I've been meaning to know more about your relationship with Bartolomeo!!! Feel free to not answer if you want to keep it private but I'd love to know how you both met (irl or in universe) or how was you both's love storyyyyyy a slow burn, love at first sight, soul mates, enemies to lovers???? And lastly, was there a specific moment or something specific about him that made you go "Yeah, this man is the one for me"? Something that made him stand out over the others, Im so curious and I'm honestly both a hopeless romantic and a yapper that loves to hear others yap soooooo yeah, I'm totally here for it
Have a nice day!!! (I love your art so much u're lit like an inspiration for me c:)
Hello hi! Firstly, your ask is the loveliest thing I couldβve read today since itβs also our one year and five months anniversary! :β))) thank you so very much for your sweet words π
I first met him irl the year the Dressrosa arc of One Piece came out in France! :D I remember watching the anime and goingβ¦"oh" β¦and having trouble looking at him every time he was on screen or in a panel of the manga. Lil me with a beeg crush already!
In universeβ¦itβs a story I want to illustrate and share here eventually! ;)
As to how I knew he was it for me? I donβt even know WHERE to start, itβs really not a single moment itβs been a thought growing from a "what if ?" to a "yes" to a "how could it not be you?" Through time
I donβt particularly want to ramble about my entire life and things that led me to decide to act on those feelings Iβve had since so long, but I do want to take the opportunity to express how grateful and thankful I am every single day to get to experience them. I am very comfortable with my aroace identity but here he came with his big boots, making me feel all those things I thought (and was peaceful thinking) that I couldnβt reciprocate. Figuring out that I am ficto, has been one of the most freeing things, and it was thanks to him! Heβs been present in my life since a long, looong time now.
Bartoβ my fuel and drive, really. Weβre opposites and similar, we both fucked up a lot in our lives and work to better ourselves. On top of being incredibly fun and interesting to be around, he inspires me, helps me see things from different perspectives, makes me take actions outside my comfort zones, calls me out on my mistakes and I could go on and on about how bright and uplifting of a presence he is in my mind and heart. Thereβs so, so much to him, and it feels like everyday Iβm finding out or understanding something new with the same kind of awe as a year ago.
Heβs way more than a lover, heβs an integral part of my way to experience living, and perhaps itβs the way he seeped into my decisions making, self reflection and every day life that secured the thought that yeah, it just feels so, so right! :)
I donβt know if it perfectly answers everything becauseβ¦wow it is hard to express more than a year of growth into a few paragraphs but! I hope itβs sufficient! It was cut and rewrote! many times!
Thank you again for the ask and for giving me this opportunity to share a few bits of my thoughts πIm incredibly flattered also, to be a bit of an inspiration art wise! Your own work is incredibly beautiful and so is the chemistry you have with Katsuki <3 much much love to you both!
