ocs aging is my favorite thing to read about, so i wanna ask you a question - how do you see matthias and theo (and their relationship) in their fourties?
and generally for how long you have their story planned? you think only about times when they young or you have āplannedā their 50s, 60s etc
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Oh I really love where Theo and Matthias find themselves as they age into their forties.
For Theo, heās fully out from under his parentsā thumb by the time he reaches forty and heās also been clean for a good handful of years. The first twenty-something years of Theoās life wereā¦ well, they were really hard on him. He thought of himself less as a person and more as an extension of his parentsā will. He did what they said when they said it no matter how little he wanted to, but once he let go of all that appeasement and supplicationā¦ he finally got to relax. Theoās had pretty bad identity issues his whole life, but in his thirties and beyond itās like heās finally found himself again. He was lost before, you know? And in his forties heās comfortable. Iām not saying heās magically healed and well adjusted or anything, like he has C-PTSD and he still begs off therapy appointments and taking meds butā¦ he knows who he is and he can see the world in the same colors he saw when he was five and still playing in the garden, unafraid of all the things a child shouldnāt know about.
For Matthias, heās settled into his forties with grace. I think heās more grounded after having Theo in his life for two decades. I think Iāve said this before, but he was numb to pretty much everything in his twenties and totally disillusioned and nihilistic. Let me be realā¦ Matthiasās personality hardly changes as he ages, but I think his outlook on life is a little less bleak with Theo in it. Hmā¦ I think in his late thirties heās finally processed a lot of the trauma he experienced in his teen years, butā¦ I donāt think his insomnia ever goes away. I do think he can sleep a little longer, but he still has auditory hallucinations for sure. Nevertheless, Matthias is fulfilled in his forties. He has his best friend and the love of his lifeā¦ itās all he needs. I think Matthias is really just someone who desperately wanted to be loved and he didnāt know what that hunger was for until he was so full of it it got stuck in his teeth.
As for their relationship when theyāre olderā¦ theyād actually defined it, first off. I think they feel like theyāre too old to be calling each other āboyfriendā so instead Theo calls Matthias his partner and Matthias calls Theo his lover. Theyāre definitely living together but theyāre still not married. I think Matthias mightāve proposed sometime in their early thirties but been rejected. Not that it was a serious proposal, mind youālike, the chance that he asked during sex is pretty high I wonāt lie lmaoābut I think he was probably just trying to get a feel for what Theo wants and that was a good enough answer for him. Day-to-dayā¦ hmā¦ Theoās a working man so heās often late to meals and Matthias has to find him in his art studio to get him to eat something. Matthias is still a layabout but he does busy himself with writingājust journaling and letters and stories he reads for Theo. Matthias is also sponsoring a few organizations thatāre trying to shut down the troubled teen industry. They visit Imani and her husband often and Matthias babysits when askedāTheo is very hands-off when Matthias is babysitting since he still has a pretty emotional response to seeing happy kids... ugh. The friends of Theoās who stuck around from his party days will have lunch with him every few weeks, but they still donāt like or want to be around Matthias, which, likeā¦ fair. Theo doesnāt really hang out with anyone on a regular basis other than Matthias, if Iām honest. Theo justā¦ isnāt actually a people person, it turns out. Theo also does a lot of volunteer work with animals since itās another kind of therapy for him. Theyāre just happy, y'know?
As for the actual extent of the planning Iāve done with the characters... well, thereās no end to their lives in my head since I can just picture them at any age. I know Theo and Matthias very wellā¦ I don't even really need to think about it (which is also why I hardly ever write anything downā¦ theyāre just living in my head). That said, the actual story they come from (which doesnāt actually have a titleāechthroi is just a temporary name) only lasts for about twoāmaybe threeāyears. Itās not fully plotted out because I would first need to actually make the Big Decisions Iāve been putting off with relation to the plot for foreverrr, but I know where it starts and where it ends. So theyāre both forever in their 20s in that way, but to me theyāre every age theyāll ever be.
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she has a willatine for you āŗļø
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Leather jackets are cool okay š„ŗ
also Dick has unknowingly opened the door to little birds stealing his clothes from him lol. It's a love language š
Inspired by āā
that time Discowing wore a leather jacket:
and this precious panel of baby Jay:
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Some Wanderer and Nahida interactions!!
Some of them were inspired from the fanfics I read
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