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THE HOMEOWNER/PROTAGONIST

➝ he realizes he's crushing on you when he's laying in bed, unable to sleep. puts his head in his hands and says "fuck." as he realizes he's in deep for someone just a few rooms away.

➝ he tests you for visitor signs as an excuse to touch you. sometimes, he doesn't even bring his shotgun with him because he knows he won't be shooting you. he knows you're human, this is for his own enjoyment.

➝ big fan of caressing your lips as he inspects your teeth, letting his hands linger on yours for too long when checking your hands, and greedily pocketing your aura photo to stare at in his room.

➝ "open up." is an innuendo when he says it during tests. after checking your ears, he'll mumble in them. "all good. i'll be back later."

➝ if you smoke, he'll share cigarettes with you. usually offering you one from his pack and lighting it for you as it's in your lips, but on rarer occasions he takes a drag of his own then passes the cigarette to you for an indirect kiss.

➝ can and will kick guests out for flirting with you. usually he tells people to fuck off if they come to him because they disagree with a guest, but you? just say the word and anyone you dislike is evicted. he listens to you and believes you.

➝ when you're preparing to sleep on the sofa, he lurks in the doorway. his voice stays monotone but you can catch him rubbing the back of his neck and that's the only tell that he's antsy. "think you'll be safer in my room tonight. grab your things."

➝ he doesn't put up a fake hero act where he sleeps on the floor to give you the bed. he tires himself out with his peephole interrogations, then collapses into bed and grabs onto you while you're sleeping. he isn't bold enough to do it while you're awake.

➝ when you tease him in the morning, he'll grumble into your hair, "if you saw half the crazy people that came to my door, you'd understand why i want you here..."

COAT GUY

➝ coat guy is drawn to you like a moth to a flame. he can't explain it, but being around you eases the chill. it takes him a bit to realize he's crushing on you because he spends so long thinking this is just a temperature thing.

➝ the way you comfort him and suggest ways to warm him up is what makes him realize he's smitten. everyone else suggests obvious surface-level ideas like hot baths before they disregard him. you never give up on him, using your hands and chest to warm him when all else fails.

➝ "ffforgive me. i'm not usually lllike this." he stammers out, loafing on you like a cat. he's freezing, but you enjoy the contact because it gives you relief from the muggy temperature. he buries himself in your clothes, skin, and hair and melts into you like he has no bones. first guest to be made of pudding and jelly.

➝ this man will lap at your sweat like a cat and not feel an ounce of shame. he apologizes to you of course, but those are just pleasantries. he needs you. "please, dddon't think that i'm freakish. i cannot wwwarm myself by conventional mmmeans."

➝ coat guy follows you around. he usually paces in circles because he hopes that physical movement will warm him up, so you don't bat an eye when you first meet him and he enters rooms right after you.

➝ you get suspicious fast. he's always in the same room as you, even if he has no business there. he comes in when you do and leaves when you do. he walks into a room just to stare at you and chatter his teeth, crowding your space.

➝ "is it nnnnecessary..? wwwhat about me?" he whines when you open the fridge or pour yourself cold water.

➝ he pouts outside the bathroom door when you're occupying it. "it's so cccold out here. i'd appreciate iiif you could.. finish up a little fffaster, though i have nnno rrright to ask that."

➝ he feels unlovable, wondering why you let him touch you and cling to you. he's tried to confess a few times when it's just the two of you, but he stumbles over his words and ends up insulting himself, too cowardly to tell you he loves you. but you know. it's obvious, he's shown it with his actions. you're more than just a heater to him.

WIREFACE

➝ he is so talkative, but you can't understand a word of each other! he compliments you to your face since he knows you can't translate it.

➝ while you're eating next to him, "blf ollp hl tllw irtsg mld! r dzmmz vzg BLF!" (you look so good right now! i wanna eat YOU!) you smile and offer him some of your meal, assuming he's just enthusiastic about the food.

➝ wireface caught feelings for you immediately, and would have confessed immediately if it wasn't for the language barrier.

➝ he's a little nervous about outright kissing you on the lips, even though that gesture transcends language... because what if he's reading the situation wrong, and his crush ISN'T reciprocrated? what if when you blush and thank him, you're actually saying that you're taken? he doesn't know, and it eats him alive.

➝ when you help clean his mouth wounds, he yips out his sneaky compliments. "blfi orkh ziv hl prhhzyov! gvoo nv gl kfxpvi fk zmw r droo." (your lips are so kissable! tell me to pucker up and i will.)

➝ he loves talking at you about random things from his past or what fictional characters or songs you remind him of. he will absolutely sing you popular love songs from his country to serenade you, even if all you do is giggle and clap and don't pick up on the lyrics. he'll sing you songs he heard at weddings.

➝ whatever you say to him, he's listening with a dreamy look on his face. he has no idea what you're talking about ever, but he loves how your voice sounds. he loves that someone is including him and not stitching his mouth shut, for starters.

➝ always going "wow!" "oooh!" "aaah!" in response to random stuff you do, like opening jars or passing your visitor tests.

➝ he's practicing for the day you get your hands on translators, whether it's books or devices. when you're sleeping, he'll rehearse this whole romantic speech he's been drafting for a while. everyday he adds a few new sentences because of the fun stuff you get up to together. he longs for it to be heard.

STONER

➝ everyone assumes you're already dating.

➝ he calls you duuuuuuude to show you're his favorite dude. or dudette if you're a girl. dudetteeeeee. petnames like 'hottie' slip out when he's absolutely baked. he called you a sexy beast once and you've never forgotten it.

➝ when he sees you he lights up like a kid in a candy store and smacks the empty spot on the washing machine so you can chill next to him. "yoo! you were gone for like, ten years!!! don't leave me hangin, c'mere!" you just left to grab some water...

➝ he likes having his arm around you, but he never does it with anyone else when they chat together. he smacks your shoulder or knee whenever you two laugh.

➝ he thinks you're the smartest person ever. you use the word 'cataclysm' and he's like "nooo wayyy.. did you come up with that? bars!! we gotta get you in, like, a studio. i'd be your groupie or whatever they're called bro."

➝ this one is obvious, but he shares his weed with you. once you ate the last edible and he joked about regurgitating it for him like a bird... except he wasn't joking. no matter how many "sike!" or "just kidding!"s he adds to his flirty comments, he can't hide that he wants you as more than a buddy.

➝ he flirts with you via jokes and saying things about how you don't have cooties or how you're his favourite roomie. "if shit goes down, we can be zombies together! you'd look hella smexy as one, man, i'd let you eat my brains!"

ENERJEKA ADDICT

➝ having a crush on you is going to give him a heart attack.

➝ when you walk in the room, he stops what he's doing to do something impressive. the type of guy to start doing push ups and say "sixty seven... sixty eight... sixty nine..." to make it seem like he's been working out this whole time.

➝ he'll let you try his guzzler hat on and slurp some of the enerjeka. the entire time he's grinning, "isn't this like a kiss??? my lips touched it before yours did! we basically just made out. that's crazy."

➝ he doesn't trust easily, despite being so upbeat and friendly to people. he thinks you're cute the first time he sees you, yeah, but he doesn't try to woo you until he's certain that you aren't a backstabber. he thinks very highly of you, this crush isn't just because of your looks or his loneliness. he'd take you with him if he finds a better place to stay.

➝ "you like enerjeka? not to brag, but my mouth tastes like it 24/7. if someone kissed me, they'd totally taste it. sooo, if we run out and you're thirsty, then like..."

➝ you two have deep conversations often. what happens after we die? did humans deserve an apocalypse for destroying the environment? are visitors evil or are we the bad guys?

➝ he strays from those topics after a while and instead asks is it worth it to date people during the cataclysm? what type of guys did you go for back in the day? imagine if we ran away together?

➝ he openly calls you his best friend but he frowns as he says it because he wants you to be more.

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