#flowery heartache [ luka ]

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the people are associating me with winter...................

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... I Don't Think I Do, Martin.

i am a priest. my devotion is to akatosh.

...............and yet i Feel Like i have an ex. You Understand

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Anybody else get the weird feeling someone wants to eat them all of the sudden

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7 for Luka? Ty!!

i have all his icons sorted via the Emotion it gives ( i have this labled as angry. its not Really but in a broad way thats where it fits the best ) and this is just him being a little mocking bitch. we should let him do this more often

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... sometimes? Maybe? It's a fine art. It depends on how good you are at it - there's a reason why it's Wills thing.

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you're met with the sight of a familiar window that, although has collected rust and dirt from multiple years filled with the lack of maintenance, is exactly how you remember it. it's your bedroom's window, the lens into the garden outside. you can't see any green out there, only that it's snowing and the fog hung over it is thick enough to hide any of the city past that frozen scenery. you know there's no town there ( at least not anymore ), but with enough focus, you feel compelled to swear the voices of the kingdom remain, even after the worst storm in the village's long lost history. you're brushing your hair sat at the edge of the bed, tangled vanilla curls separating under your comb. your gaze is locked onto a photo on the nightstand. it's you and it's yours - or was, until he ( or is it you, too? love gets so strong the lines between both of you blurried without salvation at some point ) took what you shared away from you. your fingers flex with strength around the comb, a sharp layer of ice shards now connecting your hand to the object. it matches the ones escaping from the gaps of your lover's empty basement ( his shape is still there, his shape is still there. ) :: ( to luka from vanessa at @peonywell ! )

His breath feels short looking out that window, from a view he once would've considered home. He remembers the many days he'd spend looking out into the garden, both just for the view and as a distraction. Seeing it now, however, only proves to be an unsettling reminder. One of death, symbolized both by the withered foliage outside and the ominous snow creating a barrier between the manor and the rest of the world. He knows what lies beyond the clouded horizon, he's seen it himself, but knowing it was such a short ways out there, enough so that the whispers of the people still plague him.. it ties a tight knot in his stomach.

The way her - some part of him knew it was her even before seeing her comb through her blonde curls - eyes lock on the photo she kept of him sends shivers through him. He recognized it - both from the day it was taken and from the way it never left that nightstand. It's terrifying to him, how her mind blurs the both of them together, erasing the lines between their separate identities. Even now. Even after everything. It feels like being stabbed, knowing how totally he's consumed her - ruined her - even when he'd never meant it.

The shards of ice that stretch from her fingers serve as an unpleasant reminder of just how far she was willing to go for him. Or should he say for herself? He was just something she wanted to keep. Something to love as someone loves an item that brought them comfort, put on a high shelf away from others to be kept perfectly preserved until wanted once more. What he wanted wasn't a priority, all that mattered was keeping her happy. The thought that she still envisioned him chained against that wall, regretting only that he wasn't still there is enough to drag himself out of her thoughts. He isn't sure how exactly he'd seen them in the first place, but the brief glance was enough for him.

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Well, the ice issues he was having are all sorted out now - it's gone, and he's fine. He's also been laying in the sun for about 2 hours now. He's going to absorb sunlight like a planet in desperate need of it.

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( Gently holding his hand out - Please. )

Yes - I need it, and.. I would appreciate if you would give it back to me. It's more than a little ring, it's... someone who was important to me gave it to me, and.. I'd like to keep that reminder, that's all. So can I have it back..?

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There's a chuckle at Sally's comment, waving his hand as if waving away the concern.

"Oh, it isn't too bad - I wasn't thinking too much about the taste, but it wasn't bad! It'll certainly be better when it's baked, though."

He had no wishes to disrupt that comfort she found, and so he saw no reason to bring anything like that up. Honestly, he'd only learned about the whole.. ghost thing recently, but he understands. He'd almost died himself, and since then he's been.. different. He wouldn't want anyone to treat him as lesser for that, and so he wouldn't think of doing that to others.

He watches with vested interest as she grabs her eggs and cracks them on the counter, spilling the contents into the bowl. He grins broadly alongside her.

"Wow! That's perfect! With that, we should be on our way to perfect brownies! Now, we'll set the oven to start preheating, and in the meantime we can stir! Would you like to do that, or would you just like the batter afterwards?"

Sally whipped her head around to stare at Luka as he coughed up cocoa dust. " Carefuls!!! That stuff doesn't tastes good ! ... I think ! " Realistically, the ghost couldn't remember what anything really tasted like anymore, it'd been far too long now, but any shred of normalcy she could at least feign was worth it.

Best not to think about it for too long.

" Watches this! " With maybe a little too quick of a hand, Sally grabbed an egg from the counter and cracked it against the corner, wiggling the contents into the bowl. The spectre grinned from ear to ear at her impressive feat.

" Taadaa!! No eggshellses!! "

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ever since a bug started talking to me and said how messed up it was people squished them without thinking about it i'll cry if i even step on an ant. what if it had a family

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Oh, why hello there! You are so cute, aren't yooo -

OOUUAGH CAN I HAVE THAT BACK PLEASE

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 🎤 for luka and bendy :3

🎤 - frown / mxmtoon !

lukas usually extremely optimistic, and while that’s true of him, it usually isn’t to the degree he feels pressured to be in front of people - he can have his low moments, his sass, and times where he just doesn’t have a positive outlook on things. so this one kinda just shows that part of him!

🎤 - out there / hunchback of notre dame !

the whole start of it is Joey to me <3 also he always just yearned to be outside and among other people in the wider world for as long as he can remember, both before and after the studio closed, so this is a very good reflection of his attitude towards that.

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ice burns. i know this.

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he could be married though

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( wakes up in a cold sweat ) i just had the craziest dream that one of you ascended to godhood and the other one just disappeared from reality one day, you both promise that'll never happen right

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I DIDNT MENANT S AN ISUTLT IM SORR Y