#treycater

Omg! Thank you so much, anon! That’s oh so very, very sweet of you.

As far as recommendations, anything by @sunnyinside-ao3 and @silkwatervenus is an absolute DELIGHT. Their fics have me giggling and kicking my feet. As far as other works, I’ll include a list!

Now, I know you probably were looking for TreyKei, but there’s this absolutely cute Trey/Rook fic that I’ll link as well! I hope you enjoy!

OMGAAAAA HIII!!!!

I'm doing great! Thanks for asking! I've never received an ask before! I'm so happy you asked me something! THAAAANKKKKSSSS SO MUCH!

Right, right, back to the question!

Yes! I do have favorite ships! Actually, just today —by coincidence— I was playing one of those random ship-ranking games, and my top 10 made it to the top! Here they are:

And look who's in first place!

Yes!

Our beloved lucky four-leaf clover: TREYKEI, MY BELOVEDS 😭❤️♣️♦️

I like Trey and Cater because I enjoy dynamics involving people who unexpectedly grew attached to one another, characters who don't feel worthy of love, and couples who need to learn how to communicate and be honest with each other—even when it's hard!

I'm still finishing the main story and haven't read the extra character cards yet, but I'm certain Cater entered NRC with no expectations of lasting friendships. He figured he'd stay for a while, but—like everything else in his life—it would be temporary; he'd leave soon enough. I bet it came as a surprise to him how Trey entered his life, slowly breaking down the emotional walls Cater had built up. Even though Trey has zero communication skills (he's learning!), he still pays close attention to Cater, and that's beautiful to me.

Cater pays close attention to him, too—he knows him, helps him, supports him, and somehow wants him to be part of his life (I'm thinking of Book 5, where Cater laments that Trey didn't dance with him at the VDC, and the Al'ab Nariya event in Scalding Sands, where Cater invites Trey to travel).

I think Cater is also really good for Trey, helping him "come out of his shell" and socialize a bit more.

I find it fascinating how similar yet different Trey and Cater are, and yet they're so in sync! They are each other's salvation and ruin in different ways, and I love them for that.

They’re my favorite Twisted Wonderland couple, and they mean the world to me!

Trey mentions being able to do so in the Diasomnia book, but I don't think he ever specified or explained how he tells them apart at any other point...

Btw, I hope you're fine <3

Ahhh! Firstly, thank you for being so, so sweet. I’m doing well! I hope you are too <3

Secondly, excellent question! Moose, if you see this, this is heading into spoiler territory. Read at your own risk 😂 But this is something I had headcanoned FAR before Book 7 came to the NA server. When I found out about this playing the story though, I freaked out. But anyways, on to the question.

So, I just went back to Book Seven to see what Trey says exactly in regards to being able to tell Cater’s clones apart. Chapter 259 is where we learn this. The conversation is as follows:

“Cater? …Wait, you’re not the original.”

“Whoah! How’d you guess?”

“It’s not hard after knowing you for three years.”

“Oh, uh… Huh. Is that a fact? Have you been able to tell us apart immediately this whole time?”

“Depends on the occasion, really. You seem very different from normal today, so it was an easy guess to make.”

So, Trey says that his being able to tell them apart depends on whatever is going on. We know the clones are virtually identical to Cater, so it all boils down to personality, body language, the way he carries himself. I think Trey just is so well attuned to Cater and his personality(ies) that he’s able to tell if a clone comes in with a slightly different attitude than what he had last seen Cater with. We can also infer that Trey pays so much attention to Cater due to the Make A Wish event where Cater makes a wish, Trey says that Cater made the same wish last year (which Trey wasn’t a Star Sender that year, we can safely assume), and so Cater changes it, and when Trey leaves, he mentions that he had hoped Cater would have shared his true wish since they had known each other for so long, and he takes it as a sign Cater doesn’t trust him.

But, I digress. I honestly think Trey is just extremely observant to all things Cater. He uses his spell to change flavors when Cater asks for him to do so as a party trick without complaining because he knows Cater hates sweets. He could honestly write a book on all things Cater, I think. I know that many people point out the… rather obvious difference between the Cater in Trey’s dream and the real Cater, and that is why Trey assumed that the real Cater was a clone. But he indicates that he’s done it before. They were roommates, and Trey has a knack for observing people closest to him.

I absolutely love your Treykei fanfics, I'm so excited for the next ones!I'd like to ask if you've ever heard of the Cater Cinderella theory?What do you think of ? Have you ever thought about writing something about?

this isn’t to say that Trey didn’t love cater. Because he most definitely does…