Elias manages to rope Peter into a proper dinner date and Peter spends thirty minutes slowly working through some mashed potatoes, and Elias thinks he’s doing this deliberately to be annoying….. but no, Peter just likes eating his food super, super slowly, since it’s something he usually does by himself, and he doesn’t mind it becoming cold and unpalatable. So Elias has to sit there for like three hours while Peter finishes everything on his plate, then at the end of the meal Peter’s like ‘oh, that was actually pretty nice :)’ and Elias wants to throttle him.
watchingthefog:
I wonder, I want a poll because I need to know. How many LonelyEyes shippers think that Elias and Peter actually like each other?
I don’t think they do, but I also think it’s more complicated than them just disliking each other. As avatars, there’s a lot more value in a relationship where they don’t have the expectations of ‘liking’ someone applied to them. They can be rude and vitriolic toward each other, avoid each other, manipulate each other, use each other, hurt each other, and even kill each other, and that’s fine, because they don’t expect each other to maintain a veneer of human connection that they obviously don’t have a great capacity for (especially Peter, as a creature that is repelled by connection). They understand each other and accept each other and can find each others company agreeable sometimes and that’s enough. It works for them. It makes them comfortable being permanent fixtures in each others lives, for so long as the other lives.
I guess you could say that they like that they can be themselves around each other? But I don’t think the understood meaning of ‘like’ between people really applies to them otherwise. That’s just my take on them, though. The idea of two people magnetically seeking each other out despite their dislike appeals to me a lot.
That said, I’ve indulged in illegal soft LonelyEyes and I’ve definitely read fic that convinced me they could develop in that direction. I’ll probably write a fic like that myself one day.
Currently thinking about the adjustment period when Jonah goes from James (short) to Elias (tall) and Elias!Jonah accidentally smacking his head into things because he used to be short.
He goes to grab something in the staffroom kitchen and nearly knocks himself out on a cupboard. He walks straight into a doorframe while mid-sentence with one of his staff. He tries to kiss Peter while they’re in bed and ends up slamming his head into the headboard.
Peter finds this all very amusing and remains on land just to laugh at him.
