dialogue
➼ “Please don’t ever stop touching me.”
➼ “I may have found a new addiction.”
➼ “Your hands are so soft.”
➼ “Do that again. It feels nice.”
➼ “Are you okay? Your face seems a little red.”
➼ “Stop smothering me, you dumbass.” “It’s to make up for the lack of hugs in all these years in your life when I wasn’t there!”
actions
• tensing up under their touch because they’re scared they’ll become too attached to it
• insisting they don’t want B to touch them but B notices the soft curl of A’s lips whenever they do touch them
• intertwining their pinkies as a start to physical contact
• placing a comforting hand on their back whenever they feel nervous or upset
• memorising the little scars on each other’s bodies
• getting used to falling asleep and waking up in each other arms
• the other hugging them suddenly and them freezing, not knowing what to do
happy loop day peculiars !! featuring my now healed tattoo !!
Hiya! Just a lil comfort thing that I love, for your enjoyment: When A gives B (who's quite touch starved and repressed) a sudden big, warm bear hug, and B kinda reacts in stages. First, they freeze, not immediately sure what to do. Then they tentatively return the hug, a shy, rather shocked smile twitching at their lips. And, when A laughs and just squeezes them tighter, B REALLY returns the hug, clinging to A's clothing and burrowing into the comforting warmth as their eyes flutter shut in bliss :)
okay anon I am absolutely in love with this 😭😭😭 this is like the PICTURE of comfort and I can already picture A and B cuddling together afterwards on the couch, A stroking B’s hair 💛 thanks for sharing!
Clark: why are you like this
Bruce, three seconds away from dropping a glass of champagne on the floor, dramatically slipping in the pieces, and falling into the lap of the senator they’re trying to get information out of in a bizarre, sleep-deprived, but likely wildly successful seduction attempt: can you just let me have this please
Can we have more of the overly mature characters that always act older than they are just , actually, act their age for once.
Like the strict cold 20yr old, who is more mature than all of the 30-40yr olds, actually acts their age,dancing and singing to new songs, making jokes.
Because in their hearts they are the sunshine character, but they put up icy walls to protect themselves, but the fire inside them will melt the ice.
Or the fire in their heart was put out before, and can only grow around their family, who knew them before they became cold, began hiding themselves, so their family are the only people they feel safe with and can truly be themselves with, even subconsciously - moving closer to them when they're nearby or smiling more around them, something so natural for family but not for their friends.
Because their family is safe, their family will protect them, so they don't need to hide themselves.
Touch-starved whumpee who doesn’t know how to ask for comfort
- Whumpee who grows up being denied or ridiculed for their need of affection. Eventually, Whumpee learn to just stop asking because they will never get what they want and will most likely be punished for daring to ask.
- Whumpee who are wary of being open or vulnerable to their teammates because their guardians or the people they grow up with see vulnerability as a weakness. Whumpee has been so conditioned that they are not allowed to ask for comfort so they just close off and deal with it themself. And their teammates don’t know they are truly struggling because they have learned to conceal it so well.
- Whumpee who is taught to not be “selfish” (read: to not ask for anything), so they just don’t ask because they don’t want to bother their teammates.
- Whumpee who takes on the role of a caretaker and put their own needs for comfort aside so they can listen to teammate A’s family issues or be the big spoon because teammate B likes to be the small spoon. They see their touch starvation as something trivial themselves, because their teammates need their touch more and Whumpee can handle themself.
- Whumpee who just melts into someone embrace, soaking up all they can get. Whumpee who hides their disappointment and the feeling of emptiness when the arms inevitably let go and they are alone again.
- Whumpee who is too shy to ask, and is a bit closed off and by themself that people think they don’t like to be touch.
- Whumpee who is very selective about whose touch they want, but has to take any physical comfort they can get because they don’t have any other option.
Ok but like has anyone ever considered trans Reyna??? Just hear me out for a second:
The day his son came out to him was the day Mr. Ramirez lost his cool
Hylla always defended her now little sister, and that’s what made Mr. Ramirez absolutely lose his gosh dang mind.
Reyna’s name used to be Reynaldo (In my opinion)
Both Reyna and Hylla were really happy because on Circe’s island the siblings got to stay together (seeing how Reyna was now a girl, and wasn’t turned into a guinea pig)
Nico being the first person to know, (obviously) and she told him on their statue quest
Reyna stuffing her bra to try to stay inconspicuous, and Frank one day walking in on her doing so (cuz it’s Frank let’s be honest) and keeping her secret for YEARS before she finally comes out to the rest
Reyna trying to FORCE herself to speak with a higher voice (I’ve always imagined she had a lower voice anyway)
When she finally does come out to everyone, she’s a sobbing, shaking mess of a human being, and her friends feel so bad that she was scared to tell them and make her cookies or something idk (probably Percy and Hazel who did that)
Reyna if Olympus had their own version of the Met Gala!
anyone else find it funny that reyna ramirez-arellano is canonically the ultimate Horse Girl
One time I read that post that goes "once upon a time an adult put you on the ground and never picked you up again" and it made me sad so now I lift everyone. I'm 5'3" and kinda dumpy but the trick is to plant your feet, get 'em in a gable grip low near the hips with your knees bent, and then just tuck in your Elbows and straighten your legs. Gets those fuckers right on up there. I'm the oldest of eight and also the shortest but that sad shit lives with me so I'm hauling around these kids around like it's nothing. My little brother is a hockey player and a full head taller. I carried him around when he was a baby and I carried him around last weekend. My Papa is a 230lb Bavarian man who watches Stargate in a bath robe, he's smoked a pack a day for forty years. You think I haven't lifted him? I have. He said I couldn't do it but I did. God didn't give me social skills but I'm full of love and jacked as hell and he's not here to stop me