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kradeelavusing this from karel as a selfship meme :P
note: some of these answers may make far less sense without the brighteyes/zihark lore/timeline essay i typed up here (especially since i imagine they're involved in both FE10 and FE:Heroes). you don't have to read given it's long, but fair warning ~
SFW questions
Do they have petnames/nicknames for each other? Is there a reason why not, or a reason they picked what they did?
zihark (even in canon) tends to tease more with witticisms and backhanded compliments verses pet names ~ i think pet names are a touch too kitschy/maudlin for him.
on the other side, bright eyes knew she was fatally fond for him when shit like 'my love' slipped out completely unironically much to her horror :D that said 'zi' as a shortened version of his name is the most frequent way she refers to him ~
Who cooks? What's their favorite thing to cook?
zihark cooks since she's horrid at it, and doesn't even try to resist when he metaphorically elbows her away from the counter. :3 the logistical timing honestly works too given she's usually occupied with hours-long mage-work for pay (tellius) and/or constantly held up at strategy meetings (askr).
when he's gone on his occasional long diplomatic/mercenary trips he'll leave behind little prepared lunches. ;u; the first time it happens it totally takes her off guard and melts her heart ~
i'd say both of them in general prefer lighter portable foods - fish, rice, vegtables, sushi-esque type of rolls. i get the sense food is one of his minor ways of showing affection since he's gone out to restaurants before and makes a point of paying.
Are they ok with PDA? What counts as public to them? Are there levels?
they're both quite reserved/have a peculiar sense of piscean detachment when it comes to outsiders, so not really.
that said - notably, when he can tell she's about to make a very bad tactics call on an emotional instinct and lets the mask slip in anger (quite rare; the amount it's happened can be counted on one hand), he'll lay a hand on her shoulder from behind. and then she'll snap right back to the ever-pleasant-charming mask. it's quite unnerving to those who witness it, almost like a glitch.
What level of pain/sickness are they comfortable showing each other? Is there anything they hide?
endearingly, way back in early Radiant Dawn she knew she was down bad for him and there was Something from his side too when he had the flu and he let her fuss over him and stick around longer than was strictly necessary for platonic "old friends" :3
bright eyes is pretty pragmatic/independent when it comes to sickness/(recovering from regeneration-spirit-charmer powers); having been invalid for so long means it's a natural instinct to try to quietly minimize the amount of help from everyone. he's remarkably courteous about being sensitive to it.
Are they the marrying types? Or something else?
yes, post-RD by a few years :) i kinda go back and forth if they marry again in heroes-verse (or do some kind of re-commitment ceremony); most likely yes if they stay there for more than ten years.
If they lived together, whose name(s) goes on the lease/mortgage?
bright eyes! mind you, zihark's good with paperwork (and she passes it off to him quite frequently lmao) but she came with more resources and more of a home-base mentality wheras he's always more the wanderer. give him a couch much less an actual bed and he's grateful for that alone and doesn't have a habit of asking for beyond that. (a bad habit of his, she thinks. more reason to spoil him.)
that said heroes-verse when they've been together for a while, i do see him purchasing a small little studio away from everything. generally as a safe house-slash-place for him to retreat in his moody spells, but it eventually becomes a getaway for them both.
Is there any early bird/night owl split? How do they deal with it, if so?
annoyingly he's the early bird of the two by far :p that said, watching him get up and dress makes bright eyes a lot more amendable to cracking the eyes open to begin with, something he mercilessly uses to his advantage ~
Do they have hobbies that take up a lot of space? Is this ever a problem, if so?
he keeps an incredibly small footprint (able to travel on a dime with just his sword, bright eyes never understands how he does that).
she on the other hand, always has more stuff she's attached to -- most notably a library of books, but she always has a residence in general to keep them, even if it's long term storage. mage-work takes up a workroom as well, but sanaki/anna pays her well enough that's not an issue. :)
that said, i think zihark would genuinely have fun in askr developing an antiquing/furniture restoration hobby at her encouragement ~ by then it's pretty clear they're not needed to be on the road as much so he's gradually little less frugal as he gets older and feels safer to put down roots.
Who slams the oven, and who plays the trombone? ( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/when-mama-isnt-home ) Is it a trombone, or a different instrument?
skkjkjjhajka. bright eyes = oven, him on the trombone, absolutely.
Who can keep plants alive? If nobody, who has the best rate of success?
bright eyes is like the personification of death/decay (both cheekily and also significantly thematically), so hell no :p zihark would be able to handle a plant with instruction given he's detail oriented, but he wouldn't be around with regularity to start it, and he'd question the commitment.
Are they in agreement over shoes off or shoes on inside?
i feel like this is more cultural than individual, for some reason ... honestly i see them having their 'marching/muddy boots' but then a general pair of shoes for domestic stuff. like..... his boots are gorgeous. shame not to see them indoors just sayin'. :)
Do they stick to fairly fixed roles in their relationship, or is it flexible?
oh this is funny since i've been thinking about this in more detail for the last few months. it's interesting - early on in RD when they were just genuinely getting to know each other, they were settling in comfortably in a bodyguard/employer dynamic, and a lot of their life roles extends from that.
he's always been a hired sword and even after that initial stint (where i headcanoned that tauroneo was the one who hired him for her), she's had the resources to keep him on indefinitely. not solely as mercenary protection - she's quite physically/medically frail given the whole spirit-charmer-pact and the downsides there; there's a few notable times when she's been bedridden. on his side - stability's always been an illusion since timeline-wise he would have grown up right in the worst of Daein's plague and likely moving from place to place for money, and ideals when it was possible. having that guarantee - and frankly, a certian kind of rare, open emotional non-judgementalness from bright eyes that he doesn't see elsewhere - makes him inclined to stick around.
and later as she learns a little more about him (headcanons, here), there's a .... strong desire? to ensure that he's never ever left financially vulnerable again or coerced by an employer.
(...somebody needs to tell bright eyes that getting romantically involved with your gorgeous bodyguard is the definition of coercion. :p) (the fact this plays into similar sketchy themes as the askr contract isn't lost on me)
that said it honestly works out for both of them. he's got some of his own sketchiness in that he likes playing with subtle control/coercion/'i have the upper hand even when it doesn't look like it as a kink' vibes right back(i swear i wrote an essay on this somewhere??) behind a pleasantly bland pretty smile, so it's very much a grey-area-mutual-winking-knowing-dependency..... Thing.....
(alphonse is a little grossed out when he figures it out, he's no dummy lol.)
Who would take up more of the closet? What do they have the most of?
oh zihark, unquestionably. :p man's a peacock. honestly both of them are quite sparse in the "quantity" of clothes but he would absolutely hold himself to a higher degree of quality and something for different occasions wheras she takes on the steve jobs mindset of 'one iconic outfit for everything because my god i do not have the fucking brain for this shit'
NSFW questions~
Are they particular about where to/not to have sex, like nothing on food prep surfaces, only in bed, nothing outdoors? If so, what are the rules? Are they in agreement about said rules? :3
"nothing in public" was one of the original.... agreements...... except funny thing is they both keep getting awfully close to skirting that rule. :p
i think zihark specifically has a low key thing for it. cough. anyway. alphonse does not want to know how many times the war table and/or the summoning stone has been utterly defiled right before a meeting. :3
or as Ky said on that last one: 'between a rock and a hard place' lol
Are sex toys something casual, or reserved for special occasions, or not used at all?
toys, nah.
objects on other hand like, uh. sheaths/boots/swords? :)))))c
given the next strip late on this year has a strong chance to be sword-cleaning-with-the-most-obvious-bootblacking-overtones?
i'll let you guess ~
How about roleplay? Casual, or something that would be meticulously planned out? Can they stay serious during it?
nah, not really a thing for either of them -
Do they change the sheets after sex, or just avoid the wet spot?
he's fussier about being clean and sensory details and not messing up the nice sheets so the Fuck Towel is a thing as a easy compromise.
he rolls his eyes every time she calls it that :D
How pressed do they get if the other doesn't orgasm during sex? Is it personal?
nah, not at all. for bright eyes it's wound up far more in the act of service/intimacy, and just by the ahhh, mechanics of it, he's usually satisfied either way.
on his side he's patient enough to figure out what makes bright eyes tick, and she's a much easier puzzle than some than he's dealt with. :)his nose alone. jesus. ahem.
Would they be bothered by a pet walking into the room?
lol. nah. a pet jumping on the bed would merit the critter getting nudged off ungracefully with a leg (and the door closed afterwards) but that's about it.
Are they comfortable being intimate if a housemate was at home? If so, do they try to be quieter?
bright eyes in particular is very much a private animal socially and they'd both probably refrain if there's anyone over at all, which there probably wouldn't be.
it cannot be stated how much she hated the tent life, lol, given she's a little spoiled/far more of an urban person. it was major reason of buying a house and splurging on actual rooms at inns whenever possible, as well as wanting to spoil him rotten as well after surviving so long as a sellsword.
Are their sex drives pretty well aligned, or different? How do they handle it?
pretty aligned ~
Is the relationship open to other partners? If so, what are the rules around it? How would a conversation around opening it go?
absolutely not romantically. also not in tellius in general.
but in askr, sexually...
i do see him as a very skilled infiltrator of types and bright eyes in askr sends him on those kinds of missions with the idea of 'only if you're comfortable/the initiating party, if you see some information you can get thatways, the door's open to play around.'
it's more of a 'don't ask, don't tell' thing. sometimes the telling happens to make sure it doesn't become blackmail for somebody else (given it's usually an enemy party) but it's kept brief.
on the other side, bright eyes isn't interested in anyone else. valter in askr came the closest (before zihark was summoned when she was feeling emotionally low), but frankly the guilt at the thought of doing anything was enough that nothing happened.
(i know there's probably a few of you on here surprised i don't mention gunter. :p nah, for me his thing's with corrin and a certian somebody else in different worlds~. i have eyes, sure, lol, but i think our personalities would clash horribly, and i truly see him as a fellow leatherdaddy-coworker-to-have-a-beer-with after writing as much with him.)
If applicable, is contraception something they think about?
to be honest, with FE worlds i just take the easy 'there's a magical charm that'll take care of that~' route. (I do think due to the spirit charmer demon pact bright eyes is simply infertile as well.)
Are marks/bites something they'll let be done to them? Do they cover them or have rules about where they can be done?
he's the all over this, both giving and receiving. :) always have headcanoned him as bit of a flagrant masochist especially when it comes to shallow cuts versus impact play (impact play being a squick).
generally they'll both stick to places that are covered; it helps that they don't really show a lot of skin in the usual outfits.
How long did they wait after getting together to have sex?
a few weeks - they both talk about making a point of wanting to take the romance slow. really, it only happens when it does because he gets wounded and hurt/comfort vibes are just too irresistible :3
Any uncommon kinks/fetishes? Would they bring it up, and how so?
mm~~ there's a bunch for both partners i'll decline from mentioning.
The only hotel they can get accommodations at is a sexy themed one – how do they feel about it? What room theme are they picking?
y'all are going to die laughing but i kinda. headcanon this happening. already..... in canon when they're having that week-long stint free in Crimea between the marching.
a lot of the inns are already booked solid with half an army encamped around Meilor, and given the seedy nature of armies, the usual red-light districts are doing a good business and advertising prominently. Mind, Ike and Titania would keep a tight leash, but (imo) realistically, there's only so much discipline one can have with hired soldiers and the types of businesses that follow an army column. (Especially when there's other factions in that particular march. I imagine there's a few hawk tribe soldiers that get some good beorc puss. :p)
he wouldn't go for one of the tackier ones, but if it's classy enough with a humorous edge, he would. :)
karel as a selfship meme :P note: some of these answers may make far less sense without the brighteyes/zihark lore/timeline essay i typed up here (especially since i imagine they're involved in both FE10 and FE:Heroes). you don't have to read given it's long, but fair warning ~
SFW questions
Do they have petnames/nicknames for each other? Is there a reason why not, or a reason they picked what they did?
zihark (even in canon) tends to tease more with witticisms and backhanded compliments verses pet names ~ i think pet names are a touch too kitschy/maudlin for him.
on the other side, bright eyes knew she was fatally fond for him when shit like 'my love' slipped out completely unironically much to her horror :D that said 'zi' as a shortened version of his name is the most frequent way she refers to him ~
Who cooks? What's their favorite thing to cook?
zihark cooks since she's horrid at it, and doesn't even try to resist when he metaphorically elbows her away from the counter. :3 the logistical timing honestly works too given she's usually occupied with hours-long mage-work for pay (tellius) and/or constantly held up at strategy meetings (askr).
when he's gone on his occasional long diplomatic/mercenary trips he'll leave behind little prepared lunches. ;u; the first time it happens it totally takes her off guard and melts her heart ~
i'd say both of them in general prefer lighter portable foods - fish, rice, vegtables, sushi-esque type of rolls. i get the sense food is one of his minor ways of showing affection since he's gone out to restaurants before and makes a point of paying.
Are they ok with PDA? What counts as public to them? Are there levels?
they're both quite reserved/have a peculiar sense of piscean detachment when it comes to outsiders, so not really.
that said - notably, when he can tell she's about to make a very bad tactics call on an emotional instinct and lets the mask slip in anger (quite rare; the amount it's happened can be counted on one hand), he'll lay a hand on her shoulder from behind. and then she'll snap right back to the ever-pleasant-charming mask. it's quite unnerving to those who witness it, almost like a glitch.
What level of pain/sickness are they comfortable showing each other? Is there anything they hide?
endearingly, way back in early Radiant Dawn she knew she was down bad for him and there was Something from his side too when he had the flu and he let her fuss over him and stick around longer than was strictly necessary for platonic "old friends" :3
bright eyes is pretty pragmatic/independent when it comes to sickness/(recovering from regeneration-spirit-charmer powers); having been invalid for so long means it's a natural instinct to try to quietly minimize the amount of help from everyone. he's remarkably courteous about being sensitive to it.
Are they the marrying types? Or something else?
yes, post-RD by a few years :) i kinda go back and forth if they marry again in heroes-verse (or do some kind of re-commitment ceremony); most likely yes if they stay there for more than ten years.
If they lived together, whose name(s) goes on the lease/mortgage?
bright eyes! mind you, zihark's good with paperwork (and she passes it off to him quite frequently lmao) but she came with more resources and more of a home-base mentality wheras he's always more the wanderer. give him a couch much less an actual bed and he's grateful for that alone and doesn't have a habit of asking for beyond that. (a bad habit of his, she thinks. more reason to spoil him.)
that said heroes-verse when they've been together for a while, i do see him purchasing a small little studio away from everything. generally as a safe house-slash-place for him to retreat in his moody spells, but it eventually becomes a getaway for them both.
Is there any early bird/night owl split? How do they deal with it, if so?
annoyingly he's the early bird of the two by far :p that said, watching him get up and dress makes bright eyes a lot more amendable to cracking the eyes open to begin with, something he mercilessly uses to his advantage ~
Do they have hobbies that take up a lot of space? Is this ever a problem, if so?
he keeps an incredibly small footprint (able to travel on a dime with just his sword, bright eyes never understands how he does that).
she on the other hand, always has more stuff she's attached to -- most notably a library of books, but she always has a residence in general to keep them, even if it's long term storage. mage-work takes up a workroom as well, but sanaki/anna pays her well enough that's not an issue. :)
that said, i think zihark would genuinely have fun in askr developing an antiquing/furniture restoration hobby at her encouragement ~ by then it's pretty clear they're not needed to be on the road as much so he's gradually little less frugal as he gets older and feels safer to put down roots.
Who slams the oven, and who plays the trombone? ( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/when-mama-isnt-home ) Is it a trombone, or a different instrument?
skkjkjjhajka. bright eyes = oven, him on the trombone, absolutely.
Who can keep plants alive? If nobody, who has the best rate of success?
bright eyes is like the personification of death/decay (both cheekily and also significantly thematically), so hell no :p zihark would be able to handle a plant with instruction given he's detail oriented, but he wouldn't be around with regularity to start it, and he'd question the commitment.
Are they in agreement over shoes off or shoes on inside?
i feel like this is more cultural than individual, for some reason ... honestly i see them having their 'marching/muddy boots' but then a general pair of shoes for domestic stuff. like..... his boots are gorgeous. shame not to see them indoors just sayin'. :)
Do they stick to fairly fixed roles in their relationship, or is it flexible?
oh this is funny since i've been thinking about this in more detail for the last few months. it's interesting - early on in RD when they were just genuinely getting to know each other, they were settling in comfortably in a bodyguard/employer dynamic, and a lot of their life roles extends from that.
he's always been a hired sword and even after that initial stint (where i headcanoned that tauroneo was the one who hired him for her), she's had the resources to keep him on indefinitely. not solely as mercenary protection - she's quite physically/medically frail given the whole spirit-charmer-pact and the downsides there; there's a few notable times when she's been bedridden. on his side - stability's always been an illusion since timeline-wise he would have grown up right in the worst of Daein's plague and likely moving from place to place for money, and ideals when it was possible. having that guarantee - and frankly, a certian kind of rare, open emotional non-judgementalness from bright eyes that he doesn't see elsewhere - makes him inclined to stick around.
and later as she learns a little more about him (headcanons, here), there's a .... strong desire? to ensure that he's never ever left financially vulnerable again or coerced by an employer.
(...somebody needs to tell bright eyes that getting romantically involved with your gorgeous bodyguard is the definition of coercion. :p) (the fact this plays into similar sketchy themes as the askr contract isn't lost on me)
that said it honestly works out for both of them. he's got some of his own sketchiness in that he likes playing with subtle control/coercion/'i have the upper hand even when it doesn't look like it as a kink' vibes right back(i swear i wrote an essay on this somewhere??) behind a pleasantly bland pretty smile, so it's very much a grey-area-mutual-winking-knowing-dependency..... Thing.....
(alphonse is a little grossed out when he figures it out, he's no dummy lol.)
Who would take up more of the closet? What do they have the most of?
oh zihark, unquestionably. :p man's a peacock. honestly both of them are quite sparse in the "quantity" of clothes but he would absolutely hold himself to a higher degree of quality and something for different occasions wheras she takes on the steve jobs mindset of 'one iconic outfit for everything because my god i do not have the fucking brain for this shit'
NSFW questions~
Are they particular about where to/not to have sex, like nothing on food prep surfaces, only in bed, nothing outdoors? If so, what are the rules? Are they in agreement about said rules? :3
"nothing in public" was one of the original.... agreements...... except funny thing is they both keep getting awfully close to skirting that rule. :p
Are sex toys something casual, or reserved for special occasions, or not used at all?
toys, nah.
objects on other hand like, uh. sheaths/boots/swords? :)))))c
given the next strip late on this year has a strong chance to be sword-cleaning-with-the-most-obvious-bootblacking-overtones?
i'll let you guess ~
How about roleplay? Casual, or something that would be meticulously planned out? Can they stay serious during it?
nah, not really a thing for either of them -
Do they change the sheets after sex, or just avoid the wet spot?
he's fussier about being clean and sensory details and not messing up the nice sheets so the Fuck Towel is a thing as a easy compromise.
he rolls his eyes every time she calls it that :D
How pressed do they get if the other doesn't orgasm during sex? Is it personal?
nah, not at all. for bright eyes it's wound up far more in the act of service/intimacy, and just by the ahhh, mechanics of it, he's usually satisfied either way.
on his side he's patient enough to figure out what makes bright eyes tick, and she's a much easier puzzle than some than he's dealt with. :)
Would they be bothered by a pet walking into the room?
lol. nah. a pet jumping on the bed would merit the critter getting nudged off ungracefully with a leg (and the door closed afterwards) but that's about it.
Are they comfortable being intimate if a housemate was at home? If so, do they try to be quieter?
bright eyes in particular is very much a private animal socially and they'd both probably refrain if there's anyone over at all, which there probably wouldn't be.
it cannot be stated how much she hated the tent life, lol, given she's a little spoiled/far more of an urban person. it was major reason of buying a house and splurging on actual rooms at inns whenever possible, as well as wanting to spoil him rotten as well after surviving so long as a sellsword.
Are their sex drives pretty well aligned, or different? How do they handle it?
pretty aligned ~
Is the relationship open to other partners? If so, what are the rules around it? How would a conversation around opening it go?
absolutely not romantically. also not in tellius in general.
but in askr, sexually...
i do see him as a very skilled infiltrator of types and bright eyes in askr sends him on those kinds of missions with the idea of 'only if you're comfortable/the initiating party, if you see some information you can get thatways, the door's open to play around.'
it's more of a 'don't ask, don't tell' thing. sometimes the telling happens to make sure it doesn't become blackmail for somebody else (given it's usually an enemy party) but it's kept brief.
on the other side, bright eyes isn't interested in anyone else. valter in askr came the closest (before zihark was summoned when she was feeling emotionally low), but frankly the guilt at the thought of doing anything was enough that nothing happened.
(i know there's probably a few of you on here surprised i don't mention gunter. :p nah, for me his thing's with corrin and a certian somebody else in different worlds~. i have eyes, sure, lol, but i think our personalities would clash horribly, and i truly see him as a fellow leatherdaddy-coworker-to-have-a-beer-with after writing as much with him.)
If applicable, is contraception something they think about?
to be honest, with FE worlds i just take the easy 'there's a magical charm that'll take care of that~' route. (I do think due to the spirit charmer demon pact bright eyes is simply infertile as well.)
Are marks/bites something they'll let be done to them? Do they cover them or have rules about where they can be done?
he's the all over this, both giving and receiving. :) always have headcanoned him as bit of a flagrant masochist especially when it comes to shallow cuts versus impact play (impact play being a squick).
generally they'll both stick to places that are covered; it helps that they don't really show a lot of skin in the usual outfits.
How long did they wait after getting together to have sex?
a few weeks - they both talk about making a point of wanting to take the romance slow. really, it only happens when it does because he gets wounded and hurt/comfort vibes are just too irresistible :3
Any uncommon kinks/fetishes? Would they bring it up, and how so?
mm~~ there's a bunch for both partners i'll decline from mentioning.
The only hotel they can get accommodations at is a sexy themed one – how do they feel about it? What room theme are they picking?
y'all are going to die laughing but i kinda. headcanon this happening. already..... in canon when they're having that week-long stint free in Crimea between the marching.
a lot of the inns are already booked solid with half an army encamped around Meilor, and given the seedy nature of armies, the usual red-light districts are doing a good business and advertising prominently. Mind, Ike and Titania would keep a tight leash, but (imo) realistically, there's only so much discipline one can have with hired soldiers and the types of businesses that follow an army column. (Especially when there's other factions in that particular march. I imagine there's a few hawk tribe soldiers that get some good beorc puss. :p)
he wouldn't go for one of the tackier ones, but if it's classy enough with a humorous edge, he would. :)
