Pavlova Cookie is a bit annoying with his penchant for sticking his nose into everything with little regard for if it’s wanted or asked for, so that is something that people may want to avoid, but the main reason for this opt-out is his primary ability. Pavlova has the ability to essentially look into a person’s heart and see their relationships. This is not limited to romantic relationships, as he can see both romantic and platonic relationships, as well as being able to sense if a person wants certain relationships. If it has to do with their relationships in any form he can find it out from poking around long enough. From unrequited love to lies people tell themselves in relation to their perception of their relationships, he can see it all. If he focuses hard enough he can even read the story of a particular relationship. It’s a very specialized power, but it’s also very powerful. So I’d like to know if for one reason or another you’d like him to Not Do That. Or if you’d like to opt out of interacting with the little shipper entirely. The descriptions offer suggestions for people opting in, but opting out is always alright, and you can just put “No” into all of the sections. You can also just put what he can sense and nothing else if there are parts and pieces you don’t want him picking up on.
Opt out: Yes/No
Relationships he can read: This is the fun part! Tell me aaaaall about your character’s relationships. All of the important ties they have! This can be as detailed or simple as you like, or as you feel befits the importance of the relationship. If your character has a billion and one friendships with npcs, you can just say that. Have fun with it!
Beliefs they hold: Essentially, what parts of their relationships are they misinterpreting or lying to themselves about. Have they been willfully ignoring someone’s advances because they’re nervous the other isn’t serious about it? Have they been arguing with a friend over a total misunderstanding? Do they think that a relationship they want won’t work out for some reason? Do they want romance but don’t think they’re cut out for it because of their occupation or situation or something? He can sense that! Put it in!
Tropes: He is the CRK equivalent to a kid who reads fics on Ao3 to stave off depression. If you want him to call your character cringe I can see what I can do to make that happen. He’s already wrapping his head around Shadownilla Toxic Yaoi. This is also a less intensive option for those who don’t want him peeping their whole romance.
How does their heart look: I often like to embellish my writing with things like this, so sometimes I might refer to a character’s heart as though he is seeing a representation of it tangled in its relationship strings. Are there a bunch of severed ones hanging there? Are the strings squeezing it too tightly? Are the strings threatening to break? Loose? What are the strings made of? What does the heart itself look like? Is it like glass? Literally walled off? Drained of color?
Additional considerations: Anything you think is important that might not fall under the prior sections! His "knowledge of relationships" is very vague in it's scope so if you'd like him to learn something specifically to call them on it, this would be a good place to note that.
May I contact for more info: Yes/No. This is just here in case things change organically over time and/or i’m writing something specific and want to double check about the specifics of something mentioned above. “No” is for those who only want him referencing what is mentioned and nothing else.
Relationships he can read: closes my eyes. dropdowns again-
relationships from his canon Flamebringer, despite being a dick, has a LOT of friends. It is impressive how many friends he has because he's the sort (and Pavlova will be able to tell) to be like "ra ra ra I'm soooo fucking scary don't talk to me don't even come near me I'll kill you" and then he will turn around and take an entire gatling gun's worth of shells for you and then some. He also really, really loves kids and makes this fact super obvious (which means unfortunately for Pavlova he's going to get hit with the "aww a baby :)" beams Very fast). Very important friendships below-
Lena: She runs the greenhouse he works at. They are Gardening Buddies. His biggest fear right now is that she shows up here because he does not want her to witness the horrors. She's probably one of like three people who could actually wrangle his temper.
Podenco: Daughter. Baby girl. Works in the greenhouse, he's protecting her from bugs all the time.
Lisa: Daughter, baby girl. She, Lena, and Flamebringer raised a plant together once. It became, uh... a little unruly (it grew really really well and no one knew what to do with it because it got out of hand).
Popukar and Shamare: Daughters. Baby girls. You get it — anyway these two once went to Lena and asked for her help delivering a metric Shitton of flowers to Flamebringer's door after it was revealed he's really fond of plants.
Wiš'adel: His relationship with her is complicated... at one point they were very close friends, but Wis'adel is sort of known for being just as much of a turncoat as Flamebringer is. He sort of betrayed her when he left the group they were both part of. She tried to kill him. He lived. It's complicated. Wis'adel herself has no beef with him and he has no beef with her (anymore), buuuut:
Hoederer: Hoederer, who is Wis'adel's friend, fucking HATES his ass. Flamebringer doesn't exactly get Why that is but it's known lore that Hoederer wants to put Flamebringer in a chokehold, so uh. Oops.
Theresa: Although he didn't know her personally, Theresa was a very important figure in Kazdel's history, a very beloved King of Sarkaz/Lord of Fiends who all the Sarkaz (his race) looked up to. Unfortunately she died :') in a coup staged by THE GUY WHO WOULD LATER BECOME HIS BOSS i am so serious.
"The Doctor": This is the guy who would basically become one of FB's bosses later. They don't remember anything, they're also the player character so it's kind of hard to say much about their specific relationship. Flamebringer is said to have "an interest" in The Doctor due to the events of Theresa's death, but they're on a sort of shaky alliance right now. Flamebringer could betray them at any moment; they trust that he won't do that. And to be fair, he hasn't.
Ezell: This is the complicated one. Ezell came to Flamebringer with one mission, which was to ask Flamebringer what his home country of Kazdel is like because a child in Ezell's care named Cecelia is looking for her father, who is From Kazdel. Flamebringer does Not want to talk about Kazdel; it sucks there, it's dangerous, the whole place is constantly falling apart because other races on Terra (especially Sankta like Ezell) are very very racist against the Sarkaz and want them all to be wiped off the face of the planet. That being said, Flamebringer has some recognition that not all people are like that now that he's out of the country, but it's still a touchy topic. He loves Kazdel just as much as he hates it, so... in comes this Sankta strolling in to ask him questions, and Flamebringer's temper gets the better of him because Ezell won't listen when Flamebringer essentially says "you're an idiot and you shouldn't ever go there especially with a small child what the fuck is wrong with you". He pins Ezell to a wall about this I wish I was lying, and essentially tries to intimidate him with the "all Kazdelian Sarkaz are like me, and I could kill you right now if I wanted, and THEY won't be so merciful" before he lets Ezell go. Of course as far as FB is concerned, this was an act that was meant to scare Ezell out of going to Kazdel... little does he know Ezell still goes later on so lol lmao way to go buddy. In Sticks though... these two idiots have smoothed things over so hard they're now engaged. Ezell is basically the stars in Flamebringer's sky and he's usually comparing Ezell to the flowers he loves so much, he's very overprotective of Ezell and wants only the best for him. He unfortunately keeps bumblefucking their relationship (from his own perspective) but Ezell is like, 75% of his daily thoughts. Every single thing in his brain about this boy is the equivalent of "I miss my wife Tails" whenever they're apart, and he's the ambien wife guy when Ezell is around. It's gross. One of his big insecurities/fears wrt Ezell right now is that he's never explaining himself well enough with regards to his own dreams and ambitions, and he thinks he's horrid at comfort or keeping Ezell out of harm. They have a lot of disagreements... he's never sure how to fix them. He genuinely also struggles to comprehend Ezell's very deep depressive disorders, so that puts a strain on things. They're still in great standings, it's just like... a paranoid & depressed force meets a very forward and goal-oriented object. They cannot make their goals align sometimes. They'll figure it out maybe, he hopes.
relationships from sticks
Wolfwood: Closes my eyes... he and Wolfwood got off on the WRONG foot and hated each other for so so long. And eventually like with all things regarding FB, hate kind of turned into love, but it's like... dark and twisted. If Ezell is sunflowers and butterflies, Wolfwood is thorny brambles and vines he can't get rid of. They love each other but in a way that they don't exactly define as Love in a traditional sense, and refuse to put labels on their relationship. Part of their rituals involves beating the everloving fuck out of each other daily in some sparring match because this is how fighty boys relieve tension ig, sometimes they make out afterwards. They are always there for each other. They will never call each other lovers or boyfriends. Also they were married in their past lives here so oops—
Stan: This is FB's like. Grandfather figure. He has an older male figure in his life he actually likes and trusts finally. He would murder hundreds for Stan Pines. Unfortunately neither of them are keen on keeping the other out of trouble so much as jointly causing it so lol lmao.
Mamika, Mafuyu, & Mayoi: These are his children he found them outside. They are small to him and he is protecting them. Mayoi was also his son in his past life, so! That's fun!! Flamebringer is sometimes haunted by the guilt of Mamika dying in an earlier event but he tries not to let it stick, he tries very hard to keep the past in the past.
Beliefs they hold: Pretty much the above! Flamebringer will run circles around himself to convince himself and others he's unlovable but that, uh... has been demonstrated to Not be true ever. He's actually soft as hell. Shhh.
Tropes: Somehow he's always enemies to lovers????
How does their heart look: Fragmented; one half of it is a dilapidated city with nothing in it, not even people but just ruins. One half of it is a beautiful field of flowers. Flamebringer walks on both sides, and he is fully prepared to sever any of the strings holding onto one side at any moment... or so he tells himself anyway.
Additional considerations: can't think of anything now!
May I contact for more info: Yes but it will be essay time :)
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lovelyredthread) wrote2025-05-11 11:34 pm
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Relationships he can read: closes my eyes. dropdowns again-
relationships from his canon
Flamebringer, despite being a dick, has a LOT of friends. It is impressive how many friends he has because he's the sort (and Pavlova will be able to tell) to be like "ra ra ra I'm soooo fucking scary don't talk to me don't even come near me I'll kill you" and then he will turn around and take an entire gatling gun's worth of shells for you and then some. He also really, really loves kids and makes this fact super obvious (which means unfortunately for Pavlova he's going to get hit with the "aww a baby :)" beams Very fast). Very important friendships below-
In Sticks though... these two idiots have smoothed things over so hard they're now engaged. Ezell is basically the stars in Flamebringer's sky and he's usually comparing Ezell to the flowers he loves so much, he's very overprotective of Ezell and wants only the best for him. He unfortunately keeps bumblefucking their relationship (from his own perspective) but Ezell is like, 75% of his daily thoughts. Every single thing in his brain about this boy is the equivalent of "I miss my wife Tails" whenever they're apart, and he's the ambien wife guy when Ezell is around. It's gross. One of his big insecurities/fears wrt Ezell right now is that he's never explaining himself well enough with regards to his own dreams and ambitions, and he thinks he's horrid at comfort or keeping Ezell out of harm. They have a lot of disagreements... he's never sure how to fix them. He genuinely also struggles to comprehend Ezell's very deep depressive disorders, so that puts a strain on things. They're still in great standings, it's just like... a paranoid & depressed force meets a very forward and goal-oriented object. They cannot make their goals align sometimes. They'll figure it out maybe, he hopes.
relationships from sticks
Beliefs they hold: Pretty much the above! Flamebringer will run circles around himself to convince himself and others he's unlovable but that, uh... has been demonstrated to Not be true ever. He's actually soft as hell. Shhh.
Tropes: Somehow he's always enemies to lovers????
How does their heart look: Fragmented; one half of it is a dilapidated city with nothing in it, not even people but just ruins. One half of it is a beautiful field of flowers. Flamebringer walks on both sides, and he is fully prepared to sever any of the strings holding onto one side at any moment... or so he tells himself anyway.
Additional considerations: can't think of anything now!
May I contact for more info: Yes but it will be essay time :)