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I’m here for questions. No, I have questions, and I am here for answers… anyway, Raph and Ash, specifically 2007, I need all of these btw, no skippies
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All seriousness tho, no rush, but I can’t wait to hear about them 😁😁
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Gasps, I would never skippies your questions. Or any questions unless they're repeat questions. But 2007 Raphley, my beloveds. This iteration holds a special place in my heart as their first. IDK, just something about it. Anway, I'll stop yapping and get to the answers.
💕 (How do they both realize “oh wait, this is actually love”?) So I touched on who fell first and harder here which did touch on this a bit, but more detail because I have it.
Raph: So words are cheap for Raph, and if you've been on here for any amount of Raphley content, you know about the bonk. (If you're new then Ash grabbed a metal pipe and bonked him on the head while he was in full Nightwatcher gear because he was gonna be somebody to death.) That is when Raph realized he had feelings for Ash, when she stuck her neck out for people who certainly didn't deserve it. She knew full well that he was mid-moment and she could have been hurt. She trusted him and stopped him from doing something he would regret. That was his moment, but it didn't really register until he was at home later. He was patching up his arm and the anger/adrenaline was finally crashing, and it hit him like a freight train. Dropped the mug he was holding and scared the shit outta Donnie.
Ash: For Ash, it was a little harder for her to pinpoint exactly when the feelings started, but the two were on the roof of her apartment building after patrol about seven months after they met when it really hit her that the feeling she was feeling was love. She had bought him a candy bar earlier in the day after she got out of school (Ash is in college in case that wasn't knowledge that was known), and she gave it to him. She heard the change in his voice when he asked about the candy bar, asked why she would get it for him. His voice was softer than she had ever heard it, and it made her feel... at peace. Buying that candy bar, that moment and thinking back on it later, made her realize that she was in love with him.
To recap, Raph's was much less subtle than Ash's. Ash also handled hers like an adult /j (and I cherish the moments when Raph and Donnie interact after he's done being Nightwatcher.)
🔥 (What's the pettiest thing they've ever argued about?)
They have a lot of petty arguments that don't last long, but the pettiest thing they argued about is Raph's lack of nicknames for her. Ash has lots of nicknames for him and she likes using them. Raph is very fond of calling her Ash and that's his term of endearment for her. He occasionally calls her babe, but that's it. They argued about it off and on for over a week. The argument ended when the two were snuggled on the couch and Raph swore up and down that it didn't mean that he didn't love her less, it just wasn't how he shows it. She accepted that and he called her "babe" a little more often because it does make her smile a little wider.
☕️ (Who's the morning person & how do they lure the night owl out of bed?)
To absolutely nobody's surprise, Ash is the morning person and Raph is the night owl. Now, obviously there's a reason for that, but sometimes Ash wants to do things with Raph in the morning.
Mornings where they have to get up are chaotic. She brings him coffee and if that works, easiest case. Most of the time, she brings coffee and he goes back under the covers. She pulls the covers off the bed and he puts the pillow over his head. After the pillow has been taken and he's been hit with it somewhere between 3 and 5 times, he takes the coffee and they start the morning.
🌸 (What nickname do they have for each other that would mortify them if others heard it?)
Okay so this one is actually fairly easy to answer. Raph doesn't have any nicknames for Ash outside of "Ash" and the very rare "babe". Ash on the other hand, has more nicknames for Raph than I can count off the top of my head. "Bread for brains" is probably the one that would mortify him if she said it in front of the others.
Little storytime for how the nickname happened because the answer's rather short: She invited him over to her house for the first time (because her parents were away) and the dumbass saw a baguette and started gnawing on it (with permission). He spent the entire time that he was there either gnawing on bread or talking about the bread. It wasn't a long time, activity he had to deal with, but she did not let him live it down.
😤 (Who apologizes first after a fight, even if they weren't wrong?)
It really depends on what the fight's about. Raph is more likely to apologize if he wasn't wrong, Ash beating him out by a smidge in the stubbornness department at times.
🧳 (If they had to run away together tomorrow, where would they go?)
So great question and one I actually luckily don’t have to spend too much time puzzling over. Ash’s backstory has changed a bit and her family used to live on a ranch in Texas. I like to think that if they had to run away together, they’d go there. There’s no horses or anything on the ranch anymore, but lots of land. They’d plant some stuff and get some animals.