Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20181023073254/@comment-32273133-20190310210814

—Clay’s socially very smart, he’s learned to read people very well and knows how to reach them in the best way

—ig that’s a Tambien thing, except most of the others were more manipulative

—ie Hester or his grandmother

—Calidi is in luck because Clay’s a big cuddler too

—he’s content to curl up with someone and talk or sleep or really anything for hours

—he doesn’t really like the extreme stuff either, mostly because of body image issues/dysphoria, though he doesn’t mind kissing

—obviously he’s not going to force Calidi into anything and he’s always going to ask whether something that might be more intense is okay

—oh after Damian Bex shouldn’t be a problem

—oof yeah me too, rip Calidi, don’t lick the child pls

—the illusion mostly covers the wounds but Calidi would still feel pain from them

—illusions work like a skin over the object receiving the illusion—whatever is underneath is still there, but the illusion covers it

—pain also contradicts illusions, so if the pain’s ever really bad, the cuts show up on female Calidi’s body

—she’d keep a female form but just the cuts would transfer

—cue Clay dashing around Forengard to find something akin to pain medicine

—Percy probably finds Calidi by tracing Trin’s illusions;  even if it’s after Calidi can shapeshift again, there’s still magic residue around him

—not enough to affect Calidi and not enough that Trin would notice it but Percy’s honed his spells so much that he can find even small traces

—so he’d find Calidi and be all “wait that’s not Trin” and sulk about it, probably rejecting all Calidi’s attempts to be friends and patronising them

—because he’s a bastard

—If Virali is with him he’ll try to be nice to Calidi just to make up for Percy’s assholery

—Trin probably wouldn’t tell Calidi exactly what happened at first, maybe something along the lines of “he forced me into something significant that I really didn’t want to do”

—later they might tell Calidi the whole story, once they know him and trust him more

—Trin also has a problem with physical contact after Percy happened [like even when Bex tries to hug them they’re a little 😥 about it], so Calidi might infer that it was something physical

—they’d really appreciate Calidi’s help but also “please don’t put yourself in danger, Percy’s really unpredictable”

—and things would not go well if Calidi ever got caught

—Percy:  it’s YOU again

—He’d be annoyed that this ant keeps popping up and pissed that it’s still not Trin so he’d try to “get rid of” Calidi, whether that be by hexing him or murder

—an alternative “ooh firey” person who’s generally nicer would be Cyrus

—the short conspiracy includes anyone under 5’6

—Cyrus:  we’ll overthrow the tall people

—they put clear plastic on the top halves of doorways so anyone taller than Cyrus smashes their face into it when they try to go through

—it’s all fun until Micah, Damian, and Korin move all the dishes and food to the top cabinet shelves or on top of the cabinets that don’t reach the ceiling

—Cyrus:

—Clay becomes an honorary member of the short conspiracy when he lets Calidi and Cyrus sit on his shoulders to reach stuff