The (modified) Hearts Meme + The TL;DR CR Meme

Welcome to another combo meme! This meme is one parts my modified version of the hearts meme, and another part the tl;dr CR meme.

Comment with your characters.

Others comment with appropriate hearts for how their character feels about yours.

If desired, ask for tl;dr CR at the same time/instead of hearts!

If asked for tl;dr, respond with however much you'd like to write about the CR between the two characters.

Profit!

Have fun everyone!

As a note, remember that you can change the alt text so that the hearts say different things when you hover your mouse over them. Look for title="" in the code you are copy and pasting, and change the text between the quotation marks to whatever you like!

This meme has been modified from it's original format to add more hearts, so be sure to read the descriptions! Also feel free to suggest more heart categories~

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"I would kill you."

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"I would physically or emotionally hurt you."

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"I would like to get to know you better."

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"I would spend time, have fun, or be friends with you."

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"You frighten or unsettle me."

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"You confuse me or I'm confused about you."

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"You amuse me."

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"I would rescue you or fight by your side."

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"I would hug you or hold your hand."

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"You are my friend."

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"I would date you."

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"You're my family."

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"I would kill for you."

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"I would kiss you."

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"I would have sex with you."

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"I love you or could fall in love with you."

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I’m sorry for the delay in this! But, prepare for incoming tldr.

A trait that emerges in all of Gansey’s friendships is his tendency to feel responsible (or try to take responsibility) for his friends’ unhappiness. He’s that guy who wants to make things better for other people. He’ll give them a room when they have one, he’ll pay for their sandwiches, he’ll get involved in their drama. He tends to be controlling, too, and the combination of this can frankly be obnoxious, sometimes.

But it’s fair to say, there’s no one for whom he feels more responsibility than Noah. Noah is a ghost. He died horribly and painfully, and even now, his spirit seems like it’s eroding away. Noah is already dead, but it’s like he’s dying again, before all of their eyes.

Because of his own experience with death, Gansey has some serious issues when it comes to death, the risk of death, and loss in general. He has a lot of leftover trauma that has left him with anxiety that is actually crippling, even if he (usually) hides it well. With all that in mind, Gansey looks at Noah and sees the boy who was dying on the ley line the day that Gansey was also dying. Gansey was saved, because Noah was dying when he shouldn’t have. Gansey absolutely knows that he ‘should’ have died and Noah ‘should’ have lived, because the faceless voice that brought him back to life told him so.

As a result of this experience, Gansey has always felt that he is living on borrowed time. Now, though, he knows that he borrowed that time from Noah, and he is face to face with the results of that every single day. He doesn’t understand why he would be chosen to survive, and Noah left to die. It’s not fair. The survivor’s guilt is strong with this one. It’s why he’s so determined to ask Glendower to save Noah. Has he thought about what that would mean, or what it could mean? Has he considered that maybe a life is needed for a life, and that both of them couldn’t live? Gansey has thought about all of this so much that I don’t think he could have failed to consider that. And yet he’s determined anyway.

In Hadriel, there’s another element to this relationship. Here, Noah has a living body. To all intents and purposes, Noah is alive again. One thing that Gansey has never really been able to swallow is the idea that someone might prefer to be dead than alive. It was something he couldn’t make himself understand when he thought Ronan had tried to kill himself, and it’s something that he finds equally impossible with Noah here. That’s really a result of Gansey’s own deep-rooted fears about death. But Noah is alive here, and although Gansey will remain absolutely determined to find his way home, he’ll want to make sure Noah can live through the experience. He won’t want to consign him to death again. That’s something that will probably leave him conflicted in time, especially if he starts to believe that Noah can only be alive in Hadriel. It’s not something he’s thinking yet, but it’s a place he may well get to in time!

The responsibility for bringing Noah back to life also manifests here in a need to help him acclimatise to being alive. He wants to do everything he can to make that easier on Noah. He wants to be supportive, he wants to show him that it’s okay and there’s nothing to be afraid of. He wants to make sure that there is nothing to be afraid of. Essentially, he wants Noah to be happy and living and safe. And he’ll do pretty much anything to make that happen.

The (Modified) Hearts + TL;DR CR Meme!

The (modified) Hearts Meme + The TL;DR CR Meme

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