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[astrxlfinale]

Why stay somewhere safe and comfortable when we could be in mortal peril? ( march @ caelus )

"See, I knew you'd get it! T-- wait, that wasn't sarcasm, was it?"

Moments like this always be so hard to tell! It certainly doesn't mean he'd be applying any else less effort in one of the less Trailblazed areas. As shrouding rolls of jade mist spill across the area, adding a sense of mystery to the area known as Fyxestroll Garden. That said, it always confused the hell out of Caelus in where the garden part comes in. Like was it a garden of tombstones?

...

Okay, maybe that is a bit too morbid even for him.

Their venture here however isn't without purpose. incredible strides found themselves made for the Express's bonafied princess. For once a blade fell into her hands, the sharp elegance of a ruthless path found itself charging her with vigor and finesse. In many ways, it'd even conjure a resilient need to match that very energy. Bat at the ready, the obsidian implement is given a trusted spin before being hosted on Caelus's shoulder. "Mortal peril is the best kinda medicine for two things. Sharpening up these blade skills, n' the good benefit of resting afterward."

Wasn't it a novel concept for any Trailblazer? Mirth danced within the delinquent's eyes, even as a few idle spirits flew overhead, and the remnants of a few rogue automatons found themselves rendered to scrape metal. "Y'know that a whole day of lazing can't beat the rest quality of a day of not being a couch potato. Ya might've been cryin about being bored." Not really, but the insinuation makes a touch of smugness hit his face.

"Annnnd as your trainin' partner here, I can let'cha forget that fire that forged this path to begin with. Cause lemme be real. You've been gettin' good once you put your heart to it. We gotta make it so you outdo your masters one day." It was part of a dream that led to her turning a week of work into what many of the Xianzhou adept would consider years in terms of experience. Despite many holding clear (and somewhat understandable) concern. The totality of their many journeys together had Caelus nothing but resolute in his trust to her efforts.

A thoughtful hum eases from his lungs nonetheless. "Y'know? Dinner can be on me today if you finish up with flying colors. We need to put some new polish on that Super Move of yours."

@intcritus

[valorxdrive]

❝  you’ve done all you could. feeling sorry for yourself won’t be of any help.  ❞

There was an innate understanding of what she says. So close, too damn close, yet the Order of things find itself calling all the same. One more Heart found itself thrust free, enriched yet unchained after ensuring the sacrifice it aimed to make was solidified. As always, it pinned itself down onto a lesson of just how far another would go for who they care for. Seeing so many tinges of himself in that, of many others who defied all grim fates in the name of a good future-- Seeing this? How could hints of tears not burn at his eyes?

There was a tragic thread drawn about it all. What he hadn't expected was the stance of firmness to come from his companion, a woman he could never quite figure out, and in many ways found himself content in letting that journey expand. He finds himself grateful enough that she fights tooth and nail by his side, tearing through the denizens of an ancient chaos blow for blow, blade and axe aligned.

No amount of logic would stop this disheartened pull at the wails that escaped the soldier who lost her lover, who forewent discipline and despaired.

In a way, his urge to reach out found itself wisely stopped by Tem. There was a certain measure of dignity that had to be understood, realizations both beautiful and haunting made far too late. That reaching hand tilted back, the emotional weight of this view barely being kept back. As it stands, they were all too close to their goals, the distorted skies that bled a thunderously fowl taint billowing above in a cloying concentration.

"They were so.. so close." Yet that bleeding heart couldn't fully abide by wisdom that kept people centered. That ache reverberates with a prominent sorrow across any Heart sensitive to it.

A righteous fire found kindle in this turmoil that began to burn, a determined burst tempering that warmth he carries into steel. Even as wayward hearts found themselves heading to the skies above, newly freed and torn heading to the Greater Connection, it was a tumultuous view that wouldn't make him buckle. A slow nod was drawn towards his friend as his mind was made up.

"We're close to the Heartless's center point. Once we step into that pit, we'll have to carve a new way out entirely ourselves." Its as if a new side snapped into clarity from the more jovial soul. A firmness that pridefully wore his experience, the Kingdom Key in hand glimmering with intent, purpose as a swath of light began to give an almost unnatural glimmer upon its surface as Sora walked forth.

Directly to the view pit that festers like a wound upon the World hosting this universe's heart. That vantablack, bubbling pitch of energy found itself seething as with a firm slash, the entryway was unveiled by the keyblade's boundary breaking.

@batoushoujo

[scarletooyoroi]

wet dream: Tem being nice to him

SCREAMS AS HE PROCEEDS TO IMMEDIATELY SHOOT UPRIGHT IN BED.

"......"

As his breathing remained ragged and confused, for a moment, he stalls there, simply collecting his bearings at the utterly alien sight that met him in his dreams. Tem?? Tenderly smiling?? Holding his hand?? Holding a bashful look as they made each other lunches? In utter and complete truth, the fact his body found itself reacting to that leads to another slew of questions.

Actually? Should he be thinking this damn hard about this? Taking the moment to stumble from bed, he needs to be up, and alert in entirely different ways as it stands.

Gods, that exhaustion must've been more palpable as he thought. One thought manages to scratch successfully within his mind.

"I.. I think I'm starting to get what she meant.."

@snowtombedstar

[lxcke]

THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭

[only-cat-memes]

[catchymemes]

[casualfoxwitch]

since facebook nixed fact checking some really cool things are being shared and I am totally here for it

[teathattast]

[ladytengen]

[thinkspam]

[thememedaddy]

[astrxlfinale]

❝  i get a feeling that heading home isn’t an option for you, so take care of yourself out there.  ❞ (phainon to caelus!)

Home. A place? The people? Somehow this topic drags at a more visceral side of his very being. It digs, holding itself akin to a taunting trophy that wants to parade that very fact. Somehow that very simplicity found itself entrenched in possibility.

Caelus would be a liar to say that he didn't hate it.

Even as in this moment, Fuli's very grasp cooled the static like chaos to let him peer back. To dive through that writhing void that's almost determined to keep him at bay, to route the logic of biological function and will as a meticulous gate. Right now, Okhema's presence found itself a touch suffocating as this topic delved onto his mind. What kind of Trailblazer would enjoy being trapped in the unknown?

He's not sure what expression is sported upon his face once turning to Phainon. Intensity, lingering sorrow, a steadfast stubbornness that finds itself simmering into a pool of pure determination. That's what burns within his golden eyes as the sapphire pools are almost challenged in a way. "Giving me advice I've already been followin', pal."

And now Amphoreus with its Aeonic Titan criss cross wanted to become a new barrier. A place that lets him discover the more he dares to bind himself. Somehow, the Stellaron within found itself growing sharpened edges at the very idea. Something was trying to make itself too comfortable. That alone aggravated it's very need to conquer, to keep that indomitable, Imaginary hand settled as a way to deter that very progress.

Upon a pivoting heel, the Trailblazer turns to face the Deliverer fully. Kindness could never fully scrape away these unknown sparks that decides to dance between them.

"Would you be willing to make a new one?" There's a timed pause before he continues, tasting and tearing those very words into reality. "If everything that made your old one, even the memories were nothing but dust in your hand. Would you take the option to create one with what's before you?" Through a flicker of his soul, images of the Stellaron Hunters, of the Astra Express, it created a new tapestry that made some unknown part of him scream in sheer agitation.

Yet the intention to keep tearing that very past, that very core apart to redefine refuses to stop.

@apocryphis

[valorxdrive]

FROM THE MASTER OF MASTERS: ❝ if you want to last in this world, you must learn to be both a fox and a wolf. ❞

High upon one of the sky gouging towers known as Skyscrapers (almost fitting for Keybearers in a way) would they remain. New knowledge unveiled, risky gambits made, and an unavoidable truth had shifted the boundary of the collision in ways expected and not so much. One element that certainly hadn't changed was the vitriolic distaste that burns within his blood at the mere sight of that cloak.

Always drawing a face into obscurity, used less as a means of security and more to let the encroaching horror of the known steeple its metaphorical fingers upon another's chest.

Somehow, it allows for the Master above all Masters to challenge that convention through their bombastic display of life. How every pose, the sound of his voice, all these miniature factors of Charisma incarnate to be drawn free that succeeds in one thing. Raw disbelief would momentarily cross Sora's visage as one painfully annoying reality bubbled somewhere in the depths of his being.

Part of him... Wanted to laugh.

"You're kidding me.." However he'd catch that runaway emotions before they offered any clarity of how his Heart stirs. For a measure of cryptic advice was being drawn out like a comic strip instead, yet, those aware could pick up on the haunted undertones that always managed to follow him like shadowy wisps. There were too many things to be careful about when it comes to Sora, if anyone should understand this, it would be Sora.

The bottom of his soles pivot upon the concrete that's been freshly rained upon. Overhead lies dreary gray clouds that drive their phantasmal, billowy boats across the newest definition of a sky that Sora encountered yet. Brows furrowed, eyes sharpened in a not so serious way, it's clear that the intent against such lethal news was to challenge it. "And what makes those two such inspiring options?" He shoots back.

Right now was a time that the keybearer was in so many ways vulnerable, but in so many ways, free. Drawing in a fresh breath from the rustic air from humming ACs and ventilation, his pace would brazenly bring him towards the Master. Every itch to let the Keyblade roar free being brought to rest as some memories snap into semi-sleep due to this cloaked presence. In particular, that ragged, tortured sight of Ephemer who endured such a hellish extent in his name.

..Yet in a twisted way, that same name casting those chains that made flesh and Heart burn.

A soul deep refusal would remain as the dam to block any opportunity of forgetting. Let the magma like build flow within his veins, allow for the soothing light to gradually temper such lethal feelings, a new brand of backbone needs to continue it's journey of being tempered for types like this.

Those who find themselves swimming across the river of time in any bastardizing fashion they please.

"Foxes and Wolves can certainly bring in a lot for themselves, and even those within their fold-" Adventures across countless worlds had brushed and lashed such lessons onto his heart, painting perspective can be called his own.

"But isn't this leaving one important detail out?"

"There's more than enough of those roaming all over." That raised finger would ease back to an open palm as he drifts that palm across the death defying descent that awaits any who dared to jump. "Down here."

Sora would soon ascend that extremity, holding a whimsical flare as light seems to drift effortlessly from his palm. "To whatever else is waiting out there on this side."

That very hand would be resolved as it clenches down to a formidable fist. By no means prepared to listen to base instincts in the desire of wanting to clobber this particularly stubborn heart. "I'll continue to be myself, just like I'd be anywhere else."

Sora would be a force that ceaselessly weave qualities of many into a primordial pool of his liking. Aspects that are welcomed contently within his fold.

Alongside those kicked out without a care.

"Isn't it a cause for concern if a place needs you to switch up on that?"

@keyofhearts

[scarletooyoroi]

[ stormy ] sender arrives at receiver's doorstep soaking wet.

What initially began as a means of checking a late night visit meets with an unexpected spiral. The gentle river of droplets coursing through this end of Teyvat's was more like a trial to one, that very person being a matted mess of crimson hair that patted down on their figure, adding a highlight to those vibrant eyes. Any post-made weariness from being freshly awakened is swiftly dissolved in a singular swoop.

"Cross..?" As if this would be the means of letting reality and his fading dreams finally snap into proper awareness. His intent alone draws in his warm power as he'd briefly cast a nigh invisible barrier of heat above, quickly causing any follow up to be dissolved into steam as he motions her with an arm, practically grasping her by the shoulder in order to guide them inside.

The slide door would be drawn to a close, eclipsing the patter of Hydro's blessing as his attention turned towards her in a heartbeat. "Just a moment--"

It wouldn't be long before he returns with a welcomed sight, a towel.

Allowing it to be considerably warmed through his dominion of Pyro, it'd be akin to a freshly laundered and dried towel that remained underneath the sun's gaze. He didn't miss a beat in practically pressing it towards their chest. "What in the Seven had you out and active during a downpour like this?"

@vygiler

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