As Zach, because we are busy threading and am too lazy to log out.
My take on Zach and Laini will be entirely from Zach's perspective: I understand Laini's at least marginally well, given your description, but it's not really somehting I can say for certain.
Zach is not good with social situations and honestly Zach is not very good with girls. Not that girls don't flirt with him--he just has difficulty telling when they are, and when he actually notices it is usually so overt that he goes dry-mouthed and doesn't know what to say. Also, it is very rare that he likes a girl because of her personality merely because he has such a habit of "adopting" people who he clicks with on a personal level into his idea of family that he never really ends up attracted to them because that would be weird.
Okay, now that I've explained Zach and girls for the background, I can move on.
Laini is, no point it getting around it, incredibly attractive. So given that Zach was already attracted to her at the time of meeting, the fact that she is interesting and very intelligent and all around made of win did not make her a well-loved sibling-person but more made Zach go "...woah. She is even AWESOMER THAN I THOUGHT SHE WAS." except in Zach speak which uses numerical data and ratios of brains to beauty and mostly puts Laini in the 98th or 99th percentile of women who he has come into contact with.
Also, Zach is kind of the sort of guy to leap into bed with a hot girl who shows an interest! But he at least now days thinks that way if he doesn't actually think of the girl as anything except hot (though he does try to keep contact afterwards either way). He actually really likes Laini, and that is weird for him, so he is being careful. By now he would've usually at least asked her out for coffee but--well, he cares about her. And she's not human, so he wants to feel out her customs before making any wrong moves.
If they ever have a future? I can mostly forecast that Zach is fairly okay with Laini's sort of casual relationship deal because that's who she is and he knew that when he started dating her, but it would be quite a bit more serious from his side of the equation.
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on 2007-10-16 06:20 am (UTC)My take on Zach and Laini will be entirely from Zach's perspective: I understand Laini's at least marginally well, given your description, but it's not really somehting I can say for certain.
Zach is not good with social situations and honestly Zach is not very good with girls. Not that girls don't flirt with him--he just has difficulty telling when they are, and when he actually notices it is usually so overt that he goes dry-mouthed and doesn't know what to say. Also, it is very rare that he likes a girl because of her personality merely because he has such a habit of "adopting" people who he clicks with on a personal level into his idea of family that he never really ends up attracted to them because that would be weird.
Okay, now that I've explained Zach and girls for the background, I can move on.
Laini is, no point it getting around it, incredibly attractive. So given that Zach was already attracted to her at the time of meeting, the fact that she is interesting and very intelligent and all around made of win did not make her a well-loved sibling-person but more made Zach go "...woah. She is even AWESOMER THAN I THOUGHT SHE WAS." except in Zach speak which uses numerical data and ratios of brains to beauty and mostly puts Laini in the 98th or 99th percentile of women who he has come into contact with.
Also, Zach is kind of the sort of guy to leap into bed with a hot girl who shows an interest! But he at least now days thinks that way if he doesn't actually think of the girl as anything except hot (though he does try to keep contact afterwards either way). He actually really likes Laini, and that is weird for him, so he is being careful. By now he would've usually at least asked her out for coffee but--well, he cares about her. And she's not human, so he wants to feel out her customs before making any wrong moves.
If they ever have a future? I can mostly forecast that Zach is fairly okay with Laini's sort of casual relationship deal because that's who she is and he knew that when he started dating her, but it would be quite a bit more serious from his side of the equation.
That was way too long.