#about to get vertical labret

[carpetbug]

haircut tomorrow.. dye my hair friday… get lip piercing saturday… get tattoo for birthday in august.. i love customizing my meat suit

[androidghoulz]

oml i need more piercings sooo bad. metal in my face NOW. holes in my face NOW.

[valliantknight]

stimming with pain is always one of those things where im like

hhh this is bad (can cause minor injury / slow down healing process)

but also makes brain go brrrrrrr

[pxrxmoore]

my fyp full of ppl with or getting eyebrow piercings so now i want one <3

[saturnniidae]

Should I put more metal in my face

Ew my birthdays tomorrow

[poedays]

Random Headcanons (a trilogy):

This one’s a lot more ‘physical features’ related

- Guy has cheek piercings. Asher has an eyebrow piercing. Elliot has a bridge piercing. Aaron has his ears pierced. Blake has a vertical labret. Milo’s got triple lobe piercings. David lost a bet to Angel so technically he’s supposed to get a belly button piercing (he’s not gonna do it).

- Milo has flowers on vines tattooed over his top surgery scars. They’re moonflowers - both connecting to his werewolf nature, as well as being Marie’s favourite flower; she drew the design for him.

- Lovely has an array of very faint lighting-like scars running outwards from their chest, as well as down their fingertips. This is due to their blood loss before their powers emerged - Lovely’s powers had to slightly jumpstart their heart to allow them to overpower Adam (hc).

- As a list: Aaron, David, Darlin, Lovely, and Doc all have grey in their hair due to stress related causes.

-> It’s more amplified in Lovely’s case due to the severity of, you know, almost dying twice (also being ‘struck’ by lighting in a way). So, in my head about half of their hair has turned grey.

-> Aaron only has a few streaks at the front of his hair (work related), whereas David’s has a lot more little pieces throughout (inversion related).

-> Darlin (Quinn related) and Doc (death related?) are more recent occurrences in comparison to the rest of them, but Darlin’s taken to dying their hair to avoid the idea - whereas Doc hasn’t noticed among the distraction of having Hush in their life.

[bloodchapell]

piercings are scary - armin a.

brief summary: after spending so much time with whom he considers the coolest person ever, armin gets corrupted and wants to be cool too. he gets interested in piercings

what to expect: alt and very nerdy reader, equally nerdy armin, mutual pinning, mention of needles

your sword’s note: alt armin I LOVE YOU, he is getting there i promise. all past and future parts of this au series available in my mistresslist

“How many piercings do you have?” He asks looking at the sky as he lays down under the tree in the middle of the campus.

“Well I have three lobe piercings in each ear, two helixes in each ear too, a septum, snake bites and a belly button one.” You count trying to cover his face with a book from the sun.

“Did they hurt too much?” He asks almost innocently and you take a glance at his pristine ears, he has nothing.

“Just a little but it’s more of a momentary burn and then you just kind of forget about them… which you shouldn’t.” You summarize. “Why?”

“Maybe I got a little envious of how the vkei guys look like and I want to be cool too…” He admits furrowing his eyebrows with seriousness to hide the embarrassment growing in him.

“That is actually so cool…” With your face a few inches away from his you say; he blushes. “I will take you literally right now.”

The bus is delayed and the store closes at five on Sundays, but somehow you guys manage to make it on time. You discuss in the bus what piercings he wants and even though he starts listing a whole bible, you stop him and tell him to settle for three; he chooses his earlobes and a vertical labret.

The tattoo and piercing parlor is for sure one of the most intimidating places Armin has been to, and being guided to the leather chair on the back feels like he is walking the stairs down to hell. He sits down and you stay at a good distance so the piercer has room to move around but it is still good for you to watch. The piercer starts marking two dots in his ears with the little blue marker and asks Armin if the placement is good, he nods hesitantly and the piercer proceeds. He seems extremely nervous and his eyes close unconsciously when the piercer takes the needle. Soon it is done, and he is paler than a sheet of paper.

“Are you okay ‘Min?” You rush to ask when the piercer says she will look for the jewelry for his lip piercing.

“I don’t know… it burns.” He says weakly and you can’t help but laugh.

“You got this, you’re almost done.” You say as the piercer comes back.

He genuinely almost faints when his lip is pierced, but alas, he now feels cooler than ever.

“Does it look good? Does it suit me?” He asks constantly on the ride back home, checking himself on the front camera of his phone while his other hand is being held by yours because he WILL faint and fall if you don’t hold him (he refused to accept holding your hand but did fall walking out of the parlor)

“You look the handsomest.” You affirm and he goes red.

[ieatkeyboard]

OM brother piercing headcannons but you can see me getting hornier-

Also I'm so sorry about the order- I did them in what order they came to my head

MAMMON: - Lobes (Cannonicaly) - Tongue - Industrial - septum - Nipples -Has a couple tattoos on his arms and a back piece

BEEL: - Lobes and seconds - Belly button - Have more tattoos than piercings - Also has a back piece, he has at least one sleeve, one on his hip, and both knees are tattooed

LUCIFER: - Doesn't have any face tattoos because he's professional but he'd get a tongue piercing - Has his lobes, seconds and a conch piercings - Has a prince albert- I'M SORRY OKAY - Has a tattoo covering or going into the scars on his back - Has a sleeve for suuure

SATAN: - Has snake bites. I will not be taking criticism at this time. - Has an industrial and his lobes - His a septum to piss off Lucifer cause I already know Lucifer said he couldn't do it - Has tattoos but they're either poetry and really beautiful or borderline terrifying. He has like tattooed scraped up knees for the vibes - He also has a Prince Albert but dirty talks with it for suuuure

ASMOOO: - You know where this is going - He has his nipples, belly button and dick pierced. King <3 - Tongue for sure and maybe a vertical labret - He has a sucubus/incubus tattoo over his..ya know - He also has a tramp stamp, I can feel it - He has a couple tattoos on his arms, on le on his rib and a bunch on his legs (He likes to show them off when he wears skirts)

BELPHIE: - Tongue piercing, eyebrow, lobes and maybe on his seconds - Has a dick piercing and teases you when you suck him off - Has a tramp stamp cause Asmo said it didn't hurt and he'd "sleep right through it". He did sleep through it but it hurt like a bitch - He has patchwork tattoos for sure. Just some random little things. He absolutely did a couple himself

LEVIATHAN - Hehehehe - He WANTS a dick piercing but doesn't have one cause he's to scared to ask someone to do it :,] - Has his belly button, lobes, bridge and septum pierced. - Things angel bites are pretty but doesn't know if he'd pull it off - Has a couple tattoos on his arms and legs and probably a fish or something on the nape of his neck (Lucifer doesn't know about that one)

[pixlpxie]

I SAW YOUR BODY MODIFICATIONS MINGI REBLOG AND I REBLOGGED THAT WITH MINGI + NIPPLE PIERCINGS BUT

Ateez with nipple piercings and that being their weakness or a young or lip piercing and how it feels when they eat you out like your thots on that? Idk if any of that made send but oh LORD the thought of having Yeosang a tongue shoved in my cunt and his ball piercing dragging against my clit is making me fell things she is purring ahhhh

Ok so you know me and how much i love piercing!teez agenda so heres what i think abt the members and their piercing/s 😋 id love to write smuts for these but i got impatient so this answer might not be really satisfactory or may not be what you're looking for but here we gooo 🫵🏻

Hongjoong: VERTICAL LABRET☝🏻☝🏻Yall know that one edit i posted here and how it would feel on you while he eats you out 😔 literally it would drag on your clit everytime and you would just feel like having a vibrator on you

Seonghwa: Tongue piercing duh🙄 especially snake eyes (tho theyre considered unsafe but its just imagination anyway) would fit his long ass tongue so much 😣 those two cold metal balls would abuse your clit bc of his fast movements or you would feel the metal touching your walls on both sides when he shoves his tongue inside you 🥺

Yunho: Lip piercings, either a labret or a lip ring (dolphin kiss too) 👹 the cold ring would scratch your pussy each time he'd suck on your clit or your nipples 👹👹👹

Yeosang: Angel fangs🤠 id imagine those piercings feeling like hes biting you, the sharp metal would just scrape your sensitive parts constantly like imma go fucking feral but like you said tongue piercing would go hard on him too👹

San: Lip rings 🥴 His lip shape is just perfect for them and if theyre on both sides he would make sure you feel each of them 😣

Mingi: Split tongue + bridge piercing 🥴 I've done multiple posts on him having a split tongue and how he'd use it on you but also imagine him having a nose bridge piercing that would touch your clit evertime you ride his nose 😮‍💨

Wooyoung: Snake bites + tongue piercing 😋 do you see the vision babes like he was born to have these piercings just imagine those metals dragging around your sensitive spots and bc theyre multiple around the same area you would just constantly get edged as he sucks you

Jongho: double lip ring 🤭 he would tease you a lot ngl especially while kissing.. also i don't know if you can feel septum piercings when you sit on someones nose but i feel like you might sooo septum jongho supporter till i die☝🏻

About them having nipple piercings: Mingi, Wooyoung and Hongjoong would have nipple piercings, Mingi would be the most sensitive among the three. Yeosang and Seonghwa wouldn't have them but they should have them because they would suit them so much and Seonghwa would be the most tempted one. Jongho, San and Yunho wouldn't get them at all in my opinion but i mean whos stopping them rly 🥴

[metallicmikus]

MODERN NEWSIES TATTOO SHOP AU

coffee shop au? NO!!! tattoo shop <3

the studio is located in lower east side, manhattan, and it’s probably called East Side Ink or something like that. and the shop has the best vibes, gay old vibes.

Jack is a tattoo artist who also does piercings (and is the owner). He’s covered in tattoos, plenty of which he did himself. He can do pretty much anything. He loves artsy tattoos and colorful pieces. He doesn’t like realism/portraits. He has his firsts and seconds pierced but that’s really it. His area in the shop is decorated with his paintings. He loves to create ‘paintings’ on people. He 100% has a full like ‘santa fe’ piece on his back.

Charlie/Casey/Crutchie is receptionist at the front desk who makes all of the appointments and shit. He’s got a few tattoos, probably like the ‘doodle’ style tattoos. Mostly small ones.

Racetrack is a piercer and he specializes in fine lines and calligraphy. He’s probably the one to do smaller tattoos. His ears are pierced all the way up. He also has a bridge piercing and probably a septum. He used to have a lip ring but he chewed on it too much. And he will absolutely talk the clients ears off.

Albert is also a tattoo artist. He has so many piercings. Up the ears, industrial, eyebrow, nose, snake bites, bridge, vertical labret, tongue. Also covered in tattoos. He specializes in like a darker more gothic style of tattoos (goth albert stans where are you). And ofc he’s got his arms out all the time (no sleeves) so he can show off his muscles and his tattoos fr fr. Also definitely has something cool tattooed over his top surgery scars. A lot of people are scared of him cuz he’s intimidating.

Specs is also an artist and piercer there. He mostly has only black ink done on him, but he loves to do colorful pieces on other people. He doesn’t have as many tattoos as the other artists. He loves details and he absolutely loves to hear the story behind the tattoo the client is getting. He’s a perfect artist for your first tattoo.

there would be a few more artists but i’m thinking about the gays!!!

david doesn’t work there, but he goes in to get his first tattoo, and jack is his artist. And jack being jack is unintentionally flirty with him. David is like “wow he’s kinda cute”

also ralbert is real in this au, it’s my au what the fuck do you think??? ofc ralbert is gonna be in this au!

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for getting a lip piercing i knew my family wouldn't like? 👄🧷

So about 5 days ago i (20nb) got a vertical labret lip piercing. it's right in the centre of my lip and very visible. im away studying currently so not living with my family. i sent a selfie after i got it done to our family group chat and only my older sibling (28nb) responded, saying it looked awesome or smth. my older sis (24f) didn't but she came with me to get it done so i know she's cool with it. i saw my mum later that day, only briefly, and she instantly started going on about how it was a bad decision. i said i'm leaving and walked away from her since this is the kind of stuff she said back when i was getting first tattoos and piercings (i have 9 tattoos and 12 piercings so although i expected a negative reaction, this was more than i thought). my dad has also not said anything about the piercing and he is normally cool with piercings/tattoos so i have to assume he hates it too.

fast forward to now and it's mothers day. we were all going to be meeting up for lunch, and then on the morning i wake up to a text from my mum during the night, saying how she loves me unconditionally and respects my decision to do what i want with my body but that she's so upset by my lip piercing that she can't bring herself to see me, so she cancelled.

i know she will continue to be upset by my piercing but i love it and don't want to take it out. so AITA for having got a piercing i knew she would hate and then continuing to have it? she would be a lot happier if i took it out

What are these acronyms?

[leonsleftthigh]

DESIGNING THESE BITCHES A LITTLE BIT MORE

im basically playing dressup but adding flair all at once

BTW THOSE ARENT THEIR FACES. THOSE ARE COMPLETELY MADE UP.

vessel is keeping the curls i gave him because. why not?

not pictured, but it is in the finished sketches i have. he has angel bites with hoops in them (its an actual thing, i only found one photo and the dude was past crusty so i did not want to share it) and a labret/pixie

not pictured as well (because im stupid and thought of this after i walked away and finished for the night) he has a big scar in between his pecs from when he ripped his heart out as an offering to sleep (ref to thread the needle music video)

i will make a bit of writing about reasons for details im adding at a later date

III is getting the slutty vampire treatment.

i also gave him back the vertical labret i draw Thea with but *sigh* that shit will most likely never be seen in most if not all drawings i make of him.

in the future i plan on making full drawings with at least flat colors so you guys have a feel of what tattoos and piercings they all have as well as some other things (i bet.. i hope)

edit: forgot to say but II and IV will be made very soon. i was only able to get vessel and iii done today.

[nickeverdeen]

Hi! I would love to request a romantic arcane matchup if that’s okay! 🫶🏻

my pronouns are she/her and I’m asexual biromantic (I would prefer a female character but i’m okay with whoever you think fits me best). I’m an ESFJ and a Gemini. I have green eyes and dyed red-pink hair. My aesthetic is a mix of the rockstar gf and the downtown girl. I wear lots of rings and crystal/pearl necklaces and love to exchange them with others. I also have tattoos, currently I have five but I’m planning to get more; and I have a vertical labret piercing. I love to wear makeup and if someone lets me do their makeup they’ll have my heart forever.

I’m the mom friend of the group, always there for everyone and my friends say that I’m really good at comforting people. I’m also calm and responsible, I usually am the one that takes care of other people. I’m very optimistic, I always try to see the good in everything and I often put other’s needs before my own. I love making others laugh to lighten the situation. I’m not afraid to stand up for myself or for someone else but sometimes it’s hard for me to say no to things. I also dislike when someone is too serious and really can’t take a joke as I tend to use humor as my coping mechanism. I’m also very ambitious, I always try to achieve my goals. My love languages are, receiving, physical touch and words of affirmation and giving, quality time and words of affirmation.

I absolutely love listening to music, it helps me relax and I really like reading (I love reading out loud to others, when I read dialogues I act them out a little to help picture the scene). I especially love fantasy and I recently got into greek mythology. I also love watching horror movies even though it’s impossible to scare me. I also play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends anytime I can. also, I absolutely love musicals and I’m definitely a theatre kid.

I hope I didn’t write too much, have a great day!

Your Arcane match is…

Jinx

Your ability to stay grounded in tense situations would amaze Jinx

She’d secretly rely on your level-headedness when her emotions get the best of her

Jinx would love letting you do her makeup

Watching you focus on her would make her melt inside, though she’d never admit it

Jinx would love your tattoos and constantly ask you about their meanings

She’d even design some for you, begging you to get them inked

She’d beg you to read your favorite books to her, getting completely immersed in the way you act out dialogues

She’d often interrupt with comments or questions, keeping you on your toes

Jinx would try her best to scare you during horror movies, but when you remain unfazed, she’d just cuddle closer, pretending it was her idea all along

Your love for exchanging jewelry would be something Jinx found endearing

She’d create quirky necklaces or bracelets from her own gadgets and trinkets to give to you

While you’re the “mom friend” of your group, Jinx would surprise you with how protective she becomes of you

Anyone who tries to take advantage of your kindness would face her wrath

You’d often find Jinx working on wild, colorful projects, and she’d happily involve you

Your artistic talents would impress her, and she’d insist you collaborate on her more eccentric ideas

Jinx would secretly lean on your nurturing side

She’d open up to you about her fears and insecurities late at night, finding solace in your comforting words and gentle touch

[yourlocalmeta1head]

Part 1 Piercings I Think AOT Character Would Get (Levi Squad)

 (Eren, Armin, Mikasa, Connie, Sasha, Jean, Ymir, Historia)

Eren: lobe, lower helix, helix (left), upper helix (left), industrial (right), eyebrow (right), lip (left), tongue

Armin: idk i cant see him having any. I don't think he would have oral piercings due to the damage they can do to your teeth (except a vertical labret), i don't think he likes the look of facial piercings on himself, i think he’d be nervous about his hair getting caught so he wouldn't get ear piercings

Mikasa: 1st lobe, 2nd lobe, conch, double helix, coordinates earrings and jewelry and she looks so cool doing it, spider bites (right), belly button

Connie: 1st lobe with diamond studs that apparently cost him 20 million dollars, industrial (right) super cool jewelry, eyebrow (left with hoop and ball)

Sasha: 1st lobe and wears the cutest earrings ever

Jean: none

Ymir: 1st lobe, tongue wears the coolest silver earrings ever and matches her earrings with her tounge piercing.

Historia: 1st lobe FABULOUS EARRINGS OMG

[satansapostle6]

The Crush | Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson is a cool, simple guy who is also the famous son of Poseidon who helped save the world. But, talking to the pretty girl in his English class still seems impossible.

Warnings: Mature themes/language. Violence. Sexual content.

Chapter One: Pussy Jackson

Percy sat behind Chloé in English. She was tall and intimidating, and he didn’t know if he’d ever be able to work up the courage to talk to her. Sure, he wasn’t in high school anymore, but he still felt nervous around her like he was sixteen years old again. Chloé Jardine was, after all, the prettiest girl he had ever seen.

He knew Chloé was a Roman demigod, a daughter of Nox, the Roman equivalent of Nyx, the goddess of darkness and the night. She was a fairly typical child of Nox, a sort of minimalistic goth.

She had long, pitch black hair, with tiny micro bangs partially covering her forehead. She was also noticeably pale, as if she only ever went out at nighttime. Most people thought she looked scary, but Percy thought she looked magical.

Chloé had a decent amount of tattoos, including a pretty sizable spider web on her neck. She had a lot of piercings, including an eyebrow piercing and a vertical labret on her lip. She didn’t really wear makeup, but she was very obviously a goth. She was smart, and she didn’t talk a lot at all, which drove Percy insane. He made it his mission in life to know as much about her as possible.

Every time he saw her wearing a band T-shirt of some kind to school, he’d make a note of the band name and look it up later if he wasn’t familiar, and listen to all of the songs he could find.

So far, he’d listened to Type O Negative, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Kittie, and Rob Zombie, only affirming his opinion that she was the coolest person on earth. His best friend, Grover, thought the behavior was just a little bit obsessive, but didn’t really think it was that bad.

That day in his college English course, he was sitting in his seat, listening to Soundgarden during the lecture on his laptop with the tab open, secretly hoping Chloé would have some some reason to walk back and look at his computer screen. Soundgarden wasn’t goth, of course, but Percy had seen her wear one of their shirts.

“Hey! Pussy Jackson!”

Percy frowned to see Clarisse La Rue sitting in a seat a couple rows behind him.

“Move your fat fucking head, I can’t see!”

“‘I’m doing fine, thank you, Clarisse’,” he mocked her under his breath. “‘How was your weekend’?”

Percy was startled to look up to see Chloé turned around in front of him.

“Will you two shut the fuck up?!” she whispered, staring at them in disbelief.

Percy’s face must have been beet red as he tried his hardest not to explode. He was dying of embarrassment as he tried to come up with some sort of answer.

“Uh, yeah! Sorry!” he apologized in a whisper.

Chloé just turned back around, shaking her head as she continued taking messy notes on the assignment due dates. Percy leaned forward slightly, looking curiously at her notebook. He found her handwriting interesting; it was kind of small with a lot sharp edges, written in haste without being too messy, almost like a doctor’s handwriting.

Percy knew he must’ve been lost in his horny ADHD world, because before he knew it, the instructor had just finished announcing the next project, a group project worth 20% of his grade.

“Alright, the groups are posted up here, so you can all come and take a look. You’ll have the rest of this class to figure out a presentation topic and get started,” the professor, a woman in her forties, announced as she retreated to her desk.

Alarmed by the words ‘groups’ and ‘presentation’, Percy anxiously made his way down to the whiteboard with everyone else, terrified to receive his group assignment. He prayed silently that he’d get at least one smart kid in his group, and zero Clarisse’s. As he slowly scanned the list of names up and down, his face went pale as he found his other two group mates. Clarisse La Rue and Chloé Jardine.

Percy wanted to kill himself immediately. Not only did he have to work with Clarisse, but he also had to figure out how to work with Chloé, who had just told him to shut the fuck up not two seconds ago, the first words she had ever spoken to him. He glanced back at Clarisse, who was standing beside Chloé. Neither of them looked very happy about the group assignment.

Percy glanced over at the peofessor’s desk, contemplating whether he should try and get a different group. He decided against it, figuring he’d had enough embarrassment for one day. Signing as he realized he’d have to face Chloé eventually, he walked over to where the girls were standing, ready to face the music. He’d fought monsters and faced imminent doom before, and somehow this felt exactly the same.

“I’m not doing all of the work,” Chloé crossed her arms.

“What makes you think you’d be doing all the work?!” Clarisse asked defensively.

“Because I’m in a group with you!”

“Hey…” Percy waved awkwardly, trying to break the ice, which seemed to also somehow be scalding hot.

“Oh, yeah. You’re in this group too,” Clarisse rolled her eyes.

“Yeah, unfortunately,” Percy retaliated childishly.

“Okay. We need to come up with a topic,” Chloé reminded them. “Which one should our presentation be about?”

“What are the options?” Percy asked, watching as she just let out a long sigh.

The next hour of class went by as slowly as possible. By the end of it, Clarisse had stormed out of the classroom, and Percy and Chloé were left sitting together exhaustedly. Chloé sighed as she got up, heading out of the building as Percy followed her.

“Sorry about Clarisse,” he offered sympathetically. “She drives everyone who has to deal with her insane.”

“Yeah, I’m starting to get that,” Chloé nodded.

*****

Percy felt odd, and completely out of place the entire time he sat in class discussing the project with Chloé. Every time she spoke to him, he felt more stupid. He knew nothing about what he wanted to do for the project, and he was even less prepared to answer these questions when asked by Chloé Jardine. And of course, Clarisse also being a part of the group didn’t help.

But Percy figured it was almost worth it, getting to work on the project with Chloé, with her cool hair, tattoos and piercings, and blue eyes, the same icy blue eyes that mesmerized him when he spoke to her. Percy had to clear his throat and check his breath twice before smiling at her as she turned, just having ordered a coffee from the kiosk nearby.

“Hey,” Percy wheezed, realizing how eager he sounded stalk to her, cursing himself silently.

“Hi,” Chloé said with slight surprise, sipping the warm coffee.

She looked at him expectantly, wondering what it was he could’ve possibly had to say to her. Chloé had already done a brief mental scan of Percy; she knew that he was the Greek son of Poseidon, by his shaggy black hair and sea green eyes.

She knew from the perpetual dopey expression on his face that he was attracted to her in some way. She’d seen the way he looked at her and assumed that it was mostly more sexual than emotional, based on the way his eyes lingered on her skin and the way he was constantly averting his eyes from her chest.

“See you,” Chloé smiled, politely excusing herself as she walked away.

“Fuck,” Percy muttered under his breath as he watched her walk away.

He sighed in defeat as he watched Chloé walk away from him, thinking of a hundred things in that moment he wished he’d said to her.

“It’ll never happen, you know.”

Percy whipped around quickly, alarmed as he turned around in the direction of the voice he’d heard. Naturally, the disapproving voice had belonged to Annabeth, his sharp-witted child of Athena ex-girlfriend.

“What?” Percy questioned defensively.

“You and Chloé,” she responded promptly.

Percy crossed his arms. “What makes you think—”

“That you’re infatuated with her?” she asked him. “I know you, Jackson.”

“I’m not infatuated with Chloé,” Percy rolled his eyes at her.

“Well. Infatuated or not, her ex-boyfriend is Sean Morley. The son of Apollo?” Annabeth Chase smirked. “With the blond hair, and the shoulders?”

“Why are you so invested?” he ignored her, questioning her skeptically.

Annabeth smiled, patting his shoulder sympathetically. “Because. It’s fun watching you refuse to learn,” she said as her demeanor softened.

Annabeth walked off and disappeared, leaving Percy to do a lot of thinking.

-

Chapter Two

[gor3sigil]

23/11 - The black labret and bleeding gums

Yesterday, I took off my labret piercing. I noticed it was doing some pretty bad damage to my gums and teeth, that I’d really like to keep in relatively good health. It made me think about her. It was sad, in a sense, because this piercing made it finally bearable for her to look at her reflection in the mirror. But it was, at the time, the bare minimum she could do to take back control over her body, her face, her life, whilst being actively suicidal. She never cared about teeth. She barely brushed them, in fact.

And now, I have to take that little stone away from the mural of ourselves we built, little by little, brick by brick. I promised her that for this jewel we had to take out, we’ll get pierced twice, on the same lip, vertically, if we can. If we can’t, we’ll do the nostrils. But she’ll get something back, pinky promise. Only now, it’ll be with the intention to be a work of art, complimenting our features, more than just repairing damages. Just like the tattoos over our scars. Just like our flat chest.

I also promised to put her black labret in epoxy, to wear as a necklace. She hasn’t gone anywhere. When I look at my reflection in the mirror, my hair growing out, even after 2 years of HRT, it’s still her that I see, clear as day, with her little mischeavous smile, her contagious laughter, her intense gaze looking at my own soul, our soul, to remind me that she has never died. Sometimes she talks to me still, she lets me know that I may be in control the vessel, but she is still the primary life inside us, the flame that drives us forward, something transitonning, changing our name, cutting through flesh could never erase. And we hug, and we cry from the same eyes, and we scream from the same mouth, and we drink from the same glass.

We’re at the hospital, she’s scared she never got better. She hates the scent of disinfectant and the nurses. I have to calm her down when we’re put on oxygen. Keep a brave face when they cut ourselves open once more. “But we’re so young still !” she yells. I wish I was her age. I wish I didn’t care about bleeding gums. I wish I wasn’t a month wiser.

She looks at our reflection and she says: “Hey, let’s get our lips pierced as a reward for going through surgery !”. One jewel per tonsils removed. I spat out a trail of blood in the sink and brushed my teeth. I wish we never cared for bleeding gums.

I read her back the letter I wrote to our parents, asking her what she thinks, should we send it ? She scoffs and goes back to play. She thinks her pain doesn’t show, even after all these years, even after she almost died from it. She thinks I can’t see it because I’m not her. And yet.

She tears up as I unscrew the black labret from our lip. We never got taught how to brush our teeth. It’s all their fault, she says. It’s all their fault we have to worry about bleeding gums. I hold her hand. She brushed our teeth like she could repair the damage in one flush.

Last night I dreamt I was losing my teeth, but new ones grew, stronger. I wish for it to come true.