#afk x reader

[teabunnee]

an afk writer, hi!!!! could i request something for bryon and mirael with a shy and/or petite s/o?

Petite and Shy S/O!

Byron 

He joins you. The guy isn’t shy per se, more anti-social and introverted. But he also prefers avoiding crowds. Maybe that’s how you bonded. 

Your height difference is quite stark, but Byron doesn’t always think about it. Sometimes a small smile grows on Byron’s face when you touch him and he remembers. He’s pretty protective. 

Protective guardian when you choose to be social, a constant shadow that checks up on you and probably knows your emotions better than yourself. 

Absolutely will get the thing from the top shelf for you. Hell, if you want to leave a crowded space, boom! You and Byron are gone. He tells you it’s not Wilder magic, but you dunno. 

Mirael 

You are so well protected. You never have to be in any sort of uncomfy situation with her around. 

Anyone that bothers you immediately runs away smelling of smoke while Mirael is taking care of you. If you don’t like confrontation, then she’s the epitome of “They’re not looking at you, they’re looking at me.”. She’ll distract them and keep you at her side. 

Mirael is definitely using her height to fluster you though. If you want, she can teach you a few spells to make life a little easier, but that might lead to a little, light teasing. Her favorite thing to do is to lean over until her hair and her hat completely blocking everything else, as she smiles at you with that familiar spark in her eyes. 

[teabunnee]

ok after reading what you wrote about korin this Idea popped into my head while out and about korin finds a younger lightbearer mage who gets attached to him and when they meet damien they just click and start bouncing ideas off each other and making crazy inventions

all platonic of course

think of it like this a mage/artificer the chaos potential is limitless

Korin, Lightbearer! Mage! Platonic!reader, and Damien!

You know, at some point Korin had imagined what it would be like to have kids. 

Not even necessarily a spouse, just, taking care of kids, being an instructor maybe. 

It didn’t seem likely, Korin was awkward and tended to talk to children the same way one would talk to an adult. 

Then he met you, a bright young mage who was fascinated with alternative ways of using magic, and was absolutely enchanted with how his arms worked. Innocently, he thought it would be nice to invite you to meet Damien. 

That was the start of the end. 

You and Damien got along like a quickvine in a compost heap, which is to say, excellently, uncontrollably and things spiralled out of control very quickly. 

You become Damien’s best friend. You start learning more about Wilder magic and Damien’s unique ideas of biological technology, while Damien learnt academic magic, the ideas of a thesis, and the fundamentals of how magic worked. (“So that’s why my juice machine exploded! I thought it was the pressure of all the fruit!”) 

As wholesome as it sounds, it also led to a massive increase in strange inventions. At least they explode less, but have you seen a giant self-driving wheelbarrow hurtling down a hill and almost crashing into the Lucent tree? 

The herbalist Dylan begged Korin to fix the mess he created, and so Korin ended up being a supervisor for the two of you. Sometimes he gets to be the test subject, his spear allows him to push buttons at a safe distance. 

He also becomes a mediator when the two of you argue. He can’t understand what exactly the two of you were arguing about, but he can appeal to your emotional sides and push for better communication. It works, surprisingly well, and soon the two of you are off making chaos again. 

Damien’s “promise” of getting Korin new arms rapidly gets fulfilled. He starts putting them in a small chest, he’s not sure what he would do with a set of “windmill arms” but maybe they will come in handy at some point. 

At some point I imagine you could bring some of your fellow students to Damien. It was a weird sight for the dusk patrollers to see Damien giving a lecture to a group of fervently listening people at least twice his age, all of them scribbling notes. 

Damien is having the time of his life! He goes over to Korin to thank him, sincerely, even giving him a hug. Korin froze and patted the kid’s head awkwardly. He felt…oddly warm, inside.