taxonooc | MEME HO!

That's a nautical term, ftr, like LAND HO! (which, due to the involvement of land, doesn't really sound nautical - but it totally is) but if you wanted to interpret it as 'this meme is brought to you by Dele, who is also a ho', well, I'm sure I would have difficulty finding anyone around here to strenuously disagree on my behalf. Anyway, I love this shit so, this show: let us get it on the road.

WELCOME TO TAXON'S CR MEME!

Comment to this post listing your characters.

Other people will then reply to your comment requesting some epic TL;DR about how your characters feel about theirs.

Maybe talk about how you feel, OOCly, about the direction of their interaction or what makes this CR really powerful, tragic, or perhaps just straight up wildly lulzy.

Since we p. much always have new folks coming in, if your characters are so new they still need spanking, feel free to use this as an opportunity to ~*discuss potential*~.

It will be epic.

Christopher Walken believes in the beautiful, unvarnished truth. Don't disappoint him, bbs.

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enfys & trixie

... /makes you do sol and leila too

i will do sol and leila after i have slept

and enfys and trixie rite nao

WE HAVE TO FINISH THAT THREAD CRY
anyway.

Enfys likes Trixie; by all appearances, she's got her shit together, she doesn't fuck around, and she is an awesome time judging from what Enfys does and does not remember about why she woke up in a wheelbarrow. Enfys likes for people to be/appear straightforward, because she is sort of disconcerted by someone she can't place somehow and let's be honest, okay, Enfys is pretty shitty at interpersonal everything and most people are difficult for her to place.

Trixie is someone she can cheerfully get along with, where 'get along' may mean hooning around Taxon in Trixie's car hurling water balloons at Extras with Penelope or possibly drunkenly ranting about shit, which also still needs to happen because...that's great, basically. (That said, the idea of Enfys glaring at a bottle of beer like I know what you do may actually...happen, lol didn't drink. IF EVER THERE WERE A TIME TO START, I GUESS.)

I think Trixie is somebody that Enfys will legit trust in due time (a relative rarity), although if called upon to explain why she...would not be able to, what do you want from her, she is peopledumb. I also think Taxon should like...tremble a little, maybe.

...so, this is complicated.

Their first meeting wasn't exactly full of promise, which despite their awesome tendency to fight at the drop of a hat actually had less to do with Leila than it did to do with the situation. Sol wasn't really thrilled about the idea of ~*liaising*~ and he was not totally above taking some of that irritation out on her, tbqh, especially since the idea had come from the Etherite side of things. He figured they'd deal with each other enough to accomplish their respective goals, they probably wouldn't ever really get on, and he'd work on that whole 'knocking Tonya up' thing.

...right, that went spectacularly not according to plan.

Sol is wildly, stupidly, obsessively in love with Leila and completely entangled with her; this would be bad enough on its own, being as how he is so, so married, but there is also the fact that they have now been off-and-on in a relationship (in a relationship, not just fucking, Sol would stress this point) for about four years. He knows and understands that he is an enormous bastard, that the supernatural secrecy was already dooming his marriage and that he is only adding insult to injury by cheating on Tonya as well (he sure doesn't have a good excuse for that, unlike how he can sort of maybe say he's protecting Tonya by not telling her how he really met Callista). He gets that this cannot actually go on exactly as is indefinitely.

The thing is that Sol refuses to be the one who makes that decision. The way he sees it is this: the weight of secrets between him and Tonya will buckle their marriage inevitably. There's a reason they're not trying as hard for a baby any more. He knows that she's going to leave him sooner or later. He loves her - so much, he loves how she holds her chin and how she hates early mornings and how she scolds him all the time and how she doesn't get his love for gardening but picked out a house where he could do it - but he is not going to be able to keep her and he knows that.

Leila, he thinks, he will probably also lose. Inevitably. She is so determined to hold herself just far enough back that he can't quite reach her and he's legitimately concerned that if he did leave Tonya, she would immediately (and, for once, permanently) break it off because he'd be no longer safely married and there would be nothing holding them apart. He's pretty sure she feels she needs that and I'm ngl, he kind of hates himself for factoring it into his decision not to leave Tonya. He hates that if she asked him to, he would, because that aside- Tonya and Solomon are married on borrowed time and it's a lot because at the end of the day they are literally living in two different worlds and she cannot be a part of his the way that Leila can. If he thought that Leila was ready/willing to have a relationship ~*for real*~, openly, with the acknowledgement that they were in one and had to deal with it on those terms, then he would do it. Immediately. And he'd feel like a prick, because he kind of is, but there you go!

He can intellectualize the idea/"fact" that he will lose Leila, but he wouldn't accept in the same way because Sol can see a future there that he can't see any more with his wife. Which he doesn't love about himself, but he doesn't hate it enough to not be in this situation. So if she moved to Singapore, if she moved to France - LA was not going to be far enough and they wouldn't either, but they'd probably be easier to fuck up and get busted.

In some ways Taxon is coming to almost feel like a test-drive for a reality where they don't sneak around, and Sol intends - to a point - to let Leila steer this. So when she introduces him as her date, he'll roll with it without batting an eyelid; he wants to see where her comfort level is when his wife is kindasorta not in the picture, annnnd because it's Sol, he wants to see how far he can push his luck.

He would very much like to be able to make it work with one of the women he loves so much, and since barring a miracle he can't see it with Tonya, on certain levels he is crossing his fingers that Taxon will be able to help him and Leila figure out some of their shit. And the he feels they should bust out, because damn.

Right now, also, OVERARCHING INSANE RELATIONSHIP ASIDE, he's...still really concerned about her in the wake of her sister's death. He doesn't believe she is even remotely okay, there, and he is sort of frysquinting at the major life upheaval that followed like ARE YOU DISPLACING, LIEBCHEN :/ etc. And he is going to slowly keep pushing at it. Which will probably result in him getting kicked out of her apartment repeatedly, I assume. Enjoy their screaming bloody fights, Taxon!

MEME HO!

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enfys: trixie.

solomon: leila. [i broke the comment limit sry]

solomon: leila 2: electric boogaloo