If I enter that water, I’ll never return from it

Baz | 20s | Baxter Ward’s bitch unfortunately

[sunset-blurb]

Pool by Paramore is soooo Baxter x MC btw

[almost-sweetmusic]

Baxter ward… im going to wardpost.

[sunset-blurb]

Long term relationship Baxter’s favorite term of endearment is your name. Especially if you typically go by a nickname. There’s something so intimate to him about calling you by your full first name. He will occasionally refer to you as “darling” or “my love”, but only adds them on after your name.

Baxter uses your name like a prayer. He’s not a religious man, but the way he says it is worshipful. Each utterance contains an unspoken “thank you”, a “this is real”, an “I love you”. It’s grounding for him. He had five years of wishing for a reason to say your name, and he wants to make up for every missed opportunity.

[sunset-blurb]

Post-breakup Baxter doesn’t drink often, much less alone. When he does, though, he always ends up stalking your socials on a burner account.

He doesn’t cry, doesn’t get mad. He just sits stoically, silently staring at each post for minutes at a time.

If he had replied to your texts, would he have seen those photos in his messages before you posted them? Would you have told him all the stories that accompanied them, peppering in details that weren’t in the captions?

It doesn’t matter. You’re obviously happy, and that’s all he wanted for you when he left. He reminds himself of that, even though his chest feels more constricted with each swipe of his thumb over the screen.

He should stop doing this.

He doesn’t.

Every time he drinks, he thinks of champagne and hastily made cupcakes. He thinks of peach bellinis and communication errors. He thinks of peppermint tea and darkened hotel rooms.

He thinks of summer.

He thinks of you.

[sunset-blurb]

[sunset-blurb]

Just learned that if you play rock-paper-scissors during Boating and end up playing against Baxter, who we know always chooses rock, you can ALSO always choose rock and create an infinite loop of tied games

[nobieka]

i wonder if qiu and ren know about baxter’s crappy parents because they used to go to his house a lot in step 1… anyway i made art of it

[aspenskates1]

[now-and-4ever]

MC and Cove are doing laundry together.

MC, out of nowhere: Cove Folden.

Cove: *sighs*

[hadraws-11]

Clifford coded 💸🧐

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[cynosimulacra]

so you know how baxter and the mc are baking those cupcakes for miranda's birthday literally the night before? i just imagine both of them going "we are NEVER gonna do something like this again" because as someone who bakes occasionally i know it can easily drain the energy out of you. especially when it's the night before and there's decoration on top of it.

then five years later, again, they have to bake- not cupcakes- but an ACTUAL cake at night this time. i just have this one audio in mind that goes "i can finally leave! martha i'm coming home sweetie- I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN..."

[thebluestlemonade]

can u guys tell I’m excited for step 2………

[thebluestlemonade]

[toucansafari]

Hey, hey Mr. Baxter Ward sir, care to explain why your bedroom and living room use the same colours as your rented condo at Sunset Bird?

(I know that the bg artist for the game uses orange and blue often, but I feel this is intentional)

(also apologies if all this has already been pointed out)

His guest room is so much more in line with his monochrome colour scheme.

It makes me think he intentionally decorated his personal spaces to remind him a little of that particular summer.

[thememedaddy]

[mycurrentobsessionis]

or alternately, these two +Franky.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

fireflies honestly make me cry a little. out of gratitude and wonder. thank goodness we live in a world with bioluminescence. thank goodness we live in a world where it can fly.

[softplushiee]