WOW what a question! Some of this I can help with and some of this I cannot.

1) I haven’t seen Niall and Bressie interact publicly in…years?? That doesn’t mean they don’t/aren’t still friends, though! They definitely do still share directorship of Camden Recording Studios, I’ve checked. They were meant to be at the same Pro Am last August, and I saw pics of Niall at it but I never saw pics of Bressie there or of them together, but they may exist and I just missed them?? Lol, if anyone knows, fill us in!

2) Eoghan isn’t friends with any of the LIC anymore as far as I know, or in fact with anyone. He disappeared from the public eye after a very troubling sexual assault allegation, and as far as I know he’s still mostly just spending time with his immediate family and not even using social media except for a post or two in the past several years.

SO YEAH…I think any of the remaining LIC relations are sort of underground/off the radar these days! It’s a bummer, man. I’m happy to be corrected if I missed anything, of course, but it doesn’t seem like there’s much happening to be missed.

BLESS YOU!!!!!!! I knew it was September last year but I couldn’t find it in my posts (I DID HOWEVER FALL DOWN A FLICKER-RELEASE-ERA HOLE AND IT WAS HEART-WRENCHING). If anyone wants a refresher, it’s HERE and he is extremely adorable demonstrating the sleeping positions.

This is perfect for my theory however because Niall starts out curled up on his side with Brez but can’t handle a whole night like that and ends up flat on his back, somehow taking up more room than enormous man-mountain Bressie and it’s adorable, etc.

I ALSO love this because I do the exact same thing. I fall asleep on my side but I always wake up on my back sprawled across the whole bed.

1) Niall has said he likes sleeping on his back, that’s canon! I tried so hard to find the interview where he said he but I can’t??? CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLZ. Am I crazy. But anyway, given that, I definitely think he’s on his back and Bressie is on his side facing Niall, a bit curled around him with an arm protectively over his tum. Niall has also said he likes being the big spoon (SOB u know I don’t have to link THAT one we all have it scorched in our mindgrapes forever) and I feel like even though sometimes he WOULD like to be the little spoon, he wouldn’t want to be like that all night because he would feel crowded and too breathed-on u know. So he stretches out on his back. But Bressie wants to be close and feel the slow soft in-out of Niall’s breath under his hand so he curls in and scritches his tum and chest and falls asleep like that :(

2) Yes they are both utterly phobic of exhibiting or talking about their relayshes publicly and HONESTLY I do not think that’s a coincidence – Bressie taught Niall the ropes very early on and I’m sure he said as much right out the gate. Keep it for yourself, you don’t owe it to anyone else, have strong boundaries, etc. And he was right and it has served Niall so well!! But anyway…in a world where they were together and in public, I feel like they would stick with contact that could be totally platonic but still intimate/familial, like a hand warmly on the back or a hair-tousle. Maybe a wink or a little grin across a crowd. I don’t think they really NEED or WANT much demonstration of affection besides that. And they’re vocally supportive already even with a platonic relaysh so I’m sure if they were specifically asked about each other they’d be as effusive as always.

Hi muffin (you know I have been working too much because I almost put a comma and carriage return after that like I’m writing a work email lol kill me) – I did get your ask and I started a reply and then never finished it!! Like everything else in my life these days!!

For the rest of you, anon asked: “Hi Lucy! I know you’re not on very much anymore but on the off chance that you see this and have a sec to respond, I was wondering if you could ramble off some thoughts on Nessie? I don’t even really know what I’m asking for haha, but I’m trying to write a Nessie fic and I’m sooo lacking inspiration. I know the plot of the fic already, but like, I feel like just hearing someone talk about Nessie and the size difference and the age difference and all the sweetness and protectiveness might help :)”

FIRST OF ALL, I am on a fair amount, I just don’t have the energy/brainpower/creativity to do anything but hit “reblog” once in a while. But I’m watching all of u all of the time, trust. I’ll get back into it when life chills out, I promise!! And…I love Nessie, of course, as always, but I don’t know that I have much inspiration for you right now!! Seeing as how I have my OWN Nessie (-ish) fic to finish that has been stagnating for [mumblemumble] months, I’m like the last person in the universe to be able to motivate someone else to do the same. 

Bressie has been very vocal lately on the Blizzards insta about how proud he is (/they are) of Niall and how much he loves Flicker, though. And it wasn’t so long ago he was backstage at the soundboard watching Niall at the second Dublin show :( He just genuinely admires him so much! Watching him walk down the corridor with him, the ONLY other person with Niall and the band as they went out to the stage, towering over them…!!! God, what I would not give to see Niall and Bressie hug properly with li’l Niall all tucked up against big Bressie’s broad chest after the show when he’s buzzing and pink-cheeked and sweaty :( WHICH YOU KNOW THEY DO. HAVE. WILL. 

Idk, anon, maybe ask a specific question or give me a snippet to have an idea about or something??? I’m afraid I’m not much help :(