#ft. aeris flores.

[ziggykyeons]

🔥 + aeris

"His most attractive quality is the way he doesn't let the fact that he's repulsive on both the inside and the outside hold him back an iota. A more self-aware man would have some semblance of shame about all the many, many ways he's a walking mistake but not Aeris, no ma'am. The more abominable he gets, the stronger he becomes. If I didn't find his little routine so utterly boring now I can see him for what he is, I'd almost dare to say it's fascinating watching him move through life like a venereal disease." @aeris-flores

send me a 🔥 and i’ll tell you one thing my muse finds attractive about yours

[maura-cortes]

🍻 + “ do you regret letting me close ?” Aeris

Her knee jerk reaction is to say yes, to blame Aeris for every single thing that came from the short time they'd decided to spend together. To say he burnt her life down and left her in the ashes.

That wasn't true though, and vodka had a way of making Maura more emotional than normal.

"Yes." She speaks, more of a snap than an answer before she catches herself and lowers her tone to continue, she can already feel her eyes dampening with the memories of everything that night had resulted in.

"but I'm old enough to not be swayed by every boy that shows me attention." It'd been her excuse in her youth, with Ziggy it was supposed to be different, he was her adult relationship, he was the one that she was going to build a life with, and she'd thrown it away for what? Because Aeris had told her she looked hot that night.

Ziggy had given her a similar reaction on the way out of the door and she'd responded with a lighthearted giggle, an I love you, and a kiss that promised he'd see her at the end of her night.

"We both fucked up, I thought he'd forgive, I was wrong and I need you to leave me alone because thats just—" she waves her hand at him, not sure how to get her words out. "I'm tired of hating you when the person I really hate is myself."

@aeris-flores / @ziggykyeons.

[bradley-banner]

☎️ + aeris

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Aeris Flores

What Their Ringtone Is

iPhone default

The Last Text They Sent Your Muse

Bradley: Need to rain check — I'm in NY right now, flying to Milan in the morning. Bradley: but we're on for dinner when I'm back still? Probably Tuesday. Might even let you take me to reef for a rematch. 🎱

What Image My Muse Has For Your Muse In Their Phone

(Made him send her a selfie otherwise it'd be standard iPhone background)

(@aeris-flores)

[mackmontgomery]

Mack: Someone's got to occupy the clown role in this life, may as well be me Mack: Its a lil head shaking dude, hes just hanging out Mack: Much like myself Mack: Fine fine. 0 twisting on my part. Swear down 😁 Mack: Thanks again @aeris-flores

Aeris: Court jesters is a nice way to say clown since you're always clowning Aeris: what do those emojis mean? a smile and arrows? Aeris: Listen. I'm going to try to get the entire shop there, it's good rep to be supportive of you and your charity event Aeris: but I'm not twisting arms @mackmontgomery

[cricketcampbell]

♠ What (if any) tattoos does your character have?

"Oh my God, yay, tattoo tour! I guess I'll just go in order--which, okay, yikes, so my first one's this lady bug, right above my elbow. It was my sixteenth birthday present from my mom; she got a bumblebee in the same spot, because I was bug and she was bee. Libby, get it? Then I got the scorpius constellation under my collarbone for my eighteenth birthday, since I'm, y'know, a scorpio...a little basic, I know, but in my defense, I was eighteen! I didn't get any more until culinary school, when I had this instructor that was always getting on me about not holding my knife right. He'd literally come and draw a red X on my finger to remind me not to hold it out on across the top of the blade, so on the last day of class, I purposely made him come over one last time so he could see that instead of having to draw that X, I'd gotten a little chefs knife tattooed there as, like, a permanent reminder...and then later that night after all of us got drunk to celebrate graduating, I let one of my classmates stick and poke "eat well" onto the finger next to it. They're both pretty faded, so I've def been thinking about getting them touched up."

"What else...well, duh, okay, I'm just going out of order now, because I literally can't not show off my Diet Coke tattoo. Then there's the mushroom on my hip, my angel numbers on the back of my neck, the olive branch behind my ear, some passport stamps from when I was traveling, um, what else... this cute little clothesline on my thigh, the sardines on my ribs--love, love a tinned fish, don't even get me started...and then the rest are really just, like, some impulse Friday the 13th flash ones, like my scorpion, a lava lamp, the frog wearing a cowboy hat on my ankle...that one was Mack, actually. I named him Cheddar, because, like, mac and cheese...it's dumb, but I had to cover him with a bandaid for, like, weeks after we broke up, because he just made me sad to look at, but he really is too cute to ignore, and he definitely turned out way better than the tattoo Mack let me do on him. I'd say that I can't believe he actually let me, but I really can...I just don't think I get why. I don't think I pulled even a single straight line, I was so nervous. Like I’m pretty sure I remember literally closing my eyes at one point."

"But my biggest and the most recent piece is the dinner scape set up that I got from Aeris last August that I'm still so obsessed with. I've been meaning to text him to see if he'd be down to do my next idea...which may or may not be the lobster from the Trader Joe's bag. He's just so cute, sue me! Oh, and then Maura and I just have to figure out where we want to go for our matching ice creams since between the two of us, all four of the artists at Crescent Moon are kind of a no go...but I did just follow this super cool artist named Orla that I was actually gonna send to her and see what she thought about hitting up, so. I feel like I'm probably forgetting one or two, but I think altogether that's...fourteen? Fifteen? I still love them all so much, but I can't think about the permanence of them for too long or I will start to panic."

ft. @mackmontgomery, @aeris-flores, @maura-cortes

Character Appearance Meme

[ziggykyeons]

👄 + Aeris Flores

"Speaking about Aeris Flores is quite literally a waste of my breath, but if you insist, I suppose I can indulge it. That man is a certifiable lunatic, I've never met someone so detached from the idea of empathy in my life. It's honestly a little scary how easily he eats up his own delusions. If you're going to fuck someone over by fucking their girlfriend, the bare minimum you can do is be a man and own what you did. Not Aeris, no. He'd rather reach for the moon trying to re-frame that as something a little less ugly, like he just had to do it to show me my relationship was doomed.

It's pathetic, he's pathetic.

It used to make my blood boil any time I'd think of his hideous little face, but now I don't think about him much at all. I associate his name with pity. Not for him, but for the people close to him who haven't seen his true colors yet because he can't hide those forever and once you see the truth of him there's nothing there that's worth sticking around for.

I hope the grift still works for him when he's pushing sixty and has no one left around him that can muster up the will to give a shit about him." @aeris-flores

send a ‘👄 + character name’ and my muse will talk about that character

[maura-cortes]

be honest… was aeris worth it?

"No."

"Neither was being truthful."

( @aeris-flores, @ziggykyeons )

[ziggykyeons]

"What are you doing?" Ziggy asks when Aeris encroaches on perimeter around him, stepping too close for comfort in a way that made his whole body feel tense.

( It never used to be like this, he had once found the other man's presence a comfort. )

"Don't fucking touch me," He takes a step back then, wanting as much distance as he could feasibly obtain from him in a room that lacked an easy escape route, "Seriously, what the fuck are you trying to do? Are you trying to get me to hit you? I'd never give you the satisfaction."

Ziggy is convinced he knows how Aeris would twist the action if he did, making himself a victim in the same way he insisted in trying to make him the one who did something wrong when he was the wronged party.

"I think about it all the time. It's my every other thought."

It's no easy confession to make and the words came to him slower than his usual quick-wit did, dragging as if they were some sentient thing that refused to be spoken.

He hates talking about Maura, he hates talking to Aeris but he wasn't about to let his once-friend lend credence to the voice in his head that told him he should hate himself.

"And I know I wasn't enough, just like you know I was a good friend to you and she knows I was a good boyfriend. But neither of you gave a shit about that because you didn't give a shit about me. At least not enough of one to think about what you were doing and what it would do to me."

The anger was ever present but the sadness was evergreen, spreading through him like climbing vines on the exterior of an abandoned house.

( The worth of what was beneath them no longer seemed enough for the mammoth task of finding a way to stop the invasion. )

"But I'll learn from that. If I ever fall in love again, I'll be smarter about who I give my heart to. I won't be so blindly trusting of someone who says they're my friend just because they say it. I don't know how I'll get there, but I will. You though. You'll only ever be this."

He's the one pointing now, right at the shape that Aeris cut with his form.

"Fucking around, fucking people over, fucking pathetic."

@aeris-flores

"I don't know. You didn't knock, maybe you don't know how doors work." It's the dumbest explanation, but Aeris can at least say he's keeping a level head about it. Ziggy on the other hand, he isn't off the rails, but there is the lingering suspicion that if Aeris so much as taps that right button, Ziggy might just unravel.

At least there is power in that - in this lost friendship, Aeris has the cool, calm collected part down pat. For the most part. The same couldn't be said if their roles were reversed, and Aeris knows, so so sooo deep down, that that never would have been the case.

He's not about to give Ziggy any credit for a hypothetical, not when for a flicker of a moment Lorna's face crosses across the forefront of his mind.

"Then do it." Aeris snarks right back. He steps aside and bows forward slightly with his are extended toward the barrier preventing their escape from this nightmare. "Run through the fucking door if you're so desperate to get away from me."

Was he always this dramatic? Aeris can't remember.

Aeris rolls his eyes for the - well, he's lost count how many times he's done it, but getting the third degree for something he did months ago was not in his plans for the night. He decides to step away further and to get out of that close proximity before he does anything stupid. Except he makes it maybe one step before redirects to enter Ziggy's space.

"You ever think maybe it was your fault? I didn't initiate shit," he shoots back with a slow, unimpressed sounding monotone. "Maybe you were the reason why Maura strayed. I just happened to be the one available when she decided to, and I never do well with temptation, fault me there, but maybe it boils down to that."

He presses his pointer finger harshly against Ziggy's chest. "That you weren't enough."

@ziggykyeons

[ziggykyeons]

💔 BROKEN HEART - what could their partner do that would absolutely break their heart?

"Cheat on me with a friend. Oh wait." @maura-cortes @aeris-flores

𝐎𝐂 𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐉𝐈 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒!

[ziggykyeons]

☎️ + aeris

SEND ☎️ AND I WILL TELL YOU:

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🐀

WHAT THEIR RINGTONE IS:

🎧 None, he's blocked.

THE LAST TEXT THEY SENT YOUR MUSE:

ZIGGY 📲 Maura told me. ZIGGY 📲 You're a shitty friend and an even shittier person. ZIGGY 📲 If I never see you again it'll be too fucking soon. ZIGGY 📲 🖕🏻

WHAT IMAGE MY MUSE HAS FOR YOUR MUSE IN THEIR PHONE:

@aeris-flores

[ziggykyeons]

"Sure, right around the time they figure out how to not be assholes. Which will probably align with when pigs fly." @maura-cortes @aeris-flores

Send my muse “👀 + a question” and they’ll have to answer with 100% honesty.

[maura-cortes]

P. What advice would they give to their younger self?

Don't tell the truth and stay well away from Aeris Flores.

(@aeris-flores)

[ziggykyeons]

Be honest... would you ever forgive Aeris?

"You can't forgive someone who's incapable of being sorry." @aeris-flores

send me “be honest…” with a question your muse has been dying to ask mine and they’ll answer truthfully.

[maura-cortes]

☎️ + also aeris

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devil man ❌

What Their Ringtone Is

Tattoo - Jordin Sparks.

The Last Text They Sent Your Muse

Maura: happy new year!!!! love u girl. Maura: that clearly wasnt for you

What Image My Muse Has For Your Muse In Their Phone

(@aeris-flores)

[mackmontgomery]

He had anticipated that Aeris might have something to say about his knee-jerk declaration, but he hadn't anticipated it would have made him almost choke on his beer. Rude, he thought, when he was making a heartfelt declaration.

( As heartfelt as one could be about a person he only knew there Instagram posts and random tweets he had seen. )

"You hit that absolutely a little too hard and a little too fast for my liking." Sure, it's a pipe dream but that didn't mean it was chill that his boss was stomping all over it with his tone.

He's certain he has said crazier things in the last week alone, but he lets that part lie as he explains his reasoning.

"Aside from the obvious." It didn't need to be stated that Bradley Banner was beautiful, there was enough lists that ranked her in the top ten for that. "She's like actually cool not just celebrity cool. I was seeing this girl who was obsessed with that band Submergence, and she's in one of their videos. That's awesome, and that's my favorite video of theirs, by the way. She was Forbes 30 under 30 too, and I don't really know what Forbes is but that does sound mad impressive. But she only dates tens and she's an eleven so that's where it's going wrong for her I think. Me, I'm a solid four on a good day. And that's peace of mind. You don't need to worry about a four, he's not going to fuck it up, if anything he's just happy to be there. That's called balance, dawg."

@aeris-flores

Aeris can at least say the level of ridiculousness Mack brings into any and all of their interactions is sometimes entertaining. Such as, in a moment like this, where Aeris has the time and chance to press his buttons.

Until there is a sudden shift in Mack's entire demeanor, and Aeris's devilish grin slips away into one of concern.

He doesn't bother to answer the first question. Rather, he just stares at Mack in silence, not one taking his eyes off his face even as he sips from the glass in his hand. Right. He sometimes forgets about the fame that comes with Bradley's name. It's hard not to when he remembers her being a teenager in the background of too many parties. He does, however, almost spit his beverage out at Mack's deduction.

"Excuse me?"

"No. Absolutely not." It's laughable, he even almost does laugh right in Mack's face, until he realizes — oh shit, he might be serious. "I need to know you're reasoning. What makes you think that? Because a lot of crazy things have come out of your mouth, but this tops them."

@mackmontgomery

[cricketcampbell]

👀 have you ever had house envy from someone you work for.

"More like kitchen envy. Architectural Digest spread on Bradley Banner's home when? If I could get the marbling from that kitchen island tattooed on me, I would. Wait, actually..."

@bradley-banner / @aeris-flores (expect a text, buddy)