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Dramatic or cracky, there are options for everyone who has a sudden itching to play out some ships.

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● 01 I HAVE A CONFESSION | There's someone you really like and it's finally time to tell them! It can be spur of the moment or elaborately planned out.
● 02 START OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL | You've just got together and everything is great! You can't stop thinking about each other or keep your hands off your significant other. You want to spend all the time you can together, doing whatever!
● 03 CAN'T GET IT UP | It happens to everyone, honest! For whatever reason, you just haven't been able to perform or maybe you're just not interested in sex. Is it because things are dull? Is it because you're not attracted to your partner? Or have you just been too busy or stressed out?
● 04 SAW YOU LAST NIGHT | You think you saw your partner in the arms of another - was it an honest mistake or is something honestly going on here?
● 05 FIRST TIME | It's the first kiss or the first time making love with your partner and you're so nervous and awkward, you're sure you'll mess it up! Maybe you do, but that's okay... they like you, right?
● 06 ANNIVERSARY | Two week, two month, two year, or whatever number you decide, that's how long you've been together with your partner and you want to do something special to celebrate it!
● 07 WANT YOU BACK | You broke up, but it was a mistake. You need to correct it ASAP... will your lover take you back though?
● 08 JUST MARRIED | Just married! Is it the wedding night? The honeymoon? You decide!
● 09 BAD ROMANCE | You're no good for each other and you know it! Unfortunately, your relationship is so sizzling, you can't break it off and you don't even want to.
● 10 FIGHT | You're both in one of those moods where you just want to sit around fighting over every little thing... bills or money, friends, your partner staying out too late, or whatever you can think of!
● 11 LET'S MAKE UP | Of course making up is the best part though! Whatever it was is totally forgotten now.
● 12 HONEY, I'M... | You've been feeling a little funny for a bit, so you take a pregnancy test and... oh no! Or is it 'oh great!'? Time to tell your partner either way...
● 13 ABOUT LAST NIGHT | Time to face that one night stand...
● 14 CHEATER | You're not being cheated on! You're the other person meddling with someone's lover! But for whatever reason, you just can't say no even if you know you should...
● 15 OBJECTIONS | You're facing a lot of objections to your relationship and it's starting to put a strain on it. Why don't you sit down and discuss it, see if you can work it out?
● 16 HAVE TO LET YOU GO | You have to break up with your partner... not because you want to! But because you need to protect them... can you do it successfully? Will they find out? You decide!

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[He can't actually sign anything so he just comes forward so that Lyn can get a good look. It's a little wiggler, all tiny and a little dirty and with cute little horns and big, trusting eyes.

His expression wavers between unsure and nervous and maybe a little pleading.]

[Lyn's jaw understandably drops. Holy shit, the wriggler barely even looks old enough to have made it through its trials yet - and he knows damn well what it means that Komesh has it, that there isn't an angry protective lusus that's ripped the seadweller apart by now. It means no lusus is watching over this wriggler.

The good news is that while Lyn may be a jackass about a lot of things, orphaned wrigglers hit very, very close to home. He simply stares down at it for a second, then up at Komesh, looking vaguely thunderstruck.] ...holy shit, where did you find him? [He's just guessing/assuming it's a him, for the moment.

Then he realizes Komesh can't actually elaborate on a damn thing while holding the wriggler and, after an uncertain, awkward second, holds out his arms to take him from the other troll.]

[Komesh's fingers twitch at the question, but he can't really speak, so he moves forward and with exaggerated care slowly hands the wiggler over. He's so terrified he'll hurt it. It's so small...

Once he's done with that he takes out his pad and scribbles an answer.]

he? w∧s h∧lf hidden.
i he∧rd s0/\/\ething ∧nd t00k ∧ l00k.
i se∧rched first but i c0uldn't find
there were signs 0f ∧ fight, i think, ∧ w∧ys ∧wℙy but i d0n't kn0w.
there w∧sn't ∧ b0dy.

[Well, it's easy to imagine a smaller lusus getting dragged off and eaten by a bigger beast.]

[Lyn holds it awkwardly, gingerly; he's every bit as nervous that he'll hurt him somehow as Komesh is. Handling wrigglers isn't just something Lyn's not equipped for; it's really something no troll is equipped for. Wrigglers are left pretty much on their own until they're chosen by their lusus, and orphaned wrigglers...well, even more so. Trolls don't care for younger trolls.

He alternates between staring down at the wriggler and flicking his gaze up long enough to read Komesh's note. And...wow, this is really hitting Lyn's platonic pity triggers hard. The circumstances under which he lost his own lusus as a wriggler are really similar to this.

A fang digs into Lyn's lower lip as he thinks. Obviously Komesh has no intentions of leaving the wriggler to its own devices, or he wouldn't have brought him here to show Lyn; Lyn isn't considering that, either, so basically that's already decided. He gives Komesh an uncertain, almost helpless look.] ...I have no goddamn idea how to take care of a wriggler, y'know.

i d0n't re∧lly kn0w either.
/\/\y lusus
i d0n't re/\/\e/\/\ber /\/\uch fr0/\/\ b∧ck then.
i c0uldn't just le∧ve hi/\/\.

[It took him a very, very long time to completely heal from his accident and his memories are hazy at best. He hovers close, brushing a finger over the wriggler's hair with utmost care once he's done writing. He looks completely out of his depth and worried, but determined at the same time.]

[Lyn looks down at the wriggler again and laughs a little, kind of weakly.] Y'know we're probably the worst fucking candidates ever to try and take care of an orphaned wriggler, right? I mean, I basically raised myself and I did a pretty shit job of it.

[Not that he's making any move to distance himself from the wriggler, who is currently nuzzling into the folds of Lyn's oversized shirt, possibly trying to curl up where it's warmest. He seems pretty content at the moment.]

[Komesh doesn't bother writing a response to that, just smiles and gives a little nod.

Then he leans in and pretty much wraps himself around Lyn and the wriggler. Because they're doing a good job so far. Look at the little guy and his nuzzling.]

[Wrapping oneself around Lyn certainly isn't hard, given his size. And although Lyn would never openly admit it, it's pretty reassuring to have Komesh there to lean on(both literally and otherwise). Okay, yeah, neither of them have any idea what the hell they're doing, but he'd rather be clueless alongside Komesh than be clueless by himself.

He leans back against the taller troll, looking down at the wriggler - but despite the apparent peacefulness of the scene, his mind's too neurotic and too active to simply be satisfied with the calmness of the moment. He's silent for a few long beats, but then he speaks up again.]

I don't even remember what the hell wrigglers this young eat. [Because they're going to have to feed him eventually, aren't they?]

[He has to loosen his grip a little to write, but the moment he's done he's back to holding on.]

s0ft things, i think?
/\/\y lusus used t0 feed /\/\e regurgit∧ted fish.

th0ugh he did th∧t until he died.

[Lyn grimaces.] My lusus used to bring me hopbeasts and squeakbeasts and stuff, but I was a lot older than this wriggler is back then. I don't even remember far back enough to know what I ate when I was this little... [He looks down at the wriggler, who's settled himself under a fold of Lyn's shirt like a makeshift blanket and looks fairly at peace with the world, blinking slowly up at them.] But, uh, yeah, I don't think we're doing fish vomit. I think that might've been a lusus-specific thing.

...we should probably get him in the ablution trap or something, though; he looks like he's been rolling around in the dirt. Can't even tell what caste he is. [Not that Lyn particularly cares - caste has never been a big thing for him, and even less so ever since his relationship with Komesh became a thing - but he's admittedly curious.]

[He considers that, and disengages reluctantly to write.]

pr0b∧bly.
we c∧n find 0ther s0ft things.
0r /\/\∧ybe s0/\/\ething 0nline?
∧nd w∧r/\/\ f0r y0u, d0 y0u think?

[Komesh is already heading off to the ablution block, though slowly enough that his message can be read as he goes. He's a little curious himself, though it wouldn't make a difference. Maybe for little things like the best water temperature for a comfortable washing, but not otherwise.]

[Lyn gets up and follows Komesh, still holding the wriggler. He's amazed by how light it is...jegus, it really is incredibly little. How old? A couple perigees, if that?]

I guess... [Lyn sounds dubious. He's used to mostly acquiring things by stealing; certainly not by ordering things online. That would require giving an address, which he doesn't exactly have. Worse, Lyn isn't sure what resources even exist for trolls taking care of a wriggler - that isn't how it usually works, so how much advice or supplies are they likely to find?] Also, what do you mean, warm?

the w∧ter.
w∧r/\/\ f0r y0u is h0t f0r /\/\e.
th0ugh it /\/\ight be better bec∧use c0ld see/\/\s t0 b0ther y0u /\/\0re th∧n /\/\e.

[He starts drawing the water once he puts his pad down, smiling back at Lyn and the wiggler. So cute.]

Oh. [Lyn feels like a bit of an idiot for not realizing Komesh was asking about the water temperature.] Yeah, s'fine if you're okay with it. [The thing about him not dealing well with cold is sadly true. Lyn's too small and too thin to hold his body heat well; anything below temperate and he gets miserable quickly.] And I guess we wouldn't really want to go hot or cold anyway until we know what caste the wriggler is. [Not that Lyn is any sort of expert on wrigglers, but surely something this tiny and fragile has to be pretty susceptible to extreme temperatures, right?

He flushes a bit under that smile of Komesh's. He knows damn well he's probably being given some level of adorable rating in the other troll's thinkpan(although there's always the chance that Komesh is only directing the gaze at the wriggler). Generally, he hates being thought of as cute in any way...but if it's an affectionate observation from someone he likes, he'll usually let it slide. It's rare enough for people to genuinely like anything about him (and for him to like them back) that he's not going to risk calling whatever it is they do like about him into question.]

[He draws the water, keeping it shallow enough that the wiggler can move on his own without much chance of drowning. They'll be watching after all.

Then he waves Lyn over with another smile, his hands too wet to bother with writing.]

[Lyn walks over to the ablution trap, and...finds himself almost reluctant to set the wriggler down. Part of it is, he suspects, extended paranoia; the idea that anything this small and helpless can survive without hyper-vigilant care and protection seems ludicrous, and the particularly neurotic parts of his pan are half-convinced something will happen to the wriggler as soon as it leaves his arms. The rest of it is...probably affection, although it seems insane that he could've formed an attachment to this little thing so fast.

But it's so goddamn small.

Hesitantly, he lowers it into the water, looking somewhat uncertainly at Komesh for confirmation that he's doing the right thing. He's well outside the realm of appearing tough/cool right now, and normally that would bother him, but those concerns are currently being overridden by more pressing ones. Maintaining his reputation, while something he's always put a lot of emphasis on, does tend to take a backseat when the actual welfare of someone else is involved. It's why he always gets flustered and stops being a jerk (briefly) whenever he genuinely upsets trolls like Nikkal.]

[Komesh gives him his best attempt at a reassuring smile, leaning in close and gently helping support the wiggler as it gets lowered into the water.

He squeezes one of Lyn's hands and then very, very carefully starts scooping water to trickle over the wigglers back.

His smile goes knowing when the wiggler squeaks and tries to rear up at the water. A little fighter.]

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