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Mayo - 21 | “This world spins ‘round, but I be here to stay. And I got dreams I’ll follow some fine day…” - Kapp’n, Animal Crossing

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Mayo's Masterlist

Requests Are: Open (Headcanons only)

He-Man: MOTU - Adam Glenn

Pining Amongst the Trees - Fem!Reader

Whisked away on an adventure far away from your home, you find yourself questioning your role in the whole journey. Adam reassures his "partner in crime" and you finally tell him how you really feel about him.

Questions and Questions - Geek!Reader

After nearly a month in space, Adam has ended up on your front step fearing the worst. Much to his relief you are obsessed with your space prince boyfriend and want to know everything about him and his planet.

Cuddling with Adam Headcanons

Adam Glenn Kissing Headcanons

Small Miracles - Fem!Witch!Reader

You believed in small miracles. You could do magic. Your best friend was a space prince. And you were madly in love with him. But Adam liking you back had to be a big miracle, and you didn't believe in those.

And They Were Roommates - Roommate!Reader

You and Adam had been roommates for a good long while before he vanished off the face of the Earth. He comes back for you and offers you a tour of Eternia, but you can’t help but wonder where you should truly stay.

Being the First One to Believe Him ( HCs)

Shattered Memories

The sword was broken and Skeletor was in his head, and Adam had no clue what to trust anymore. He didn't betray you, did he? He didn't betray his planet? Right?

Supportive Boyfriend Adam (Chronic Pain HCs)

Other Friends - Jealous!Adam

Adam was so glad to see you getting on well with the other Eternians. You appear to be getting along with Dian swimmigly well, and Adam can’t stand thinking that he missed his chance to confess.

Newsies

Study Sessions - College! Davey Jacobs x Reader

Romance was the furthest thing from your mind, but being assigned a partner project with a pretty boy forces it to the front, and boy, you're a goner.

On the Hallway Floor - College! Racetrack Higgins x Reader

You had been stupid to think that a guy would ask you out simply because he wanted to go out with you. But knowing that you could never have Race, your best friend, left you trying to get over him, and maybe taking another man to the Spring Formal was the solution.

Also check me out on Archive of our Own!

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L. V., exhumed writings

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Temporarily closing my fic requests but leaving hc requests open due to my trip and the time difference between the two.

Still feel free to ask questions and leave thoughts and ask for hcs I will just not be able to get to any new fic requests for a couple of weeks so that I can get through the ones I have.

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I gotta start writing Peter Parker again these trailers are stressing him out I need to see him happy-

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Saw this on instagram and had to put it here to manifest please please please ple-

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Just saw your Halloween thing with Adam again and it made me think… what holidays do they have on eternia? And would he want to do them on earth before he finds the sword? Or does he teach you all about them but he hasn’t tried to re create them so you set it up as best as you can and when he comes home he’s just in awe that someone would care enough to not only listen to his stories but actually take the time to make the decorations or the food? He would be in tears I’m 1000% sure. Also it could be for roommate!Adam but I think it’s funnier if he lives alone and they’re neighbors and she breaks into his apartment to set everything up while he’s gone at work 😂 like he’d probably give her a key but breaking and entering is just so much funnier but also shows him that she was so willing to do this for him that she literally picked his lock 😅

Oh gosh (positive) the holiday implications on Eternia would require a lot of knowledge of the planets history and calendar cycle.

(About to make something completely up) (Call this creative writing) (Im so excited to do this)

Ok so we need to wipe all of our knowledge of any Earth Holiday but also retain common themes. Eternia would probably have some kind of veteran/soldier celebration. Probably some kind of kings day. Eternia probably has some sort of religeon, especially with the movie’s talks about the power of the gods so def some religious holidays in there. An incomplete list of ideas;

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Veteran’s Day - Serves a similar purpose to the US Veteran’s day. A day of celebration and also a day where the king/queen often awards highly decorated soldiers from the year with medals and honors. Seeing as Eternia has a resident villain, dragons, and lots of threats to civilians, these awards are often very varied and some go years without being granted. This day is also common for soldiers to be sworn in or retire, and the newcomers and old timers are celebrated with family or community feasts.

Kings day - Less important than veteran’s day by a long shot. This day is often used politically to discuss the works of the king over the past calendar year. This day is commonly reserved for the people, allowing citizens to freely enter the palace to bring grievances for the king the entire day. This is always an option but this is the only day that the king is garunteed to be free and available all day for the service. Often the royal family hosts a feast for all of the people of Eternos, and individual towns host their own town-wide feasts.

Greyskull Holiday(?) - A day of family gathering and celebration to thank the ancestors and Greyskull for another year of protection. Families give each other gifts, often to symbolize prosperity and protection. Ornate blades or guns are common but so are decorative charms, certain types of food, and other gifts that are more symbolic than practical. This is a common day for Eternian proposals because their presence is also considered a gift.

Solstice holidays - No clue what traditions would be held around these but I do think that there would be holidays.

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Adam does in fact celebrate on Earth… in his own way. It’s tough because the Earth and Eternian calendars don’t line up, but he tries.

Veteran’s day is often spent alone in his room, looking over his drawings of the heros who he left behind. As he is a prince he keeps a list of awards that are owed to both the survivors and the dead. If you ever did anything to commemorate this day I think he’d break down and you would spend the rest of the night letting him talk about the guilt he feels at leaving and all of the stories of the brave soliders that he knew.

He doesn’t do much for king’s day, but he’ll try to replicate his dad’s favorite meal. He would not tell you about king’s day.

Greyskull holiday is the one he’d share with the people around him. It’s nowhere near Christmas, but he’ll celebrate it around that time just because people have more time off to celebrate. (He buys the gifts during the actual season and saves them). He can’t give you a sword in a normal way so you’ll probably accumulate a charm bracelet and a couple of very sturdy pairs of shoes. Adam is absolutely flabbergasted that there aren’t more people proposing around Christmas. He’d be absolutely beaming if you decorated and prepared for the holiday at the correct time. And if you presented him a gift? His most prized possession until the end of time. He’d start celebrating it at the right time with you every year there on out.

The good news is that the Earth also has solstaces! He’d teach you all of the Eternian traditions enthusiastically and go as far as to expect you to celebrate them with him each year. It would become a mish mash of Earth customs (if you have any) and Eternian customs as you two celebrate the days changing.

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Love the world building you’re doing. Eternia is so interesting and I would have liked to see more Eternian culture in the movie. Maybe as extra content bonus?

Especially Eternian wardrobe.

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YES THE WARDROBE. I literally work in costuming for theatre and stuff so I’m obsessed with the Eternian wardrobe. (Maybe I do reasearch and design some Eternian stuff soon because we get a fair amount in the movie to work with)

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Btw this is a long shot if anyone ever wants to read my original not fandom writing lmk I love critique.

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Love writing dialogue hate writing dialogue tags. Wym there needs to be action in between the words let them talk.

This is why I’m so good at writing scripts.

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Just saw your Halloween thing with Adam again and it made me think… what holidays do they have on eternia? And would he want to do them on earth before he finds the sword? Or does he teach you all about them but he hasn’t tried to re create them so you set it up as best as you can and when he comes home he’s just in awe that someone would care enough to not only listen to his stories but actually take the time to make the decorations or the food? He would be in tears I’m 1000% sure. Also it could be for roommate!Adam but I think it’s funnier if he lives alone and they’re neighbors and she breaks into his apartment to set everything up while he’s gone at work 😂 like he’d probably give her a key but breaking and entering is just so much funnier but also shows him that she was so willing to do this for him that she literally picked his lock 😅

Oh gosh (positive) the holiday implications on Eternia would require a lot of knowledge of the planets history and calendar cycle.

(About to make something completely up) (Call this creative writing) (Im so excited to do this)

Ok so we need to wipe all of our knowledge of any Earth Holiday but also retain common themes. Eternia would probably have some kind of veteran/soldier celebration. Probably some kind of kings day. Eternia probably has some sort of religeon, especially with the movie’s talks about the power of the gods so def some religious holidays in there. An incomplete list of ideas;

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Veteran’s Day - Serves a similar purpose to the US Veteran’s day. A day of celebration and also a day where the king/queen often awards highly decorated soldiers from the year with medals and honors. Seeing as Eternia has a resident villain, dragons, and lots of threats to civilians, these awards are often very varied and some go years without being granted. This day is also common for soldiers to be sworn in or retire, and the newcomers and old timers are celebrated with family or community feasts.

Kings day - Less important than veteran’s day by a long shot. This day is often used politically to discuss the works of the king over the past calendar year. This day is commonly reserved for the people, allowing citizens to freely enter the palace to bring grievances for the king the entire day. This is always an option but this is the only day that the king is garunteed to be free and available all day for the service. Often the royal family hosts a feast for all of the people of Eternos, and individual towns host their own town-wide feasts.

Greyskull Holiday(?) - A day of family gathering and celebration to thank the ancestors and Greyskull for another year of protection. Families give each other gifts, often to symbolize prosperity and protection. Ornate blades or guns are common but so are decorative charms, certain types of food, and other gifts that are more symbolic than practical. This is a common day for Eternian proposals because their presence is also considered a gift.

Solstice holidays - No clue what traditions would be held around these but I do think that there would be holidays.

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Adam does in fact celebrate on Earth… in his own way. It’s tough because the Earth and Eternian calendars don’t line up, but he tries.

Veteran’s day is often spent alone in his room, looking over his drawings of the heros who he left behind. As he is a prince he keeps a list of awards that are owed to both the survivors and the dead. If you ever did anything to commemorate this day I think he’d break down and you would spend the rest of the night letting him talk about the guilt he feels at leaving and all of the stories of the brave soliders that he knew.

He doesn’t do much for king’s day, but he’ll try to replicate his dad’s favorite meal. He would not tell you about king’s day.

Greyskull holiday is the one he’d share with the people around him. It’s nowhere near Christmas, but he’ll celebrate it around that time just because people have more time off to celebrate. (He buys the gifts during the actual season and saves them). He can’t give you a sword in a normal way so you’ll probably accumulate a charm bracelet and a couple of very sturdy pairs of shoes. Adam is absolutely flabbergasted that there aren’t more people proposing around Christmas. He’d be absolutely beaming if you decorated and prepared for the holiday at the correct time. And if you presented him a gift? His most prized possession until the end of time. He’d start celebrating it at the right time with you every year there on out.

The good news is that the Earth also has solstaces! He’d teach you all of the Eternian traditions enthusiastically and go as far as to expect you to celebrate them with him each year. It would become a mish mash of Earth customs (if you have any) and Eternian customs as you two celebrate the days changing.

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Do you think Adam is a dog or a cat person? I can see roommate!Adam and reader having maybe 2 or 3 cats (or 10 whenever they move to eternia and become a couple). And they pick out dorky names either from his home planet or starwars/marvel piggy backing off of your nerdy!adam post (I also think he would LOVE fantasy shows like the bbc Merlin tv show or lord of the rings. OR Harry Potter) but I could see him having a big orange fluffy cat named Thor and then a little black one named toothless (you CANNOT tell me he wouldn’t geek out over how to train your dragon) and he would buy little outfits to dress them up in for Halloween or just for a dedicated cat instagram account both of you made. He would be such a great cat dad 🥲

Adam is just a pet person. I genuinely believe he got a chinchilla when he first landed on Earth. He baby voices every single animal. Dogs, cats, squirrels, all of them get the falsetto baby voice.

That being said, as much as I can see Adam with a giant golden retriever, I do think your cat assessment is correct- I mean, he had a cat on Eternia even.

So many nerd name options for the cats; Thor, Toothless, Chewie, he might even go as far as to name them after Magic the Gathering characters tbh. Adam and his fuckass cat named Flubs the Fool. Whatever he’d do I do think he’d like matching names. I mean come on he gave everyone on Eternia semi-matching nicknames!

Adam would in my mind have two cats because he doesn’t think that any animal should be holed up in the house alone. And with my thought of matching names (of which you do not need to subscribe to) I think the clear names would be Thor and Loki.

He WOULD dress them up for Halloween in a way that either coordinates with his costume or with their names. He’d be so devastated about Loki not liking his little horned hat.

As for the fantasy stuff, I do think he’d bode, and I do think he’d be particularly drawn to the kingdomly stuff like Merlin and LOTR. He’s drawn to it because he sees himself in it. Same with HTTYD with the whole plot about Hiccup pleasing his Dad. But Adam’s true love will always be sci-fi.

Adam WOULD like HTTYD but he’d fail on account of not being a music guy, he would not appreciate the score as much as he maybe should so if you’re like me you'd have to sit down and mansplain music to him.

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If you and I have been talking in the comments for like two weeks now and you just got a follow request from me I am so sorry I had assumed we were already beloved moots

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Still thinking about this post (@certifiedsadgirlclub ) with Coworker!Adam only one bed au and I just have to keep going guys-

So naturally after that trip you didn’t hate him anymore… but little to your knowledge his little crush on you turned into a big fat crush on you. Like, blushing when you look at him, stumbling over words when he talks to you type crush.

And I love idiots in love so naturally you don’t notice. Your feelings for him creep up slowly as “wow! Adam brought you your favorite coffee to your desk, wow how did he know that?” or “you forgot your umbrella and its pouring so he offers to walk you home and hes just so tall and wide that he has to have his whole shoulder pressed against you to keep both of you dry” and a million incidents like that.

You don’t realize your affections until one day he stands up for you in a team meeting. The issue isn’t really important aside from being completely stupid, and your protests are met with threats of a chat with the boss and Adam is nearly our of his chair taking your side and making clever arguments that you were too worked up to piece together

And maybe you two end up by the printer conveniently at the same time. And maybe it’s tucked in a corner. And maybe you walk him right up to the table next to it, hand on each side of his slutty little waist and you kiss him right on the mouth hard and brief. And before he has time to process what just happened you’re walking away, papers in hand, while he’s standing there face red feeling as though fireworks have gone off in his chest.

And the starstruck confusion that was in his eyes is on your mind the rest of the day. And when he asks you out there’s only one correct answer.

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i suck at writing anything and have never made a fic request so take this as you will but

request: anything with dorky, geeky, awkward adam and/or reader makes him watch marvel/star wars/dc/etc

cus the notebook movie exists in masters of the universe so star wars/marvel/dc has to? right?

So fun fact you guys He-Man as a franchise was made to rival star wars like it was made as a response so-

Geeky Adam Glenn

You met Adam in middle school. The poor boy didn’t really have many friends due to his constant insistence on Eternia.

You were new and had heard about him, but weren’t bothered by his stories.

When you had first heard them firsthand you had laughed, “You sound like Luke Skywalker.”

”Who?”

Naturally you two awkward little preteens had to sit down and binge them all at a sleepover.

You pointed out all of the similarities between him and Luke No parents, hidden away in space, powerful sword, blonde hair and so on so forth.

You could see the same sparkle in his eye watching Star Wars that you could see when he was discussing Ram Man or Fisto, Adam adored it.

Sure, it wasn’t exactly the same to his home, but seeing something unearthly, seeing Luke have to be the last jedi as he was the last remaining of his line (to his knowledge)… it brought him comfort

Plus it was right down his lane! He had already given his childhood heros kooky names, this guy was a geek before he even had a chance to step foot on Earth.

Of course then as you two grew together, the MCU became wildly popular in middle school, and once again you found yourselves binging movies at your place.

He especially liked Guardians of the Galaxy, again, the comfort of being out of place in the universe appealed to him!

He’d draw hero sonas of both you and him. Like he knows what his power would be but he’d also make up an entire super hero for you. He’d even like tailor it to your personality with the design and the backstory.

His hero sona is He-Man. If that wasn’t obvious.

As you guys hit adulthood, cons man. Adam would cosplay. I’ve discussed in the past how he’d do Halloween and Ren Faires, cons are in that group.

WOULD cosplay as Luke and ask you to cosplay with him.

At this point his feelings would be in full swing so he would be a bit odd if you chose Leia

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 comes out and you give him eternal shit about “golden space boy Adam”

Your first kiss would be at a binge night. Btw. It would be that sightly awkward “staring at you while the movie is on”. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. He’d get better at timing.

I think his favorite series would actually be Dr Who. About a lone alien separated from his people traveling the universe.

He thinks of you as the Rose to his Tenth Doctor.

This also means that when he gets home he already has a nerdy nickname for you.

Also- that sword, in the geek store? Not his first time by far. He and you had frequented other stores so much that the clerks knew your names. He had just never been to that one.

Would have a few Magic the Gathering decks. Its a cascading effect of you can’t be a geek about one thing without being a geek about a million things.

So yeah, he was a geek before he met you but man you catalyzed it.

As always if youd prefer a full fic instead of hcs lmk!!

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Ok I had to make some rlly low quality and bad photo edits of this but you guys… plate mail Adam Glenn I CAN’T

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Going on a trip with your coworkers including your office nemesis Adam Glenn. You didn’t hate him you were just annoyed about how lenient they were with him while he clearly slacked on the job. And everyone just seemed to like the guy despite that?

Anyways the claimed that roommates were assigned, but you saw many friends rooming together while you got stuck with Adam. Even more shocking, considering the workplace emphasis on boundaries and consent… there was only one bed.

Adam, being who he was offered to sleep on the floor. However you were well aware that at the hight he stood, that would kill his back, and as much as he annoyed you, you didn’t want him to suffer the whole trip.

“It’s fine, you can take it.” You muttered, throwing your bag down.

He looked at you like a scared horse, “You don’t sound like it’s fine.”

Push comes to shove and you both end up laying on the floor, bed untouched. Because he refuses to sleep in the bed, but so do you. You finally call across the room, “This is dumb. If we’re both on the floor why don’t we just both use the bed.”

You can practically hear his brain shirt circuit, “What… what do you- uh- mean by that?”

“Its a big bed.” You called.

It was a big bed, but you had failed to consider that Adam was also a big man.

The first morning you woke up, limbs tangled with his, warmth radiating off of him, and light snores escaping from his mouth.

You had jumped, fallen out of the bed, and woken him up in the process.

The second night you two somehow ended up back in the bed, just talking. It was far too late in the night to responsibly be awake, but neither of you mentioned it.

He told you about how he had lost his parents when he was young, although he stayed vague about exactly how they died. He told you that the sword he was searching for on the clock was the last thing they left for him.

You told him your own woes, and when you woke up, limbs again tangled, you didn’t mind. You still scrambled away when he started to stir.

Maybe Adam Glenn wasn’t so bad.

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happy pride month !

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omg thank you for feeding the adam glenn x reader tag <3 could I request a jealous!Adam or a jealous!Reader that leads to one of them confessing their feelings please?

Other Friends

A/N: This is just me soft launching my crush on Dian actually. Also I hope this isn’t ooc and guys I hope you know how hard it is to write jealosy as I have just learned. I decided to make it Adam’s pov and confession since I always seem to put the reader in the hot seat and y/n needs a break——————————————————————

It warmed Adam’s heart to see you get on so well with the Eternians. He had been so nervous to bring you back to his strange and foreign home planet, especially from the comfort of Earth.

He had laid awake at night asking the universe what he’d do if you had refused to come with, or if you didn’t want to stay. How could he appreciate the beauty of his home without you there to witness it? How could he be the hero of the universe if he couldn’t come home to the safety of your presence at the end of the day? The feeling had sat in his throat like a lump, tearing his heart out in the process. And when he had asked you he felt like he was going to throw up. He hadn’t really figured out what he could do if you said no.

Not that you owe him entirely uprooting your life and moving to a place far away from your own family and friends just for his sake. You two were just friends, as much as Adam craved more. He couldn’t ask you to move to Eternia and to love him. He couldn’t just keep asking and taking like that. Adam refused to be selfish, especially when it came to you.

But the smile on your face and the way you pulled him into a hug had every fear of Adam’s evaporating. Of course you’d say yes, you two were as close as a bee and a flower.

Being here now Adam had no regrets in asking you to come. He had thrown a party to greet you, inviting all of his closest friends. You had landed in the spaceship and had been greeted with the Eternos plaza decked out in lights and other decorations, filled with laughter and people and food, all due to Adam’s arrangement.

He told himself he wouldn’t stay glued to you the whole night (unless you wanted him to), and he didn’t. Yeah, you two stayed by each other most of the party, but there were points where he felt comfortable enough stepping away to grab a drink or a treat, always for you of course.

One of these times, Adam had secured the goods and had turned back to find out where you had gone, only to find you sharing a hearty laugh with Dian. Truth be told, despite his total faith in her as a warrior and his appreciation of her as an old acquaintance, Adam didn’t know Dian that well. What he did know is that you seemed more at ease talking to her than you had with anyone else, letting out a loud laugh across the plaza as he looked.

What had she said? Or were you laughing at your own joke perhaps?

You turned and saw Adam across the plaza, and with an easygoing grin you waved him over. He couldn’t help but smile at your joy.

“Dian offered to give me a tour of the city, would you be bothered if I went?” You asked, a sparkle in your eye.

Adam’s heart dropped. He had been planning on giving you a tour later that night, expecting the golden lighting of the city at night to be rather romantic. He hadn’t told you of course, and so he couldn’t be mad that you were wanting to go with someone else. And he couldn’t hog your attention the entire night… right?

You must have noticed a change in his demeanor, “…or I can just stick around here tonight. I know this party is for me and all and I really appreciate it! I’m just so excited to see everything.”

And the way you smiled at him… Adam had to let you go. It was selfish of him to want to be the one to show you everything. He couldn’t expect to be the only person you interacted with if you were to be living here permanently.

He let you go. He didn’t want to.

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Adam couldn’t complain as the days, and then weeks passed, most of your time was spent with him and he couldn’t ask for more. But the envy crept in nonetheless much to his dismay.

“Hey Adam! Dian invited me to sleep over at her place tonight, so I’ll be back in the morning if that’s ok” You said after swinging into the doorway of his room.

Adam just gave you a choked smile. The only think he could think aboht was that you lived in the palace and you never had sleepovers with him. 

“I’ll see you tomorrow then.” His smile dropped as you nodded and walked out. He didn’t see that your smile dropped as well at his apparent gloominess.

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The planet was once again safe due to He-Man. Adam had found Evil-Lyn on the far side of the planet harboring a skull that looked suspiciously familiar. He had, naturally, kicked her but and sent her running, but it had taken him longer than he thought to clean out the croonies and the spells she had cast.

All he could think of was getting to rest, a slow night in the castle, maybe watching a movie with you (Teela rigged some satellites to get it that far).

As he stepped foot back into the city, you came running to him excitedly, holding a training sword. Adam immediately noticed Dian in tow holding a sword of your own.

You threw your arms out and pulled him into a hug, “I’m so glad you’re safe!” 

Adam’s smile was real as he squeezed his arms around you. This is exactly what he had needed. The two of you held the hug for longer than friends maybe should have, but nobody was going to say anything.

You pulled away first, bringing your sword up to show him, “Dian has been teaching me some self defense while you’ve been gone.” You grinned proudly, flourishing the sword a bit.

And gosh Adam was so enamored with your excitement, but the envy still swelled in his throat. You had gotten an entire week of bonding time with Dian, and she had cleverly thought to teach you self defense. He hadn’t thought of that.

In that moment, Adam felt like you were growing away from him. What else didn’t you get up to when he had to take such long adventures?

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“You like em, don’t you?” Dian asked.

Adam stuttered, trying to act nonchalant, “Of course I do, don’t you love your friends?”

Dian side eyed him, “Well yeah, but even I don’t look at my friends like that.”

“Well they look at you like that.” Adam snipped.

Dian’s eyebrows went up, “You think so?” She laughed, amused, “Well I was going to let you have your happy ending, but if you insist…” 

Adam missed the humored grin she shot him as he turned away.

“They already moved their entire life for me,” he said quietly, “I can’t… I couldn’t.”

“Couldn’t what?” 

Adam’s jaw ticked as he furrowed his brow, “I couldn’t ask them to want me. They will do what they please.”

Dian continued to smile, “And who said they don’t want you?”

Adam glanced over at Dian, looking like a kicked puppy. “They only stick around me because they’ve known me the longest. Clearly you’ve enraptured them with how much they talk about you.”

Dian shrugged, “Your loss.”

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Adam stood at the edge of the bridge, looking over the endlessly rushing water, barreling out to the distant invisible sea. 

He was sulking.

It was quite odd as Adam was not the sulking type. But this wasn’t the dark eyed angry brooding, no. Adam felt a deep grief in his soul, as if he had already lost something that he’d never had. Surely if Dian had the intention to make a move on you it would have been done by now. She surely seemed serious the night she had asked him about it. Adam was sure that she had just been checking on your availability.

He wouldn’t go to your wedding. He’d refuse.

No, he’d go. You’re his best friend. But he’d show up late and stand in the back and give you a tight smile.

No, Adam wouldn’t do that either.

He’d be happy for you. Because all he wanted was for you to be happy…. even if he wanted that joy to come from him rather than another.

“I haven’t seen you this intense since that scammer lied to you about your sword.” You quipped, approaching from a distance.

Adam tried to play it off, none of this was your fault, “I’m just thinking. Surely every good hero needs to sulk every once and a while.”

You drew near and leaned against the railing, “Not my hero.”

Adam would’ve normally gotten flustered, but your cheery mood only confirmed what he had feared most, he was sure of it. The poor boy felt sick.

“I think Dian does her fair share of sulking. I’ve seen it.”

Your eyebrows furrowed with confusion, “What does Dian have to do with it?”

Adam pushed himself up so that he was leaning against his hands rather than his elbows, “Look, I… I know she asked you out, and I know that you’re very fond of her and I’m haply for you two, I really am-“

“Where did you hear that?”

“She told me.” Adam swallowed thickly. He was trying so hard to hype you up and your confusion was only saddening and confusing him more.

You raised your eyebrows, “She did?” You sounded conpletely lost.

“Well- no.” Adam ran a single hand to get his bangs out if his eyes, “but it was highly implied.”

You looked beautiful. It didn’t matter if you weren’t his he still thought so. Wearing clothes in the color he knew you liked, in the styles he figured you’d love to wear. Your hair done up in a style that was somehow so painfully Eternian but also Earthian. And as the sunset Adam pretended that you had sought him out because you cared about him.

“Adam. Do you think I like Dian?”

Adam couldn’t bring himself to face you, hanging his head and sending his hair cascading right back down into his face, “Of course you do!” his voice raised a pitch, “You talk about her all the time, you spend so much time with her, you sleep over at her olace constantly. And I get it, she’s really cool and you’ve always admired that about her.” His voice was raising slowly, his feelings wanting to burst out of his chest.

“And that means that I like her?” Your voice raised to match his, not quite yelling, but tense, “So don’t you think that me talking about you all the time, and spending all of my time with you when you’re around, and living with you and thinking that you’re really cool must mean something?” You still looked confused, but now there was frustration too. 

Adam had never seen you frustrated with him.

“Well you do that because… well because I’m the only person you know from Earth.” he argued weakly.

Your anger broke as fast as it had come, replaced by the hurt that Adam himself felt, “Adam we were best friends on Earth… or at least I thought we were.”

“Well- we were.”

“Then why the hell are you acting like we’re not?”

Adam felt shaky, “Because its selfish of me to expect that from you.”

“Expect what?” Your voice was slowly rising again.

Adam swallowed, “Well to expect that you would want to be around me all the time.” His voice was raising in response.

You paused. Then you exploded, “OF COURSE I want to be around you all the time Adam! Why the hell do you think I’d move to fucking space if I had just thought of you as some random guy?! Why the hell would I live with you? Why would I even bother if you were anything but the most important person in my life?”

Adam opened his mouth, but found no response.

“-And now I go get a singular friend and you suddenly assume that I’m… what? Dating her?”

“No, I assumed she asked you out.”

“Why would it matter Adam?”

“Because I’ve been in love with you for years!” Adam finally burst out, too tired of the ache in his chest and too backed into a corner to talk about it.

And suddenly it was done. He had done the most selfish thing he could ever ask from you. He had revealed his second want.

Your expression had paused, stuck in its frustration, before softening, “Do you mean it?”

Adam felt tears prick at his eyes, “I don’t think I can lie to you.”

Your hand found its way to his on the railing, “Why didn’t you just tell me you big goof? Dian has been teasing me about your feelings for weeks now.”

Adam half looked at you, no clue where you were going with this, “Then why didn’t you do anything.”

“I just couldn’t tell if you were just my best friend or if she was telling the truth.”

Adam let out a watery laugh, “I asked you to move across the universe for me.”

You nodded, smiling contentedly at him, “Well I suppose it’s my turn then to ask something of you.”

Adam’s heart rattled in his chest hopefully.

“Would you want to get dinner sometime?”

Adam looked over at you, grinning and feeling like he had just won the lottery, “Only if you sleep over with me afterwords.”

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