#Lapis Re Light

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (June 12th)

Angelica & Lucifer (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

Shizuku Miono (Muv-Luv)

Benkei Musashibou (Majikoi!)

Hiroshi Sakuma (Kuroko no Basket)

Dosu Kinuta (Naruto)

Miki Hiiragi (Lucky Star)

Lucia (D.Gray-man)

Suzune Minase (8beatStory♪)

Beelzebub (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)

Natsuhi & Kokona Shinonome (Pop’n Music)

Jack (Pop’n Music)

Madonnatchi (Tamagotchi)

P-1 & P-2 (Pop’n Music)

Marry & Yully (Servamp)

Yoshitsune Minamoto (Majikoi!)

Maki (Senran Kagura)

Bettina (Animal Crossing)

Yoichi Nasuno (Majikoi!)

Philippines (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

[yumis-icons]

Yue

(DropBox Link)

Series : Lapis RE: Lights (Episodes 1-12)

Icons : 210

None of the art is mine, all icons are free to use.

You don’t have to credit me when using them.

Just like or reblog the post if you’re going to use them.

[w3w]

Blue Hour ID Pack

💧 ꒱ Names

aciano, aoe, azula, azure, blue, caeso, cerulean, cobalt, cyan, helen, heron, hollow, icie, koko, lapis, livius, neo(n), nila, peri, raine, rin, sadness, sapphire, script, sei, sorrow, sou, stacy

🌓 ꒱ Pronouns

blue / hour, calm / calming, co / cold, com / comfort, da / damp, da / dark, da / daze, depress / depression, des / despair, drea / dreary, em / empty, exhau / exhausted, gloo / gloomy, lone / lonely, melan / melancholy, mi / mist, mo / moon, nega / negativity, neo / neon, ni / night, ordi / ordinary, pessi / pessimistic, pud / puddle, rai / rain, re / rest, sa / sad, si / sigh, sky / skybound, ti / tired, tran / tranquil, we / wet

💧 ꒱ Titles

[x] who rests within negativity's arms, [x] who feels the rain on [x] body, the rain-wrapped soul, [x] blessed by moonbeams, the embodied screams of the abyss, the signs of the lonely, the neon-lit smoker, [x] with an aura as calming as the rain, [x] who cries the tears of the damned, despair-struck tragedy, the shattered years of foregone youth, [x] with no friends nor regrets, [x] with an aching hole in [x] chest, the blue-rayed sky, [x] who watches the sky light up in shades of blue, [x] whose tears mix with the raindrops, a sinner of the night, blue light's subordinate, [x] with a reflection of blue on [x] face, [x] with nowhere to go and nothing to see, [x] who knows all the tricks of the blue-lit streets, the broken script of what the city spat out

🌓 ꒱ Genders

bedgender, bluehouraesic, bluegender, bluestaric, despairvirtual, goldbluehourian, gloomrainstormenic, invimarwa, lumiblueflowic, moonoceanaesic / nightoceanaesic / seareflunaesic / horisealunaesic, negativegender, rainic, weightedblankic

[rippedstitches]

Here’s all of the decipherable text from the piece of paper found in Logan’s safe. Full credit to Reddit user Educational_green711 for the transcription. The original Reddit post can be found here

To my executors and family,

The following is a record of additions and clarifications to be added to my official letter of wishes in the… of my passing:

I have … this record to provide my executor and family with information they will need after my death. It includes financial and personal information that will be needed to settle certain affairs … performances and suggestions for arrangements that must be made. I hope this record will help make a difficult time easier for my family.

It is my preference that the title and role of CEO should be bestowed upon my son, Kendall Logan Roy.

Regarding my funeral arrangements: my funeral and burial are to take place in accordance with the … practices of the Roman Catholic Church.

My preferred hymns:

Amazing Grace, Abide With Me, Here I Am, Lord, I Watch the Sunrise Lighting the Sky, The Lord’s My Shepard (Psalm 23)

I wish to be buried with the attached copy of my sister Rose’s photograph placed in … of my wife, Marcia in my right hand … pocket.

I would like to change the epitaph on my headstone …

“Truthful lips, endure forever, the lying tongue lasts only a moment.” Proverbs 12:19.

Leave my head of security, Colin Stiles, my Rolex Daytona Lapis …

Regarding personal assets, include the following: I advise that … should remain in a secured facility indefinitely, and … family … unnecessary financial complications … collection of Impressionism paintings and … Switzerland.

Sincerely yours, Logan Roy.

- NRPI

- Re..? Antiquities/antiques

- Journalism Ex../Ca..?

- Greg?

[pastelicmelodydreamic]

my kinnie list

this is my kinnie list from each dreamyverse media

note: this is a long list

snowflake(object trek)

journal(paper puppets take 2)

microwave(ultimate insanity)

nozomi yumehara/cure dream(yes precure 5)

erika kurumi/cure marine(heartcatch precure)

yayoi kise/cure peace(smile precure)

hikaru hoshina/cure star(star twinkle precure)

sango suzumura/cure coral(tropical rouge precure)

mashiro nijigaoka/cure prism(hirogaru sky precure)

ichigo hoshimiya(aikatsu)

akari oozora(aikatsu)

kirara hanazono(aikatsu stars)

junior asparagus(veggietales)

naru ayase(pretty rhythm rainbow live)

yui yumekawa(pripara)

daia nijinosaki(kiratto prichan)

miruki amauri(waccha primagi)

himari aozora(himitsu no aipri)

tsumugi suzukaze(himitsu no aipri)

tamaki nikaido(himitsu no aipri)

rinrin shinomiya(himitsu no aipri)

sapphie(jewelpet)

adeleine(kirby)

bill(sitting ducks)

aya maruyama(bang dream)

PAREO(bang dream)

muni ohnaruto(d4dj)

michiru kaibara(d4dj)

ruby kurosawa(love live)

rina tenoji(love live)

yume hinata(mewkledreamy)

rainbow(krew)

heartsping(catch teenieping)

charmping(catch teenieping)

fluffyping(catch teenieping)

helly(robocar poli)

cleany(robocar poli)

flip(super wings)

sunny(super wings)

golden girl(super wings)

maxie(robot trains)

ari jin(flowering heart)

lani(tayo the little bus)

tony(tayo the little bus)

poco(tayo the little bus)

loco(titipo titipo)

luchia nanami(mermaid melody)

gumi(vocaloid)

momoka aino(magical x heroine maji majo pures)

sarai shihara(police x heroine lovepatrina)

tooty(banjo-kazooie)

elise(fire emblem)

pyra(xenoblade blade)

tsukino(show by rock)

winky(the airport diary)

ben(the airport diary)

miko(the airport diary)

pelico(the airport diary)

botu(the airport diary)

musa(winx club)

iris(lolirock)

popo/gogo(bubble bubble marin)

vivi(bubble bubble marin)

my melody(sanrio and onegai my melody)

dizzy(1998 bob the builder)

roary(roary the racing car)

maxi(roary the racing car)

drifter(roary the racing car)

melody piper(ever after high)

sam(totally spies)

peach(shining star)

snow(shining star)

quizz(batwheels)

snowy(batwheels)

angers(lapis re: lights)

orbit(rob the robot)

gordan(gogobus)

dolce(angel's friends)

jubilee(underground ernie)

miles(auto b good)

isabelle(finley the fire engine)

lucy(vroomiz)

rose cinderella(regal academy)

dj(ricky zoom)

boomer(the adventures of chuck and friends)

soku(the adventures of chuck and friends)

frannie fenderson(go go cory carson)

pickle(blaze and the monster machines)

koko(chuggington)

chatsworth(chuggington)

emery(chuggington)

zephie(chuggington)

cruz ramierez(cars)

ichigo momomiya(tokyo mew mew)

percy(thomas and friends not all engines go)

clara(princess pring)

buddy(dream street citv)

jouju(secret jouju)

lip(rilu rilu fairilu)

bungo(jungle junction)

sammy(busy buses)

doremi harukaze(ojamajo doremi)

michelle lin(balala the fairies)

azure na(balala the fairies)

fiona(heroes of the city)

olly(olly the little white van)

komodo(animal mechanicals)

mouse(animal mechanicals)

ping(go go dino)

meteor(meteor and the mighty trucks)

purple star(rainbow bubblegem)

george(trains animated series)

swifty(elias the rescue boat)

tiny(little robots)

dirty(the stinky and dirty show)

usagi tsukino(sailor moon)

saedee(bolts and blip)

brum

chocola(nekopara)

robotgirl(robotboy)

skid(dive olly dive)

madoka kaname(puella magica madoka)

amby(fire engine ray)

love(love and berry dress up and dance)

lara(komi witch lara)

abby(city of friends)

beaut(the adventures of massey ferguson)

kirari moroboshi(idolmaster)

riamu yumemi(idolmaster)

hari koo(the haunted house anime)

cherry(tea tea cherry)

petty(pororo the little penguin)

buzz(tractor tom)

ruby(sofy ruby)

dan(engie benjy)

ringo yukimori(hime chen lipri)

nagisa motomiya(AKB0048)

rikki chadwick(H2O just add water and mermaid adventures)

sally the ambulance(pelle the police car)

yui hirasawa(K-ON)

petal tear(luminary tears)

hairpin(legends of spark)

zowie pollie(rollie pollie ollie)

pollie pi(rollie pollie ollie)

billy bevel(rollie pollie ollie)

red(firehouse tales)

scooch(jim henson's construction site)

leo saionji(king of prism)

tori himemiya(ensemble stars)

amu hinamori(shugo chara)

kyurun(go go vehicle zoo)

chino(is the order a rabbit?)

riku nanase(idolish7)

draculaura(monster high)

jack(trucktown)

isla(barbie: princess charm school)

theodore(theodore tugboat)

izumi asagi(pastel memories)

avery(rev and roll)

tsukasa hiiragi(lucky star)

dusty crophopper(planes)

sakura kinomoto(cardcaptor sakura)

sunshine(tugs)

ten cents(tugs)

lockette(pop pixies)

hay lin(w.i.t.c.h)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Okay, this is a long one! please stick with me;-; I've been bringing a lot of time-travel, dimension-travel, transmigration, and reincarnation shit for around 3 or 4 years now, and I just wanna ask;

What's going to happen when the Teyvat timeline reaches the future timeline? Ajax isn't born until the future timeline, so what happens when they reach the point where Ajax is born? I'm not sure and I'm lazy to re-read, but if Ajax doesn't have a constellation yet, then would he gain his constellation when his "other self" is born? Would it be the same one? If he does have one, will his younger counterpart share the same constellation? Can two separate beings exist under one constellation? also, if we are going with the, "the universe split the moment time was rewinded and therefore are no longer the same universe" idea, what happens to the future Ajax?

The Ajax that we know had to get snapped multiple times in his life just so he could glow like a fucking light stick. What would the consequences be if Ajax no longer grows up to be that person? Would our Ajax be joining the unknown God in the afterlife? Or perhaps, would this new Ajax be a reincarnation? I have so SO MANY MORE QUESTIONSIOHDIJFD ples answer-⊂(・﹏・⊂)

i have to admit that i am not entirely sure where your line of questioning comes from;;

for one, i'm going to assume you've caught up with the fic as of chapter 58. ajax had no constellation prior to godhood because his world was outside of the world tree's purview. he obtained the one he has bc of connecting with irminsul via godly ascencion.

i hope this isn't coming off as mean, i know this is a jumbled premise and, since it's a fic primarily about ajax being op, most of the timeline technicallities are very hand-wavey. so like- they're not the focus of the story, whether they abide by conventional theories on how timeline splitting would actually work.

i'm putting the rest under the cut to spare everyone's dash but tl;dr:

the fic is operating under two timelines since the very beginning. the first is the og teyvat, where rex lapis and shogun are, and where skirk comes from. ajax' world is technically from there, even if set on a different... well, world. and the second is our current teyvat, pre-archon war, where skirochka and morax and guizhong are from. current teyvat and og teyvat were originally one and the same, but with ajax' arrival and subsequent fuckery with the events that would've played out had he just sat still and done nothing, he created a different branch of the timeline, and the one he's currently in. so when he travels to his world, he's actually traveling to the future of the original timeline.

so since timelines cannot converge, the teyvat ajax is on at the moment will never 'reach' the original one. the original one still happened, he didn't exactly 'change history' as basileios said, not in the conventional way. he did change what celestia had predicted 'history' would be – he changed the future. he didn't change the past, he just made a new timeline where things wouldn't be fucked. technically this would mean there's a different timeline where ajax doesn't manage to reform celestia and things sitll go to hell? but since that's so much of a headache and genshin has plenty of time-defying things, i'm just working with the generous assumption that abyssal-tainted ajax doesn't abide by the exact same time laws as everyone else. so like- the original timeline was never touched. ajax split the timeline literally on arrival, since it was never supposed to happen, because otherwise there would've been a closed loop of ajax having existed in the past that his world fled from? and thus wouldn't have needed to flee bc ajax would've already fixed everything? or, worse, ajax would've been doomed to fail from the start?

time jumping is far too complicated for my brain, so you can see why i'm using the abyss to get around it.

so, with the future changed, nothing is going to play out exactly the same it did in the original timeline. they're never going to 'catch up' to it, because they're not going there. since ajax' birth was so far down the line, we can assume that an ajax from the new timeline will simply never be born bc of the butterfly effect of things not playing out exactly the same in morepesok. nothing will happen to our ajax, either, since his story is already set in the original timeline, which isn't being touched here.

this probably makes no sense if you know a lot about how time would work in a multiple-timeline scenario, but, again, since that was never the point of the fic, i'm just using the abyss as the unknown variable that it is to basically use it as an excuse for why things may not add up.

and in the impossible scenario where an ajax would be born in the new timeline, his constellation wouldn't be the same, because they, again, wouldn't be the same person. the only beings that currently share a constellation are skirk and skirochka, but they're a giant exception. moreover, they don't even, strictly speaking, share papaver dei. around chapters 26 to 29 basileios mentions that the stars are shifting because someone is changing history. technically, while the names remain the same for simplicity's sake, none of the characters of the current timeline have the same constellations as their counterparts in the original one anymore. like- morax' lapis dei isn't the same lapis dei of rex lapis, because rex lapis' included the archon war, while morax' no longer does. guizhong's in the original timeline literally included her death, which isn't there anymore. so papaver dei is 'complete' for skirk, but is now different for skirochka as she is still young and things didn't play out as they did for the other one. moreover, skirk hasn't connected to irminsul after getting to the current timeline, so as far as the tree cares, skirk doesn't really 'have' a constellation. she's probably going to anchor to the abyss, anyway. they don't even share a constellation under irminsul's eyes, so.

anyway, uh... i'm looking at what other questions you made,,,

a reincarnation would require ajax to die? so like. no. you could say taht, once ajax eventually does die, that at some point in the much later future, there is a reincarnation? but going by your question, no, that wouldn't be the 'same' ajax that was supposed to be born had he not changed history. you have to think of the current teyvat as a mostly blank slate. some things will still happen, but most will not. and the ones that will happen, will only do so because they're immediate and thus not nearly as fucked over by the butterfly effect.

most of your other questions are under the assumption that current teyvat will somehow catch up with or affect the original at all, so- i'm afraid those would all be no,,,

time was never rewinded. ajax was plucked off his world and thrown to the past, where he immediately created a split by virtue of existing. so like-

refer to the diagram i put before the cut;;;;;;;

i hope that makes sense?? again, sorry if it came across as mean, that wasn't the intention hahah:;;

[idontknowanametouse]

Genshin cringe headcanons part 5: Liyue "qixing"

This post reclaims the term “cringe”. If you use it as an insult or is triggered by it, please DNI

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Name: Beidou

Gender: cis woman, she/her

Pictures of Character:

Appearance: ethnically chinese, tall, muscled, dark skin, brown eyes, long brown hair she usually keeps tied up, many scars, cataract on the left eye, two missing fingers.

Age: 39

Sexuality: lesbian

Personality: strong, relaxed, sympathic, extrovert, bold, brave, caring towards kids.

Area of greatest ability: fighting, business

Likes: sea, sea birds, adventure, traveling, spicy food, being alone with Ningguang

Dislikes: being labeled by others, cold food, mud

Fears/triggers: the constellation Beidou

Kins: does not has kin but supports those who do.

Family: adoptive dad, Kazuha (adoptive son)

Relationship status: married to Ningguang

Friends: Keqing, Ganyu, Xinyan, Hu Tao, Thoma, Shenhe, Xiangling, Yaoyao, Yanfei, Yelan, Yun Jin

Disabilities: two missing fingers, ADHD, cataract on the left eye, wears an eyepatch

Belief: believes Rex Lapis, but does not really care about him

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Name: Keqing

Gender: transfem girlflux catgender, she/they/mew

Pictures of Character:

Appearance: ethnically chinese, tan skin, small, brown hair dyed purple, black eyes.

Age: 22

Sexuality: lesbian

Personality: workaholic, perfeccionist, only believes things she can see, practical, very caring even though she tries to hide it.

Area of greatest ability: business

Likes: Rex Lapis history, shopping, studying, working, golden shrimp balls

Dislikes: discussing about Rex Lapis, being around too many people, being lazy

Fears/triggers: thunder, family-like relationship, horror tales

Kins: purple, lilac, light academia, Thunder

Family: none

Relationship status: dating Ganyu

Friends: Baizhu, Beidou, Ningguang, Xiangling, Xinyan, Yanfei, Yelan, Zhongli

Disabilities: autistic, anxious

Belief: has a harsh relationship with her beliefs and rathers not talk about it

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Name: Ganyu

Gender: transfem girlflux, she/they/sweet/love/winter/snow

Pictures of Character:

Appearance: ethnically chinese, tall, pale, fat, blue hair she usually keeps tied, black eyes, dark circles, scars through loves body

Age: chronologically 2281, physically 20

Sexuality: asexual lesbian

Personality: calm, polite, respectful, wildly protective, kind, helpful

Area of greatest ability: helping others

Likes: rain, working, routine, dogs, qingxin, flowers

Dislikes: meat, sleeping, people that think of themselves as superior

Fears/triggers: people talking about her appearance, wars, bloodshed

Kins: clouds, snow, ocean, night, light blue

Family: Zhongli (adoptive father) Xiao, Xinyan, Hu Tao, Qiqi (adoptive little siblings) Albedo, Klee, Shenhe (found family siblings) Xianyun (found family aunt)

Relationship status: dating Keqing

Friends: Baizhu, Beidou, Chongyun, Gaming, Ningguang, Yanfei, Yaoyao

Disabilities: autistic, narcolepsia, selectively mute, arthrits, hypermobil (I know this isn’t a disability, but I decided to include it)

Belief: has taoist-like practices on her day-to-day life

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Name: Yelan

Gender: cis woman, she/her

Pictures of Character:

Appearance: ethnically chinese, tall, thin, black, black eyes, black hair

Age: 34

Sexuality: lesbian

Personality: mysterious, relaxed, baddass, smart, generally calm, sassy

Area of greatest ability: dealing with unknown situations

Likes: nice clothes, games that involve luck, tea, being around people that don't see her as a threat

Dislikes: sweets, needles, yelling

Fears/triggers: losing the people around her, being called a "psycho", the Abyss

Kins: casino, cleaning, night, water

Family: Xingqiu (cousin)

Relationship status: dating Shenhe

Friends: Yanfei, Yun Jin, Ningguang, Beidou, Shinobu, Itto, Xiao

Disabilities: OCD, ASPD, weak imunologic system, weak body, uses a nose cateter

Belief: is agnostic

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Name: Ningguang

Gender: cis woman, she/her

Pictures of Character:

Appearance: ethnically chinese, tall, has albinism, long white hair she ties up, red eyes

Age: 39

Sexuality: lesbian

Personality: professional, calculates everything, selfless, likes kids, intelligent, calm

Area of greatest ability: business

Likes: routine, money, glaze lilies, the jade chamber, soup, her chess game

Dislikes: marriage proposals, crabs, prepotent people

Fears/triggers: losing what she accomplished, the end of Liyue

Kins: gold, stars

Family: Kazuha (adoptive son)

Relationship status: married to Beidou

Friends: Baizhu, Ganyu, Keqing, Qiqi, Shenhe, Xiangling, Yanfei, Yaoyao, Yelan, Yun Jin, Zhongli

Disabilities: OCD, legally blind, uses a white cane

Belief: is agnostic

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All pictures are made with this picrew: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1931531

[oregano-writes]

Tartaglia's Five-Step Plan for Wooing Morax- Chapter 3: Debt collecting

The first debtor that Childe had to visit was a man named Zhang Wei. The note Ekaterina had put by his address stated that he was a merchant, and he had left the country for months after taking out a loan. He had only recently returned, but had refused to meet with Ekaterina to discuss late fees, and hadn’t responded to any of the letters sent to his house. Childe was to let him know that the Northland Bank didn’t take kindly to people neglecting to pay them back.

Childe explained the situation to Zhongli, and how it was his job to go pay him a visit and get the money he owed them.

“Zhang Wei? I believe he was one of the salesmen who got a positive prediction in last year’s Rite of Descension. Rex Lapis would be disappointed if he saw how someone he favored betrayed Liyue’s ideals for his own financial gain.”

“Well then, you could say I’m doing Rex Lapis a favor.”

Zhongli smiled. “Yes, I do think you could say that.”

Is he always like this? He seems to think his false identity is funny. It would almost be endearing, if it weren’t for the fact he’s trying to lie to me.

“Well, then, I believe it’s time we finally got going.”

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When Childe and Zhongli arrived at Zhang Wei’s home, Childe was surprised to see that it’s owner did not appear to be making any attempt to conceal himself from detection. In fact, his home had all of it’s lights on, and he could hear people inside. It sounded like some sort of party, and one on the larger side at that. He would try to get Zhang Wei alone so as to not sully Northland’s reputation so completely, but if that failed he was amenable to making an example out of the man. The citizens of Liyue would do well to know not to cross the Fatui.

When Childe told Zhongli his plan, Zhongli nodded. “Is there anything in particular I could help with? I believe I would only be getting in your way if I attempted to assist you with the more… unsavory aspects of the job, but I would like to be of use.”

“Well, if you could distract the guests for a few minutes until I’m done, my job would definitely go much more smoothly.”

“Alright. And before we enter–” 

In one swift move, Zhongli had lifted his standard-issue Fatui mask off of his head, and ran his gloved hand through Childe’s unruly hair. 

“You still don’t look quite as put-together as would be expected of someone at one of these parties, but it is an improvement. Really, I don’t understand how the Tsaritsa allows her highest-ranking officers to walk around like you do.” With a pointed look at the unbuttoned bottom half of Childe’s jacket (It was hot in Liyue, alright?) Zhongli re-fastened Childe’s mask to his hair, patting a stubborn clump of hair back down. 

Childe stood still for a moment as he processed what had just happened, before blinking and realizing Zhongli had basically admitted his identity out loud. After all, who would insult an Archon in front of one of their strongest and most loyal followers other than another Archon?

“Well, respectable Mr. Zhongli of the Wangsheng funeral parlor, are you ready to crash a party with me?”

“If all goes according to plan, there will be no ‘crashing’. But yes, I am ready.”

“Well, then, let’s get started, shall we?”

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When Childe knocked on the door, he noticed how the silhouettes of the people inside seemed to still. When he heard someone walk over to the door, he turned to Zhongli. “This is your last chance to back out. You can still stay out here if you want. It wouldn’t do to have the esteemed Wangsheng consultant associating with the likes of me.” 

“Nonsense,” Zhongli replied. “I said I would help you, so that is what I will be doing.”

Childe nodded. “As long as you’re sure.”

Just then, the door swung open, and a man eyed the two of them warily. “Were you invited?”

Childe grinned at the man, holding back a laugh at how nervous he looked and how his gaze kept flicking to the mask on Childe’s hair. “We’re just here for the host, Zhang Wei. If everyone behaves, we’ll be in and out in just a few minutes.” 

The man looked over at Zhongli, seemingly hoping he would interfere, but Zhongli just shrugged as if to say it’s his fault for breaking a contract.

The man eventually let them in, and gestured weakly to one partygoer dressed especially extravagantly. “There’s your guy.” 

“Thank you, you’ve been a big help.” Childe smiled again, watching as the man refused to meet his eyes. It was almost funny how much his gaze tended to put people off, but it definitely could be useful in some situations. 

Childe pushed through the brightly-dressed crowd with Zhongli following closely behind him. When they reached Childe’s target, the crowd immediately dispersed around the man, leaving Zhang Wei without backup. 

Childe smiled amicably at the man, his “dead fish eyes” (as Kuni had dubbed them) clearly unsettling him.

“What do you want?” he asked, clearly staring at Childe’s mask. 

“Zhang Wei, is it? It’s truly a relief to see you here. Why, with how you were ignoring our letters, we were afraid you might have died in a horrible accident!”

“I don’t have to give anything to Fatui scum like you,” Zhang Wei replied, eyes narrowing.

“Oh, that’s where you’re mistaken!” Childe replied cheerfully. “You owe us almost twenty million Mora, and you’ve been ignoring us for weeks. We won’t be going anywhere until you pay.” 

Zhang Wei flinched at Childe’s wording. Not pay us back. Just pay. Although, really it was his own fault for trying to pull something like this on a group like the Fatui– everyone knew that.

Childe reached out and grabbed his shirt collar, letting his signature Hydro dagger form in his free hand. “Now, are you going to make this easy for us, or will we have to resort to more unsightly measures? 

Zhang Wei froze, before turning to one of the partygoers who had stop to watch the situation. “Yichen, go get the Mora stash upstairs. You know the one.”

The man– Yichen, apparently– nodded, before hastily running up the stairs, coming back down a few moments later with a sack of Mora. “Will this be enough?”

Childe took the bag, opened it up, and decided there was no way he was bothering to count that much mora. An idea struck him, and he passed the bag to Zhongli. “How much mora do you think that is?”

Zhongli weighed the bag in his hand, before turning back to Childe. “Twenty-six million, four hundred eighteen thousand and thirty six.” At the looks he got from the crowd, he hastily added on a belated “More or less.”

Childe held back a laugh, and slapped a still-frazzled Zhang Wei on the back. “Good doing business with you!” he said, and turned around to walk out the door. Without thinking, he grabbed Zhongli’s hand, but just as he realized his mistake and was about to pull his hand away with some half-baked excuse about not wanting him to get lost in the crowd, Zhongli shifted his hand to interlock gloved fingers with Childe, and half-baked excuse died on Childe’s tongue. 

Childe and Zhongli left the house, Childe trying his best to ignore the fact that people were absolutely whispering about the loyal, honorable Mr. Zhongli holding hands with a Harbinger, and Zhongli not seeming to notice.

When they got outside, Childe sighed, letting go of Zhongli’s hand to muss up his hair again– no matter how often people told him how good his hair looked when he brushed it, he couldn’t concentrate when it was all perfect and neat.

“Is something wrong?” Zhongli asked, expression adorably confused. 

“Oh, it’s nothing,” Childe deflected easily. “Just disappointed I didn’t get a fight like I was hoping for. Maybe I’ll have to take you up on that offer to fight me.”

Zhongli smiled. “Maybe someday. But are you sure you’re alright? You look awfully red, and I doubt the Liyuean heat is comfortable for a Snezhnayan.”

Just as Childe was about to defend his pride and say that he was fine, he had an idea. 

“You’re right, Zhongli. It is really hot out. Maybe we could have lunch at your house instead?” He wouldn’t likely have many excuses to snoop around the Archon’s house, and it would be a wasted opportunity to not shoot his shot when Zhongli have him such a convenient cover story.

Zhongli blinked, surprised, before nodding. “That sounds good. We can pick up lunch from Wanmin to go.”

“That sounds perfect,” Childe replied easily.

──────── ✧ ────────

The first thing that stood out about Zhongli’s home was the sheer amount of stuff in it. If he had doubted Zhongli was really a dragon before, all those doubts would be well and gone now staring directly at his hoard. From Zhongli’s spending habits he’d assumed he might have a messy house, but not every-available-surface-covered-in-antiques messy.

Zhongli did not seem to think much of the clutter, carefully pushing some of the items away from the center of the table to make room for the food. 

Childe kept looking around as subtly as he could while they ate. None of the items alone were particularly suspicious, but so many of the themed pieces depicting the Adepti while Zhongli was often casually disrespectful to them in pubic would likely key in most people to the fact that something was up.

Childe and Zhongli talked for a while after that, Childe asking about different artifacts that caught his attention and Zhongli explaining their origins in frankly more detail than most people would care about. However, Childe was a weak, weak man, and Zhongli had a very nice voice, and so he sat and dutifully listened to every monologue about Liyue’s sources of clay or methods of relief sculpture until the sun had almost fully set, at which point Childe began to pack up his things to leave, only to be stopped by Zhongli.

“Childe, it is quite late, and much too dark to be walking around. If you would like, you could stay the night instead.”

“I- What? Where would you sleep, then?” Childe asked, hoping his nervousness didn’t leak through into his voice.

“I have a good deal of work that remains to be completed, so I will not likely be sleeping at all tonight.”

Childe would have felt bad about wasting Zhongli’s time if it wasn’t clear that the extra work was likely a cover story for some sort of archon magic that caused him to not require sleep. He had never heard of the Tsaritsa sleeping, so it stood to reason that Zhongli would not need to either.

“Alright then. If you need me you’ll know where to find me.” 

──────── ✧ ────────

As Childe sat in bed and thought about the day’s events, one small but worrying detail popped out at him. Even though he had tried to be careful about remembering who Zhongli really was, he wasn’t referring to him in his head as ‘Morax’ anymore. That couldn’t be good, could it? He had to befriend him for his plan, but getting attached would almost certainly lead to more issues down the line.

Childe sighed, and turned over onto his side, face resting on the pillow which unhelpfully smelled like glaze lilies just like the man in question.

This whole situation was going to become a huge pain, wasn’t it.

[beauty-marked-beauties]

Today's Beauty-Marked Beauty is: Tsubaki from Lapis Re: LiGHTs

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (April 18th)

Dia (Pop’n Music)

Hisashi Watanabe (Diamond no Ace)

Maria Momoe (Big Windup!)

Jun Kitagawa (Kanon)

Michiru Kagari (I-Chu)

Elenoa (Pop’n Music)

Hyouzou (One Piece)

Maryberry (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

Maria Himesato (Aikatsu)

Yotaka (Yona of the Dawn)

Masashi Kawahara (Chaos;Child)

Muto (Mob Psycho 100)

Piper (Animal Crossing)

Tatsunori Mori (Prince of Tennis)

Yuji Terushima (Haikyuu!!)

[wolfgirlclit]

For the OC tech ask game: 2, 15

What you had taken to be an artistic recreation of the deity in this ancient temple, deep in the bowels in an abandoned structure in the mountains, chuckled at the questions murmured into the air.

The gemstones which hovered around the body, forming clothing made of shards of diamond and ruby and sapphire and lapis all tinkle as Iraetolin re-inhabits her old physical form to answer the questions which intrigued her.

"Our devices are an interesting blending of raw energy manipulation and physical machinery." An stretched obsidian limb forms above it a figure looking similar to the one made of obsidian and jewels, but fleshy for the most part. It's navy right arm unwinds itself in a myriad of threads, reforming and adjusting, shifting its shape before returning to normal. From its palm spreads a panel of light which both hands interface with.

"Our computers are more or less magically linked to our minds, which are used for storage as well, but unlike your internet, they are only connected when transmitting data between individuals. We haven't yet grown to need such a network. As far as what my lockscreen is... we don't have them, but if we required them..."

Another obsidian sculpture with pigment mapped onto it forms above her hand, for surely this can be none other than the Scorpion Mother, Iraetolin. This one shows the Mother, obsidian but managing to control and shift the more monstrous aspects of her appearance, with her arms around a femme elf of dark violet skin, long silver hair, and brilliant eyes, the pair of them hugging a smiling younger masc elven figure of a much lighter than the other too, yet still dark, bluish-purple skin, four pupils per eye, and curious markings. As the figures rotate above her palm, the younger man's back is revealed to have markings of a massive scorpion tattoo running down his back, the tail of the scorpion lifting away at the base of his spine, becoming a three dimensional stinger of floating obsidian which wraps around his waist like a belt. Also revealed is a much smaller child, about a third the age of the elder, clinging to his leg, with fingers which are disjointed floating bits of obsidian, as are their hands up to the wrist.

"An image of my beloved wife, our sons, and myself."

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

"THE HANGED MAN."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Great! That's great. That's actually what *I* was thinking too -- THE HANGED MAN. Good, strong name. We have a very good name for the case now."

He flips the pages of his notebook. "I'm going to start calling it THE HANGED MAN. It's good we sorted this out."

Task complete: Read your ledger and name the case

+30 XP

4. I'm done inspecting these. (Close the case files.)

DAMAGED LEDGER - You don't exactly *close* them, so much as *distance* yourself from the smelly papers. They're a little further from your nose now.

We've unlocked a check to read the files.

+1 Kim explained the system.

3. [Logic - Medium 11] Can I read the case files now?

LOGIC [Medium: Failure] - It's possible: yes. Easy: no. You need to come up with a small archaeological system to re-order the remains of your past works. At the moment all they do is fall apart in your hands. Some dates and the numeric titular system is all you have.

Reading the case files would take some time, anyway.

4. Browse the *yellow* pages.

DAMAGED LEDGER - In the back you see thin translucent copier paper -- some neon yellow, some bright red -- all covered in boxes, like marching armies. These look like official forms, waiting to be filled out...

LOGIC [Easy: Success] - ...then *rip* them from the binder, and hand them out. According to type of form.

What types of forms are there?

DAMAGED LEDGER - Three. The topmost are MISCONDUCT FINES, the middle ones are STATION CALLS, and the bottommost are FIELD AUTOPSY FORMS. Each is easy enough to make sense of.

MISCONDUCT FINE.

STATION CALL.

FIELD AUTOPSY.

Enough of these. (Close forms).

DAMAGED LEDGER - A monetary penalization ranging from 20 to 250 reál. Severe cases allow for 1000 reál, but that requires special paperwork. The details of issuing these fines are spread out over the rest of the fields.

2. STATION CALL.

DAMAGED LEDGER - These are quite sinister in tone. They give a date and time for the person to 'appear' at the specified Precinct Police Station. Below the 'call' are the criminal charges you risk by 'not appearing'.

3. FIELD AUTOPSY.

DAMAGED LEDGER - A dozen pages of thin copy paper, bright red in colour. You see the parameters of a deceased human form, waiting to be filled in: age, sex, condition of internal organs...

4. Enough of these. (Close forms.)

DAMAGED LEDGER - Yes -- all that remains now is to fill those forms and *hand* them to people: fines for wrongdoers, interview requests for bad guys, and field autopsies to *dead* guys.

+5 XP

AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - What delicious power hid within this pathetic mess... you feel better.

+1 Healed Health

DAMAGED LEDGER - The rest of the stinking cellulose is *much* worse for wear. Being sandwiched between the board and the rest of the paperwork must have spared the fragile copier paper.

5. Look at the clipboard.

DAMAGED LEDGER - It's made of dark blue plastic hard enough to beat someone to submission with. The edges are rounded, however. The U4-sized board feels thick and heavy in your hand. Light shimmers on its wet surface. On the back you see the embossed letters: RCM.

What did you say the colour was?

Shake the ledger.

Back to the rest of this mess.

DAMAGED LEDGER - Blue.

INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] - The blue heart. Don't look into it.

2. Shake the ledger.

DAMAGED LEDGER - Something rattles inside, ever so lightly. Is there... a hidden compartment?

Peek inside.

DAMAGED LEDGER - The plastic shimmers like lapis lazuli, but it is not see-through. You cannot see to its centre...

3. How would I open it? (Conclude.)

DAMAGED LEDGER - With your hands? U4-sized pages hang from the clip screwed to the top of the board.

We'll try this Interfacing check in a minute.

7. Smell the ledger.

DAMAGED LEDGER - The acidic stench of rotting food has rubbed off on the cellulose. It now forms the *base* of the experience. This base surrounded by a faint air of spoiled meat -- the stuff of death itself! -- and then sprinkled liberally with the citrus zest of toilet cleaner.

6. [Interfacing - Medium 10] Open the hidden compartment in the clipboard.

INTERFACING [Medium: Success] - Hmm. The two sides of the board appear slightly misaligned. Like a drawer that's come off the slides. If you *bend* the plastic on your knee, slowly...

...the slides *snap* back into place. It should be possible to just... you know...

Slide the drawer open.

Wait... somehow I don't want to.

Fuck no -- put the ledger away. [Leave.]

DAMAGED LEDGER - What are you waiting for? Just...

INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] - That's because you know where this leads to.

HORRIFIC NECKTIE - That doesn't sound like it's gonna be *fun*.

Slide the drawer open.

DAMAGED LEDGER - Without resistance -- or sound -- the two panels move against each other. The compartment is now open.

What's inside?

DAMAGED LEDGER - Two ticket stubs and a handmade postcard.

Pick up the ticket stubs.

Pick up the card. (Proceed.)

Fucking kill yourself you asshole.

Close the permeables' compartment.

DAMAGED LEDGER - Two octopuses are smiling, reaching their tentacles toward each other in the coloured pencil drawings. The tickets permit access to a zoo in Revachol East. The aquarium costs extra -- these let you go there too.

2. Pick up the card. (Proceed.)

DAMAGED LEDGER - Thin wax paper has been glued to a piece of cardboard. Sounds like leaves rustling when you pick it up -- you see violet flowers, floral patterns, patches of glue.

Smell it first.

Open it.

Put it back.

DAMAGED LEDGER - It smells of chewing gum -- apricot flavoured.

PERCEPTION (SMELL) [Easy: Success] - A touch of cinnamon, the end of summer. You think the label says: 'Tutti Frutti'.

Open it.

DAMAGED LEDGER - Familiar handwriting lines the inside of the card -- looped, round letters in a woman's hand.

VISUAL CALCULUS [Easy: Success] - A young woman in her twenties. There is care, effort, and a *smile*, you think -- although that is not something you can read from someone's handwriting.

DAMAGED LEDGER - "Harry," it begins -- you're already reading. "I wanted to write you a letter, so you can read it when you wake up. Maybe it will make you happy."

VOLITION [Easy: Success] - Throw it away. Please.

But it will make me *happy*...

Keep reading.

DAMAGED LEDGER - A merciful wind blows in from the Bay of Revachol, dusting the ground at your feet and raising newspapers far away. You feel the card slipping into it...

What was that?

Throw the card into the wind.

Hold onto it. Read the card.

SHIVERS - Frisson covers your entire body. A feeling of cold. A persistent chill.

[lanleenn]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Stunning 925 Sterling Silver Lapis Lazuli Bracelet.

[tumble-d-wumble-phd]

I've never watched any kind of (q?)smp, honestly. I think Schlatt did a home inspection in one, but it seemed like a more casual server. I know some have lore. Some have Lore. Some have babies. Some have demons and angels and clones and kidnappings and canonical death in a game where you respawn so I don't understand how that works I jump off cliffs all the time that just seems CRUEL. I've seen your posts. I have been... intrigued, but some have Captain Sparkles, and I don't know if I could ever take that man seriously. No offense to the jester, but there's bells on his hat.

However, I do have a barely-functioning realm server that I share with my boyfriend. We have fun skins, we build cool (for us) stuff, and we generally play at a pretty slow pace. Both of us were the sorts of players drug behind our Gamer(tm) friends. By the time we had enough diamonds to afford a good pickaxe, another was skimming through the Nether for "rich piggies". By the time we could get out of our mines or elaborate little builds, it was pointless; we'd be under-armed in an End battle while buddies in enchanted armor humored you enough to allow you the last hit... sometimes.

We play at a slow pace. We also play how WE like. That means that I started the server so that, when you die, you keep your inventory and xp. Eventually, after many frustrations with Creepers who definitely spawn WAY more than they used to, I disabled their explosions. Fire still lets me interact on fair grounds with my frenemy mangrove, but the creepers just sorta... poof. Maybe ouch ya. On one last, completely unsurprising, note, we play on Easy mode.

On this admittedly baby-mode server, we've built some pretty cool stuff! Our first home together was The Log Cabin, which I've only burned down once (well, three times, but once to any significant extent). Our spawn wasn't great, but we found this lovely oasis, an enclave full of sheep and flowers. An enclave, surrounded on all sides by mangrove trees. Their wood (and saplings, supplying trees for the backyard and reforestation) all went to our home. My bf was on construction, while I did.. a lot of stuff. Mostly lighting fires. The Log Cabin displays proudly a peculiar wealth we've collected: lapis lazuli. It's my favorite gemstone, and we have SO MUCH of it. EVERYWHERE. Our road of Lapis leads to the desert.

It *directly* leads to a LONG.

AND I MEAN LONG.

Mangrove bridge.

But eventually.

There's a desert.

Trust me.

You'll see it soon.

Ignore Hell, Michigan along the way.

You did it!

Metaphorically, I mean.

Anyway.

I like to write little stories for myself, all the time. Sometimes they are very mean or devious, and people call that anxiety. Sometimes they tell me there is a devil in the desert. At *first*, though, my boyfriend suggested we turn the desert fountain into a burn pit. I was going to build an oasis around that fountain, but it had already crossed me by not having loot. Iron bars and fire pit it was. I decided to, instead, build an artificial oasis, but a little different. I made it look miraculous, but natural.

It was unnatural. Startlingly unnatural. Its construction killed the local fauna, and I burned their useless skins. I introduced grass and I cheered as I watched it grow. I made acacia trees grow on soil I introduced to this particular patch of sand. When some of the dirt didn't give me grass, I placed moss. I introduced *sea*grass to the water. Nothing could escape my grass wrath. I blocked off ALL view of Hell, Michigan. If it was in my line of sight, I couldn't help but see it.

I was unwanted here. I was unappreciated here. I was destructive here. I was colonizing, unkindly. What I valued was, largely, what I brought. I was not "bettering" or "beautifying" the land. I was visually an aberration, an flea from a foreign land flung on the long bridge past Hell (, Michigan) itself to eat and alter.

My little story said that something in the fire pit let me do this. There was a treasure after all! That first rejection, in a series of rejections: of sand, of rabbits, of even my line of sight as I sat in my perfect "desert" cabana. I imagined myself throwing so many stacks of material in that flame, for hours and hours and hours. Some was gold armor. Raw meat was tossed in along spider eyes.

"Whatever you would like, sweet fire. Let the grass spread and the trees grow, and every day you will eat bounty."

My side bar tells me the fire crackles.

I assume with delight.

Should this all go in our favors, I think I'll offer steak.

And that, alongside many other things, inspired me to build a new shrine for the devil in the desert. An altar that would lead our little family to the upper mid-game we'd never truly achieved.

There is an elephant.

I am aware.

There is Hell right at our doorstep.

All of that is naturally generated. Including the stone floating arrow. Its magma blocks glow gently in the night.

I would offer a better caption, but I cannot. I tried.

It's so much more haunting at night, but minecraft screenshotting sucks.

How can I not make Hell and Hell sister cities?

There's a devil in the desert, and he will neatly connect our cow-less kingdom to cows and then we get enchantments and then we get nether portal fast travel and then we get to the End and then we WIN!

I'll do it to win.

[pastelicmelodydreamic]

so if youre wondering what i accept and not accept and yes request are open for aesthetic pfps and wallpapers i will make 6 of them and 3 for wallpapers

what do i allowed:rollie pollie ollie, komi witch lara,animal mechanicals, the airport diary,bolts and blip,bubble bubble marin,dive olly dive,the adventures of massey ferguson,rob the robot,aikatsu,pretty series,batwheels,precure,finley the fire engine,robot trains,the adventures of chuck and friends,super wings,robocar poli,tayo the little bus,object shows(except goanimate object shows and object terror),veggietales,jewelpet,kirby,sitting ducks,bang dream,d4dj,love live,mewkledreamy,krew,catch teenieping,flowering heart,titipo titipo,mermaid melody,hatsune miku and project sekai,girls x heroine,banjo-kazooie,fire emblem,xenoblade chronicles,show by rock,winx club,lolirock,sanrio,1998 bob the builder,roary the racing car,ever after high,totally spies,shining star,lapis re: lights,gogobus,angel's friends,underground ernie,auto b good,vroomiz,regal academy,ricky zoom,go go cory carson,blaze and the monster machines,chuggington, cars, tokyo mew mew,thomas the tank engine and friends,budgie the little helicopter,princess pring,dream street,rilu rilu fairilu, secret jouju,jungle junction,busy buses,ojamajo doremi,balala the fairies,heroes of the city, olly the little white van,go go dino, meteor and the mighty trucks,rainbow bubblegem,trains animated series, elias the rescue boat,little robots,the stinky and dirty show, sailor moon,brum, nekopara,robotboy, puella magica madoka,fire engine ray, love and berry dress up and dance,city of friends, idolmaster,the haunted house anime,tea tea cherry,pororo the little penguin,tractor tom, sofy ruby, engie benjy, hime chen lipri, AKB0048, H2O just add water and mermaid adventures, pelle the police car,K-ON,luminary tears,legends of sparx, firehouse tales,jim henson's construction site,king of prism,ensemble stars,onegai my melody, shugo chara,go go vehicle zoo,is the order a rabbit?,idolish7,monster high,trucktown,barbie franchise,theodore tugboat,pastel memories,rev and roll, lucky star,planes,cardcaptor sakura,tugs, pop pixie and w.i.t.c.h

what i dont accept: my little pony all gens,topsy and tim,the diddleys(vehicle cartoon),mighty express,all engines go,go buster,cocomelon,rule 34,zombie land saga,flower fairy,fetish,sydney sailboat,jay jay the jet plane,breadbarbershop,the loud house,horrid henry,horror movies,teen titans go,banana goat pig cricket,secret mountain fort awesome and more

feel free to ask for requests

i hope you have a wonderful time in dreamyverse

[taughtranquility]

" judge me all you want, but this blanket fort has brought me more peace than anything else in my entire life. "

when he walks into the apartment, late at night, & flicks on the lights, miguel certainly isn't expecting to see the couch completely gone from its proper place, or all of the chairs ( including the kitchen island's stools ) moved from their original positions. the tv, which has always been mounted on the wall, is gone, which is disconcerting. where the fuck did the tv go? his first thought, perhaps stupidly, is maybe ethan's apartment on the fifth floor of the apartment complex got robbed. in fact, where did everything else go? the state of the apartment can be likened to a tornado blowing through, chaos left in its wake.

miguel's thumb immediately moves to hover over the lighter blue lapis lazuli band on his engagement ring, the eldritch panic alarm. just in case. ❝ ethan? sam? robby? tory? ❞ he calls out, confusion clear in his tone. he hears the sound of ethan's wings fluttering from somewhere further in the apartment, & he blinks when the lights overhead flicker a few times rapidly. the sink faucet turns on, despite miguel being in front of the doorway... & nowhere near the sink.

okay. ethan's here. that's good.

❝ we're in our room! ❞ tory responds. he can sort-of hear tory's voice from inside the blanket fort, which is located in their bedroom.

he relaxes, then toes off his shoes at the doorway, messing with his hair for a second. he moves further into the apartment, barely pausing to shrug off ethan's his jacket from his body, tossing it on the kitchen island.

when miguel enters their bedroom, he certainly isn’t expecting to see a gigantic fort, but he supposes he should have, given the fact that his fiancé is an eldritch being capable of literally anything. he's careful not to trip on any of the blankets edges as he approaches the opening of the masterfully constructed blanket fort, crouching down to see who's inside. ethan is curled up next to robby with his head on his fiancé's chest, his eyes closed, earplugs in. black, this time, miguel notices. it could mean nothing, that ethan just wanted to wear the black colored earplugs, but it could mean something more. ethan’s larger, first set of ink-black wings are wrapped carefully around robby in an almost protective cocoon. tory is sitting on the other side of ethan in the fort, sprawled comfortably out. she's texting emma.

❝ uh... is everything okay? ❞ miguel asks, blinking a few times.

tory looks up at him, then puts her phone on her chest. ❝ ethan wanted to ❝ relax in style ❞, so we made a blanket fort. there’s more than enough room for you & sam to fit in here, too. if you want to join us. ❞ she runs her hand through ethan's brown hair. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't greet miguel, either, which confuses miguel a little bit. he looks over at tory for an explanation. ❝ he's nonverbal right now. he had a nightmare earlier. i think it’s why he wanted to build the blanket fort. ❞ tory explains quietly. she keeps her tone light, but there's concern in her eyes.

miguel grimaces slightly, wincing.

❝ judge me all you want, but this blanket fort has brought me more peace than anything else in my entire life. ❞ he looks over when @taughtpain speaks, then laughs lightly, a small grin touching his lips.

❝ trust me, there's no judgement here. blanket forts are cool. especially when they can be made even better by a pretty cute eldritch being. ❞ it’s also a good distraction for a distressed eldritch, so that’s a bonus in miguel’s eyes. ❝ you in particular look cozy… ❞ his eyes slide towards ethan, who grunts softly in his sleep, nudging robby’s chest slightly, ❝ not as much as eth, though, i think. ❞ miguel reaches a hand out, patting ethan’s knee lightly to wake him up. the taller boy cracks an eye open, pupil flashing red for a split second. miguel startles slightly; he’s still not used to seeing ethan’s eyes glowing different colors. ethan says nothing, but relaxes. then, he sits up slightly, drawing his knees up to his chest, wings disappearing.

miguel takes the opportunity actually to scoot into the blanket fort, a hand reaching out to cup ethan’s face gently, eyes searching his. he just wants to check up on him. ethan melts into the contact, his right hand reaching up to place itself over miguel’s. ❝ are you sure you’re okay? ❞ miguel whispers. ethan hesitates for a split second, then gives a small nod. he doesn’t exactly believe him, but he won’t push him for answers. he doesn’t want to upset ethan any more than he already is. miguel’s eyes flash over towards robby. ❝ scoot over, keene. i’m gonna settle in next to you. ❞ he winks at robby. ethan’s lips pull up into a small smirk, & his eyes flicker yellow, signaling amusement. miguel’s doing his best to make ethan feel better, & it seems to be working.

point, diaz-wilson!