have you ever written Angel/Taushin from one of their povs? Im so curious at what their private moments are like, I love what we see from E's pov. How do they communicate with just the two of them? Do they have pet peeves/get on each other nerves with bad habits? Anything Angel can get away with by being cute? Does Angel know hes cute? Who gets up and takes care of a rouge spider in the night? I adore the codependency and all the illustrations of Angel comforting T. thats his pet 😢
Thank you!!! Absolutely! I mentioned it in a recent ask, but the original draft of Dancing With Death had Angel, Emery, and Nischal as POVers, and my biggest improvement was making it only Emery's POV. The other POVs tended to make it too clear what Taushin was like, when I wanted the slow discovery through Emery's POV to be more thrilling.
There's actually only one scene from the OG version I've thought about releasing to the public (with some edits) between Angel and Taushin. It has a lot of surrounding context that would mean nothing to the current version of the story and Angel is a little OOC, but I might see what I can do with it to make it readable. Other than that, I'm saving all of it for the prequel!
Trust me, I care deeply about Taushin and Angel in private, so if certain things I'd like to explore don't make it into the canon storylines, I will be writing them SOMEWHERE to post for whoever wants them. <3
To answer your questions (cute btw!):
-How do they communicate? BODY LANGUAGE. Since Angel prefers not to speak, Taushin mainly talks to him and for him, while Angel emotes like a pet would, giving one-word replies when he feels like it. There's a lot of physical affection from Angel, and a lot of Taushin ignoring it while doing other tasks. Angel is just there. He doesn't get needy for attention often, because he's extremely in tune with the fact that Taushin is always paying attention to him. He can make the slightest move and Taushin will notice, but they like to play games with each other where Taushin pretends he doesn't, and then Angel does bigger and bigger things until he gets scolded for it.
-Do they have pet peeves/get on each other nerves with bad habits? Yes, but it's complicated. They're exact opposites in big ways, which can cause conflict depending on the day. I can't say everything I'd like to without spoiling, so bear with me! To put it vaguely, Angel sometimes likes provoking Taushin, and he knows every trigger Taushin has, so he might get a little carried away if he's feeling deprived. If he gets carried away, Taushin gets really violent. The tricky part is that Angel will take literally any treatment at all, especially when he can see it's doing something for his master. Since Taushin represses emotions, Angel provokes them out of him so they can both feel something.
-Anything Angel can get away with by being cute? Quite a bit more than you might expect, actually. He's been known to tell Taushin what to do!
-Does Angel know he's cute? In the same way your cat knows he's cute, yes! He struggles with awareness of his body and humanity, so the concept of "being cute" is what he experiences based on how people react to him. If he's told he's cute, he gets it, but only engages with the concept through learned behaviors.
-Who gets up and takes care of a rouge spider in the night? It depends! Angel might play coy and make Taushin do it (because he wants Taushin to feel big and strong, which Taushin knows and indulges), or he might be in feral mode and go after it himself.
Whatever they do, they're always intensely aware of what the other is doing, and they both go along with it in whichever role they want to play. That's the main rule of their relationship.
