Originally posted on my twitter & insta Nov 15th for a late Pocky Day treat!
MY OT3!! ThanTriRaha! Or RahaWoLCred, technically. I adore them. Just hashing out the relationship dynamics. I realized I made the pocky day pic with them in mind and even though I know I'm NO where near this point in my fanfic (which i REALLY need to get back to writing), I still feel like hashing this out:
Thancred & Raha: flirty rivalry. You want to know how Thancred got real good at gunbreaker, both with and without aether cartridges? 2 years of training with the Exarch, & fighting to pin him down to get the hood off, but never coming out on top. Now, that G'raha is back in his younger body, the memory is there, but not the muscle. So, of course more training is needed, and who better to help with that than a certain hunk-breaker? They'd spent those two years getting to know each other, Thancred relying on him to learn about the world and what was here, and G'raha taking care of him and prepping him to save the Oracle of Light, and fell for each other somewhere along it. Strawberry because Thancred once referred to G'raha as a strawberry shortcake, out of a sense of rivalry when they first met while Trionfi was helping with the Crystal Tower. Now it's just cause he thinks the red head is a cute shorty (even if Trionfi is shorter)
Trionfi & Thancred: Love at first sight, each other's pillar of support and comfort. They've come a long way from thinking they were not in the other's league, and trying to reconnect again post-Bloody Banquet. His Muse, his Blue Rose, whose amazing kindness, determination, and smile inspire him every day, but who's also an absolute pun-slinging dork, and he finds her insanely cute. Her Spoony Bard, whose strength and confidence inspire her to do her utmost, and she just keeps falling in absolute love with him more and more every day. Chocolate banana because Trionfi was too shy to tell him straight forward the first time she was ready to take the next step, so she resorted to handing him a banana, squeaking "I-I bet you'd find it v-very a-peeling to be naked in my bed!" He burst into laughter. Her attempts at seduction are weird but so, so cute.
Raha & Trionfi: Teasing and endless doting. Considering the first time they met was when Raha yoinked very important rocks tm from her that were needed to open the tower, he started their dynamic by instigating chase. Inviting her to chase him, to catch him, and that playfulness, cliff jumping and all, drew her to him. In turn, her determination and courage became the core of his inspiration, his desire to be noticed by her and the fact that she wanted him by her side meant so much to him. Turned into him wishing to protect her, and then to spoil her during his time as Exarch, which carried over on transfer. And her into wanting to bring him on all the adventures he wants, to be with him as much as she can, and to protect him as he protected her. Luckily, she can do that with Thancred now, too. Chocolate because the first time he realized he was falling for her, they were sitting at camp, and she had made him a cup of hot chocolate. It was a small, simple thing, but the adventure she shared about how she met the person who gave the box of the powder to make it is something that stuck with him, and he realized how much he wanted to be by her side.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk about my girl and her husbands! :P