How Something That Fundamentally Cannot Give Mercy Tries To Communicate Affection As Best It Can. - Tumblr Posts

There’s also the fact that for Bastion fawning is one of the few ways he actually can express affection in a way that a human might comprehend. The drabbles I’ve made have mentioned this I think as have the rambles about their lore. But Bastion literally can’t stop trying to catch Ida. It’s a fundamental violation of his nature to spare what he can eat. The fact he actually likes Ida and feels happy in her company actually makes this worse rather than better. So verbal affection is very important, physical affection too although his human form is really the only one that can manage physical contact without things veering into voracious territory. Have you ever read a horror story and had the branches that grab at someone’s body personified as reaching hands? Some parts of the Manor will do that to Ida with purely loving but no less threatening intention. Because the Manor is an extension of Bastion and just as in love with and desperate to catch her as he is. That’s why the shadows in the Manor settle and the house looks less warn when Ida agrees to let him have her in “The Spider and The Butterfly” Drabble. Because the Manor knows she’s going to be theirs.