I was thinking about how M would be deep in romance, It's quite hard trying not making them too ooc. I don't see M as the type who says I love you or being lovey-dovey, but their expressions of physical touch will gain more meaning, not ending necesarily in intimacy:•They will not said I love you but instead hug them from behind and leave a kiss on their neck.•Putting their arm over their shoulders in a crowd place as protectiveness.•Letting them put their head on their chest for comfort.
It is REALLY hard to try and write fics about deep relationship M without dabbling in OOC, I’m sure I’m beyond guilty of it.
I think I read Sera answer an ask mentioning that M would rarely say the words but would show that they love the detective and I know that physical touch is definitely their love language. To be honest, M doing little things like you mentioned to show their affection has somehow has me weaker than if they were to verbally express it. Especially because the detective would be aware of it, but like outsiders wouldn’t be so when someone is like “Your bf/gf isn’t very affectionate, do they not care about you?” the detective can be like “What do you mean? They literally just tried a bite of (insert food here) because I asked them to.”
That all being said, you will have to pry the idea of M saying it when the detective is about to storm out (like in my Mortality fic for M) out of my cold, dead hands. I simply cannot give it up no matter how hard I try. 😩