1. Who makes the first move and how?
Cinder. She’s an awful flirt and well Lydia was pretty so she couldn’t help but make the odd flirty comment. And maybe it’s her imagination but she laughed at her jokes and flirted back.Â
And shortly after Lydia was like “so can I buy you dinner then?” and Cinder was like “holy shit I wasn’t imagining things yes sure okay”
Apparently the way to a woman’s heart is to be covered in blood and have a killer beard and awful jokes.Â
12. What first changes when it starts getting serious?
I mean a lot of things change. Location, for starters. Cinder decides to take a gamble and move and open a shop…and she wants Lydia to come with her.Â
So with that comes them learning how to live with one another, maybe finding a few annoying habits the other has (stop with the mucky shoes inside Cinder! just because I can magic away grime does not mean you get away with it!) and as a result of that the other person then tweaking things about themselves (whether it’s a conscious change or not).Â
They disagree on shop things mostly. Like how Cinder’s too nice and throws in freebies too liberally. Cinder thinks Lydia could do with loosening up a little because if you’re nice then people remember it and come back to you. And if they’ll only come back for freebies then fuck those people.Â