Interviewing Garreg Mach (Fire Emblem: Three Houses one shots)

Artistry in Motion (Ignatz Victor)

Concept: Ignatz asks you to join him while he paints but he realizes he can't focus because it's 
Y O U

Cute boi deserves rights 

[This chapter is fluffy and kinda slightly NSFW only because Ignatz can NOT keep his hands off you.]

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He couldn't even make eye contact with you while he asked you to come paint with him. 

Not that he's ever really made eye contact with anyone before this point but he THOUGHT he was getting better about that. At least, with you. He couldn't even tell you what color your eyes are. He could describe your shoes to you in explicit detail. He could tell you (probably) the exact dimensions of the hole in the bottom of your left pant leg. It was only three centimeters wide but he found that hole in your pants wildly fascinating. 

All that to say he can't look at you in the eyes. 

You smiled at him and lifted his chin to make eye contact with you. That was a habit you would do to help quell his anxiety. So he'd know that you meant well and were happy to be near him. 

"Of course! I'd love to paint with you Ignatz! Though I'm not very good, I can certainly try!" You laughed sheepishly. Your laugh sounds absolutely melodic to him. He smiled shyly back at you. 

"D-don't worry about your skill, Y/N! I'll teach you if you'd like," he said almost so softly you couldn't hear it. Your smile widened. 

"That sounds wonderful, my little painter man!" He blushed quite hard at that nickname. The two of you had been undergoing the courtship process ever since Professor Byleth had assigned the partner project to the Golden Deer class. You had asked him out. You had to, he would get too shy to even talk to you when he really wanted to. That was five moons ago. He's still just as shy now as he was when he first asked to court you. It's really an adorable trait of his. 

He grabbed your hand which is still a rare thing for him to do unprompted unless he's very excited about showing you something, leading you to his favorite art spot. It's the spot he always goes to in order to be unbothered when he wants to create something artistic. In fact, he had a box containing paints, canvases, paintbrushes and the like in this special little clearing that seemed untouched by anyone who isn't Ignatz. 

He was already rushing to set up a canvas on his easel. Clearly he was excited about bringing you to his favorite spot. 

"Okay, I have an extra canvas and some things you can use if you want!" Ignatz handed you some materials without waiting for your response. He led you to a rock to sit down on in the clearing of tall grass. 

You gracefully sat down on the rock and kind of posed yourself to feel more comfortable. There wasn't an extra layer of damage control between your clothes and skin and the rock you were positioned on. It wasn't a very comfortable position but Ignatz wanted you there so you sat. 

Your boyfriend positioned his easel across and yet a bit aways from where you were. He already had his paints on his palette, ready to go. 

He had given you a palette with a few paints on it as well. The base colors, red, blue, yellow, white, black, with plenty of room to mix the primaries into secondaries if you wanted. There wasn't a lot of blue because blue is a very rare pigment to come across. You know Ignatz likes to mix his own paints and blue is a very tough one. 

Ignatz already was brushing away at his canvas. You had no idea what he was making but chose to let him concentrate. He is very focused when he paints and is hard to have a conversation with him whenever he's in this painting trance.