#eifkowski

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thinking about “i know we’ve had our ups and downs but right now i could kiss you” and “i don’t know whether to kiss you or punch you” and “come here, give us a hug” and “you know how tingly i get every time you break out your sarah connor game” and “i know you” “you don’t” “i KNOW you” and

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was talking with a friend of mine earlier about how m/f ships can be really cool actually if it’s a man who is just. wholly and unwaveringly in love with his wife and obviously i couldn’t help but think about eiffel and minkowski,,

like. idc if it’s romantic or platonic he loves her so much and knows her so deeply and i just KNOW that if wolf was a visual media he would look at that woman like she hung the stars themselves. He thinks she’s SO cool and he takes every opportunity to tell her as such the MOMENT she starts to doubt herself and it is just so beautiful to me

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hey what if i explode

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Okay but can we PLEASE talk about how absolutely whipped this man is

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how do you feel about the minffel hugs?? They’re some of my favorite moments in the entire podcast. 1. When he comes back from the USS horrible unending nightmare and 2. When he gets back from his meeting with the Dear Listeners

OHHHH I THINK ABOUT THESE SO OFTEN

eiffel and minkowski’s hugs make up two thirds of every canon hug in the podcast. the only other time positive physical contact occurs is when lovelace hugs eiffel shortly after his breakthrough from the neuro inhibitor (unless you count fourier and lambert’s hug that took place in change of mind). both of these are so meaningful in their own way so i’m gonna talk about them separately because. my god. the parallels.

the first time eiffel and minkowski hugged. broke me. it was the first physical display of affection used in the entire show, and involving minkowski. renée is very clearly not an affectionate person, and it’s made obvious through the awkwardness involved after she lets go. that hug was one hundred percent a spur of the moment, impulsive, heart-driven decision. she thought he was dead, and she personally blamed herself for his death, and so when she finally sees him again without the intrusion of other eyes that expect her to be the strong, stoic commander that she often needed to be, she doesn’t know what else to do. she grabs him, pulls him in, and she cries. both minkowski and eiffel are notorious for failing to communicate their feelings verbally, and so this is her way of telling him i missed you. life without you here was awful for everyone and when i realized i may never see you again it broke me. it’s an extremely emotionally vulnerable moment for her, perhaps the most vulnerable she lets herself be for the rest of the podcast.

now the second one. the second one is so much worse. hugging is something that seems like something much more natural to eiffel. he’s never been shy about his opinions of people, positive or negative, and now that he knows minkowski considers them close enough to hug, hugging her is the first thing he does once he sees her again. he’s the one who initiates the hug, and he’s under the assumption that it’ll be a sweet, emotional reunion just like last time. she’s the first voice he hears, and the first face he sees once he gets back, and he’s completely put at ease. he feels safe with her. but this time, minkowski doesn’t hug back. not because she doesn’t want to, but because it isn’t her. eiffel is most likely too relieved just to be back to think too much of it, but it’s revealed by jacobi that the crew is at least semi conscious of their actions while being controlled by pryce, so even though minkowski would be happy he’s home, and would love nothing more than to hug him, in that moment she’s probably screaming for him to get out, to do anything else. the last embrace they share, the last real moment of intimacy between the two, is soiled, and minkowski will never be able to make it up to him because eiffel isn’t eiffel after the finale anymore, either.

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the reblogs on my eifkowski post are giving me too much power so i’m gonna go ahead and mention that i did the math while researching for a fic and did y’all know that minkowski commanding canonically takes place on valentine’s day

y’know. the day that eiffel decides to make her breakfast out of nowhere and is so insistent on spending time with her instead of letting her go on her wild plant monster chase.

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i just took a two hour exam so i cannot yap about minkowski as promised but i have breaking news

emma made a tweet comparing minkowski and eiffel to a dragon age pairing that’s apparently shipped a lot (i know nothing of dragon age don’t come for me) a couple days ago and gabriel just retweeted it so this is a win for doug nation everyone else can go home 😌