Okay, I Have A Lot Of Favourite Estinaud Dynamics, But One I Love Is Estinien Not Recognising Alphinaud

Okay, I have a lot of favourite Estinaud dynamics, but one I love is Estinien not recognising Alphinaud post growth spurt.

Tataru is throwing a get-together party for the "former" Scions and Estinien hasn't seen Alphinaud in a few years. Now, when he walks in, he sees the most gorgeous Elezen he's ever seen in his life, just totally captivated by this person. But then he's like, "No, no, later, I have to find Alphinaud first."

He runs around for a little bit, but he finds hide nor hair of him. He gives in and asks Thancred if he's seen him. He's been watching Estinien search high and low, and he points to the beautiful creature Estinien laid eyes on before, shit eating grin on his face.

And Estinien’s like: *surprised pikachu face*

Well, he shoots his shot and they sneak off to spend the rest of the night together, alone.

I love it when Alphinaud is completely oblivious to people being flirtatious or missing cues that people are in a relationship.

He'll see Thancred kiss Urianger and be like, "Hey, is there something going on between them or am I reading into it?"

Or Estinien will flirt with him and Alphinaud's blank faced like, "He's being really nice to me lately."

Boy, there's more going on than you realise.

Also, I kept thinking about this:

Mono ends up having eight kids in total. It started with a pair of twin girls, ne wanted more kids, then ne had twin boys, convinced Alphinaud to get nem pregnant one more time, thinking five or six kids was good. Ne ended up having triplets and said "okay, I'm done." Except ne ended up accidentally having one more.

Thing is, Alphy and Mono are in a relationship with Estinien. What if Muin (their last kid) ended up being Estinien's fault? And they just don't really think about it? 😂

I'm writing a mixed mind control–hypnosis kink fic for Kinktober and, holy shit, I made Alphy so smarmy in this one. Of course he's just role-playing, but I didn't think the little man had that in him.

I think Estinien would get off to taking care of Alphinaud and treating him like his new baby brother. He misses having that kind of relationship and he likes messing with Alphinaud, but he also likes the idea of having to sneak around with Alphinaud because they're brothers and they can't kiss, that's not what brothers do.

Estinien absolutely utilises his being married to Alphinaud to annoy the shit out of Fourchenault.

Especially during Starlight dinner.