I was thinking of how neuvillette would enjoy the cleancore aesthetic
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And I immediately started thinking of how deranged he gets with cleaning you. Water is supposed to wash away all sins. He feels like he needs to bathe you the second someone even looks at you in a way he dislikes. It manifests in small ways at first, when he’s pining, visiting perfume shops and imagining what he’d like best on you. Small gifts of items like hand lotion and cuticle oil, and his concealed elation when he smells them on you. As things move on, it gets a little more intense.
The clothes he picks out for you, once perceived as a symbol of his affection, now read as a mark of his ownership. It’s all soft muslins and spotless cottons, light, airy, silk linings gliding against your skin like a gentle caress. So perfect, so nicely pressed, and so frequently changed in and out of. Dragons like him have heightened senses. He doesn’t like the way someone’s perfume trail clings to you, or how the smoke of a wood-burning stove has embedded itself into the fibres of your dress. You’ve always been understanding of his sensitivity to scents, but sometimes it’s just so… excessive. Why does it only apply to you? How can you possibly be reeking of someone else when all that businesswoman did was place a hand on your arm? She wasn’t even wearing perfume- she was only in the room for ten minutes- she-
Don’t you want to bathe with him? He’s really gentle. Had you ever known love before his hands ran over every part of you, carefully trailing the suds across your skin? Thin fingers massage your back and you remember how your friend wrapped an arm around you earlier. It’s not the kind of thing you’re supposed to connect, but your brain offers it anyway. Do you shave? Will you let him shave you? He has a surgeon’s precision with everything… holding the razor, or a makeup brush, or a comb. He’ll do everything for you. He’ll work the conditioner into your hair- it’s his nose that’s going to be buried in it sooner or later. Will you do it for him? He doesn’t like you going to the effort, but… it’s nice. It’s the same conditioner too. You’ll even smell alike now.
There is no practice Neuvillette has that is more religious than insisting you bathe after every sexual activity. At first, you think it’s very kind of him even if occasionally unnecessary and able to wait, but the less that these activities are “showing love” and more “perverse defilement”, maybe you’re glad he seems to snap out of things within a few minutes and take you to the bathroom. You’ll ask him not to bathe you this time. You’ll insist you can do it yourself (because maybe it’s just his fingers already on you but you can feel your skin crawl) but he’s not content with just watching. If he committed the sins, he can cleanse you of them.
The modesty he has you display in public betrays the activities he gets up to in private. A high collar and covered wrists feels almost comical. You used to think Neuvillette was just making you match him, which… well, is cute and inoffensive - but you’ve come to realise that the more you’re covered, the more barriers there are between your skin and everything around you. He complains about his own clothes, and therefore feels sympathy for yours, but please, just hold on, we’ll be home soon and you can take everything off. There is no deadly disease plaguing Fontaine, but Neuvillette’s disdain seems to create that illusion for you. It’s all too easy to convince himself that you have a delicate constitution after you catch just one cold, and he clings to that shred of reason to excuse his behaviour.
No matter how many times he defiles you, you can be laundered just as the bedlinens are and come back fresh. Romantic dates, wholesome gifts, and hushed words of affection are his way of wiping that filth away from your mind, too. But does he know that some stains are really hard to get out, no matter what you do?










