Eris is what sort of cuddler
[cracks knuckles] depends on what eris we’re dealing with methinks. eris the performer—eris the cool suave unruffled shiteating autumn heir, he knows how to drape a female across him like an accessory. languid and loose in his lap. knows where to touch and how much pressure to apply. grazing fingers up the thigh and down the waist, condescending doting nuzzles against the throat, crooning in the ear. he has all of the control and none of it is real so it’s as easy as breathing. not quite cuddling but an approximation of it to signal surety and status to others.
eris after casual sex … nawt happening!
eris as feelings are developing—it’s happening against someone’s will i’ll tell u what. i don’t think he really initiates non-sexual physical intimacy in this way, so the onus would be on the object of his attentions to demand it of him. i’m picturing stiff. i’m picturing resistant. i’m picturing what the fuck is going on no one has ever touched me so tenderly before what is The Point. eventually if they can keep him there he relaxes. more likely i think he makes some excuse to leave. alt: partner is asleep/drunk/otherwise mentally altered and he indulges in a bit of physicality. picks them up to take them to bed and keeps them pressed against him longer than is necessary. maybe lingers beside them a while. if he’s also drunk/on drugs, the likelihood increases exponentially. everything is easier when he doesn’t have to contend with how he’s being perceived.
eris with established feelings !! eris who is no longer performing !! eris who is assured of his partner’s loyalty—dare i say even their love !! he’s more willing to physically indulge. probably still not the one to initiate but that stiffness eases, that resistance concedes. he’s not going to snuggle into someone’s side or lay his head into their lap, but if his partner presses into his side, tucks themselves in his lap—he’ll gladly accept. probably card his fingers through their hair in his idleness. i definitely also see him as the kind of guy who any non-sexual intimacy always turns to sex. (his wires are crossed! he never got this sort of affection before in any real way! tenderness->closeness, and for him closeness->sex!) so i could see him cradling their jaw and guiding them to suck his dick, especially if they’re a male—if they’re a female, the probability increases of him initiating with munching some box. but yeah i don’t see cuddling lasting very long unless it’s AFTER sex—and that i think is a full body dead asleep twining and entanglement until the sun rises
