#imnotbadimjustcodedthatway

Alexus sighed the moment he was out of earshot. Yes, the situation was frustrating but an ill temper would improve nothing. And perhaps he just needed some rest...

this isn't by default a multiverse blog

although the timeline of alexus's threads are a bit unordered rn, (and there are like 2 au things & 1 flashback happening) his relationships with people aren't happening in independent bubbles

so idk if you're curious how these all compare:

Olivia - He's still in love with her. If he could have any woman he wanted he'd choose her. But he also still can't have her... In terms of a lasting effect, he's beginning to believe deep romantic love is not meant to be part of his life (I like how that potentially works with him ultimately becoming a villain.)  he sees her at the fort. it was like 2 or 3 times a month before he was moved to vira's tribe. i haven't decided how frequently he goes to the fort now (probably more sometimes and less other times).

Phoibe - He cares about her a lot & his love for her grows-- but it's less romantic and more like "storge" familial/friendly kinda love. He doesn't desire either more or less from what he has with her and will just keep being affectionate with her until either she or another woman he'd listen to tells him to stop that. he'd totally been ditching his contubernium sometimes to see her & vitus-- and now that he's stationed with vira, she gives him permission to leave and he'll visit them (he doesn't know the chieftainess likely has him tailed.)

Marcie - Neither I nor he really knows what he feels about her. He was kind of obsessed with her for other reasons, then it stopped being entirely platonic. And now circumstances are different for both of them. So even if I could say what is happening currently it might be irrelevant within days. he's been seeing her when he visits nelson, which used to be frequent bc it's like 15 minutes from the mine. (i'm sure he still visits dead sea now that he's stuck with vira but it's probably far less often)

Vira - Yeah he's mackin' on her in that one thread but that's a love potion meme-started au which is serving to show how bad of an idea it is. For real, Vira 1000% prefers women and has a genuine black widow history/nature -- even the easily-pacified Alexus finds her creepy. he's staying with her tribe rn. he hates it.

some other things:

he's still celibate, although he's being extra liberal with the smooches lately

he'd be happily monogamous if there was a match that worked for him (or if he believed it would work for him, i mean -- i might also be open to him being unhappily monogamous in a terrible match (but not as a permanent arrangement))

Physically, so far he likes her neck and her chin. Both are slender and feminine but she can hold them in a really strong and proud way. Her features are pretty to look at but he's not sure about the read he gets from them now...

// So.. this may be actually over a year and a half old. I think it's high time I posted it, even if the context won't make sense for most of you.

At this point in time, Ada was still more than a little in love with Cracked, but he'd died and rerezzed as a new version of the same program, who wanted nothing to do with her. And Vira, their daughter, was a shapeshifter.

It's a little convoluted.

Upon touching my Muse, Yours is suddenly thrown into one of Mine's Tragic and Painful Memories, Send "Memories of Sorrow" to see a painful and tragic memory of My Muse..

Mac’s hand clamped around her arm, and Ada’s eyes widened for the briefest of instants before the memory slammed into his head.

The midwife is gone and she is still breathing heavily, her body not sure how to cope with what has just happened, when Antos nestles the warm bundle against her chest.

“I guess we have a Victoria after all,” he says quietly.

 Ada glances down at the face of her – their – daughter, and she wants to cry. The child is unbearably small, her delicate fingers reaching out blindly for something. A girl means they’re condemning this child to slavery, to a too-soon marriage as a breeder or to something equally awful. Ada glances up at Antos and bites her lip. “There’s no way we can keep her.” It’s not a question, and he smiles bitterly.

“Not a girl, no. We have maybe a year, optimistically.”

Ada takes a deep breath, grabbing his hand and clinging, not quite surprised when he grips back. “I’m not going to stay that long.”

“Of course not.” He doesn’t sound surprised. “We’re going to get you back to NCR territory as soon as we can.’

She nods slowly, clinging to him, and for one moment, she pretends that she can have this family, even if she and Antos don’t love each other, even if this child is only hers for now, it’s something. It’s a bittersweet imagining.

Ada yanked away from Mac, the contact broken. She’d heard about the weird, supernatural virus going around, and she wasn’t exactly thrilled to think he’d gotten into her head.