#milo bower

Blianna

Blair and Lianna secretly meet behind Lianna's house. They're talking, holding hands and kissing quietly and are broken up when the voice of Lianna's mother Cyrilla draws closer.

Cyrilla: Lianna? Lianna, darli- Good gracious Titan! What are you doing with that Bower brood!

Blair: I have a name.

Cyrilla: I don't care for your name! Get your filthy hands off my daughter! Lianna, what is this? I thought we agreed you wouldn't see her again!

Lianna: No, that's what you agreed on over my head! I love Blair and I wish to be with her.

Cyrilla: Love? What do you know of love!? You cannot love her! Look at you, Lianna, you are a delicate, beautiful flower and this filth - this farm rat! - she-she is not good for you!

Blair: Excuse y-

Lianna: Don't you dare speak of Blair like that! I forbid it!

Cyrilla: You do not get to forbid or permit anything.

Lianna: Yes I do! I will not stand by and let you abuse my fiancée.

Cyrilla: Fiancée?!

Blair: Fiancée??

Cyrilla: You mean to tell me you're engaged to her? Don't be ridiculous.

Lianna: Then watch me be ridiculous. Blair, my love, my life, I know this is not the proposal you deserve and it is very out of the blue but I wanted to ask you this today anyways. Will you marry me?

Blair: A-are ye serious??

Lianna: Dead serious. I may not know everything, and perhaps I also don't know what love really is, but I know that I want to spend my life with you. I will marry you, if you'll have me.

Blair: Of course! Yes! Yes! Yes, I will!

Cyrilla: ENOUGH! I do not approve of my only daughter to marry someone so undeserving of her! I will not let you choose a Bower over your own family!

Lianna: I wouldn't have to choose if you weren't so stubborn and narrow-minded! Blair may not be the ideal match you imagined for me but she brings me something of much more value than riches: Happiness and carefreeness. I don't care what you think of Blair, I care even less about what you think of me and I demand you to stop your abuse towards Blair. Dislike her all you want but you will respect her. Blair and the Bowers are my family. Whether or not you are, is up to you.

Cyrilla: You will not marry her!

Lianna: I do not need your permission. You have the opportunity to be part of our wedding and our life or not. I will marry Blair with or without you. And if we have to elope, then we'll do just that.

Cyrilla: This isn't settled yet, young lady. (Leaves angrily)

Blair: Ye alright?

Lianna: Are you? I'm so sorry for her tone.

Blair: Lia, I just got engaged. I'm the happiest lass alive.

Lianna: Sorry it wasn't very romantic.

Blair: Screw romance, we're engaged!!

(Deep kiss)

Keilo/Mith

Milo: Keke, can you give me feedback on this tune?

Keith: I told ye to not call me "Keke". Only ma siblings call me that. Sounds weird comin' from ye.

Milo: "Keith" is too formal.

Keith: Ye've used pet names on me before. Stick to those.

Milo: Alright, you grump.

(Keith eyes Milo. He hums the tune written on the paper)

Keith: Mo oran (= my song), I dinna mean to sound rude but that doesna sound... pleasing to the ear. It's all over the place. Is this some jest?

Milo: Hm? No, no.

Keith: Am I readin' it upside down or something? (turns paper)

Milo: You're reading it correctly (turns paper back). How about you actually look at more than just the first line.

(Keith stares the paper down only noting that the melody is not very pretty. Until he starts seeing a letter in the notes. He rereads everything, this time only looking at the letters the notes form)

Keith: Milo, what did ye do here??

Milo (smirking): Read.

Keith: W I L L Y O V ... N? A-K?

Milo: Maybe try tracing it with a pen.

Keith: Will... you... marry- Marry???

Milo: You didn't finish the question.

Keith: Will you marry me? Milo!

Milo (taking Keith's hand): Will you?

Keith: Ye're so... dumb! And so adorable! I love ye so much.

Milo: Is that a "yes"?

Keith: Is that even a question?

Milo: You're not being very direct with me, I just-

Keith: It's an "obviously I will"!

Lewisie

Lewis: Maisie, you're the love of my life. I can't-

Maisie: Aw, Lew, ye're mine too.

Lewis: (clears throat) I can't imagine a future without you and I-

Maisie: I canna imagine one wi'out ye either!

Lewis: Maisie, darling, could you... could you let me finish?

Maisie: Oh, sorry. Go on.

Lewis: As I said, you're the love of my life and I can't imagine a future without you. I wish to share my life with you, I hope to grow old with you and to love you forever. You're the most important person in my life. You've taught me so much and I'm grateful for every day I get to spend close to you. I truly feel like the luckiest man alive. And I'd definitely be the happiest if you'd give me the honor and-

Maisie: Will ye marry me?

Lewis: ... You stole my question.

Maisie: Sorry. I got too excited and wasna sure how much longer yer speech would go.

Lewis: I was almost done.

Maisie: I'm so sorry! Ye wanna ask the question? Go on! I'll be quiet.

Lewis: It's not the same now...

Maisie: No! No, no, it's alright. I ken nothing! Ask the question just the way ye planned!

Lewis: Maisie...

Maisie: ASK, YE DUNCE!

Lewis: A-as I was saying before, I feel like the luckiest man alive and... Maisie Bower, will you give me the honor and become my wife?

Maisie: Aye! Yes! I will!

IanVal

Val: Wanna hear a secret?

Ian: What secret?

Val: I did not meet a single goal I ever set for my life.

Ian: Really?

Val: Yep. As a kid I had all these plans, every single year of my adulthood mapped out. When I'd fo what, when I'd be in a relationship with whom and where I will live, what my house will look like, what I myself will look like. I had this idea of a perfect love story. I'd meet "the one" in my early twenties, be in a relationship for 5 years and then I'd be asked to marry them. There'd be this beautiful wedding and we'd live happily ever after. (Scoff) You must think that's so stupid.

Ian: Stupid? For wanting to be loved? For wanting to be chosen? If that makes someone stupid, I'm the greatest fool of them all.

Val: Two fools make one genius, I heard. (nudges Ian)

Ian: (chuckles) Are ye upset about not having lived up to yer own expectations?

Val: I used to. But I learned that life is something you can't and shouldn't plan. Not every aspect at least. And that every door that closes and upsets you at first, opens a new one that is perhaps meant for you more than the previous one. I was so stressed trying to catch a goal that was never fit for me. I was disappointed when I gave my goals up at first, but now... I feel free. I realize I'm happier this way. I'm glad I had those goals but I'm not sad for not having met them. If I had, I probably wouldn't have met you.

Ian: (scoff) And I'm worth it all?

Val: Of course.

Ian: Val, I'm glad we met too and I love ye too but please dinna act like being wi' me now was worth all the disappointments ye lived through.

Val: Act? I haven't acted since my performance days. I'm the most genuine right now. I know you struggle believing you're that important to someone, but my life is so much brighter with you in it, Ian, and if I had to go through everything again, knowing at the end the road will lead to you, I'll choose to go through everything once again in an instant. Without any regrets and any doubts.

Ian: W-why?!

Val: Because you're my "the one".

Ian: Ye canna know that. There's so many people on the Isles and-

Val: I've met many of them. But for no one did my heart ever beat as loudly as for you. For no one did I ever get up way before I usually would, just to see you for more hours of the day. For no one did I ever crave to spend my life with. For no one did I ever feel as strongly as for you. You don't need to know every person in the world to know when someone's special to you. To know there's an undeniable connection between you and them. To know you love them.

Ian: I-

Val: I want to marry you.

Ian: What?!

Val: (panicking) What?! Uh-erm-n-nothing! Nothing! I said- uhm- I said I want to-

Ian: Marry me...

Val: You misheard! I said be merry with you!

Ian: Val.

Val: Sorry. I'm sorry, I-I know that's not- ... I know you said you gave up on weddings and happily ever afters. It slipped my tongue, I-

Ian: Ye mean it?

Val: Do I mean it? Ian, Titan's sake, I've been dreaming of marrying you some day for years! Do you have any idea how lovesick you make me? How much I've shaped my future to have you in it no matter what happens? Do you have the slightest imagination of how much space you take up in my mind and heart? Do you know how obsessed I am with your everything? Did I not make it obvious enough? Yes. Yes, I mean it.

(Ian kisses Val tenderly)

Ian: I do too.

Val: I thought you gave up on that sorta stuff?

Ian: That was before I met ye. Marry me, Val.

The greens 🫶

Sorry it took so long, here is a portrait of Milo at last 🤧

Now I have to ask: how did the rest of the Bowers react to Bree's and Neil's proposal? Obviously, they were super happy about it, but I'm more curious about what they thought of how clumsy Neil was. I can imagine Edan and Blair being disappointed but still teasing, while Ian would be laughing his ass off and being absolutely unbearable about it.

They are my comfort zone characters, just get me😔

Bisexual brunets and the redhead that makes them malfunction ❤️

When word spreads of how messy the proposal was because Breena told Blair and Lianna, and Lianna is a tattletale, Neil wanted to sink into the ground and never resurface again. Blair wasn't necessarily disappointed and more amused by the fact that Neil had asked Blair on how to best propose to Bree, he had practiced his speech on her until she gave her approval and then he still messed up.

Edan went eye-roll and head-shake upon hearing how exactly the proposal went down and occasionally threw a jab at Neil the first few weeks after the proposal.

Ian was wheezing and never let Neil hear the end of it. And when I say never, I mean never. He'd bring it up at every instance he got, happy to have more ammunition to tease his beloved big brother with. Neil in the meantime had to restrain himself from choking Ian.

Keith and Maisie also couldn't help holding back a chuckle but they long were not as teasing about it as their older siblings. Though, Maisie did sigh and say it was "so romantic"

Yvaine and Fergus are too busy being happy that another one of their babies is getting married. Second wedding for the Bower household and the excitement was big.

I'm noticing as I'm thinking about the proposals of the couples in TDAAC that a lot of proposals have a spontaneous or accidental vibe to them. At least those where I have a proposal written down.

Calyn's proposal was planned (and also parallels Snowfox with the proposal on a field patch hehe) but very casual.

Breeil's was planned but didn't go as planned.

Blianna's was in the heat of the moment and thus very spontaneous.

Keilo was planned and... went according to plan? More or less. Give it up for Keith and Milo everybody.

Maisie and Lewis' was planned but, like Breeil's didn't go as Lewis had planned it.

IanVal was a slip of tongue on Val's part.

So really, Micah just experienced a typical Bower proposal as seems to be the fate in that family hahaha

This would mostly be a general overview, not necessarily applying to their current spouses.

Although I think it would make the most sense to base it mainly on their teenage years, since most of them were already with the love of their lives by their late teens or early twenties.

I just think it's super cute to see the differences between them. For example, lan and Maisie seem much more open about the topic whether it's flirting, confessing their feelings or just experiencing that whole "crush phase" while someone like Keith would try to hide it as best he could (my shy little baby 🥺)

It's so sad that Edan can't be in this one 😔

There are no irrelevant questions when it's about the skrunglies!!

Blair is very confident and assertive. She knows what she wants and she'll chase it. She's very honest about her feelings and knows how to deal with them. Thus, (and coupled with Lianna's flirty nature) Blianna wasn't exactly a slow burn. Go lesbians ✊️😫

Neil is also more on the open and confident side. Not as much as Blair or Ian, but he's also not as messy and in-denial when he's into someone as Micah is. Neil can be flirty and direct with his crushes, he's aware he got lucky in the genetic lottery and knows how to effectively flirt even without using any words, but overall he'd just seek for subtle closeness and only sprinke in bolder flirtations every now and then.

Ian is a textbook flirt. He knows when to say what to whom and he knows how to wrap someone around his finger effortlessly. He is open about his feelings and voices them so (regarding crushes anyways). He's a softie at core.

Keith handles crushes similar to Micah. So, a very "If these feelings don't die, I'm going to bury myself alive" approach. But Micah only acts like that towards his crushes and generally he's not incapable of confident flirting and assertiveness with others or his partner once he's comfortable enough. Keith and flirting with strangers is something that will never happen, and even flirting with someone they're interested in takes an insane amount of courage for them. Milo is able to coax out more flirtyness from Keith but the nervous undertone never truly ceases. Protect them at all costs.

Maisie's demisexual but a hopeless romantic. She establishes straight away that when she flirts, it's not to be read as sexual, singling out the people interested in a serious romance rather than something casual. She too is very aware of what she's looking for and what she wants and she's not afraid of making a bolder move. She's so me 🤧

Fergus (Yvaine's current husband): only child

Lianna (Blair's wife): only child

Breena (Neil's wife): only child

Milo (Keith's husband): multiple siblings

Lewis (Maisie's husband): one sibling

Val (Ian's spouse): only child

Robyn (Micah's boyfriend): only child

In conclusion

Bowers when an only child exists: Hey, hot stuff~