⭐ Everything yet nothing ⭐

ahiru my girl 🥺 (reference below)

🎶 Don't be afraid we'll make it out of this mess, it's a love story baby just say yes 🎶 - Xavier, apparently. I usually like Shakespeare more than Taylor Swift but can we go with her version in this case? Thanks!

I'll be honest - I do think Romeo fits Xavier better than Hamlet. Yeah, Xavier is very deliberate with his words and actions, but he enterely lacks Hamlet's almost pathological need to analyze and think and ponder to the point he's almost incapable of action - and, to be fair, that gets addressed in his Throne of Eros card.

For all his chill and easy going nature Xavier tends to be quite reckless and can be impulsive at times - the main differences I see with Romeo is that

a) I can't see him getting over a girl as fast as Romeo does at the beginning of the play (I can see him having more than one girl in his life, if he wasn't a LI in an otome game... But I think he'd need to get over a past infatuation before he pursues a new girl - before he even notices a new girl. But I digress)

b) I think he wouldn't care at all for a secret marriage. He might go along with it if mc really really wanted to but... I think he'd be more like. Whelp, we're married. That's a you problem. And I love that there's traces of that in this memory - it's mc who worries about her family seeing them, and it's her who pulls him in to hide him. (This might have been Xavier's plan all along i think, but also I genuinely believe he wouldn't have minded getting caught).

Anyways, tragedy isn't an inescapable part of XavMc's narrative - they ususally have themes such as star crossed lovers, always having each other's back, duty vs personal desires, freedom and self-realization vs fulfilling their roles... and their storylines usually lean into the action -adventure - whacky shenanigans storybeats. How do we reconcile that with the tragedy ™️? I do hope they actually manage to pull off the "fake death" trope (unlike their shakespearean counterparts).

his mii inspired me to draw him