can I have some headcanons for how Terranort would react to a fellow Apprentice trying to flirt with him?? ;-) good luck for the rest of seeker week my dear!!!!! 💛
+ I am torn between Terranort being utterly oblivious to any romantic advances, turning into even more of a human icicle than he already is, or just becoming downright flustered. So let’s go through the cycle:
+ We start at Oblivious for your first couple of attempts. Any cute jokes will be met with a slow blink. He bluntly states that he fails to see what this has to do with the current experiment, and continues working. Heaven help you.
+ Nothing short of grabbing him by the ascot and pulling him close while you tell him in very clear detail just how much you want to kiss him on the mouth will make him aware of your… interests
+ He reaches the Flustered Stage when that big smart brain of his finally computes what exactly you want from him. He clears his throat and tries to smooth his hair back into his preferred style, struggling to compose himself and resist a blush on dark skin. Please, Y/N. Be serious, he says, Our education is our priority.
+ Enter the Human Icicle Stage: Xehanort puts his all into staying collected when you make passes at him. He has a lovely resting bitch face. Not that it deters you; it just makes him look even cuter. He can only give you the cold shoulder so often when you’re required to work together, and you know better than to be outright distracting. You can toe that line so perfectly that he sometimes gets thrown back into Flustered. It’s only the repression from his older form that Xehanort is able to restrain himself from screaming in frustration.
+ Flustered and Human Icicle are probably representations of the two halves which make up his heart: the former is Terra, definitely the type to get awkward when someone flirts with him. Yet, he would long for the warmth of someone else near him. Xehanort is the half who is all business and wants nothing to do with any of this. A large part of his frustration stems from this rather literal inner conflict. It might end with a slip of the tongue in which Terra-Xehanort replies to you with a very well and then an internal oh shit, there’s no going back now
+ Bonus round: how do the rest of the Apprentices react? Dilan and Even think you need better taste. Aeleus actually hopes things work out for you both, so long as you remain professional in scholarly duties. Ienzo is too little to really understand this kind of thing, so he just shrugs and keeps eating his ice cream
+ Braig feels immensely gratified to see Xehanort so clearly out of his element for once, but there’s also the question of this possibly interfering with their plans. Well, the coot always seems to have things figured out, so Braig can kick back and enjoy the show for now
+ None of Radiant Garden’s apprentices or supercomputers could have ever predicted this, but the person who’s most supportive of your budding relationship is… Ansem the Wise??? He admires the devotion his students show to their lessons, but also believes it’s important for them to enjoy their youth as well. Flirtatious antics just make the master laugh warmly, and he even offers some perfectly embarrassing Dad™ Advice about dating each. No one enjoys the sight of Xehanort’s composure breaking when he sputters in horror at his mentor’s implications more than Braig does, but Ansem knows damn well what he’s doing
