#teetho

“Nice hips” they whispered softly in his ear

Tango’s brain short-circuited

Tango didn't realise how easy he is to fluster until he started spending time with Etho. The worst part is that it's not even good flirting! It's terrible! But Tango still ends up blushing as hot as his hair.

One day! One day he's going to come up with a smart response!

It’s kind of obvious to the rest of the hermits at this point.

All the late nights spent together, chatting and looking at the stars, the way Tango reacts when anyone hurts Etho, when one is down the other just goes and holds the hurt one gently… Tango just wishes he could say the words, but he doesn’t know how.

He just wants to say “I love you”, but everytime he tries, the words get stuck in his throat.

He just wonders if Etho feels the same thing.

It hurts that none of their mutual friends seem able to tell, either. Tango doesn't think they'd lie to him - at this point his pining is getting pathetic. Etho has already held his thoughts and emotions close to his chest. Tango's worked with him on projects often enough! He's great at providing feedback, analytical in the way he takes things apart to make them better.

Tango just wishes he was more obvious, maybe. He doesn't want to shoot his shot and ruin their entire friendship group. So, he does the logical thing. He takes Etho's lack of reaction as a no. There'd be signs by now. Tango knows it.

He cuts back on the time he spends bothering Etho, and that should be the end of it. If Etho didn't search his out after, confused why Tango suddenly ditched him. He thought their dates were going well, and Etho's sorry if he's been moving too slowly, he was taking Tango's lead and he's never been somebody who's quick to show affection-

Tango gets him to start from the start. You know, the point Etho apparently already thought they were dating. Etho blinks, because what else were they doing? Tango was so nervous to ask him the first time, so he just thought...

Luckily his boyfriend Etho made him a pair of round red glasses from molten redstone dust, and Tango could not be more grateful

(Plus the glasses also glow when near redstone torches, which makes them useful while building contraptions but also to prank others when they are working on their own projects!)

Etho made his own cybernetic eye, so Tango could trust him with a pair of glasses (as if Tango wouldn't trust him with his life.)

Tango's favourite trick, though, is to wear them in the middle of the night and scare whoever happens to see him. It's great! And it even has Etho wondering what he unleashed on the world.

brown recluse!etho who likes to bite as a sign of affection

unfortunately, brown recluse spiders are poisonous n etho often forget that his lovers dont have poison immunities so he often ends up giving them a bad case of poisoning

fortunately, his lovers dont hate him for it n they dont wanna discourage his way of showing affection, so they often make sure to carry poison antidotes n medicine on them so they dont have to worry about respawning

intended polyhermits, but u can go w any other poly etho ship tbh

It's annoying. But they know it's annoying to Etho as well. Frustrating, upsetting, distressing... Xisuma's tried to add something to data tags, but it feels immoral to change either Etho or the rest of the hermits like that.

Tango has a pet warden which is something Etho is very scared of, but he knows that Tango loves his pet, treating them almost like it is his kid. So Etho sucks it up. Though he does keep a good distance away from them.

Tango and Etho were put together for an engineering project. They didn’t know each other or know the other’s boundaries, so they just awkwardly built side by side. That was until Etho on instinct made a “your mom” joke was when Tango knew they would get along.

Now it seems they are getting along a tad tooooooo welll…..

~Twilight Anon

(Steampunk, Tango/Etho)