#gladkal

[vera-geiravor]

Ohhhh, Gladiia is gonna be mad if she hear a news of her little meowmeow gone

[rex101111]

thinking about Gladiia/Kal’tsit, about how two of the most fearsome people on the planet find peace in each other’s presence, and about how they’re both so wounded and tired and old that they don’t really bother hiding their relationship or whatever but don’t really advertise it. But they both have such a reputation that barely anyone asks about it besides those who know them very well and just want to make sure everything is going alright...or those who want to mess with them or stir up trouble.

I’m thinking no one on Rhodes Island asks Kal’tsit about it because the one time someone did, probably W to try and tease/put her off balance, Kal’tsit quietly and politely shooed everyone except the asker out of them room, and then gave a very long and very detailed description of the last time she and Gladiia had time to spare for a night. Those who dared put their ears to the door to try and catch a clue of what she was saying couldn’t sleep for a week. W herself looked like she walked through a warzone, muttering about “how long?” and “do limbs rotate that way?” and “she involves the fucking spine?” and other such things for a few months before she never broaches the subject again.

For that reason nobody bother’s Gladiia herself about it. The Abyssal Hunters still having a kind of air of mystery around them so they just...leave them to their business. Laurentina, on the other hand, has no such hang ups. One day the group (+Irene) are just hanging out and this happens:

Specter, munching cheetos: Hey, Swordfish, you’re boinking Kal’tsit, right?

Irene: *starts chocking on fries*

Skadi, raising her head from a nap she was having on Specter’s lap: Of course not, I’ve been here longer than the rest of you, and I know enough about the Director to know that, if anything, she’s the one boinking the Captain.

Irene: *still chocking on fries but louder*

Gladiia, calmly sipping her coffee while very obviously not hiding a few scratches on her shoulders that weren’t there the day before: The boinking is fairly even handed, all things considered. 

Irene, finally getting the fries out, gasping for air: WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE LIKE THIS?? 

[oltammefru]

It makes sense why the Gladiia operator record played out the way it did (Kal'tsit wants to avoid violence and knows what to say to Gladiia to get her to back down), but at the same time, I do kind of wish it was more violent than it was in canon.

Like hear me out: Gladiia and Kal'tsit encounter each other, Gladiia is naturally suspicious of this mysterious landwalker and also extremely quick to action, so they begin fighting. This continues for a few minutes, until Gladiia ends the fight with a sonic boom, pinning Kal'tsit against the wall with the tip of her lance. Gladiia is used to everyone on land freaking out beginning for their lives far before this point, but the whole time Gladiia has Kal'tsit pinned, Kal'tsit has just been gazing at her intensely with a blank expression on her face (I imagine it's sort of like iwishyouiuck's Kal'tsit/Gladiia artwork but with more sharp pointy objects involved), and Gladiia sort of just falls for her then and there.

[oltammefru]

One metaphor I see a lot in Kal'tsit/Gladiia fics that I'm always really really normal about whenever it appears is some sort of statement about their difference in height/how Gladiia is half a foot taller than Kal'tsit, followed by some statement about how but to Gladiia, looking at Kal'tsit doesn't feel like looking down at her at all (or similarly, that despite that, being by Kal'tsit makes Gladiia feel so small).