Bonus: once Kimi and Thancred are finally openly together, the twins are basically the only ones taken by surprise, especially Alphinaud. While Urianger and Y'shtola are both like "IT'S ABOUT TIME."

It takes until well into 7.0 to finally get a confession because she has so little experience with how romance works, and he's terrified of fucking it up again the whole time dsjlfkhd 💀

After that point, and in the lull between finishing up business with the 13th and heading to Tural, they spend time together again

And she doesn't have to think about the implications of it possibly being love if she just doesn't call it that, right? 👀

She misses him too, and they finally get another chance to talk on the trip to the Isle of Haam, where she at least tells him she enjoys his company.

(Sykdhlf she's so fucking hypocritical in SHB judging him for not opening up to Ryne when she's bad at feelings too)

He's hurt by that, though. He declines joining in when Uri helps with the post-EW stuff, to give Kimi space. But now he's in his torture nexus of missing her and also not wanting to be Friends-with-Benefits-zoned

The "disbanding" of the Scions hits Kimi super hard, though, because it scatters everyone. She decides she's gotta Work on Herself now, figure out who she is outside being a Scion

Thancred can tell she's not okay, but she declines his offer to join him and Urianger as they travel

Thancred being real attentive to Kimi's wellbeing hits a bit like Haurchefant's, which would be pure catnip on its own but there's a lot going on in EW so it's not able to fully bloom yet. I think they do get back to a FWB stage by the time they leave for UT

No snow here, mostly rain for now. I don't usually see a lot of snow in my town. But tea and cookies are great for rainy days too!

Hi!! My day ended up more restful than I feared it would be hehe. I got to enjoy mulberry leaf tea with Biscoff cookies! Hope your day has been good too!

Aww thank you!! 🥺

precious baby 😭

So while the initial encounter isn't still in their story now, elements of it are still there and it kicked off the whole thing! 😹

...thanks for coming to my TED Talk

(Kinda counts as #KimiLore)