#altuus

THE 100 SENTENCES. || ( NOT ACCEPTING. )

Head dipped a little as Atreus acknowledged Dorian's words while fingers laced in front of him and were placed into his lap. The old Templar was often too busy to merely pop into the library when it took his fancy these days. With soldiers to train and a commander to advise Atreus often found himself everywhere but the library in Skyhold. It was almost nice to steal a few moments for himself and relax.

Though well Atreus was always working.

👀 …someone my muse likes, but doesn’t trust.

😘  --- would my muse have sex on the first date?

yeah, probably. like i’ve said, he’s kind of... convinced himself in his head that he’s not going to be wanted unless it’s for sex, so he doesn’t really grasp the concept of someone actually being interested in him romantically. if they take him on a date, he’s going to assume, by default, that they’re just being gracious in their attempt to get in his pants. he’ll probably try to initiate sex shortly after the date, and he’ll be vaguely confused if the person tells him they’re not looking for that.

of course, he’d be perfectly happy not to do it. it’s not that he wants or expects sex after the first date, it’s that he thinks that’s what’s expected of him. if someone sits him down and explains that this is just a date, they’re not expecting sex, he doesn’t have to do anything to earn their approval, he’ll be absolutely willing to not have sex. it’s just that no one’s really... done stuff like this for him before. he’s gotten very used to just being seen as the ‘big tal-vashoth brute’ that people want to have a roll in the hay with just to brag to their friends about, so when people actually approach him romantically with flattery and dates and that sort of thing, he’s a little confused to start out with. you really have to spell out that you’re not just interested in him for sex, or else that’s what he’ll assume. 

🎆  --- is my muse into monogamy?

yeah, he is. i mean, he’s willing to fool around and not settle down into a relationship, but he does want a monogamous relationship --- he’s just convinced himself that he isn’t worth it or that it’s not realistic for him. 

on that note, too, he would be really, really uncomfortable with any sort of polygamous or polyamorous set-up, honestly. he has a hard enough time believing that people are interested in him romantically when it’s just them, and if another person was introduced into the equation, he’d get extremely uncomfortable and unhappy. of course, this isn’t to say that he frowns upon (or that i frown upon) polyamorous relationships --- if that’s what someone else is into, more power to them, and he’ll be supportive of them. but when he’s personally involved, he’s just not comfortable being with more than one person in a romantic set-up. if he’s in a relationship, he wants it to be with just one person.

👮  --- has my muse ever had sex in public?

mmm, not public public. he’s done semi-public stuff before, like in places where someone might walk in, but nothing blatantly out in the open where everyone would definitely see. even ximisaari has his boundaries, and that’s one of them. however much he likes to get excited in public, he wouldn’t want to actually have full-on sex or anything close to it.

💘  --- what are the ways my muse says ‘i love you’ without actually saying it?

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#;stares at halward tbqh