#floyd leech fluff

Your legs spread slightly to allow him to settle between them. The soft kiss at the corner of your lips had become something more as you leaned toward him, seeking more. Azul pulled back slightly to slide his glasses off his face, placing them on the desk before attacking your lips again. He rarely let himself lose control, but since you two had begun your relationship, it seemed to be happening more often than he cared to admit, perhaps because he liked your touch too much, even if he wouldn't say so aloud.

“Someone might come in,” he murmured, more to himself, as he pulled back enough to feel his lips brush against your cheek. You gasped for air, trying to catch your breath, and a wave of heat began to build in your belly. “You look so beautiful, my pearl,” he murmured against your skin. Azul took a breath, trying to control his thoughts. The mere thought of losing control like this seemed unacceptable, yet any sane thought vanished the moment he felt your fingers grip his jacket, pushing him back to your lips.

His gloved hands gripped your hips with a possessiveness that bordered on desperation, yet he never lost the gentleness he always had with you. Azul knew he had to be reasonable, but he couldn't think of anything but your lips against his. When had he let himself be consumed by you like this?

── Jade Leech

ෆ with Jade, it seems a bit more planned, probably happening during one of your breaks at the end of the day—those little moments that seem to be planned just for the two of you.

It started with a simple touch, one of those times when he seems to let his guard down just for a few seconds with you. Jade wasn't usually very affectionate in public. Of course he'd put his arm around your waist or leave little kisses on your knuckles, and sometimes he'd even let you cling to him when you were feeling particularly clingy, but other than that, he rarely kissed you like that.

It had begun as a simple, quiet kiss, his lips brushing against the skin of your neck, taking the time to inhale your scent before tracing a gentle path to your jaw. You felt his sharp teeth graze your warm skin, enjoying for a second the way you tensed beneath him, so often forgetting how dangerous his teeth could be. Finally, his lips found yours in a gentle kiss, his tongue slipping into your mouth, finding yours a few seconds later. One of his gloved hands slid to the back of your neck, trying to deepen the kiss.

Your fingers brushed against the fabric of his suit before moving up to the collar of his shirt as if you were trying to find a way to hold on to him, until your arms finally moved up to encircle his neck in an attempt to erase any minimal distance between you two. You felt the way he seemed to give in to you for a few seconds before his grip on your waist became firm again.

The air left in your lungs was almost nonexistent now, and he noticed it immediately because of the way your grip around him tightened slightly. Jade pulled away, letting you catch your breath, looking at the new color in your lips and the way your chest rose and fell due to your ragged breathing. One of his hands moved up, the fabric of the gloves brush against your chin, causing your eyes to meet his before that smile—which used to frighten you when he was just a stranger—appeared in your field of vision. How could a human make him lose control like that, even for just a second?

The tea Jade had prepared so carefully, knowing it was your favorite, was completely forgotten as you sought his lips once more.

── Floyd Leech

ෆ with Floyd, it's more spontaneous; he's never cared about showing affection in public, not even when other people are around, and this is no exception. However, it would probably happen when the two of you are alone in his room, perhaps about to fall asleep, in those moments when he's clinging to you with no intention of letting go.

It was supposed to have started with a slow kiss. You first felt Floyd's teeth graze your cheek before tracing a small path to your lips. You thought it was just a simple goodnight kiss, but you hadn't expected it to escalate any further, perhaps too quickly, because you couldn't even remember when you'd slipped on top of him.

His hands settled on your hips, trying to hold you steady, but in those moments you could feel the way he was squeezing you lightly, not enough to hurt you. Never enough to hurt you. A gasp escaped your lips, smothered by his mouth as you felt him close any space between you two. Floyd chuckled as he felt you shift on top of him, trying to get more comfortable, letting him know you had no intention of pulling away.

His lips attacked yours again, your fingers digging into his hair, trying to pull him closer as if it were even possible. There was barely any air left in your lungs, but you had no intention of pulling away, instead, it was Floyd who pulled back from your lips just enough to let you breathe again. It was then that you felt his sharp teeth slide across your mouth, grazing your lower lip, wondering if he was going to sink them in slightly.

Sometimes he forgot how much air humans needed; it wasn't until he saw his girlfriend on his lap, gasping for breath, that he remembered.

Jade? Goodness, he's far beyond being jealous. Of course, the emotion is natural. He's known that from observing so many land-dwelling folk, as well as territorial mers. But he understands you full well. He knows how deeply infatuated the two of you are with each other, even if he does occasionally get on your nerves. But that's what makes you like him so much, isn't it? So, despite how fun being jealous sounds, he thinks he'd like to keep being the most trustworthy of gentlemen. He trusts you to be in love with him just as much as he is with you—

"You sure you like him? Isn't Jade a little... I don't know, boring? I could entertain you more than that."

...

Pardon?

Jade, who doesn't think it's particularly possible for him to get jealous, only to turn around and ask you what makes the other party entertaining, hm? Is it the hair, or perhaps the very exhausting way they talk? Do you truly think they're interesting? He's not boring you, is he? He can assure you he's quite fun to be with, so... Tell him he's not boring, okay?

"Hm, maybe that guy is more interesting— J-Jade? Where are you going? I was just joking...! "

The next day, your admirer is met with a looming eel at his door.

"Shall I show you how boring I am?" ... Next time you see the guy, he's profusely apologizing while giving you all the money in his wallet, all while Jade gives you happiest smile you've seen on him yet.

Floyd experiences jealousy a lot more easily than the others. Maybe it's from his ever-so flippant move, or just the fact that he doesn't really share unless he feels like it. You're not an object, and he knows that full well. So, he knows he shouldn't get all worked up over some nobody trying to get your attention. Does he actually listen to that, though? Nope. Tells you being jealous is for boring people only to sling his arm around you and directly say, "I'm jealous" in the next second.

"Floyd's always switching up on you, yeah? I promise I'd stay the same if—" The stranger's sentence is quickly cut short when he sees Floyd swing around you, arm snuggly wrapped around your shoulder. How on earth did he not notice the six-foot man at your side...!?

"Who are you again?" The guy stutters and runs away on sight. Meanwhile, you're asking him why he scared away your lab partner. "Wha? You like that guy more than me? You're gonna make all sad..."

"I never said that. He's just a bit calmer sometimes, is all—Are you pouting...?"

...

The next time you see him, he's as silent as can be. And when you ask why...

"You said you liked boring guys better." You definitely did not, but you should've known he'd say that... If you tell him the whole reason you even hang out with him in the first place is that he's interesting, he's immediately jumping you. He's wrapping his arms around you to pull you in closer while you wonder if he really was upset about something so small...

Next time you see your lab partner, he's sliding you his phone with shaky hands.

"J-Just sell it and keep the money for yourself..."

a z u l a s h e n g r o t t o

azul’s whole business structure within night raven college necessitates knowing as much as he possibly can about his classmates so he can exploit that knowledge to trap them within contracts — be that insecurities, weaknesses, or what they desire more than anything else in the world. so chances are he already knew about your particular eating habits long before you even became a couple… likely for some less than moral reasons… but now that you’re someone he cares about he’s more than happy to take what he knows and help you find ways to keep yourself fed, nourished, and comfortable without having to rely on vitamins to pull the weight of whatever your go-to safe foods happen to lack

and all for the small, minuscule, negligible price of your unconditional love and priority over your time on days where neither of you have any repeating obligations. isn’t he so generous?

naturally as the lounge’s manager he has more than enough sway to arrange for you to receive priority and specialised service from his chefs — offering you an altered menu that completely caters to your preferences and making sure to train the lounge’s cooks so that you’ll never have to worry about receiving a dish with an ‘off’ taste or texture from the kitchens (because he will not accept anything less than perfect service when it comes to you)

and if there’s a specific safe food that you have only managed to find made ‘right’ in a specific location? he’s buying it, using those talented taste buds of his to analyse every single detail about it, and putting in all the hours he has to at the lounge to ensure that you can get ahold of it whenever you want… and no that’s not a jealousy thing, he’s just being a good boyfriend!

may occasionally encourage you to try new foods and drinks, especially when the mostro lounge is trialling a new seasonal menu and he wants your thoughts, but he never pushes you particularly hard and is more than happy to let you stay in your comfort zone

he is very visibly pleased whenever you do decide to try something new that he made for you though — but you can’t tell whether that’s an instinctual thing for him as an octomer or if he’s just proud of you for trusting him enough to branch out with his help… or maybe it’s both. who can say?

he’s the type of boyfriend who, whenever you two do go out somewhere else to eat on a date, will step up and send back your food on your behalf if the staff mess it up and make it in such a way that you can no longer enjoy it — e.g. wrong texture, additional seasoning, failed to remove parts that you asked to be removed, etc. — and he’s charming enough about it that he always ends up getting his way with only a minute or so of back-and-forth with your server

has swapped out the duties of octavinelle students and lounge employees that he caught mocking your eating habits to ensure they had the worst possible shifts he could offer — without breaking any of the school rules, of course. he’s just protective, okay?

chronic overplanner that he is, azul has thoroughly researched every location on sage island that serves food so he can know well in advance where he can take you to grab something to eat whenever you go out together, regardless of where on the island you actually go. or if he needs to bring some safe snacks with him if there’s nowhere within a reasonable distance where you can eat… but that’s very much so a rare occurance given how carefully he plans around your preferences and pickiness

what an attentive boyfriend. please make sure to tell him how much you appreciate his efforts, it means the world to him when you tell him how good of a mate he’s being for you — even if he does try (and mostly fail) to play at being all calm and collected about the whole thing

f l o y d l e e c h

with how fickle floyd’s moods tend to be it would be easy to assume that he’d be quick to disregard or take offence to your pickiness. but, in fact, it’s quite the opposite and he takes it almost like a challenge to find and perfect recipes that you can both safely eat and actually enjoy — which has, much to azul’s unending and very vocal dismay, led to him straight up abandoning the customers midway through rush hour at the lounge to run out and grab the ingredients he needs to make something special just for you

which is an undeniably sweet gesture given how much and how often he goes out of his way for you… but you could really do without all the lectures from his housewarden about your part in floyd neglecting his responsibilities as the head chef

he also may or may not have tried to go behind his boss’ back to rework the lounge menu to make it, in his words, ‘more shrimpy friendly’ by scrapping every single dish that he knew you couldn’t stomach for whatever reason and replacing them with variations of the foods he knew were ‘shrimpy approved’ — needless to say, again, azul was not best pleased with him

whenever he trials a new recipe for you, your reaction to it has a massive impact on his mood for the rest of the day — which is a long time for one of his moods to last… for better or for worse

if you like it? great! awesome, even! he’s shouting with glee, squeezing you tightly and spinning you around in circles to celebrate successfully finding and creating yet another safe food for you

if you don’t? he visibly deflates, asks you to try one more bite just to make sure, and is notably more depressed and quick to anger for the rest of the day (to others, not to you. even at his most upset he’s not gonna blame you for something you can’t control, his mother taught him to be a better mate than that)

but that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given just how important food is as a courting custom between mers — and as floyd does want to be a good mate to you it only stands to reason that he’d want to make sure you’re eating as much as possible, and that you have plenty of options available for you to eat

he has absolutely threatened and gotten into physical altercations with others that he’s caught teasing you or mocking you behind your back because of your eating habits too — though there are very few people on campus stupid enough to go after you after your relationship with floyd becomes public knowledge, so it’s thankfully a very rare occurance that he has to go that far

he’s the type of boyfriend who is happy to just let you do what you want — as long as you’re eating something he couldn’t care less about it. if you’re happy, so is he. but if you want to start trying new things then you can bet he’s gonna be joining you on your journey, both as a helper and also to try stuff he hasn’t tried before because that sounds like the perfect way to stave off his boredom

… he will laugh at you if you have an especially visceral response to eating something new, though. especially if it’s something that happens to have a very mild taste and mouth feel. he is still floyd after all

j a d e l e e c h

being in a relationship with jade leech means accepting that for as much as he does truly love you, he also loves experimenting on you and cataloguing all of your reactions to whatever stimuli he decides to expose you to that day — and the second he becomes aware of your pickiness his interest will be piqued and you can bet every last sorcent in your bank account that he will be regularly testing your limits from that moment forward

it’s not done maliciously, obviously, as for as curious and annoying as jade can be in his thirst for knowledge he does actually care about you and doesn’t actually want to upset you. unfortunately, that care only really means that most of the food and drinks he personally prepares and serves for you will be completely safe and devoid of any traces of the things he knows you dislike

but ‘most’ and ‘all’ are two very different things. and that distinction is very important to jade, and will become important to you too if you’re still determined to be with him

because, put simply, he will be messing with your food and drink. not super often, never with things he knows you cannot eat as oppose to just dislike, and only on days where he knows you haven’t been exposed to any other stressors — partially out of care for you and partially to keep the experiments he’s running as unaffected by external factors as possible — but it will still be happening… even if you can’t actually tell when he’s tampered with anything

and sometimes the experiments he runs are strictly for your benefit. sometimes. like, for example, if the vast majority of your safe foods are lacking in a certain nutrient or vitamin he knows your species needs to ingest to remain healthy, and most of the foods that contain said beneficial thing are foods you straight up cannot stand, then he’ll start slowly sneaking small portions of those vitamin-rich ingredients into the meals he cooks. testing the waters and seeing how much he can get away with before you start to notice an offputting difference in the taste or texture or smell of what he makes — it’s a very delicate balance but he almost always manages to ace it… because of course he does

but nine times out of ten he’s just choosing ingredients based on what he wants you to start liking or whatever he thinks he can get away with adding without drawing your suspicion or ire. which usually just means various types of mushrooms

and sometimes some herbs he foraged and quadruple checked to make sure that you could actually safely ingest them… and what size portion he had to add to make them impact the food but not be detectable to you

it’s like a game to him, and has been an endless source of personal amusement since even before you two became an actual couple — and he has no doubt that it will continue to be an occasional indulgence of his for the rest of your lives together

emphasis on occasional because he is well aware of how upsetting it can be to have your food tampered with, and he does usually let you in on his little secret after you’ve had your fill of whatever he made and voiced your enjoyment — making sure to keep you well fed, well nourished, and in a good enough mood to not start arguing with him for his well-meaning game of deception

🫧 » 𝓕𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 ,

—> before you knew about all the crazy things regarding the octavinelle crew you were okay with them, up until floyd attempted to squeeze you to death, leading him to get pulled back from jade who looked far to pleased.

—> obviously he finds it funny and loves to specifically point you out from your drastic hiding spots, “shrimpy.. is that you under the table?~” and to your dismay Grim immediately gives up your hiding spot, if he also isn’t hiding with you.

—> absolutely loves how quick you are to hide from him and jade when they are around you, loves making remarks about you just to see how you react when he knows your near, “shrimpy is really reallyyy~~ squeezable!”

—> he actually laughs when he corners you and you cover your eyes in an attempt to hide yourself despite it being useless, and his laugh? that does NOT ease your thoughts at all.

—> when he sees you tense up due to his laugh he actually pauses for a split second his eyes gawking you up and down, before his smug look returns; it’s cut short as azul comes over to scold floyd giving you time to run, you didn’t want to get involved with azul either..

—> if you think your safe in the cafeteria oh boy oh boy are you wrong, from jade? maybe however floyd?? not so much he will embarrass you, running away from the duo he was previously with to scare you into hiding infront of everyone.

—> he enjoys the whole thing and uses it to his advantage, ace and deuce don’t even dare to stop the whole thing, deuce tried once and saw how irritated the boy got and stepped back down.

🍄 » 𝓙𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 ,

—> you had a normal view on jade, after finding out floyd’s personality you preferred jade over him— that is.. up until you hear him yap about mushrooms and how he tries to convince you to eat one, shoving it right in your face, you immediately squeak out of surprise and run away chasing after ace deuce who were laughing at the whole interaction from a distance, grim just looked major disappointed, you could of gave it to him!

—> he also finds it funny but isn’t as loud about it as floyd is, going on with this he definitely talks about you to floyd and azul as soon as they abandon your area.

—> he probably (definitely) has all your hiding spots memorised by now, he will smirk at you from where he is stood and your hiding, no matter the distance.

—> the majority of the time your safe from jade, however there are some occasions where ace tricks you into going somewhere, specifically where jade is.

—> jade could be doing anything, but once he hears your steps nearby, he’s immediately putting an end to whatever it is and acting like he wasn’t doing anything just to turn around and face you why? just because he finds it fun.

—> jade isn’t to persistent with scaring you like floyd is, jade is more.. somehow, someway.. more ‘collected’ then floyd is.

—> but what scares you the most with jade is exactly that! i mean how can you have such a different personality from your own double, you always think he’s up to something, and he is.

» 𝓑𝐎𝐓𝐇 ,

—> in short they both have completely different reactions to you, floyd is more interested and more likely to try and get alone with you more just for your reactions, whereas jade is who you happen to bump into by accident if it’s just him, he’s pleased by it and amused once more by your reactions he, like i said, has all your hiding spots mesmerises meanwhile floyd doesn’t care about all that, he’s merely focused on you yourself.

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He’ll jam his face towards you at any given moment and flash you one of his playful smiles, the one he knows will get you squealing and cooing and pinching his cheeks. He actively seeks out your attention, grabbing it from anyone else who may be in your general vicinity with a smug grin on his face.

This is a headcanon I’ve had for a while, but Floyd loves being referred to as little. It’s just so silly! He’s giant in and out of the water, with a muscular physique made for cutting through the ocean and snatching up fish, every feature made to be a predator, and yet here you are!

You coddle him and squish him, repeating over and over just how cute he is, whenever he laughs or tries something new or gets just a little grumpy. His shrill voice teasing you for being so affectionate only earns more praise from you.

Azul will find a way to maximize your “babying” of Floyd, mark my words. You’ll be brought into the lounge if it looks like he’s running out of steam or getting agitated, just so you can see him doing whatever and get all worked up about it.

Jade thinks it's amusing, to be honest. Especially when you coo and call his brother little. He knows it's not condescending, but he may pretend to be offended just to get a reaction out of you. Too bad for him, you know his game by now!

Floyd would adore a partner like this, someone so openly affectionate with him and proud to be around him. It would keep him on his toes and the praise would go straight to his head, what more could he want?

"Ah, Shrimpyyyy~!" Practically flopping over your lap with his damp jersey that clung to his torso and the towel around his neck that he obviously used to only dry his face and the mess of his hair, strands sticking to his forehead.

"Nee, i did so good today! Dunked so hard i almost broke the pole! Not my fault though...i was just excited~"

"I know you were amazing but you're wetting my clothes Floyd!"

"Ehhh? Sorry (Name)..." he mumbled with a pout, properly straightening his posture as he was ready to use his towel to dry your uniform before you interrupted him.

His pouting face was cute and his little confusing expression was too! And like it was a habit, you brought your hand up to his cheeks to cup and lightly squeeze them. At your actions, Floyd's usual grin graced his face with a faint pink.

"'was only thinkin' about you the whole time...is this one of my rewards? With a kiss too?"

"Haha, you like being greedy hm..."