#( ✖.┊shut up carrie )

[ioniansunsets]

I love all your Heartsteel hcs they are making me melt <3

Can I request a scenario of Aphelios going to non musician!readers house after a long day and then just spoil them with cuddles and hugs until they go to sleep? Hes my fave and I’m just so normal about him and the rest of Heartsteel thank you <<3

✖ Heartsteel!Aphelios Chilling with Reader ✖

✖ Word Count: 1.5k

✖ Tags: Established R/S

✖ A/N: SORRY FOR TAKING A WHILE!!!! Wrote this with Worlds in mind! Also imagining their little collab with Knotted + The Rocklove apparel drop❤️ Our boys have been busy.

I...also got really carried away, I just like soft warm domestic established relationships..........

Also doing this with the headcanon that Aphelios can still very softly whisper (like how he talks to Alune). He can sign, he can type fast with just one hand but! His favorite thing is to let you, his precious partner, hear him when it really matters.

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It was a long month for Aphelios. He wasn't, miserable, to speak but he was slowly reaching his (already low) mental limit. The stress of performing in front of millions truly catching up to him.

Heartsteel was finally going to perform on stage so it has been practice after practice. Photoshoots, interviews, Instagram lives, meetups for collabs at stores, showcases for new merch, feedback for social media content, approving this and that. It has been non stop work and Aphelios was far beyond burnt out.

He was exhausted and he hasn't seen you in days. As such, when Alune finally squeezed some time out of everyone's schedule to give them a day off (after a grueling final full dressed practice run right before the actual performance day) the first thing he did was grab a ride to your place. It was a quick goodbye wave to the other members, thanking the staff with a curt bow before he ran to grab his stuff, change and fucking book it. Dropping you a message on Discord to let you know he was finally done and coming over as he calls for a ride.

It was late already too, the sun had set and all Aphelios could really do what think about you. Actually, all he could think about when he wasn't working on band stuff was you.

His hands and legs jittery, itching to finally see you, feel you, hear you, hold you. Oh gods, to have you in his arms again. He sucks in a breath at the thought.

How he so craves you to salve his faltering, exhausted soul. He sighs, turning up the music in his headphones as he leans against the window of the passenger's side. Fingers tapping to the beat as he tries to calm down, a smile on his face already at the thought of seeing you again.

He wasn't used to this. Being away from you this long and being so busy as to not even be able to chat with you often. Before Heartsteel picked up traction the two of you were practically inseparable, he would spend time writing songs in your room as you worked. Or Aphelios would just invite you over to his place to chill as he made music. The simple joys of being able to work from home as an artist. But alas, fame comes with responsibilities, and as much as he loves finally making it in the scene, it was tough going through the withdrawal of not being by your side.

His heart races in anticipation as the car stops at an all too familiar road. Grabbing his things, he pays and leaves, slamming the door to the car shut.

Aphelios was practically flying up the steps to your apartment, out the cab he half walked, half ran to your door. Standing by the gate as he calls you to let you know he's here.

When you finally open the door, you're met with the most excited smile, his eyes almost close with how wide he is smiling.

Your usually calm and cool boyfriend dropping everything he was holding to throw himself into your arms the second the door opened. The softest of his whispers as he presses his cheek against yours.

" I've missed you, so much."

You could tell, the way his body sinks into yours. The way his arms grasp you tighter than he ever has. The way he lightly nuzzles you. So uncharacteristic but so understandable at the same time. You laugh a little, telling him how much you missed him too as you held him close.

" Let's stop standing by the door. Come in Phel."

His shoulders rise and fall in a silent chuckle as he picks up his things form the floor to step into your house.

It was the usual domestic slice of life happenings that he was so used to doing. The absolute heartwarming comfort of just going on autopilot. Putting his things in the same spot he always has in your room. Going to get a bath, grabbing a change of clothes from his own shelf by your bed. The way you already helped make him dinner while he was bathing because you just know he hasn't eaten all day. It was perfect, it was like how things always was. A reminder that even though so much was going on, he was still yours as much as you were his.

" I'm excited for you. But you sure you can stay the night? You'll have to wake up earlier than if you stayed with the band you know?"

[ Being by your side is the only way I'll be able to calm down before tomorrow. It's worth the hour of sleep I'll miss not being in the venue hotel.]

The two of you update each other on your lives as he ate. You telling him about the things that happened through the month, watching small videos he took behind the scenes of the shoots, making fun of the other members together as you sit by his side by the dining table. You telling him about your time with your friends, telling him how much you missed him, how happy you were to be with him again too. And oh, the way his leg would reach out to yours, his foot lightly hooking you by the ankle to feel you close as his hands were busy with eating and typing to you about his day. It was nice. It was right. It was the cute little things that you were so used to with Aphelios. Your own hand reaching back out to hold his side. Aphelios' eyes closing as he takes a deep breath, enjoying the feeling of you holding him close after day after day of the noisy meals with the band or the desperately lonely silence of eating in a changing room between sets. It was a nice change of pace to finally be here with you.

Time ticks by and soon enough it was getting really late. Aphelios insisting to help you with the dishes since you cooked, so you did him a service by just hugging him lovingly from behind, giving the back of his neck soft kisses as he smiles with his head tilted to the side so you can rest your head on his shoulder.

" Sleep?"

You ask him softly as he puts the dishes away and dries his hands. Aphelios nods, it was getting late and he had to wake up at 5am to go through even more preparations tomorrow, but that's tomorrow Aphelios' problems. He shoves the thoughts to the back of his mind as he focuses back on you and your beautiful face.

Slowly the two of you walk up to your room, just like everything else, a warm familiarity as he walks to lie down exhausted, on his designated spot on the bed, pulling over some of his plushies that he left at your place as you join him in bed. As you crawl onto the soft bed and lie down, almost instantly you were pulled in close, his arms wrapping around you tight as he sighs again with a smile, enjoying the skinship.

The two of you get comfortable, his face lightly pressed into your shoulder as he laid in your arms. One of your hands around him as the other lightly strokes his hair, comforting him from all the work he has put in to reach where he was. Aphelios just couldn't help but feel all his trouble melt away, that ache in his muscles magically leaving him. Trying his best to fight off sleep as he wants to spend every minute more with you. It was not enough, never enough. Hours, days, years, spent by your side but in the end, all he can do now is but enjoys the little seconds before his consciousness wanes.

Once again, the warm comfort of the usual that has now become but a precious rarity. As he flits in and out of consciousness, he does one final act of love. You smile as he pulls himself up closer to your ears.

" I love you. Goodnight..."

As you adjust yourself to face him, you're met with a warm smile, his dyed hair falling softly around him on you, an almost ethereal glow on his skin from the moonlight seeping in from your window as he blinks at you with half lidded eyes, barely open from exhaustion. Truly a beautiful sight, one that you can't help but to cherish.

" I love you too Phel. Rest well."

You reach out to give him a gentle goodnight kiss on his lips, and just like tonight, and all the nights you have spent, and will spend, with him, he reaches out and kisses you back. So matter of fact, so expected that it was almost comical. He loves you and you love him. And that was right. Slowly the two of you fall asleep in each others arms once again.

[vindicain]

❛ you want me to shut him up for you? ❜ ✖ horror themed starters

it's exceedingly rare for him to get trapped in a conversation with another person. he considers himself a professional at unnerving others, a feature that has the added bonus of generally warding people off after only a few minutes of conversation with him. cain considers it a part of the basic instincts humans carried with them when they went from shuffling and hunched over to fully upright. something in them tells them that cain is wrong, a predator that doesn't fit into any of the boxes they file others into.

but this one - this stocky, sweaty man - simply isn't getting the hint. he's too far into cain's space, leaning forward every time cain tries to take a covert step back, gesticulating widely and sloshing liquor over the side of his glass with every new sentence. they're not even sure what he's talking about anymore, but the drag of his gaze down cain's front is painfully obvious, cain's lips curling in thinly-veiled disgust. they step back again, trying to create fleeting, rapidly disappearing space, accidentally bumping their shoulder into vexatious's chest - who is much closer than they remembered him being.

really, they'd been positive he was still across the room, studying grainy photos of sports teams from the local college.

“ i never took you for a romantic, ” cain murmurs out the side of his mouth, low enough for solely vexatious to hear. his head lolls to the side, black eyes bright below the fan of his lashes. “ if you'd like. i can be the damsel in distress for a minute or two. ”

@vexastre

[keanureevesisbae]

August Walker x fem!reader

Summary: August Walker has yet to celebrate Christmas with someone, but then you marched into his life and boy, is August in it for a surprise.

Wordcount: 606

Warnings: none

August was always keen on a solitary lifestyle. Sure, he slept around and had an affair here and there, but never did he settle down. He could’ve known that one day, someone would brutally undermine his trusted routine, but he never expected that someone was gonna be you.

Yet, here you went: making a mess of his place, by hanging your coat over the closest chair nearby, leaving a havoc behind in the kitchen after you baked something and over his entire place, your stuff was scattered.

And while he liked having the place neat and clear, he loved you more than anything in the world. So he cleaned up after you, made sure your coat was on the designated coat rack and come to adore your litter in his entire house.

But that was before he met the December version of you. He barely digested his turkey from Thanksgiving the day prior, or his place was turned into a giant Christmas catalogue.

Turned out: you woke up at around three in the morning, sneaked out of bed to hang up all sorts of lights, placed ornaments everywhere and the entirety of the days Christmas music would fill the living room.

‘What?’ you innocently asked. ‘It’s almost Christmas, meaning Mariah Carey has officially defrosted and you have to listen to ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ until December 26th.’

It’s a good thing he loved you so much, because if anyone else would’ve pulled this stunt with him, they had to leave his place immediately.

On December 6th, it was time: you two had to buy a Christmas tree. You already had all the decorations, but no tree.

‘August, darling, please, come with me,’ you begged. ‘I need someone to carry the tree and you are so strong.’

Boasting his ego, he saw what you’re doing there. ‘Okay, okay, how long were you planning on staring at the trees?’

‘Not long,’ you said. ‘I promise.’

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August discovered two things that afternoon. One: you did not keep your promise. Two: he hated shopping with a passion. While he saw a dozen—if not more—Christmas trees that were good enough, you were carefully deciding which pair of branches was worthy of your Christmas decorations.

This was taking forever.

He saunters behind you, as you feverishly check every tree from top to bottom, before shaking your head and deciding this was not the tree. August accidentally had the audacity to point out at one, saying he liked it, but then you glared at him so he was quick to shut up.

While he might not understand the precision that came with looking for a Christmas tree, he did enjoy watching you walk through the trees and in your mind already envisioning how to decorate it. As he was lost in adoration, simply staring at you, you ushered him over. ‘I found them.’

Them. As in plural?

When he neared you, he saw you chuckling.

���Relax, August, I just picked one,’ you said. ‘Just wanted to freak you out, which from the looks of it, seems like I succeeded.’ You poked his side, before wrapping your arms around his waist. ‘I want this one.’

The tree looked like any other on the lot, but seeing your smile, he realized this was a special one. ‘Okay, we’ll take it.’

Decorating the tree was thankfully much more fun than picking it out. He had you on his shoulders while you were draping the lights around the branches. You leaned forward and whispered: ‘I love you, August. To many more December’s together.’

He squeezed your legs. ‘I love you more, darling.’

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