( affectionate physical contact )

[groupon]

the affectionate physical contact meme

 

you love spending time with your significant other. but sometimes, just "spending time" with him/her isn't enough. you need to have your hands on each other every now and then.

➝ post your character below, with your character's name and series in the subject.

➝ tag other people, using an rng with range 1-8 to roll a scenario.

➝ roll as many times as you want, play out whatever you want!

one; hugging. you just want to give your loved one a warm embrace. be it out of happiness, to comfort them while they're down, or just to give them something warm to latch onto, you just want to wrap your arms around them.

two; kissing. whether it's a peck on the cheek or a deep kiss, a kiss good-bye or a romantic kiss, you find yourself compelled to kiss the other person! be as tender or as passionate as you so choose.

three; holding hands. it's a simple gesture, really -- to reach out and take someone's hand. but that one simple gesture can convey any number of sentiments. what the sentiment is, is up to you, but you find yourself reaching out to take your significant other's hand.

four; carrying. is your loved one hurt and needs a lift? do they want a piggyback ride? or do you just want to spare them the effort of walking? whatever the reason, you're now itching to pick up your partner and carry them to their destination.

five; i love you. you've said it before or maybe you haven't but now you have to say it again or for the first time.

six; dancing. kick up the music, because it's time to dance! but no lone dancing allowed -- you need to have a partner! you can do whatever dance strikes your fancy. personally, i recommend the slow dance, but you can do whatever you want!

seven; massaging. did your significant other have a rough day? did they get hurt? or do you just feel like doing something really nice for them? whatever it is, you're giving them a nice massage now. they'll feel wonderful in no time!

eight; flirting. the easiest way to break the ice or maybe you're just an overly flirty person.

nine; cuddling. sometimes there's just no better feeling than curling up next to each other on a warm sofa. hold each other, lie next to each other, fall asleep on each other -- it's all good here.

ten; wild card! reroll, pick an option, or come up with something else!

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Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd • FE: Three Houses

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ your choice of pre or post timeskip ]

[pulsed]

[ what if i can't pick... do you want to do pre-ship or mid-ship? ]

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ either one would be adorable... the boy needs a hug, for sure. do you want pre or post timeskip flavor? ]

[pulsed]

[ YOU'RE NOT VERY HELPFUL... there are so many possibilities!!! he can rest his face in teacher's bosom ok nothing bad will happen here

i'm kinda partial to post timeskip... before or after dimitri snaps out of his angst? ]

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ SORRY IT'S WHAT I DO BEST and tbh i'm so down that we could do just about anything. it's a real problem!!

if we're going with post timeskip it'd probably have to be after he snaps out of it if we wanna get to cute stuff quick. or, maybe we could do the night he turns that corner and unhecks himself as the setting? :o ]

[pulsed]

[ that sounds great to me... maybe they can finally like. snuggle up? dimitri can get some Actual Sleep? plus other things... ]

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ i'm so incredibly down for this. o7 lemme actually icon this nerd and we can get started. c: who wants to do the starter? ]

[royalvessel]

( Do you mind cross-canon? I have only played fully through the Church of Seiros route, but I know what's going on generally anyway. If so, any prefs? Maybe Dimitri getting help from a nearby prince who he knows from when they were younger? )

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ normally i don't mind at all! but while i'm voicetesting, i'd prefer to keep to castmates for right now. lemme hit you up once i've got him more down to a science, and a tale of two princes will work for me c: ]

[royalvessel]

( it's all good, have fun voicetesting! )

[for_his_highness]

((I'm still at work, but would you like to do something with these dorks pre-timeskip when I get back?))

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ oh yes pls!! lemme add some pre-timeskip icons rq tho lol

also, what would you like? c: ]

[for_his_highness]

((Rng gave me one, but I have an amazingly easy time imagining four. Do you have anything you want to play out?))

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ oh god FOUR... he's going to be so humiliated, i'm here for this ]

[for_his_highness]

((OOC: Got it, let me know if this doesn't work. Also, good luck on your icon hunt. Of course I had to want to RP the only character with next to no fanart so a distressingly high number of my icons are taken from YouTube videos, smh. I'm hoping you'll have better luck, though.

I DID have an icon of Dedue carrying Dimitri, but something weird happened during the resizing so I unfortunately had to scrap it.))

"Your highness, please stop fidgeting," Dedue said with a level of patience that extended far beyond his eighteen years of living. He had been sparring with Dimitri, when the prince had twisted his effort in an attempt to dodge Dedue's strike. This sort of thing happened in combat training, but of course Dedue thought it was his own fault. And of course he was taking responsibility by carrying his liege to Manuela's office himself. Princess style.

"The hour is late," Dedue reasoned as he stepped through the halls of the monastery, carrying Dimitri as if he weighed little more than a small bundle of grapes. "The chances of someone seeing us are low."

[pulsed]

[ so far, the one thing that byleth learned about happiness is that it's fleeting. real, tangible, but also fragile and so easily marred.

she'd learned to deal with it. she'd learned to hold onto what she could, and tell herself to let go when it was time. she was good at keeping herself level, grounded, at pressing on when she needed to even as the ground started caving beneath her. she'd led an army, maneuvered plans around a reckless leader while staring at his back, remembering what he looked like and reminding herself of what he is now - a shell, a ghost of the past. and it was the memories of him that kept her hoping, believing that she would see the old dimitri once more, perhaps somewhere down the line, when the killing ceased.

it's impossible to be entirely happy when the scent of blood still lingers in the air. it's impossible to be entirely happy when she remembers that she had killed merely hours ago, when she remembers that she'd killed yesterday, the day before, and many years before that. it's impossible to be entirely happy when the future is uncertain, but right now... right now, she's determined to allow herself some happiness.

byleth is at dimitri's door early this morning. last night was the best sleep she's had in months, and she'd drifted off thinking about his gentle smile, the one she - and everyone - had sorely missed. did he sleep well? he'd been haggard, exhausted, haunting the monastery every night. did he finally get to rest? have some peace to himself without ghosts in every corner? she stands, hand lingering at the door and considering the sun rising in the distance. perhaps she's too early. or perhaps she's wrong, and he's not in his chambers at all, but once more in the ruins of the chapel.

after a moment, she knocks, soft and hesitant. ]

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ For too long a time, memories were all anyone had; memories, and the hope that somewhere within that shell, a bold and bright-eyed Dimitri still remained, though his light was dim. Everyone he’d clung to, everyone he’d said he needed in his life to survive had left him -- except, not fully. He still heard them all, every day: The voices of those he’d lost; deaths he heaped on himself, burdening himself with their final wishes of vengeance, driving him to act swiftly, mercilessly, murderously.

In a sea of insurmountable losses and a life stained with red, Rodrigue, perhaps, was the final straw. The final blow to crack the husk of a man once destined to be a just and fair King, and draw out the life still left in him. Amazingly, after everything he’d endured, a man some would have considered long dead still found it in himself to hurt. Even more unbelievably, when his own splintered pieces fell down around him, he could look up... and see her still there.

Had she--... had she been there all this time? Impossible...

It felt like waking up from a dream, seeing Byleth’s face then. Not only that, but when he finally hit that rockiest of bottoms, she didn’t chide or chastise or critique -- she extended a hand. She reached for him. And, just like that, the vengeful spirits following him around, the waking nightmares he’d known for nine years now... suddenly they weren’t so loud. In fact, he could no longer hear them at all.

His world was quiet, for the first time in nearly a decade. Just his own heartbeat, her surprisingly-warm touch, and the pattering of rain.

Dimitri hasn’t known rest in years. At least not true, dreamless, peaceful sleep. But the night that followed was as close as he’d come in time immemorial. Granted, it was still fitful, and removing his armor -- that which has remained on his person for so long he’s nigh-unfamiliar with his own skin -- left him feeling rather bare, even in underclothes, but... he rested. He slept. For hours, even; not just one or two.

He still hasn’t put all that heavy attire back on yet when her knock falls upon his door. And if she’d questioned, even briefly, which version of him would greet her on the other side, she gets her answer shortly after he opens--]

Professor...! [--and then swiftly closes. At least, back down to a crack, so he can still speak to her. ]

I must apologize; I’m afraid I’m... [ he seems to debate his word choice here, finally settling on ] ...unfit for company at this time. Please, excuse me just one moment--!

[pulsed]

[ for a moment, what byleth saw - glimpsed, rather - was the golden haired boy she met five years ago instead of the war-hardened warrior currently standing on the other side of that door. it takes her aback, and it's a few long seconds until she gathers herself again, a smile tugging at the corners of her lips.

she refrains from chuckling. ]

I don't mind. I doubt you're worse for company now than you were months ago, stinking of mud and blood.

[ granted, he did also mind company back then, but certainly not in this way.

she's not one to intrude in someone's privacy, though. so she settles for remaining outside the door, smiling to herself. ]

Did I wake you?

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ ...oh, she had to call that point forward, did she? Feet away, Dimitri’s embarrassment is palpable, as though the door between them wasn’t there at all. Goodness, he's been out of sorts, hasn't he? ]

While that may be true--[ the sounds of efforts, along with things being moved, interrupt here, as though he’s doing his best to hurriedly clean himself and his space up enough to be suitable for a guest ]--it’s no less inexcusable now for me to be seen in such poor form.

[ But “poor form” has been the name of the game since Byleth first found Dimitri back at the remains of Garreg Mach, slumped over against the wall, clearly out of his right mind and, by all appearances, barely alive. Only now is the haze starting to lift, and the light beginning to come back.

A bit more rumbling and shifting happens, and then a wooden door pulls open to reveal Dimitri -- war-torn in visage, but much more himself than he has been in quite some time. ]

You did not. I’d actually been up for quite some time now, piecing together some things I need to say. [ and, as proof: there’s a proper bow and gesture as he invites her in ] On that note, please come in, Professor.

[ a beat ]

...Though I must still apologize for the state of my quarters, and myself.

[pulsed]

[ against her wishes, the fondness in her chest continues to well and bubble. every word that comes from dimitri's mouth is a reminder of the person he once was, and byleth finds herself refraining from thinking of him as that same person. he's not. not yet. not now, not anymore. but a part of him is still the same and she's so, so relieved.

he doesn't have to stand to such formality with her, really. she's just his teacher. his friend. then again, maybe it's still too early for dimitri to let his guard down again, even around friends.

she steps inside his room when invited, taking a brief moment to take in the state of it. it's sparse. there is nothing there that's superfluous, just the barest of necessities. it makes sense too - they're in the middle of a war, and dimitri hadn't bothered with anything aside revenge for a while now.

she takes a seat on the only chair in the room, with the briefest of glances at dimitri's unmade bed before she looks back at him. ]

There's no need to apologize.

You needed to say something?

[winkgate]

( I can't NOT make His Kingliness a flustered mess, shippy or not ;) preference? )

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ OH LAWD my inbox is so unprepared but my body is so ready?? hmm... okay but hear me out -- on the blue lions run i absolutely, definitely chose 'claude' as the option for dimitri when byleth asks "aren't you supposed to be saving a dance for..." (edelgard or claude) and lowkey always wondered what would happen if he HAD saved that last dance. thoughts??

though if you wanna go definitively post-timeskip, i'd also be down for the two of them meeting up again post BL ending.... and we can do ANYTHING with that tbh ]

[winkgate]

( DUDE I would be a huge liar if I said I didn't smash the same dialogue option at the speed of light. Making Dimitri giggle like a nerd is what I live for in this stupid game for as long as I'm playing my BL route. Claude clearly has no compunctions about obliging so sure, let's sweep Dimitri off his feet :P Lemme write something up

Post-timeskip is also v. tempting but I haven't finished BL yet, though I've saved Claude and he gave me his relic weapon??? Like damn dude, Byleth didn't even pick your house and you have it bad, go off I guess. )

[pyrrhicvictor]

[ OH SO UR ALMOST DONE THEN!! ngl i gave failnaught to ashe after that for the lulz to see how beastly he'd be with it, and BOY OH BOY HE WAS, but the hp loss after every arrow made the damage not worth it. :c weh.

anyway!! i'll warn you now that i've done BL route and church of seiros, (was trying to do edelgard route but i hecked it up, oops), but i have NOT yet touched golden deers, so i'm not terribly well-versed in the interaction between these two. but it'll be perfect (because claude) and hilariously awkward (because dimitri). i look forward to their power struggle over who's going to lead. ;3333 thank you for doing the starter!! <3 ]

[winkgate]

( I'm on NG+ sO if I can sacrifice the inventory space for the Riegan crest relic item thingy I can skip the damage every turn, and then Ashe will be unstoppable! MWAHAHA. Or just a Goddess Ring on first game lmao

That's cool! I finished GD first and like I said, I'm almost through BL, plus I watched my roomie play Crimson Flower, so I'm almost versed all the way XD Not really a spoiler bc you've seen how chapter 17 goes, but Dimitri & Claude's interactions in BL are the best you're going to get bc in other routes without Byleth feral boi doesn't really get domesticated >.> At least on the dance floor Claude can get the full princely experience )