#auphy

[little-noko]

Quick doodle of Auphy and Bihari interacting it's been a while since I used this art stile and I wanted to draw the two of them together.

Art & Ohayo Region(c) @little-noko

[hexesandroses]

Scruffy Dottore save me... Save me scruffy Dottore

[boundinparchment]

would anyone believe that I am half-considering recreating the scene from The Godfather?

[glassrowboat]

3, 18, and 25 for the writer asks :3 Hoping the weekend has been kind to you 💙🐍

3. How do you feel about your current WIP

Procrastinating like crazy. I can't really see the point in writing this series when everything can be thrown aside by canon as soon as Pantalone comes out, but at the same time I have so much I want for Escort and him so it's all very iffy :/

18. If you keep them, share a deleted sentence from a published fic

I actually have some posts with writing scraps on them already out ^^ But I can share smth else since I'll be writing another Baizhu smut instead:

His touch was soft, delicate as always, even as your eyes fell closed. Fingers that touched you so gently you could imagine the way he held sheets of paper between them and folded it perfectly as his touch split past your own folds. Precise, the way only a man who knew exactly what he was doing could be just the same way as he made those origami roses for you. The petals were so thin they could bend and crinkle with one wrong touch, but to this day, they are as perfect as can be.

Well, except the ones Qiqi made, but you cherished them nonetheless.

The words he whispered to that day when he slipped the glass vase full of them into your hands never could leave your memory, even when Baizhu's fingers slid inside of you. Slow as can be. Nothing like your own pace on his cock as your eagerness to see him fall apart under you starts to break through.

“I couldn't bear to give you something that would wilt, not when I want to know the meaning of the word timeless when I'm with you.”

25. Besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

I like to arrange flowers. They're a great, simple gift to give people that can show you put in effort just to see them smile. Besides, how can you go wrong with flowers?

These are the ones I put together for my partner <3

[auphelia]

I keep a document of my favourite comments and tags (only short ones- Shiro all your comments are my favourite comments) from tumblr (on my writing) and then go to look at it from time to time.

There are times where one of these just pop into my head and I can just hear "this is so sad wtf auphie" and then I cackle. So thank you everyone who's ever left tags or a comment, they mean more than you think <3

[screamingcrows]

59, 60, and 76 for your fic Start Carving Darling please if you will bestie <3

I absolutely will! Get to know the fic writer

59. Does anyone in your personal life know you write fic? if not, would you tell anyone?

I have three people; my lovely partner who bounces ideas around with me, my dad who immediately caught on when I vaguely stated that I was 'writing some stuff' (bastard reminded me that he was the one who beta'ed my ~100 page long world of warcraft fic when I was eleven and he'd just been waiting for me to pick that hobby back up) He thinks Alhaitham is hot btw. And lastly, I have an irl friend who follows my main so she's definetly seen some of my fics lmao ><

60. Have you had a writer you admire comment on your fic? What was that like?

I have! Multiple times! Writers I admire are typically the ones who comment on my fics >< I still vividly remember posting my first ever Dottore fic and one of the two blogs I admired the most reblogged it with the comment "I'm so proud of you 💞💞💞💞" and that both gave me the courage to continue writing and has stuck with me since!

76. Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of Start Carvin' Darlin'? 

Okay so-... I wrote that fic to make a bad joke about medical malpractice. The joke made it in, but the entire scenario that I wanted to write to make the joke ended up being boiled down to maybe 15 lines of vague flashback lmao. Wrote quite a bit that I never used, still debating doing the prequel sometime.

[theoutcastwrites]

He heard about your new blog and wanted to bring a gift, he heard you like Capitano. He wants you to know that he took him down by himself, no segment assistance needed...

I don't even want to guess why he brought me Capi's head, but do let him know that he's charmed me. Smooching his face and his beautiful neck as thanks!

[hexesandroses]

fell to my knees. look at him :3

jy at the request of my friends (39/100)

[little-noko]

It seems like this projects love to make me lie.... Here's a last minute addition, a moon jellyfish space saucer pokemon.

-Auphy | Flying Type The Baby Jellyfish pokemon Auphy float gently without any real direction in mind, they rarely ever touch the ground unless they are especially exhausted, if they ever do, they deflate and become ridiculously flat.

-Aurial | Flying Type The Aerial Jellyfish pokemon

Aurial has much more control over their flying skill, they are often looking after their younger stage to make sure they aren't stranding themselves. They are most active at night and often enough their glowing pattern are mistaken for UFO's.

-Aurelusa | Flying Type The Moon Jellyfish pokemon

Aurelusa is elegant and love to twirl to display their mesmerizing pattern. Sometimes flying pokemon will rest under their hood, knowing very well that they'll be safe from predators.

Art & Ohayo Region(c) @little-noko

[hexesandroses]

Peace and love on the planet Earth

[boundinparchment]

he heard you weren't feeling well... <3

He’s precious for that and that’s exactly what I want to do on my lunch break.

[hexesandroses]

He's beautiful

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔...

[glassrowboat]

trademark; Baizhu + fun/interesting reader characters with great banter + language that makes me stare off into space (positive)

That language part is why I told you ì try to hold back on my descriptions XD

But as for readers, I absolutely refuse to let them be a go with everything around them Mc. This isn't diabolic lovers. Plus, I love writing someone who can give characters a run for their money.

[auphelia]

Tagged by @ellalalala and @boundinparchment

I keep most of my shitposts on my laptop so doing this from my phone was a challenge

I'm so glad I had an image with "this is so sad wtf auphie" because that is such a defining tag for me lmao

I'm tagging @nyankomusume @mrskreideprinz and anyone else who wants to play :3

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

A huge list of "epic" names by me

Antant Antau Antax Antbet Antchar Antche Antda Antdoht Antdor Antei Antel Antesk Antfor Antfur Antgon Antgre Anthist Anthur Antick Antin Antind Antiss Antithri Antjen Antkrai Antkri Antlan Antlei Antmei Antmor Antnar Antnord Antoht Anton Antou Antphar Antphi Antpi Antquam Antqui Antrai Antrin Antro Antrock Antsol Antson Anttet Antthe Anttri Antulm Antum Antven Antvi Antwesk Antwulf Antxer Antyir Antyon Antzer Antziel Auant Auau Auax Aubet Auchar Auche Auda Audoht Audor Auei Auel Auesk Aufor Aufur Augon Augre Auhist Auhur Auick Auin Auind Auiss Auithri Aujen Aukrai Aukri Aulan Aulei Aumei Aumor Aunar Aunord Auoht Auon Auou Auphar Auphi Aupi Auquam Auqui Aurai Aurin Auro Aurock Ausol Auson Autet Authe Autri Auulm Auum Auven Auvi Auwesk Auwulf Auxer Auyir Auyon Auzer Auziel Axant Axau Axax Axbet Axchar Axche Axda Axdoht Axdor Axei Axel Axesk Axfor Axfur Axgon Axgre Axhist Axhur Axick Axin Axind Axiss Axithri Axjen Axkrai Axkri Axlan Axlei Axmei Axmor Axnar Axnord Axoht Axon Axou Axphar Axphi Axpi Axquam Axqui Axrai Axrin Axro Axrock Axsol Axson Axtet Axthe Axtri Axulm Axum Axven Axvi Axwesk Axwulf Axxer Axyir Axyon Axzer Axziel Betant Betau Betax Betbet Betchar Betche Betda Betdoht Betdor Betei Betel Betesk Betfor Betfur Betgon Betgre Bethist Bethur Betick Betin Betind Betiss Betithri Betjen Betkrai Betkri Betlan Betlei Betmei Betmor Betnar Betnord Betoht Beton Betou Betphar Betphi Betpi Betquam Betqui Betrai Betrin Betro Betrock Betsol Betson Bettet Betthe Bettri Betulm Betum Betven Betvi Betwesk Betwulf Betxer Betyir Betyon Betzer Betziel Charant Charau Charax Charbet Charchar Charche Charda Chardoht Chardor Charei Charel Charesk Charfor Charfur Chargon Chargre Charhist Charhur Charick Charin Charind Chariss Charithri Charjen Charkrai Charkri Charlan Charlei Charmei Charmor Charnar Charnord Charoht Charon Charou Charphar Charphi Charpi Charquam Charqui Charrai Charrin Charro Charrock Charsol Charson Chartet Charthe Chartri Charulm Charum Charven Charvi Charwesk Charwulf Charxer Charyir Charyon Charzer Charziel Cheant Cheau Cheax Chebet Chechar Cheche Cheda Chedoht Chedor Cheei Cheel Cheesk Chefor Chefur Chegon Chegre Chehist Chehur Cheick Chein Cheind Cheiss Cheithri Chejen Chekrai Chekri Chelan Chelei Chemei Chemor Chenar Chenord Cheoht Cheon Cheou Chephar Chephi Chepi Chequam Chequi Cherai Cherin Chero Cherock Chesol Cheson Chetet Chethe Chetri Cheulm Cheum Cheven Chevi Chewesk Chewulf Chexer Cheyir Cheyon Chezer Cheziel

Daant Daau Daax Dabet Dachar Dache Dada Dadoht Dador Daei Dael Daesk Dafor Dafur Dagon Dagre Dahist Dahur Daick Dain Daind Daiss Daithri Dajen Dakrai Dakri Dalan Dalei Damei Damor Danar Danord Daoht Daon Daou Daphar Daphi Dapi Daquam Daqui Darai Darin Daro Darock Dasol Dason Datet Dathe Datri Daulm Daum Daven Davi Dawesk Dawulf Daxer Dayir Dayon Dazer Daziel Dohtant Dohtau Dohtax Dohtbet Dohtchar Dohtche Dohtda Dohtdoht Dohtdor Dohtei Dohtel Dohtesk Dohtfor Dohtfur Dohtgon Dohtgre Dohthist Dohthur Dohtick Dohtin Dohtind Dohtiss Dohtithri Dohtjen Dohtkrai Dohtkri Dohtlan Dohtlei Dohtmei Dohtmor Dohtnar Dohtnord Dohtoht Dohton Dohtou Dohtphar Dohtphi Dohtpi Dohtquam Dohtqui Dohtrai Dohtrin Dohtro Dohtrock Dohtsol Dohtson Dohttet Dohtthe Dohttri Dohtulm Dohtum Dohtven Dohtvi Dohtwesk Dohtwulf Dohtxer Dohtyir Dohtyon Dohtzer Dohtziel Dorant Dorau Dorax Dorbet Dorchar Dorche Dorda Dordoht Dordor Dorei Dorel Doresk Dorfor Dorfur Dorgon Dorgre Dorhist Dorhur Dorick Dorin Dorind Doriss Dorithri Dorjen Dorkrai Dorkri Dorlan Dorlei Dormei Dormor Dornar Dornord Doroht Doron Dorou Dorphar Dorphi Dorpi Dorquam Dorqui Dorrai Dorrin Dorro Dorrock Dorsol Dorson Dortet Dorthe Dortri Dorulm Dorum Dorven Dorvi Dorwesk Dorwulf Dorxer Doryir Doryon Dorzer Dorziel Eiant Eiau Eiax Eibet Eichar Eiche Eida Eidoht Eidor Eiei Eiel Eiesk Eifor Eifur Eigon Eigre Eihist Eihur Eiick Eiin Eiind Eiiss Eiithri Eijen Eikrai Eikri Eilan Eilei Eimei Eimor Einar Einord Eioht Eion Eiou Eiphar Eiphi Eipi Eiquam Eiqui Eirai Eirin Eiro Eirock Eisol Eison Eitet Eithe Eitri Eiulm Eium Eiven Eivi Eiwesk Eiwulf Eixer Eiyir Eiyon Eizer Eiziel Elant Elau Elax Elbet Elchar Elche Elda Eldoht Eldor Elei Elel Elesk Elfor Elfur Elgon Elgre Elhist Elhur Elick Elin Elind Eliss Elithri Eljen Elkrai Elkri Ellan Ellei Elmei Elmor Elnar Elnord Eloht Elon Elou Elphar Elphi Elpi Elquam Elqui Elrai Elrin Elro Elrock Elsol Elson Eltet Elthe Eltri Elulm Elum Elven Elvi Elwesk Elwulf Elxer Elyir Elyon Elzer Elziel Eskant Eskau Eskax Eskbet Eskchar Eskche Eskda Eskdoht Eskdor Eskei Eskel Eskesk Eskfor Eskfur Eskgon Eskgre Eskhist Eskhur Eskick Eskin Eskind Eskiss Eskithri Eskjen Eskkrai Eskkri Esklan Esklei Eskmei Eskmor Esknar Esknord Eskoht Eskon Eskou Eskphar Eskphi Eskpi Eskquam Eskqui Eskrai Eskrin Eskro Eskrock Esksol Eskson Esktet Eskthe Esktri Eskulm Eskum Eskven Eskvi Eskwesk Eskwulf Eskxer Eskyir Eskyon Eskzer Eskziel Forant Forau Forax Forbet Forchar Forche Forda Fordoht Fordor Forei Forel Foresk Forfor Forfur Forgon Forgre Forhist Forhur Forick Forin Forind Foriss Forithri Forjen Forkrai Forkri Forlan Forlei Formei Formor Fornar Fornord Foroht Foron Forou Forphar Forphi Forpi Forquam Forqui Forrai Forrin Forro Forrock Forsol Forson Fortet Forthe Fortri Forulm Forum Forven Forvi Forwesk Forwulf Forxer Foryir Foryon Forzer Forziel Furant Furau Furax Furbet Furchar Furche Furda Furdoht Furdor Furei Furel Furesk Furfor Furfur Furgon Furgre Furhist Furhur Furick Furin Furind Furiss Furithri Furjen Furkrai Furkri Furlan Furlei Furmei Furmor Furnar Furnord Furoht Furon Furou Furphar Furphi Furpi Furquam Furqui Furrai Furrin Furro Furrock Fursol Furson Furtet Furthe Furtri Furulm Furum Furven Furvi Furwesk Furwulf Furxer Furyir Furyon Furzer Furziel

Gonant Gonau Gonax Gonbet Gonchar Gonche Gonda Gondoht Gondor Gonei Gonel Gonesk Gonfor Gonfur Gongon Gongre Gonhist Gonhur Gonick Gonin Gonind Goniss Gonithri Gonjen Gonkrai Gonkri Gonlan Gonlei Gonmei Gonmor Gonnar Gonnord Gonoht Gonon Gonou Gonphar Gonphi Gonpi Gonquam Gonqui Gonrai Gonrin Gonro Gonrock Gonsol Gonson Gontet Gonthe Gontri Gonulm Gonum Gonven Gonvi Gonwesk Gonwulf Gonxer Gonyir Gonyon Gonzer Gonziel Greant Greau Greax Grebet Grechar Greche Greda Gredoht Gredor Greei Greel Greesk Grefor Grefur Gregon Gregre Grehist Grehur Greick Grein Greind Greiss Greithri Grejen Grekrai Grekri Grelan Grelei Gremei Gremor Grenar Grenord Greoht Greon Greou Grephar Grephi Grepi Grequam Grequi Grerai Grerin Grero Grerock Gresol Greson Gretet Grethe Gretri Greulm Greum Greven Grevi Grewesk Grewulf Grexer Greyir Greyon Grezer GrezielHistant Histau Histax Histbet Histchar Histche Histda Histdoht Histdor Histei Histel Histesk Histfor Histfur Histgon Histgre Histhist Histhur Histick Histin Histind Histiss Histithri Histjen Histkrai Histkri Histlan Histlei Histmei Histmor Histnar Histnord Histoht Histon Histou Histphar Histphi Histpi Histquam Histqui Histrai Histrin Histro Histrock Histsol Histson Histtet Histthe Histtri Histulm Histum Histven Histvi Histwesk Histwulf Histxer Histyir Histyon Histzer Histziel Hurant Hurau Hurax Hurbet Hurchar Hurche Hurda Hurdoht Hurdor Hurei Hurel Huresk Hurfor Hurfur Hurgon Hurgre Hurhist Hurhur Hurick Hurin Hurind Huriss Hurithri Hurjen Hurkrai Hurkri Hurlan Hurlei Hurmei Hurmor Hurnar Hurnord Huroht Huron Hurou Hurphar Hurphi Hurpi Hurquam Hurqui Hurrai Hurrin Hurro Hurrock Hursol Hurson Hurtet Hurthe Hurtri Hurulm Hurum Hurven Hurvi Hurwesk Hurwulf Hurxer Huryir Huryon Hurzer Hurziel Ickant Ickau Ickax Ickbet Ickchar Ickche Ickda Ickdoht Ickdor Ickei Ickel Ickesk Ickfor Ickfur Ickgon Ickgre Ickhist Ickhur Ickick Ickin Ickind Ickiss Ickithri Ickjen Ickkrai Ickkri Icklan Icklei Ickmei Ickmor Icknar Icknord Ickoht Ickon Ickou Ickphar Ickphi Ickpi Ickquam Ickqui Ickrai Ickrin Ickro Ickrock Icksol Ickson Icktet Ickthe Icktri Ickulm Ickum Ickven Ickvi Ickwesk Ickwulf Ickxer Ickyir Ickyon Ickzer Ickziel Inant Inau Inax Inbet Inchar Inche Inda Indant Indau Indax Indbet Indchar Indche Indda Inddoht Inddor Indei Indel Indesk Indfor Indfur Indgon Indgre Indhist Indhur Indick Indin Indind Indiss Indithri Indjen Indkrai Indkri Indlan Indlei Indmei Indmor Indnar Indnord Indoht Indon Indor Indou Indphar Indphi Indpi Indquam Indqui Indrai Indrin Indro Indrock Indsol Indson Indtet Indthe Indtri Indulm Indum Indven Indvi Indwesk Indwulf Indxer Indyir Indyon Indzer Indziel Inei Inel Inesk Infor Infur Ingon Ingre Inhist Inhur Inick Inin Inind Iniss Inithri Injen Inkrai Inkri Inlan Inlei Inmei Inmor Innar Innord Inoht Inon Inou Inphar Inphi Inpi Inquam Inqui Inrai Inrin Inro Inrock Insol Inson Intet Inthe Intri Inulm Inum Inven Invi Inwesk Inwulf Inxer Inyir Inyon Inzer Inziel Issant Issau Issax Issbet Isschar Issche Issda Issdoht Issdor Issei Issel Issesk Issfor Issfur Issgon Issgre Isshist Isshur Issick Issin Issind Ississ Issithri Issjen Isskrai Isskri Isslan Isslei Issmei Issmor Issnar Issnord Issoht Isson Issou Issphar Issphi Isspi Issquam Issqui Issrai Issrin Issro Issrock Isssol Issson Isstet Issthe Isstri Issulm Issum Issven Issvi Isswesk Isswulf Issxer Issyir Issyon Isszer Issziel Ithriant Ithriau Ithriax Ithribet Ithrichar Ithriche Ithrida Ithridoht Ithridor Ithriei Ithriel Ithriesk Ithrifor Ithrifur Ithrigon Ithrigre Ithrihist Ithrihur Ithriick Ithriin Ithriind Ithriiss Ithriithri Ithrijen Ithrikrai Ithrikri Ithrilan Ithrilei Ithrimei Ithrimor Ithrinar Ithrinord Ithrioht Ithrion Ithriou Ithriphar Ithriphi Ithripi Ithriquam Ithriqui Ithrirai Ithririn Ithriro Ithrirock Ithrisol Ithrison Ithritet Ithrithe Ithritri Ithriulm Ithrium Ithriven Ithrivi Ithriwesk Ithriwulf Ithrixer Ithriyir Ithriyon Ithrizer Ithriziel

Jenant Jenau Jenax Jenbet Jenchar Jenche Jenda Jendoht Jendor Jenei Jenel Jenesk Jenfor Jenfur Jengon Jengre Jenhist Jenhur Jenick Jenin Jenind Jeniss Jenithri Jenjen Jenkrai Jenkri Jenlan Jenlei Jenmei Jenmor Jennar Jennord Jenoht Jenon Jenou Jenphar Jenphi Jenpi Jenquam Jenqui Jenrai Jenrin Jenro Jenrock Jensol Jenson Jentet Jenthe Jentri Jenulm Jenum Jenven Jenvi Jenwesk Jenwulf Jenxer Jenyir Jenyon Jenzer Jenziel Kraiant Kraiau Kraiax Kraibet Kraichar Kraiche Kraida Kraidoht Kraidor Kraiei Kraiel Kraiesk Kraifor Kraifur Kraigon Kraigre Kraihist Kraihur Kraiin Kraiind Kraiiss Kraiithri Kraijen Kraikrai Kraikri Krailan Krailei Kraimei Kraimor Krainar Krainord Kraioht Kraion Kraiou Kraiphar Kraiphi Kraipi Kraiquam Kraiqui Krairai Krairin Krairo Krairock Kraisol Kraison Kraitet Kraithe Kraitri Kraiulm Kraium Kraiven Kraivi Kraiwesk Kraiwulf Kraixer Kraiyir Kraiyon Kraizer Kraiziel Kriant Kriau Kriax Kribet Krichar Kriche Krida Kridoht Kridor Kriei Kriel Kriesk Krifor Krifur Krigon Krigre Krihist Krihur Kriick Kriin Kriind Kriiss Kriithri Krijen Krikrai Krikri Krilan Krilei Krimei Krimor Krinar Krinord Krioht Krion Kriou Kriphar Kriphi Kripi Kriquam Kriqui Krirai Kririn Kriro Krirock Krisol Krison Kritet Krithe Kritri Kriulm Krium Kriven Krivi Kriwesk Kriwulf Krixer Kriyir Kriyon Krizer Kriziel Lanant Lanau Lanax Lanbet Lanchar Lanche Landa Landoht Landor Lanei Lanel Lanesk Lanfor Lanfur Langon Langre Lanhist Lanhur Lanick Lanin Lanind Laniss Lanithri Lanjen Lankrai Lankri Lanlan Lanlei Lanmei Lanmor Lannar Lannord Lanoht Lanon Lanou Lanphar Lanphi Lanpi Lanquam Lanqui Lanrai Lanrin Lanro Lanrock Lansol Lanson Lantet Lanthe Lantri Lanulm Lanum Lanven Lanvi Lanwesk Lanwulf Lanxer Lanyir Lanyon Lanzer Lanziel Leiant Leiau Leiax Leibet Leichar Leiche Leida Leidoht Leidor Leiei Leiel Leiesk Leifor Leifur Leigon Leigre Leihist Leihur Leiick Leiin Leiind Leiiss Leiithri Leijen Leikrai Leikri Leilan Leilei Leimei Leimor Leinar Leinord Leioht Leion Leiou Leiphar Leiphi Leipi Leiquam Leiqui Leirai Leirin Leiro Leirock Leisol Leison Leitet Leithe Leitri Leiulm Leium Leiven Leivi Leiwesk Leiwulf Leixer Leiyir Leiyon Leizer Leiziel

Meiant Meiau Meiax Meibet Meichar Meiche Meida Meidoht Meidor Meiei Meiel Meiesk Meifor Meifur Meigon Meigre Meihist Meihur Meiick Meiin Meiind Meiiss Meiithri Meijen Meikrai Meikri Meilan Meilei Meimei Meimor Meinar Meinord Meioht Meion Meiou Meiphar Meiphi Meipi Meiquam Meiqui Meirai Meirin Meiro Meirock Meisol Meison Meitet Meithe Meitri Meiulm Meium Meiven Meivi Meiwesk Meiwulf Meixer Meiyir Meiyon Meizer Meiziel Morant Morau Morax Morbet Morchar Morche Morda Mordoht Mordor Morei Morel Moresk Morfor Morfur Morgon Morgre Morhist Morhur Morick Morin Morind Moriss Morithri Morjen Morkrai Morkri Morlan Morlei Mormei Mormor Mornar Mornord Moroht Moron Morou Morphar Morphi Morpi Morquam Morqui Morrai Morrin Morro Morrock Morsol Morson Mortet Morthe Mortri Morulm Morum Morven Morvi Morwesk Morwulf Morxer Moryir Moryon Morzer Morziel Narant Narau Narax Narbet Narchar Narche Narda Nardoht Nardor Narei Narel Naresk Narfor Narfur Nargon Nargre Narhist Narhur Narick Narin Narind Nariss Narithri Narjen Narkrai Narkri Narlan Narlei Narmei Narmor Narnar Narnord Naroht Naron Narou Narphar Narphi Narpi Narquam Narqui Narrai Narrin Narro Narrock Narsol Narson Nartet Narthe Nartri Narulm Narum Narven Narvi Narwesk Narwulf Narxer Naryir Naryon Narzer Narziel Nordant Nordau Nordax Nordbet Nordchar Nordche Nordda Norddoht Norddor Nordei Nordel Nordesk Nordfor Nordfur Nordgon Nordgre Nordhist Nordhur Nordick Nordin Nordind Nordiss Nordithri Nordjen Nordkrai Nordkri Nordlan Nordlei Nordmei Nordmor Nordnar Nordnord Nordoht Nordon Nordou Nordphar Nordphi Nordpi Nordquam Nordqui Nordrai Nordrin Nordro Nordrock Nordsol Nordson Nordtet Nordthe Nordtri Nordulm Nordum Nordven Nordvi Nordwesk Nordwulf Nordxer Nordyir Nordyon Nordzer Nordziel Ohtant Ohtau Ohtax Ohtbet Ohtchar Ohtche Ohtda Ohtdoht Ohtdor Ohtei Ohtel Ohtesk Ohtfor Ohtfur Ohtgon Ohtgre Ohthist Ohthur Ohtick Ohtin Ohtind Ohtiss Ohtithri Ohtjen Ohtkrai Ohtkri Ohtlan Ohtlei Ohtmei Ohtmor Ohtnar Ohtnord Ohtoht Ohton Ohtou Ohtphar Ohtphi Ohtpi Ohtquam Ohtqui Ohtrai Ohtrin Ohtro Ohtrock Ohtsol Ohtson Ohttet Ohtthe Ohttri Ohtulm Ohtum Ohtven Ohtvi Ohtwesk Ohtwulf Ohtxer Ohtyir Ohtyon Ohtzer Ohtziel Onant Onau Onax Onbet Onchar Onche Onda Ondoht Ondor Onei Onel Onesk Onfor Onfur Ongon Ongre Onhist Onhur Onick Onin Onind Oniss Onithri Onjen Onkrai Onkri Onlan Onlei Onmei Onmor Onnar Onnord Onoht Onon Onou Onphar Onphi Onpi Onquam Onqui Onrai Onrin Onro Onrock Onsol Onson Ontet Onthe Ontri Onulm Onum Onven Onvi Onwesk Onwulf Onxer Onyir Onyon Onzer Onziel Ouant Ouau Ouax Oubet Ouchar Ouche Ouda Oudoht Oudor Ouei Ouel Ouesk Oufor Oufur Ougon Ougre Ouhist Ouhur Ouick Ouin Ouind Ouiss Ouithri Oujen Oukrai Oukri Oulan Oulei Oumei Oumor Ounar Ounord Ouoht Ouon Ouou Ouphar Ouphi Oupi Ouquam Ouqui Ourai Ourin Ouro Ourock Ousol Ouson Outet Outhe Outri Ouulm Ouum Ouven Ouvi Ouwesk Ouwulf Ouxer Ouyir Ouyon Ouzer Ouziel

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9: confidence boost

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word count: 2256

It’s all fun and games until they all get invited to an Ishgardian ball. (Or; Lumelle has never liked anything to do with the high society of her hometown. A’dewah tries to help his friend out.)

Contains canon-divergence bits and bobs, notably pertaining to the Vault, because why not?

“Mel,” Auphine calls from the doorway, fiddling with her boots, maybe—A’dewah can’t quite see her fully from where he stands in front of Lumelle’s (extremely dusty, clearly unused) vanity, more focused on clearing up the mirror than anything. “What are you going to do about your face?”

“Do not repeat this back to Mama, but I,” Lumelle huffs, and if she weren’t standing incredibly still so that Valdis and Lunya can finish taking adjustment measurements for her dress A’dewah thinks her arms would be crossed firmly across her chest. “have no swiving clue what you mean by ‘what am I going to do about my face’, Auphie.”

Duscha raises an amused eyebrow over the brim of his book while Elwin giggles into his palm. No one really expected her to know—at least, among that of the Scions and her usual friends—but Auphine makes an exaggerated sighing motion with her shoulders as she stands straight.

“You know Mama’s going to want you ‘dolled up’, or what have you,” she explains. “And the other nobles—”

“If they give a damn, they can talk to the business end of Fragarach,” Lumelle grumbles as Valdis softly pushes her arms back down. Auphine sighs louder, and A’dewah didn’t think the little conjurer had that large of lungs on her; clearly he’s mistaken, by how her exhale carries.

“Do not tell me I did not warn you!” Auphine waves to Elwin as she leaves the room, the heels of her boots clicking against the wooden floor of the manor. Lumelle groans loud enough to wake Tehra’ir up from his slump against Zaya’s shoulder momentarily, eventually resting his forehead carefully back onto their shoulder, making sure not to press his eyes into the white of their dress shirt.

For his own merit, he does his best to ignore it while he carefully swipes the tube of lipstick across his lips, pausing when Syhrwyda leans over to pick up her hairpin from the vanity. She catches his gloss, too, when it falls on its side and starts to roll away; he could probably hug her for that. Damned glass vials and all.

“Mel,” Elwin says, his swinging feet tapping against the settee. “I think Auphie might be right.”

“...I know, but I—it’s not like I know how to use any of—of that stuff Mama dumped onto me when I came back. Most of it’s probably dried up, by now.”

A’dewah, for the curious bit of him that is right next to all the old cosmetics, opens up a pot of what likely used to be a scented lotion that smelled strongly of sandalwood.

What he finds is nearly rock hard. Well then.

“Dress’s done,” Valdis says quietly, Lunya snipping the last bit of thread hanging from Lumelle’s sleeve. The high house dress… looks incredibly uncomfortable for her, he thinks, compared to the normal surcoats and cuirasses she’d normally prefer.

“You all should get going,” Lumelle says, looking up at the chronometer. Nearly the seventh bell. “I… guess I’ll be here for a while yet.” 

“Here,” he says, scooting over on the bench to leave enough space for Lumelle to sit. He waves the closed tube of lipstick in the air when Zaya tilts their head in confusion. “I can stay behind and help her.”

Lumelle, for her merit, gives him a wary glance that might as well be screeching this better not end with me in a face of powders, but she trudges her way over anyhow as everybody else leaves Lumelle’s room. Zaya gives him a small wink before they turn the corner, pointing to the two corsages sitting at the end of Lumelle’s old bed.

“Why do you know so much about cosmetics, anyhow?” She sits with all the grace of a lion stumbling through a minefield, really, shaking the bench as she falls back onto it.

“I have three sisters,” he murmurs as he fumbles with the containers and pots he’s laid out before him, opening to check the colors and closing when he looks back over to Lumelle’s skin. He should have asked someone else—surely Lumelle’s mother, but Lumelle herself would not appreciate her mother fussing about. Perhaps someone from House Fortemps would have known of some cosmetics common to Ishgard, and a merchant. Aymeric, maybe; he looks like he would know his way around a few brushes. If he’d the willpower, Hanami would have worked, too, having lived in Ishgard long enough to count as one of them... even if he’d probably get his head taken off in the process. “My youngest brother likes to, er, contour, too. Hard to avoid cosmetic talks when most of your siblings, who’ve been very much restrained in their pastimes since forever, enjoy it? And…”

He taps the top of his cosmetics box; small enough to fit into the bottom of his satchel, beneath all the books and draughts he lugs around when he’s traveling by foot, all the pots and brushes neatly tucked away. He’d needed to buy newer paints and cremes when he’d gotten back from the First—a pain, seeing as he’d been without for long enough, but if the urge struck and he didn’t have his box refilled he’d probably see his anxiety spike—but none of them would match Lumelle’s darker skin either way.

“I, uhm, might have a bit of fun with this, from time to time?” The urge to wring his hands together is incredibly strong, but he fiddles with the latch on his cosmetics box. He hadn’t even really shown Haruki, now that he thinks about it—more a private pleasure than anything, now out to his friends. 

Character development, he thinks wryly. You will be fine.

Maybe he should have waited to put on the lip paint, he thinks as he helps wrangle the rest of Lumelle’s hair into a nice crown braid. All straightened out, strange compared to the very wavy-haired Lumelle he’d passed by not a few mornings ago, and the coarse texture of her hair rubs oddly against the pads of his fingers.

Now…

“Could you turn to face me?” He carefully opens his cosmetics box to pull out a few small brushes—making sure to set them apart from the brush he’d already used, a new pot of cool red paint, and a small jar of dark powder. “Promise I won’t, er, go overboard.”

“I trust you,” she says, even though it doesn’t look like she believes it, and she closes her eyes.

The quiet click and clatter of closing and opening containers fills the comfortable quiet as A’dewah brushes powders and paints onto Lumelle’s face. He has to remind her with a quiet tap on her knuckles not to scrunch her face, sometimes, but he can’t quite blame her when he’s trying not to sneeze the whole time from the dust that flutters about in motes, the sunset fading through the window making them gleam.

“You’ll keep these after I’m done,” he says while he finishes up the edges of Lumelle’s lip paint, the bright red perhaps a tad too bright for how much he’s put on; maybe he can wipe a bit of it off? “Sanitary things, is all. I—I don’t expect you to keep using them!”

Lumelle doesn’t say anything, not even a quiet protest, instead turning her head to look at herself in the mirror.

“This is weird,” she finally decides, after a few moments of staring intensely at the mirror. “Not used to my lips being… red.”

“Is it bad?”

He pulls out another tube of gloss—thank the Matron he’d decided to get a spare tube from that merchant in Ul’dah—and Lumelle sighs. “Not as bad as I thought it might, no. It’s just…”

Her brow furrows again.

“Here,” he mumbles, a bit awkwardly. “Put that on, and I’ll grab your earring.”

It takes a bit of fishing around in the drawers, unorganized as they are; he sneezes, once, when he opens it too fast and the dust goes flying into the air, but eventually he finds the slightly tarnished House Fortemps earring among the wreck that is Lumelle’s vanity. It gleams, still, in the fading sunlight, the red unicorn standing out among the dark grey metal around it.

“Done,” Lumelle says. He turns, and it’s… not as neat as he’d hoped, but it’s miles better than anything Vahno could have done, at any rate, so he presses the earring into her upturned palm among the light scars and smiles.

“There we go,” he murmurs, gently swiping his thumb to clean off some of the out-of-place gloss. “Grab the corsages for me, and I think we’re done.”

Lumelle nearly tumbles off the seat when she leans back to grab the two corsages, barely catching herself as A’dewah cleans up what he can—part of him nearly sets to cleaning the rest of Lumelle’s vanity, messy as it is, but he manages to hold back. For now.

He pins the (rather extravagant) brightlily corsage into his own hair, the light blue kind of blending into his hair, and hands Lumelle the white one to place in her own. Once she’s got it all pinned down—well, he has to brush a few leaves away from her face; Valdis must have taken the other smaller one he’d made—he stands, and waits for Lumelle to follow suit before he carefully grabs her wrist, ignoring the chill of the thin rose gold bracelets Auphine had shoved onto her sister’s wrist.

“Now,” he says, lightly pulling Lumelle closer to the mirror and stepping next to her. “Try striking a pose, or—or, uh, doing something that feels just a tad exaggerated.” He nearly leaves off there, looking a bit at himself and the light smudge in his lipstick before realizing what might happen. ���WITHOUT getting your sword or shield. Please.”

“Killjoy,” Lumelle grumbles, but she takes one look at the two of them in the mirror, and her brow furrows deep enough that A’dewah feels a slight panic rising that the creme and powder on her forehead might crack. “Why with the poses, though. What’s the point?”

He has to think about, well, why he does the silly poses in the mirror before he can answer. “C-confidence? I—mm, actually,” he mumbles, spinning in a small circle and watching the skirt of his dress shimmer, fabric glimmering. Maybe he was right to let Zaya help Lunya design… this. “It’s… nice?”

“Nice?”

“Yes,” he says, a bit braver now. “Something that has nothing to do with being ‘heroic’ or ‘strong’, maybe. Just… plain and silly. Normal-ish.”

Lumelle hums just before she moves quick, pumping her fist into the air with her stance widened enough that A’dewah can see she’s still wearing her normal boots just beneath the hem of her skirt. She’s plastered a goofy sort of grin onto her face, brightened by the bright red lip paint and the light bouncing off the mirror onto her.

“There you go!” He sways about again, planting one hand on his hip and swinging his other arm out with the swish of his dress, nervously grinning as Lumelle’s eyebrows raise under her bangs. There’s a few moments of quiet, almost like time is frozen while they stand in their silly poses; a bit awkwardly, seeing how his tail has swung out from behind him and Lumelle had managed to throw her braid over her shoulder. 

It hardly takes a moment for them to both be laughing, A’dewah nearly doubled over because oh gods did he just do that and Lumelle’s hyena-like laughter isn’t helping, either. Something so preciously silly about that exact moment sticks in the aether, singing of first snows and brilliant sunlight as A’dewah tries his best not to wipe at his eyes. He lets his hands adjust the hems of his sleeves instead while Lumelle falls back into her blustery nervousness, cautiously wiping tears from her eyes before it grows quiet again.

“I am… not sure I feel any better about this.” Lumelle’s hands bunch in her skirt, eyes looking downward. “Part of the reason I left, instead of taking another trial by combat, I suppose. Never liked it all.”

That’s… about what he suspected. 

“That’s alright,” he soothes, smoothing out his own dress. He’s likely going to regret the heels in a few bells, but oh well. At least he won’t have to crane his head as much if someone does decide to talk to him. “Everyone will probably be, uh, a bit tipsy anyhow. They won’t notice you too much, either.” He looks to Lumelle through the mirror, watching as she tilts her head back up, the corners of his mouth tugging at a nervous smile. He’s… not sure if he’s assuring her more than himself, really. “If you get nervous, you can come find me, probably hiding behind a—a planter, or something. The lilies the Ishgardians like to use are, uh, big enough to hide the two of us. Failing that—”

“We find Haurchefant and let his enthusiasm distract everyone so we can escape. Got it,” Lumelle says assuredly, nodding to herself in the mirror and finally standing straight.

A’dewah bites the inside of his lip to keep from bursting into laughter. “Right.”

With one last little motion—one he’s seen her do to pump herself up before a mission—-Lumelle strides out to the doorway with a certain bounce in her step that she didn’t have earlier, stomping as she did to Lunya and Valdis’ measuring tapes, the corset on her dress keeping her from moving around as she wished. A’dewah smiles. 

They would be alright.