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waywardsalt · 6 months

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i love being insane abt my own oc/canon ship

writing the scene where they meet has me thinking more about damien and linebeck when theyre kids. being each other’s first and only friends and running off into the forest or to the beach so they can hang out on their own terms. linebeck cutting damien’s hair and letting him borrow some of his clothes. damien letting linebeck stay over at his house some nights when his mother isnt around. linebeck’s brother keeping an eye on them and the two of them roping him in to hang out with them. linebeck and damien playing with cats on the island, reading books and watching sailors at the port and opening up with each other. playing around and doing school stuff together and figuring out stuff they wanted to do together. spending a bit more time away from each other as they get older but being able to do that in the first place because they built each other up. theyre comfortable with each other and strive to keep in touch after separation, even if it seems like they will get no response and the letters cannot find their intended recipient. they latched onto each other early on and it made their lives better

#tbh a lot of stuff with their actual adult relationship is murky while the details of their childhood together is pretty clear #and tbh im glad with that bc its a good basis for what comes after when they meet back up as adults #cuz figuring out their history together and then what happens in that gap of time helps establish future possibilities #also im ill abt them just being kids hanging out with each other despite bullying and neglect and ostracization #salty talks #damibeck #damien fletcher #linebeck #like. they find each other as kids who are being bullied or whatever and just decide ok. fuck these other guys. youre my friend anyways #damien latches onto the kid who cut his hair short and accepts him as a boy with no question #linebeck latches onto the kid whos nice to him and doesnt scare him and is patient with him #like theyre childhood friends who are intimately aware of each other’s trauma and identities as kids #and they meet back up and damien is living his best life and linebeck got dragged out of like seven straight years of hell #so the timeskip in their relationship is cool bc damien has changed a lot while linebeck is unfortunately very similar and worse for wear #but on the way out of the worst shit so damien helps him get through the final bits of. all of that *gestures vaguely*#the uh. traumatized childhood friends to insane about each other husbands pipeline idk. childhood friends to lovers yknow #linebeck and damien are the kids who roleplayed warrior cats during recess #tldr they latched onto each other like crazy as kids to the point where they wrote letters to each other even when they failed to be sent #(because linebeck was in a different fucking world the mail system in the great sea is good but not that good)

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