#thyme acc

Thyme:

I guess for me the question is what motivated me to create it?

I am secure in my ace identity now, but I wasn't always. It was a long, hard journey, a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, and I essentially had to do it alone. So I just wanted other aces who are on that journey to have a support structure and a safe space to talk about it! :)

Aurelius:

Wow, yeah, I can't top that answer so I'm not even gonna try.

I realized I was ace very recently, and only thanks to Thyme. So when I heard they wanted to create the group, I was immediately on board. Like, hell yeah! New venture! New connections, new information, new stage of my life, and one of the coolest people I know as our fearless leader!

Aurelius, I don't know if I'd call myself a fearless leader, or "one of the coolest people"...

Châu:

it's true though. i'm here because of thyme.

If trees could blush, this one would be doing it.

Stella, bouncing and raising her hand:

Oh!! Me!✨✨

Yes, Stella?

☺!

...

.....wait what was the question??

Aurelius snorts.

What motivated you to join this group?

Oh!! Well... I don't know anyone here! I wanted to make friends! So I looked through the list of extracari- extraco-

Extracurriculars?

Yes! Looked at the extracurriculars and thought, omg, no way!!🤩 open to all acespecs! that's me!!

That it is! So glad you joined us.

Thyme pats Stella's head.

What about you, little dude?

Fedya:

!! (⊙ _ ⊙;)

I- Um- The, uh-

You're new here as well, right? And you're far from home. It must be very scary and stressful.

Fedya nods frantically.

And you're questioning your identity! That's a lot of stuff. Did you join because you wanted some stability?

Fedya nods less frantically.

I hope we can help with that.

Oh definitely. It's gonna be awesome.

Yaay! Friendship!!

Stella scoops everyone into a hug.

Not MG though.

Fedya jumps a little at being referred to and hides behind Thyme's leg. Thyme makes a surprised noise.

Oh! You don't... want to tell her about it?

You can only really see Fedya's ears, and they are twitching in what you assume is distress.

Ok, well. He just started, so I imagine there isn't a "usually" yet?

But he must have done really well on the exam to get in!

Fedya mutters something.

Oh? What did you say?

Fedya pokes his face out from behind Thyme, just a bit.

97%. I got 97, but, it wasn't actually my fault, one of the questions wasn't formulated correctly.

Wow! That's really impressive. I've heard it's a very tough subject. Have the classes been hard so far?

Uhh-

He seems to give it some serious thought.

They're... different from how I studied before. The theory isn't much harder yet, but the environment is super different, so it's-

Stressful?

Fedya nods.

I'm not good with new places and new people and-

@fitzchivalry618

Thyme waves their hand at you, and it really looks like branches swaying in the wind.

Hello!

I photosynthesize. I don't have a digestive system, so I can't eat human food, and I also can't taste most of it. It's made cooking harder – kind of like painting when you can't see color, I suppose – but I've still managed to get pretty good at it! It helps to have a non-dryad friend around to taste-test.