Aradia/Sollux (Flushed): Jolie-Laide (French), "Ugly-Pretty," A Kind Of Beauty Who Is Not Conventionally Attractive, But Has A Fascinatingly Unusual Look That Makes Them Even More Charismatic
Sollux laughs at you when you admire him, but you think he's just plain wrong about this. If you really break it down and consider all the bits and pieces of him, it's difficult to describe exactly what you mean, but once you see him as a whole, watch him move, talk to him, know him, you aren't sure how you could avoid thinking that he's beautiful. His teeth, those are always a thing that he brings up when he wants to argue that he's ugly. They certainly are something, and he definitely has the most impressive lisp you've ever heard, but when you see him sitting at his husktop with the whole outer world tuned out, chewing absently on his lip or just smiling to himself, you wouldn't change those teeth for the world.
That doesn't even get into the rest of him. He calls his horns ugly-ass mutations that should have gotten him culled, but you know he loves them (and you do too). Two sets of two in perfect symmetry is exactly what he deserves, and it gives you so many places to put your hands when you're all sprawled up with him purring in your lap. And he never sees it, but when he's using his psionics and little jolts of red and blue bridge from horntip to horntip, it really does make you wish you had an extra set of your own. He calls himself emaciated (slim), with limp, ugly hair (fine and silky), with freakish ears and a tongue (how could he have anything but doubled eartips and a split tongue?). He fights with you about it all the time, but you never even mind because it gives you an excuse to admire him as much as you want no matter how hard he tries to convince you that you're wrong.
The red and blue, that's another thing you adore, and you don't even have to argue with him about it because he likes it just as much as you. You've known of a troll with eyes like his, and you selfishly wish he's the only one like that in the world, so you can keep it all to yourself. You've never seen anything so striking. You tease him about it all the time, because you know it's one of the things he loves about himself, and you love it just as much as he does. Red on the right, blue on the left, and it's a beautiful whole that's symmetric and asymmetric and perfectly him. Once when you were young you saved your allowance in little bits and pieces to be able to buy him a pair of glasses with blue on the right and red on the left. On his wriggling day, the look he gave you was so, so reproachful, but you know he wore them until they fell apart, and that's just another reason for you to love him so very much.
