[closed] February Catch All

[nastyboy]

Who: Team Femblemtroika (Grant, Chip, Dimitri, Sylvain, Claude, Felix, Dedue, Ashe) with occasional Guest Stars Jinx, Razor, Karako, and others
When: All of February
Where: Mostly Ecruteak, and the roads surrounding it, probably
What: Watch this polycule take over all of Johto!

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[crumbs_and_yums]

[Annette's fists jump to her mouth, and her eyes start to shine with obviously joyful tears.]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! I knew it! I knew it!

[She totally didn't, but it IS obvious in hindsight.

She casts a hilariously terrible attempt at a dirty look towards Claude. It's mostly spoiled by the fact that she can't stop grinning.]

Claude, I have never been more jealous of a person in my life. Make it up to me and tell me everything!

Oh Felix, I'm so happy for you! And Sylvain! And I didn't miss the wedding! You know I have to hug you now, right?

[bestswordmaster]

You're still shouting. Or...squealing.

[He somehow manages to look more embarrassed now. Did all of Faerghus know about him and Sylvain before they did themselves? Ugh.

Still, it's hard to stay irritated when Annette Dominic is smiling like that over something he said. It's contagious, apparently, because he finds himself smiling back at her, even when his expression shifts to something in between mortification and resignation.]

If...if you must.

[crumbs_and_yums]

[She needs no further permission and literally jumps to hug Felix with both arms...unfortunately forgetting about the Igglybuff at her feet, causing her to stumble into her intended target.]

Oop..oof!

FELIX IS DYING I hope you're happy

[bestswordmaster]

[Felix was planning to sort of stand there awkwardly and get hugged, maybe pat her on the back a few times. Secretly like it, but tell no one. Instead--]

Wh - Annette!

[Instead, she's crashing into him with her full weight and he's flailing and falling backwards, and then throwing his arms around her tightly to protect her from the fall without thinking about it, and landing on his back with a thump.]

OOF. What - how did you -

[And then his face is flushing red, at the realization of where they ended up, here on...on the ground.]

...uh. Are you...you're not hurt, are you?

[vrdantwind]

[Claude can't help the laughter he bursts into. For all the time he's spent with Dimitri and Felix and Sylvain, nothing's brought him back to their days at Garreg Mach - where everything was still okay, and all his friends between all three houses were still on friendly terms - quite as much as this moment does. It feels...wonderful. This is the kind of silliness he's missed so much since the war began, the kind of silliness that - for all his best efforts - has mostly been provided by him up until now.

This lighthearted atmosphere, and even more than that its happening naturally, without Claude having to generate it for his more depressed boyfriends...it lifts a weight off of him.

Also, he's pretty sure he's never seen Felix be as cute with anyone as he is with Annette. Not even Sylvain, despite the fact that no one could begin to argue that Felix doesn't love Sylvain with his whole heart. It's a very different dynamic there, and Claude's quick eyes could pick that up from a mile away - never mind observing it as up close as this.]

Don't worry, Annette, I'll give you all the details later. [In the meantime, he bends down to pat Tritz. Felix is checking on Annette, so Claude figures he should check on the pokémon that just got tripped on. (It doesn't even occur to him to check on Felix, both because you'd probably need to hit Felix with a Meteor spell to the face to seriously inconvenience him and because Felix would be offended if Claude asked.)] You okay there?

[crumbs_and_yums]

[Annette is mortified. She just tackled Felix! Felix! And in front of Claude! She's pretty sure she's been less embarrassed in nightmares where she had to give a class report in Hilda's clothing!

She lifts her weight off of Felix with her arms, and looks at him with absolute embarrassment and concern.]

"Felix! I'm so, so sorry, are you ok? I just landed on you! I'm such a klutz, I'm sorry! I--stop laughing Claude, don't be so mean! This isn't funny, I could've hurt him!"

[Her face suddenly burns even more red, if possible, as she suddenly realizes that there is no way that Felix of all people couldn't have nimbly sidestepped her fall. He only fell because he tried to catch her. Oh, Goddess.]

[bestswordmaster]

"Yes, Claude, shut up."

It's hard to look at anything but Annette, though, since she's...right there...

"...I'm fine. You seem fine. So that's. Good. It's fine."

If she were anyone else, he'd be shoving them off him by now. Instead, he lies there, red-faced and not looking her in the eye, with his hands sort of hovering until he just rests them on the ground at his sides.

This is fine.

[vrdantwind]

"Careful, Annette, you're going to offend him making it sound like he's so delicate," Claude says with a laugh, stepping up and offering a hand to Annette to help her off of Felix. "C'mon, this man's been through a war! It'll take more than a pretty girl falling on him to do him in." He glances down at Felix's burning red face, then grins. "...probably."

[crumbs_and_yums]

Annette jumps to accept Claude's assistance in getting off Felix, finally starting to turn red herself as she pulls herself to her feet.

"I would never--!" She splutters in indignation. "You know I would never say that, Felix!"

Though come to think of it, Felix does look rather red in the face and uncomfortable. Just how hard did she land on him? She's thankful he's gentleman enough not to mention it, but that just makes her feel worse. What if she broke a rib, and he doesn't say anything?

"Claude, stop being mean or I'll hug you, too."