#different friend groups

[laika-pa]

The idea of Paige and Azzi dividing and conquering to convince people to come to Dallas 😭 tag teaming all the socializing to get everyone lol Curt please start making moves

[custahhcs]

i know you have your custah middle school au stuff but ive been thinking a lot about how their relationship would be in a high school setting and how it would develop from middle school and was wondering if you had any thoughts on that as well.

(honestly lol i think more about hs au myself due to my own hc that custas wasnt actually in school when he met tartah. he entered middle school officially rather late.

in the final year(ish) of when custas was in middle school he really only had tartah. he only started getting close to coco and his other friends near the end of it and the start of hs. i like thinking about how tartah and custas both formed their own little friend groups in hs and how the addition of others would affect their own relationship since they were so used to mainly really only being dependent on each other.

im sure even in hs they still are in a way. they talk to each other about things they wouldnt tell anyone else. and as two disabled kids are able to understand each other much more deeply. but the truth of the matter is they dont need to be with/rely on each other all the time. they havent grown a part or anything there are just other variables now. its probably the want to be with each other constantly and do things they wouldnt normally do with others that makes them realize the feelings they have are romantic.

with custas at least he had never had a crush on anyone before so he had nothing to compare it to. he always thought tartah was different but after he started making other friends was when he realized just how different tartah was to him. tartah had his little crush on coco during middle school but it was mainly one of admiration. the way he experiences romantic feelings for custas are very different than with coco and he probably went back and forth on if it was even romantic at all. it wasn't until his crush on coco died down in hs that he realized. oh. i am in love with him oh no what do i do.)

SO HAHAH i didnt see this Notification but!!! this aligns with how I have my AU too! In mine they are in 8th grade, Custas has more of admiration toward Tartah than anything in the beginning (Im posting thim meeting the others soon ajdhwjwn). I feel like I agree with Custas not being able to Tell romantic feelings well both from his age and Dagda (cupio/ace icon to me) not giving him examples in their lives because he doesn't date anyone. Upon figuring it out, I think Custas would be a bit of a romantic: he's stuck between teasing/bullying type crush behavior and being sweet/cute toward a crush, so it's a weird back and forth that seems Confusing to outsiders looking in.

And Tartah 100% doesn't have the foggiest clue. He's got a puppylove for Coco, but anything beyond that is lost on the boy. I feel like he'd be able to tell he feels more deeply for Custas, but that he'd be utterly lost on why that is beyond that he's a good friend. I feel like after being rejected or having things go south with Coco whether that's just the feeling gradually dulling or Agott or just something else-- he'd mope a little but be relatively Fine because the feelings weren't That deep, unlike with his best friend of a year who he shares secrets with, hangs with all the time, relates to.... I feel like Tartah would have a hard time thinking anyone would have a crush on him as well, so this kid truly blind to the guy metaphorically waving his arms in the air with a pick me sign

[godofhonse]

one thing about me is that I will not notice the tension about a problematic person in the group.

It's 8:00 pm I'm added to a private groupchat/dm with the title "we need to talk about Name should we give them another warning or just kick them already"

Everyone: ugh yeah they are such a problem (lists all the ways they have behaved badly and refused to change)

Me: