How to tell that they have a crush on you ♡ GN
Phainon, Boothill, Dan-Heng, Aventurine, Blade
Note: this might be a bit ooc, as this is merely how I interpret certain personality traits, backgrounds, etc. and the corresponding actions and thoughts.
Also, this is my first time posting on here ^^ I hope you enjoy it and I’d love to hear what you think!
Phainon
Phainon thinks that his crush on you is a well-kept secret. Emphasis on ‘thinks’, because for all the skills in his repertoire, keeping his affections for you discreet is not one of them.
Phainon is probably the sweetest guy ever. He is the type to remember your every word and take note of all the minute details in your features.
He has about two dozen of silly trinkets at home simply because they reminded him of you in a way that makes absolutely no sense to anyone else.
When he finds something funny, the first thing he does is look at you and see if you laugh as well.
Whenever he finds an excuse to hug you (which is strangely often), it lasts a little too long to be casual. Phainon generally initiates small acts of body contact almost always.
“Many boys will bring you flowers. But some day you'll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because be will have taken the time to know you as no one else does.” THIS. This is Phainon (Read Six of Crows btw).
Boothill
Boothill tries to keep you at arm’s length. The dude is thoroughly traumatized and a small part of him is terrified that just as everyone else he’d held dear, you will slip through his fingers and turn to ashes as well.
Whenever you’re in the same room, he will keep close, talk to you a little softer than with everyone else, but as soon as it’s not necessary for him to stick around anymore, he’ll be nowhere to be found.
A part of him longs to keep you close, to shield you from harm and never leave your sight, while the other part of him wants to forget about you simply for the sake of your safety.
Still, if someone looks close enough, they would see him somewhere near you almost always, hiding in the shadows and at a coincidentally convenient distance to shoot someone down who looks at you a little too suspiciously.
Despite that voice in his head telling him to stay away, when you are searching for him, he’ll let you find him.
In other words, it takes a lot of work to get Boothill to the point where he accepts his feelings and even more to get him to stop worrying too much.
Dan-Heng
Dan-Heng is very subtle about his crush. It’s hard to tell whether he’s simply friendly or madly in love. If you know what to look for though, it will become pretty obvious.
Usually, Dan-Heng doesn’t talk too much but with you, he’s wrecking his brain for facts about whatever interests you at the moment that you would surely find intriguing.
He doesn’t want to be a show-off but he does want to impress you with his knowledge.
Dan-Heng is a yearner when it comes down to it. On a daily basis, it’s hard to tell but he would wait thousands of years for you (as we know 👀)
He is the definition of “there is nothing of equal value to me.” (Read OUABH guys).
But most importantly, he lends you his precious books. Everyone knows what’s going on in that instance because letting people use the databank? No problem. But touching the very limited, very old collection of books he treasures like a limb? Never. No one is allowed to do that but himself and now you.
Aventurine
Aventurine is the type to spoil you rotten, it’s not even funny anymore. When you eye something in a shop for a second too long, his spidey-senses tingle and he sweeps the item to the check-out, buying that and ten more of the same kind before you can blink. He’d say it’s the least he could do as ‘a friend’.
He would send you boxes of fine clothes and accessories, finding excuses as to why you definitely need them.
Aventurine would be a pain, actually. Because whenever you would address the fact that he seemed to spoil you about ten times more than anyone else, he would laugh it off and joke about it, calling it silly.
He text you a l o t. Whenever something pops up in his mind, he learns about something intriguing, or he’s simply bored, he’ll go ahead and text you about it. His co-workers kind of hate you because he is always texting in meetings and excuses himself early whenever he wants to take you out to go shopping again.
Whenever he travels, he asks you if you want to come along because he’s sure you’d love to see the places. Again, he would find a way to explain it in a way that made just enough sense to be passing as a platonic favor.
Blade
Similar as with Boothill, Blade would try to keep his distance from you in fear of losing control of the mara and causing you harm.
To be fair, it took ages for him to realize that the annoying buzzing in his heart wasn’t caused by some still-healing wound from where he was (yet again) pierced through the chest with a spear, but instead feelings. Like, actual romantic feelings.
He would be overly sensitive when someone talks about you, staring them down and daring them to say something stupid. It was painstakingly obvious that he did not take well to hearing anything negative directed your way.
He asked Kafka to wipe you from his memory once (to protect you from himself most of all) but it took all but three days until he remembered you again because everything on the streets, every person and building and flower, sparked some kind of memory of you.
A dead giveaway that he has feelings for you is that he keeps the tokens you gave him, keeping something with him at all times because it helps to ground him whenever he feels the mara starting to spike agin.
I hope you enjoyed!
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