THE LITTLEST ACTIONS
GN!Reader and Diluc ; Fluff x10
"Are these possible signs he's in love with me?"
These past few months your good friend Diluc has been acting a bit odd. Not in a angsty or rude way, more like signs that tend to get your heart beating in a odd fasten pattern. Hopeless romantic you decided to visit Lisa for a talk, hoping maybe she can explain the reasoning on why your friendship with Diluc seems to be moving up a couple of steps than you expected.
"Pft-" Lisa brought up a hand to her face, trying to conceal her laughter. "Wha- What are you laughing for!? I came here for you to help me, not to laugh at me!" You said, a bit embarrassed. Was there something you weren't seeing that others could clearly note?
"Why don't you repeat everything again, and maybe you'll finally notice." Lisa calmed down, taking a sip from her teacup as she looked at you. You mumbled something under your breath before taking a breath, preparing to explain once more.
𓂃 # IS THERE SOMETHING ON MY FACE?
Both you and Diluc decided to head out to eat for lunch together. You both sat outside Good Hunter, enjoying the meals peacefully. The silence was peaceful, though you couldn't help but look toward Diluc, who was staring at you with this look in his eyes. You tried to ignore it, though each time you took a bite out of your food you couldn't help but feel a bit flustered.
"Uh- Uhm, Diluc?" You asked, placing your fork down. You saw him flinched a bit, before he burst into a series of coughs. You didn't see him stopping any time soon and quickly rushed over to his side to help.
Sara stared from behind her counter, witnessing the whole scene unfold.
"BAHAHHAHAHA-" Lisa almost spat her tea out from laughing. "Hey! I didn't know what to do alright!" You covered your face with your hands, flustered. Lisa quickly took a napkin and cleaned herself, before clearing her throat. "I'll certainly have to visit Sara to hear more about what happened-" You glared at Lisa, quickly shutting her up. "Any who- Continue with the next one." Lisa said, waving her hand for you to continue.
𓂃 # YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOMED.
You walked over to Diluc's manor, trying to return something he had left at your place. You were meant to tell him yesterday that you were gonna stop by to drop off his coat, though he had rushed off to continue his duties before you could tell him.
The view of the manor came within view, and the smell of grapes filled your nose. A sense of nostalgia always filled you when you came over to visit. Though this time you couldn't help but wonder if Diluc was home.
'It would be nice to see him today...' You thought as you were now in front of the door. Before you could knock on the door, it quickly swung open.
"[Name?]" Diluc stared at you, his eyes widened a bit in surprise. "What brings you here?"
"Oh! Diluc! You scared me for a bit haha.." You put a hand over your heart, recovering from the shock you had felt. "Ah.. Sorry," Diluc looked over to what you had in your hands. "Oh, my coat. Have you came here to return it?" He asked. You nodded, handing him his coat.
"I was gonna tell you I still had your coat though you ran off before I can finish," You smiled softly. "Sorry about that. Something urgent came up-" Diluc scratched his cheek, returning your smile.
"Hm? Is that [name]?" A familiar voice came behind Diluc. Adelinde came into view, a smile present on her voice. "[Name]! It has been a while since I've seen you! How are you doing?" She cheerfully said. "I've been well Adelinde! Sorry that I haven't been able to visit lately. My work has been a mess these days." You chuckled, returning Adelinde's smile.
"It certainly is starting to get dark! Why don't you join Master Diluc for dinner?" She asked, continuing to have an innocent smile on her face. Diluc's eyes widened a bit once more, looking toward Adelinde.
You looked toward Diluc, seeing a hint of red in his ears, though it might just be his hair. "I would love to but I'm sure Diluc is busy-" "I wouldn't mind." Diluc interrupted your sentence before you could finish, clearing his throat. You began to heat up a bit.
"Well then! I'll start preparing the table!" Adelinde clapped her hands together before taking her leave.
You smiled, watching her take her leave. "You know- You're always welcomed here [name]." Diluc said, avoiding eye contact. You stepped through the doors, your face heating up.
"Hm~? I'm quite suspicious on how you had the Master Diluc's coat at your place." Lisa smirked, a mischievous look on her face. You had an annoyed expression on your face as you sipped your tea. "Are you gonna share or-?" Lisa poked at you, waiting for an answer. "Fine fine! Last one!"
𓂃 # THANK THE RAIN.
You ran through the rain, finding shelter under a small part under a roof. You groaned, realizing you had forgotten your umbrella at home. "Looks like I'll have to run through the rain or wait it out." You said, silently praying a better option pops up, and thank the gods who answered your prayer quickly.
"Forgotten your umbrella again?" A familiar voice popped up beside you. You quickly turned, seeing a familiar red blotch of hair. "Ahahaha, you know me." You chuckled, looking at Diluc. Some rustling sounds were made until Diluc started to place his coat on you.
"Eh? Don't you need this?" You questioned, trying to process his actions. "I'll be alright." Diluc looked away from you. You smiled softly, a warm feeling embracing your heart. "I should get going now then, thank you a lot Diluc." Before you left, you grabbed Diluc's arm softly, turning him towards you. Your lips came into contact to his cheek quickly, leaving a warm feeling.
You ran off toward the direction of your home, leaving a flustered Diluc behind.
He reached out before bringing his hand to the spot where you had left a quick kiss, a soft smile present on his face.
"Ohohoho~ I didn't take you as the confident one," Lisa giggled as you focused on your cup of tea. "How adorable you two are. I'm quite surprised how you manage to get Master Diluc melt within your presence, hehe." Lisa continued to mess with you, your face heating up after each comment.
A knock on the door saved you from Lisa's antics. A creaking noise was then heard as the door slowly opened. There stood a knight, with an envelope in his hand. "I have an important message for... [Name]?"
"That would be me," You smiled. The knight walked over and handed you the envelope quickly, before bowing and taking his leave.
"Oooo, what does it say?" Lisa stood up and walked over to you, looking over your shoulder.
Your name was written elegantly on the envelope. You took your time opening it, a sheet of paper slipping out. "Meet me at Starsnatch Cliff when the sun begins to set. I'll be patiently waiting for your arrival. -Diluc." The familiar hand writing had already hinted on who it was in the beginning.
"Looks like you should start running there~" Lisa giggled, pointing toward the window.
"Ack! Thank you for the help Lisa! I'll return it later!" You quickly gathered your stuff, rushing out the door.
"Ah, young romance,"
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A discourse ask: quackity doing a funny bit with the fiances stuff and then immediately dropping it and switching it into just friendships when lore got more serious isnt the pinnacle of queer representation actually. In general people really overestimate how progressive the dsmp was. Low-hanging "gay sex/flirting = funny" jokes got misrepresented as representation and stereotypical portrayals of abuse became groundbreaking and uber-realistic. None of the issues were handled particularly well and its a fucking live minecraft roleplay with far too many participants - of course they werent, theres no way under the circumstances. But um people really do not act like this.
strongly agree / agree / ambivalent / disagree / strongly disagree / don’t care whatsoever
ok so I agree that the way the fiances bit in particular was handled was genuinely hilarious. 12/10 queer rep nice going great work. bahahhahaha. However, I think the fiances thing is kind of an excellent demonstration of how the dsmp as a whole did make queer relationships feel commonplace and normalized: cc!quackity's "nah we're just friends" backpedaling is like, literally a surprising retcon (something something cc!q killed c!fiances so that c!quackbur could live. only for c!quackbur be killed by cc!wilbur, rip. highkey funny as HELL).
On the whole, I think this take is an uncharitable way of projecting the toxicity of a young, large fandom with lots of Progressive Purity Culture Problems onto a collaborative narrative written by a bunch of fairly young folks, plenty of whom are drawing on aspects of their own lived experiences for their characters.
There's lots of people projecting their own narratives onto this stuff. There are always people trying to make the dsmp something that it isn't. But that's not the same as saying that what's there isn't interesting or compelling or doesn't have cool queer characters?? People can be wrong about things in dsmp without dsmp having to be secretly bad???
Like, take your abuse example. I happen to think that the abuse in the prison arc was handled pretty damn well, and I don't actually think that was on accident. I think that it took effort and intentional writing to set up that scenario and those characters.
To say that the dsmp's nature and medium means that there's plenty of it that's not tightly scripted or that there are dropped threads or inconsistencies or that there exist arcs with oversimplifications... is not to say "oh well, we shouldn't take any of it seriously, it's just a dumb roleplay."
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