then the roles revealed themselves which was a whole other mess, specifically because of who killed hikage. belph had previously said that wwx was his friend, one of his only friends, so finding out that he was the one who did it was... a lot. and steph had her own feelings on the matter, but she was mostly concerned about belph? especially since he refused to uh, talk about it. but then she talked to wwx after, and he told her how belph misunderstood and believed that he was faking the friendship so she forced him to go back to him because... she knows wwx is similar in that he avoids talking about feelings? and even if they couldn't become friends again, she didn't want their relationship to end on that misunderstanding. belph may have had a ton of horrible things happen to him, but the last thing he was going to lose with another friend!
anyway, and then endgame happened, and they got reunited with hikage and everyone else who died and it went? okay? everyone is traumatized but they are going home together and it's fine! they have so many issues they still need to work out, and they also need to like, catch hikage up on stuff? but. it's fine. everything else i'm going to talk about are things that i was not sure where to fit up there because trying to do these things in chronological order is so fucking hard, jan.
the piano! i... assume he probably kept giving her lessons even though they stopped getting mentioned at some point. but also, steph's piano lore is tied to the extremely difficult to get lore, so her opening up to him about playing at all and wanting to do it with him was a rather significant deal. but even more, it was something they both had in common and could bond over, especially since she knew it was something important to belph. she like, offhandedly mentioned to other people she knew how to play, but belph was the one that she really like, actually played with? a lot.
other things... a part of her wondered if the constant flirting was too much, especially since belph didn't want to date yet, but also he had? no problems with doing it back? so she figured it was fine. it was just trying to figure out what kind of flirting was okay, and what was going too far, and admittedly at least belph was fairly good at judging her when she said something too much which is another thing she appreciates about him because she knows that sometimes she is A Lot.
also they constantly joked about being homewrecked but. wow it really would have never happened, because at this point steph is so in love with belph that even though she can acknowledge other people are hot, or that other people are her type, she wouldn't think about dating them. even with like dimitri, who is very much her type and who she could have probably gotten an actual crush on if they didn't wait so long to start talking, it just. would not have been close to her belph feelings. it's horrible. also honestly one of the reasons she wasn't super bothered about their love lives being outed to camp is that it meant there was no chance that anyone else would try to pursue belph romantically. she is so jealous.
OH and also the fact that he actually lets her give him physical affection now is? a lot? even though apparently he couldn't fuckin feel a lot of it!! i hate you. but he would always ignore her hand or move out of the way and stuff, but now he lets her hang off of him and hug him and? hand holding?? it means a lot to her.
anyway, at this point all that is left is to go back to gotham and she will use her resources so that belph can find a good therapist? and honestly it probably won't be that hard considering uh, a lot of really weird ass shit happens in comics, so he could in theory even talk about murdergame stuff and it'll work out. but she is going to try to make his stay in gotham as comfortable and good as possible so that he can have time to himself and heal even a little, and she is going to to hold his hand the entire time, because he is her best friend who she loves so very, very much, both romantically and platonically. i am pretty sure i missed stuff but this is embarrassingly long so i have to end this now goodbye
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anyway, and then endgame happened, and they got reunited with hikage and everyone else who died and it went? okay? everyone is traumatized but they are going home together and it's fine! they have so many issues they still need to work out, and they also need to like, catch hikage up on stuff? but. it's fine. everything else i'm going to talk about are things that i was not sure where to fit up there because trying to do these things in chronological order is so fucking hard, jan.
the piano! i... assume he probably kept giving her lessons even though they stopped getting mentioned at some point. but also, steph's piano lore is tied to the extremely difficult to get lore, so her opening up to him about playing at all and wanting to do it with him was a rather significant deal. but even more, it was something they both had in common and could bond over, especially since she knew it was something important to belph. she like, offhandedly mentioned to other people she knew how to play, but belph was the one that she really like, actually played with? a lot.
other things... a part of her wondered if the constant flirting was too much, especially since belph didn't want to date yet, but also he had? no problems with doing it back? so she figured it was fine. it was just trying to figure out what kind of flirting was okay, and what was going too far, and admittedly at least belph was fairly good at judging her when she said something too much which is another thing she appreciates about him because she knows that sometimes she is A Lot.
also they constantly joked about being homewrecked but. wow it really would have never happened, because at this point steph is so in love with belph that even though she can acknowledge other people are hot, or that other people are her type, she wouldn't think about dating them. even with like dimitri, who is very much her type and who she could have probably gotten an actual crush on if they didn't wait so long to start talking, it just. would not have been close to her belph feelings. it's horrible. also honestly one of the reasons she wasn't super bothered about their love lives being outed to camp is that it meant there was no chance that anyone else would try to pursue belph romantically. she is so jealous.
OH and also the fact that he actually lets her give him physical affection now is? a lot? even though apparently he couldn't fuckin feel a lot of it!! i hate you. but he would always ignore her hand or move out of the way and stuff, but now he lets her hang off of him and hug him and? hand holding?? it means a lot to her.
anyway, at this point all that is left is to go back to gotham and she will use her resources so that belph can find a good therapist? and honestly it probably won't be that hard considering uh, a lot of really weird ass shit happens in comics, so he could in theory even talk about murdergame stuff and it'll work out. but she is going to try to make his stay in gotham as comfortable and good as possible so that he can have time to himself and heal even a little, and she is going to to hold his hand the entire time, because he is her best friend who she loves so very, very much, both romantically and platonically. i am pretty sure i missed stuff but this is embarrassingly long so i have to end this now goodbye