oddsandends | 54th ♫ | I'm begging time to stop, just a little longer

54th ♫ | I'm begging time to stop, just a little longer

(Slightly Adjusted) Shameless Shipping Meme

There's nothing wrong with wanting to play out some cute, fluffy interaction. So break out the butterflies in the stomach, the hand holding, the love confessions, the NOTICE ME SENPAIS, and all the adorableness you can stomach - no matter if if fits your character perfectly or not. It's all about characters getting comfortable with each other while being total goobers and showing love.

It's shameless, sure, but it's fun!

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Thread and doki until your heart can doki no more.

encouragement - You can't help crushing on this person because they boost your self-worth and make you feel like you're actually a decent person!!!

first date - It's a date! Or not. Maybe you're just at the skating rink, the intergalactic space station, or the five an dine at the same time.

badass with a crush - You're badass but you kind of want to just dote on that special person.

holding hands - Such a simple act that can make your heart pound.

acting like dorks and avoiding the questions - What it says on the tin.

impress - Hey, hey. Look at me, I'm awesome!

kiss - Happy kisses, cheek kisses, angry kisses, SHUTTING YOU UP kisses.

picnics - Get close to that special person while getting some good food.

hugs - You're so nice and soft.

denial - Feelings? No way. Let me repress those bad boys.

mean - Pull their pigtails because you like them.

unusually kind - You can't help but be really nice to the one you care for.

presents - Here, I brought you this necklace. Or - Here, I brought you the head of our enemies.

don't know how to act - I like this person?! WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I DO OH GOD.

defending - Verbally or physically, you're standing up for your crush.

telling them - You're going to confess...if things don't keep going wrong.

proposal - You want to be with this person forever and you're going to make sure they know it!

loving smut - The smut option, full of cuteness.

family - The catchall prompt for bringing up a family together. Whether it's pregnancy, babies, adoption or four-footed and fluffy kids this is the prompt for gooey family interactions.

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Of course not. Never.

But the things you did for the Church and the things I did for the Church, they're... [How does he make it clear that he's irredeemable without admitting to all the things he doesn't want to talk about?] You didn't know that what you were doing wasn't right.

But me, I've always known. That the things I was doing were wrong.

I just didn't care.

And so you think suffering in silence will make up for it? Is that how you're going to atone?

[ Narmaya doesn't know what he's done. But she can imagine that something awful enough to leave a tarnish like this on his heart – if anything is left of the boy she knew as a child, then he would want to make things right any way he could. ]

No. That's ridiculous.

[He admits that, that's simple enough. Atoning like that? Honestly, now...]

I don't do any of the things I do because it's my way of atoning. I already know that's impossible. I'm not looking for any sort of redemption.

[ Narmaya opens her mouth but finds there's nothing she can say in response to his words. Perhaps it's naive or cruel of her to pretend she had anything worth saying in the first place. She falls into a troubled silence, wishing with all her heart that there was something, anything she could do.

What did they do to you, Aran? What did they make you do? ]

Then... why suffer like this? Do you truly think so little of yourself, even now?

I...

[He doesn't know how to answer that. But no one's ever really dug this deep, before. Not to this part of himself, definitely not so easily.

He almost has to laugh. He would've, maybe, in the time when that came easily to him. Because it is funny, isn't it? The way she's dragging the truth out of him? Maybe it's just... that he can't really bring himself to lie to her.

Not to her.

So he's sure to avoid eye contact, because right now, he can't quite bring himself to look at her. And...]

Hah... Yeah.

Yeah, I suppose I do.

[And he tells her the truth.]

[ And that well and truly defeats her.

Narmaya can say as many pretty things as she likes about whose fault what was or that he's just as much of a victim in this as everyone else. She could say all those things, but finds that she can't. Because they would mean nothing, less than nothing, coming from her. It's so painfully clear there is a hurt here that she doesn't understand, a wound that she is only just beginning to see the edges off. How can she say anything to him when she doesn't know a thing that's happened? She stares at him for a moment, lost for words.

But... maybe it doesn't have to be words.

After a pause pregnant with unspoken words, Narmaya carefully unknots her fingers from each other and slowly reaches a hand across the table to take hold of his. ]

I won't make you speak of things you don't wish to remember. But... if you are even half the man I knew as a young girl, then how can you think yourself worth so little? I can't accept that and I won't.

[Aran tenses up.

He doesn't move or flinch or pull back. It's not his instinct to do any of those things at physical contact, only to freeze. It sets off alarm bells in his head, right away, just a brief second where fear takes hold of him. Old habits, difficult to shake.

But... the touch is gentle and kind. Genuine. That makes all the difference.]

Even half seems like hoping for too much.

[His voice is quiet there, almost a mutter, but he shakes his head.]

I'm sorry. Truly. You wanted to meet that boy again and I don't think I'm much like that at all anymore.

It was not my intent to disappoint you.

No. That's not it at all.

[ She gives his hand a gentle squeeze. ]

I came here to meet Aran Voliere, whoever that man might be. You could never disappoint me. And however much you've changed, you're still the same in all the ways that really matter.

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[It gives him pause. Honestly, he can't imagine looking for the boy who had left the orphanage and finding the man he was now instead, and not being disappointed. But she's earnest. To a fault, really.]

You really think that? You must be seeing something I'm missing.

...But then, my vision isn't exactly as good as it used to be.

Of course I do.

[ Her smile is faint and a little weary, but it's a smile nonetheless. ]

I can't pretend to know what you've done or what's happened to you. But I do know that if you were anywhere close to as loathsome or as worthless as you think yourself, then you wouldn't be sitting here with me, insisting that you deserve to suffer, or that your sins are too great to repent from.

You knew what you were doing was wrong. You regret it and you've given so much of yourself to this country and its people to make up for that. You're not half the man I knew – you're twice that, and more besides.

...Hm. You're definitely seeing something I can't.

[What must he be missing out on, with only half his vision? Apparently a lot.]

You're stubborn. I can already tell, I can't defeat you on this point. It would be foolish to try. [And then something weird happens? His face, it does this thing, it's... odd, really. But that expression on his face, it looks...

It looks almost like an actual smile?] You haven't changed.

[DISASTROUS CRASHING NOISES AS LULU FALLS OFF THE TABLE ACROSS THE WAY]

YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SIGHT THE SACRED MOON'S RADIANT LIGHT HAS SHONE UPON, MY FRIENDS!

[Confused Celadon blinking. Her scrying only allows her to get a rough sketch of her surroundings, in place of vision, and fine details like facial expressions are generally lost. But, she could almost swear that...]

Could his face... always do that? Did it do it before, and I forgot?

[She looks a lot more worried about this than she does about Lulu falling off the table. Then again, that probably happens a lot more often.]

Ah–

[ That... sounds like something to be concerned about? ]

Those... are your companions, aren't they?

[immediately crawling under the table to rejoin Celadon and Sophie, still at top fucking volume to make sure everybody above the table also gets to hear]

Certainly once or twice we have achieved almost this sort of divine miracle but never, Celadon, never under circumstances like this! Behold, my friend, it was—

[uses her two fingers to push the corners of celadon's mouth into a smile]

Do you understand? He has been cast with that very expression.

Celadon, O Seer, my most supernal friend, I call upon your aid and that of the very heavens; only they could answer a prayer borne of a situation so severe: Who is this celestial temptress and why is she so...small.

[Aran doesn't even turn his head, he just closes his eye and breathes deeply for a moment.]

Yes.

Yes, that would be them. [Another deep breath and he stands up.] Excuse me for a moment.

[Then he turns, and starts walking towards the table the others are at. And guess what?

Mom sure isn't smiling now.]

[continued crashing noises as lulu, blithe to all danger around her, pulls the tablecloth low enough to cover her and sophie and celadon while they titter excitedly from underneath]

[Immediately, as though this is the only logical response:]

Why is Aran tall? She's small for the same reason.

[Celadon tilts her head, unseeing eyes widening in awe. She pats the corners of her mouth experimentally, as if trying to figure out how the expression fits together.]

And he didn't even need the fingers...

[Aran is so talented, he can smile without help. This is clearly very impressive.]

For the same reason... Celadon, you are an endless font of wisdom.

It's like they're made for each other...

[ A DREAMY SIGH ]

Ah, don't worry.

I've got it handled.

[He's just walking straight towards the table. Oh boy.]

Understood...

[She goes to look at...

Sophie, and Celadon?]

... Wait. Where did Lulu go?

...Oh no.

[This does not bode well.]

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