And Varian Somehow Being Confident At Flirting And An Oblivious Dork At The Same Time - Tumblr Posts

Been thinking about Vat7k and I have decided that Varian doesn’t need a romance arc. He’s already got enough going on plotwise with finding the trials and meeting distant family members, so any more would just shove aside whatever Nuru and Yong would have going on.

However, Hugo should have that arc. Him tagging along on the quest and slowly letting himself truly feel again and tangling with all the stuff that goes along with making friends and falling in love while being a double agent? Dat’s the good shit right there.

Meanwhile Varian’s side of it is just, “hey, I’m on a self-discovery roadtrip, so come what may!”, so when maybe a month before the Library he realizes he’s got a crush, he doesn’t freak out or deny it, he’s just in his tent like

And he’s thinking “I’ve been through enough shit in my life, I deserve a simple little thing like this :)”, not realizing that Fate Itself is about to bash him on the head like Gallagher with a watermelon.

(he does start openly flirting with Hugo at this point, but due to a combo of being bad at it and Hugo internally freaking out bc of Everything Else, he doesn’t catch on to what he’s doing)