#reverse selfship au

🌟 giggling, fanning, squealing or just making happy noises whenever you show up

🌟 saving TONS of images, videos, edits, fanfics and new official content of you (you're the reason why their storage space is running out lol)

🌟 creating a s/i, persona, oc or just draws themselves to ship them with you

🌟 listening to music and songs that remind them of you or their selfship, maybe even making music playlists of them!

🌟 starting to like so many things, even their least favorite thing became their favorite just because you like it

🌟 making moodboards, collages, stimboards and just pinterest boards of you

🌟 making headcanons about you and looking for more made by others

🌟 buying figures, plushies, keychains and just merches of you

🌟 getting jealous and yearning for merches of you (if they can't afford them)

🌟 drawing you a lot, writing fanfics about you or commissioning artists and fic writers to do them

🌟 making bracelets, paper plushies and crafts inspired by you

🌟 crying over your angstiest moments, or just uncomfortably smiling if they repress their feelings

🌟 getting all giddy when they see anything related to you, even the smallest things such as colors and words/names

🌟 finding comfort and happiness in you (you're the light to their darkness as people say)

🌟 listening to asmr of you, but if fan asmr videos make them cringe, then they listen to their favorite asmrtists and imagine you in their place (if they like asmr)

🌟 having a shrine and an itabag of you

🌟 filling their phone with widgets of you, decorating their phone case and anything with stickers of you and whatever reminds them of you

🌟 having your name or face tattooed (if they're the type to tattoo)

🌟 gushing about you in paragraphs and paragraphs...

🌟 buying a box of chocolate that reminds them of you on valentine's day and either imagining themselves giving them to you or eating them imagining that you gave them to them 🌹🍫

🌟 having a selfship blog/account dedicated to you

🌟 (if they're non-sharing) getting very jealous and blocking anyone else who selfships with you, they can't stand doubles 💢

🌟 editing screencaps of you by giving you accessories, face stickers, new clothes/hairstyles and just having fun making photo edits of you

🌟 having all your lines and even your voice memorized in their head, even that one specific sound of your breathing...

🌟 daydreaming/fantasizing about you every day and every night 💭💖

🌟 wearing a piece of clothing or accessories just to match yours. you like wearing this one specific top? they'll wear it too and imagine that you gave it to them

🌟 joining a forum or server of your source for content of you

🌟 stealing some of your mannerisms or aesthetics

🌟 going through so many websites to find more content and fan works of you

🌟 infodumping about you and how much they love you, whether it be verbally or not

🌟 watching character analysis videos about you or reading them

🌟 lucid dreaming about you or really wishing to if they aren't able to, the same with soulbounding

🌟 defending you with all their might and immediately blocking anyone who hates on you (if they have no self restraint, they might not hold back against those haters and a fight may or may not break out... 👀)

🌟 enjoying life more the moment they fell for you

🌟 editing themselves, their oc, their persona or their s/i as this Rentarou's speech panel from 100kanojo and writing about how much they love you in the speech bubbles (okay this one's highly specific)

🌟 JUST LOVING EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT YOU!!! 💖💖💖

feel free to add more if you want! ( ゝω･)/°.✨️

Gale basically becomes a shut in for that year, as he’s incredibly messed up about the whole situation. He also doesn’t really have anyone to talk to about it… it’s just him and Tara (regular cat) in the apartment.

he throws himself into books to distract himself. They’re mostly romance, and he isn’t particularly in the mood to find anything himself, so he turns to online book recommendations. He finds a blogger/youtuber/tiktoker who has great suggestions- and after reading a few, he contacts her directly. Shadowheart responds very personably, and they quickly get to talking more and possibly become friend-adjacent.

Gale then branches off of Shadowheart’s content into her influencer friend group at her suggestion- or at least the people she collaborates with a decent amount. Lae’zel (fitness), Astarion (beauty), etc. He doesn’t really have anyone interest in those topics, but he’s really just looking for anything to distract himself at this point. That’s how he finds Karlach, who’s got a gaming centered thing.

one of the most recent videos on her channel is a playthrough of the later installment of an old game- one he definitely heard the title of when he was younger. Intrigued, he looks it up. It’s a turn-based story driven rpg, and he after reading the summary and a few reviews, he decides he’ll give it a shot.

he makes himself in the game, and is quickly engrossed in it. The story is excellent, the characters are all fully fleshed out, and there are hours of content. It’s a perfect distraction.

eventually he finds a character that intrigues him- Thyrus. A ranger with a mysterious backstory and a love for nature. He’s the third recruitable companion in this game, out of about seven, but technically optional. You have to fulfill a few side quests in order to recruit him- and Gale just so happens to have been religiously doing his side quests.

Not many people online are talking about him- not even Karlach recruited him. Gale then takes it upon himself to learn as much about Thyrus while playing, hyper-focusing on his story quests and such. In his pursuit of knowledge, Gale doesn’t realize he picked all the romantic dialogues in Thyrus’ cutscenes. His character and Thyrus become very close- the scenes just are that borderline of platonic and romantic.

It’s close to the end of the game now, and gales spent at least a week playing it. Thyrus approaches his character, and says he has something important to confess. Thyrus maaay be a little in love with him? Just a bit? Real Gale’s jaw is agape. Quickly all the past cutscenes come back to him and oh wow. They’re in love. How did he not realize?

he finishes the cutscene, accepting the romance, and quickly saves the game and exits it. He then spends a few hours going through all of Thyrus’ content online. The wiki leads to him finding fanart, which then leads to x reader, and then selfship, and…. Oh he’s gone. He’s emotionally attached to this video game guy now, isn’t he.

Choso

✧ Was introduced to my media by Yuuji.

✧ Is immediately and startlingly enamored with me

✧ Makes his way to social media for the first time for fandom stuff

✧ Learns about selfshipping there

✧ Stays up at 3am arguing with my haters on reddit (gets banned from the subreddit).

✧ "My Wife" <- talking to a normal person about his fictional character he's obsessed with, completely straight faced

✧ Romy Shrine ™

Takashi

✧ More subtle with his affections

✧ Starts casually watching my media with his friends

✧ Sucks at using a computer, so he isn't too involved in larger fandom

✧ Has a sketchbook under his mattress marked 'DESIGN IDEAS' where he stores his gushing and his doodles

✧ Uses social media occasionally to look at gifs/news about my media

✧ Posts his own content in doodle dumps; is known for extremely detailed traditional drawings about me in various outfits

✧ Tries to hide his obsession from his friends

✧ Plays it casual when he receives my figure for his bday but I sit on his side table anyways

✧ His friends are shocked that I am his type so they bully him for his little fictional crush (lovingly)

Kakashi

✧ Usually doesn't get super attached to characters, but I'm different

✧ Keeps thinking of me for weeks, goes in search of more content

✧ Discovers fandom and stays up until dawn reading fanfiction

✧ Ao3 user Romys-Loving-Husband

✧ Is known for dropping the most stunning tens of thousands of words alternate universe reader-insert fics with romance and drama and smut and everything

✧ Writes these fics during office hours

Ryusei

✧ That one freak

✧ Will reblog fanart of me with pages of graphic tags

✧ "No lube, no protection, etc."

✧ Grainy screenshot of my hips with caption: "Look at those hips...God i want to breed them so bad unghh 🥵😈👅🍆💦🍑"

✧ Posts vent posts late at night about wishing I was real so I could hold him when he's sad and kiss him and care for him (deletes these by the morning)

✧ Does goofy little selfship doodles

✧ Has a body pillow and will NOT hide it when guests come over

Shion

✧ "Ahaha I'm not a fanboy" <- guy who rewatches my scenes while grinning and kicking his feet late at night

✧ Once punched a gangmember who said I was a lame character

✧ *sees gumwrapper on the ground* reminds me of them...yearning sigh

✧ More of a fandom consumer than a contributer

✧ Made us in the sims (yes he added on The Extension)

✧ Romy Shrine 2 Electric Boogaloo

✧ Got upset he couldn't make his hair in couple's picrews