#gaia.

[vierandancer]

So long as interdimensional travel was out of their reach, Meiko aspired to visit the First as regularly as she could, so long as time allowed. The nonsense with the Final Days had understandably taken up a lot of her time, but now that things were relatively calmer, she tried to drop by every couple of weeks. With it, she gladly brought communication between the Scions and their loved ones, whether it be through letter or word of mouth.

The Crystarium was always her first stop. Sometimes it was her only stop depending on how much time she had, which worked well enough as it was the central hub of Norvrandt, and messages could be carried off in haste with Feo-Ul's assistance (after much praise and apology). Her best trips were the long ones, though.

Today would be the start of a long one, as she was also on an errand for Y'shtola that would likely require some thought from Beq Lugg, as well as Cylva and Unukalhai. She always sought out Ryne and Gaia first, though, and it didn't take her long to learn they were likely in Ryne's apartment at the Pendants. She waved to the Manager of the Suites and headed up the stairs to the familiar room.

As she neared the door, Meiko paused to knock, only to hear familiar giggling coming from inside. How cute. Feeling a bit cheeky, she decided to let herself in and surprise them.

"Guess who's back from 'cross th'Rift?" she greeted in a singsong tone, swinging the door wide open -- and watching the black blur that was Gaia fling herself across the room with enough speed to nearly knock over one of the chairs.

Puzzled, Meiko was about to apologize for giving the other teen a fright, up until she looked over at Ryne and saw the lass was practically radiating crimson. And adjusting her hair.

Ah, fuck.

Fuck.

The Viera abruptly turned away, one hand coming up to shade over her eyes despite there being nothing scandalous to see. Or unsee.

"Uh! Sorry -- um," Shite. Fuck. Oh, she felt terrible now! And also couldn't help but think about Thancred's reaction. Not that anyone would be particularly surprised, but -- "Uh, I --"

"Gaia, no!"

Meiko looked back to see Ryne restraining Gaia, who had picked up her mallet in furious response.

"You're supposed to knock! Were you born outside?" she demanded angrily, somehow redder than Ryne.

"I--I actually dinnae know that answer, but no! M'sorry! I was just tryin' tae surprise you!" Meiko held up her hands in defense, then slowly let them fall to her sides and hung her head. "Okay, okay, you can hit me." It probably wouldn't kill her.

"We're not hitting anyone! It was a mistake, Gaia!" Ryne managed to pry the weapon from her hands. The other girl huffed and folded her arms, fuming as she looked away. Shaking her head, she turned back to Meiko. "It really is okay! We're always happy to see you, Meiko. Just--please knock next time."

"Promise on my life," Meiko agreed, sheepish. Literally, I think.

[thedisablednaturalist]

Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[calista-222]

I always kinda thought Chip looked a little like a chao... then this comic happened! (Not a reincarnation situation or anything, just a chao that looks like Chip in the same way that some chao can look like Sonic, Knuckles, Amy etc.)

Probably brings back some memories for Sonic!

[clickerpunk]

A true fashionista.

[saiintofawe]

thinking about this today

[drawerbread]

bury me in an unmarked grave

(aka gideon dealing with rejection aka me thinking about the fact that gideon's ultimate act of love is the ultimate act of betrayal for harrow)

details under cut!

[daenismynd]

The little saint and the dead prince

Something possesed me and this came out, I don't have much explanation for this one, just yearning griddlehark. There is some symbolism going on but it's up to interpretation!

[kadzu3]

— The unknown book pages.

[zombiebaybe]

Finished all the books, now i can jerk it in a more efficient and understanding way

[monakisss]

tower princes doodles i made when i was reading nona the ninth (a few of them were wips but they're all abandoned at this point)

leaving an ianthe under the cut bc i'm not sure if it counts as suggestive or not 😭 cw ianthe tridentarius??

[lazydayslivin]

were the hog at?

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[thatchickvixen]

I Fall in Love Every Spring by Mirror Palais

[cutetanuki-chan]

'The chain of a kiss'

[straybird25]

Good night ✨