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Well “Can you stop playing connect the dots with my freckles?” almost *has* to be a Rekkai story, right? XD
you are absolutely right! and Kai and Rekke are more than happy to indulge you ;)
nothing graphic, ends in a fade to black, but sexual situations still implied. if any of you are still at work and not in quarantine, you miiight want to wait to read this until you get home.
🍩🏹🏆🚓 for Rekkai?
🍩 | their favourite snack to eat together
“Together” is a strong word. It’s more like “theft” :3 Kai has a major sweet tooth, so she’s buying (or making, when she has time) little cakes and candies whenever she can, and Rekke will occasionally swipe a bite because he’s a little shit but also because he means it as a compliment. It’s hers, so that makes it better than other things, right? The special ingredient is Kiki :) she allows it because she loves him
🏹 | how they would fight together in a battle
Rekke is the front line, 6′5″ and big sword and he’s just a wall of muscle that’s impossible to get past. Behind him, not-quite-5 foot tall Kai, with a pistol in one hand and a grimoire in the other, wreathed in flame and eyes glowing with soul energy. Honestly, they’re terrifying together, their combat synergy is unbelievable. Those that manage to survive their combined assault have nightmares for years after.
🏆 | their reaction to the other beating them at something
they’re both really poor losers, so I think “rematch” is the most likely statement at the end of any competition between them. unless it’s one of those playful competitions where there’s no real “loser” and it’s pretty much just an excuse to flirt :P
🚓 | which one is most likely to get arrested
HAHAHAHA they get arrested together. Aloth bails them out. He is so so tired of bailing them out of jail.
seriously, though, it could really go either way. Kiki has a habit of mouthing off to very powerful people, including gods and kings, so chances of her saying the wrong thing and getting herself clapped in irons is very high. But Rekke heavily implies that he left his home and crossed the Mortar due to some light-to-moderate arson, so really I don’t know why anyone lets these two go anywhere together.
And for Rekkai...Kiss 15?
15. A kiss because I have literally been watching you all night and I can’t take anymore
Being a bodyguard was very boring. Rekke had expected it wouldn’t always be about rescuing Kai from assassins or defending her honor or whatever things knights in shining armor always did in the stories, but he didn’t think there would be quite so much standing around. Even at a formal gala. At least they let him keep his sword; Kiki wasn’t even allowed that. They didn't even let her keep her spellbook.
He stood at her side, just behind her left shoulder, looming--politely looming--as she spoke to heads of state and ducs and kings and queens from all over Eora. They all called her ‘my lady’ like she was one of them, and she blended in so well that even he could almost forget how many times she’d told him she hated this part. The politics, the fake smiles and the platitudes from kith who wouldn’t hesitate to throw her to the wolves to further their own goals. That’s why she needed him here to begin with.
Every politician wanted the ear of the famous Watcher of Caed Nua, promised her empty words and emptier gifts. She refused each one while somehow making it sound like she was honoring them by doing so. She accepted nothing, she promised nothing, she moved on to the next.
And all night, her smile never faltered. None of the nobles could see through it, but Rekke could. Kai’s real smile was lopsided; the left side of her mouth lifted before the right, leaving her looking either playful or sarcastic depending on the situation. The one she wore now was straight, fixed firmly in place and ending long before it ever reached her eyes.
It stayed in place even as kith practically lined up to ask her to dance. He couldn't stay at her side then, obviously, but he stood on the edge of the dance floor and kept a close eye on her. He only had to step in once, with a young nobleman who’d had a bit too much to drink and had convinced himself he might have a chance with a woman like Kai. Rekke wasn't sure if he was intervening in an effort to defend her honor, out of some sort of possessive posturing, or just to keep Kiki from setting the poor idiot on fire.
Either way, at least it gave him the opportunity to cut in line. “May I have this dance?”
“I thought you’d never ask, darling.” The left side of her mouth lifted, then the right, her smile warm and real as she took his hand. The sight of it eased some of the tension from his shoulders. He led her out onto the dance floor and the relative privacy it gave them. “You must be terribly bored.”
He laughed, loud enough that a few nearby dancers turned curious glances their way. “Is it that obvious?”
“Only because I know you.” The way she said it warmed him all the way to his bones. There was no higher compliment Kiki could pay someone than to know them; it meant she thought you were worth the effort to try. “I doubt anyone else can tell.”
“Of course not. I do not think they know I exist, ta?” The only ones all night that had so much as made eye contact with him were other bodyguards.
She chuckled. “Do you want them to? You'll have to talk to them.”
“I would rather talk to you.”
“And I you,” she said softly. She moved a little closer and lowered her voice like she was sharing a secret. “I've been watching you, darling.”
“You have?” Rekke probably should have been embarrassed by how excited he sounded, but he wasn’t.
“Hmm.” Kai had one smile in particular that drove him crazy and she wore it now, a mischievous little smirk that was more of a light in her eyes than it was a tilt of her lips. “You're very good at this.”
“The dancing?” He was, in fact, very bad at the dancing, possessing much more enthusiasm than poise.
“I meant at the bodyguard thing. Is this something you did back in Yezuha?”
“Never.” He didn’t talk much about his home or his life before they met - but then, her stories always started in Gilded Vale, as if her life began at her Awakening. The past was just smoke and misery, better left forgotten. “If you would ask those that knew me, they would say all I did was get into trouble.”
“You do rather excel at it,” she said fondly, even proudly. “One could argue that that’s all we do now, too.”
“That is true. But at least we get paid for it now, ta?”
“Then I suppose you’re just a natural.” Her hand, which up until that point had been properly and precisely placed on the curve of his shoulder, curled affectionately around the back of his neck. “Lucky me.”
He grinned delightedly. “Are you flirting with me, my lady?” Rekke tried to imitate the Vailian accents that most of the nobles had. “My my, how scandalous. What will the ducs think, ta?”
“If they think I care about their opinion of me, then they’re all madder than a Watcher.” Kai grimaced at the turn of phrase, even though she was the one using it. “They could use a little more scandal in their lives, I think.”
“I know a good place to start.” He leaned down and captured her lips in a quick, chaste kiss. Well, fairly chaste. Well, at the very least not an indecent kiss. Mostly. “I have wanted to do that all night,” he breathed when they separated.
“What stopped you?”
“An apparently unnecessary sense of propriety.” He brushed his knuckles across her cheek and she hummed a tiny, happy noise. He bit the inside of his cheek in an effort not to react to it. “You should not have told me this, Kiki. Now I will make a scene at every party you are invited to.”
That smile was back, crooked and wicked and only for him. “Promise?”
70 for Rekkai :3
70. Starting With A Kiss Meant To Be Gentle, Ending Up In Passion
“Sit down. Let me see.”
“I’m fine.” Kai tried to wave off Rekke and his concerned hovering, but he was having none of it. “I’m fine, darling. Truly. It’s just a scratch.”
“If that is the case, then you will not mind letting me see, ta?” He put his hands on her arms and gently but firmly pushed her until the backs of her knees hit the edge of the sofa and she had no choice but to sit down. He knelt in front of her, putting them right at eye level with each other, and pushed her wild curly hair out of her face.
A long cut, so thin it looked like someone had dragged a needle against her skin, ran from just over her eyebrow, past her hairline, and across the tip of her ear. It hadn’t bled much, but it looked nearly as irritated as the tiny elf it belonged to. Rekke stood up just long enough to grab the water basin and a clean rag, then set about trying to sooth both the injury and its recipient.
“This is very strange,” he said, once she no longer looked like she was going to run away. He grinned as charmingly as he could and slowly she smiled back. “Usually it is me as the grumpy one in the chair. It is refreshing to be on this side of things.”
Her hands twisted in her lap in the way that told him she was thinking too much. “Why are you doing this? It’s barely a scratch. By tomorrow, no one but you and I will even know it’s there.”
“Ke lap tamutu,” he said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Because it was. He should have told her the moment she dragged him from the ocean and every moment since.
“What?”
He brushed his thumb along her cheek. “You know what I said, Kiki,” Rekke said softly. She was every bit as fluent in his mother language as he was.
Blush bloomed along her cheeks, following the trail of his fingers. Kai looked away, too shy to meet his eyes any longer, and whispered, “If I pretend I don’t, will you say it again?”
She looked up at him through her lashes, and the words caught in his throat, even though they still echoed in his mind. So he improvised, and leaned in to kiss her instead.
He brushed his lips against hers, intending only the lightest of kisses, just an affirmation of his feelings, but that brief contact was like a lightning strike between them. They both surged forward, lips meeting in a hungry kiss that left him immediately breathless. Her fingers curled into his hair, fingernails lightly scratching at the nape of his neck, and he couldn’t stop the needy noise that escaped.
This was usually when Kai got scared, when she would pull away and withdraw into herself again, when whatever terrible voices from her past whispered in her thoughts and made her think that she wasn’t allowed to have nice things. Rekke hated those voices, hated whoever had planted the fear in her, had ever tried to dim the wildfire that burned inside her, but he would never hold it against Kiki. If he did nothing else for the rest of his life but kiss her like this, it would still be a life well lived.
When she pulled away, he tried to cover his disappointment by gently kissing her cheek, waiting to move away until he knew his smile would be genuine enough, but she was still clinging to him. Her hand was still curled in his hair, the other sliding up his chest to rest over his racing heart.
“Rekke?” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek as she spoke. It was almost enough to distract him from the nervous tremble in her voice. “I love you too.”
He pulled back enough to see her face, to see the truth of her words shining in her eyes. There were no words in all the languages of Eora that could do justice to the warmth in his chest when she smiled at him. “Say it again. Please.”
“I love you,” Kai said immediately, voice stronger, more confident this time. “Ke lap tamutu.”
Rekke surged forward to kiss her again and her laughter was like music as she pulled him onto the sofa with her. They didn’t have much use for words after that.
19 for rekkai from the kiss meme?
19. Kisses because I don’t want you to go and maybe I can convince you to stay just a few minutes longer
“Okay, I’m ready.”
Kai smoothed her hands over the front of her armor to keep from wringing them nervously. Rekke had no such reservations, and paced the room restlessly, an uncharacteristically serious look on his face.
“I should be going with you,” he said, as he’d said so many times already. “These are my people. My sister will be there.”
“That’s exactly why I can’t take you with me.” They’d had this not-quite-argument a dozen times already, but it bore repeating. She put a hand on his arm, stopping his pacing. “If this goes poorly - and it very well might - I’m not going to make you choose between me and your family.”
“I choose you.” There was no hesitation, his expression utterly sincere. He took both of her hands in his. “I will always choose you.”
“You shouldn’t have to.” Still, Kai couldn’t deny how warm those words made her feel. She squeezed his hands, trying to impart that to him when she knew words would fail her. “But thank you.”
He kissed her fiercely, pouring all his love and helpless frustration into it. “I wish it did not have to be you, samutun.”
“I know. But it does.” There were the nerves gnawing at her thoughts again. She smoothed her hands over her tunic in an effort to make them stop shaking. “I have decades of experience as a diplomat and I’m literally the only person native to this side of the Mortar that speaks Seki.”
“That does not make it easier, ta?”
“I know, darling.” He kissed her again and she let herself relax into it for a moment, ignoring the weight of the job she’d been tasked with. Peace talks with a previously uncontacted nation and she was literally the only person in a position to host them. No pressure.
She pulled away, but Rekke followed, kissing her again. She laughed. “Darling, I have to go. I’m already running late.”
“I do not think they will start without you.” When she dodged his attempt to claim her lips again, he kissed her jaw instead. “You cannot be late, they can only be very early, ta?”
“You--” she hissed in a breath as he kissed a sensitive spot behind her ear, “you do make a very compelling argument.” She clenched her hands in his shirt, fighting every desire she had to pull him closer. “But I really do have to go.”
“I know.” He kept kissing her anyway, and she gave in and wrapped her arms around him. They only separated when a loud knock sounded on the door and they couldn’t stall any longer. He caressed her cheek, then finally stepped back and let her go. “My people will love you as much as I do, I do not doubt it. Well, perhaps almost as much.”
“I’ll take almost.” Kai took a deep breath and let it out slowly, steeling herself. Then she turned and left the room while she still had the willpower to do so.
Kiss 52 for Rekkai, please :3
52. Accidentally Witnessed kiss
“You must be terribly bored.”
“I am not not bored,” Rekke said playfully, stretching out like a cat on Kai’s bed while she sat at her desk, pen in hand, writing letters in her looping, delicate handwriting. “I did not know being a pirate captain involved so much paperwork, ta?”
“We aren’t pirates, darling. We don’t steal from anyone.”
“Then we are privateers?”
“I think privateers need government backing. We’re just mercenaries with a ship.” She lifted the completed letter and blew on it to dry the ink, then folded it and pressed it closed with some green wax and her old Caed Nua seal. “You don’t have to keep me company, you know. I’m sure there’s something more interesting to do than watch me write letters.”
“Ta, that is true.” He rolled on his side, a lazy grin stretching across his face. He made no effort to hide the admiration in his gaze as he watched her. “But if I go somewhere else, I won’t be with you. I like to be with you.”
“That… is very sweet,” she admitted softly, and she could feel her face turning red. She turned back to her desk, trying to ignore the weight of his eyes on her. It was more difficult than it should’ve been.
Kai signed the parchment in front of her and put her pen back in its case and the cap back on the inkwell. “And would you look at that. I just finished the last of my work. Now I just–” She didn’t get to finish her sentence before Rekke was across the room and kissing her hungrily. He was normally very patient, even careful, with her, but apparently he’d reached the end of his rope. He was like a man possessed and it was all she could do to keep up. He only broke away when the need for air became too pressing, and then she continued breathlessly, “–just need to seal it and then I’m all yours. But I suppose it’ll keep a while, won’t it?”
She wound a hand into his hair and pulled him down to her, kissing him again, slower but no less intense. It had been weeks since they’d had any time alone that didn’t have work looming over their heads, and she was going to savor it while she could.
Unless someone knocked on the door, interrupting what had been shaping up to be a very nice afternoon. The door opened without waiting for an answer, which significantly narrowed down who might be knocking.
“Sorry to interrupt, Kiki,” Edér said, but he sounded more amused than apologetic. “Your sister’s here to see you.”
Kai sighed and pulled away from Rekke. “Tell her I’ll be right–”
“Hello, darling,” said a very familiar voice, sounding entirely too pleased with herself. “Who’s your handsome friend?”
“Fuck. Hello, Bella.”
OTP Meme
Tagged by @serenbach86 <3 tagging @queen-scribbles, @captainofthefallen, @actualanxiousswampwitch, @rannadylin (I know at least some of you have already been tagged, but also that you have lots of otps so here’s an excuse to do this with more of them) and anyone else who wants to do this!
I rolled the Wheel of Pairings and got Rekkai and Marii/Theron. Feel free to tag me again if you do this and I’ll do a couple more :D
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Bold What Applies
Italicize What Somewhat/Sometimes Applies
Kai/Rekke
height difference (oh boy, do they ever) | mutual pining | first kiss | first love (for Kiki at least) | wedding | in-jokes | lgbt+ (Kai and Rekke are both bi) | family disapproves | friend disapproves | would die for each other | fake relationship | arranged wedding | cuddlers | pda friendly | and they were room mates | holding hands | secret relationship | opposing worldviews | opposing personalities | opposing goals | getting a pet | have kids (Vela <3) | want kids | grow old together (aggressively ignoring elf lifespans) | relationship failures | rests head on shoulder | share a bed | token dummies | relationship doubts | they have a song | first date | share a jacket | sharing a blanket | mutual interests | study buddies | bathing together | crash into hello (crash, shipwreck, same thing really) | accidental nudity | laundry | same hobbies | cooking for each other | big fancy gala | sibling rivalry | hair stroking | dancing | laying in the grass | watching stars together | watching the other sleep | shared values | friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | lovers to enemies | childhood friends | slow burn | love triangle | toxic relationship | sitting on each other’s laps | can’t be together | hugs | forehead touches | neck kisses | car/motorbike rides | compliments | nicknames | falling asleep together | late night talks | gifts
Marii/Theron
height difference | mutual pining | first kiss (for Marii anyway) | first love | wedding | in-jokes | lgbt+ (Marii and Theron are both bi) | family disapproves (oooh boy, the Satele Shan baggage is real, from both of them) | friend disapproves | would die for each other | fake relationship | arranged wedding | cuddlers | pda friendly | and they were room mates | holding hands | secret relationship (for a little while) | opposing worldviews | opposing personalities | opposing goals | getting a pet | have kids (eventually) | want kids | grow old together | relationship failures | rests head on shoulder | share a bed | token dummies | relationship doubts (Theron does love to second-guess a good thing) | they have a song (I have a song for them at least) | first date | share a jacket | sharing a blanket | mutual interests | study buddies | bathing together | crash into hello | accidental nudity | laundry | same hobbies | cooking for each other | big fancy gala | sibling rivalry | hair stroking | dancing | laying in the grass | watching stars together | watching the other sleep | shared values | friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | lovers to enemies (only briefly) | childhood friends | slow burn | love triangle | toxic relationship | sitting on each other’s laps | can’t be together (again, only briefly) | hugs | forehead touches | neck kisses | car/motorbike rides | compliments | nicknames | falling asleep together | late night talks | gifts
ღ💝💌💙💜 for Rekkai?
ღ:who is more likely to initiate hand-holding in public?
Rekke. he’ll take any opportunity he can get to touch her, so chances are that any time they aren’t in a fight or preparing for one, he’s reaching for her hand or throwing an arm around her.
💝:who spends more time (possibly overthinking) what presents to get the other?
Kai. Kiki is queen of overthinking, especially when it comes to romantic or emotional gestures. is this gift too casual? is it too much? will he even like this? over and over. Not that she needs to, of course, she’s great at picking gifts and Rekke will like literally anything she gets him, but... well, old habits die hard.
💌:who is more likely to send cutesy texts to the other?
Rekke, constantly. Kai never knows how to reply to them, leaves a lot of them on read or just replies with a heart emoji
💙:who is more protective?
Oh boy, definitely Kai. Rekke may worry about her sometimes when she throws herself into danger, but he has complete confidence in her abilities, and while Kiki also trusts that Rekke can take care of himself, she’s firmly of the opinion that he shouldn’t have to. He is 16 inches taller than her, and she will still put herself between him and harm every single time
💜:who said "i love you" first? or, if neither has said it yet, who is more likely to say it first?
Rekke said it first, and he showed remarkable self-restraint waiting as long as he did. He wanted to say it for like a year before he ever did, he waited until he knew she wouldn’t run away when he finally did. It took her a while to come around, but she did, and she probably ends up being the one to say it more often once they break that barrier.
