how would awakardak characters respond if someone confessed their love to them? asking for a friend
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the response obviously depends on how mutual the feeling is, but to give you a general idea:
verum would be super confused and lost, as she'd never ever engaged in romance in her life. even with mactare, she hardly can call it love; all her devotion is directed at her goddess, so unless you're astrum herself, you're going to be met with a very gentle, yet undeniable rejection. there is this kind of motherly love she has for every member of the church, and she might become more attentive to you after the confession as to at least somehow heal your broken heart, but there is no way her feelings for a living person will match her homoerotic religious yearning for astrum. platonic, queerplatonic and so on attractions will be met with the exact same reaction. tldr: you stand no chance.
contra's potential reaction ranges from turning around and leaving without a word to punching you to actually accepting your feelings and starting dating you. postironically. contra's potential behavior as your partner ranges from actively ruining your life by all means possible just for fun to actually being a pretty decent boygirlfriend for you right untill she gets bored and breaks up with you anyway. in every outcome, you WILL be mocked for confessing to her for the rest of your life. if your love is platonic, she will ask you to stop inventing funny names for friendship. she's also not your friend so fuck you. ironically, you will be met with much more resistance in that case, as platonic love is the one she's actually able to reciprocate, but she HATES acknowledging her attachments, so you'd be better off just not putting any labels at all to whatever you have going on with her. tldr: just don't.
catul would reflectively say something like "as you should" all while quickly getting flustered and awkward as hell. this man CANNOT survive romantic (or platonic, or qp, or literally anything else) attention. he doesn't know what to do with it, his perception of intimacy is fucked up. he'd much rather have you on your knees praying to him, not LOVING him as a person. he'd probably just run away, saying that he needs to think about it. and he would! he would genuinely consider it! he can be a surprisingly well-adjusted human being when he's treated like one, even if he himself discourages others from seeing him as an actual person. and hell, i'd even go as far as to say that he would make a nice partner! in short, the man would be blushing a lot, but you actually have some chances.
since mactare's whole being is to be anything and everything others want them to be, there's a high chance that even if they're not into you, they'll accept your feelings and at least try to reciprocate. they might not agree to date you right away; they can even say that it's not possible for you to be with them for whatever reason, but whatever kind of attention you'll ask of them, they will provide to the best of their abilities. regardless of their feelings, you'll be always able to get their body, their time, their affection - even if you two aren't together, especially if you aren't together, since they will feel the need to "compensate" for their rejection to you. they won't outright lie to you, they're not deceptive, but they are nothing if not pleasing. it barely matters what their actual feelings are here.
i'll go shorter now - feel free to ask me to expand on any character i've missed/haven't described in much detail.
head of the church would be deeply flattered. you're probably too young for her, though. otherwise, she'd be truly thrilled to have a partner! qpr could've saved her.
vito would mercilessly reject you in case of romantic affection, visibly annoyed, but platonic/queerplatonic love is something she'd get rather sentimental about and actually appreciate a lot. even if she doesn't like you, having someone who cares about her is incredibly valuable to her.
both proto and tespis would be really smug about it. remors would look at you with his miserable tired eyes and ask whether you're sure about it. he may actually give it a go if he likes you, otherwise he'll be pretty straightforward in his rejection. x would be giddy and super flattered and super smug about it as well. adorans is not my oc so marylii please write in the comments what her reaction would be <333