"But it's important I know for sure. Do you understand that I intend to establish a polyamorous relationship with everyone living here you've already met at also one whom I'm not sure when he'll get here but hopefully soon?"
I kinda imagine Eldingar just blurting that all out in one breath like a huge nerd, just trying to finish the thought before he chokes or Abzu asks a question and he gets derailed completely. Still it is a pretty big improvement y'know? From barely being able to tell Belial he wants that demon-dick to this. With such an exponential rate of progress, why in just
weeks Eldingar will be able to pull off shutter shades and a belly shirt with complete confidence.
You slowly burrow your head into your gold past the horns and groan into your glittering tomb, raking more treasure over your neck with your foreclaws to get yourself well and truly buried. Maybe if you dig deep enough you can hide from the weight of responsibility slowly descending on you like a set of woven lead blankets. Are you supposed to just awkwardly hang around waiting for Datu? Try and make conversation with everyone else here? Try to get some work done?
mood
Maaaan though Eldingar and Abzu are surprisingly wholesome for all that it involves hardcore tentacling/tasteful consentacling. I feel sorta mildly validated on the "Abzu is absolutely the type to take charge" thing and apparently the big blue dumbass is learning to like it a little rough (although there are, obviously, some hurdles there). Overall it was...honestly I really like the romance scenes as Zerban writes them. There's a genuine emotional core to them, the people involved aren't necessarily Incredible Sex Gods (although that might, uh, change with that Minotaur dude) and are mostly trying to make each other feel good. I think some of this might be helped by how, by and large, they're set pretty early on in the respective character arcs. None of them are necessarily, like, capstones to the whole thing and they aren't obvious payoffs for being selecting the Romance Option on the dialogue wheel a la Bioware.
It's helped too I think by the fact that this
probably isn't going to be the only time Eldingar beds down with Abzu or Belial so it's not, y'know, under the pressure of having to define/satisfy the whole relationship. There's room for things to-
hah.
Breathe.
[X] Go to town. Söfnun's good, it's full of things to do and spend money on but nobody bothers you needing things all the time unless you're in your Lord Elding guise. And Mother's happy to just sit around in her penthouse so you won't run into her. Probably.
--[X] Make up a fresh disguise, one that isn't transparent, and go do other things for a while. Buy things, eat, maybe collect your treasure from the guild hall if it's in yet, try to scout out some entertainers willing to perform in front of a pack of dragons... which may take a while.
It's a good mix of taking it easy, slipping away to just come up for air (I swear the puns aren't on purpose) 'cause Eldingar is pretty introverted and having a bunch of people move into your house, even if you really enjoy their company, is stressful for someone so used to and welded into their status quo. Plus food is good too and treating himself is definitely warranted (flying would probably be This But More but Eldingar really likes his little pocket kingdom and it's been awhile since he's had a chance to go back). And, hey, if he stumbles across some weirdly talented acrobats or the Jester from Darkest Dungeon or whatever in this adventure hook town then he's killing two birds with one stone.
Admittedly it's sloppy and Eldingar absolutely needs to, like, sit down with some people and come up with a Plan. But it's still a
start. And time to think is valuable on its own.
Bold of you to assume that based on only two data points.
i'm gonna level with you: even if eldingar is graphically giving that big blue dragon dick to someone i legitimately cannot picture him in control or in charge of
anything sexual
he's a sub on a, like, metaphysical level
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