08-14-2025, 12:29 AM
re/timeline -- yeah, i would argue back that Caleb exiling himself to the other side of the cave while she stripped out of her wet things to hide under the tarp would more thematically put the order as wedding-beach-birthday. if they had already had sex with each other, that would have definitely played out differently with less body-shyness and less innuendo / more straight up language. if they'd already "done it" by that point, Caleb would have been more hands on as an excuse to touch her in a sexual manner and it would have been more out in the open about his offer to lay her down next to the fire (if she wanted).
the whole vibe in the cave really felt to me like he was just waiting for her to finally pony up to the inevitable but giving her the space to work up to it on her own. the fact that some of the dialogue responses to his casual flirting was still "?" i think is the telling clue.
EDIT: also, i will play the trump card here - are you trying to insinuate that once meimei finally nails her gege, she WOULDN'T be all over that like white on rice at every opportunity, including the ones she has to manufacture on the fly??? she's VERY touchy-touchy here but at the end, she actively ignores what he's offering. i mean, he even still stays awake just to caress her face while she sleeps. i submit to you: he's still on the other side of the door in this banner.
re/evol - just thinking out loud here -- you can't force a resonance bond, MC *has* to allow it or it won't happen. about three minutes after we meet Xavier, she offers to use her evol and Xavier apologizes before using it, completely obliterating the Wanderer threat. i've always interpreted that as he knew it would be an ice pick to the chest for both of them (i am slightly exaggerating, sure, but i will clutch that visual to my chest to my dying day) with how strongly it would engage even on first meeting. when MC explicitly denies resonance to Sylus, he can't force it out of her at all in comparison. even when she agrees to actually try properly, it still won't because her heart isn't in it - until it finally snaps into place so strongly, she chains him with it (i assume that is what is happening at the end of Revelry when they physically cannot part due to the manifested shackles).
this beach banner seems to imply that once a resonance bond is established, its a two way bridge. she gives strength to it, but its leash they're holding on both ends. Caleb seems to be the one in master control of it ("no freebies for you!") but i think its okay to assume that as long as Caleb doesn't actively wrench control of it from her, she could use his evol as if it was natively hers.
so, at the end of the day, drift-compatibility bay-be!
re/ Hell yeah to the horny on main thread. What are the rules? Do they need to be in public?
nah, let's not trammel ourselves here. i think any seriously loaded flirt should be in contention, whether its in front of Jeremiah or not :P could make a sticky thread in each of the boy's areas and could give you moderator access to it (i think) so we can just throw stuff in there as we feel like it so could build up a collection over time. or just make a regular "master" post and just chuck everything into one spot for everybody.
the whole vibe in the cave really felt to me like he was just waiting for her to finally pony up to the inevitable but giving her the space to work up to it on her own. the fact that some of the dialogue responses to his casual flirting was still "?" i think is the telling clue.
EDIT: also, i will play the trump card here - are you trying to insinuate that once meimei finally nails her gege, she WOULDN'T be all over that like white on rice at every opportunity, including the ones she has to manufacture on the fly??? she's VERY touchy-touchy here but at the end, she actively ignores what he's offering. i mean, he even still stays awake just to caress her face while she sleeps. i submit to you: he's still on the other side of the door in this banner.
re/evol - just thinking out loud here -- you can't force a resonance bond, MC *has* to allow it or it won't happen. about three minutes after we meet Xavier, she offers to use her evol and Xavier apologizes before using it, completely obliterating the Wanderer threat. i've always interpreted that as he knew it would be an ice pick to the chest for both of them (i am slightly exaggerating, sure, but i will clutch that visual to my chest to my dying day) with how strongly it would engage even on first meeting. when MC explicitly denies resonance to Sylus, he can't force it out of her at all in comparison. even when she agrees to actually try properly, it still won't because her heart isn't in it - until it finally snaps into place so strongly, she chains him with it (i assume that is what is happening at the end of Revelry when they physically cannot part due to the manifested shackles).
this beach banner seems to imply that once a resonance bond is established, its a two way bridge. she gives strength to it, but its leash they're holding on both ends. Caleb seems to be the one in master control of it ("no freebies for you!") but i think its okay to assume that as long as Caleb doesn't actively wrench control of it from her, she could use his evol as if it was natively hers.
so, at the end of the day, drift-compatibility bay-be!
re/ Hell yeah to the horny on main thread. What are the rules? Do they need to be in public?
nah, let's not trammel ourselves here. i think any seriously loaded flirt should be in contention, whether its in front of Jeremiah or not :P could make a sticky thread in each of the boy's areas and could give you moderator access to it (i think) so we can just throw stuff in there as we feel like it so could build up a collection over time. or just make a regular "master" post and just chuck everything into one spot for everybody.
