Fandom: Spy x Family Rating: Mature Ship: TwiYor Status: Ongoing Tags: Modern AU, Neighbors AU, Childhood Friends AU, Childhood Love, Love at First Sight, First Love, Mutual Pining, Underage Drinking, Bildungsroman, Romance, Slow Burn, i'm not kidding this fic is going to cover 25 years, Fluff, Angst, i've marked this as mature bc of its overall themes, there are two smut scenes in the grand scheme of this whole fic though just for ur awareness, their parents are all alive btw and nobody dies AO3

At five years old, Loid and Yor meet for the first time. It's love at first sight, though neither of them knows it. Over the course of 25 years, they'll learn how much a person can change—and how much love stays the same.

Seven Shades of Red

He has never had a favorite color, until he meets her, the color of her eyes, deep burgundy and warm, like lava, the color of her lips, cranberry red, as she smiles, cotton and silk, the color that fills her face, scarlet, when she gets a compliment, the color of her night gown, crimson, like roses—her scent, the color of the wine, merlot, that makes her ramble, raw and honest, the color of her hands, powder rose, as she runs it under hot water, mind blank, the color of blood, maroon, that she cleans after killing. In all its different shades, he thinks, red is his favourite color.

Yor calls Loid "darling," it's what most naturally falls out of her mouth, considering their first almost–kiss, and she gets a kick out of knowing what it does to him to remember that moment. This isn't the only one: she'll call him countless other things, but darling never fails to get him to blush just a little, and she loves it.

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I think this arc is going to parallel the tv station arc in terms of Fiona's character development. I also have hopes for this arc (and I'm gonna get there) but my prediction is that Fiona is going to see that Yor is competent—in fact, in some ways, more so than herself, either in protecting Anya or in caring for Loid or both—and will realize that Twilight deserves better than her, and begin to move on.

My reasoning for this is partially timing—we did just see Yuri begin to have this emotional journey—but also her thoughts at the start of the arc, partially foreshadowing that Yor's competence is going to matter soon.

There's also a peak chance in this arc for Fiona to see a different competence from Yor: her ability to care and comfort Loid/Twilight, that Nightfall would never succeed at providing.

And—if this is finally, finally the "Loid/Twilight realizes his feelings" arc, how completely incredible would it be to have Fiona giving him permission, implicitly or explicitly, with something of the form: "For your own good you need to trust someone to carry some of your burdens, and she is a better partner for you than I am."—would this be enough, you think, to get him to reconsider? Or would Sylvia need to weigh in as well?

And this brings me to some hopes for this arc:

Soft twiyor moments I will never apologize for wanting this

Twilight stays helpless, these are the consequences of his failure to trust anyone else

Yor and Fiona are badasses together semi secretly

Fiona getting over Twilight because she sees how good Yor is for him as discussed above

And finally! Really I think Endo has been doing a great job bringing Twilight as low as he can be without being completely incompetent and I am really hoping this is in service of him realizing his feelings and deciding to trust!!

Anya and Yor being in danger while he can do nothing about it is peak on the list of possible triggers here

Twilight realizing how important it is to let people in

And this gets to none of the possible Strix action that could occur but let's just say I'm here for it!!!!

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