#voliver

1. Who is the most affectionate?

m+l: my first instinct is to say mira but she’s just more…loud? about it? like lukas is affectionate in his own way but it’s a lot more muted than mira’s.

v+o: again i feel like they’d both be affectionate towards each other but in different ways. idk what oliver’s love language is, but i look forward to the day where valko is able to engage in casual touching without feeling like he’s imposing himself on someone. 

6. What is their favorite feature of their partner’s?

m+l: can’t really speak for mira since she isn’t my oc, but lukas’ favorite thing about mira is her conviction....also he thinks that the fact she’s so short is absolutely adorable

v+o: and i can’t speak for oliver (since i’m not playing him and also because it is still very early in their canon relationship so idk), but valko’s fave things about oliver would be his kindness, compassion, and patience….my god that man has the patience of the saint someone get him something nice and tell him he’s appreciated and thank him for his hard work…..

12. Who initiates kisses?

m+l: god once they’re together i think they both freely initiate kisses equally.

v+o: i feel like it depends on where they are. i feel in public valko would be the one more likely to initiate kisses (or any kind of affection really), but in private oliver is more than willing to express his affections

17. Who says I love you first?

m+l: i think it’s lukas….i’m pretty sure it’s lukas. these two have a weird history….but i’m pretty sure that in the end it’s always lukas.

v+o: hasn’t happened yet but i feel like it’s going to have to be valko. he needs to let go of grisha first. and then he needs to learn how to let himself love someone else again and even more importantly, learn how to let himself be loved. he needs to move on from his previous “relationship” before pursuing another one and tbh, i don’t think oliver would make a move until valko signified that he was ready. 

21. Who is more likely to start dancing with the other?

m+l: MIRA. MIRA MOST DEFINITELY. PLEASE REFER TO MY ANSWER FOR THE NEXT QUESTION

v+o: i’m really not sure i could see the invitation going either way in situations similar to the winter palace in da:i, wherein one of them takes a step outside for a breather, the other follows n then they end up dancing there. like i could imagine either one of them inviting the other to dance in a situation like that. alternately it’s one of those things that just kind of…happens….like they’re just hugging or whatever n then they start swaying n end up kind of slow dancing that way.

26. What would be their theme song?

m+l: it’s either shut up an dance with me by walk the moon or iris by the goo goo dolls….

valko used to be a dancer. he was pretty good too. unfortunately there was an accident that completely wrecked his knees. he recovered...but there’s no way he’s ever going to dance professionally ever again. which...honestly, he can live with. that’s fine. it’s the fact that his partner was severely injured during the same accident. and valko, blaming himself for everything, can’t bear to see his comatose partner, so he never visits. which only makes him feel worse about it tbh.

a few years pass and valko has “moved on.” which is to say he’s got himself a new job at the local humane society, but he still feels guilty over what happened and he hasn’t danced since the accident. 

faylen encourages him to get back into dancing. “Even if it’s just in private. nobody has to see you,” she says. Begrudgingly he gives it a try. he goes to the local rec/community center and finds an empty studio. he does this for a few weeks, easing himself back into it. and he’s out of practice and there are certain moves that he can’t execute properly because of his knees, but it feels...good....to be dancing again. 

enter oliver, who runs the community/rec center. it’s getting close to closing one evening and he’s going around making sure that all the rooms that aren’t occupied have everything turned off. and he comes across the studio room valko is dancing in. normally he would have walked right past it, but he just sees valko moving with a grace and fluidity that he’s never seen before and he just sort of stops an stands in awe.

valko, when he notices this, is immediately embarrassed. because he knows all the mistakes he made in that set, felt ever single flaw in his performance. he’s self conscious because when people are watching, anything less than perfect is unacceptable. 

but oliver doesn’t see it that way. they talk for a little bit n valko reveals that he used to dance professionally but....doesn’t....anymore due to a knee injury. the truth but...not all of it. oliver asks if he’d be interested in maybe teaching a rec&ed introductory dance class. valko says he’d think about it.

faylen and eryk convince him to go for it. eryk had taught some introductory cooking classes at the rec center and he says it was a really good experience. so valko agrees and he talks to oliver about getting that set up, and an introductory dance class taught by valko fejes is put in the next season’s rec&ed catalog. 

and, tbh, the class is a pretty big success. it’s small and eryk manages to drag ovak into signing up, and faylen drags althaea along too. but laucien is there, and so is fury and a couple other people from around town sign up. and for every wednesday and friday for six weeks valko teaches people in town how to dance. 

throughout the course of these six weeks he and valko become friends n going so far as to go out for drinks on occasion. by the end of those six weeks oliver asks if valko would be interested in doing the whole dancing class thing again and if he’d be interested in doing a level 2 class for the next season. valko says yes, he would be interested. and so valko’s dancing classes are almost permanently on the rec&ed catalog year round. 

there’s one class period where valko’s teaching an intermediate class and oliver pops in to watch. turns out this class valko was focusing his students on partner dances. so naturally, valko invites oliver to join in. and considering there’s an even number of students in the class, of course oliver gets the wonderful privilege of partnering with valko. 

and to valko’s surprise, oliver isn’t too bad a dancer himself. and....they may have been showing the students simple steps, but there was a....connection....a chemistry between the two of them that valko hasn’t felt since before the accident. and it leaves him a little breathless, but he pushes past it to continue on with the class because he doesn’t have time for this right now. 

but he knows oliver felt it too. at least he hopes he did.