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video (un: falcogrice)

CONTENT WARNING: psychological changes, hoarding, and obsessive behavior related to lavish desires

[ this video opens up with the blink of two eyes and a disgruntled chitter. perle is filming falco and focusing on . . . quite a mess of books in various assortments, stacked upon each other until they were in danger of tilting. among the open spines on the floors pinned with bookmarks were scrolls of paintings, sketches, statues, sepia photography— anything resembling a loving relationship, falco has seemed to have snatched it and keeps it all hostage in his little cabin home's attic like a greedy little dragon buried in precious, hoarded gold. he's pacing left, right, and has been caught mid-explanation as he works a red thread between his fingers. ]

—ee this, Perle? What I read, [ he paces some ways to the right to splay his hands on oh dear god what mad science project is this— so many pieces of paper glued to each other until it forms one massive canvas taking up the entirety of the attic wall. he's written words, names, and has a wild amount of different colored threads connecting to the various names. ] there're different types of love in a relationship, but that goes for any relationship, so it doesn't have to be romantic so— See Paul, right here?

Yes, boy, I can see. I wish I could close my eyes, and unsee. Would you listen just a moment to me—

[ she seems very close to her limit to listening to all of this for hours— but she relents. falco points to the names written on the slips next to his. ]

There's Eros, like the story, for two people, [ he pins the red thread from paul to both, and as he does so, with his back turned, ] and that's really hard to pull off because it's easy for anyone that loves someone to feel jealous, and Brother already said he feels that way sometimes like there'll be nothing left, do you think there's some Mania in there too? I'm not sure if it's Pragma, that takes time to evolve— Erwin and Levi are definitely Pragma.

Boy—

But these started as Philia and that's what this green is going to be for, and this gold is supposed to be Storge because we're all from the same House so that counts as familial like these here, it's really different from, like, Ymir and Historia, or Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion—

I've had it!

Wh—

You heard me! This is too much! It's been days! Cease! Go play outside! Make bread, brew tea for your fathers! Read your books and not the ones you stole! Is everyone seeing this, hm?! Good! [ it's clear she's talking to the sleepers, now, hopping onto an entire stack of books. ] Is this yours? Or this? Come get it! And this? [ she flutters onto a statue, then someone's flowery gift to a loved one, an elaborate painting of a couple in the hues of a purple sunset, then pecking at a little box with . . . were those— rings? ] These! Those! Also stolen! You haven't even apologized to Jun! And before you start, I am indeed shaming you! You've never stolen! You've never been obsessive or nosy or combative or— [ she puffs up big and nasty for a falcon no larger than a human palm. ] This! It is worse than hormonal! I do not like it! [ peck!! peck!! peck!! ] Shame! Shame on you!

What's with you—?!

And what's with you?! I hope they talk some sense into that smitten little head!

[ falco's face changes so many shades then, going from lime, to slime, to a deep castelon green from the tips of his ears to his collar bones. he's hushing angrily: ]

No one was supposed to see, they'll want to have it! Just like Jun!

You are dreadfully mistaken! A problem must be seen!

[ the worst (or best) of it is his sputtering voice that just gives way to the harshest, cracked shriek in teenage rebellion: ]

This is beautiful!!

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But—

[ izuku is doing that thing where it's hard to be mad at. unlike with perle, he could just— yell back. izuku doesn't give that trade-off. he still doesn't make rational sense when he decides to retort with: ]

They mean a lot to me.

[ Midoriya has the same power Falco has: being very difficult to get mad at. How the tables have turned. ]

I don't get it. You're such a sweet person. Why would you make others sad? What... what does all this stuff have in common?

[ the same reason why he’s even raised a hand (boot, specifically) to the only friend he’s made just his age. to have the book that’s made it to the top of his pile.

he doesn’t look at izuku. ]

It’s all . . . About love. I had to have them. [ . . . ] I just did.

C'mon, [ he says gently, like a hand taking another. ] How about separating any library books out first? You can probably borrow those a little longer. .

Since you've got a lot to do with your string chart anyway, why don't you concentrate on that instead of taking things?

[ his lips pull into a frown and his eyes look sideways, elsewhere; he doesn't want to, but he's not about to throw a childish moaning fit about it either. ]

Can I just— focus on this? Before the books?

[ i need the books is an irrational thought, but separating them would mean he was done with them, too. he wasn't! he must do research.

at least he's asking. ]

I guess you could...

Why this subject? And all of us? I mean, it seems like just something we could talk about. Why a chart? Not that it's weird, you're the second friend I've seen make a post like this. Kind of.

[ Thanks Karkat! ]

Talking is nice, but—! Seeing them in color like this really helps visualize the subtypes!

[ let him just— info dump all over you, izuku. he opens a book up with an identical wheel that interconnects eight different types of love. ]

I really love romance! If you can confirm your side of this cluster right here—! [ point point!! the triangle between him and— well, all those people. ] I can make a lot if progress!

[ Normally he'd highly encourage nerdiness, as a fellow nerd. Instead, a small high croak emanates from his throat. He's audio only, so the nervous smile (he smiles when he's nervous) and pink face don't show.

But it's not just teenage embarrassment. There's a safety precaution to consider as well. He throws on a privacy filter. ]

I have enemies in the city, so it's best they don't know who all my friends are.

A bunch of yellow? For our House, right? A-A red string between me and Kaworu-kun and Paul-kun... [ Like the red string of fate... That's rather... fateful. ]

Is blue for friendship? Uh--but what does the pink one mean? Rivals? Or is that purple... [ He's looking at Johnny and Daniel's and getting confused. ]

[ okay strap in deku you're in for a ride ]

Yellow is supposed to be for familial love, like being part of a family, or "House". Red is Eros— That's romantic love. Light blue would be the love you feel for friends, and pink— I put that down as "passion", but only because I don't have other shades of pink! There're different types of those, too.

Oh— And purple is an interest! I don't know what kind of interest, but it's interest.

[ He was doing so well until Falco got to pink. Gods help him. Gods help them all. The mortification. ]

P-P-P-Passion??

[ He forgot his own voice could go that high. ]

No that's not--what happened at all--

—It’s not?!

[ he’s mentally falling to his knees. no!!!! he got something . . . absolutely wrong!!!! ]

I-I’d heard you got into a passionate fight in the bathroom once!

[ He needs a moment. Okay. Honesty is the best policy. Even it means he is never being invited over to houses with bathrooms ever again. ]

K-Kind of? But not that kind of passion?!

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