#clay x riptide

[hollowflight-propaganda]

Claytide save me.... save me Claytide......

[themightymoose]

alright everyone take my rarepair

Clay x Riptide headcanons bitches (hcs under the cut)

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Clay probably confessed first

Like... Riptide was trying to hype himself up, but during the actual moment, he got so nervous he couldn't get the words out. So Clay just ended up doing it

Tsunami thought it was hilarious

Tsunami was actually their wingman, she would try so hard to make them realize the other likes them

but fails. Everytime :(

Riptide was the one to fall first since I think Clay would need to take some time to realize he has a crush

but when he did Clay was smitten

The DoD definitely made bets on who would confess first

Glory and Sunny bet on Clay confessing while Starflight and Tsunami bet on Riptide confessing

anyways for the more general stuff, Clay's love language would probably be acts of service as well as quality time

Riptide's is kinda hard to pin down but I'd have to go with words of affirmation and physical touch

sometimes Riptide will just flop onto Clay. Just uses him as his personal pillow

whenever Riptide visits JMA (I do like the idea of him working there because they need more staff in my opinion) he will just flirt with Clay. All the time

In the middle of class too

"Um, Mr. Clay? Class was supposed to start ten minutes ago."

I feel kinda bad for Moon in this situation though, she'll accidentally get a glimpse into Riptide's thoughts and it'll be like

"I want him to step on me."

I imagine Clay would take Riptide to meet all of his siblings. And boy oh boy is Riptide fearing for his life. There's so many, he's gonna die!!!

There's this one moment where Clay ends up leaving them alone for a couple minutes for whatever reason

Riptide is legit kinda on the brink of tears at the moment

Umber is the one to break the silence

And before you know it, they're finally talking :)

Riptide is still a bit antsy so he finally asks his question

"You guys aren't gonna say the whole 'If you hurt him we'll hurt you' kinda thing, right?"

"Eh, no, that's kind of an overrated thing to do, besides, he's perfectly capable of hurting you himself!"

"... Oh."

[booksofstars]

I don't think I've seen somebody take hypodragonet requests before!!! Do you think you could do Clay x Riptide?

clay/riptide hypodragonet! her name is tidepool.

[hollowflight-propaganda]

What Wings of Fire Rarepair ships do you like and/or have?

>:)))

For starters, me and my mutual @themightymoose concocted Riptide x Clay a while ago for funsies, and I've recently brought the idea up again and I think there's potential there! They're both guys who had unfair misconceptions thrust upon them from adults at a young age, and are often overlooked in the fandom. So yeah! I think it's a cute idea :)

The next one might sound a bit weird, but please stick with me here. Dusky x Cliff, specifically the aged up versions of them that I have in my brain for a hypothetical arc 4. Timid traumatized guy who doesn't know how to interact with people his own age x excitable himbo bard who takes it upon himself to befriend the shy kid is essentially how I see them! I do agree that shipping the children characters together as actual young children is weird, but that's not what I'm doing here, and I don't wanna hear anybody twisting my words around pretty please 🥺

Next is poly jade winglet! (inspired by this post) Cause why limit yourself to a couple ships when you can have all of them at once. I just think it's kinda funny, and the idea of arc 2 ending with Moon x Qibli x Winter x Turtle x Kinkajou is awesome. Realistically, they all have tons of therapy to go through before this should happen, but once they're past that I think it could be sweet!

This one is purely crack about background nobodies, but Lionfish x Wharf! Which if you don't remember, they're Fathom's guards besides Indigo that come with him to the night kingdom. I'm pretty sure that after the whole... Arctic Thing, we never hear about them again, but I like the idea of them after that being like, "Wanna go into retirement early?" "Sure man." And then they just like, chill on a beach for the rest of their lives

And I'm pretty sure that's all I have that isn't already shipped by quite a few other people! If it's not, or if I come up with anymore, I might make a part 2. Thanks for asking!