i'm a bit late but happy valentine's day sol <3 do you/did you have plans with any of your f/os? how did it go? (you don't have to answer if you don't wanna!)
~zale
hi @zaletham!! happy valentine's too ^^ i didn't really have plans since i've mostly been catching up w/classes i missed while i was sick BUT here's some fun ideas for what my ships would be doing:
(edit: started on this last night and just continued from my drafts heh)
— i think it would be fun if for every valentine's day that my drw s/i experiences after sie meets river, river visits sier (from wherever point in time she's from, or maybe the river who shares present with sier) and they spent the day having fun and going on a little date. it's like a flipped deal with what goes on with doctorriver, where the doctor is the one that usually takes river out (and usually she breaks herself out of stormcage lol).
— maya & goldie depend; post-canon i think is when they would regularly celebrate valentine's. mostly bc maya just likes going out during the day bcz of the festivities and goldie likes spending time with aer. i've mentioned this in an rb before but goldie's kind of a hit or miss with valentines; i think she wouldn't admit to liking the cheesiness of it all but she'd def love to spend it with scrooge, or more like surprise and catch him off guard (pre-maya lol). but most of the time there's The Weirdness between her and him so she wouldn't really feel like it, and i don't think she's the type to like it very much if she's not in the mood for it lol. before goldie and maya.. get married(???) become official(??) she wouldn't think of spending it with aer cz it would mean she's committing to something and she doesn't want to admit that LOL. she visits every night during valentine's when she secretly gets lonely but she brushes it off. maya always expects her to come after the first few times she's done it and ae prepares ahead of time to surprise her with a homecooked candlelit dinner c:
— kim's birthday is right before (13th) but honestly i don't think she's the type to make a big deal of her birthday (or like making a big deal out of it). and we don't really see them celebrate valentine's in the show either, so i think she and ning and jimmy would go eat out for a little date but it's not a big deal to any of them. i think jimmy is the most sentimental about valentine's out of the three of them. but they do like staying at home cuddling together while drinking wine, eating charcuterie, and watching a movie. i think another reason why kim isn't a big valentine's person during bcs is because she's kind of the "i love u everyday" person @ her partners. post-bcs, kim and ning make it a point to have nice valentine's dates out. one time kim tries to cook for ning and bake dessert and it doesn't go exactly perfectly but she tried her best and ning loves her so much more every time
bonus: this is big kimningjim / kimning energy. thank u kei. (although the "yay! we found each other" fits drriversun / riversun more)
— i think betty, my adv time s/i and simon are the ones who celebrate it the most "traditionally". nice date out, dinner date, they're all unapologetically cheesy people about it. they give each other gifts every year and one time they all got each other the same gift/from the same store LOL. i can imagine them trying to dodge each other while accidentally coming to the store at the same time like some slapstick romcom stuff
— ganyu always gets coerced (/j) by my genshin s/i and shenhe to take the day off for valentine's because she works too much. they make sure to take her out on a lovely relaxing date and shoo away any errands that would pop up haha. i also envision a kind of comedic set up with this where everyone in liyue harbour just keeps approaching ganyu on the street and my s/i and shenhe are like. well we wanted her to rest but it's clear she loves helping her people <33
— yoimiya and i would also be super "traditional" abt valentine's. i think every v-day we would go and have a food trip and ride as many rides as we can at a fair or smth hehe. i'm clinging onto her every chance i get LOL i also think yoimiya is the type to make meaningful gifts for her partner/s. it's HARD for her to keep it a secret while she's making it and leading up to The Day but she does a great job anyway cz she doesn't wanna ruin the surprise.
— sayid is another one who's super into the whole traditional valentine's day celebrations. he's such a gentleman, i think he'd prepare a candlelit dinner for my s/i and buy hym flowers and everything <33 the bouquet would have flower language too cz u know he puts a lot of thought into that. i think he's more of a "stay at home and have fun together in private" person but he would also love to travel with my s/i during valentine's week and go sightseeing C:
i might add more to this for my other ships; i'll reblog this again if i do ^.^
just thought of something for my adv time self ship w/betty and simon
so when simon manages to contact betty through a portal like he does in "betty", my s/i (the post-mushroom war version with ⚡ powers) is there too. when betty sees both them and simon she comes to the same conclusion as she does in the episode, except she goes, "well you don't seem crazy now. and you two are staying together." and she jumps into the portal w/the assumption that it's ok for her to do so bc she isn't leaving anyone behind (since my s/i is, again, also there).
in the past, when simon put on the crown like in the "betty" flashback, my s/i and betty get separated. betty jumps into the portal, but my s/i stays behind and eventually gets trapped in ice. (the ice may have come from simon himself accidentally—i'm not fully committed to this idea but it seems interesting.) this is what allows them to survive well into the timeline of the actual show. eventually they get thawed out by a magical lightning strike some time in the future.
anyway, i'm thinking before they get trapped in ice, the last memory they might have is seeing betty in the distance jump into the portal and the only thing they can really see is simon at the other end. every memory is fuzzy and hazy after they get thawed and hit by magic ⚡, but this memory seems clearer than the rest. so for a while, what they believe happened was that betty left them behind for simon, even if that was 100% not the case.
i'm answering this here bc i wanna keep the actual ask in my inbox but. ANON thank u sm for taking the time to write this and send this letter WEHHH it's so sweet....
🥺🥺 i wanted to doodle something in response or write another letter but it might take a while so!! i wanted to let you know, whoever u are, that i've seen the letter and i'll cherish it forever aaaaa thank you so much 🥺🥺
