#theyre broken but they have each other

[mekk-u]

there's nothing to forgive

[3zethe3zr]

Calling this one the Princess Polycule: they can't date her so have decided that the only alternative is to date each other

[cream-and-tea]

oh pallas and agnes power dynamic you really are SO unbelievably fucked,,,,,

[roomba-mangga]

being normal about thistle and the touden siblings in the most insane way because imagine you're a sad out of touch hopelessly devoted little magician whose family has been actively pushing for you to see this path of self-destruction that they set you on to its fatal end and being confronted with that sends you tumbling down a doom spiral to hell from which there is no escape but then suddenly from out of nowhere two brainless randos bust into your house and offer the first real acts of kindness and gentle touch and validation of your personhood you've received in at least a few decades if not centuries if not your whole life (for want of which you Did All This Shit in the first place), and unlike the other dickheads breaking into your house all they care about is Being Nice To You For Free and deep frying your security cameras and tbh you wouldn't know how to react to this on a good day whatever that looks like so you just go along and eat their funny snacks and tie them both to a pole like puppies you picked up off the side of the road and then with all that said and done you immediately die

[revee-nyardil]

Fox hates Anakin. Has since the first time Anakin left Palatine's office and smiled. Stupid Jedi. He spent hours with Palpatine whenever he was on Coruscant. How could he not see the way that the Chancellor looked at him? And yet Anakin kept coming back, over and over to the man that Fox would do anything to get away from. And then Anakin interfered with Tano's capture and landed Fox in deep trouble. And Palpatine made sure it wouldn't happen again, made sure that Fox followed orders with Fives. And...well, if Anakin was half as powerful as everyone said, he would've been able to stop Fox. His vod'e are right to blame him, it was his fault. Anakin is not. He could've stopped him. Fox knows, Palpatine can make him do whatever he wants. Anakin could too. Anakin could've stopped him and Fives would've told the Jedi about the chips and Palpatine and...and the Guard might've been safe.

Anakin's known that Fox doesn't like him. That was fine, Anakin didn't particularly like Fox either. Fox was cold and was never willing to bend a rule for anyone. But it wasn't until the whole ordeal with Ahsoka's trial that he started hating Fox. Ahsoka was innocent, and Fox wanted his men to shoot to kill! Who cares about protocol, she was Anakin's Padawan! And then Fox killed Fives. Just...just shot him when Fives was obviously sick. Fox wouldn't even break orders to save the life of another clone. Anakin can't help the disgust that the thought brings to him. Who prioritizes rules over someone's life?

[layzeal]

*trails fingers on water* 3zun

[hsslilly-blog]

shirt with a heart and child of divorce written on top but then there’s a picture of huntclaire. you wouldnt get it. i do

[dennisboobs]

the funniest thing about writing charden is that they can either fucknasty with approximately zero leadup or be like two opposing magnets that I'm trying to push together

[forged-in-kaoss]

chore boys

[horrorknife]

adam is the only person who will match hoffman’s freak on ipa. he’s accustomed to drinking awful piss-tier booze and so he genuinely enjoys ipa. hoffman introduces him to it shortly after they meet thinking he’ll go EEEEWWW and he ends up actually being like whoa this is good actually? it has a really interesting flavor :-) and hoffman is sitting there like Oh My God I Can’t Not Keep You Forever

[nanatsuyu]

what makes you like kandrew so much?? what drawns you to them??

(not trying to sound rude or condescending or anything im just curious lol)

I really adore characters that bite and snarl at each other for the purpose of enrichment in their respective enclosures.

On a more serious note lol—other than the fact that I have A Type when it comes to pairings (davekat, edxizzy, amberprice, etc), I enjoy characters that have somewhat of an unhealthy codependency on one another. Which is the extremely general way of putting it. I like characters that are kind of doomed to the narrative to never really be sated by what the world has to offer, but their person makes up for that (not that they always recognize it as such or that it's entirely positive or sometimes even completely mutual). And I don't mean doomed in a "never amount to anything" way, but in that bittersweet tone where both of these characters, wherever they fall into each other on the timeline, are at a place where their lows sync up, and that harmonizing rattles something to the perceived tune of "we're the best we're ever going to get". Again, that's all really general for the vibes of why I was drawn to them. There's a bit more nuance for them (and the other pairings ofc).

I like that they have a deal that encompasses both of them trying to push the other into being a better version of themselves but they're both too stubborn/scared to move first because realised potential means you have to recognise it too. Kevin can't expect Andrew to try his best when he himself is not, and Andrew can't expect Kevin to show him his worth* if he doesn't bother to try in the first place. (Though I know their deal was labelled more as moriyama protection for Kevin, I think that kind of encompassed the idea that Andrew would be a crutch till Kevin could stand on his own if that makes sense)

Not to quote the ec but it's one of like 3 parts I would willingly print and eat:

Andrew is the kind of character I adore because he says this and he really genuinely means it. Keeping what little he has left of himself is a last ditch self preservation tactic because he can't get hurt if he has no hopes/expectations/aspirations. No one can let him down if he doesn't let them. But he's so wonderfully flawed in his own ruleset because he keeps doing just that in the hopes that maybe someone will be different this time . Like maybe this time someone will be right when they say he's worth it** like maybe Kevin is right and he can make Andrew see what he's been refusing himself.

I also love that their deal extends far past the deal itself. In the most basic of terms, it was: 'you go, I'll go.' Andrew didn't have to trust Kevin beyond that. But he gave Kevin his meds and trusted him not to abuse that. Kevin had even already promised to help him figure out a way to wean off them before if they could earlier (and I genuinely think his fear of Andrew getting off his meds early was both a kneejerk 'the game/my safety' reaction because Kevin has a lot riding on this semester too, but also because he knows he made his own promise to Andrew and he thought Andrew coming off his meds early might have been an obstacle even Kevin's stubbornness couldn't hurdle when it came to helping Andrew on his feet after). Likewise I have to imagine that very few people put their trust in Kevin with much of anything outside of Exy given his temperament and wallflower disinterest in team building extra curriculars. So for Andrew to willingly give Kevin his meds to hold onto that he's gotten violent over before probably created a very morbid sense of.. pride, I guess? Like I trust you to hold onto the thing that ruins me is so... clenches fist

There's also this rough handed care that comes with all of that. They're unforgivably honest with each other at the best of times and unnecessarily biting at wounds just to get a genuine reaction at the worst. But then they also have these quiet side/off screen moments that are unyielding in tenderness? Andrew inspecting Kevin's hand for injuries. Kevin covering for Andrew when he's sick on court. Andrew telling Kevin to trust him during a panic attack and that he'll take care of it. Kevin turning his entire attention away from the Raven's to pull Andrew up to his feet. Them smiling at each other first genuinely?? Being idiots on the court with playful mocking shoves that don't get heated?? Like you give me these two characters who make it seem as if their hearts will genuinely stop beating if they stop nipping at each other, and then show me that they're actually wrapped up in one another so tightly that they're rarely seen apart? And are burdened (affectionate) with the task of keeping the other from doing the very thing that drowns themselves?? Okay

Also a looooot of this is from my perspective on Andrew's perspective on Kevin since we're given a lot more to work with, but I genuinely think Andrew was the first to push back at Kevin and make him prove things to Andrew and himself. Kevin had maybe a couple people at most before he fled to the foxes. Like he had nothing other than his name and reputation, good and bad, when he showed up at wymack's door. I can't help but imagine some part of Andrew saw this as amusing but also rather tiresome when it came to seeing Kevin constantly shut away in hiding. He was so loud before, where is all that roar now? When Kevin left Jean, he really left his only friend behind (sorry Thea fans I know she's there I know). So here you have Andrew, offering a deal that becomes this codependency because being out of the nest alone most certainly took its toll for a while, and it sounds too good to be true but most things are. So Kevin snatches it up and then there's the trust in the meds and the constant presence (in the sense of comforting consistency in spite of any disagreements (but abandonment issues kandrew is a whole other post now innit)) and the care and it all looks a lot like what someone might call a friend. And I mean they could both say they're not friends till their dying day but they're the only ones they're still trying to fool.

I just like that they gnaw on the scraps that they snag off one another, these leftover cuts from failed attempts at love and kindness, and act as if they didn't hand the pieces to each other themselves in the bed they share.

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*Andrew is worth more than his ability to play Exy obviously, but I'm working from the angle that these boys have a very limited vocabulary in how to express that given their upbringings lol ie: my absolute Favourite part of the ec:

Like again I have my hangups with some of the ec but this provides soooo much more context to their beef pre-canon and the history behind Andrew's failed recruitment. Not to mention Aaron internally calls out Andrew for blatantly lying to Kevin when he tells him he doesn't care. (I think Andrew probably holds a certain disdain for Kevin struggling to verbalize how he measures worth and how that might differentiate off the court, because that line between wanting to be told you're worth putting in the effort for versus being told it's because of your latent potential is most likely rather precarious. Shipping goggles on: I imagine wanting to get someone's attention whose love language was built up around Exy is a tad difficult even if Andrew does in fact hear what Kevin's trying to say. I also don't think Kevin's malicious in his inability to truly express that Andrew really could have everything and it's infuriating to watch Andrew self destruct.)

**And for me, this, coupled with the above conversation with Renee, really puts into perspective how agitated Andrew is with Kevin for squandering his potential. He thinks Kevin has zero self preservation skills when it comes to maybe not putting all his balls in the exy basket, but that's also why he's so drawn to him because he has this insatiable drive to live for this one thing? And yet he's not even giving it his all like he's asking of Andrew despite that? It'd be easy to dismiss Kevin's overzealous love of the game as gross infatuation that's bled into Andrew's life, but if he smothers Kevin's drive and doesn't encourage him to be exactly as he sees Kevin, this person who really can achieve these things, what is there for him? He wants Kevin to thrive, but Andrew also wants Kevin to be right and that he can thrive too.

[muirneach]

i dont mind eubanks and i like that he likes grass but sasha needs to get it together over thereeee he has a title to defend

[winter-jay-official]

House MD is literally all just gay sex like. Thats it. I dont know how else you explain how this is ending

[lavellane]

this game is literally SO much fun when you're actively hallucinating like 73% of it

[tennessoui]

I love Like Saints, Like Monsters! So, for the ask game: “But I will not leave,” Obi-Wan says, and Anakin laughs because surely Obi-Wan is not implying that he’s going to follow Anakin into the refresher. They haven’t done that since the third month of Obi-Wan’s return. “Left too much already,” he continues before Anakin can say anything at all. The words steal his own away from him. It’s worse when Obi-Wan leans back and looks at him with eyes that look—look clear. “We both have,” the alpha declares. It’s the first time Obi-Wan has ever alluded to his own capture all those years ago. It feels like a punch in the gut to hear. No, he’s never leaving this alpha again. Obi-Wan is right. They’ve both left each other too much, for too long. The jolts of arousal from this morning…it’s alarming and disgusting still. But the memory of them will fade if Anakin does not think of them too much. Right? Right.

omg !!! my original most codependent jedi obikin <3 <3

this is from one of the recovery chapters of like saints like monsters, where it shows them together 7 months after obi-wan was rescued (after 7 years of imprisonment) and before the main plot of the story takes place

they're just!!! they're so codependent on each other here it's not even funny!! the chancellor invited anakin to lunch and then guilted/manipulated him into accepting and then held him wayyyyy past the time he told obi-wan he'd be gone but they spent like 6 entire hours apart!! it was awful!!! and anakin feels so guilty because he promised obi-wan he'd come back at a certain time and he didn't

i think this is an interesting passage and chapter because it's the beginning of a lot of things: palps finds out obi-wan is alive, they spend some time apart (the longest ever) which proves they're capable of it, that morning, anakin feels arousal when obi-wan is scenting him, and obi-wan is cognizant and healed enough to mention what happened to him -- that he left the building the day he was captured, that he remembers that.

and that he remembers that and has come to the same conclusion anakin has: bad things happen when they leave one another. (basis for obi-wan tricking the council into allowing him on the mission with anakin)

also it's important because like. writing lslm, i'm like ok ok they are going to get together in the end because obviously duh--- but to feel good about that i want to show that they're NOT together when obi-wan is at his worst....and anakin doesn't want to think about his master like that at all and is being really harsh on himself when his body betrays him

in the present time, i think he's still trying to think like that -- seeing obi-wan through his rut means cuddles, not sex, even if half of him would maybe like sex...it just can't happen

(meanwhile obi-wan really really really really wants it to happen)

[mariatesstruther]

okay where are my shamless girlies

really wanna do a tlou shamless au where its young father joel in a house with his daughter sarah, his brother tommy, his gf tess, tess’s kid sister ellie, and the cousins henry and sam. frank and bill live next door