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As a certified Wines Fan, what's your take on Wines allowing the Viric dreams of it to be sold? Even when you're not Cards!
oh man it's been ages since I've talked about Wines...obviously it is Known that I'm extremely fond of the Wines Viric dream (I've already done it again this year ofc) and the Cards option in particular. I've got 9 fics worth of thesis on that. A WARMTH WITHOUT WHICH THE COLD WOULD BE UNBEARABLE are you kidding meeeeeeee
Anyway. I feel like it's Wines finding a backdoor into the sale situation, since it's always competing with Spices to have control over dreams. People being able to buy a Viric dream about Wines is now a way for people to associate Wines with dreams. I don't know a ton about Parabola lore, but I feel like there's a chance that this would give it at least some tools for a greater foothold, if it played its cards right.
Speaking of Cards (hehe), nobody knew to expect Cards existing before it happened, so Wines wouldn't have planned for that when it first allowed the sale of those dreams. I imagine in some ways this is the worst case scenario for Wines. It's no secret that Wines is like, at most three degrees of drunkenness off from venting to literally anyone around, but there's a difference between "emotional mess ready to vent to people it doesn't respect or care about" and "someone who is ostensibly on a peer-ish level now has a view of possible intimacies and might sincerely Feel Something about that".
Now. Why wouldn't Spices do this? Because Spices is more paranoid. Spices would identify that this is a theoretical emotional vulnerability and hiss and spit and screech about it. Wines is a hedonist who tries to dull its emotions and probably doesn't think it *can* be hurt, especially by something random humans are dreaming up. It's not like those dreams could ever come true, right?
established cards/wines and once cards is acceptably batsexy enough spices tries to hit on cards to humiliate wines by stealing its lover
but cards looks at it with an open mixture of pity and disgust and literally says "yikes" and this is why spices hibernates until the next Summer Catastrophe when hopefully everyone will be distracted enough to forget how cringe it was
it just feels so good to take a snippet you wrote bc u got hit with it just before falling asleep and get to slip it into a proper fic
cards: come on, you have to have some advice manager-city: i really don't know why you think i can help you with this cards: we're both falling in love with people we never expected to care about! it's not *that* different manager-city: i'm settling into a marriage that we tricked a sentient plot of land into so that i could follow the fate of my once-lover who i sold my city for, which caused him to hate me for eternity because instead of healing him, the masters turned him into a city. you have a crush on mr wines. it's really not the same. cards: i feel like you're not taking me seriously manager-city: that's because i'm not
if i wasn't supposed to be weird about cards/wines then failbetter shouldn't have written that trance dream. why did they write that trance dream. why would they do that to me.
I've had less writing motivation lately which is a shame bc I was really on a tear for a bit there and also bc I *need* to finish this heatfic