Partway through undressing for bed Alexus hesitated, glancing at Amara. “Um. Are you okay with this? ‘Cause like… you, you said something earlier about your dude being like, not okay with like, non-purity and stuff? But it’s like, really hot? And I don’t wanna wear my shirt to bed.”

Amara shrugged. “The reason why I said the thing about purity is Arwen is a unicorn—or actually, he’s now ascended to an alicorn—and it’s just that traditionalistic thinking where like, unicorns and alicorns tend to like young beautiful females over males. Kind of like, an old history thing.” She dismissed the concern with a wave of a hand, then burbled on, “I dunno he would probably like you because you’re really funny and cool and I’ve been dying to braid your hair and—”

Alexus’ face lit. “Oh hell yeah! Hell yeah, girl—get on it!”

“We can do fun buns!”

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My Half-Elf fighter and my friend’s Aasimar warlock are sharing a tent as we aimlessly wander out into the jungles of Chult in our budding D&D campaign. We talked about it a little bit out of character when I was originally buying the tent but last session I figured we ought to figure out the whole “she mentioned her patron doesn’t like guys but she’s sharing a tent with one” thing in-character as well.

And then she mentioned the hair braiding thing and I was like _heck yes_ I have to draw this now so here we are: Amara and Alexus chilling in their shared tent, chatting about whatever as Amara fulfills a lifelong* desire to gussy up Alex's hair in the best Illuskan styles she knows how to do.

(* and by "lifelong" we mean "like, two weeks TOPS" lmao)

I forgot about the "fun bun" line until I went back to my recording of the session to actually get the text. Then again, I also had to look up what a "fun bun" was; they don't seem very fun to me but I guess that makes me a fun bun curmudgeon lol