#clessymmetry

It’s clear as day that False, Stress and Cleo all like each other, but for some god forsaken reason or another, they deny the possibility that the other two reciprocate said feelings.

Iskall is tempted to forge letters from each of the girls just to put them on a “hangout” (read: Date) to maybe hopefully get them to confess their feelings for each other.

Joe’s tried helping Cleo come up with ideas for confessions but each time they just claim that the other two wouldn’t be interested. He’s beginning to consider if he has to be subtle about the purpose of the ideas.

Heck even Mr married-to-at-the-same-time-not-married-to-Doc AKA Ren is about to lose his mind at False. Like the two girls are clearly flirting with you what do you mean they probably “mean it in a platonic way???”

The hermits genuinely thought the girls couldn’t get worse after Gem and Pearl’s whole fiasco

It could be so easy. But instead they're stuck in a loop of self-doubt and denial.

False, Stress and Cleo having a rival-esque relationship and are constantly beefing w/ one another, aka trying to beat each other in everything. And when they mean everything, they mean it. Even mundane stuff gets turned into a competition.

All to avoid talking about the elephant in the room: the melting pot of feelings they are all harboring towards each other. (Funny considering they have been rumors of False and Cleo having a one night stand before but neither comments about it)

The hermits are seriously about to give up on these three. How stubborn can they be?

At this point, dating would at least give them more competitive material. Because how are they having a rivalry over whisking eggs. Not even the rest of the cooking, no! Whisking eggs.

Yeah turns out False managed to confuse herself to the extent of walking herself into hell without dying.

Cleo lets her stay for a day or so while they figure out how they are supposed to deal with her. She first attempts to check when is False’s death date but hers is nowhere to be found in the foreseeable future. Which…could mean quite a few things, including the two of them getting together (which Cleo hadn’t considered up til that point but that idea was becoming more and more enticing)

But before Cleo can even ask the poor warrior, Stress, her godly counterpart aka the goddess of life (and secret hook up), comes barging through the doors. Perfect.

Turns out Stress wasn’t a bit happy that her crush (and soon to be gf) was spending time in Cleo’s domain. Which lands the three of them in a slightly awkward love triangle of two rival gods (who hook up every few decades) both crushing on the same mortal who’s still trying to process her situation.

It takes a bit of negotiating between the two but they finally agree to share (and maybe make that hook up a bit more official).

Cleo gets Iskall to join them in sending spam mail to their respective partners (False and Stress / Etho respectively)

Their partners reactions range from sending similar mail back (Etho), returning (with a threat of throwing it) it back (False) and laughing and storing it away (Stress). But nonetheless, they all have a good laugh at the end of the day with how absurd some of these spam mails get

Some of their spam mail have their own ongoing stories now! They've created characters for this. If nothing else, their partners can appreciate the effort.

If False(HC) had to be honest, she loved the anarchy of the apocalypse. No one was really going to give a damn about age old taboos or rules - it’s a survival of the fittest. Which also meant that their lives were no longer constantly at risk.

The two of them had already developed a rhythm to surviving this; no doubt thanks to pretending to be a single person in the past. And False genuinely believes that they don’t need anyone else.

Then she meets a brunette and redhead, Stress and Cleo, and becomes absolutely smitten with them (her sister/E False will not shut up about that). Ok maybe they can work in space for 2 more in their schedule.

So somehow, despite the apocalyptic setting, False (HC) has managed to fall into a relationship with 2 beautiful ladies. And as karma for the teasing, has just a *lil* extra PDA with her girlfriends to annoy her sister.

e!False is happy for her sister. She's not interested in relationships, and the apocalypse certainly hasn't helped that. She's glad her sister is in love, but she's also glad her girlfriends can pull their own weight. She doesn't have to judge her sister's taste just yet.

Cleos is, frankly, not super impressed with the latest batch of heroes sent to stop her. What, some gangly bird lady cleo could snap like a twig and a fairy with plant powers of all things? against the one who's able to rot anything she touches?

They're kinda cute though, and she's feeling generous to the ones sent on a suicide mission, so she lets the bird girl get in one free hit. Next thing she knows she's sitting in the ruins of what was once a solid concrete wall getting tied down by vines thicker than her arms.

She'd be lying if she said it wasn't the hottest thing that'd happened to her in months. She still escaped, obviously, but found herself hoping to see the two again sometime soon.

And see them again she did. They started to clash fairly regularly after that, constantly finding new ways to combat each other and maaayyybe flirting a little bit as they fought (though if you were to ask any of the three, they'd vehemently deny having any feelings for the enemy, just responding that flustering the opponent makes better opportunities. if you know what's good for you you'll ignore that they get just as flustered when it's sent back at them)

Eventually, as heroes do, the other two get in over their heads (Cleo had learnt their names to be Symmetry and Monster by now). They took on a foe too strong for them, and were severely injured. They knew that they couldn't get to a hospital in time, and there were only really two options: bleed out in an alleyway or try their luck at the hideout they knew Zombie had nearby.

(and maybe, if in the ensuing conversations some things like feelings and names happen to accidentally spill out then. well, Cleo had been growing somewhat tired of the villain life for a while anyway even before those two showed up, and honestly? she's willing to give a side change a shot for them (later, stress and false will both tease her relentlessly about how she got power of love'd into switching sides but she doesn't see them complaining when she's kissing them so ha)

(all three of them fail to notice the copious amounts of money that change hands amongst both hero and villain circles (and some even between heroes and villains) once they go public with their relationship)

Cleo's certainly still no hero, and she's been quite firm with her girlfriends that she never will be. She's spent too long in the villain lifestyle to deal with all those rules and expectations. She beats to her own drum, not whatever some government determine is 'acceptable'.

But, she'll play nice for her girlfriends.

False is a lot more realistic of a hero. She knows what's achievable, and she's careful with what risks she takes. Stress is more idealistic, even if she's happy to get her hands dirty occasionally. They balance each other out on the field, and Cleo fits perfectly into that dynamic.

<3 🎨 anon

False has looked up the best massages to encourage blood flow through the body and will patiently go through each one whilst Cleo sighs contently. Stress prefers just snuggling up to her, pressing her face against Cleo's side, tucking under her arm.