OTP Meme 1: Holding Hands


Stahl couldn't lie- he had grown quite a large amount of affection for Sully. Whether it be laughing, looking into each other's eyes, brushing near death with her cooking, or getting his lunch handed to him every time they trained, he found that his heart sang with an unmistakable joy.

Sully certainly knew how to wrap Stahl's heart around her pinky, whether the red head knew it or not.

Of course, this led to him feeling quite awkward in her presence. He always wanted to impress her, and he knew that would be quite the daunting task with her. If he slipped up even once, he knew his chances were as good as over. For once in his life, he hated being the average guy. He would always come to her, bearing his heart on his sleeve (and, once, the brain guts of a Risen that he had slain, much to Sully's amusement and Henry's fascination), and she would be blissfully unaware of Stahl's approaches.

The next day, as they trained, Sully allowed him to touch her hand.

It was heaven.

Her hands were that of an angel, soft and delicate and appeared to be made of porcelain. Gods, how Stahl wanted to rub his face with it or even kiss her hand, but he knew that, in doing so, he would lose her trust and become Virion the II in her crimson gaze… Perhaps he would have been lucky and ended up with boot to the face (he was no masochist, but he would prefer that to losing her any day.)

The following day, he sat by her at the campfire to watch Olivia dancing with her and Virion's son, Inigo. Sully had dropped something, and Stahl bent over quickly to pick it up. As he sat up to hand it to her, he found that she, too, was in the motion of bending to retrieve her item and found that his lips had brushed her cheek accidentally. His face reddened at the realization, and he swore he saw a hint of pink on her perfect face and a tiny amount of adoration in her eyes before she promptly slapped him across the face and told him to pay more attention to his surroundings and to improve his reaction time. Five apologies later, she waved off the event and told him to not worry. "You're no Virion, I know that much Stahl. Just… don't do it again, okay?"

That was perhaps the nicest thing she said to him… but, alas, he was friend zoned. However, he was given a new opportunity to test Sully's limits on how affectionate he could be and to get away with it. As such, that day he knew what he must do: he was to hold hands with her!

"Hey Stahl, why aren't ya eating? It's not like I was cooking today." Sully ruffled his already messy hair before comfortably settling next to him to peel a banana.

"Distracted," Stahl flinched away from her hand that suddenly went flying towards his face.

"Well, at least you improved your reaction time."

"Gods, isn't there any other way you could teach me to be alert?" Stahl whined as Sully chuckled.

"Well I could…" he stopped listening and looked deeply into her eyes. Perhaps she would notice and instead hold his hand instead. She was certainly bold enough to do so and knew him quite well. Perhaps he had read her wrong at the campfire that night? What if it was anger instead of love that had flickered across her face and the rosiness of being shy was actually red hot fury from her cheeks? Oh gods, what was he thinking? Stahl clasped either side of his head and groaned.

"I know, so much effort, right?" Sully grinned and tapped her remaining banana on his forehead.

"Sully!" Stahl blurted, earning her attention. In the very moment her eyes met his, his hands reached for hers and clamped down firmly.

"Uhm… what?" Sully blushed lightly. "Stahl, you don't have to compare hands again-"

"And you say I'm the dense one."

"What?"

"Sully… I like… I like spending time with you," Stahl looked away and blushed, expected to be rejected.

"Pfft. Took you long enough," Stahl never felt so happy in his life! That moment was certainly the best in his entire-

His thoughts were interrupted by a hand flying towards his face and making full contact, causing him to fall on the floor and grab that side of his face. "Your reaction time still sucks, by the way."


A/N: Yes, my 'realistic' OTP (I'm told both Stahl X Wall and Stahl X MU / Frederick X MU are not realistic, per say, in this) is Stahl X Sully. They both work excellently together in battle in game, and they are the only ones with a special ending together. It's a romance based of off strength and trust, although their support convo was a little… *cough* inappropriate *cough* (pervy mind at work.)

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