ā 5 characters - Since it's fucking OC kiss week today, what about an opinion on love?
Ooh fun one yissss. I can go on abt this stuff all day TBH.
Kyne - He high key thought it was stupid and low key thought it was kind of intimidating, and didnāt really know how to recognize it at first because it didnāt fit the preconceived notion in his head. He was always afraid of calling something love, itās much easier to stay with like and attraction and easy, shallow things but the deep end and all the risks of literally putting yourself in a position to be so vulnerable to someone else was just terrifying to him. It wasnāt until after he realized he was in deep that he saw that love wasnāt some terrifying thing because he was in deep /with someone else/, not on his own left to drown in it and honestly he doesnāt know why he was ever afraid. His way of love is soft and casual and gentle and feels much more natural to him than he ever expected.
Somi - he thinks itās stupid, why would he ever care about someone other than himself- except now he has and he canāt stand the idea of losing them. He values them more than himself and it troubles him, because what does that mean if he were to ever lose them, if they were to ever leave? He still doesnāt know what to do with the feeling and heās frustrated - why isnāt it easy, why does it hurt him to do anything but accept it? Heās likely to run from it and bury it but at the same time, once he comes face to face with the idea that there /is/ someone he loves, he wants to chase after that as much as he wants to run away. His way of love is devotion and admiration, so long as he doesnāt run from it, stronger than he knows how to force into working for him but when he stops fighting it, he finds it takes him to exactly where he needs to be.
Zeke - for Zeke, love always seemed like something distant and forbidden, not for him, not something he ever would come across. Often he feels undeserving or like heās not entitled to it, but when given just a small amount he finds himself wanting to take all of it, to absorb it and give it back tenfold in response. Heās grateful for every moment, every touch, every heartbeat and every breath and he doesnāt want to waste any of it; heās felt loveās absence - often for far too long - and never wants to be without it again. His way of love is appreciation, gentle care and quiet smiles and treasured small things. He finds himself giving himself wholly to it, at first because he feels itās the only way he could come close to showing appreciation and then after because he realizes that he /is/ worthy of love.
Attie- Attie views love with rose colored glasses and a soft sigh. Heās always been a romantic, always quick to fall and quick to swoon, weak for a hero from books. He doesnāt want to see the difficulties until itās too late, and even when he does, even when he has to face them, he still chooses to see the love in it. His love goes beyond the romantic, loving his friends and his family and opening his heart to anyone he passes. He doesnāt seem to hold many hateful thoughts. His love is big with open arms, heart wide open and ready to share the warmth with others. Even when heās hurt he knows that love is still here for him, maybe in the same way, but itās there.
Matiko - for mat, love isā¦ confusing. He doesnāt know how to figure it out, itās not easy like some things are for him and this frustrates him. Butterflies and nerves donāt help either, but he finds that he never quite knows what to say or do, how to act, and while those things never seem to come easy to him, itās even more so confusing when he thinks about the prospect of love. However, love makes him willing to try, to work harder, to feel like itās worth it to do something difficult and frustrating. He likes it, and he finds that when he is loved back it doesnāt seem to matter that it doesnāt come easily, it doesnāt seem to matter that it he doesnāt quite say the right thing or do the right thing. For mat, love is accepting that heās not going to have this come easily all the time but doing his best anyway, knowing that heās going to be understood and learning how to understand someone else. Itās patience and care and growth, letting someone see things he keeps to himself and knowing that at the end of the day, itās okay.
