Shipping meme
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mikkenekoHere's the text of the meme:
Comment with a pairing/moresome from any one of my fic!verses, even the ones that aren't technically posted yet (I don't really mind spoiling; if you care enough to ask I'll answer) and I will tell you:
- what was their first kiss like
- what their first time was like
- who’s louder
- who wakes up first
- favorite form of foreplay
- who performs/receives oral more often
- who more often tries new things
- if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be
- favorite toy
- favorite kink
- is there a certain thing one of them can’t have sex without
- their general feelings on sex in the relationship
- how careful are they about using protection
- a fantasy of one that the other will never be able/willing to fulfill
- anything else of that ilk you're curious about; just ask!
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uakari: Fane/Atramedes (The Missing Worlds - Castle in the Air/The Firelands.)- Very dry. They'd been traveling in the desert for days and had been running low on water. On seeing that Atramedes' canteen had run dry, Fane used magic to conjure water for him, not knowing that in Atramedes' culture an exchange of water is an intimate event. Atramedes' lips and tongue, when he kissed him, were dry from the desert heat. Fane's were dry from anxiety.
- Sandy, but still worth it.
- Fane is louder, but at least Atramedes has finally gotten him out of performing a running commentary to himself.
- Atramedes always wakes up first, habit from the old years where he used to do a patrol of the temple every morning. He still likes to slip out and watch the sun rise in solitude, which always makes Fane very anxious when he wakes up to find him gone.
- Surprisingly, Atramedes. Whenever they come to a new place, he'll take a few days to check out the local color and customs, and tentatively try out a few new foods or activity. Fane won't. He insists that everything always be the same everywhere they go, and uses magic to make it so.
- Every time Fane catches Atramedes looking at someone -- man or woman -- he offers that they should proposition them for a threesome. Atramedes has yet to take him up on it.
- Atramedes has given up protesting why Fane insists that there must be a mirror in every bedroom they stay in.
- The sex isn't bad, but mostly, they prefer the afterglow, where they can just lie quietly together and know they are not alone.
- Protection was never really a big thing for either of them, coming as they do from at-best feudal worlds. But Fane insisted so repeatedly that he'd be able to take care of any unexplained rashes or diseases that Atramedes has given up on worrying about it.
- Fane will never, ever be able to replace Yuishta.
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reikah: Honorbound"Are you sure you still want to do this?" Fai asked.
"Yes." Youou clenched his teeth against any more acid retort. Once he'd made up his mind to do something, he didn't go back on his word, damn it.
"Very well," Fai said with quiet aplomb, obviously having expected that answer. "We'll reach the citadel in the mountains tomorrow. There are some things you need to know before you meet my people."
"We're that close?" Youou was momentarily diverted. "I would have thought we'd see some other vampires by now."
Fai's smile was lazy, full of pointed teeth. "Oh, they're out there," he said. "Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they can't see us."
Youou did a double-take, twisting his neck to look into the dark woods around them, but he caught himself and forced his attention back to Fai. "All right," he growled. "So what are these things I need to know?"
"The only humans allowed in the citadel are thralls that vampires have, for one reason or another, chosen to take for themselves," Fai explained. He'd said this before, but Youou sensed there was more coming.
"I told you before that my society… builds itself on relationships between thrall and master. When a vampire takes a thrall, it's more than just words. There's a mental bond, a bond of dominance between predator and prey. The thrall's will is made subservient to the master's until thoughts of defiance or disobedient become impossible." Fai paused, watching Youou's expression through the flickering shadows. "I thought perhaps you would prefer not to undergo such a binding," he said quietly.
Youou shuddered, the hairs rising on the back of his neck as his skin prickled in horror. "No," he said raspily, remembering the dark shadows the sorcerer had placed on his mind, making him dull and stupid, making him a pitiless puppet. Making him Kurogane. "No, never again."
Fai nodded understanding. "When the bond is between a vampire and another vampire, the choice of whether to undergo the bond is entirely voluntary," he offered. "Usually when the bond is between a vampire and a human, the choice is… not offered."
Youou's lip curled up at the delicate phrasing, although he couldn't miss the implications of what Fai had just told him. Fai was offering him a great deal of respect, treating him like another vampire instead of just human prey. "Thanks," he said warily.
Fai smiled at him, but then the smile drained away as his voice and expression became cool. "But you have to understand, Youou," he said. "If you are to serve me, as you have sworn to do, that means you must give yourself to my control -- utterly. It is not enough to just obey my orders -- and you mustobey my every order, no matter how distasteful -- but you cannot display a hint of insolence or defiance. Such an attitude would be utterly unthinkable for a thrall, and both your position and mine depend on your absolute submission to my will.
"I know you, Youou, and I know that you are a proud man with a hot temper. You must put aside your pride, and you must forget your temper. The binding, however much you don't want it, would make that easy for you. Without it, you will have to struggle to repress your natural defiance for every minute of every day of the next year. Because if you slip up, if you let your temper explode, not only will you be in danger, but I will be branded a weak-willed failure who cannot even command a human, let alone be trusted with any authority among vampires. I would be forced to either leave my people and forever, or remain for the rest of my life as a slave to my fellow vampires, never to be free of will again."
When he put it like that, Youou was kind of taken aback that Fai was even willing to consider it. He opened his mouth, then closed it again and sat back on his heels, really thinking about what he was getting himself into instead of just rushing thoughtlessly ahead.
What Fai was asking of him wasn't going to be easy, Kurogane realized. Not as hard as bending his head to let another sorcerer -- even Fai -- put chains on his mind again, but not easy at all. And the consequences if he failed would be even worse for Fai than for himself -- as long as he survived he could go back to the human world, but Fai risked being alienated from his own people forever. Why was Fai willing to take this risk for him, to allow him this freedom even while he enslaved him with words? What was going through Fai's mind right now?
What was going through his?
He looked at Fai, a faint smile lingering on his face even as his golden, slit-pupilled eyes sparked with challenge. It wasn't about obligations or debts, or restitution, he realized. It was really quite simple.
He didn't want to be separated from Fai, and that was all there was to it. So long as they traveled through human lands they would always have to be in secret, in hiding, both their relationship and Fai's true nature. Fai's own people offered the last chance for them to be together, and for that chance, Kurogane was willing to tackle any trial head-on.
"I'm sure," Youou replied, and saw Fai's smile widen, his pupils dilate. "Let's do this."
- what was their first kiss like
It was after Kurogane was feeding Fai one night. Kurogane had cut his wrist, as he often did, and after Fai had finished drinking he licked his way up Kurogane's arm and kissed his neck. Kurogane didn't react at first because he wasn't sure if Fai was still hungry and meant to bite him again, but once he realized what Fai was doing he pushed him away.
- what their first time was like
They'd been traveling together for about a month when Kurogane woke up from a wet dream with a very uncomfortable erection. Fai noticed, of course, and started without even asking on getting his hands under Kurogane's blanket so he could 'help' him. This wasn't the first time this had happened, but this time Kurogane just didn't have the willpower to send him away. They ended up fucking in a bed of dried leaves under the starlight.
- who’s louder
Kurogane is way louder, even though it embarrasses him to admit it. Those are MANLY grunts and moans, damn it.
- who performs/receives oral more often
This really depends on when. While they were traveling together, it was always Fai giving the blowjobs. After Kurogane became Fai's thrall, that was one of Kurogane's duties. Fai definitely enjoyed giving them way more, though. He has a little bit of an oral fetish and needed no encouragement to swallow; Kurogane has to be specifically ordered to swallow, and then he gets sulky for the rest of the night.
- who more often tries new things
Sort of a difficult question because Fai is always willing to try many different things, but he's been around for so long and had so many different partners that nothing is really /new/ to him. However, he delights in discovering things that are new to /Kurogane./
- if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be
While they were traveling together, many of Kurogane's fellow humans were quite appreciative of Kurogane's blond "servant" and tried to either buy him off Kurogane, or at least bribe him to spend the night. Kurogane always refused.
Among vampires, however, lending out a thrall for a night is as common and unremarked as borrowing someone else's hairbrush. Many of Fai's fellow vampires, appreciative of Youou's looks, asked to borrow him; Fai always refused, except for once. He lent Kurogane for a night to the twins Kamui and Subaru. After a night of being bossed around, tied up, tied down, and fucked by the two sexy vampire twins, Youou came to realize that no matter how many people used his body, only Fai would ever be his master.
- favorite toy
As a rule Fai dislikes violence and certainly dislikes the wasteful spilling of blood, so he doesn't share his kinsmen's taste for whips and floggers and other sharp things. However, over his centuries of life he has acquired quite a collection of lovely sculpted insertable things, and is having great fun seeing which of them can get Kurogane to orgasm the hardest. Because sometimes your delicious thrall just needs more fucking than you have the energy for, okay?
- favorite kink
It's different for each of them, they've found, although privately. Fai loves to have Kurogane tied down while he feeds; like to take his time, running his hands and lips and teeth all over Kurogane's lovely skin while he decides on just the best, hottest, juiciest part to bite; and no matter how Kurogane shifts or whines or twitches, Fai can take as long as he wants.
For Kurogane, on the other hand, he likes it best when Fai is feeling lazy and orders Kurogane to be his body servant; to help him dress and undress, to rub his feet, to follow him into the bathroom and scrub his back, or help him brush his hair. Because he has to follow a lot of stupid orders in any given day, but only these give him the opportunity to touch and caress Fai the way he wants to.
- is there a certain thing one of them can’t have sex without
No matter who's in charge, they can never seem to get through a session of sex without Fai biting Kurogane somewhere. Most of the time he's not even really going for blood, although he'll lick up every drop that's spilled; he just loves seeing his teethmarks on Kurogane, the more perfectly formed the better. Better than a monogram.
- their general feelings on sex in the relationship
Fai thinks it's just great. Kurogane, usually when mussed and sweaty and exhausted, thinks there could stand to be less of it. However, he knows better than to express that sentiment to Fai, who will inevitably interpret it as fewer rounds of sex, but stretched out to excruciating lengths of teasing before Kurogane is finally allowed to come. So as good as it feels in the afterglow, he generally tends to just keep his mouth shut.
- how careful are they about using protection
Vampires will always have more stamina and flexibility (and durability) than humans, even ones in as excellent a physical condition as Kurogane. But no matter how enthusiastic he gets in the midst of a feeding/sex session, Fai is always very, /very/ careful of his lover's safety and wellbeing.
After all, he'll lose Kurogane in a short enough span of precious years. Best not to make them any shorter than he has to.
- a fantasy of one that the other will never be able/willing to fulfill
For a year, Kurogane was Fai's master and Fai was utterly submissive to him; for a year, Fai was Kurogane's master, and dominated him body and soul. Now they live among the society of vampires, switching off the roles of master and thrall, predator and prey, and Kurogane knows that they respect and love and trust each other completely. But sometimes, Kurogane wishes that just for a little while, they could be equals.
Requested by tsubasafan: Dog Days
- what was their first kiss like
Kurogane kissed him first -- staking his claim -- that time Fai had been so sick he almost died. Fai was in no shape to really do anything about it then, but he spent most of the rest of that unpleasant convalescence lost in a sort of endlessly looped daydream of that kiss, and what would hopefully follow after.
- what their first time was like
It really didn't live up to his fantasies, unfortunately, since he was so keyed up by the time Kurogane actually got his hands down the front of Fai's pants that he came within five minutes.
That had been mortifying, but the second time -- in the shower about forty-five minutes later -- went much better.
- who’s louder
Kurogane is way louder. Fai tends to bite things -- pillows, Kurogane's shoulder, etc -- so as to make less noise.
- who wakes up first
Fai. Kurogane will actually sleep 12+ hours per day if Fai doesn't make him get up, which makes him grumpy. Of course, NOT being woken up makes him grumpy when he wakes up and finds Fai gone, but then Kurogane is just grumpy all the time so it's hard to tell.
- who performs/receives oral more often
Kurogane has a huge oral fixation and has no problem giving blowjobs, but at least in the early days, Fai got very neurotic about them. He couldn't get over his feelings that oral sex was something sick or wrong, so he didn't enjoy it very much and they usually did other things instead.
- who more often tries new things
Fai. Kurogane knows what he likes and sticks to it; he's very routine-oriented.
- if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be
Nobody. Kurogane gets ferociously jealous when Fai seems to be getting too affectionate with anybody else.
- favorite form of foreplay
Fai has problems with blowjobs, but no problems with everywhere else Kurogane likes to lick him. Kurogane likes it when Fai pulls his hair.
- favorite toy
A squeaky plush seal. Don't tell anyone.
- favorite kink
Kurogane really, really likes wearing collars. He likes knowing that he's Fai's.
He also really, really likes it when Fai wears collars too. He likes knowing that Fai is his.
- is there a certain thing one of them can’t have sex without
Showers, before and afterwards. Fai is a little OCD about it. Kurogane doesn't care, but he's not going to turn down the opportunity to join Fai in the slippery spray.
- their general feelings on sex in the relationship
Sometimes, just sometimes, Fai gets a moment of cognitive dissonance and feels intensely guilty for becoming lovers with Kurogane. After all, Kurogane became human for him, he literally never had a chance to live his life or meet anyone else before tying himself to Fai's side.
Then Kurogane comes in and starts bitching Fai out for leaving wet towels in the sink or whatever, and Fai just has to kiss him. It's a moral imperative.
- how careful are they about using protection
Even after they've been together for years, Fai prefers to always use condoms for penetration. It makes cleanup easier, but more than that, it's just become such a part of his sexual routine that he's not comfortable without it. If they don't have any for some reason, he prefers just a handjob or heavy petting.
Kurogane thinks Fai is weird, but he'll go with whatever makes him comfortable and happy.
- a fantasy of one that the other will never be able/willing to fulfill
Fai really, really wishes that he could tell the truth about Kurogane. Because some days he just gets so completely, crushingly overwhelmed by how lucky he is, by what a miracle it is that Kurogane is in his life, that he wants to run shouting into the streets and tell the whole world.
Even his closest friends, though, would never believe it; so they all just tolerate Kurogane as Fai's unreasonably grumpy boyfriend and never think twice about his lack of a past. And they never know just how special, how magical, he really is.
But Fai knows.
Requested by nemothefairy: Fifty Ways to Kill Your Lover
- first kiss
The first time Fai kissed him was during the party in Piffle; they were all celebrating the princess' victory, and Fai was drunk on booze but more importantly happiness. It was a good kiss -- Kurogane supposed, kissing hadn't really been a thing in Nihon so he had no experience -- but right afterwards Fai turned pale and ran off. Kurogane hadn't thought much of it; it was just more of Fai running away again.
He didn't chase after him, anyway, and the next morning Fai was back to his old self again, as though nothing had happened at all.
- first time
Their first time was no accident at all, slow grinds and wet open-mouthed kisses and hot skin in Clow after it was all over. The sight of Fai's face when he came did almost more than the tight clench of his hands to bring Kurogane off, and afterwards he braced himself for the inevitable teasing when Fai managed to rouse himself from the afterglow.
Instead of lazy teasing, though, when Fai came back to himself his face dawned witha look of horror, and he began shaking and silently crying and flinched from Kurogane's outstretched hand and fuck, Kurogane didn't know what he was supposed to do, but he'd seen fits like this take some ninja who had seen horrors in battle, and the best thing to do was just sit quietly to the side and be sure not to present any threat until it was over.
And that seemed to be the right thing to do; after a long time Fai quieted, and crawled back into bed with his face averted in shame. Kurogane didn't try to put an arm around him, trapping him, but he made sure to lay down within reach if Fai wanted to.
- who's louder - who wakes up first
Given how the idiot ran his mouth the rest of the time, Kurogane suspected that Fai would be the loud one. He was right, but he didn't expect to be proven right by Fai waking up screaming in the middle of the night as he fought his way hysterically out of Kurogane's arms.
- who performs/receives oral more often
Kurogane didn't want to ask if Fai didn't feel like sharing, but for a long time he wondered if Fai had once been raped, if that was why he flinched and feared so. Therefore he was surprised when Fai showed no hesitation at all about giving him oral sex, although if baffled him no end when Fai flinched and pushed him away if he tried to return the favor.
- favorite foreplay
He'd never kissed -- or been kissed -- ever in his life before Fai, so it was strange that once they were lovers there was absolutely nothing that could arouse him quite as much as the hot moist pull of Fai's mouth on his tongue, the slight prick of fangs on his lips -- never quite enough to draw blood, but always there.
Or maybe it wasn't strange at all.
- who more often tries new things
Fai told him everything eventually, about his past, about his terrible dreams. It was obvious from his expression and his hesitant posture that he expected Kurogane to be angry, maybe even to hate him. And it was obvious from his total surprise when Kurogane digested it for a while, then asked if Fai would feel better if he was tied up or chained down during the sex, that he hadn't expected Kurogane to be so open to new ideas.
- if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be
Now that he understood, it no longer irritated Kurogane so much that Fai would be so openly flirty in the presence of strangers, even going so far as kissing and groping before running away laughing when they were together with Syaoran. Because if that was the only way that Fai could feel safe, if he could only feel open about making affectionate advances when they weren't alone together, then Kurogane could put up with the embarrassment.
If Fai tried to invite Syaoran in as a voyeur for the real deal, though, Kurogane meant to put his foot down. Some things you just didn't want to share with your foster son.
- favorite toy - favorite kink
The handcuffs were a rousing success, and Kurogane was more than satisfied to make Mokona carry them along with their little group when they traveled between worlds. Kurogane's favorite part, though, was when they could be somewhere with enough privacy and enough time for Fai to practice what Kurogane had taught him about the art of shibari.
The feeling of the taut ropes encircling his body, forced into the self-control that he no longer had to struggle for against his murderous temper, bound into the poses of bowing and submission... it inflamed him, but not nearly so much as the light in Fai's face when the fear fell away and he could touch and kiss Kurogane with no more shadows left in his eyes.
- how careful are they about using protection
He will protect Fai from anything, everything. Even himself.
- is there a certain thing one of them can’t have sex without
They don't need the ropes or the handcuffs any more. Nowadays Fai is calm enough -- and bold enough -- that if Kurogane just /looks/ at him in a certain way it brings a wicked smile to his face that is so unlike those fake smiles he used to have -- and half the time they'll just do it right there, on a table or against a tree or anywhere they can snatch a moment alone.
Kurogane keeps them around, though, because they're still fantastic.
- a fantasy of one that the other will never be able/willing to fulfill
Sometimes -- in the very private corners of his mind -- Kurogane wishes that Fai would let himself be tied up, too. He imagines it sometimes, the red cords wrapped around Fai's pale, silken skin, the ultimate restraint put on the man who found it so hard to stop running away. He would take his time, go so slowly, and he would make Fai feel so, so good, because he wishes that Fai trusted him enough to let Kurogane prove that he will never, ever hurt him.
He'll never ask.
Requested by bottan: Yuui/Tomoyo (Family Portrait)
- what was their first kiss like
You already know Tomoyo's thoughts on it, but from Yuui's point of view, it was easily the best kiss he'd ever had. Not only because it was with the woman he loved -- although that was a plus -- but because most of his previous kisses were in worlds with less than stellar oral hygiene. Nihon is much better about that sort of thing.
- what their first time was like - who’s louder
Very enjoyable on both parts, although Yuui worried quite a bit that he wasn't doing well because Tomoyo didn't make very much noise. He later came to learn that this sort of reticence on the part of the female partner is just part of Nihon culture, and that Tomoyo enjoyed herself very much, thank you.
- who wakes up first
Yuui is usually the first one up, largely because Tomoyo often stays up until moonset reading the sky. Nowadays he usually spends the mornings with Fai while Tomoyo is still sleeping (and Kurogane is out training,) the afternoons at court, and the evenings with his wife and the twins.
- favorite form of teasing
Tomoyo has discovered that Yuui is exceedingly ticklish.
- who more often tries new things
Yuui, because for most of his life he was unable to stay in one place for more than a few months, has made seamlessly adapting to new things and adopting new practices an effortless part of his personality. Although he loves his life in Nihon, sometimes he does get restless for new things.
By contrast Tomoyo, although much more open-minded than most of her countrymen, is far more conservative than Yuui and disapproves of things that are new just for the sake of being new.
- if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be
Amaterasu never gets tired of teasing Tomoyo about her husband's "fuckable identical twin," which annoys Tomoyo no end because her sister just does not understand. She's spent all her life seeing things through different eyes than the rest of her countrymen, and that leaves a mark on your sight. While Yuui and Fai might have the same face their souls are as different as day and night. Fai's soul still bears the sharp tint of vampire blood, and while she knows why and understands, it's not exactly a turn-on.
Souma teases Yuui much the same way about Kurogane, but at least they both know she's joking. Yuui's tastes actually run much the same as Souma's when it comes to partners; they like slender, soft and curvey, not big, rough and musclebound.
But if they had to choose a third person... well, there's a certain member of the Shirasagi Court -- Lady Kaara -- who has caught both of their eyes on multiple occasions. She's beautiful, refined, elegant and steadfastly single, and the single best oil-and-light painter and calligrapher the Court has seen in a hundred years. They've discussed it on a few late evenings and while they don't really feel the need to extend an invitation, they both agree that she would be the Nihon equivalent of a "free pass."
- favorite toy - favorite kink - who performs/receives oral more often
They are seriously the most vanilla het couple I have ever written.
Sorry.
- is there a certain thing one of them can’t have sex without
A guard at the door and a ninja on the roof.
When he started a relationship with Tomoyo, Yuui thought he was ready to accept how his private life would now become part of the public view. But he wasn't quite prepared for the audience (with commentary!) that kept wanting to intrude on their nuptial affairs. After one particularly bad night with six subsequent interruptions, an annoyed Tomoyo explained to him that this wasn't normal even for the royal family -- some of the Court faction that still disapproved of Tomoyo and Yuui's union were deliberately trolling them. Unfortunately, since what they were doing was not exactly without precedent, Tomoyo didn't have much authority to exclude them.
Fortunately once Kurogane returned and took over palace security, he had no patience for any kind of unauthorized intrusion into the royal quarters; the new guards he posted outside of Tomoyo and Yuui's quarters finally put an end to the interruptions for good. So they can enjoy each other in private, as long as they don't think too hard about the ninja hanging invisibly outside their windows peeking in.
- their general feelings on sex in the relationship
"Smug" tends to describe it pretty well. Although Fai doesn't care and Yuui doesn't have all that many close friends among the other men at court at Shirasagi, he is still quite, quite aware of his absolute romantic coup in scoring the princess/high priestess of the entire country. There's a definite attitude of gloating pretty much every time Yuui appears in public with his beautiful wife.
As for Tomoyo, well, let's just say that marrying a six-foot-tall foreign barbarian gives her lots to talk about with her handmaidens and fellow miko during those long stargazing nights.
- how careful are they about using protection
Kind of the opposite. They were actively TRYING to conceive, and couldn't. Sadly, one of the side effects of the extended lifespans granted to both of them by their inherent magical powers is also a lower fertility rate. By the time Fai and Kurogane came back from their journey Yuui and Tomoyo had been trying for a baby for three years, and they had been home for two more years before Tomoyo finally became pregnant with the twins. She had conceived a few more times before (and since) then, but always lost the baby after only a couple of weeks.
Still, the up side of the extended lifespans is that they've got plenty of time to keep trying!
- a fantasy of one that the other will never be able/willing to fulfill
I thought about this for days and in the end I simply couldn't come up with anything. They are ridiculously sappy, and mind-meltingly happy together.
Requested by fieldofclover: Fai/Yuui/Kurogane (Not Quite Paradise)
- what was their first kiss like
Yuui's first kisses, you know.
For Fai and Kurogane's first kiss, it came when Kurogane was on watch in the bridge one night when Yuui was sleeping but Fai couldn't. He came onto the bridge so quietly that Kurogane would never have heard him if not for the hiss of the hatch, and climbed onto Kurogane's lap there in the captain's chair. Kurogane sat stiffly as Fai kissed him, not sure whether to push him off or radio Yuui to wake him up, or what; but he couldn't help but notice that Fai kissed an awful lot like Yuui.
At last Fai gave up on getting a response from Kurogane, and pushed back from his shoulders with a look of exasperation on his face. "I can speak for myself, you know," he said, and stomped out.
- what their first time was like
It was right after that awful night on the acid-drenched planet of New Tokyo, when Yuui was still stumbling from grogginess and Fai was still preternaturally calm. They'd clung to each other in their cramped cabin, exchanging pets and kisses that were more about comfort than sex, until Fai realized that the arms Yuui needed to be in right now were Kurogane's.
Before today he might have been jealous, but not any more. He'd got Mokona to override the lock on the captain's cabin door, and they'd caught Kurogane half-dressed and with the nano-treated bandage patches still plastered all over his arms and chest, working busily to heal the laser burns that would never otherwise heal straight. He'd roared and blustered and threatened to throw them out, and Yuui hadn't said anything, until Fai expertly tripped him and he'd fallen against the captain's bare chest.
Yuui's hands went up to clutch Kurogane's shoulders, and they kissed each other so passionately that Fai wondered if he should have also had Mokona disable the fire detectors in the captain's cabin. He came up behind his twin and put his arms around them both, pressing himself against Yuui's back, and leaned his head across Yuui's shoulder for a kiss of his own.
Things proceeded from there.
- who’s louder
Fai is the loudest, without question. He still has problems with volume control in normal conversation, let alone in the heat of a passionate moment. He also retains the tendancy to say whatever's on his mind without any kind of filters. It's a good thing that there's a sound-baffling option built into the bulkheads, or else Sakura -- as the next cabin over -- would be treated to a top-volume running commentary of his brother's skill at blowjobs and more than she ever wanted to know about her captain's dick.
- who wakes up first
This one is actually even odds. Kurogane has the habit of waking up early to do his kata exercises and check the ship's logs during the night cycle, but Fai's sleep cycles tend to be disrupted and he can wake up restless at any time. Kurogane gets very disgruntled when Fai beats him out of the bed, as though it's a slight on his own preparedness that he can sleep through Fai leaving.
Yuui never wakes up until both his lovers have already left the bed.
- favorite form of foreplay
For Fai, it's being touched. When he's lost in the math - the beautiful, shining colours that show him the numbers that lie behind the universe we know - it's touch that grounds him and touch that brings him back to Yuui, and to Kurogane.
For Yuui, it's watching Kurogane go through his katas. There's something about the fluidity and grace of movement that appeals to him; the rippling of Kurogane's muscles gliding sleekly beneath that smooth, delectable skin, the power in that hulking frame tempered by the protectiveness of the man himself, that means he usually has to quietly find something to hold over his lap when Kurogane is going through said katas in public.
Kurogane's taste is rather more down to earth (or not, because fucking earth). He likes watching the twins together, all bare skin and hot kisses and thoughtful, measuring glances beneath lowered eyelashes. You could call him unoriginal, if you want, but fucking hell can those twins put on a show.
- who performs/receives oral more often
Fai never gives. They don't trust him to do it. Frankly he rarely gave Yuui a blowjob before the Earth Fed tortured his mind into breaking. Kurogane will give it, but he's not very good at hiding his disdain for the taste and frankly he's not very good, although Yuui will never actually tell him that. Yuui will suck them both off without much problem. He still prefers Fai's cock, maybe because he knows it better. Kurogane tastes slightly better, though, for whatever reason.
- who more often tries new things
Kurogane. The twins don't exactly have a large pool of previous sexual partners, whereas Kurogane knows what the fuck he's doing. He experiments with Yuui, more than Fai; Fai gets confused and disorientated when things get too strange.
- if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be
Kurogane was thinking about what the twins would be like together before he even knew they were. In his defence, he supposes it's a pretty common fantasy, and Yuui wasn't exactly discouraging what with how freely he touched Fai - hands on bare skin, gentle kisses to cheek and forehead and palm... and he later found out that was Yuui playing their relationship down. They're even worse once he realizes what the heck they do and they don't feel the need to hide.
Yuui is thrilled to have them both, although sometimes he privately thinks if he saw Kazuhiko-sensei again... no. Kurogane would hit the roof, let alone Fai.
- favorite toy
Definitely not Mokona. Actually, the ship herself was rather aggressive getting them together. Kurogane strongly suspects, given how she has complete data records for her innards, that the three of them are her favourite toys. Fai and Yuui seem to find her antics amusing, those traitors.
- favorite kink
Suwa spacestation was a Japanese-funded and operated station, and much of Kurogane's adult life was spent in largely asian-owned space. He was twenty-three (seventy three, officially) when he saw a blond for the first time, on one of the Russian mining colonies near Jupiter. With that out of the way, he has a real thing for Yuui's hair (and to a lesser extent, Fai's); it's not just the colour, it's the softness of it, the silky fine texture of it under his fingers...
Before he met the twins, Kurogane just thought of hair as an unremarkable part of a person, like hands or skin or a nose or whatever. Now, though, he can't keep himself from touching it even when Yuui catches on. it's fucking embarassing.
Fai has no kinks. Every day is overwhelming; routine, vanilla sex is grounding and wonderful enough for him.
Yuui gets off the most on Kurogane watching him play with Fai. Maybe it's a mix of his old instincts, to hide what he and his twin do, the old fear and guilt and shame. Maybe he just a performance kink. But most of the time now, as his lips close around Fai's nipple and suck it into a fine peak, it's Kurogane his eyes are on.
- is there a certain thing one of them can’t have sex without
Fai is pretty damn fragmented, and he flat-out can't have sex on planets. It's too confusing and too distressing. In space he absolutely requires a safe, special place, with a door that can be locked so he doesn't share too much with too many; he needs to have minimum distractions - the lights turned down low, quiet and warmth, and he absolutely MUST be constantly touched and petted because otherwise the world is full of explosions of colour and if he's not being anchored he worries when he comes he'll just fly apart, pieces of him scattered on the ribbon-roads of twisting colours and elegant numbers, and he doesn't know if he can find himself again, because you understand it's just so far to go when you exist in more dimensions than you ought...
Kurogane needs to be in charge, to some extent. The old paranoia otherwise won't let him rest.
- their general feelings on sex in the relationship
Yuui is so happy he can't even. It's everything he wanted, he didn't have to be seperated from Fai, and it's even HELPING Fai! :DDDDDD
Fai has his Yuui and sex helps bring him down. He likes it.
Kurogane will growl that it's nobody's business; if the questioning persists he'll grumpily admit it's better than buying hookers, like he used to do. Really he's as :DDDD face as Yuui, but he's CAPTAIN KUROGANE, he has a reputation, thanks.
- how careful are they about using protection
When they first start sleeping with the captain, he insists -- after all they're under his protection, and that means from anything, even possibly himself.
As time goes on, though, it stops mattering so much; by the time they blinked out to the distant planets and had a hard enough time getting air and water and fuel to keep going, let alone condoms, they pretty much stopped worrying about it.
- a fantasy of one that the other will never be able/willing to fulfill
Yuui would actually kind of like to try out handcuffs, and Kurogane would really like to let him; but Fai simply won't have any of it. He freaks out as badly to any restraints being placed on Yuui as placed on himself.
Beyond that, though, Yuui secretly, deep-down wishes that they could live on a planet again. Kurogane doesn't mind, he was born in space, but Yuui sometimes misses gardens and oceans, wide-open blue skies with towering banks of clouds. He misses the feel of wind on his face and the taste of rain. The Mokona is home, but he misses Earth, he liked Mars... he would be happy to stay on any of the planets they passed through, really. But living on Piffle was so hard on Fai that Yuui knows, now, that Fai will always need to be in space for his own mental health; and so Yuui will live there, too.