i’m ride or die Octa OT3 obvi, but reading authors who only ship one arm… it’s an interesting thought exercise to consider the twins never getting together or being into each other that way (???) bc i feel like it would have a knock-on effect on Jade’s relationship w/Azul or any other partners he might have
i usually characterize Jade as a bit of a steady married man when it comes to relationships bc he’d have been with Floyd (in whatever capacity) for a while even before entering NRC, so he has relationship exp and a sexual outlet at a time where everyone else around him is still fumbling around figuring all that out
and while he might not necessarily be like this with Any partner, he’s been vulnerable and affectionate with Floyd at least, which still makes a diff compared to never doing that with anyone
i also tend to characterize Jade as… gray-A-ish, he has a sex drive but is more interested in sadistic sex acts rather than finding /ppl/ sexually attractive unless there's a romantic attachment, which means not being with Floyd also means less/no sexual outlet/exp bc he's not fussed to pursue ppl for the sake of it, aside from maybe a few trysts for curiosity's sake (i can see him getting freaky in a no-strings way with Rook lol)
but fooling around isn't the same as Actually being into someone, so when the latter finally happens for the first time with Azul it hits him like a freight train lol
(i'm not gray-A myself and ihni how common of an exp this is in actuality)
yeah so first-time-relationship Jade / Jade-who-never-got-with-Floyd has less relationship/sexual experience, probably more desperate… it's kinda cute
thinking abt Floyd eating all that up is also cute, lol