27. What makes you excited about their relationship? for our ships! Emralan, Thelio, and Runaren :)
Um, I’m excited about Emralan because they’re EVERYTHING, and you are well aware of that :P
Seriously though, Emma’s relationship with Tamralan is an opportunity for her to be soft with someone who isn’t Lux, but not pressured into being so soft it becomes out of character for her. And since it’s not pushing her boundaries in ways that are going to make her withdraw, she’s embracing it, being soft with him in a way that she’s comfortable with and is still her, loving and being loved in a way that isn’t scary. Tam is so patient and good, and being with him lets her see that being her and being in love are not mutually exclusive, and she doesn’t have to be someone she’s not to feel things she feels. I love thinking about them together because of that tender kindness, and I can’t help but smile when I do.
I feel like we made Thelio to kind of offset all the fluff from Emralan and satisfy our goblin brains, haha. It IS sweet, though, the way they both come to accept that things they’d thought about themselves and others’ perception of them aren’t really as infallibly spot on as they thought. Túlio learns that people can find him intrinsically interesting, without pretending of any kind, and that he can fuck up royally and still be worth loving. Plus, they just have fun together and I really love that, as simplistic as it sounds? They laugh, they joke, they goof off and fool around and give each other something to genuinely enjoy about life and I am just over here like... “good for them.”
Runaren is kind of like Emralan in that it’s a lot of understanding and patience, but it’s also interesting to think about because there aren’t grand gestures and flowery dialogue with them; it’s practically all body language so it’s a challenge to think of how they’ll get their feelings across without much talking, just looks and touches. It’s all they need though, and it makes them happy. :)
Romance asks!
