This is post outbreak— TBH, I can’t see him pursuing more than like a FWB situation pre-outbreak. He seems to be very occupied with Sarah and with work.
I’m still early in the game. I just got to the hotel; so my opinions may change.
Small gestures are what lead you to believing he might care for you- at all, really
Heavier logs on your side of the fire
Leaving the last piece of food for you
A hand pushing you forward as you run from a hoard of clickers
Eventually, he warms up. Subtly trying to get to know you better.
I see him being a big acts of service and physical touch guy.
But not in the PDA way or overt affection way
More like a hand on your shoulder, gently patting your cheek, a subtle hand on your lower back
His touch carries a weight and impact with it
When you’re more established in your relationship, the weight gets heavier.
Holding you to him after a particularly close call- for either party
Letting you sleep against him
Him reaching out for you in his sleep
For acts of service— I also think he likes to receive acts of service. Basically, a does it for you and you do it for him kind of thing.
Patching you up
Keeping an eye out for clothes and supplies for you
I feel like he would cut your hair for you if you asked. Not well, though and he would “complain” the whole time
On nights where he can’t sleep, he finds himself watching you and Ellie sleep. Thoughts bouncing from wholesome to heart wrenching.
Like, wondering what each of you would be doing if there had never been an outbreak
To remembering each time he almost lost the two of you
I think once you and Joel are more established, he finds himself finding comfort in tracing your features while you sleep
With that, I saw someone else say this an I agree. I can’t imagine him ever referring to you as a boyfriend, partner or a girlfriend, nor himself as a boyfriend. I think it’s an unspoken thing. You both know what you are to each other, why label it? For a rose by any other name, would smell as sweet.
it can’t just be me who gets really tired of fandoms almost exclusively writing adult characters as an aged down version, right?
Like, I will be looking for fics of characters that are explicitly adults, like in their 30s, and i’ll mainly find like high school AU’s or college AU’s, but they still make the character like 18.
Or, they make the reader concerningly young, under 21, and the character their canon age. A few even where the reader is a minor??? Especially ones with more questionable power dynamics
I wanna read about the characters the way they actually are in the media. I wanna read about characters that are age appropriate for me. Like please, let me have them.
And to preface, I understand why a lot of people do it (aging characters down) and I don’t mind that people are doing it. I just get a little sad when it’s more than 70% of the fics written for the characters.
edit: I went to AO3, thinking maybe it’s just the platform recently. Tell me why one of the first fics was 15 y/o / 43 y/o SMUT????????
The current random brain worm is if Logan found an abandoned fawn in the woods and just raised it and named him Sue like the Johnny Cash song… i’ve been making it my warm ups.
And like what if I made a whole story about that instead of his man pain? Fucking what then??
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