The look of awe bordering on disbelief that we can see on Lestat's face in this moment! He had asked Louis to 'nod his beautiful head' and say yes, but despite the confident, clearly rehearsed energy of his proposal, I think Lestat had an enormous amount of doubt and insecurity about whether or not Louis would actually accept it, and may have actually been anticipating a rejection.
Not only is Louis consenting to this, he is pulling Lestat in unprompted for a seal of physical affection that tells Lestat his intense feelings of love and devotion are reciprocated. From Lestat's face I very much get the feeling of, 'You're choosing me? You're choosing me? You really want me?'
geralt getting all the way on his way to kaer morhen before regretting what he’s done and making his way to oxenfurt because if he gets there first, he can figure out how to apologize and hopefully ask jaskier to forgive him.
however
jaskier just goes straight to kaer morhen beCAUSE FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE, HE WASN’T DONE FIGHTING. HE HAD TIME TO GATHER HIS THOUGHTS AND MAKE YE OLDE POWERPOINT ROAST.
meanwhile geralt is just fucking. tapping his toes in oxenfurt, waiting, getting more and more guilty the more friendly greetings he gets bc jaskier has spoken about him so lovingly throughout the years. and he realizes exactly how jaskier feels about him and how much he threw away on the mountain.
finally, he just has to come to terms with the fact that jaskier isn’t coming to oxenfurt, and he has to head to kaer morhen for the winter. he knows jaskier. the bard must have gone somewhere private to lick his wounds, and geralt hates to leave him along for so long, but he can’t just not go back bc then his brothers will assume he’s dead.
and then he actually starts heading back to kaer morhen.
and suddenly the receptions are a lot less friendly than he got used to in his weeks at oxenfurt.
and now he’s been called a fucking?? homewrecker?? he’s been called a lot of things but what fucking home has he wrecked??
and then he realizes
he’s following in jaskier’s path
and the jaskier who came before him this time is not the jaskier of oxenfurt who loved him
ran being blind as shit is so fucking funny. gets uncomfortably close to people when he first meets them because he cant see so they all think hes either flirting or intimidating. fights with a long-rage weapon because he's too short-sighted to safely win any close-range combat. holy fuck just wear glasses. he probably doesnt because he's scared he'll look like rin
yuuji manages to find the guts to hold megumi’s hand once and not more than 5 seconds later he gets the shovel talk from 90% of the people in megumi’s life. they truly mean their words that if yuuji ever makes megumi feel bad even by mistake, the higher ups r going to be the least of his problems. the same goes for sukuna.
the other 10% of people r frantically trying to book an immediate flight back to japan after his toes started tingling that something was up with His Boy.
just as yuuji thinks he managed the worst, he feels the hair on the back of his neck stand up and narrowly dodges assassination attempt courtesy of the zenin
The thing is that Megumi is actually such a low maintenance, chill boyfriend. Best boyfriend ever. He always replies to texts quickly. He’s on time to dates. He’s never jealous. They rarely fight, and when they do, it’s always because it’s legitimately important, and they always end up working it out. He lets Yuuji hold(!) his hand(!). The tips of his ears turn fire engine red whenever Yuuji does anything that shows off how Strong and Fast he is, which can be fun for Yuuji. It’s not a competition but also yes it is and Yuuji won it. He locked down The Best Boyfriend Ever. And it only took him 83 days of hardcore crushing, a 27 step plan, and nearly throwing himself off a cliff because he said “hooray” when Megumi told Yuuji he liked him.
He’s Done It. He Secured The Bag. Megumi Is His Boyfriend And The World Is A Perfect Place.
But everyone else seems to have some very strong opinions about that fact. Much stronger opinions than Megumi himself, who lets Yuuji hold(!) his hand(!).
There's a very confusing conversation with Inumaki and Panda about his intentions. Yuuji, very honestly, said that he didn't think he'd get far enough to have any real intentions past what he's already managed, which did not help. Maki had a similar conversation but it involved a sword. God's Perfect Man Who Already Gets Everything He Wants In Life And Certainly Doesn't Need to Butt Into This Too may be returning early from Africa. Yuuji would much rather that Africa keep him, please and thank you. There's a sniper that has him in his sights.
i was half asleep scrolling though pinterest when i saw the most heartwarming domestic nanami fanart im going to sob away my life right now and join him in death, i mean in bed
i like him because of his contradictions. he's supposed to be rhaenyra's perfect son, her perfect heir and the first step in rhaenyra's ascension, instead he's everything but. he can't ever be rhaenyra's perfect heir and son because of his parentage, something he had no control over and no matter how much he tries he will never overcome it. doesn't matter how much rhaenyra says to him that he is a targaryen, that's all that matters. and jace knows this!!! so making him be painfully self-aware of his shortcomings and his overcompensation and repression make for an interesting character.
he's also angry all the time, moody, he has repressed every emotion that could make him seem less in the eyes of his family and court so when the pot inevitably boils over, it's so explosive. finding out that his life was a lie at such young age and that he was never going to be enough made him overly independent and anxious and annoying to build himself and his family(!) to be the best and in the process, protect them so they will never feel the way he feels.
i find characters who try and try so interesting and i'm not going to say i'm a tragedy enjoyer because i'm too much of a coward to fully embrace it, but the fact it doesn't even matter at the end that jace was such perfect diplomat and commander, good brother, the best heir and prince because he died unceremoniously trying (ha!) to save his little brother. it was never going to be enough. something about futility and the will to transform the world you want to live in etc.