#breaoktek

THAT BASTARD

[cracks knuckles]

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favorite thing about them:

it’s hard to choose just one because i love a lot of things about him; but honestly, the fact that he gets more enthusiastic about Reading Lots of Things than actually digging into or being knowledgeable about them on more than a surface level delights me deeply because it’s a Big ADHD Mood that i never see represented, especially in a character i already really like who has an arrangement of other nonstereotypical ADHD traits.

least favorite thing about them:

the fact that he had what looked like a really interesting arc waiting to happen with brea and the gelfling in general, and his hesitance to destroy them all, and seems to have had the door pretty thoroughly slammed on it by the end of the season. unless they open it up again in S2, which i kind of doubt they will. :/

favorite line:

GOD another hard one to choose, he has some real winners. MOAR FLOWERS makes me laugh, ‘the all-maudra looks cross! not to worry, i will put in a good word for you’ makes me d’aww, and ‘oh, look… there you are. :)’ makes me sweaty (which i am mad about and will be til the day i die)

 brOTP:

skeklach, depending on the au! i also really like him becoming grudging friends with skektek in aus where they’re both partners with brea.

OTP:

breaok and breaoktek! (in the the latter, where they’re in a vee with her, usually.) brea and her big top energy out here gathering nerd bird partners left and right; on a more serious note they have not only a really interesting arc in canon, but their dynamic could go in so many more potential directions–ranging from him learning to stop being an asshole for her sake to things getting very, very twisted and dark–and there’s a lot of really lovely imagery i associate with them in my head, and i’d have given my left nut to see more of it in canon. 

breaoktek is also fun because it means i get to bounce not just his personality off of skektek, but both of theirs off their mutual relationship with her while initially (or not so initially) not liking each other much.

nOTP:

hm. i don’t really have a lot of notps for this fandom honestly! i guess maybe skekayuk, just because for some reason shipping him with people makes me really uncomfortable (not to knock anyone who does, y’all shine on).

random headcanon:

i’m torn between ‘he’s masc-leaning, la croix-flavored agender and uses he/they; someone dipped a gender in a glass of water in the next room over and he went ah yes, perfect,’ and ‘he feels hella guilty for what happened to skeklach in his library, and has various coping methods to various degrees of shitty/unhealthy depending on the au.’ 

unpopular opinion:

i really enjoy writing him as a deeply, deeply awful person who has a lot of hard, ugly work to do to grow out of it; has a lot of those ugly things mixed together in messy ways with the good; is legitimately petty and cruel to the people around him in the meantime in some really unlikable ways; who is still petty and cruel while he’s learning not to be; and who in spite of that is capable of getting better, which makes it even more tragic when–more often–even the motivation of doing it for others’ sake isn’t enough for him to follow through. sometimes he just doesn’t get it, or chickens out, or gives up. and it makes it that much more meaningful when he does manage it.

 song i associate with them:

A Narnia Lullaby has huge BreaOk with Bad Intentions vibes, it makes my hair stand on end to this day, and i love it. 

 favorite picture of them: