#fake bonding

[furiousgoldfish]

shady ass person I don't know that well: You are so inspiring and kind! If everyone was like you, the world would be a better place! Your heart is like a home to those touched by it, I've never met anyone like you! I think you're special and so underrated! You're always put in tough situations but I believe in you! I'd give anything to have someone as good as you in my life! Do you believe in soulmates?

me, failing to clock the love-bombing: wow, finally this is love and I deserve this, it feels right and it's not suspicious at all. this person gets me. I just need to love myself some more and then it will totally not seem like too good to be true.

[linskywords]

you know. i just had a thought. the whole cba thing would make it lucrative for someone to pretend to be bonded to a teammate to avoid being traded or sent down, if they were desperate enough

Aaaaaah this is so true. It’s funny -- I got this ask, and I was thinking about the negative implications of this, and how I really didn’t want to include an example in the ‘verse of two people gaming the system...but then it occurred to me that it could be FAKE BONDING FIC and that would be delightful and now I am totally on board. “But we’re only pretending to have bonded so that neither of us gets traded, so there is definitely no real bond here and I should totally not put my face on his face like I so badly want to...”

Yeah, I have no idea who this is going to feature, but IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. :D