(Skype conversation on Saago’s still-growing horns having sensitive roots)
Jeredu: I wonder if it’s the kind of thing where touching them would also subdue him, making it a safety issue, too… like the scruff of the neck on puppies/kittens, when the mother picks them up, they kinda involuntarily go still. it’s a hardwired thing. Saago would see it as a liability, thus the helmet. It turns this into another intimacy thing, if he takes the helmet off around Mushra, because that would be showing a weakness (for the time being) (until they grow in properly)
Jeredu: like “I trust you not to take advantage of me if I let my weakness show”… that sort of thing
(Skype conversation explaining my headcanon of how Sago and Mushra met)
J: I bet he started wearing the helmet because of an incident.
J: Maybe some bullies overpowered him; Mushra saw and saved him before anything could happen
Kingofbeartraps: loootsa bad memories
J: (the bullies overpowered him because they figured out that his horns were a weakness, and easily subdued him)
J: what if that’s how they met. Sago never told him about the horn thing, and that’s why Mushra is so interested, since he hasn’t seen Sago without the helmet since the day they met
Kingofbeartraps: when they were wee little kidlets
J: as kids, but even as a kid, I imagine that Mushra was a little terror. Probably an orphan, and he would come and bug Sago the next day after that incident and want to make friends, because Mushra has a good heart, and he would want to make sure Sago was okay.
J: and so they’d start spending time together, and become best friends
J: Sago learned to fight and outsmart his enemies so that they couldn’t overpower him again, with his smaller, lighter frame. Mushra took it upon himself to defend Sago; they would get into a lot of fights, because Sago got picked on, maybe for looking so delicate, and pretty, and human.
Kingofbeartraps: and Saago took it upon himself to help Mushra stop getting into trouble so much
J: right, being a moral guardian. And after he learned how to defend himself (sparring with Mushra), HE started being the protector
J: though, it wasn’t always obvious to Mushra, how Sago would steer him out of trouble, but Sago felt a fierce loyalty to Mushra, which originates from gratitude, but grew into a true friendship
Kingofbeartraps: I really like this headcanon
J: Mushra isn’t the sort to keep tally on that sort of thing, so he didn’t really think of Sago as indebted to him in any way, but he liked his company, especially since Sago was so clever… and when Sago’s powers started to manifest, Mushra was very supportive. I’m thinking at that point, they were living on their own, whether Sago had parents or not when they met
J: and so they grew really close, and Sago started developing feelings, but he kept them to himself, because he didn’t really want to worry about changing things up, so he just always put them aside, since Mushra was really important to him, and Mushra definitely wasn’t showing any signs of feeling THAT way.
J: (see, this is what I mean: I can whip out a synopsis with no preparation, but I struggle to write actual fic)
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