#idsteamy

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I am in a hardcore mood for Steamy this week, so Steamy and ID

TEXTS NOT SENT:

ID: Oh, my poor little steambird.

ID: We’re just not a very good fit, are we?

ID: I think you ought to meet Bonbon!

ID: Sometimes I sit here and I wonder how on Alternia I just keep going back to indigoes. (｡•́︿•̀｡)

ID: Well, right now, I’m bleeding all over my moirail, and someone very nearly took out my eye! But other than that, why, I’m perfectly fucking lovely.

TEXT HE SENT:

ID: Doing just fine as always, lovebird! Off on the job. You know how it is. ヽ(ˇヘˇ)ノ They keep us just so awfully busy!

ID: Say, I’m a little busy right now, but how’s about you call me back in a few hours, and we’ll make a proper date night of it? Just because I’m in space doesn’t mean we can’t have fun.

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SQUARE THINGY I CAN'T SEE FOOOOOOR ID/Steamy, Em/Pheres, and Sipa/Chiare 8D

ID/STEAMY:

ID was made solely to be an antagonist, with relatively few redeeming features outside of his affection for Sipara and Riccin, so I was surprised you wanted to pair Steamy with him, omg. even with Bonnie, he has SO FEW REDEEMING TRAITS. cass why

Also: surprised how well it actually works! I’m not sure you can get much more different than ID, troll!Mafia cyberpunk child murderer, and, uh, STEAMY, the actual Alternian sweetheart who just wants to build dancing robots. But they do, despite having pretty different personalities and themes, and that’s neat. 8D The relationship brings out new aspects of ID that I did not think were really in his personality, mostly in his general loyalty and actual interest in her as a person, so that’s nice, too!

I also like that it works without either actually wanting to change the other: ID shifts because he wants to make her more comfortable, not because she isn’t down with her dreadful boyfriend. Steamy’s an actual cinnamon roll who’s brilliant and sickly and exactly the kind of troll that ID loves to declare cullbait, but he has no desire to change her: the start and end of his motivations are ensuring she doesn’t actually die, and let her do as she wants otherwise.

EM/PHERES:

hello hello my problematic OTP

They’re fluffy and adorable and they don’t really get each other, I think, which is part of what makes the ship so appealing to me: they view each other in such deeply interesting ways that I think the other would find offensive, if they ever actually voiced it! But as soon as they got over wanting to strangle each other, they started trying to get each other and they haven’t stopped since, and that’s just deeply, deeply endearing.

Every time we discuss meta and it turns out they’ve got radically different opinions on yet another thing, it’s basically a delight, because the question is "how are they going to try to bridge this gap?” I can’t picture a situation where they wouldn’t try to fix it, and I love it, okay. “Relationships are work and take work” is a lovely trope.

Things I also love: the fact Em thinking Pheres is anxious and Pheres getting spooked by him frequently, they’re still adorable, over-affectionate dorks. I like that they express affection by bickering in public. I love the fact that every AU is basically “they wage a bitter, aggressive war against each other, get married in the middle of it, flip the banquet table and continue the war anyway” in various settings.

Sipa/Chiarei

I love that sending them to gay baby jail is a valid plot option, HOW ABOUT THAT

Nah, they’re functionally a mess that should never, ever be let near each other, because Chiare will drag Sipara head first into hemoterrorism and Sipara will enable her every bad habit, and that is exactly why I want to smash them together.

Especially because, apart from the bad consequences of that: they’d work so well. I feel like Sipara is exactly the kind of cheerful, over-affectionate, jocular person that Chiare needs to get her head pulled out of her ass, and Chiare’s seriousness and general lack of humour could do well to anchor Sipara into a more adult viewpoint, which she kind of needs. What are long-term consequences and valid risk assessment??

(not things that she could learn from dating Chiare, probably, but maybe together they could learn something?? 8′D)

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And also for ID and Steamy!

@havesomefantrolls

1) ID doesn’t really do infatuation. But he is genuinely, sincerely convinced that Steamy is one of the most brilliant people he has ever met, and on certain topics, every other word tends to be “- well, Steamy says -”

2) After they start dating, ID thinks it’s the height of hilarity to occasionally steal her clothes. “You know, my little ghostplum, I think this is just a fantastic look for me,” he says, pulling up her corset for the fifth time. “What do you think, dearheart? It’s a little too showy for a handfast, but how’s about business casual??”

3) He tries very, very hard to be a nicer person for her, because she’s a sweetheart. This is slightly unfortunate, because he’s an ass with low empathy, and leads to shit like him apologising to people and looking over to make sure she hears it. In a way, he’s more eager for Steamy’s approval than Bonnie’s, because while he thinks of himself and Bonnie as two peas in a pod, all he sees with him and Steamy is a number of differences he needs to actively work to bridge.

4) ID is the first to suggest they date. He is likely the one who suggests a matespritship, but eventually moving in with Steamy, if it happens, is actually entirely accidental - he brings her the kitten first, and then leaves Iphige’s duckdad at her hive, and then his terrorbird-dad, and eventually probably the penguin chick, and at some point he realises his apartment is empty and all of his knitting projects are in her lab and oh, shit, did he just move in on accident? (YES, YES, HE DID.)

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Steamy takes ID on a friend date on the AIRSHIP OF DREAMS. To have a nice picnic on a mountaintop somewhere. And it is nice. Meanwhile, Chiare takes Sipara out to destroy the Alternian infrastructure :'D

ID is deeply pleased, and probably brings allong food just for it. It is salad with chicken in it. He promises it’s chicken, and totally not some poor bird he abducted.

(LAUGH AT HIS JOKES, STEAMY.)

Sipara will be ecstatic to have a murderbuddy FELLOW REVOLUTIONARY, tbh, Chiare could say “hey let’s go mug a fish” and Sipara would be putting on her wading boots.

Can Chiare deal with her breaking into singing: RED: the blood of angry men! BLACK: the dark of ages past! RED: a world about to dawn! BLACK: the night that ends at last! when they blow something up, though??