the non-sexual intimacy meme

[meme]

Reach out and touch someone.

1. In Bed
- Sleeping and only sleeping? You can hear your partner's heartbeat and listen to their breathing. Are they stubborn and need to be put to bed? Do they have a nightmare to be woken from, or do they sleep peacefully in your arms?

2. Cleaning Up
- This can be anything from bathing, shaving, to hair care! Or even dressing, getting out of your costume after a long day of superhero-ing.

3. Living Together
- Domesticity requires a certain level of weakness. Maybe you're seeing someone without their 'adaptive equipment' on, or their defenses lowered. A shared space comes with shares items: clothes or jewelry, or anything in between. Who keeps the place clean? Who decorates or cooks?

4. Emotional Support
- Someone who you can share your secrets with. Have you lost someone important? Are you risking your life to save theirs?

5. Physical Support
- Holding hands is the simplest show of support, like being held in someone's arms, or carried when you might fall.

6. Chaste Kisses
- A kiss on the hand may be quite continental! Or perhaps the cheek or forehead, or maybe even feet? Nothing's wrong with a little worship.

7. Wild Card
- There are as many ways to be intimate with someone as there are stars in the sky. What's the unique way that you connect?

Comments

[gandere]

[ Yes. ] No, of course not.

[ His breath sends shivers down her spine as the tension refuses to leave her body. Having the greatest enemy of her family this close and wanting him to fill the emptiness their deaths brought them contradicted with the urge to have his body fill their graves instead. ]

Nothing. You can't change the past and I'm all grown up now.

[god_damned]

Do you mean to say it's too late now? [ He lingers, tucking a stray hair back into place behind her ear. ] Would you rather I abandon all attempts?

[gandere]

[ He makes matters so difficult for her. It'd be easy to accuse him for making her this way and ultimately for ruining her life, but what good would it do? ]

What do you think, Kirei?

[ Without the memories of 'raising her' of the past ten years, does he really want to put his best foot forward? ]

[god_damned]

I think, by all measures, you are still an incredibly young woman. You have not fully become yourself just yet.

[ His fingers curl through her hair gently, smoothing it back. ]

I wonder what kind of person you will be.

[gandere]

... Someone who would make my father proud. [ That much she's sure of even as Kirei's fingers touch her exposed skin. ] What do you think? Do you think I'm capable of doing that even here?