<> PALE POLY ERISOL X READER <>
Okay this got a little ashen but I couldn't help myself. I am a sucker for ashen romance. Also I forgot this was POLY so this scenario/ headcannon thing starts out as a V relationship (where one person dates two people)- but becomes an actual threeway moirallegience at the end to fit it xd.
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<>Pre Threeway-diamond.<>
Now, Eridan and Sollux are both extremely different yandere's but the one thing they have in common is their possessiveness
Even before you three all got into this moirallegience they’d get into constant fights with each over you it's crazy- and even without you being their main interest their personalities and general abrasiveness just naturally conflicts with one another
Eridan is obnoxious with his affection and will do everything in his power to have your attention on him and him alone. He’d blow up your inbox with constant messages- even threatening you or himself (He wouldnt hit you with the suicide threat but he’d go on increasingly dangerous voyages or do anything that MIGHT result in him getting heavily injured or dead- so you’d have to try to convince him not to do all that or help him with his injuries) that is- if you don't respond. Maybe he’d even go on self deprecating rants in a desperate attempt to fish for your pity.
That isn't his only tactic though, he'd go to you whenever he feels agitated and violent. Of course he isn't flirting with you, he's just trying to get you to pacify his ‘highblood rages’ IE- his temper tantrums where he threatens to annihilate the land dwelling race.
Granted if you bring up the fact your a landweller aswell he’d get even more agitated and say “ Wwell your obvviously excluded. I still need some you landwwelling cretins to be alivve. Who’d servve me then. “ Or just outright shut down your question
While Sollux’s obsession is a little different. I figured he’d be more quiet in his obsession over you. And that would be because he’d have constant surveillance over you. Come on, he has crazy hacker 2kiill2. He’s definitely going to use them to monitor you AND your devices.
So ofcourse Sollux would notice how clingy and aggressive Eridan gets with you, and he is NOT happy about it.
Even if Sollux is in one his better moods- ( which usually happens after you and him have an unofficial feelings jams. )
( By that I mean um… okay Sollux isn't doing it on semi-purpose like Eridan is, but whenever you catch him during a particularly negative mood swing- he just can't help himself and starts ranting to you about everything that bothers him, And because your you- you try to talk to him through his problems. Hell you might even have to pacify him a bit unless you want his computer exploding from psionic overload. He always feels guilty afterwards for ‘dumpiing all thii2 on you’ but he cant deny how he always feels better after talking to you )
Okay let's get back on point!
-even when Sollux is in one of his better moods. He’d start blocking Eridans messages towards you so that they don't register on your Husktop- using his control over your device
Or if he's not feeling so gracious he’d start sabotaging Eridan's devices with his more destructive viruses. So whenever Eridan tries to message you his husktop would ‘suddenly’ explode or crash.
And Eridan notices this obviously. He's not stupid. Okay maybe he's a little stupid because after the first time you ‘ignored’ his messages he set sail straight to your hive and demanded to know why you ‘suddenly’ hated him.
Of course he won't be physical in his confrontation. Eridan would just begin guiltripping you hard. He won't be good at guiltripping, but damn does he have a good sulking face.
So you’d explain to him that you weren't ignoring him on purpose, and that your Husktop just wasn't receiving his messages. Eridan immediately calms down after seeing your empty inbox. He’d feel like something was off about that, but he’d just shrug it off as your technology being inferior to his. And since it's inferior and all, it might just be damaged or low quality.
To which Eridan immediately demands you go shopping with him with no explanation whatsoever.
Oh that's another thing about Eridan, whenever he feels like it or whenever he feels even a tiny bit bad for lashing out at you to get you to pacify him- he takes out on shopping sprees where he’ll literally buy you whatever you want. It doesn't matter how expensive it is- he's buying it. ( He is a seadweller and a violet blood. You can't hurt his wallet. ) and of course these are just excuses to take you out on a (unofficial) pale date and pamper you like what a moirale should do. (And what's more pale than having to calm someone down so they don't shoot the customer service? /j )
So you assume this is one of those apology shopping sprees, but no Eridan goes out and buys you a top of the line handheld husktop- or even a husktop (PC) too if you don't stop him. Effectively replacing your current one so you two can message each other properly
This doesn't stop Sollux though. Even if your handheld husktop has a slightly better firewall- nothing can stop Sollux when he's feeling especially spiteful. So after a while, you stop receiving Eridans messages again- but this time Sollux conveniently messages you at the same time Eridan does so you don't even *notice* that Eridan hasn't been whining to you lately.
You know what, Sollux might even sabotage your own husktop so you have to go to him to get it fixed. I mean that's how Sollux got access to all your files and cameras anyways. He’d sneak in a program whenever he was ‘fixing’ your PC.
I mean he's not just sabotaging your PC for funsies, he does it whenever you have plans with Eridan. Or whenever Eridan plans on trying to get you to hangout with him.
Uh do note, Sollux isn't just possessive about you whenever Eridans involved (Trust me, anyone else who even tries to get into your diamonds has had their PC destroyed and their information leaked)- He just gets even more possessive because he knows what Eridans trying to do. And damn him if he's not going to try to stop it. Can't Eridan just fuck off? First FF, now this bullshit?
The only thing stopping him from wrecking total hell on Eridans online life is the fact you would get upset on Eridans behalf because Eridan will 100% go to you to sulk about a ‘mysterious’ virus and you’ll probably comfort him in response. The thought is enough to make his psionics sparks.
So he's patient (enough) . Only sabotoging when he needs to but this charade can't go on forever.
I’d say Eridan would finally connect the dots after talking to Karkat about his husktop suddenly taking forever to run. Karkat, rolling his eyes tells Eridan about Sollux purposefully slowing down Karkats PC for shits and giggles “ATLEAST YOUR PC PROCESSES DATAHEXAGONS SLOW AS FUCK NATURALLY”. Eridan would shrug it off before blinking. A few beats would pass and Eridans slamming his PC closed to immediately rush to challenge Sollux for a dual. He won't even try to confirm or do any research about whether or not Sollux is actually responsible for why he can't talk to you normally or as frequently anymore because Eridan just knows.
That and the fact Sollux isn't exactly shy about his feelings for you too.
Sollux being Sollux accepts the dual greatfully. Honestly, if this were about anything else other than you he’d turn down Eridans dual in a heartbeat. Just because he likes the number two doesn't mean he's going to fight Eridan twice.
And he is ITCHING for an excuse to finally get rid of Eridan. That asshole doesn't fucking deserve you- I mean he doesn't deserve you either ( your too good for him in his mind ) but Eridan especially doesn't deserve you.
You'll notice this. How could you not? Two of your crushes- uh I mean best friends are quite literally going to fight to the damn death and neither of them will tell you why. And they usually tell you everything! ( With or without you prompting them to in Eridan's Case ). I mean they didn't even tell you in the first place- you found out about the duel from Karkat flipping his shit at you!
So you finally call a meeting before the date of the dual.
It doesn't matter how the meeting goes- or how you address the rivalry that's formed about you- but you need to be direct and firm with these two or else they’ll wave you off.
At first they’d both totally be against ‘sharing’ you with the other troll.
Are you out of your miind?? This aththhole??
Yeah wwhat he said. hey wwait, you shut your trap lowblood shitstain if anyone's the asshole it’d be you. My glubbing husktop had to be replaced FOUR times in one perigee because of your bipolar-
(*Cough*Pot calling kettle black. *Cough*)
<> Finally, Moirallegience <>
But they’d begrudgingly agree to it (eventually). Because as much as they despise the other- they want to see you happy and cared for. And well, they're both pretty powerful trolls- it's why you need to be the one to pacify them, because who knows what they’ll do ( they're not that unstable… as they could be, but God they get feral when they feel like you or your relationship with them is threatened ). like base Eridan and Sollux have already shown a willingness for violence and some possessiveness- imagine their yandere counterparts.
So you three enter a moirallegience. Honestly it starts out pretty great! While Sollux and Eridan aren't happy with how they entered this moirallegience (Eridan wanted this occasion to be more romantic- in a pale way. Not an ashen way, and Sollux would rather still have you all to himself. Call him a bastard but he gets extra prickly seeing you get along with anyone that isn't him. ) but they're still both over the moon at finally having you as their (official) moirale!
Granted you three will all have to have a strict schedule for date nights- just generally who you spend time with. ( But we both know Eridan will bother you outside of his scheduled days ) Because without it they will be absolutely terrible to deal with. And if you want this relationship to stay more pale than ashen than your gonna have to set some firm boundaries ( which seems counter-intuitive considering they're yanderes )
Eridan would enter a honeymoon phase and refuse to let you of his sight. Actually he’d probably force you to move in with him instead of “ that place you call a hivve “. Sollux would protest but would allow it if he was allowed to put cameras around the place afterwards. Yes he hates seeing you with Eridan but I like to imagine that they start to have… a mutual respect for each other. They both have your safety in mind after-all, and Sollux has to admit that having a violet blood orphaner would probably scare away most idiots who even think about going after you
That's not to say Sollux doesn't protect you as well. Eridan can't be with you 24/7 after-all (Granted he does want to be around you every waking second but he can't do that if Feferi's lusus raises her voice and he would cull himself before placing you in danger. Even if your strong or can put up a fight like his past flarping partners he just cant focus with you around.), and so you go to Sollux’s communal hiveblock.
I don't think you’d ever be able to have a threeway jam session with the two of them but they’ll try to tolerate each other's presence for you if you REALLY want to spend time with the both of them.
Just… be prepared to auspitice.
Don't even try shooshing or papping them In front of the other.
Sollux would probably destroy every building within the radius if you pale cuck him like that. Don't worry he won't actually turn into a ball of blazing psionic energy but damn if he isn't tempted afterwards.
While Eridan would try to get your attention back by acting up his anger so you're forced to shoosh HIM instead. If that doesn't work he’d sulk and sulk until you made it up to him ( IE spend the day reassuring him that you still pity him, and that you won't leave him for Sollux, and yes you’d still love him if he was a wriggling fiend- )
Still this isn't an ashen-ship with pale benefits. Whenever you're upset Eridan and Sollux immediately have a silent agreement to get rid of whatever's causing your distress ( and if the cause is a person or another troll then all the better. While Sollux is the less ‘violent’ moirale- he’s still a troll man. Also I kinda think Eridan feels like a little guilty culling trolls, like Vriska does but that guilt goes away when you're involved).
Then they'd immediately stop whatever they were doing to comfort you or try to make you feel better because seeing you seriously upset just seems so wrong.
Plus- they both had moirales/ semi pale relationships in the past. Both of them probably have SOME idea of how to comfort you.
Eridan would try to distract you while shit-talking the idiot stupid enough to bother his moirale. All while manicuring your nails. Come on, he has a whole wardrobe. He probably knows how to take care of his nails. I imagine they get chipped a lot because of his rifle.
Then afterwards he’ll take you to a real fancy spa. Even if you aren't even a troll or a lowblood- he’d demand they serve you as they do him.
Now I know Eridans a yandere here but I don't think he gets blood thirsty.
He’s VIOLENT but he doesn't really feel the URGE to be violent. Everything he does is mostly because he feels like he HAS to do it. He has to shoot down lusi and orphan innocent wriggler or else fefs lusus will kill everyone, he has to kill other trolls to keep up his image of the perfect violet blood or else people will see him as weak and undeserving of adoration, love, respect- so of course he’d see it be necessary to cull whoever's bothering you to be a good moirale. What good is he if he can't even protect the person he pities the most?
While Sollux would let you rant it all out to him as you cuddle in the pile. He's not touchy but he knows what you need right now is a willing ear and something to ground you. So he’ll let you sob into his shirt. Of course the moment you’ve exhausted yourself and begin sleeping- is the moment Sollux begins hearing the asshats voice scream in mind.
Now Sollux on the other hand isn't a violent troll, but he is bloodthirsty. Not extremely blood thirsty- but he feels less guilty culling someone in your name. His love language are acts of services after-all. This is only a natural extension of his love for you.
Sollux always knew he was going to be a tool for someone else. Be it a living battery or the pilot to a meteor so it isn't all that strange if he becomes a weapon for you. At least then he’d be choosing how he would be used. (Granted you wouldn't know about this, He probably wouldn't tell you that the guy that mildly inconvenienced you during your two’s date ended up on a medicullers examination table viva a drone related incident. No he ‘definitely’ didn't hack the drone database so he could deal with them while having your head on his lap. NO DEFINITELY NOT. )
Then afterwards Sollux would ask you if you want to grab something to eat or to play a match with him. Sollux won't take you on extravagant dates but he knows other ways of letting you vent your frustration.
Hm… I don't think Sollux nor Eridan would kidnap you or keep you locked inside their hives. They’d want to but Sollux knows how shit it feels to have your autonomy be taken away from you and fuck he doesn't want you to feel that way ever- so even if Eridan even suggest the idea than Sollux wouldnt even bother with the dual and cull him, himself.
<> Pale Erisol (Kinda) <>
Eridan is still iffy about this whole threeway diamond. It seems a little unstable to have your moirale be moirales with your kinda-kismesis (Sollux and him aren't in a kisnemesistitude but Eridans assuming they're because of the PC related-sabotage.). Still it's inevitable that they’d interact anyways and honestly he's still kinda mad at Sollux.
So Eridan pesters Sollux out- of some weird not-hate thing he feels towards Sollux. Sollux obviously ignores Eridan on a good day or throws Eridan hard enough to knock the lungs out of his gils with his psionics before slamming the door with his psionics.
Eridans a stubborn motherfucker though. At this point it's just about pride.
This is the dynamic they’ve set up whenever you're out of the room. Because lets be honest- they're not entering the same room willingly without you.
This is how Sollux finds himself being pestered by Eridan about giving him access to his ‘security system’ As I said- Eridan is a busy troll. Sometimes hunting down Lusus’s big enough to feed feferi’s lusus takes *weeks* on end and he just can't breathe without seeing your face. He’d get so distracted on his voyage that he’d start missing his shots thinking about you! So he tries to resolve this problem by bugging Sollux.
And Sollux would say no. Not out of any possessiveness but just to piss Eridan off. Sollux is still a jackass after-all, let him have his fun. But he’d cave in eventually when Eridan came back more injured than usual and then… Sollux starts to feel something.
Something that isn't the usual contempt he feels for the seadwelling troll but something horrifying like worry begins to settle.
Immediately he’d either try to shut down the feeling and antagonize Eridan for bleeding on the floor but he wouldn't be able to help the slight softness in his voice. Nor the way he uses his psionics to help Eridan move around. Eridan himself would comment on the behaviour with some snark and a raised eyebrow but Sollux would call you over (Which is unusual aswell. Any other day he’d flip Eridan off and tell him to call you himself. ) and try to ignore the way his gut squirms as you tend to Eridan's injuries.
For some reason he can't look away as Eridan recounts his journey to you, and you listen to him dutifully with mild amazement (For the tale), and concern (He is very close to passing out) for him. Subtly he turns away and goes back to what he was doing beforehand but all he can focus on is the sound of both your voices.
After that Sollux’s less pointed with Eridan, and definitely less possessive. Oh Sollux is still aggressive but that's more of a him thing than anything he feels towards Eridan now. He starts even… GASP sees Eridans existence as not just another thing he has to tolerate in his dreadful thing he calls a life but as something even… amusing sometimes!
Arguments and venom filled comments turn into banter and teasing remarks.
Honestly Eridans a bit confused (and a little scared. But he would never acknowledge that feeling ) at Sollux’s change in demeanour but after you tell him that ‘no, sollux is not trying to kill you currently’- Eridan would… accept it and try to chill the fuck out around Sollux. Instead of baring his fangs each time the goldblood enters his sight.
Lowkey, Eridan might even catch a minor pale crush on Sollux because of how… nice he’s acting (Sollux is in no way shape or form acting nice towards Eridan but because Sollux isnt treating Eridan with outright hostility- Eridan takes this as Sollux finally warming up to him… and honestly he might be warming up to Sollux aswell.)
From here though- I don't know how they’d start officially calling each other moirales as well without your intervention.
That doesnt mean they wont start acting protective over eachother aswell. They will never be as protective about eachother as they are to you but you could even call them… friends now.
Sollux would silently help Eridan out without pulling out his teeth and Eridan would cool it with the hemocastist remarks.
I dont ship Pale Erisol okay. I think it’d take extreme measures to get them pale or divine intervention to get these idiots to fess up to their really complicated feelings about each other and how that ties in with you. Sollux does know what its like to have feelings outside the quadrants but feeling that for more than one person still feels strange to him. Though when this diamond actually turns threeways- Sollux would definitely brag or get smug about having two moirales ( the two stick, man.. It never gets old.. )
Eridan would be shier about acknowledging it and maybe even defensive but that wont mean he wont hesitate to tear someone's guts out if they insult either of you.
And because of this newfound tolerance they even might even allow threeway dates- oh who am I kidding no fucking way. Its not that they arent pale for eachother too but THEY JUST REALLY VALUE their alone time with you. But if you three just so HAPPEN to hangout as trio than they wont complain (much)
Um anyways… cutting this tangent short lets move on to something else.
Hm… Sollux isn't really the type to physically cling (emotionally, definitely. This is the same man who hung around the same girl for an unknown amount of time in the dreambubbles. Sollux would definitely do the same with you if given the chance) - regardless of quadrant but that doesn't mean they aren't any times where all three of you are physically affectionate with each other
Eridan gets physically clingy and needs to be reassured when he gets in an insecure mood and Sollux just gets periods where he needs you to ground him when his mood swings get especially bad. So the solution is a cuddle pile. They’d never outright say it or plan it though. It just kinda… happens.
You’d be sitting down somewhere doing your own thing and Eridan would huff moodily and sit down next to you. Of course he won't say why he's upset, you're going to have to pry it out of him no matter how many times he says “ am fine, don't bother fussing about me “. Look, the amount of times you had this back and forth to pry the feelings out of Eridan is insurmountable, it's just become a habit at this point. But it isn't long before he's ranting about something while laying on your lap.
Then Sollux would levitate lazily in the room. He isn't as visibly upset as Eridan, but Sollux is quieter than usual- considering he doesn't speak up about how stupid Eridan looks on your lap. He doesn't even bother asking before sitting down next to you, leaning his head on your shoulder as he plays Tetris on his handheld husktop or something.
It's unnervingly domestic. Honestly that's kinda how being moirales with the both of them is like. It's stressful and life threatening on some days where Sollux can't listen to anything but his own thoughts about how the world is hopeless and there's no point in trying to do anything! And How your the only good thing to come out of this shit hole they call a planet-
Or Eridan's insecurities run wild- making him imagine the worst possible thing in any given situation he's in. Or when he's so lost in trying to be the perfect troll- and he just forgets to be himself around you.
But then it's quiet and nice. Sollux makes you laugh while teasing you. Using his psionics to give you little jolts, all while giving you that dumb double fanged smirk. And when Eridan's comments are more playful than life threatening as you read historic documents detailing a battle between a fearsome monster and a group of trolls.
It's a moirallegience with the highest highs and the lowest lows, but you three wouldn't have it any other way.
Urghh I am not satisfied with this- and am out of practice but it's already been a month so I can't delay further… Here is… Pale Poly Erisol… oh my stars am dizzy. As always criticism and comments are welcomed
