#mcl nathaniel

NATHANIEL

He is pretty familiar with the concept of comparing yourself with someone else due to not feeling enough, and notices your subtle actions. How you unsoncsiously talk insecurely about yourself, how you doubt so much even of the smallest things, even those in which you used to be good at.

He notices how you look too much at someone, how you even look at Melody and become quiet due to the negative thoughts that may wander through your mind. 

Nathaniel concludes by how insecure you become around them that you just compare yourself to them. And he gets slightly mad, not at you, just at the idea of you doing that.

One day, as you’re making him company on the Student Council Room at noon, he decides to bring up the subject. “What is going on through your mind?” he asks, stopping his tasks just to sit on the table, right beside you. He wanted you to pay attention to him.

He expects you to be honest about it. If not, he already knows the reason. “Look, dear… you must stop. It makes no sense comparing yourself to anyone,” he firmly speaks, “everyone is different and unique, not less.”

From now on, he makes more genuine compliments to reinforce your confidence. 

He becomes more attentive of you and your feelings, and he lowkey scolds you for talking bad about yourself because - what’s the point of treating yourself so poorly?

The slightest change of your mood is enough for him to have a hand over yours, squeezing it reassuringly. 

CASTIEL

The moment a comment like “I’m not as pretty as…” comes out from your mouth, he has to take a deep, deep breath and rolls his eyes. He reacts immediately, not giving you a second chance to keep comparing yourself to anyone else. It could be easy to do it, to compare yourself with his ex girlfriend (ew).

But you're better than anything he has ever had.

He cannot stand seeing you treating yourself that bad. He might sound a little bit harsh, but he is honest about it: “what the hell are you saying now? Have you seen yourself?”

Castiel doesn’t want anyone else and deeply wishes that you could see yourself the way he does. And he is going to make sure that you get his point.

If you don’t value yourself, he’ll do it for both of you until you can also see it.

He tries his best to be more patient about the fact that you talk so badly about yourself, because he gets genuinely mad at the concept of comparison. So he also learns to be more patient.

He genuinely dislikes whoever makes you insecure.

Whenever you show any signs of comparing yourself, he shows up quietly for you. He might touch your chin gently, so you can make eye contact with him and he’ll say “don’t. You’re the one I want, I don’t need you to be any different from how perfect you are.”

LYSANDER

It might take a while for him to get what is wrong. He might take your long silences as a sign of peace, because silence equals to calm for him. But he can see you detached from reality, diving into your thoughts. Lysander grabs your hand and gently asks if you are doing alright.

So you decided to be honest with him and share your inner insecurities and how they were affecting you lately. Therefore, he feels sad that he has let you feel that way instead of reassuring you as he should.

Lysander takes his time to think the best ways of making you feel better about yourself.

And he makes it very very special! Lysander starts writing poems to you about how you’re the only one that matters to him, about what a precious and unique flower you are… (well things like that, I’m not that romantic to think about how many things he could write im sorrybgjbjkdf…)

He makes you feel understood and genuinely reassured, not judged. Lysander might encourage you to open up whenever you overthink so he can clear your mind from any lie your mind comes up with.

He doesn’t pressure you to talk about what you think whenever those thoughts catch you, he simply stays by your side and provides you support by talking about other stuff, complimenting you or caressing your back gently.

KENTIN

He’s oblivious at first and thinks that the reason why you are so quiet is because you are falling out of love with him :(. 

You take longer to answer him, or avoid eye contact as you're focused on your own thoughts. He overthinks himself at first, trying to think that maybe you’re worried about some exams, about any personal problems or… whatever…

But what if you’re going through something worse and he isn’t there to help you through it? He doesn’t want to be a bad boyfriend. So he decides to stop the walk to your house and face you, asking you directly what is wrong.

You decided to be honest and tell you how you were feeling lately, feeling less than anyone. Remember how he was dumb and kissed Amber? You even had material to overthink about it and was one of the reasons of your overthinking too.

Look, he’s clumsy expressing himself so he may stutter or get offended by seeing how you think so badly of yourself. “Have you met you? You are perfect, you are everything a single person would wish for,” he expresses with worry, probably exaggerating a little his gesturing - but he means it. You’re perfect for him. 

He becomes more aware of your signs of discomfort when someone that makes you insecure is around, and he kinda bombs you with his lovely thoughts about you. They aren’t few, there are a lot.

ARMIN

Not gonna lie, this dummy probably made you insecure by making any joke. He’s a man, don’t expect him to think too much /hj. 

When he finds out you’re overthinking because of him and due to that you started comparing yourself with others, he gets mad at himself. He tries to take it easy at first, and says “comparing yourself is like comparing a visual novel with a shooter; it makes no sense.”

No, but seriously, when he sees that it is affecting you more than he expected, he takes it seriously. He sets aside any jokes he can be able to make and listens to you.

Armin may be a good listener, but not a good adviser. He feels bad he doesn’t know the immediate solution to delete that bad habit of yours, because he hates seeing you think so low of yourself. 

He randomly texts you beautiful things as a reminder that you’re the one he wants to marry and the only one he wants.

Armin is going to spend more time with you, distracting you with spontaneous dates, taking you to cinema, playing any games or whatever that creates a new memory between you both and makes you forget those thoughts for a while. Maybe the safer and closer you feel in the relationship, the lesser you’d compare yourself.