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@gentapprentices​ Gentleman Apprentice Week Day 6 

(boy)Friends to Lovers—  how do your apprentice and their LI celebrate their love? 

I wanted to add some other masc apprentices too!!  They’re all really wonderful artists and people and i’m really happy to be able to include them!! ;w;; 

Illian belongs to @lazyvoyager​ Zarco belongs to @apprenticefrombulan Andonis belongs to @idiotwerewolf Tashi belongs to @bastart13 and Kimoni belongs to @emilenn!!

Being akoiromantic, to put it bluntly, sucks. You could want so desperately to be in love with someone.  And, when it seems like the norm to be in a relationship you feel left out.  You just can’t bring yourself to find interest in someone romantically.  Or even worse, when someone you do like comes along, the second you try to commit yourself all of those romantic feelings disappear.   It’s a constant cycle of wanting but being unable to give.

Day One: Magic Man

Andrico: experienced apothecary, certified potions master, studied chemist. An expert in his own right. But even experts make mistakes.

“Are they even?”

Andrico turned from the mirror and looked to his friend mournfully. Jasna, who had been thumbing through a book, gave him a quick once over. She grimaced.

“No, but eyebrows are sisters, not twins.”

He allowed his head to slump forward in defeat. He had a date tonight and it wouldn’t do to show up eyebrowless. Maybe he could send Ralphie with a note cancelling? He was looking forward to spending some one-on-one time with his boyfriend after a busy week but he had his pride, damn it! No one looked good without eyebrows, great bone structure or not.

Jasna moved from the sofa to kneel in front of him at his vanity. With a quiet ‘let me try’ she wiped off his attempt and grabbed the kohl from his hand.

“How did you even manage to burn off your eyebrows,” she asked as she began to map them out.

“Well, do you remember those potions I’m making for your and Asra’s shop? Well it has fire root in it and fire root degrades rapidly in its raw form, so I decided to refine it.”

Jasna looked up at him with a droll look. “You wanted to refine fire root?”

“Theoretically it should have worked,” he continued. “Fire root tends to run acidic and a simple alkaline should have been enough to make it easier to refine.”

“But…”

“But it seems that fire root is a little more volatile than I anticipated. So when I went to refine it…”

Andrico motioned vaguely to his eyebrows. Jasna sighed but made no further comment. They sat in silence as Jasna continued her work. After a few more minutes, Jasna patted his knee to alert him she was done. Andrico gazed in the mirror to find a far more natural looking brow than the blocks he had drawn on his face earlier.

“Thank you,” he said sincerely.

“No problem, just do us both a favor and stop treating magic like one of your experiments.”

gentapprentice day 4, “a man in love”!

the first meeting being pre-plague, of course. they knew one another before the plague struck. a few months into knowing him, seeing how dire the plague was, mc!ross had asked if he could apprentice under julian. the feelings were certainly already in place before they were ever working together, and maybe it was an unconventional and untimely place for love to bloom, but closer quarters and more time spent alone together only made it more obvious.