#simtaea

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Ok so. Gay little thing. Simon and Actaea have a notebook that they’d pass between themselves. Everyone always assumed it was field notes or something.

NO. It’s full of them being ambiguously romantic. It’s full of them drawing eachother. It’s full of them talking about their day when they can’t see eachother. I mean the first few pages ARE monster notes but the rest of it is just them being fuckin queers(affectionate)

Some pages are just “midnight tonight” and other suggested meeting times

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Lute gave me brainworms again. Everybody say thank you Lute. Monster selkies. Horrifying and beautiful creatures thought to only be in Azurian legends.

Riders stumbling upon “perfectly preserved”, completely empty monster hides. Stripped clean of bone and meat but with completely intact skin. Coming back later to find the skin alive, no longer deflated and still but full of muscle and blood and being an actual living monster with the eeriest eyes they’ve ever seen. Eyes that look human if you look at them too long.

People of unnatural beauty visiting the outermost parts of towns, mingling with the locals for a while and slipping away, slipping away under the cover of darkness, disappearing without a word.

Strange pairings of monsters sighted—a Rathian and a Ludroth, an Astalos and a Lagiacrus, etc etc—being friendly with eachother, even if they’d naturally be aggressive.

Monsters not native to Azuria showing up briefly and disappearing before anyone can investigate properly…

Hands coming from the mouth of a “sleeping” monster as a human form slides out and the monster deflates…a visually horrifying ordeal and somehow the human form is so so beautiful.

Actaea and Amara being monster selkies…

There’s a single, perfect Espinas hide in a spire of the Azurian palace, curled up nice and pretty, provided with comfortable bedding, never to be touched or acknowledged. A display piece to never be seen, is all that it is for almost anyone who knows about it. But to the king and his daughter? A truth that neither have come to accept yet. A tie to a queen who fled, a mother who flew.

Actaea has seldom worn her scales—she was hatched in them, sure, but shed them soon after to become something that could be presented to physicians, to the court.

Simon got to be one of few who get to know that the monster-people are real, and one of even fewer to know the location of one’s skin. Because Actaea trusts him that much. It’s one of the few secrets he wouldn’t tell a soul, no matter what happened.

I think she’d let him sit under her wing if she ever got to wear her scales again. He’d put a thick blanket over her spikes and snuggle up. She’d be all nice and warm too.

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Does anyone have any reference photos of Simon’s late game armor. Specifically the back. I have something I want to draw really badly and it’s eating away at me

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Ok whatever. Mhs3 spoilers. Actaea has a REALLY strong sense of smell. She’s like a bloodhound. She has monster scents memorized. And also Simon’s.

After he “dies”, I like to think that there’s at least a day or two between because Actaea is DESTROYED. She’s inconsolable. Shes curling up with whatever she has left of him(clothes, blankets, anything) and just trying to soak in as much of his scent as she can. She wears his clothes under her armor once the rangers cross the Meridian.

And once they reunite, she spends as often as she can with her nose buried in his neck or shoulder or chest. He still smells like himself, but now with a permanent undertone of smoke. She cries about it and apologizes but really, what is she apologizing for? It wasn’t her fault.

She gets really overwhelmed one time when she’s doing it and bites him. He’s not fazed

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Little Actaea finding little Simon/Kris. Storming off on Ratha after a talk gone wrong with her father and stumbling upon a stray boy at her usual sulking spot and taking him home initially as an act of rebellion. Now there’s a no-longer-stray boy in the palace and nobody has any idea where he came from. The princess throws a fit whe anyone suggests that he leaves. He’s staying now

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When they were younger, actaea would always put her head in Simon’s lap, lay on him, everything. I mean she was always nervous about it but she always wanted to be close to him and he had no issues with it. But she never really let him lay on her lap/he never let himself lay on her lap because “improper” or whatever

Whenever he’s in Azuria after the main story, however, he lays his head on her lap or shoulder or anything at any given opportunity. Taking revenge for the years he couldn’t because now she’s just so happy to have him back she dgaf about it being improper, she just wants to be near him

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HHGGHHHHHHHHH…Actaea and Simon sharing a bed during an Azurian winter…like it’s not really cold in the palace and of course the Crown Princess’s room is kept warm but Simon’s accommodations aren’t nearly as nice as Taea’s are. Him coming into her room, cold, and she’s all :(( why isn’t your room warm enough :(( stay in here with me :(( and he does because 1) warm 2) best friend/princess asked me to. Her wrapping him in blankets and snuggling up right next to him because yay cuddling with my crush best friend!!!

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I love pre-relationship simtaea. Spy has to grapple with the fact he’s very much in love with someone he’s spying on and she’s autistic and oblivious as FUCK to people and spends more time alone or with monsters than she does humans. She is also in love with him and doesn’t know it yet.