oh man it's been forever since i've shipped with jay. let me get my brain back online

- when i last played him long term he tended to crush on like. Good Sincere people. not necessarily unimpeachably good people but people he considered good and therefore Safe

jay doesn't really have a thing for Danger, inasmuch as he has a desire for romantic intimacy it comes from the same place as his whole "I want a family" - he wants to be loved and cherished and feel that he has a place with someone

and he tends to gravitate towards people who explicitly give him that

who say hey, i like you, i care about you in as many words

- that said you are probably most successful in Shipping With Jay (or at least getting me to ship you with jay) if you push him or tease him a bit

i think there's a more serious element to that also where if you're not willing to . . . lean on him a bit when he's being dumb it's harder to get anywhere with him

in general, not just in a shipping sense

he can be nasty and snap at people and push them away and you kind of have to be like. no i'm not going anywhere. you need to stop.

the one Ship i really played with jay was with zuko from avatar (are there other zukos??? whatever) and that worked bc jay was . . . well he was a bit more together than he is in spellbind lmao. but also because zuko was very Direct and also . . . mm, insistent, whether that was in

trying to get the truth about their relationship or doing what he thought was right

i usually ship by feel so it's hard for me to put some of this stuff into words lmao but there are some scattered thoughts