Flower Star

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It was a quiet afternoon at Matraz’s lab, and Neraz came as usual to visit him after a long day of work. By that time they have already known each other for a while, and as dangerous jobs kept getting assigned to Neraz, he kept coming to Matraz’s lab to get fixed, being one of his most recurring patients. What started as small talk during his check ups suddenly turned into enjoyable hang outs during their free times, and it started forming their friendship.

Everything was going smoothly, Matraz was talking about some frustrating patients, along with Neraz talking about some annoying clients too, but in the end it was all done for laughs and to relieve themselves a bit. At some point Matraz stood to get something to drink, but as he reached for the counter something made a loud snap noise.

Suddenly, Matraz’s wrist got stuck on itself, and he couldn’t fully move his hand anymore. He let out a painful scream as he tried to move his hand again, worrying Neraz in the process:

“Matraz! What happened!?” said Neraz as he stood up.

“My hand, augh… it got locked out of nowhere”.

Matraz tried to move foward to the lab while holding his wrist, he tried to act tough about it but his expression gave away how much that snap hurted.

Neraz got closer and quickly examined to situation “you know that if you keep moving you might make it worse, right?”

“I know that already, I’m just… I’m going to get my tools and fix it myself.”

Then Neraz stood in front of him, stopping him from reaching the lab. Matraz looked a bit confused at the act, then Neraz proceeded.

“No need to, I’ll fix you up.” He said, dead serious.

“Oh? Uh, I can do it just fine on my own , I’m seriou-“

“I’ve let you help me before, so this time at least let me return the favor. Putting more pressure onto yourself will only make your injury worse.”

Matraz looks at his hand, then lets out a tired sigh “…the toolbox’s on the table”.

Then, Neraz commanded him to sit down on the nearest couch while he took the toolbox. He sat down besides Matraz and began adjusting things up on his wrist. Matraz felt a little hesitant at first, but then noticed how skilled Neraz actually was.

“Neraz I’m… I’m impressed, to say the least. If you really are this skilled, then why did you keep coming back here?”

“…I guess sometimes you need someone else to help you fix the parts of yourself that you tend to ignore.”

That left Matraz thinking, so he just nodded and gave him a smile. The fix seemed to be harder than it looked and it was taking some time to get things running, but neither of them were on a rush.

As Neraz carefully reassembled him, Matraz kept looking at him, as he had nowhere else to look at, and he started to let his thoughts run as he zoned out a little: he liked how careful Neraz was with him, how tender he sounded when he asked if he was feeling alright, how his cold and uninterested attitude slowly seemed to die down when they were together… moments like this showed to Matraz that Neraz really does care for him. He was so comfortable around him that he didn’t mind staying like that forever. In fact, he wanted HIM to stay.

…He really wanted him to stay.

Wait-

Matraz’s eyes widened for a brief moment, and the thought made his whole system freeze immediately. Neraz noticed this, and shook him a little to make him snap out of it, then Matraz rebooted himself and woke up after shaking his head. He thanked Neraz, saying he didn’t know what got into him, but as he looked back at Neraz he slowly started see him differently. There was something more entrancing about him, and as analyst as Matraz is, he couldn’t put his mind to rest after that.

Neraz put down the tools, and returned Matraz’s hand back to his own lap.

“It’s done, give it a try and tell me how you feel”

But Matraz was daydreaming. Neraz just gave him a confused look.

“Something’s wrong?”

Matraz quickly snapped out if it, “AH! Heh… no no… sorry, I’m just a bit sleepy. Here, I’ll try it”

He lifted his hand and began twisting it, feeling even better than he did before!

“Well Neraz, I gotta HAND it to you,” he winked, as Neraz did a facepalm “you did a fantastic job on me!”

“I’m glad I was able to help. Although, you should give it a rest, Mat.”

“Oh, of course, I’ll try not to force my wrist-“

“I meant your job, Matraz. You’ve been working and stressing out so much that is starting to break you. And I know it sounds hypocritical coming from me, but… you should start taking care of yourself for once”

Matraz thought about it for a moment, did he really care that much for him? Then ultimately, he sighed.

“…I’ll try. Can’t really cease operations soon but I’ll be more careful, I promise.”

Neraz nodded, still serious as always, but you could somehow tell he was pleased with Matraz’s response. He decided to leave the lab so Matraz could rest, so he sent his best regards and started heading home, just to be stopped by Matraz.

“Neraz, wait!”

Neraz stopped and turned back at him, waiting for his response. Then Matraz continued, shyer than usual.

“Thank you… for fixing me. I really did appreciate it”

“Anytime” said Neraz as he turned back to his own way.

And Matraz just stood there at the doorstep, slowly waving his newly repaired hand, wondering when he was going to come back.

(The End).

Most people wouldn’t notice because I don’t talk about it much but I’m such a sucker for romance :’]

That, AND I love the idea of their roles getting reversed, making their points of view on each other change along the way.

Sooo a little something that I thought at some point was… what would Q-T do for a living? What could she be passionate about??? And I think out of all vocations and jobs one of the cutest and prettiest ones is being a florist! I think I fits a lot with her adorable personality andddd I personally like flowers a lot myself so that’s a plus ^^

Problem is, there’s practically no living things in this world, so there can’t be any real “plants” here

AND THAT’S WHERE THE FUN PART IS!

All flowers are made out of metal, and crafted in workshops ^^ Which means that a florist in this world is actually a blacksmith! A blacksmith that makes cute flowers for a living :D

Q-T’s dream is to become a flower blacksmith, but currently she’s just the cashier at the flower shop she works at :’] she doesn’t quite know the tricks of the trade yet, but she’s learning along the way.

I thought that the owner of this shop would be this kind old lady, with a lot of patience and a peaceful spirit~ so I designed this robot lady based on the look of antique sewing machines (I really liked repurposing the wheel as a hair bun ^^)

Her name for now is Doro-T (sort of like Dorothy) and most robots call her Lady Dee (but I m i g h t change it because her full name sounds a liiitle bit too much like Q-T’s name, and they’re not related ^^”)

She has taken the task, along with the shop’s main blacksmith, Magna, to teach Q-T everything she needs to know about making flowers :]

(if they didn’t Q-T’s excitement was going to make her E X P L O D E)

ANDDD for lasttt, what I imagine shop actually looks like, very flowery!

I tried mixing a light shop (I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE LIGHTS SECTIONS IN STORESSS) with a flower shop, these flowers have lightbulbs and screws all over theeeemm

ANDDD

I SWEAR I TRIED TO FINISH IT BUT

I WAS A LITTLE TOO HAD FOR ME I ADMIT

DRAWING ALL THE FLOWER CHANDELIERS AND LIGHTS WAS TAKING A TOLL ON ME

SO THIS IS JUST A WIP </3

I’ll finish it in the future of course! I didn’t start it for nothingg

From time to time I do this thing where I draw many many expressions for fun ^^ And I had in mind two things while drawing Neraz and Q-T:

1- When he’s not serious, Neraz is actually very adorable! Which I think fits with the whole theme of him just being the way he is because is the only way the world taught him he should be

2- Q-T looking petty and serious is so funny to me jsjs

It’s nice to see characters you tend to see acting a certain way break character from time to time, makes them feel less like archetypes and stuff :]

A couple of post ago (which was like LAST YEAR) I wrote something about Neraz being an astonishingly bad dancer, and in Matraz’s case I remember one of the first things I wrote about about him was that “he dances like an idiot”. Luckily for them Q-T got the shmoves, so I drew her teaching Matraz how to dance ^^

(ALSO SOMETHING COOL IS THAT MONTHS AFTER I MADE THIS DRAWING I ANIMATED ITTT WAAAAA It just looked so fun to animate. I’ll put it in the next postttt)

Sappy drawing with Mat and Neraz cause their happiness is my happineeeeess

Also Neraz is confirmed biromantic due to some #events that may or may not have happened in the past (I’m the vagueposting queen SORRY)

Ahhh… so much love… and no one to give it to…

Lemme throw in a bit ‘o lore for the last one

When Neraz met Mat, he uhhh

He kinda looked like this (it was after a HUGE fall, something he couldn’t fix by himself, so he had to bite the bullet and get some help instead)