#shadowbingus

Back in arr I made a joke about clutchfather novv being Calline’s hear me out but look how far we’ve come: #shadowbingus makes novv look reasonable

Pencil sketch page. Calline curled up on her stomach relaxing; Calline with disheveled hair wearing nothing but Gaius’s undershirt, which ties shut and has a lot of ragged edges and holes, while Gaius looks on; Calline on her back while Gaius holds her thighs and presses his face under her stomach

This is all I drew today. I was selfish. #callinemachinegobrrr #shadowbingus

The answer was yes #shadowbingus

Gaius himself did not have some auri wife he was putting a baby in every year. Yet. #shadowbingus ✌️

Gaius doll with pants but no shirt. Calline plush wearing his shirt as a dress.

Sharing one outfit, sharing one braincell #shadowbingus

A Calline plush gazing cutely at Gaius van Baelsar in the middle of his unskippable voiced rant from prae. Sadly, plush Calline’s face is trapped in an eternal smile, so she is unable to convey disapproval for his words and actions.

#shadowbingus

#shadowbingus is a ship about a clown who loves to be useful, and also Calline.

gpose of calline sitting on the ground praying next to gaius, who is on the floor inside the burning praetorium after getting his ass kicked

normal gaiuswol shippers wait until he's reading on a bench to pose with him i think #shadowbingus

gpose of calline doing the sweep emote around gaius's prone body in front of a bunch of flames from the praetorium exploding

#shadowbingus typical het relationship where the wife is cleaning while the man just takes a nap... hmph

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Allie: father didn't beget me the traditional way, so... for all i know... he might not even know how
Rex's ghost, which was mind-melded with gaius in the machine: alfonse listen to this you will never BELIEVE why that one guy kept walking out of father's bedroom when we were kids

#shadowbingus dtmf is on the breakup playlist

#shadowbingus #CalamityAU
Solus: well well if it isn’t the pathetic traitorous shadow of my former best friend
Solus: and is that Gaius with you
Gaius: wh-

i guess calline drops by to check the color of the sky over werlyt WHICH IS GEOGRAPHICALLY IN OR NEAR SOUTHERN ILSABARD THE CONTINENT WITH THE SKY ON FIRE BTW and then #shadowbingus love confession happens. and then like btw gaius i know i already reported ur hometown was destroyed but it's extra de

Terncliff is a metaphor for #shadowbingus
Calline: ocean, wet
Gaius: cliff, tall, garlean, birds poop on it

Every webtoon with a short mc who has huge tits falling in love with some shady mafia type guy is also #shadowbingus. I’m sorry. I know.

"Another hard day for our blasphemy hunter?" Calline slipped her arms under his coat to embrace him, and pressed her face into the bend of his waist, on the left side, where it was soft, opposite all his knives. They were all hard days, of late. "Can you tell me what you told me when we met again for the first time?" "Which part?" Gaius asked her. "From the beginning? Is there aught to be gleaned of the nature of the Final Days from the lad's enchanted slumber? That situation resolved itself, has it not?" "I had to do a lot of the resolving! But the Final Days aren't related to that. Remind me what you said about the Praetorium." She had mentioned this to him before. It was important to her, then. "I was content to burn with it, for a moment... a moment of folly. To surrender my life thus would have been to betray all who died for my cause." "Hmm. More violent than I remember." She smiled into the side of his body nevertheless.

"Words spoken by a marginally more violent man, even then," Gaius replied."...I recall you told me it was a selfish thing to say, as well." Calline squeezed him. "Because it was, though you dressed it up a bit," she said. "But it's all right. That selfish act is why I love you." Gaius pretended his breath didn't hitch. There was even an amused lilt to his voice when he asked, "That is what you love about me?" "I'm fully capable of choosing my syntax intentionally, you know," she said. He could still hear her smiling. "Even if it's selfish. Even if it's painful. Even if there will never be more good in the world than bad, you want to continue to do good. I love you." Just how hard a day was it? Then, Gaius had a sickening thought. "Do you require medical attention?" he asked. "If not injured, are you poisoned or ill?" "I'm not dying at a faster rate than any other mortal! I'm healing myself, in fact, by putting more good into the world. I love you, I love Allie-" It was suddenly very urgent to him to interrupt. "Listen, Callinectes. I-"

"-I know you could have said it sooner," she told him. "So permit me to say it now, little and late as it may be." "Okay. I will," Callinectes said. She did.

I hope nothing in the next “several cutscenes will play in sequence” drastically alters my opinion on what Calline does when she gets back from Elpis. #callinemachinegobrrr #shadowbingus

Danae age 13 closing a thick paperback book and lecturing an 11yo Callinectes: ok Calline. And the lesson of Jane Eyre is that if you stay true to your morals, Arcuatus, 17, leaning over his sister’s shoulder to interject to their other sister: YOU CAN LAND A HUSBAND IF HIS PREVIOUS FAMILY DIES IN A FIRE

#shadowbingus #callinemachinegobrrr
Arcuatus, meeting Gaius Baelsar 15 years later: hmmm

Calline would love bridgerton but #shadowbingus are very much just… Jane Eyre………

#shadowbingus i can't believe that once again, due to the extremely specific criteria of what sets calline personally off, gaius, who i have to emphasize you do not "gotta hand it to," is somehow out-parenting another dad

#shadowbingus one time Calline brings Gaius a jar of spicy mango pickles, opens it and eats one herself because she missed the taste, and then gives the rest of it to him because she doesn’t really like pickles and he does.

gpose of gaius with his arms crossed standing in front of a heart cake and calline in the corner looking at him smiling

alright, fine, and maybe she stole a moment to gaze at him adoringly too #shadowbingus

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Gaius: the clones of his radiance emperor Solus appeared as in his state portrait when he was younger, so, kind of around the age he was when I had a crush on him as a teenager
Calline: whaaat :0 so you’re into questionable old men too?
Gaius: I feel unhappy with the way you said “too”

#shadowbingus I think a lot about how Gaius (who I DID think died) is kinda. By necessity. There? He’s there when the wol dies and he’s the only witness to it?
Calline does not so much regain her memory of dying as see an echo of it when near Gaius, at some tbd point in her story.

#shadowbingus having sex for the first time
Gaius: is it too big
Calline: what? lmao no
Gaius: you did not have to say lmao like that

#shadowbingus #calamityAU wow and what if Calline’s death (permanent) marks the eighth umbral era. Gaius’s miserable reminder that the world without him is good and without this crab it is bad. Very star crossed.

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#shadowbingus Allie’s eating the lemon cake because Calline said it was her favorite. Also I guess Allie’s dad showed up for valentione’s specifically for some woman he started officially but secretly dating like 6 weeks ago after the tower of zot or something

#shadowbingus Gaius can’t open jars for Calline one of his hands is covered in linen

#Shadowbingus my vision for any AU where Gaius and Calline are not dating for whatever reason is that, because Calline defeated him in ritual combat, Gaius becomes part of her mlm downline. He is actually really effective at selling supplements and is the only reason Calline is able to stay solvent.