"...Then, nearly fifty years later, when we had both turned our first corner and were seeing the world through youthful eyes once more--but this time with the wisdom of age on our side--we became lovers."
Citra grinned. "You broke the ninth commandment."
what i'm getting from this is citra is canonically a curaday shipper (or she's just excited to learn that curie actually broke a commandment, but i'm choosing to believe the former because reasons)
she IS AND WE LOVE HER FOR THAT
no because like??? curie and faraday talking about their relationship??? just how venerable they are when they talk about each other??? these two older, elegant scythes who are widely respected by the scythedom are not people who discuss their personal feelings, but when they do, the hints they drop that they still have feeling’s for each other.
“[Scythe Faraday] looked at [Scythe Curie]―perhaps a bit wistfully, Citra thought.” (page 128, Scythe) - A bit wistfully??? Please, even Citra, who always describes her ability to read people as pitiful notices how he looks at her. Like???
Then she sobered a bit, looking a bit sheepish, which was a strange expression for steely Scythe Curie (page 346, Scythe) - This happens when Curie is talking about how she had a crush on Faraday. That sheepish smile. I can’t―
“Oh, you should have seen [Scythe Faraday] in those days, Citra. You’ve only seen him old. He likes to remain that way to keep himself from being tempted by a younger man’s passions.” Scythe Curie smiled as she spoke about her former mentor. (page 346, Scythe) - No because that cue??? Smiling talking about Faraday. Curie and Faraday both drop a lot of conversational cues about their feelings. They pause after remembering their time together, they smile fondly. This is one example of that.
“Seven deaths, and seventy years later, many things had changed. We remained old friends after that, but nothing more.”
Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Citra suspected she never spoke of this to anyone else, and would probably never speak of it again.
(page 348, Scythe) - “We remained old friends after that, but nothing more.” And then immediately after that, Citra describes Curie to shove her emotions back into a drawer, and then she says that Curie would never speak of this again. That vulnerability! Literally I can’t― I can’t with these two.
[Scythe Faraday] nodded. “And her for me. She told you that, didn’t she? Well, it was a very long time ago.”
Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. “I love the way it rains here.” he told her. “It reminds me that some forces of nature can be never entirely subdued. They are enteral, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.”
And so they sat listening to the soothing randomness of the rain until Citra began to grow too weary to even think.
(page 372, Scythe) - Again with the conversational hints. An incredibly long pause after a discussion about their relationship. Faraday is talking about how they died for each other. Then he starts talking philosophy. The cues.
NOT TO MENTION THE!!!! THE HEART RATE THING!!!! IN THUNDERHEAD!!!!
NOT TO MENTION THAT THIS!!!! IS ALL!!!! FROM ONE BOOK!!!! I’m not even talking about how Faraday kept the journal entry like a “poorly penned love letter.” I’m not talking about in Thunderhead when he tells her that he has every confidence in her ability to become High Blade. I’m not even talking about when he finds out she died.
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