Mar 10, 2019
The Storm Over September
15 days of FatT | twitter ↳ day 4: shelter
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The Storm Over September
15 days of FatT | twitter ↳ day 4: shelter
My sexuality is Maxine Ming being the most comfortable motherfucker in any given room.
Not Quite Truth
Pairing: Cassander Timaeus Berenice/Maxine Ming
It’s been over a year since September fell, and the Chime lost one of their own.
As Cass prepares to return to being Cassander, they consider an important question while doing maintenance on the Megalophile:
Who is Maxine Ming?
No, they decide, that’s too broad, too unfocused. Maxine is someone who prides herself on confounding questions like that. She’d laugh if they ever voiced it, probably counter with something like, ‘Well, who are you, ‘sandy? Who is anyone, really?’
Then maybe…
Who is Maxine Ming to me?
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Cassander/Maxine for those ship questions?
Send me a ship and I’ll tell you
How do much do I ship it?: Never heard of it/ Notp / Dislike / used to ship / maybe / ship it / aww / otp / IS IT CANON YET?
What non-sexual activities do they like to do together?
They’re both extraordinarily busy people, so they tend to spend their time together doing simple things, going on walks through the forest, napping, catching up on the animes Orth and Mako have recommended.
That, and they could both use a shoulder to cry on sometimes, more than one ‘date’ has ended with them just holding each other.
Who does chores around the house?
I’m like 99% sure they’ve got people for that?
But let’s assume the two are in a situation where they’re alone, they’d try and divide the chores evenly.
Who’s the better cook?
Cass is an alright cook, not super creative, but everything they make is edible. Maxine, on the other hand, will either make something absolutely fantastic, or… not.
Who’s the funniest drunk?
I wanna say Cassander, just because they’re usually the person who stops their friends from doing stupid stuff and once they get drunk, they’re roped into the stupid stuff but immediately take it up to eleven.
Aria: Y’know, sometiems, sometiems you just gotta… gotta fight? Gotta fight people.
Cassander: [Decks someone] I… I agree, I a-agree with Aria. Ya’just gotta.
Do they have kids?
*Pained sobbing* I’m not about to shatter my heart further by coming up with fan-kids for them, but I can’t see them having more than one or two, if any?
Do they have any traditions?
They make little promises about what they’ll do next time they see each other, like Cass saying they’ll braid her hair, or Maxine offering to paint their nails, things that won’t be too disappointing if everything gets too busy, but make them happy when they work out.
What do they fight about?
They both resent how people politicize their relationship, though they deal with it in different ways, that sometimes cause friction.
Cassander just… doesn’t engage when people bring it up. And Maxine knows they’re just doing as they were taught, but it still bothers her.
“Would it kill you to fight for me, Cassander? Just tell one reporter to ‘Shut up’, so I know you care.” Of course, she knows they care.
Maxine gets defensive, and Cassander hates to see how people start jumping on her. They wish she could be more discreet.
“You can’t keep lashing out like that. It’s unbecoming. I don’t… I don’t want them to keep giving you hell about us.”
What would they do if they found their paring tag on tumblr? (If they have one)
They don’t? Aside from what i’ve written.
Who cried at the end of Marley and me?
Cassander Timeaus Bernice was ABSOLUTELY in tears. Maxine wasn’t crying as much, but she had seen it before.
Who always wins at Mario kart?
They get really into it and things get intense, ok? The first time Mako walked in on the two of them playing, he did a heel-turn and left because Cassander was practically hissing what the fuck. That’s not something Mako wants to deal with, nope.
Cass, having more piloting experience, would come out ahead, but Maxine learned racing against Mako and Lazer Ted, and those two do not play fair. She knows every trick in the digital book, and paid dearly for each one.
One thing I like about this ship?
They play off each other super well? Like, there weren’t that many scenes with them together but I really got the sense that they were two people who just sorta clicked?
One thing I don’t like about the ship?
I guess that we never really see them fall in love, we just know it happens.
The song I would say fits them?
King by Lauren Aquilina, Giving Up The Gun by Vampire Weekend, and Celeste by Ezra Vine
Another headcanon about the paring? (Free space)
Maxine has the higher core temperature of the two, and most of the time Cass will just sort of lie on top of her as they read and/or do paperwork.
counter/weight npcs round 1
maxine ming
liberty & discovery
how about 9 for Cass/Maxine?
Send me a number and a pairing!
9. “War’s End” Kiss
It was over. It was finally fucking over.
Rigour was dead, the Golden Branch was free, and Maxine Ming, a princess of the Principality of Kesh, was going to kiss Cassander Timaeus Berenice, Apokine of Apostolos, propriety be damned.
Everyone had almost died. Lots of people did.
This wasn’t the time to care about what would be printed on the gossip pages of every surviving news site, or the fact that her advisors would be absolutely furious.
She let her mind slip into the Mesh, taking a moment - milliseconds, as fast as she could think - to grant herself all necessary authority to open any door. Being a Stratus definitely had its perks.
Striding into the hanger, Maxine was almost grateful for the lack of a crowd, the remnants of the war chaos still requiring attention - but not hers, at least not yet.
Of course, Cassander wasn’t doing the sensible thing after barely escaping a plunge into the sun, which would have been resting. No, they were currently trying to outfit their old Colossus, the Megalophile, and jump back into the fight.
“Cass!” She called out, closing the last few feet of distance, “Hey, Cassander! Can I kiss you?”
“Yes, of course.” They replied, turning towards her.
She leaned forward to press a quick kiss to their cheek, “That’s for almost dying.”
Grabbing the front of their jacket, she pulled them towards her, practically smashing their lips together, before easing back and then deepening the kiss, shivering as Cassander responded in kind.
“And that,” She panted, breaking away after who knows how long, “was incentive to never, ever do anything like that again.”