unfortunately i have hit a fully solid brick wall while writing this and i don’t even know how far back i need to rewind so i don’t slam headfirst into solid brick again. i want this one to be done! it’s almost done!!

hoping, praying to get something new out before the end of december...

this has got to be one of the stupidest things i have ever written. however it does bring me joy to think of these two as cute anime horse girls.

on a related note, i wish i knew japanese. i want so badly to know how these two refer to each other in the original language. i bet there’s some juicy stuff to be uncovered there.

their friendship and his image, of course.

then, seven years down the line, it turns out the closeness and familiarity he very intentionally and artificially constructed wasn’t so artificial after all.

friends call each other by their first names. it emotionally encourages familiarity. and at the start of their relationship, kristoph was trying to be friendly, familiar to phoenix. i think kristoph would very intentionally call phoenix by his first name off the bat, to facilitate their friendship.