Sobs the mistletoe post has me thinking n shanks is sooooooo stupidly obsessed w like. Little romantic traditions on all the different islands from all the different cultures he visits w you (or without you……). Feeds u fruit bc legend says if u split it w ur beloved you’ll meet each other in your next lives; drags you to a beach bc it’s where the island’s goddess of love was supposedly born; hunts down a necklace thought to be lost that some historical king had made for the woman he was courting and supposedly made her fall in love w him……. the man probably married u fifteen different times just bc some local told him abt a new way of doing it and he got that lil glint in his eye and now ur doing another ceremony……… im so insane abt him ugh
Pluvi I am on my KNEES rn I 😭😭😭He has all these little gestures from the places he went before he knew you, little things he had earmarked in his brain that he's held onto bc he figured he would know when the right person came along to share them with. Your initial marriage ceremony had to have been so eclectic because he is packing in every romantic gesture he's learned, every little practice of romance and devotion that he's picked up along the way.
Every occasion draws out some new depth of romantic that he had stowed away, too, that man is an endless font of ways to show how much he adores you, how completely devoted he is to your relationship, your happiness, your shared desire for each other...
He literally lights up visibly when the lore of a new island comes around to courtship, he's either committing it all to memory or he's slinging an arm around you and pulling you in close, staring at the side of your face with that big ol' grin like he's just sat you down to watch his favorite part in a movie.
I am like the sucker of all time for Shanks and his 500 Vow Renewals but the idea that he's endlessly curious for and engaged with how courtship and romance and love and the folklore of those bonds plays out in every new culture they engage with...literally i'm insane about him too, we're on this fainting couch together. I keep thinking I'm gonna find the ceiling on how in love with a guy you can be about him and then there just. isn't one.
