#roralex

I think about escaping this cage. I think about being happy.

hi im so sorry im answering this a billion years late ive been so so busy with everything. but its amazing how did you knowwwww Ive been recently re-reading my roralex fics and have been sorta brainrotting about them. Especially chimerical that one is easily my favourite of all my yiikfics.

I absolutely adore writing and thinking about roralex in a very special way that I haven’t quite reached with their other respective popular ships (that I also really love! alchael x michrory 4eva) for a variety of reasons. The veryyyy thin line of weak friendship/genuine dislike that they teeter with each other that never fully dives into pure hatred nor placid respect is one that I find really grounding in terms of toxicity, and its in That space of realism that I feel really encapsulates early-game YIIK. Alex doesn’t think of Rory as his friend despite Rory (as were shown at least) bending over backwards to please Alex, but he *can* think of him as a potential Lover, enough to kiss him at a bad moment. Rory considers Alex a friend no matter what. Someway, somehow, Rory dies and Alex both assumes and rejects responsibility of it, imagining he can save Rory through his twisted versions of comfort you can give him. What are they? We don’t really know.

And that’s the space I love to play around with! Casual cruelties and desperate pleas for attention from the both of them. The idea that, if friendship can’t hold them together (or at least Alex thinks so), then perhaps a romantic relationship would, stirs at me So Hard. It’s a haphazard fix that ends up hurting more in the end, but it’s better than death and it’s better than being ignored.

Even in I.V, which admittedly changed the shipping dynamics of YIIK the game and in the fandom A Lot, it’s still really fascinating. How in I.V they’re juxtaposed with the Brother dichotomy, but there’s nothing actually new between them as characters. They are forever distant, completely ideologically opposed in Nameless Segments. Brothers only in name, and definitely not family. Their stories expanded around them, but not between them. A dedicated hater could totally take that as roralex slander but personally I really love the persistent wedge between them. It personally just serves to further highlight the weird relationship that we actually see them having and interacting with each other within, and thus more space for me to play with my Toxic Touys.

and. and uhhhhh

Why so shy, Alex? This was your idea!

(thank you to @softlymiya for their fantastic art! <3)

ID: An edited screenshot of a tweet. Alex, @SNESMAN99, tweets: “sent a bottom dick pics and he sent back pics of his bigger dick.” A faint picture of Rory is laid over the text. Alex replies to his own tweet with a crying emoji “😭” and a screenshot of his notifications for the first post, which says: “Asuka Furutani and 23 others liked your post.” End ID.