for the ship development asks what abt 8 and 21 for lia, jayce, and viktor???
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ship development asks -> For Lia, Jayce and Viktor in my Regency AU WIP Runic Amour
8. What was their first date like?
Well technically their very, very first “dates” were during Jayce courting her formally. They spend an entire day together in Jayce’s estate gardens (with Lia’s brother Theo chaperoning ofc) and they read over some of Jayce and Viktor’s works in progress. …
Jayce picks Lia’s brain about what problems they’re stuck on, where the errors in their calculations are, what’s wrong with the technical schematics they’ve drawn up, how they can work on presenting things to the public etc. He finds her analysis both refreshing and groundbreaking because her brain works so much differently than he and Viktor’s collective mind does.
And Lia is more dazzled by the inventions and scientific advancements they’ve come up with than any of the many, many expensive gifts Jayce presents her and her family with. (Flowers, a significant amount of money, and exotic finds for the time like chocolate and tropical fruits). She’s also incredibly moved by his serious consideration of her scientific opinion as a woman during this era. It’s how she knows he’s deathly serious about his intentions with her. He respects and values her mind.
Her first date with *both* of them involves them practicing some disc shooting (which Viktor is wildly talented at). It was at Viktor’s request because he wanted to meet her in person after only being able to communicate with her via letters at first. He holds her scandalously close to “help her with her form” but it’s really because he wanted to test their physical attraction to each other. Needless to say the sparks were flying WILDLY and Jayce was watching them from afar like “oh yeah…it’s all coming together exactly as I knew it would.”😈
21. Would they get into fights? What over, and how do they move forward?
They do get into mild scientific disagreements all the time. It’s one of the hallmarks of brilliant minds. They’re going to disagree often. Questioning each other often is vital to proving their work is accurate.
But they also fight about serious things too. At the beginning, Viktor has a hard time believing this whole three way relationship would ever work. He deep down had a fear that Jayce was just getting sick of him and wanted to choose someone else over him. Which Jayce feels legitimately sick over.
Then again once Viktor’s really, really sick again. Lia is pregnant and she is desperate to see him because she’s of course worried about him. She’s not allowed to because doctor’s don’t and can’t know the nature of their relationship. It’s not deemed necessary or safe for her to see him. She fights Jayce on it because he won’t let her go either.
Jayce can’t stomach the thought of something bad happening and him losing not only Viktor, but also Lia and their child. He’s in actual shambles from having to bear the weight of caring for them both when they are both in dire need of him. He’s always been an anxious, self-conscious person and this time is really hard for him in every way.
Lia is a mess of worry, which isn’t good for the baby. Viktor is so depressed he can’t be there to help Lia during the pregnancy on top of being riddled with pneumonia and god knows what else. It’s less of an outward fight and more of them all struggling with circumstances they can’t control and finding the will to get through it because of how much they care about each other.
