[On a purely aesthetic level there are probably worse people to be magically compelled to kiss.
On every other level this is a disaster. Van Zieks is about to question him and this personal space invasion, about to ask him what he thinks he's doing, but then that becomes readily apparent when he??? Kisses him??? Hello?????
On the one hand, even though he's some sort of magical plant person which unsettles van Zieks due to him still being unused to magic, if he looks beyond that, Trahearne definitely has nice features and of course a perfectly pleasant and competent personality.
On the other hand this preaches so many level of victorian etiquette and propriety??? You can't just go and kiss a man in public???? One you barely know??? Without warning??? It's not like he hasn't been kissed before but it's certainly been a WHILE and this is NOT the way to return to it???
He's actually so caught off guard that it actually takes him a few seconds to get his wits about him enough to push Trahearne away.]
What-What in gods name are you playing at!? [He's definitely genuinely mad but there's also a rosy flush to his cheeks because when you're the palest, most repressed man on the island, it's not hard for embarassment to bring color to your cheeks.]
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On every other level this is a disaster. Van Zieks is about to question him and this personal space invasion, about to ask him what he thinks he's doing, but then that becomes readily apparent when he??? Kisses him??? Hello?????
On the one hand, even though he's some sort of magical plant person which unsettles van Zieks due to him still being unused to magic, if he looks beyond that, Trahearne definitely has nice features and of course a perfectly pleasant and competent personality.
On the other hand this preaches so many level of victorian etiquette and propriety??? You can't just go and kiss a man in public???? One you barely know??? Without warning??? It's not like he hasn't been kissed before but it's certainly been a WHILE and this is NOT the way to return to it???
He's actually so caught off guard that it actually takes him a few seconds to get his wits about him enough to push Trahearne away.]
What-What in gods name are you playing at!?
[He's definitely genuinely mad but there's also a rosy flush to his cheeks because when you're the palest, most repressed man on the island, it's not hard for embarassment to bring color to your cheeks.]