ship meme pasha and lara
Who cooks: Lara does sometimes, but more often than not Pasha’s the one in the kitchen and he’s actually a pretty decent cook when he’s not ruining perfectly good dishes by experimenting with ingrediant substitution.
Who does the laundry and other chores: I think there’s a pretty even split for them - Lara does a lot of laundry and mending/sewing, and Pasha likes to keep things organised, and both can be pretty much relied upon to clean up after themselves.
How many children do they have: This gets complicated because in book!canon, they have one daughter. In both musical!canon and the personal combination-of-the-two!verse that I have (because that’s how I work), they never have children. That said, there’s also an Everyone-Lives-in-Exile AU, and in that one he’s technically the legal father of Lara’s two children with Yurii (he points out that it’s practical, but also her second daughter is aggressively dark haired and dark eyed so it’s like “….welp this is awkward”).
Who’s more dominant: Eh, neither one really? On the whole though, for lots of reasons, Lara usually calls the shots.
Favourite nonsexual activity: I think that, like a lot of my favourite pairings, they’re very much the ‘curl up near each other and read’ type, but they also really like taking long walks together.
Their favourite place to be together: I think Pasha’s rooms were always kind of a safe-haven, even if he didn’t quite know why, and that’s sort of carried on.
Any traditions: Flowers are such a thing - like not necessarily expensive flowers, and not always storebought? Sometimes just a small bundle of something pretty to go on the windowsil of the shop.
Their “song”: Oh god. tbh I should make a playlist for them sometime, but I’m awful and the first thing that came to mind was “Could We Start Again, Please?” from Jesus Christ Superstar.
What they do for each other on holidays: They don’t do a whole lot of gift-giving, apart from small things, mostly because they’ve spent most of their time being unable to afford to do anything extravagant? So things a more concentrated around spending time with one another and doing things for each other. Though in the Paris AU, Lara 100% spends a lot of time and enlists a bit of help to surprise Pasha with a new pair of glasses at one point.
Where did they go for their honeymoon: Okay so I just got really sad because obviously they didn’t get a bloody honeymoon or anything of the sort because class and also the first world war lmao but if they did manage to get one, I imagine they’d go somewhere outside the city at least and out of the way.
Where did they first meet: Okay so obviously this can vary a little because while there’s a definitive book canon of them meeting when they were fairly young (at least in their early teens, I think - can’t remember), it’s much more ambiguous in the musical. I personally use a mixture in which they first met when they were like preteens but didn’t really become close until later.
Any pets: In canon!verse, neither of them really have pets, though both of them have basically low-key adopted local stray cats or dogs by feeding them and providing shelter when they could. During the Civil War, Pasha has a Laika that he’s very fond of, and in the Everyone Lives AU, Lara gets him a cat.
What do they fight over: It’s less fighting and more disagreements over things like “Absolutely not. Do not go to a demonstration armed are you kidding me???” but also if they did have a proper out-and-out row it would probably be really intense followed by a lot of apologising.
Do they go on vacations, if so where: Not really, because money, but if they did, I imagine it would be just off to little quiet places or places with interesting things of personal significance, things like that. A weekend in the country or something.
