honourablejester:

I deeply, deeply adore how tactile and physical Pike and Grog are with each other. I mean how they touch each other and leap at each other and play with each other. Like Grog picks her up and swings her around the place, and Pike takes running jumps and climbs on him mid-battle (occasionally getting an elbow in the face for her troubles), and they glomp each other when they’re reunited, and when they were climbing that cliff to get to Umbrasyl and Pike started to fall Grog just stuck his arm out and grabbed her instantly and entirely instinctively … They just reach for each other automatically. There’s absolutely no fear at all. There is just absolute physical trust between them, and it’s so lovely and adorable and touching and funny. Like with Grog’s hat, and Grog has Pike by the legs and she’s playfully trying to gore him with it while dangling in the air and then he just plops her back down on her feet and it’s adorable. It’s the best thing. Tiny monstah gnome and her huge goofball brother, whom she trusts completely and absolutely and with every reason in the world.

(And then Scanlan comes along with Bigby’s Hand and he can toss Grog around the place, and Pike can almost definitely toss Scanlan if she feels like it, and there’s Grog with his two tiny badass gnome buddies and everything is perfect).

Sorry. I love them. They just make me really happy.