#the arcana gam headcanons

[apprenticeofcups]

This is a bit out of nowhere.. idk, but what are your head canons on Nadia x MC x Muriel. I know in Nadi's route Muriel and Asra get together but like if that didn't happen tho? what are your head canons on this kind of relationship?

💜💚Nadia + Muriel - Triad with MC

Their relationship with each other moves a lot slower than their relationship with you

After all, they’re both pretty awkward with emotional intimacy, although they’re willing to give it in spades

Nadia tends to tiptoe around Muriel’s past, and she never refers to her ex-husband by name

Most of your dates are fairly quiet; lunch in the Gardens, a picnic in the woods, a private showing of a play

Nadia coordinates most of the dates, and she tends to err on the side of those with fewer other people around

Sometimes you have “workshop” dates, where Muriel teaches the two of you some woodcarving, or Nadia teaches some tinkering tricks

Muriel is apprehensive coming to the Palace so often, at first, but he also doesn’t want to ask her (or you, for that matter) to trek out to his house all the time

(Portia hints to him that she wouldn’t mind a neighbor, if he wanted to build something closer)

After a while, he loosens up, and he isn’t so worried about getting all Nadia’s nice clothes and things dirty or messed up

And nobody from the old administration dares to say a word about the Scourge hanging around the Palace, lest they suffer Nadia’s deadly disapproving stare

Sometimes she goes a little overboard with designing outfits for him, and you have to remind her to let him be shirtless for a couple days

Neither one of you really complains about that, though

Chandra, of course, loves Muriel, and will perch on his head so often Nadia would get jealous if Inanna wasn’t splayed across her lap all the time

He teases the two of you about wanting to cuddle him all the time; he almost overheats every night, and he keeps finding violet hair everywhere

If you’re a switch, by the way, you hit the jackpot: Muriel is a whole lotta man, so you and Nadia have plenty to work with, and if you feel like bottoming, well, Nadia has two hands

They are both a little hesitant to initiate (Cancer, Virgo, what are you gonna do), so it usually falls to you

If you can only marry one, Nadia insists it be you and Muriel

Marriage doesn’t have the same shine for her it does for other people, and she’ll get all her fun with planning - and officiating - the wedding, anyway

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