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Tender, hushed, low, subdued, indistinct.

Thanks! Tender and hushed are pretty close equivalents, as is ‘quiet’, I remembered later.  

@thedoctor-smith

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“Okay, where are we on inventing more synonyms for ‘softly’?? ...”

As Lexa sings in a choir, she'd be familiar with terms like 'dolce' (sweetly) or pianissimo (very gently), con amore (with love).

OKAY I LOVE THAT. One day, if I write a mwtw!Lexa POV, I would def include those as a mini-theme. Trying to figure out how I can get them in from a non-musical POV, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. 

@question-mightily

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“Okay, where are we on inventing more synonyms for ‘softly’?? ...”

Yeyyy more Mwtw !!!! Gently, lightly, tenderly, tenderly, delicately... Or use the french equivalent: 'en douceur' or 'doucement'

♥ 

I kind of see it as having two parts, similar to Clarke. Clarke had that big ‘aha’ /oh shit I’m totally gay/ moment when Lexa answered her door in ch6, the realisation that she’s (sexually) attracted to Lexa. Lexa’s equivalent to that moment was on the coach trip to the lacrosse game in ch8, when Clarke fell asleep on her shoulder (I have a little drabble from Lexa’s POV here). It’s not exactly the same though, because Lexa knew she was attracted to Clarke from the first time she saw her—that moment on the coach is her recognizing that she can’t push those feelings down any longer. 

The other moment is the labelling of love, something I have many opinions on irl, possibly best explicated in Clarke’s overly-dramatic inner monologue in ch12 (starting with ...It’s no realisation—not really.) Love has so many components, not all of which are sexual in nature, and I think for both Lexa and Clarke, it was a long, continuous process without clear boundaries for awhile.