Dating your&self is so intricately connected to self worship and self care. Love yourself. Show yourself how much you love, well, you&. Make yourself your favorite food after a long day of work. Take a bubble bath with candles and a glass of wine. Listen to your favorite song and dance in your kitchen. Order fast food and eat it in front of your favorite tv show. Call your mom, your dad, your friend, your neighbour’s dog. Talk to someone, even if it’s just to say hi. Compliment a stranger on their hair. Drop a penny in a busy street. Go to a graveyard and speak the dead’s name, talk to them about your day. They can only listen. Give a prayer to the lonely street lights, even if you don’t believe in anything. They get lonely, only lighting up during the night. They can never see the stars, you know? Always facing down. But you do. Look at the sky. The sun, the clouds, the stars. You are part of them. They are part of you. You just need to notice it. You just need to see it. And once you do, you’ll love yourself a little bit more. Because they love you and you love them. And you are the same. You are the sun, the clouds, the stars. You are the twisted trees in their infinite dance, you are the winds blowing past your ears, you are the light passing through the leaves. You are a part of everything and everything is a part of you. You just need to learn to see it.
Late response because it basically my trademark at this point 😋
For Paige:
30- Healthiest coping mechanism would be writing down his emotions and turning it into songs for lyrics and/or melodies to go along with the lyrics =D
Most unhealthy coping mechanism is absolute isolation and reducing the amount of things he eats and drinks to the bare minimum. Also limiting his movement and staying in bed all day.
34- I'm not sure if this counts as a vice, but I'd say his disinterest in people as a concept. Like Paige is a really nice guy and all but it takes a long time for him to be someone who one can truly enjoy spending time with.
Students are bound to call him dry and such, but that's not because he doesn't have a personality like they assume, but because Paige cannot be bothered to care enough about others for him to actually make an effort to show engagement in social interactions, you know? He'll try his best to hide this trait of his but ultimately he's not very good at it, and once he realizes that he's not a very good actor (the way Cater is), he'll just give up the front and just be the way he is.
Building a bond with him really depends on two things: him catching an interest in you, or you being very insistent on befriending him. Otherwise he'll just behave like an NPC to avoid being bothered.
37- Idia's beanbag listening to music, or his room listening to music, or Finn's private area of the botanical garden listening to music, or Aurinelle's room listening to music, or the school yard under a tree listening to music, or the school yard on a tree listening to music, or the school rooftop listening to music, or on a flying broom listening to music.
Moral of the story: listening to music.
For Aurinelle:
30- Healthiest coping mechanism would probably be humming the lullabies his mamas used to sing to him to himself whenever he feels... alone or saddened by the lack of their presence. It brings him unimaginable amounts of comfort.
The least healthy mechanism of his would be picking at his gems, usually pulling them out if he does it for too long or with a lot of force. When his gems are removed he bleeds, and it takes ages for the wound to close and even longer for new gems to grow, so this "habit" of his technically counts as self-harm...
34- Oh boy this guy... erm we're not gonna count his umm.. eating habits as vices so let's go with his severe cynicism.
This guy doesn't trust ANYONE. At ALL. Bro getting Aurinelle to fully put his trust in you would likely take YEARS. Like he always runs having relationships with people through the absolute worst case scenarios possible and analyze the chances of the relationship ending in disaster. Like this guy's trust issues are through the roof.
Of course he'll keep that under wraps so that it won't hurt his relationships that are in development, because even despite being severely skeptical of everything, he really does want to form close bonds with people, even if it's difficult to do so.
37- There are no lazy days for Aurinelle and his workaholic mindset. He's kind of like Nicole for the amazing world of gumball. He can't sit still without doing something, at least not on land. He'll make a literal schedule for what he has to do on a day to do nothing. He'll make up stuff to do instead of just, I don't know, sleeping or something. (I'm projecting here)
