caelus swallows against the dread of the unknown and calls him instead. counts the rings. sampo picks up on the third ring.

“hey.”

“hi.” caelus wonders at the quiet, single syllable greeting. “you still on the Luofa?”

“mm. thought i’d get a …little drink before turning in for the night. skiff leaves in the morning.”

“is it any good?”

“finest plum wine on the entire Luofa~”

caelus chuckles. “that doesn’t tell me if it’s good.”

there’s a long moment of quiet. “i’ve been a bit… preoccupied. more interesting thoughts to hold my attention.”

“mm.” caelus leaned back on the bed and stared at the ceiling. “feel like sharing?” after a moment of quiet on the other side, he added, “anything to do with the ring you left me?”

“everything to do with it,” sampo whispered.

curled up in bed with the phone pressed to his ear, it felt like sampo was right next to him. caelus waited.

"my plans haven’t changed. you’ve got your work to do and i have mine. our paths are diverging.” sampo stares deeply into the crystal glass of plum wine without seeing it. “and it’s killing me to let go.” the slight break in sampo's voice nearly broke his heart. smooth-talking sampo koski didn't falter or stammer… unless the truth was that painful to tell.

“do we have to?” caelus whispered.

“we should.” that wasn’t a yes. that was the answer of a man who wanted anything but the path he was on.

“where are you?” caelus said suddenly. he pulled himself off the bed and shrugged on his jacket. “gilded frog by the jetty?” He saw the plum wine advertised when he and March and Dan Heng had wandered past that afternoon with snacks in hand.

“don’t,” sampo whispered, lowering his head to his hand. “that’s just going to make this so much harder.”

“you didn’t say we had to, just that we should,” caelus argued, taking off down the hall at a run now, dodging the night maid and skidding around the corner once outside. He waved apologetically at the person he dodged around and kept going. the frog wasn’t too far from their hotel after all and he was the second fastest of their little team. “i don’t want to let go either,” he said breathlessly. “wait for me.”

“cae-”

“please.”

the bartender’s head snapped up as someone burst into the little tavern, panting, phone still pressed to his ear. Sampo turned around, his own phone still at his ear, and locked eyes with Caelus. Caelus grinned and put the phone away, striding across the rest of the place towards the bar.

Sampo sighed, gave him a weary, tipsy smile, and put the phone away. This was only going to hurt a thousand times worse at the end, but seeing Caelus again now, that impending pain seemed light-years away. When they’d met, he would never have thought in a million years that this surly, grouchy-looking little punk harbored a smile like that.

It weakened his heart.

"Cae…" Caelus strode up to him, grabbed his face and pulled him into a deep kiss.

Just like that, whole again. Everything missing had returned. Sampo wound his arms around Caelus' waist and hugged him tightly.

[hornkneebee]

i need more samcae content.

why samcae content so scarce?

i'm too lazy to make one of my own.

or too insufficient talented to make one of my own.

where's my samcae content.

please.

[clankroboclankholeclank]

Sampo's Plot (samcae 18+ fic and art <3)

In order to get around communicating, Sampo sets up a porno style plot to get Caelus to find him in a compromising position.

Wrote this a few months ago but I'm currently writing the second installment, aswell as have the third planned in my head 🫡🫡 there's so many situations I want Sampo to be put in and if I gotta do it with my own hands then I will!

And here is the totally unedited, as intended originally, drawings.

(Uncensored here https://x.com/robohole/status/1805832960593002791?t=ljeOZvEtX9U-u1auqVM4pA&s=19)

[aviusfiles]

[koiifiishy]

: } i like to make sims, and this recent sims binge i made sampo and caelus sims!

i think theyre cute uwu but the thing that IIII really love to do in the sims... is decorating houses!! i moved them into the penthouse of the city dlc, it felt the most right.

entryway and bedroom!

living room & kitchen (its all one open floor plan! but i still tried to make little sections :} ) i havent done much to the kitchen yet its still pretty much the base kitchen from when they moved in.

tiny kinda weirdly shaped bathroom but i think its cozy! theres a tub too (were above it to take the photo lol). then they have this little windowed in patio thing? i made it into a kinda lounge (sampo sim wanted a bar hmm tavern allegations true? so i put that that in there too!)

and some miscellaneous screenshots : }

caelus sim is loyal, self assured, adventurous and gregarious from his aspiration being "neighborhood confidant". also... i have WW so they get the major/minor personality traits from there and caelus' are hero (major) and jester (minor).

sampo sim is goodball, materialistic, non-committal and he got dastardly from his aspiration "chief of mischief". his WW traits are jester (major) and lover (minor). for a noncommittal sim he sure is glued to caelus' side LMAO

: } its been fun making them and having them play around the towns with random other canon character and oc sims. ill probably make a few more hsr sims later! if you guys wanna see, ill take pics of them too.

also ( cw WW nsfw )