You know, vengeance is never as good an idea as it sounds. But since you asked for it...
So Jill and Sakuya have been dating for two IC weeks now, which is awhile in both Aather Time and also Oh God I'm Sixteen And This Is My First Boyfriend Ever And I Only Recently Learned That Sex Is A Thing Time. (These are real timezones, look them up.) But from Jill's perspective, the inevitability of this relationship started creeping up about three IC weeks before that, at Goldie and Guinevere's party. That's not when she started to be attracted to Sakuya, but it's definitely when she started to feel emotionally close to him, and it was the first time they danced! Dancing has played an important and adorable role in the progress of all this nonsense. They were friends before that, but the party was when things started to get intimate in any sense.
Sakuya was in human form at the party, courtesy of Goldie, but to keep the shape he had to keep dancing with and/or kissing people at regular intervals, because... no wait, I already said, it was courtesy of Goldie. So he and Jill danced, and it was cute, and Jill had a lot of fun, but then she went off and took a terrible memory with a teammate and ended up slapping said teammate and running off to cry in the snow. (Lessons learned that evening included the important one about how you should never take your memories at large social events.) But Sakuya came along and comforted her on pretty much every level that she needed. He talked her through it, obliquely threatened Aslan with violence, held her hand, and then sat her down in the library and read her a soap opera about dragons. What a pal!
Anyway, after that Jill pretty much just wanted to spend all her time in Jasper's basement, listening to music and talking about the meaning of life, and that's a bit of an exaggeration, but is true enough that it should give you an idea of how deeply teenage this relationship really is. She still wasn't really aware of having a crush on him! But they started taking memories together sometimes, and she definitely started to hit that flirting-accidentally-on-purpose stage. They just had a lot of fun together, between the music and dancing and teasing and dumb dragon drama novel. They were able to discuss a lot of their memories and offer each other helpful support, too. So that went on for awhile, during which time Jill was briefly a pigeon and briefly had cat ears and both events were mortifying for Sakuya.
(I should probably mention that Sakuya twigged to the fact that he was into Jill long before Jill ever figured anything out. She went on hiatus and came back and he was so happy about it that he noticed what was going on. Jill, however, remained oblivious right up until Dorian's kissing game.
Actually, she pretty much remained oblivious until they were physically kissing.
It was kind of sad.)
The kissing game happened. There was kissing and confessing and confusion, although not that much confusion, since Sakuya (again in human form) was the only person Jill kissed. Five other people had kissed her before that, with her permission! But Sakuya was the only one she took any initiative in kissing at all, although it was a pretty pathetic excuse for initiative and was actually just her leaning in to meet him halfway. There was also more dancing, which I have mentioned already is kind of a thing for them. I am just citing another example!
The whole thing was more than a little awkward, because "confessing" included Jill confessing that she had never even thought of romantically kissing anyone until this game, which was... obviously not the case for Sakuya... and that confession came about five minutes before they kissed. And then after, Sakuya told Jill that there was another person in Aather he'd been attracted to, and when Jill asked what the difference was, he replied that a) Jill had never tried to murder him, b) Jill actually liked him, and c) he disliked himself more for the previous attraction. None of which is sexy talk at all. (Spoilers: he was talking about Erika. They call him Sakuya "Good Relationship Choices" Shirogane.) However, despite all this, eventually clarity and makeouts were both achieved. Also adorableness. That was achieved too.
The morning after the morning after, Sakuya showed up at Amethyst with roses and they decided to date and they have been getting progressively sappier ever since. Jill is pretty okay with all this! She has previously had crushes on a unicorn, a dryad, a witch, and arguably Eustace Scrubb, so a pigeon is really not that weird. (The unicorn at least is pure canon. And I quote: "Jill had, as you might say, quite fallen in love with the Unicorn." I am not making this up.)
Much weirder than the idea of dating a pigeon is the idea of sex, full stop. This is a topic that has come up repeatedly in conversation since one game in which Tim Drake was a helper and now Jill is kind of obsessing over it. She isn't sure if she wants to have sex with anyone, but she is super curious about what it is like and what it would be like with Sakuya whether he were shaped like a human or a pigeon at the time, except she still hasn't managed to bring it up with him at all because it's also mortifying. And he might think she's creepy. And she's already a bit worried that everyone things she's creepy, although she also thinks that's really their problem, because Narnia, man. Narnia.
Tell me about Josh's feelings on self-determination and how that meshes in with carefully constructing an ideal timeline over thousands of years and threading through many people's lives!
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So Jill and Sakuya have been dating for two IC weeks now, which is awhile in both Aather Time and also Oh God I'm Sixteen And This Is My First Boyfriend Ever And I Only Recently Learned That Sex Is A Thing Time. (These are real timezones, look them up.) But from Jill's perspective, the inevitability of this relationship started creeping up about three IC weeks before that, at Goldie and Guinevere's party. That's not when she started to be attracted to Sakuya, but it's definitely when she started to feel emotionally close to him, and it was the first time they danced! Dancing has played an important and adorable role in the progress of all this nonsense. They were friends before that, but the party was when things started to get intimate in any sense.
Sakuya was in human form at the party, courtesy of Goldie, but to keep the shape he had to keep dancing with and/or kissing people at regular intervals, because... no wait, I already said, it was courtesy of Goldie. So he and Jill danced, and it was cute, and Jill had a lot of fun, but then she went off and took a terrible memory with a teammate and ended up slapping said teammate and running off to cry in the snow. (Lessons learned that evening included the important one about how you should never take your memories at large social events.) But Sakuya came along and comforted her on pretty much every level that she needed. He talked her through it, obliquely threatened Aslan with violence, held her hand, and then sat her down in the library and read her a soap opera about dragons. What a pal!
Anyway, after that Jill pretty much just wanted to spend all her time in Jasper's basement, listening to music and talking about the meaning of life, and that's a bit of an exaggeration, but is true enough that it should give you an idea of how deeply teenage this relationship really is. She still wasn't really aware of having a crush on him! But they started taking memories together sometimes, and she definitely started to hit that flirting-accidentally-on-purpose stage. They just had a lot of fun together, between the music and dancing and teasing and dumb dragon drama novel. They were able to discuss a lot of their memories and offer each other helpful support, too. So that went on for awhile, during which time Jill was briefly a pigeon and briefly had cat ears and both events were mortifying for Sakuya.
(I should probably mention that Sakuya twigged to the fact that he was into Jill long before Jill ever figured anything out. She went on hiatus and came back and he was so happy about it that he noticed what was going on. Jill, however, remained oblivious right up until Dorian's kissing game.
Actually, she pretty much remained oblivious until they were physically kissing.
It was kind of sad.)
The kissing game happened. There was kissing and confessing and confusion, although not that much confusion, since Sakuya (again in human form) was the only person Jill kissed. Five other people had kissed her before that, with her permission! But Sakuya was the only one she took any initiative in kissing at all, although it was a pretty pathetic excuse for initiative and was actually just her leaning in to meet him halfway. There was also more dancing, which I have mentioned already is kind of a thing for them. I am just citing another example!
The whole thing was more than a little awkward, because "confessing" included Jill confessing that she had never even thought of romantically kissing anyone until this game, which was... obviously not the case for Sakuya... and that confession came about five minutes before they kissed. And then after, Sakuya told Jill that there was another person in Aather he'd been attracted to, and when Jill asked what the difference was, he replied that a) Jill had never tried to murder him, b) Jill actually liked him, and c) he disliked himself more for the previous attraction. None of which is sexy talk at all. (Spoilers: he was talking about Erika. They call him Sakuya "Good Relationship Choices" Shirogane.) However, despite all this, eventually clarity and makeouts were both achieved. Also adorableness. That was achieved too.
The morning after the morning after, Sakuya showed up at Amethyst with roses and they decided to date and they have been getting progressively sappier ever since. Jill is pretty okay with all this! She has previously had crushes on a unicorn, a dryad, a witch, and arguably Eustace Scrubb, so a pigeon is really not that weird. (The unicorn at least is pure canon. And I quote: "Jill had, as you might say, quite fallen in love with the Unicorn." I am not making this up.)
Much weirder than the idea of dating a pigeon is the idea of sex, full stop. This is a topic that has come up repeatedly in conversation since one game in which Tim Drake was a helper and now Jill is kind of obsessing over it. She isn't sure if she wants to have sex with anyone, but she is super curious about what it is like and what it would be like with Sakuya whether he were shaped like a human or a pigeon at the time, except she still hasn't managed to bring it up with him at all because it's also mortifying. And he might think she's creepy. And she's already a bit worried that everyone things she's creepy, although she also thinks that's really their problem, because Narnia, man. Narnia.
Tell me about Josh's feelings on self-determination and how that meshes in with carefully constructing an ideal timeline over thousands of years and threading through many people's lives!