How They Feel When They Realise They Like You.
Characters ; Phainon, Mydei, Anaxagoras, Boothill, Jing Yuan, Dan Heng.
Pairing ; Hsr Men x Gn!Reader
Synopsis ; How Hsr Men Feel When They Realise They Like You.
Warnings ; Doubt [Anaxagoras] Remorse [Dan Heng, Boothill]
Out Of All Of Them, Phainon Is One Of The Ones To Likely 'Fall In Love At First Sight.' Not In The Sense Of He See's Someone Good Looking And Just Falls In Love, Not Like That. He Is Someone Who Can Appreciate Someone Capable Of Holding Their Own, Not Always In A Fighting Sense , It Could Be Any Form Of Confrontation. Like A Verbal One Over A Physical One. Don't Get Him Wrong, He Will Always Step In As His Role As The Deliverer But Seeing Someone Capable Of Holding Their Own..It Just Does Something To Him.
When He Had First Seen You, It Was Through Some Squabble. If His Memory Serves Right, You Were Going Back And Forth With A Market Stall Owner. The Guy Claimed You Had Underpaid Him While You Argued Your Case That You Had Given The Exact Amount Needed.
It Was Petty Bickering The More He Looked At It, No Where Near Enough To Require Him To Step In By Any Means So He Didn't. But That Didn't Mean He Stopped Watching Either, It Were Amusing And He Was Certainly Guilty Of Being Caught Up On It. It Filled Him With An Odd Feeling..Butterflies He Often Heard Various Kids Calling It.
You Gave Him Butterflies And He Was Okay With That.
Mydei Is The Opposite Of Phainon, Doesn't Believe In That Love At First Sight. For Him, He Believed The Path To A Successful Relationship Was With Someone You Build A Close Bond With, Someone You Have Known For A While. For Him, He Wanted Someone As An Equal, He Didn't Want This To Be Some Hierarchy Based Relationship.
For Him, That Came In The Form Of You.
A Fiery Little Thing, But Composed. You Weren't Some War Torn Soldier But You Could Handle Yourself Just Fine And You Knew How To Soften. You Weren't Someone Emotionless Who Acted More Like A Statue Then A Person, You Knew How To Seperate Things. Keep Your Struggles Seperate From The Things That Made You Happy. That Was Something He Could Struggle With Sometimes With How He Grew Up So The Likes Of You Was Refreshing.
And The More He Thought About It..It Was Like Something Had Clicked For Him And He Didn't Mind That.
Anaxagoras Is No Fool, It Wouldn't Take Him Long To Realise Feelings Had Formed, It Wouldn't Take A Certain Situation To Realise It, It'd Be Something More Random. Like Something That Just Knocked Into His Head On Some Random Day At A Random Time.
He's A Logical Man, One Full Of Reason.
He Doesn't Write Off Off Feelings As A Weird Happening, He Doesn't Believe In That.
Yet..He Doubts The Possibility Of Him Winding Up With Feelings For Someone Like You. It's Not You As A Person But He's Known By Blasphemous By Most If Not All The People, Why Would He Have Feelings For Someone Who Without A Doubt Wouldn't Feel The Same Way?
He Knew Better Then To Believe His Doubts However. He Needed Evidence To Back It Up, He Couldn't Blindly Believe Something. Anaxagoras Knew You Yourself Hadn't Done Anything To Cause Such A Thought, So There Was Only One Thing He Could Do. Gather Evidence, See Just How Real This Was Becoming Even If Some Part Of Him Feared It.
But He Supposed He Was Alright With That.
Boothill Wasn't Even Aware He Was Capable Of Gaining Such A Thing.
After Everything That Had Happened To Him, He Wasn't Sure He Were Capable Of Loving Another So Dearly After Everyone Else Had Been Ripped Away From Him. But He Understood It Was A Game Of Chance And He Hadn't Met The 'Right' Person.
He Didn't Learn Through Anything Like Butterflies, Racing Heart..That Was All Impossible Now With That Metal Body With His. It Was Just Thoughts, When He Thought You Were Pretty, When He Liked Hearing Your Voice Even If You Were Scolding Him Over One Thing Or Another.
Boothill Didn't Believe He Deserved You Though, He Were Nothing More Then A Criminal Now, Someone With A Bounty On His Head. He Didn't Deserve Someone As Kind And As Loving As You, You Wouldn't Be Safe With The Likes Of Him. Don't Get Him Wrong, He'd Do Whatever Was Possible For Him To Do To Make Sure Not A Single Hair On Your Head Was Touched, But There Would Always Be That Risk. There Would Always Be Someone Who Would Come For You Just To Try And Get To Him. He Didn't Want You Being Hurt Because Of Himself.
But Maybe..Maybe He Could Be Selfish And Take That Risk, He Could Keep You Safe If You Were By His Side, He's Allowed To Be Selfish Right?
Jing Yuan Is Another One Who Isn't Going To Need Some Special Moment To Know He Has Something For You— Not Exactly.
Perhaps He Had Seen You Interacting With Yanqing, Sparing Maybe Or Something As Simple As Cooking Him A Meal. Just Seeing You Care For The Boy Had Something Soft Settle Within His Heart. Jing Yuan Cared For Yanqing Dearly So Seeing You Treat Him With Such Care, Such Respect— Part Of Him Felt Like He Had Been Blessed To Meet Someone Such As Yourself.
Being A General He Was Naturally Busy And Yet You Were Always So Unbelievably Understandable, Patient. Didn't Get Upset When He Kept You Waiting Which In Itself Hurt Him More Then It Did You
Not To Mention You Had A Habit Of Doing What You Did For Yanqing, Constantly Checked Up On Him. Brought Him Food For Lunch While He Was Busy With His Work, Pulled Him From His Desk To Ensure He Took A Break And No Matter How Much He Tried To Play It Off, You Badgered Him Until He Caved.
And As Of Lately For You?
He Found Himself Caving More Often Then Not.
Given How Reckless Trailblazing Can Be, Dan Heng Wasn't One To Think About Getting In Any Form Of Relationship. Of Course There Are The Platonic Ones Of Those He Befriends Along On The Way Of The Journeys He Made But They Didn't Involve Anything Romantic Or Anything Romantic Related.
But He Is Someone Who Understands Things Are Inevitable, Feelings Are Not Something That Can Be Repressed And Ignored— Not Without Consequences.
When It Came To You He Noticed The Feeling Build Up, You Went From Someone He Met To Someone He Considered A Friend And Then He Found Himself Seeking You Out. Wanting To Be In Your Presence Even If It Just Meant The Two Of You Sitting In Silence, Or You Could Talk His Ear Off He Didn't Mind That.
But As Much As He Believed He Was Capable Of Guaranteeing Your Safety, He Knew That Wasn't Completely True. Not With The Dangers That Came From Trailblazing, Not With His Past Haunting Him And A Man Who Wanted Nothing More Then To Make Sure He Paid The Price. Dan Heng Would Like To Be Selfish, Would Like To Push Through Despite That But The Guilt And Worry Ate Away At Him Like A Parasite. He Couldn't In Good Conscious Have You In Harms Way, He Didn't Even Want A Threat To Linger Over Your Head.
So Perhaps..Maybe It Would Be Better He Didn't Persue Anything. He Would Be Happy Watching You From A Distance, Not Being Able To Show His Affections Hurt Him Sure But Seeing You Alive— Healthy, Happy, He'd Much Rather Suffer If It Meant You'd Remain That Way.