#beetle!

the amount of drug testing they go through. Aaron is probably PARANOID about it each and every single time even tho hes been clean for years. it's all a part of that sweet sweet imposter syndrome. "theyre gonna catch me. theyre gonna find out. i dont belong here. i dont belong here. theyre gonna find something in the drug test" even tho all hes had is water and some of that famous olympic chocolate cake.

didn't consider this..... probably should have.......

veryyyy interesting detail to throw in. aaron i think went almost cold turkey clean when his mom died, mostly because he lost his access very suddenly and had to sort of suffer through it, but once he moved to san francisco he was managing it more with weed + nic whilst doing his best to stay off the hard stuff. moving to an entirely new city helps, he doesn't know the people here and it's a little easier to keep himself straight, but it's not the best coping strategy. katelyn is most of the reason he stops smoking, not long after they start dating. it's when he's been doing competitions for a little while, getting good, and one night he's out practicing and he falls. lands flat on his back and knocks all the air out of his lungs, and for a terrifying couple of minutes, he can't breathe. at all. it's probably the biggest thing that scares him out of it entirely, and when he gets himself home he asks katelyn to explain, in detail, exactly how lung cancer develops from smoking. and she does. and aaron has the worst few months of his life quitting cold turkey but he keeps having these nightmares of not being able to breathe and while psychological torture is not the healthiest motivator for anything, it works.

that all happens about 3-4 years prior to the Olympics, so he's been clean for a long time but i think you're right that's gonna be a HUGE part of his imposter syndrome. him calling katelyn in the middle of the night terrified because what if they find out and they drop me and what if i ruin everything, what if, what if, what if. i think aaron has a lot of that internal distrust and anxiety and that'd hit him really hard.

A kiss that is leading to more, but is interrupted by a third party

Alfred bro let your brother vibe pls, just bc you cant get laid easily due to your bf being more repressed than thou dont mean you have to interrupt him. Quite short but I think I got the point across

The party was like how all parties between them went, many were drunk, and a good proportion was high, where these illicit substances had come from could be a few culprits, all of which were in either a different dimension or a different room to ah, protect their privacy if you would, not that most of them would mind doing it out in the open, more to save the eyes of anyone not blacked out enough to forget it.

There was a lot of food, a lot of terribly off-key singing, and sloppy dancing ranging from misstepped waltzes to what really just looked like slow dancing as they hugged (this was with Spain and Austria by the way should you wish to question it) and whatever the fuck the Kirkland brothers were doing before them and a few others were told to get a room or multiple rooms, looked a bit like a foxtrot though it could've conceivably been anything at this point.

Anyways, Matthew was a lil tipsy, and that was not an overstatement, he had managed to successfully pace himself so right about now he was unlikely to do much stupid, Katya, Yekaterina his beautiful girlfriend, was currently doing shots, and she was doing it well, she had managed to drink Jack under the table, not all that difficult to be fair, but she could still easily co-ordinate herself, and so she went onto Czechia, this would be far far harder, in his experience old-timey Europeans had absurdly high alcohol tolerance, which only got higher as you entered the east, but she managed to win too, all in a good game, they were both incredibly tipsy, and Czchia forfeited only at the concerned and vaguely motherly prodding of Slovakia who really did not want to carry his ex-wife home with her face in a bucket again, they had a wobbly arm wrestle to finish, which understandably Ukraine won, though Czechia put up far more of a fight than anyone else usually does, she got beat, but god naturedly, and wobled off leaning heavily on Slovakia, not like she would say that but like, everyone knew despite being legally divorced they were still very much a couple.

Katya was drunk, she could still stand of course, but was certainly a lot less stable than she normally was, and ended up leaning on Matthew for quite a whole, before he was eventually coaxed into the kitchen for some water, to hydrate her and help her sober up, not really an option anymore but I appreciate the attempt Matthew, when tipsy he was a tad less repressed, as all his family was.

Well Katya was certainly feeling loving right now, and as the two were alone in the kitchen she had an idea, or more so she had the idea for a rather long time beforehand, just now was the perfect time to execute it.

It may not look it to first glance but Katya was strong, quite strong, and strong enough to pin Matthew to one of the cabinets quite resolutely, he squeaked like a dog toy before he was silenced by a kiss planted firmly on his lips, a rather interesting sound came from the both of them, and since Matthew was leaning back now, and Katya was pretty tall meaning that she barely had to stretch either, ok that was a lie, Matthew was a bit too tall for that, but it certainly wasn't as much as usual, and she was wearing heels, well she was, where they went was a bit of a mystery, they'd turn up in the morning, but right now all Matthew's and indeed Katya's brain was fixated upon was each other, she had started to glide her hands over Matthew's soft body, he had his long fingers on her shoulders as she squished into him more, they were both in heaven, an alcohol gazed heaven but one nonetheless.

That being said they werent far gone enough yet to not hear the door open, Alfred went to go check on them, they'd been in there a while, and Zee had come along, to get bread for Jack who was getting incredibly close to the type of drunk that gets him stuck up a tree mostly naked with a goat a snake and half a potato (raw), bread usually helped sober him up just a bit, the door opened and their modesty compromised, Alfred gasped like a religious aunt finding one of the nephews seeing meat before marriage, Zee wolf whistled, she was also a little tipsy and I mean everyone knew that Matt was a hoe, this shouldn't have been a big deal, Alfred was just being weird about it.

Katya close enough to snarled and grabbed Matthew hard and glared at the two in the doorway, Alfred hightailed ot outta there while Zee, who did know how to deal with drunk old-worlders pretty well, raised both her hands, where she could see them, got the bread, and left, Matthew's face was absolutely covered in smooch marks and he looked absolutely flustered that what he could consider an adoptive sister was seeing him, ah, getting it down, and worse being that she was incredibly chill about it, left with her bread, and told them to get a room, before leaving and closing the door like nothing had happened.

He started out working for Sun, but after a year switched to being a mechanic or an animatronic engineer, whatever you want to call it

the glasses are just an accessory :> he doesnt use them for work or anything, he Just likes the way It looks

If you see part 3 of my tiktok series, where he is first shown, my oc "ana" ( a teenager who is going through a rough time in life. Sun and Moon accidentally act like dads and care for her) calls him " Sun's weird friend", and well, he is not Sun's friend. He is Sun and moon's boyfriend! :D but Ana doesn't know that, she will figure it out, though

Elea retreated and gave Francis the knife, and he saw him take a deep breath, exhale, inhale, exhale, and then he started to walk towards him, walk was a bit of a strong word, it was really mostly stumbling, incredibly uneven footfalls, and even as the cabin was rather small, he could hear his rather laboured breathing, Alfred could feel his heart about to pop out of his chest with how fast it was going, he should have learned to expect the cut, but nothing could prepare him for such a thing, and he cut differently to Arthur, it hurt more, the cuts were far less precise and calculated, he bit his gag so hard his eyes hurt and his teeth felt like they were going to fall out, but such sensations were drowned out by the pain on his arms, these cuts went deeper and with less precision, it bled much more than whenever Arthur did it, he didn't see this, eyes being closed, but he could feel the warm blood dripping on his skin, sticky and wet before dripping off onto the floor, making a rather audible noise, a little square of skin has fallen off with said blood droplets, well I'm saying square though it looked slightly more like a parallelogram but I'm being pedantic.