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[skinofalizard]

So, Anole has gotten something like 1200 comments in three weeks.

To celebrate, have a Relationship meme!

This is for Anole and Kanji and I guess if you want, Maya but she is backburner-y and doesn't get out much.

Comments

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8D

I don't know what this icon is

[skinofalizard.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I guess you're all right.








OH FINE HOLD ON I'LL DO A REAL ONE

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While I am waiting I have to give you the pat response of "I am a far cry better than "all right"" |D

[skinofalizard.livejournal.com]

While you are reading I have to give you the command

Now write one for me.

[skinofalizard.livejournal.com]

In terms of friendship, things are good. David is easy to talk to, and quick-witted, and doesn't stare at the arm, and all those good things. And he and Anole obviously have things in common. It is why he was so quick to say that no matter what happened re: makeout, they'd still be friends.

AS FOR THE MAKEOUTS, THOUGH...it is actually more complicated than you'd think!

Basically, Victor enjoys it but doesn't expect it to last at allllll. Not least because he knows David wants more than Victor can give him, re: the claw thing. Which kind of freaks him out, honestly. The light biting during the kisses is about as kinky as Victor gets, really. And even that took some getting used to.

On top of that, he kind of feels like if they did become serious/exclusive, David wouldn't be doing it because he really wants to, but because he just wants to make Victor happy. It doesn't seem to Victor that David really thinks about what he wants, especially not if David found it "considerate" that Anole was like "well yeah I want to kiss you but I am not the only lips involved here you know"

To say nothing of feelings of guilt for stealing ZEX's David...

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Right, yes. As for friends, Dave does really like Victor a lot -- in some ways he reminds him of Rush. He's not as, um, perky and zen as Rush can be, but there's some of the same really charming... small-town simpleness to him that David finds really refreshing, and that makes him easy to talk to. Which is not to say that Victor is Dave's Rush-replacement or anything, just that there are similar appealing things there.

As for the claws -- Dave's really good at relating to non-humans in camp because he's used to them being present, thought of as equals, etc etc. With mutants it feels like there is... still an "other"-ness, to them, one that Victor is aware of but that Dave keeps... sort of forgetting. So Victor has a carapace and claws and that's just part of who he is -- it made sense to encourage him to use/work with those features. Less of "I am making out with a human who would be normal except for those dangerous bits" and more "I am making out with a person who has natural dangerous bits". He would feel so bad about that if he knew Victor was still worried about that, and would say so if it came up again, because he really did mean it about being good with not. He suggested it, it was denied, and so he considers the topic closed, and he's okay with that.

The last is really a function of how we characterized both Dave and Rush while we played the game -- devoted to each other but also very casually poly (because so many of your side characters make starry-eyes and adorable noises at both Rush and Dave throughout); So Dave is fine with having one main relationship/person he devotes most of his attention to... and then around mistletoe (or, in the case of ZEX, just whenever) making out with other people. Having Victor not be okay with that set up makes David a little :(, because he does really like Victor a lot, just ...does not want to stop doing thing with ZEX, mainly for the reasons he said to Victor. We'll see. He's sort of turning the idea around in his head and poking at it from all angles. Rush showing back up in camp would make things super complicated, but since he isn't here, right now that's... not an issue and Dave is only going to kind of think about it.

...I really should stop tl;dring at you and essay in my own journal it's looking like, but ultimately David does really want to do things with Victor -- he's just not used to having to explicitly state that. He's marquis. He does things because he wants to (and, in the cases where he's doing them because he HAS to in canon, I feel like he makes his displeasure pretty known). He is also very used to people wanting to do things for him because THEY feel like they have to. As such, he's going to be way more about "if you'd like/if you want me to" than stating his own wants.

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Yeah, that's the thing with the claws. They're not 'normal' claws -- they can tear apart metal without any apparent difficulty. And then factor in (an undetermined amount of) superstrength, and...claws are bad.

As for monogamy, Anole isn't going to be open to the "monogamy + ZEX" option, because...doing that suggests that ZEX doesn't count. And he does! Or at least should, if he doesn't already. But like he said in the thread, slow is fine and it's not like they're at a point where it really matters yet, so. Yes.

And as for that last bit, aren't you the one who said you were glad you got to be equals with everyone here? :P

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Right; Dave hasn't really seen them in action, though, so. His context for claws is like... Torgal. Very deadly! But he has to use them every day for eating and casual touching and such, so. He can control how much damage they do.

Pretty much it sounds like David and Victor have different understandings of what "Poly" is, since Dave would never say or think that that somehow made ZEX not count, or unimportant. But yes. Slow. And... well they'll see.

YES. JUST. IT'S VERY INTERNALIZED OKAY