#lam characters

"You've seriously never had a slushie before?" Caspian asked. I shook my head, mentally steeling myself for the usual unintentionally offensive comment about how strange I am, or how sheltered my upbringing was. That comment never came.

"Well I've gotta take you to try one then! There's a gas station nearby, c'mon, let's go!" Caspian said, excitedly pulling me to my feet.

"What, right now?" I asked, stumbling a bit after him.

"Have you got anything better to do?" He responded with a mischievous glint in his eye as he lead me down the busy street.

I smiled softly as he pulled me forward to walk next to him, holding onto my arm. I had no idea where we were going, but I followed him gladly.

He brought us in to a rather run down, dirty looking gas station and beelined toward the slushie machine.

"This place doesn't look food safe." I said hesitantly. Caspian just laughed.

"That's half the fun! Seriously though, it's perfectly safe, and even if it wasn't I think the amount of sugar and dyes in these things would probably kill any germs."

"Very reassuring." I said, rolling my eyes with a smile.

Caspian laughed again.

"C'mon weirdo, pick your slushie flavour. I like the cherry one, but you'd probably hate it. I think you should try the blue raspberry."

"Raspberries aren't blue."

"They are in the mystical world of gas station slushie machines. Go on, try it."

I sighed dramatically, acting defeated.

"Alright, if you insist."

We paid for our slushies and found a spot to sit outside. After some convincing, I tried the strange blue concoction Caspian got me. I was surprised it didn't taste like food poisoning. I was even more surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

"Well?" Caspian asked with a smirk, already seeing the look on my face.

"I'll admit it's better than I thought it would be. I still don't understand why it's called blue raspberry though."

"Such mysteries of the universe are not for me to unravel Lucian." Caspian said with mock seriousness.

I laughed.

Caspian kissed me.

Okay so @thecomfywriter Uno reversed my ask on me here, so here we go.

I desperately want to adopt Faine. He already has an adopted mother and she's great but honestly this man just has so much trauma that he needs to be readopted as an adult. That's breaking the rules of my own game though, so I can't say him. (Yes I just spent an entire paragraph talking about how I want to adopt a man who's literally 909 years older than me)

As for someone I actually want to adopt as a child, I would say the Tollemaches, but I can only adopt one and I can't separate them.

Kyro is a great choice, but he's an extremely obscure side character that might not even show up in the main book, depending on how I structure the series.

Switching books for a second, adopting the mc from Like A Movie would probably be good for him. He hasn't told me anything about his childhood, but I get the sense he wasn't loved enough.

Switching back to What's Your Story because I want to give it attention, I have so many traumatized characters that I would absolutely adopt, but a lot of them have siblings that they wouldn't want to leave behind. I would adopt Briley, since she doesn't get adopted until she's thirteen, but her adopted family is so sweet and I wouldn't want to take her from that.

I think at the moment my top option has to be Kalyani. She doesn't appear in the story for a good long while though, so you guys won't hear about her much. Sorry!

Since I mentioned Like A Movie up there I might as well briefly touch on my other wips.

The Director probably needs adopting from Appearances Are Deceiving, he didn't exactly have an easy childhood.

There are so many sad children in We All Lie Amongst The Thorns that it would be extremely unfair to choose one.

I don't think any of the MCs in Nearly Parallel Lives needs adopting. Oh scratch that actually, Bren does, definitely.

The kids in Survival Is A Team Sport have loving parents, they just get separated during the apocalypse.

I can't think of anyone that needs adopting in The Enchanted Forests at all. Arcana might, but I don't know what her childhood was like.

And that's all. Sorry for the ramblings lol

Caspian: "I could never say I hate anything about him, but if I had to pick something I dislike the most it would have to be that he doesn't really know how to socialize so he just tries to keep everyone happy, which makes him kind of spineless. That sounds so rude I didn’t mean it to sound that rude."

Their first argument was about the fact that Lucian didn't "break up" with his "girlfriend" before they started dating.

Lucian had gone on a couple "dates" with her trying to be polite, but was never really interested in her in that way. He certainly never said they were actually dating.