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siren başladı çalmaya,

biri dedi kalkın saygı duruşunda bulunmaya,

durmadan evvel geçtim en arkaya,

Yaslandım duvara, başladım "estağfirullah" diyip parmaklarımı saymaya,

siren bitti marş geldi başladılar bağırmaya,

marşın sonunda bir yiğit çıktı dedi ne gerek var bu şekilde durmaya,

anında atladı birileri "ne hakkın var saygısızlık yapmaya",

çocuk başlayamadan meramını anlatmaya,

kulaklarını kapattılar yer aradılar suçlamaya,

durmadım gittim çocuğa destek çıkmaya,

susmadım başladım hakikatleri haykırmaya,

“putperestler böyle başlar tapınmaya”,

The dragon blinks slowly, tail thumping against the ground before it opens its mouth, and... Speaks? "Surprise! Hi, Artair! Hope I didn't frighten you too much."

Artair likes to think he's smart, but sometimes things just happen, and sometimes your brain needs a hot second to process. While it isn't particularly unusual to run into a gigantic creature for him, it is a little bit of a surprise when said creature opens its mouth and one of his friends light, airy voices escapes.

Right. Anna is a dragon. She told him this. Right.

Obviously a big reason people would be into shipping the priest is because they're titillated by the concept of priestfucking more broadly, and of all the weird stuff people project onto their blorbos a benign and relatively common fetish is fucking nothing lol.

But tbh it does scan as kind of out of character to me. Like I just don't buy that Hawkeye would be into priest fucking, and if anything I think it would be a bit of a turn off.

When I was first mulling on this, I was kind of like "Well maybe he'd be turned on by the priest thing not because of the priesthood specifically but just the general naughtiness of breaking taboos..." but then I realized that Hawkeye almost never expressed genuine sexual interest in anyone who isn't a conventionally attractive, single, and uncomplicatedly sexually available woman- and the few times it is complicated he's legitimately squicked out and put off. I just think of he was going to be turned on by the idea of breaking vows he'd be into adultery at least as much as Margaret is lmao.

Plus, he's not Catholic, he wasn't raised Catholic, we have no reason to think he was even raised in a "high church" liturgical Protestant tradition. How and why would he have the life experiences to form the associations that make up a priestkink?

Hawkeye likes Mulcahy and respects him, but I think that has 0% to do with him being a priest. Mulcahy could be literally anything but if he conducted himself and related to Hawkeye in more or less the same way, I think he'd still like him just as much.

I will say that I think on both a Watsonian and Doylist level, the fact that Mulcahy is a priest frees him up to flirt with Hawkeye in a way that's a little different from other characters. Generally, Hawkeye flirting with men is treated as a joke in itself, but there still needs to be a little "no homo" at the end of it. This usually comes in an annoyed rebuff or outrage, or the joke being ignored and not commented upon. If the person flirts back, it has to be very obviously a joke. With Mulcahy, any flirting at all is a joke because of the implied taboo of the priesthood- the characters and the audience both know this ain't going anywhere. There is a different quality to their flirtation, because they don't have to immediately defuse the joke, so there's several scenes I can think of that have a warm or sincere vibe, where Hawkeye's teasing is a little gentler than normal and Mulcahy seems genuinely amused or flattered.

But again, that vibe kind of hinges on nothing actually happening. I think if Mulcahy was genuinely interested, Hawkeye would be totally thrown off, and tbh I think he'd find sexual inexperience to be a turn off as well- his taste in women would suggest he prefers partners who are sexually confident. I don't imagine it would be a completely insurmountable difference, but I do see it as an obstacle for a hypothetical relationship to overcome rather than an incentive for it to exist.

Day 19 of Monkey May!

Wine!

Aka

Look what a silly guy, his drunk ass is not listening XD who gave him a cup???