#si!marcus

Anyway that is thought. ~k

Marcus picks up the phone and gets totally flustered cause ‘oh! It’s you! I like you!’ *Heart eyes* *heart eyes* *heart eyes* then looking back to his work afterwards and realizing he’s completely lost his train of thought like

And he’s been practicing his ‘tell me about this piece’ speeches on you and every time he does you fall a little bit more in love with him cuz is this man real *and yours* just. hOw. Anyway. Apparently you’ve upset whatever higher power organises the exam schedules cause you don’t exactly have time to actually go to his showcase between your exams. He’s all 🥺😔 when you tell him and you’re like ‘listen I’m gonna do my best to be there for it okay I just, can’t promise anything’ (2/?)

He’s a ~~little~~ lot hurt but he understands. He knows how much pressure you’re under to do well and he knows your classes haven’t been the easiest. He tells you all this but you’re still sorry and both a little 😔 for the rest of the day... the day comes and he’s out the door pretty much at the crack of dawn to go set everything up. You roll out of bed with him and lounge around of the couch while he gathers everything, send him off with a goodbye and good luck (3/?)

At this point, he’s kinda accepted that’s all he’ll see of you. So you can imagine his surprise when he’s saying goodbye to the last of the visitors at his booth and he hears your voice. “Do you think you have the energy to entertain one more guest?” Not your best line, you know. But you don’t think he actually heard what you said judging by the grin on his face. He hugs you so tight you actually stop breathing for a second. He’s all excited and ‘you’re here! You came! Hi!’ (4/?)

Once he gets over the initial shock and swoon of it all, he’s back to being a dork about his art. Zach rocks up to you guys after a while and Marcus is like ‘oh my god, no. I’m not explaining it all again.’ Cause he just *knows* that zach was the one who whooped you out of your burn out and got you to grind through studying. And zach’s all ‘relax. They haven’t shut up about it the entire day. I could tell you all about your own pieces at this point’ (5/?, I think??)

And then you’re all laughing and Marcus pulls you a little closer to him and he’s so grateful for this little family he’s found 🥺 la fin. (Idk what happened here. This was a 2 part ask in my head 😂 anyways. Hope you enjoyed my stream of random thoughts) -kay

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He’s all 🥺😔

You’re breaking my heart here! I can’t stand the idea of him being sad, it just shatters me all over.

At this point, he’s kinda accepted that’s all he’ll see of you. So you can imagine his surprise when he’s saying goodbye to the last of the visitors at his booth and he hears your voice.

Ah! never mind its all okay, I love this! I have such a vivid image of the smile that would spread across his face. This cute lil’ bean, I love him!

He’s all excited and ‘you’re here! You came! Hi!’

OMG he’s got the same excitement as a lil’ puppy, I love it, and the hug!!! How dare you make me this soft!

And zach’s all ‘relax. They haven’t shut up about it the entire day. I could tell you all about your own pieces at this point’

Okay but wait, thought to go with thought. Lil’ SI!Marcus is a soft nervous bean unlike grown up canon Marcus who just says it like he sees it (it took him a while to get there) so when he finds something that says what he’s feeling better than he knows how to he’s very shy and subtly brings it up in a conversation but he can’t just outright recite it to you, no, no, no. So instead he subtly hints at it. “Have you ever read [insert poet name]” “I like [insert poem name]” and then he just hopes and prays that you go and look it up and know he means it for you 🥺🥲

Also in the deapths of Pinterest I just found the most SI!Marcus poem ever