💓 for Abigail!

{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }

Abigail is not used to flirtations and generally considers passes at her to be distinctly uncomfortable. She spent the whole of her life expecting to be arranged into a marriage with an older gentleman to further her father’s ambitions – she was not upset by this fate, because she had never considered romance to be particularly interesting. It simply wasn’t something that was in her sphere of understanding. 

Indeed, when it comes to maneuvering men, Abigail is unintentionally adept. Her mother taught her many methods to placate tempers and redirect frustrations, that she employs rather frequently regardless of verse. In her surgeon storyline, Abigail is far more aware of these manipulations and utilizes them with the same precision as she does a scalpel. In her author storyline, she utilizes them out of habit and a need to escape the situation as easily as possible. 

To make surgeon Abigail flutter, it takes honesty. Being honest with her and yourself and the world around you – the more true a person is to themselves, the more likely she is to like them. Their truth doesn’t have to be a good kind, either – for example, surgeon!Abigail would adore John Silver because he is always bluntly in it for himself and never denies it. He’s selfish, self serving, and an outright snake – but he does it in a way that is queerly truthful and so, she would be liable to respect him a great deal more than she would Flint, who lies to the world about his motives, even if his intentions are a great deal purer than that of Silver. 

Author Abigail is not so stringent or angry – she responds well to honesty, but she accepts a world that is more grey than her angel of mercy counterpart. She reacts to close proximity – the longer she is near to someone, the more likely she is to find herself leaning on them. The more time spent leaning on them, the more time spent examining them – until eventually, it may dawn on her that they are attractive – at which point, she may have more trouble than usual with speaking, because Abigail has a hard time talking to people she thinks are handsome.