AO3 Name:lielac Letter Link:On my Dreamwidth Fandom: Leif & Thorn Characters/Ships: Hazel Cherieshnya/Hyacinth Lavande Details: To quote canon: "They're also 'technically not dating', but for them it's just adorable."
Hazel and Hyacinth are two goth teenagers, both into things like "animal skulls" and "writing/reading *punk stories about people being tortured for hurt/comfort purposes" and "drawing corpses, sometimes with blood on them". Hazel is autistic (called "changeling syndrome" in-universe) and has chronic pain from arthritis, and Hyacinth is immensely supportive and accepting of Hazel's differences. Hyacinth is really, really obviously adoring of Hazel, especially Hazel's creativity and skills, and it's so sweet.
Additional Characters: A lot of them, really, but notably the title characters Leif and Thorn Details: In addition to my requested adorable teenagers, Leif & Thorn has a lot of queer characters. It's actually named after two of them, and Leif and Thorn are in a very slow-burn romance. Leif is an indentured servant (read: slave) working at the Sonheim embassy in Ceannis's capitol Central, and Thorn is a knight of Ceannis assigned to guard the embassy. Leif is bi and Thorn is either bi or gay, and they were "technically not dating" for reasons including "extremely dubious consent due to magically-enforced indenture contracts".
If you like your slow-burn M/M romance with a heavy through-line of "what is consent, really, and can it exist when your boyfriend is a slave of a foreign state and you have to rent him out to go on dates and he has a compulsion chip in his neck that zaps him if he doesn't follow the orders of whoever's rented him for the evening (or engages in sexual activity or even kissing when the renter hasn't purchased that)", this comic will deliver.
Leif & Thorn: Hazel and Hyacinth, the title characters, and also like half the cast
Letter Link: On my Dreamwidth
Fandom: Leif & Thorn
Characters/Ships: Hazel Cherieshnya/Hyacinth Lavande
Details: To quote canon: "They're also 'technically not dating', but for them it's just adorable."
Hazel and Hyacinth are two goth teenagers, both into things like "animal skulls" and "writing/reading *punk stories about people being tortured for hurt/comfort purposes" and "drawing corpses, sometimes with blood on them". Hazel is autistic (called "changeling syndrome" in-universe) and has chronic pain from arthritis, and Hyacinth is immensely supportive and accepting of Hazel's differences. Hyacinth is really, really obviously adoring of Hazel, especially Hazel's creativity and skills, and it's so sweet.
Additional Characters: A lot of them, really, but notably the title characters Leif and Thorn
Details: In addition to my requested adorable teenagers, Leif & Thorn has a lot of queer characters. It's actually named after two of them, and Leif and Thorn are in a very slow-burn romance. Leif is an indentured servant (read: slave) working at the Sonheim embassy in Ceannis's capitol Central, and Thorn is a knight of Ceannis assigned to guard the embassy. Leif is bi and Thorn is either bi or gay, and they were "technically not dating" for reasons including "extremely dubious consent due to magically-enforced indenture contracts".
If you like your slow-burn M/M romance with a heavy through-line of "what is consent, really, and can it exist when your boyfriend is a slave of a foreign state and you have to rent him out to go on dates and he has a compulsion chip in his neck that zaps him if he doesn't follow the orders of whoever's rented him for the evening (or engages in sexual activity or even kissing when the renter hasn't purchased that)", this comic will deliver.