d'you ever just have a really strong urge to throw your characters into toxic relationships just for the delicious hurt/comfort when they finally get out of them?
because he's not entirely sure he could watch Claude be affectionate with people he barely knows, after spending so many years trying to get closer to him, without making a scene
although Felix has made a scene once or twice and people were mostly like "felix the reasons you're making this scene are all in your head stop it" lksdjgfdsg
And tbh, Claude never had the chance to actually consider Lorenz as a romantic prospect before because he was avoiding all romantic potentiality while in Fodlan
because.... it's weird? Because he's got a million dragon catholic reasons to believe there's something wrong with him because you're not supposed to think filthy things and certainly not about other boys and no, of course he doesn't think there's anything wrong with Claude or Dimitri or the others!!!
Byleth, deadpan: Filthy things and boys and filthy things about boys are okay, actually