#greo

[hmshermitcraft]

Grian x Cleo

Exile explosion/melon party? Something something ecstatic to be reunited, positively giddy to continue the bit for Exile even though it would keep them apart for longer

They can both appreciate their genius, even if they're against each other. Just another stage in their endless war (but at least they can kiss about it first.)

[hmshermitcraft]

Bringing back single father Grian and Cleo, but Cleo is a goddess.

Grian is good on giving his harvest offerings to the divine, presenting them crops, meat, woods, whatever. His child is really looking into the arts, wanting to become a poet. He knows he isn't fit to nurture such a brilliant young mind, so he turns to the Goddess of Art and Creativity Cleo for help, offering her cows never worked and the best gold her can.

Cleo is smitten with him immediately. He's quick to pray to her, and offering up just about anything in her name. She blesses his child with help in the form of her own servants, but it isn't enough. She gets a weird kind of cuteness aggression over both of them. The instinctual urge to shake and squeeze them. She won't, obviously, but it's there. She settles for making sure they get amazing sleep and don't have to worry about disease or storms. Maybe, in a few years, she can descend in her pure form and love him. And, if she's lucky, he will love her. She won't make him.

It many years, she'll joke that it was only Grian's child she became mortal for. Such incredible skill and talent and a personality impossible to love. And Grian will laugh, rolling over to kiss her. And asking if it's a sacrifice of breakfast she wants this morning?

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

peskyrot au where theyre literal partners in crime. grian comes back to the hideout and hes rambling about the great time he just had robbing a casino and cleo kisses him to shut him up and goes i love you but your face is on the news we need to get the fuck out of town

[hmshermitcraft]

oagggggggggg...... single father grian with teacher cleo but grian is also a teacher

he's so tired after teaching a class room full of teenagers that he can barely help his kid with homework. cleo being a friend in a different school that offers to come by when she has the energy and help out. grian tries to pay her but she refuses, leading him to pay her sneakily with treats.

after grian puts his kid down to sleep, he flops on to cleo without realzing and falls asleep, trapping them there until morning. cleo not minding

Cleo's put more effort into this than anything else. What could be more important than sneaking food into Grian's cupboards? She's going to find both his and his kid's favourite snacks eventually - she knew she did all those degrees for something!

Grian thinks it's ridiculous, but he still smiles every time he opens something and finds things he definitely didn't buy himself. Having one less thing to worry about... Yeah. Leaves more room for working about how to impress Cleo.

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

cleo and grian have such great chemistry but theres only 18 greo fics on ao3 and 4 of those are polyhermits fics. life is pain

[hmshermitcraft]

Cleo isn't the only zombie, there's just more than one kind of zombie. Grian is also a zombie, it just so happens that he's born of a fungus, not a virus like Cleo. He doesn't want to have to explain the difference, and he especially doesn't want to explain why he's not connected to the rest of his hivemind. He misses his hivemind, but Cleo teaching him her version of zombie culture, and even the local zombie language, it really helps him feel more at home, even though he's still not ready to tell the hermits. He's elluded to it, but he's a bit of a coward when it comes to outright saying it. Cleo just hopes everyone is normal when he does, it's not that she doesn't trust them, but even she gets asked some weird questions sometimes.

People seem to think they're owed questions about anything they don't understand. She's gotten used to it, practically has scripted answers (both serious and sarcastic), but it doesn't stop it being gross.

Cleo is ready to bat if she has to, though. Even if it's their fellow hermits (especially if it's their fellow hermits) she'll be ready to tell them where to stick it. Coming back from the dead is traumatic enough. Grian doesn't need anything else to deal with, and they better consider themselves privileged if he ever tells them.

[hmshermitcraft]

Been brainrotting about single father grian and teacher cleo lately

Grian lstting cleo over to help tutor his kid, she tells him how she takes her tea, she realizes that he is tired and looks adorable holding his child while so sleepy

Eventually he passes and cleo bas to focus on making sure they teach and not run their fingers through his hair right in front of his child

Would it be wrong to offer to come over everyday?

Grian realises he's in too deep when his kid is asking when Cleo will be back to tuck them and daddy into bed. Grian was already mortified! But Cleo is perfectly understanding. Parenting is hard, especially when you're doing it alone. And Grian's kid is a good one. She wants to see them succeed, and take a bit of the work from Grian's hands.

She's even started teaching Grian some of the material, so he can help his kid with homework easier.

Grian is just relieved his kid is still young, and still has so much school left to go through. Hopefully by then he'll have figured something out with Cleo. Hopefully?

[hmshermitcraft]

Blind Grian and Gorgon Cleo. Cleo finally having a buddy to talk with that won't effectively die if she looks at them, Grian who can paint and babble about anything he wants.

And maybe they hold hands. and kiss. and giggle whilst doing both those things

Grian's started painting some of Cleo's 'statues'. Cleo loves the bright colours, like painting over past trauma. Sometimes Grian asks about them. Sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes Cleo passes him colours, but she's always curled up alongside him as he paints.