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How you feeling post MoMU chapter 72?
My way of reading MOMU requires me to stop while I'm reading it to make an illustration every time I like a particular moment. Also, I usually reread each paragraph twice, with and without a translator, to both understand what is going on and enjoy the writing style at the same time. All this together means that I need at least five hours of free time to read a chapter.
☝️The whole fucking explanation was to say “I haven't read it yet but not because I don't want to, but because I'm waiting until I have enough time haha»
But the fact that you asked this…..makes me kinda nervous ngl….
#normal people over there just read fics immediately after getting a notification#I act like some fucking sommelier or something#what do you mean ‘just read it’??#it’s like drinking your finest wine out of a bucket!!#comical gasp#I need my finest fic to be served with at least five hours of free time tablet to draw and translator to read and silence to concentrate#MOMU isn’t just a fic at this point it’s a whole fucking event ahahaha
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Thinking so much about clingy, mutually possessive, filthy sex and how much I just need that rn
The kind of sex where you and Bucky just can't feel close enough to each other. You physically can't get any closer than you are, his thick cock buried so deep inside you but you still need more of him. He has nothing left to give you and you're glad because if he was any longer, you wouldn't be able to take the rest.
You're panting against his neck, whining out your frustration each time he slides home into your warm, wet body. His own groans are low, rumbling from his throat and hanging in the humid air of the bedroom you share.
"You know I can't fucking resist you. I can't." Bucky moans, grasping one of your wrists, guiding it between your bodies, encouraging you to play with yourself while he fucks you.
"I can't say no to you. Fuck, I'm yours." You hardly hear what he's saying over the obscene, wet sounds of your body accommodating his.
Your fingertips rub against your slick clit and the sensation is almost too much. "You're mine." You whine against his neck, using your free hand to claw at his back, driving him impossibly closer to you.
There's something reassuring about the feeling of his skin on yours. It's hot and sweaty but it's so comforting being naked with him, enjoying the pleasure of each others' bodies. You don't feel vulnerable communicating your pleasure to him; you feel understood.
"I am." He groans, eyes fluttering shut, lost in the way your body clings to him. "All yours. And you're mine, aren't you? My good girl."
It's a relentless build up, each stroke taking you a little further than the last and at some point, the band just has to snap.
"I am." You whine, barely able to manage any more words than that.
"You feel like Heaven. You were made for me. This warm, tight little pussy fits me perfectly." His body still isn't close enough to you, not that there's any way you could physically feel more of him.
"You take me so well, you know that? You take every drop of cum and you still beg me for more. Fuckin' love it." Just the very mention of Bucky pumping his release into you makes your walls flutter, dreaming of the feeling of his thick load shooting into you.
"I can't last like this." You hear him mutter and you're almost glad because you're not far off either. "Can't last when I can see that pretty face." His eyes meet yours and he pulls you in for a kiss that stifles your moans for a few seconds.
"Bucky, please." You groan when he pulls back, rubbing yourself just a little too quickly now that you've gotten desperate.
"Go on sweetheart, let me feel you cum for me." It only takes a few more strokes for your high to take over, pleasure rippling through you in a way that leaves your legs shaking.
You almost miss the start of Bucky's release, given how distracted you are by your own but the unmistakable throbbing of him inside you tells you he's reached his own peak if his moans didn't give it away.
#becca's thots#becca writes spice#Bucky Barnes smut#Bucky Barnes x reader smut#this was an entirely selfish piece#there's just something that hits the spot here for my possessive ass#also what the FUCK does one wear to a wine tasting event at a golf club???#if anyone knows pls dm me by Thursday#am I going to have to pretend I like golf??#and I'm at an awful stage with my hair#I'm growing it out and it's at a length that I HATE#I'm so close to just cutting it short again#but I'm half convinced I found a grey hair the other day#so I definitely need the roots touched up
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Janus, arrives to the party visibly drunk and proceeds to be an enormous bitch to everyone until he gets slapped in the face: I can’t believe they don’t invite us to more events.
Remus, his shoes covered in human excrement: they don’t know what their missing.
#I love them both with my heart and soul but I too would probably only invite them to events where I had the strength of baby Jesus#and wine#to help me deal with them#sanders sides#sanders sides spoilers#janus sanders#remus sanders#the dork sides#love them
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Sike i got sick so i decided to finish yet another artwork with my halfbroken pen
Mr Lee and young Waai Fu as i need more art where he takes care of her as she grows up.🙏
+inspiration:
Screenshot source: anime ed of Last Exile. Ps. Please do not treat this as some recommendation. I watched it like a decade ago and remember little of it. I remember i liked it as a teen but i take 0 responsibility if you watch it and it's bad. I just like the pose.
another insp, artist @/taiki99 from twitter. (the idea to cover the white background with an extra detail)
#He had to watch over her in her father stead. Been always there on her school graduation photos. during one event (invitation to wine) he#even mentions that if they won't find him soon he'll have to walk her down the aisle when she marries someone. fkhdsjfs I just need more ar#of Lee taking care of Waai Fu#ISNP related: I do think anime needs more old timey aviator fashion though. I remember it being a rarity. don't think things changed.#Arknights#Arknights Lee#Arknights Mr Lee#Waai Fu#Arknights Waai Fu#Arknights fanart#2024#carpet's art#hiddencarpet#artists on tumblr#furry#tiger#fish#dragon#anthro dragon#anthro tiger#furry tiger#furry art#sfw furry#furry artist#anthro art#Mr Lee#clean furry#anthro#anthro furry#sky
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Can i ask the art request here??? If so, i have some ideas:
I want to see more the peacock bois and more SAMS aus (if you have some)
I couldn't help myself
Also, Peafoul boys (wine and feathers AU) belong to @missterious-figure
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World Event: For Want of a Bloom!
— London is abuzz in the coming weeks: The Drifting Kingdom of Anther has been sighted yet again! Great clusters of Lanternfruit, each the size of an airship, drift ever closer to the southern edge of the Zee. Anther will remain for a short time before it drifts further south, to bask under the light of Stone one again. Petals of all types paint the Zee as Anther completes its lap of the Elder Continent. Fantastical stories of Anther have spread like pollen through a spring breeze - the flying kingdom’s flora is the stuff of legend, flowers immune to decay in hues that would put any Surface gardener to shame. Even salvaged petals, dried and pressed, will fetch their weight in gold in London… but more daring Londoners have taken up the duty of scaling Anther’s root covered walls to collect fresh blossoms and cuttings. It’s dangerous work, fending off killer flora, extreme altitudes, and the roaming groups of Antheri citizens who consider it a beloved national pastime to bat thieving guests off the edge of their city. Surely, this cannot be worth it, all for a few flowers…?
@violant-apologia ‘s post inspired me to write up some more details on my fan Presbyterate kingdom: Anther, the city of flowers! The floating city frequently drifts out to open waters to hydrate the massive, correspondence infused Lanternfruit that keep it aloft. During this time, Londoners love to steal some of those beautiful flowers off the city, where they’re used for dyes, poisons, academic study, and just having the best look of 99’. Anther… really doesn’t mind this as much as it should. After all, they’re just flowers. This is the equivalent of someone robbing your grandma’s garden… and chasing Londoners around for a bit of blood sport is pretty fun!
#zeeposting#my art#my fic#fallen London#failbetter games#the kingdom of Anther#<- my tag for this place#I imagine its a roaming world event kinda thing#where you dive into the city to snatch flowers#the difficulty of checks being determined by how rare a plant you’re going for#and in exchange gets you a grab bag of nostalgia/wine/elder items#this was fun tho I love worldbuilding
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My contribution to the High Pollen Count event is posted, with art by @lexarturo!
@goodomensafterdark
Summary:
The angels needed Job and Sitis to be up to making seven new children. The only problem? Crawley and Aziraphale might have stolen the wine they had prepared for that specific purpose.
-------------- “Shit. Shitshitshit. Angel, stop drinking.” He snatched the bottle from him, and suddenly they were too close to each other, the demon almost on his lap, a hand between Aziraphale’s legs as he tried to keep himself in balance. “They spiked the wine.”
“They what? Who?”
“The angels.” He rushed to separate himself from the blond and turn away, eyes fixed on a wall as his hands wracked his hair, trying to find a way out of the situation, a way to explain it. “They spiked it.”
It took some seconds for Aziraphale to register what was being said, and then, only one word popped into his mind. One that hadn’t been invented yet, but would come to signify all the things going through his head at the moment.
“Fuck.”
“Fuck indeed, angel.”
#fanfic#good omens#aziracrow#high pollen count event#smut#pollen#and not of the allergy kind#though in this case is wine#bildad the shuhite#bildaddy#consensual#first time#pwp#good omens after dark
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my very first star trek novel arrived in the post today teehee
#i have another 7 currently on the way but this was the first to arrive I Am Overjoyed#i'm reading this tonight with a bottle of wine and a plate of cheese and crackers#and grapes!#im making an event of this#star trek#star trek the original series#star trek doctor's orders#star trek books#mine
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one really interesting thing about the Sui siblings is that their sibling age order isn’t so much about biological age but more about when they first managed to separate themselves from Sui and therefore how comfortable they are in their own individual identity (i’m far from the first person to point out that the Sui siblings are basically the opposite of the seaborne/We Many) - Shuo, the oldest brother is so secure in himself that he’s able to create a whole identity entirely separate from Sui, which is how we get Chongyue The Very Human Guy. Ling is able to defeat the Sui Xiang in invitation to wine with ease simply because she sees it as a shadow of herself, as opposed to Nian who sees the siblings as shadows and dreams of Sui. Dusk, the second youngest of the siblings, is so scared of the existential threat that is Sui that she has hid herself in her paintings and refused to sleep for centuries just to hide from it
… which makes me really want to meet the 12th brother (the cook) because if that is where Dusk, the 11th’s head is at i cannot imagine he’s having a good time either
#arknights#suiposting#there’s a point to made *somewhere* in here about the second brother and how hes been keeping himself intact across the. 181 pieces of hims#but im gonna have to reread invitation to wine for that which#like i dont like reading the english event story because its localised weirdly but i also keep putting off reading the chinese version#because some of the writing is. wow that is hard to understand#if you cant tell from my suiposting and iberiaposting tags who am i and where do i belong are themes that ALWAYS get me in fiction#anyway#god i cant wait for cny I WANT TO MEET THE NEXT DRAGON SO BAD
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The Universe's silliest guy: Suffrin
#i drew this mildly wine drunk at an event#went full autism mode#i love my deeply messed up little thing#the stardust of all time#anyways#normal tag time#art#artists on tumblr#my art#fruits of the vessel#fanart#isat siffrin#isat fanart#isat#in stars and time siffrin#in stars and time#in stars and time fanart
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🍫 chancellor lapin cadbury 🐇
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bulb above i think about this chocolate rabbit WAY TOO MUCH!!!
he's no riz gukgak or barry syx but there is just. something about him. he's so cool and interesting. as a random youtube comment i saw said, "zac oyama plays low intelligent/himbo characters as a blessing for brennan" and it SHOWS with lapin, it really does.
so yeah here's a fun little sketch of him! i think it turned out very silly :]
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reblogs > likes but any interaction is greatly appreciated :D! tysm for seeing my art regardless :]
#aloe.art#art#digital art#digital sketch#dimension 20#d20#a crown of candy#acoc#d20 acoc#dimension 20 a crown of candy#lapin cadbury#like even the sequence of events he set up with lord and lady swirlie and holding the wine to blind primogem alfredi#that was scary how smart that was#like my friend (who had only seen fantasy high so far before this) just looked at me and went “oh he's like Scary scary”#YEAH!!!! mf is super smart!!!#and good at deception!!!!#and of course we have to talk about one of the best acoc moments ever#“where is your bulb now” are you kidding me#are you joking me for real????!!!!#one of my fave lapin and fave acoc moments ever#i will sometimes just whisper “APOSTATE!” to myself because i have to give brennan credit for that too#played keradin super well all throughout the season#i wish we got even more lapin. i really do.#love that guy#im so normal about this guy#100
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I think too much in real life to fully let myself enjoy some activities so I'm going to live vicariously through the characters I write 🙃
He's here for pleasure. You're not under any illusion about his intentions. Sure, he'll let you snuggle up beside him afterwards, playing with the little soft curls on his chest. He'll kiss your forehead and smooth your hair and you'll laugh together about the silliest things but it's no secret that it's the sex that keeps him coming back.
Secretly, it's exactly what you need too. It works well for both of you. You get someone who has the confidence and experience to show you things you didn't even think you'd be into and you get to simply enjoy the way he gets off on pleasuring you. There's no need to feel shy around a man who's told you his secret filthy fantasies.
"What's one thing you've always wanted to do but have never had a chance to?" You probe one evening, taking your necklace off and placing it on the bedside table, well aware he's probably wearing more of your lipgloss that you are after the way he greeted you at the hotel room door.
You hop onto the bed to take your shoes off, enjoying how the mattress bounces you slightly.
He doesn't answer right away, pouring two glasses of a sweet, chilled Riesling before handing one to you. You take a sip, trying not to put him under pressure but the time he's taking to consider your question makes you even more curious.
"If I tell you, I'd like you to try it with me. So how badly do you want to know?" He stands in front of you and places the glass to his lips and in that moment, you couldn't want anything more than you want to fulfil a fantasy for him. You want to be something he's never had and offer him opportunities to enjoy your body that he might never have again.
"Tell me. We'll do it." You hardly even have to think about it.
"I'd like to lick you. All of you. Run my tongue all over your body. Find what makes you shiver. Find what makes you moan. Find the places that are so ticklish you need me to stop. I want to lick all the places you've never been licked before. If you'll let me." He really could make anything sound appealing.
Excitement fizzles in your core and a real desperation begins to build. Just being around this man makes you wet so you can't help the fact you're ready for him already.
"If that's what you want to do, I'll let you." If you're honest with yourself, you'd probably agree no matter what he asked for. You trust him enough to know he won't take you further than you're comfortable with.
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You knew what you were signing up for but you didn't think it'd feel like this. Why the hell haven't you tried this before?
He's kneeling at the end of the bed, stroking his cock while his hot, wet, stiff tongue flicks gently against your asshole and there's no denying how much you're enjoying the pressure there. You couldn't hide it if you tried. You're so wet, you're practically dripping and it only spurs him on. It's intimate in a way you don't think you'll ever recover from while being one of the most erotic things you think he's ever done. There's nothing to be embarrassed about it when it's clear he's enjoying it just as much as you are. Maybe more.
The way you're gripping his hair has you wondering whether the strain on his tongue or his neck will overwhelm him first but he shows no signs of relenting. That is until he stands up, already looking delightfully over-pleasured and sinks his cock into your fluttering, neglected cunt without a word.
If he goes too fast it's all over and he knows it but he can't resist holding both of your ankles, watching you while he places open mouthed kisses to the soles of your feet, thrusting into you with slow, calculated strokes.
#becca writes spice#becca's thots#dbf!bucky#dads best friend! bucky#I just want to get some of my personal needs out before I go back to writing requests#I have a couple more fantasies that I can't shake so I'll have to write those soon#I had an assignment due this afternoon and oh boy#Leaving it to 9pm last night before I got started was a plan that I knew would suck#but I was in my second job all last week and couldn't be bothered starting any earlier than that#so I worked from home today to tackle the sleepies#and I spent all day working from bed with an Easter egg so like... pretty good Monday#tw: alcohol mention#tw: alcohol#can you tell I've been to one single wine tasting event 💅🏻
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something about the way wwx, against all odds and against his own plans, just kept living and surviving through events that he was certain would kill him, so by the time sunshot ends and his heart is still beating he just becomes... mellow
#he wasn't meant to have survived the core surgery. but he did#he wasn't meant to have survived the burial mounds. and he did#he knew damn well the risks of that surgery and he knew that making through these events alive was a slim chance#and somehow. because he's god's favorite pincushion#he just kept surviving#and by the time sunshot ends all he can do is drink and hang out with his ghost girls#all the disciples he knew are dead and he can't train the new ones. he doesn't have a core. he can't keep up#everything he has are the jiang siblings. his wine. and his ghosts#and i don't think he knew what he was supposed to do after that#he was living day after day and ???? then what?#how long will you keeo this secret wheb you're living under the same roof as the one you're keeping it from#idk where im going with this im just#i think post-sunshot pre-burial mounds wwx is a guy that wasn't supposed to be alive#which is why he's either super mellow or angry#he's not part of this cultivation world anymore and he knows it#two years of guidao instead of sword? ok#but ten years? twenty? people will be questioning#he hadn't planned to survive for this long and now that he did he doesn't know what to do with himself#modao#lace speaks
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Deepwaters
Inc: Lilia, Malleus, Silver, & Sebek Warnings: Brief mention of blood, implementations of death, mild existential questioning. Some chapter 7 spoilers may be seen, but they're quite subtle (nothing major) WC: 3.1k Summary: 4 brief snapshots to the poem 'What are Heavy?' by Christina Rosseti centred on youth, the ocean, and the consequences of memories. (done for the @briarvalleyarchives 'Summer Shorelines' event :) )
LILIA.
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
“I reckon you would not be able to swim past the rock crevice there.”
A girl's voice holds pride as she stands on the beach, her hands on her hips and her lips curled into a cocky smile. Before her are two boys—one, who looks irate with her words, and another, who looks as though he wishes to sink into the dusty white sands. The irate boy gives a snort in response before looking out to the waters.
The ocean is wine red with the setting of the sun and the waves hit the shore like hands grasping forward. The horizon is but a jagged line, as though it’s a starving mouth waiting to see who it will bite.
“I reckon you want us dead,” the irate boy counters. “If you want to challenge us, Mallenoa, then perhaps you should try it first.”
Mallenoa’s cocky grin falters for just a moment before she huffs and crosses her arms over her chest. In the distance farther up the shoreline, a few guards can be spotted observing the trio as they stand there.
“I have already proven myself capable of swimming there, Lilia. You and Revan were the ones too cowardly to follow along.” Mallenoa points to the rock crevice again. It’s a few yards out from the shore—not a grand length—but the sea is growing unsteady as night makes her rapid descent. “I dare you.”
“It will be getting cold soon. Would it not be better if we just wait until tomorrow?” Revan starts to protest, his wiry voice like wind passing through reeds, but his comments fall on deaf ears as Lilia turns sharply to stare out at the water's beyond. His gaze skims over the toiling surface, watching as the waves leave foam to sink back into their embrace, before he snorts and begins walking forward.
“No coward's soul is mine!” Is all he calls over his shoulder in return. He wouldn’t be called cowardly by the likes of Mallenoa, simply because he knew her to be the one to never live it down. He could hear Revan’s worried voice calling for him to stop, but these words die as the roar of the waves grows louder and his feet plunge into their icy depths.
For a moment, he looks down and watches as the red waters swirl around him. In his youth, he remains unaware of the foreshadowing this image holds; he knows little of the red waters he will come to wade through in his future, or of the rivers he will craft with his own hands in the name of Queen and Country. He knows not of how he will drown in salt and copper and steel for a purpose that will fail in the end anyway. He knows not of the clock running out on his halcyon days.
For now, he is just a boy, too arrogant to say no to a friend.
The sand weighs him down as he moves deeper into the ocean. The waters embrace his legs, and then his waist, and then he’s falling forward into the abyss below. He moves like he’s always belonged in this darkness; the sensation of the tide rippling across his skin and the sight of the dying light reflecting on the surface above is so calming that he almost forgets to break through. His breath escapes in a flurry of bubbles before he breaches and inhales sharply, looking back to his friends on the shore beyond.
Mallenoa is laughing in delight. The childish innocence of joy darkens her cheeks, and he can still see this in the orange light as she watches him with adoration and pride. Revan stands by her side, his hand grasping her sleeve as anxiety is painted on his features. It is how it’s always been; one bravely diving into the dark, and the other trailing behind her, like a comet and her tail in the depths of space.
Lilia exhales softly and looks around. The water is still now, like his presence has soothed it, and his body rises and falls slowly. Seagulls cry out from somewhere beyond, perhaps on the rock crevice he’s meant to reach. He pushes back his hair and looks towards his friends once more. The sun is setting further, and they’re beginning to look like nothing but two dark silhouettes on the distant shore.
It feels isolating, in the middle of these waters, all alone.
Lilia begins to swim.
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MALLEUS.
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
“Prince Malleus, do not stray too far out!” He hears the nanny call from somewhere back on the shore as he hurries down the wooden steps of the pier. There is no one else on this beach except him, his nanny, and Lilia, who has volunteered to accompany the restless boy lest he become too much for the nanny to handle. They had cleared any other attendees of the beach for just this one day—for one day is all the Queen would grant the prince’s guardians when it came to taking him out of the security that was Black Scale Palace.
The sound of his small feet hitting the sand is like a hiss, and he can feel the heat on his bare feet, his shoes having been discarded as soon as they arrived. He looks up and squints against the brightness; it’s rare for the sun to come out in the Valley, but summer days often bring on a drought, and so week-long periods of nothing but light are not unheard of.
This heat lasts only a moment before something hides him in shade again. When he looks over, he sees Lilia holding a parasol above them, a bemused expression on his face.
“Goodness, are you sure you’re a dragon and not a sea serpent? You seem quite eager to get in those waters,” he teases as he fusses over a strand of Malleus’ hair. The young prince swats his hand away with a pout.
“I am a dragon,” he grumbles back, before rushing forward again, all previous slights now forgotten in his eagerness to reach the clear blue waters. Lilia follows closely behind while the nanny hurries after them, holding a basket with lunch in one hand and the prince's shoes in another.
Malleus had read a great deal about the sea. Of the creatures that reside within it, of the folklore and mythology it holds, of the vastness and the grandeur. He has not, however, read about just how cold the sea can be, and so when he jumps both feet into the water at once, he lasts all of two seconds before he’s shrieking and running back to Lilia. His hands grasp his guardians arm and he seems downright offended as he looks back to the water.
“It’s so cold!” He cries, stomping his feet in the sand as though to warm them back up again. Lilia can’t help but laugh at the sight of the young dragon clinging to his arm—the poor boy looks shattered. He moves his hand to hold Malleus’ and clicks his tongue teasingly.
“My, did you expect it to feel like a hot bath, little prince?” He laughs as his other hand adjusts the parasol. “Come. I’ll show you the proper way to wade into the ocean.”
Malleus looks prepared to protest, but Lilia hears none of it as he holds the boy's small hand in his own, guiding him forward until they are at the water's edge once more. The waves are a baby blue colour, and they glimmer in the sunlight like glass and pearls.
“Now, you must move steadily. Let yourself adjust to the feeling, and then continue on.” Lilia hums as he slowly guides Malleus forward. The prince’s expression turns sour again when he steps back into the cold waters, but then it slowly shifts to contemplation, and then a bright smile as his body adjusts to the temperature change. His hand squeezes Lilia’s tight, as though afraid to let go too soon.
“The sand feels funny,” he notes in that manner that children so innocently do. He wiggles his toes in the clear blue water and watches as the sand slides easily off his skin. He moves closer to Lilia. “Please don’t let me go. I don’t want to get pulled in.”
“As if I’d ever let that happen to you,” Lilia muses, holding the prince’s hand close. “I’d never hear the end of it from your grandmother if I did.”
He looks up then, his gaze going to a familiar rock crevice in the distance. The sun beats down but the parasol shields them both as the sounds of the nanny setting up a towel for lunch, accompanied by the ocean waves crashing against the shore, creates a strange rhythm of peace in the air.
This is broken when Malleus kicks up water onto Lilia’s legs.
“Malleus!” Lilia yelps, moving back while still holding the prince’s hand. Malleus laughs in delight at his guardian's expense, and his face is filled with unrestrained joy. It’s the happiest that Lilia has seen the prince in a long time—in the palace on his own, he often looks quiet and sullen, as gray as the walls that confine him. This new sight reminds Lilia of a similar face with a similar expression he once saw on this shore, long ago.
He squeezes Malleus’ hand, and shakes his head with a smile as the boy goes to splash him once again.
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SILVER & SEBEK.
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
“Why can I hear the ocean?”
Lilia’s eyes open slightly as he hears a voice. At first he sees green, and then he sees a scowl, and then he recognizes the inquisitor to be that of Sebek Zigvolt, who looks thoroughly unimpressed with a shell in his small hand. Lilia looks past Sebek, and then to his right, where he spots Silver half-asleep on the beach towel next to him.
Good. All his children he’s set to watch are accounted for, despite his impromptu nap.
“What do you mean?” Lilia hums as he sits up slowly. His answer is given in the form of Sebek shoving a seashell against his ear.
“I can hear the ocean!” The boy declares, louder this time and with more urgency in his tone. Silver mumbles something and sits up as well to look at Sebek with a faintly confused expression. Lilia puts his hand over the shell and guides it away from his ear.
“Because it carries a part of the sea in it.” Truthfully, it’s the sound of your own ear fluid being echoed back, but Lilia figures that will lead to even more confusion if he were to say something like that instead.
“How did it get the sea in there?” Silver yawns before moving closer to his father and friend, peering at the shell with interest. He reaches out to grab it, turning it over and letting the light reflect on its rainbow-like surface. “Trapping things is mean. What if the sea wants out?”
“I’m sure the sea is quite happy in there,” Lilia replies as Sebek comes to sit down on his other side. Both boys are now up and active, and although today is meant to be a break from learning and training, it doesn’t seem like this will be the case. Silver shakes his head.
“But what if it isn’t happy? What if the shell just thinks the sea is happy, but really, the sea is sad?” Silver presses the shell to his ear, and his expression becomes a bit more concerned as he looks back to his father. “I don’t want the sea to be sad.”
“The sea isn’t sad. The sea can’t feel anything,” Sebek counters with a scowl before looking back to Lilia. “Right?”
Lilia has to admire the fact that both boys manage to have such polarizing views on the matter. Youth never fails to amuse him. He carefully takes the shell back from Silver and turns it over in his hands. The shell is frail—he can see chips in its surface already. It isn’t a young shell, that’s for sure. A faint breeze passes over the trio, carrying the scent of ocean water and blossoms from the trees that they sit beneath.
Lilia glances up. Apple blossoms, it seems.
“Shall I free the sea, then? That would mean shattering the shell.” Lilia glances between the two boys. “Would you like me to break such a pretty shell?”
Silver looks uncomfortable with the question as his hand comes out to grasp his fathers arm. “I think… I think we should. The sea should be with the rest of itself, not locked away in a shell. That isn’t fair.”
“But who are you to decide what’s fair and what isn’t? Who are any of us to decide?” Lilia hums, a small smile playing on his lips. Perhaps there’s time to still sneak a few lessons in here for the boys to keep knowledge down the line. Silver looks more concerned as he glances at Sebek to answer.
Sebek puffs his cheeks out for a moment as he looks at the shell. His hands clench and unclench in his lap before he looks at Silver, and then to Lilia. “If it’s stuck inside, it’s our job to let it out, even if we like the shell. It isn’t right.”
“It isn’t right?” Lilia turns the shell over again, and then glances between the two boys. “Well then, if we’ve all come to a decision.”
He clenches his hand, and the shell snaps in half like it’s nothing. A trickle of water runs down to the grass beneath them, and then towards the sandy beach just beyond, as though travelling to the ocean it came from. The two boys watch it go as they stay sitting beside Lilia. There’s silence, broken only by the faint sighs of the wind brushing against the blossoms above.
“,,, did we make the right choice?” Silver then asks, looking at Lilia expectantly as Sebek quickly does the same. Lilia brushes his thumb across the shell fragments for a moment, studying its shattered opal interior, and then he simply shrugs with a smile.
“We won’t ever know if it was the right choice, but it was the choice that we made, nonetheless, and it’s the one that we shall have to live with. That’s just how it goes.”
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OUR FAMILY.
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
The scent of the ocean is too strong. The sun is too bright, the sand is too perfect, and it’s the only way that the three of them know this is another illusion they’re trapped in. The faint cries of seagulls in the distance and the waves crashing against the sand fill the otherwise stagnant painting they’ve been etched into. Silver looks around in worry, as does Sebek, but Lilia’s gaze is fixated on the rocky crevice in the distance.
It looks jagged, and blurred, as though someone blended it in with the horizon in a mock attempt to make it exist.
“You look concerned.”
And then he’s there. Tall, with his expression unforgiving as he stands in the toiling waters, looking back at them with faint indifference in his gaze. The sea kisses his boots as though worshipping him, and the breeze rustles his clothing slightly. Lilia exhales softly as he senses Silver and Sebek tensing by his side.
“Is it not right?” Malleus looks back out at the deep waters beyond. The sky is the gentle pink of dusk, and the sun is hidden in a painted haze as the silhouettes of birds fly in the distance. The horizon blends together and makes the ocean look as though it’s never-ending. This entire experience has been never ending so far—a dream upon a dream, a nightmare upon a nightmare.
Lilia is tired. He’s sure that the others are, as well.
“You’re close, but the crevice is off.” Lilia points out at the rocks beyond. Malleus follows his direction and hums thoughtfully.
“I couldn’t quite remember what it looked like when I was little.” Is the explanation he gives. “It all blurs together in the end anyway, doesn’t it? The memories, the moments. So easily tossed aside without a single warning, without a single goodbye.”
“Malleus,” Silver begins, but Malleus turns and raises a finger to his lips, hushing the younger boy softly. Sebek looks uncertain as his hand grips his magic pen. Malleus looks as he always has; there is no black ink dripping into the waters he stands in, there is no oppressive presence, no crushing weight of magic. He is as they remember—as their memories painted him to be.
“I’m adjusting to the waters,” Malleus hums thoughtfully. “Remember how you taught me that?”
Lilia’s brow furrows. “Malleus, this has gone too far out of line. You must—”
“Would you like to come in?” Malleus cuts him off and holds a hand out. There’s a smile on his lips, but it fails to reach his gaze, which remains as lifeless as the scenery that surrounds them. “I promise not to let you get pulled in.”
Lilia falls silent as Malleus pays tribute to the conversation they had many, many years ago. The hand he once held now is extended as a mockery to that brief, tender moment between guardian and child. Silver looks to his father and notes the expression on Lilia’s face before glancing towards Sebek. His own hand moves down to grip his magic pen.
“Sebek,” he calls softly, drawing the other boy's attention for just a moment. Malleus’ gaze turns sharply towards him and darkens. The sky begins to grow a deeper red colour as dusk approaches faster. The waters become a wine red once more, their tide increasing as though to offer an omen foretelling what’s to come. They’re restless, clashing against the sand like blood spilling on a pale earth. “Is the sea sad?”
Sebek looks confused for a moment, and then the memory dawns on him, and his expression shifts to that of an uncomfortable understanding. He exhales slowly, and the subtle nod he offers is enough for Silver to know that he agrees. Lilia’s attention is still locked on Malleus, on his extended hand and the dark, cold expression he’s giving the other two boys.
Silver’s hand tightens around his magic pen, and Sebek’s does the same as the sea toils before them, and the sky descends into the blackness of night. If something is trapped, it’s one's duty to let it free, even if it means shattering something that they love dearly.
They won’t ever know if it’s the right choice, but it’s the choice that they’re going to make, nonetheless.
#briarvalleyarchives#lilia vanrouge#malleus draconia#sebek zigvolt#silver#twst lilia#twst malleus#twst silver#twst sebek#GOD this was the fastest i ever wrote for an event#the brain rot bro.... the wine red ocean#anyway lkfsdljffd
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Everyday I think abt what the fuck kind of tomfoolery she was partaking in during the events of Camp Cretaceous.
#jurassic world#jurassic world chaos theory#jurassic world camp cretaceous#jwcc#raptor lady#the handler jwct#no cuz like I need to know what she was up to#what kind of shenanigans has she been up to…#I NEED TO KNOW HER BACKSTORY RN.#also I need to know her canon age ive been headcanoning her as not much older than the N6#like shes prolly around 25ish during the events of CT#or hell she’s as old as the other adults like prolly around Mae’s age#cuz like she dont look old shes pretty young looking#either that or she just ages like fine wine
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dancing thread.....
#aegon CAN dance actually. he did have classes.#does he indulge it at events? no. nuh uh. he's judging everyone drinking wine gossiping with his siblings.#tbd.#this is just living in my mind.#practicing!! or him being taught!! or at an actual event idk but... <3
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