What a pain in the ass but Nikolas loves him ok. He isn't entirely comfortable around him mostly because Ed has a personality that's difficult for Nikolas to ever get ENTIRELY comfortable with! He is much more suited to Al-types actually than to Ed-types. But Ed is funny, and cute, and fascinating, and also obviously someone worthy of a TON OF RESPECT. I mean not only could he murder Nikolas as soon as look at him, he's intelligent and relatively well-adjusted and has his head on straight despite all the shit he's seen. But he's silly and reactive and flusterable enough that Nikolas doesn't generally feel . . . threatened or combative or intimidated like he might otherwise! They do a lot of trading of the upper hand in their conversations and he likes that; it's entertaining banter and Nikolas values it. It's not exactly restful, and Nikolas really intensely needs restful in his life from his friends, but things would get boring if all of them were soothing calming kind people, so he values that Ed isn't one of those while still being a generally awesome dude.
He had a great big silly crush on Ed just because Ed is so fucking cute and he was enjoying that! It's less so now because he hooked up with Winter and because Ed gave that his blessing (BY BLESSING I MEAN THREATS.) but he does still think he's adorable and kind of just wants to cuddle him a lot and make him blush and fluster and put his face in his hair. eddddwwwaaaardd
But it's not anything more serious than a hilarious crush--I mean he does consider him a real friend and genuinely cares about him, and Nikolas is the kind of guy who loves his friends, but any love he has here is platonic even if it's accompanied by a total willingness to make out with him if Nikolas weren't attached! And even though he looks up to Ed in a way, he totally recognizes and gets annoyed with all of Ed's flaws. It's kind of soothing to him actually because he's spent a long time in life with the only people he knew either being total shit to him or being held up on a high pedestal because they were ~perfect and untouchable~. He's still getting over that stage in his life so having a dude like Ed around where they bicker a lot and don't see eye to eye but they also care for one another and share things is good for him. (This is also why Ed reminds him a little of Frest, whom he had a similar relationship budding with.)
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Date: 2013-10-27 05:24 am (UTC)What a pain in the ass but Nikolas loves him ok. He isn't entirely comfortable around him mostly because Ed has a personality that's difficult for Nikolas to ever get ENTIRELY comfortable with! He is much more suited to Al-types actually than to Ed-types. But Ed is funny, and cute, and fascinating, and also obviously someone worthy of a TON OF RESPECT. I mean not only could he murder Nikolas as soon as look at him, he's intelligent and relatively well-adjusted and has his head on straight despite all the shit he's seen. But he's silly and reactive and flusterable enough that Nikolas doesn't generally feel . . . threatened or combative or intimidated like he might otherwise! They do a lot of trading of the upper hand in their conversations and he likes that; it's entertaining banter and Nikolas values it. It's not exactly restful, and Nikolas really intensely needs restful in his life from his friends, but things would get boring if all of them were soothing calming kind people, so he values that Ed isn't one of those while still being a generally awesome dude.
He had a great big silly crush on Ed just because Ed is so fucking cute and he was enjoying that! It's less so now because he hooked up with Winter and because Ed gave that his blessing (BY BLESSING I MEAN THREATS.) but he does still think he's adorable and kind of just wants to cuddle him a lot and make him blush and fluster and put his face in his hair. eddddwwwaaaardd
But it's not anything more serious than a hilarious crush--I mean he does consider him a real friend and genuinely cares about him, and Nikolas is the kind of guy who loves his friends, but any love he has here is platonic even if it's accompanied by a total willingness to make out with him if Nikolas weren't attached! And even though he looks up to Ed in a way, he totally recognizes and gets annoyed with all of Ed's flaws. It's kind of soothing to him actually because he's spent a long time in life with the only people he knew either being total shit to him or being held up on a high pedestal because they were ~perfect and untouchable~. He's still getting over that stage in his life so having a dude like Ed around where they bicker a lot and don't see eye to eye but they also care for one another and share things is good for him. (This is also why Ed reminds him a little of Frest, whom he had a similar relationship budding with.)
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