#ty for the ask!!! hope it reads ok i ended up with a migraine ugh

[emathevampire]

1, 4, 9, 17, and 22 for the romance ask!

1. What drew your character to their LI and vice versa?      Amanthos and Arekos were childhood friends, when Arekos was sent away to the arcane academy Amanthos was his first friend there. Arekos saw him sitting alone in a corner reading and not eating, sat next to him and shared some of the lunch he made, and the rest is history.      For Psamion to the other two, purely physical attraction. Arekos was, at the time he met Psamion, performing as a stripper to pay for his necromancy education. Amanthos was working the front desk at the library when Psamion offered to teach him a secret fey sex ritual that could make his body stronger (a very appealing thing to Amanthos, who before becoming undead struggled with all manner of ailments related to his poor constitution).

4. Their favorite physical feature on each other?      Amanthos loves Psamion’s smile and the way his grey eyes always seem to have a glimmer of mischief to them, and Arekos’ figure in general, though he has a particular fascination with his hands (likely because, when Amanthos was alive, Arekos could not touch him without risking harming him with negative energy and thus never removed his gloves out of concern for his safety).      Arekos’ favourite physical thing about Psamion would probably be his strength, as Psamion’s muscles are functional as well as decorative, which is not something one sees much of when one’s time is spent surrounded by wizards and other scholarly types. About Amanthos, his face, just in general, particularly now that he can touch it without fear.      If you think Psamion can decide on just one feature to call his favourite, you’re wrong. He’s been a pansexual disaster for 2,775 years and isn’t about to start picking just one of anything now. Truthfully, I don’t think he even knows, and would just say “I dunno, everything?”

9. How open are they with their feelings?      Amanthos and Arekos spent the better part of a millenium mutually pining for each other until Psamion elected to do something about it, so you tell me.      Psamion wears his heart on his sleeve, the other two are more reserved. Arekos is simply anxious and a hopeless romantic who can’t express himself, Amanthos is more of a Spock type where you think he’s a cold and heartless bastard unless you know what you’re looking for.

17. Their ways of expressing their love.      Psamion is very physically affectionate, mostly, but he’s also a wealthy adventurer and likes to spread that wealth around. Arekos is a mom-friend, he shows he cares by taking care of them, making them food, healing their wounds, he’s less enthusiastic about PDA than Psamion but he can be very charismatic and romantic when he wants to be. Amanthos prefers to keep things private, but like Psamion he likes to give gifts, which could be anything from cute cat socks or books to a dozen dragon corpses donated to Arekos’ research.

22. From the outside looking in, what is their dynamic like?      Just plain weird, probably. We have a perpetually-sunburned sailor, a fashion-savvy necromancer, and an undead librarian monk, all of whom by all rights seem to have nothing in common outside all being the same race of elf. One of them seems so aloof as to be cold towards the other two, yet at the same time is willing to let a whole universe fall to ruin if it meant he could come home to them. One of them seems so hopelessly in love with the other than he’s willing to defy the gods and all their laws just to kiss him one last time. And the third, who philanders all across the world and only sees them maybe once every few years, who never expected to catch feelings but here he is, just wants them to be happy together when he’s not around. You don’t keep a relationship going for 300 years unless it’s built of some pretty sturdy stuff, though, and the more time you spend watching them together the more it becomes clear that despite their differences, the foundation there is rock solid, and if they’ve survived everything that’s tried to break them up thus far you’d be pretty foolish to think you could succeed where all the powers that be of the multiverse could not.