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okay back to early recovery period. conceptually this is like the weirdest thing ive ever written for this series youre just gonna have to roll with it.
(Content: past abuse, past captivity, conditioning, blood, bad caretaking, consent issues?, wound care)
It was the dead of night. Delta was not trying to be sneaky. It was just such a habit. He was starting to wonder how he ever functioned at all aboard the Thorn â all his day was spent working, all his night was spent online or drifting around the ship in conspiracy. When did he even sleep? He guessed heâd fainted regularly enough to count it as rest. He guessed he was making up for it now. The shipâs artificial day cycles had ruined his circadian rhythm in a major way. He figured heâd adjust again soon. But right now, he was wide awake.Â
He slipped out of the bedroom. He still hated how loud the doorknob was, but it wasnât such a big deal if he knew nobody was on the other side of it. And there wasnât. Apollo slept upstairs in his parentsâ bedroom. Kitty slept up there too, whenever she stayed the night. The downstairs was empty. He paced it aimlessly, entirely silently. There was so much less space than there had been on the Thorn. He couldâve gotten lost on that ship for hours if he let himself. He missed the familiarity of it, if nothing else.
The front door to the house opened. He jumped back in shock, falling back against the fridge. No one else had come in for as long as he had been there. Nobody had said anything about the possibility. The danger stood there eminently in the opening.
The figure in the doorway was tall and shadowy, wrapped up in a long cloak. Little threads of silver hair peeked out from beneath the hood. Bright, bright silver eyes shone out from its shade.Â
Delta sparked involuntarily. He didnât have the suppress the natural instinct to defend himself anymore â and the new collar was so allowing. It made it so that the powers came out often, often too soon. He still shrank back against the fridge. Heâd so rarely had to fight anyone head on; he didnât want to.
The figure closed the door politely behind them, then slowly approached Delta, moving in a wide arc around him. The sparks became more frequent. They titled their head, then raised their hands in the simple â?â shape.
âOh,â Delta blushed, the recognition slamming into him, âIâm sorry.â
Lun, their name was. Apolloâs brother. Delta remembered so little about the night of the Centurion, but the memories of the bat had remained. Memories of the axe. Lun, who everyone said did all the real work. Delta hadnât seen them since leaving the Galatea base. But heâd been living in their house.
âIâmâŚsorryâŚâ Delta repeated, ashamed of his own reaction. It was awful.Â
Maybe theyâd been right to restrict his powers the way they did. He remembered how brutally Simon had beaten him when he misfired, the way his teachers had whipped him raw the first time heâd operated without permission. Maybe they had a point? He was so quick to jump to it when there wasnât anyone restraining him. They all drained out of him now, dampened as his mood dropped. He sank to his knees on the floor.
Lun didnât move. Delta stole a quick glance at their face, which revealed nothing at all, still half hidden. He hesitated before speaking again, but ultimately forced himself. He bowed his head. It was easier not to look.
âUm,â he winced at how unsteady his voice had become, âThank you. For the rescue. I didnât get to say it yet, but IâmâŚvery grateful. To you especially.â
Lun had been the first one Delta had seen â and the only one to actually get inside of the airship. Theyâd taken on all the risk. Theyâd physically broken the chain that was binding him to the throne. That night, Lun had been up in those rafters for a long time. Delta wondered faintly what else they might have seen while there.
When he looked up again, Lun was gone. There was no sign they had even been there, no clear direction in which they had left.
Delta remained kneeling on the floor. A very deep instinct told him not to rise without permission. He wondered if Lun had kept him there on purpose. He didnât know. Apollo and Kitty had been lenient with him, but he wasnât so presumptuous as to expect that from any of the others. He was beholden to them just as much. Heâd do as they asked.Â
It would be easier if they did ask, though. What had happened just now was too ambiguous. He rose cautiously and retreated back to his room. If there was a misunderstanding, if he wasnât allowed to, he would apologize profusely, easily. He would not need to force himself. He meant it. But nothing else happened that night.
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âLun said they saw you last night?â Apollo asked casually as he made breakfast.
Delta lingered nervously in the doorway, half-hidden by the wall. He wasnât domesticated, not comfortable enough to eat in front of people. He usually retreated to his room to do it. Apollo glanced up at him in the ensuing silence â he knew he was checking to see if he was still there.
Delta returned a small nod. Heâd almost forgotten about it, or chalked it up to some strange dream. Lun still hadnât reappeared. Delta glanced briefly to the space where they had stood.
âTheyâre asleep in the attic. Cold-blooded, yâknow. They like the heat.â Apollo smiled faintly. There was such clear affection in his voice when he spoke about his younger brother.Â
Delta cringed, remembering how close he had gotten to hurting them. He wondered if Lun had said anything about that. It seemed like not.Â
âI hope they didnât scare you. I wouldâve told you if Iâd known they were coming. That must have been very surprising if you werenât expecting it.â Apollo offered the fruit bowl to him. Delta emerged from the wall enough to take it, then took a few steps back into the hiding place.
âThank you,â Delta whispered, âCan IâŚâ
âYeah, you can go.â Apollo waved his hand. Delta slipped out of sight.
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He felt the same sleeplessness the same night.   There were stars against the back of his eyes. He didnât know how it was possible to feel homesickness; he couldnât have possibly imagined. Not that heâd ever seriously entertained the possibility of escape until days before it actually happened. He had expected to be killed upon release; he still did not know if that was off the table, whether Levon was just keeping him on ice. The thought kept him up.Â
He sat up slowly. There was faint light coming from beneath the door; the soft kitchen lights were always on. He liked that about the new house. It reminded him there was a world outside of his room. He rose up from the bed, crossing the threshold silently. He cracked the door open.Â
There was movement behind it. He froze, immediately. He hadnât expected anyone else to be up. He peered faintly through the gap.
Kitty was sitting cross-legged on the couch, hair half covering her face. A shadow hovered beside her, one hand on her chest, the other resting on the nape of her neck. Her eyes were closed, her lips parted. A faint stream of blood trickled down onto her clavicle.Â
Delta jumped as her gaze suddenly fell upon him. He quickly shut the door, too loudly. Fuck. Fuck. He wasnât supposed to leave his room. He wasnât supposed to see. He backed up into the bed, nearly tripping on it.
âDelta?â Kitty called faintly from behind the door. âIâm sorry, I didnât know you were up. You can come out. Itâs okay.â
He clicked his nails anxiously together, still too scared to move.Â
âBabe?â She called again.Â
He cracked the door open again. She was sitting upright on the couch. Her eyes were soft with concern. She beckoned him. Behind her, Lun stared. Their mouth was stained red.Â
Delta cautiously emerged, mostly against his wishes. He wasnât yet at a point where heâd be comfortable ignoring orders, especially not with her. He stood in the empty space between his bedroom and the living room. The trained tension was visible in his body. Forced attention. He lowered his eyes respectfully.
âYou met Lun, right?â Kitty asked. âTheyâre friendly. They were just feeding. We werenâtâŚdoing anything.â
He glanced up to see Lun waving shyly from behind her. They wiped at their mouth self-consciously. Kitty dabbed a towel at her neck, removing most of the blood.Â
âDo you wanna sit?â She offered, endlessly patient. Again, he found it very hard to deny her. He sat down on the floor besides the coffee table. Kitty pulled the towel from her neck, attempting casualness.
âCanât sleep?â She asked, âIâve been meaning to ask, are you a nocturnal species? We both are, naturally. But weâre usually on Galateaâs schedule now.âÂ
She tilted her head to Lun when she said it. Delta bit his lip. He didnât even know what species he was â even if he did, it didnât matter. He wasnât working on any set planetary schedule. He was on spaceship time.
ââŚI was in deep space, miss,â he told her as much.Â
âOh! Spaceship time!â She looked kind of excited at the prospect, then immediately concerned. âWait, how long?â
ââŚYear and a half?â Delta estimated. He hadnât been keeping a record when it started and there was a lot of fogginess in between. Maybe two years. He wasnât sure.
âUm. Doesnât that make your head kindaâŚâ She tapped her own skull. âFucky?â
Yes. Space madness was a well documented phenomenon. He assumed heâd been spared the worst of it though, already uniquely adapted to living in isolation and under extreme pressure. Truthfully, part of him missed the stars. It was strange to be earthbound again.Â
He nodded, though. His head was fucky, undoubtably. Kitty was frowning at him.
âYou havenât left the house at all since you got here,â she noticed. âYou wanna come out in the garden?â
She opened up the back door to the house, leading him out past the porch and onto the grass. It was a cool night. She slid her jacket off, wrapping it around his shoulders. He noticed there was still a bit of blood on the hood.Â
Lun drifted in front of them among the flowers. Their silver hair almost glowed in the dark. It was their garden, apparently. Even thought theyâd been away, the plants still bloomed with the seasons.Â
Delta knelt down on the grass. Kitty plopped down beside him, laying flat on her back. The stars were bright â not as bright as they had been up close, but bright none the less. He identified the constellations, finally able to pinpoint with some certainty where they were in the galaxy. Mostly, he was just glad to see them again. The night wind coursed gently through his hair and against his skin.
He jumped as Lun appeared at his side. Theyâd been in his blind spot. Lun was shorter than Apollo, which was still tall. Delta was still kneeling. It put him into a bad headspace.
Lun pulled their arm out from within their cloak, revealing a handful of pale white flowers. They extended it out to Delta. He blinked in confusion. They extended it out a little more.
âOh.â Delta blushed, caught off-guard by the abrupt sweetness. ââŚThank you.â
Lun nodded, drifting back among the foliage. Kitty was grinning widely. Delta traced the flower petals with his finger, deep in thought.Â
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Kitty had disappeared for the day, going off to visit Iza before the pilot was sent away. Apollo had to run out to restock on supplies. It was the first time Delta had been left alone in the house. He idled in the living room. It was very hard to resist the impulse to clean without either of them calling him away from it. He did it almost mindlessly; it had become such a habit. He didnât want to feel useless.
The air shifted a little. Delta jumped as Lun appeared at the base of the stairs. All dressed in black, they stood out uncannily against the warm colors of the room. Heâd never seen them out during the day. All the curtains were drawn.
Delta backed up a bit, still nervous. Lun stared curiously with their head cocked to the side. They looked around, visibly surprised at how empty the space was. Their gaze turned back onto Delta. They raised their hand to the side of their head and folded the fingers down. Nyah.Â
âUm. She went out.â It was immensely strange for Delta to be the one speaking most in any exchange. Lun was exceptionally quiet. If Delta hadnât heard them speak briefly on the airship, he would have assumed they were fully mute.
They looked disappointed. The hand slid down to their neck, clutching it. It seemed like such a protective gesture, like they were embarrassed by the need. Deltaâs brow furrowed.
ââŚDo youâŚneed to feedâŚ?â So strange. The voice in his head reprimanded him, demanding he not speak unless spoken to, but he found that demand less appropriate now. Lun nodded shyly.
He still wanted to be helpful. He knew that he owed Lun everything. And he was more than a little intrigued by the way Kitty had looked so dazed upon the couch when heâd first glimpsed them. He was curious.Â
ââŚI can do it,â Delta offered. Lun raised an eyebrow, but he thought he could read hopefulness into their expression.
Taking initiative he didnât know he had, Delta knelt down in front of the couch. Lun followed silently and cautiously. There wasnât any eagerness in their body language â all hesitation. It was strange to see it on someone else. Delta tilted his head to the side, brushing his long hair away from his neck. He looked at Lun through the side of his eyes. They sat down on the couch.
Delta still flinched when Lunâs hand came by the side of his head, trying to hold him still. The other pressed down against his shoulder. The collar was thin enough that most of his neck remained bare. Lun tapped a nail nervously against Deltaâs cheek, seemingly involuntarily. They opened their mouth.
Delta only felt a second of regret as the fangs revealed themself. The anticipation was always the worst of it. As they sank in, pain replaced the fear. He could handle pain. He sat still and silent, well accustomed to taking it without complaint.Â
Blood usually left his body through his mouth, his nose, sometimes his eyes if it was a bad day. The sudden rapture from his neck was a new experience. It was colder, somehow. He felt dizzy.
The front door opened up. Lun pulled back immediately, painfully. More blood came out. Delta reeled. Caught. Totally caught. He felt ashamed before he even registered the reaction. He knew, intuitively, that he had done something wrong. Heâd known it when he offered.
âWhat - I just - I leave for five minutes and you-?â Apollo sputtered. He dropped the bags onto the floor, moving rapidly to the center of the room. âWhat are you doing?â
Delta flinched, lowering his head. It was the first time he had ever heard Apollo angry. Blood dripped from his neck snd onto the carpet as he moved into a bow. Sorry. Sorry. The words didnât make it past his lips.
Apollo seemed to not register it. All his attention had turned to Lun. When he spoke again, it was quieter, but holding the same amount of heat.Â
âCan I talk to you for a minute?â He said.Â
Delta stayed frozen in place as Lun rose up off the couch, following their brother into the other room.Â
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âWhy. Why would you ever-â Apollo couldnât even finish the sentence. âHe doesnât know how to say no to people. You canât ask him for something like that.â
Lun hovered at Apolloâs side. Their eyes were wide, but the pupils were dilated all the way in the daylight.
âI didnât ask.â Their voice was haunting singsong. âHe offered.â
âHe offered?â Apollo looked at them in disbelief. They nodded.
âThat doesnât mean you do it. He said I could hurt him too. That doesnât mean I did it. Lun-â He took a deep breath. âHe thinks he deserves it. You understand that, right? Youâve seen the way he acts. He canât make that kind of informed decision.â
âHe offered,â Lun insisted.
âHeâs injured. He doesnât even have the blood to spare. You know Iâm right.â Apollo shot back. Lun wrapped their cloak tighter around themself.
âYou donât need to yell.â They said softly. Apollo paused for a second, regaining his cool. He shook his head.
âSorry. Shit. Heâs probably-â Apollo hurried back into the living room.
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âHey.â Apollo bent down besides Delta, who hadnât moved at all since they departed. He cupped his face in his hands gently. âHey. Iâm not mad at you, okay? Iâm sorry for yelling. Youâre okay. I wasnât mad at you. Youâre not in trouble.â
Delta leaned into the touch, visibly miserable. Apollo felt a sharp pang of guilt. Heâd obviously scared him pretty bad.Â
âIâll patch you up, okay?â Apollo offered, eyeing the wound on his neck. Lunâs marks were typically very clean, but they could still get infected. Besides, blood was still leaking out of the punctures. He helped Delta to stand and led him into the kitchen, sitting him up on one of the stools. He pulled a pair of surgical gloves from his pocket â he always carried them, just in case.
Delta tilted his head to the side again, letting Apollo clean the site of the wound. Some of it had already gotten onto his shirt â he made a note to get him new clothes soon, anyway. He was still borrowing all of theirs.Â
âHold it here,â Apollo placed the towel against his neck.Â
âYes, sir.â Delta applied pressure where heâd been asked. Apollo winced.
âYou didnât have to do that, you know. Lun isnât starving. They wouldâve been fine. Move the towel, please.â He rubbed the disinfectant over the wound. It was cold. Delta shivered.
âI wanted to,â He said weakly.
âYouâre still healing, Delta.â He knew he was lecturing, but he couldnât help it. âYou donât need any more pain right now. Donât volunteer for it. Not while youâre like this.â
âIâm sorry,â Delta repeated.Â
Apollo applied the bandage over the bite mark, smoothing it out carefully against the skin. Delta righted his head, letting his hair cover it back up. Apollo moved to the bags heâd left by the door. He retrieved a pack of juice boxes from inside; heâd gotten them specifically because Lun had come by. He passed one to Delta, hoping to reduce some of the dizziness.Â
But he was surprised by how lucid Delta appeared. Heâd calmed down significantly after Apollo had said he wasnât mad. He didnât seem to be under any particular duress.Â
Lun returned from the other room, skulking a little. They pulled up a stool on the opposite end, taking one of the juice boxes for themself. Delta studied the granite of the counter quietly.  Not speaking, but not afraid either.Â
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@catnykit @snakebites-and-ink @vivulapom @scoundrelwithboba @whatwhump
@pumpkin-spice-whump @deluxewhump @fuckass1000 @fuckcapitalismasshole @defire
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#i was a little jealous that everyone else had vampires im ngl. guys i want vampires.#whump#whump community#whump scenario#whump prompt#whump writing#living weapon whumpee#past abuse#past captivity#conditioning#blood#bad caretaking#consent issues#wound care#bad caretaker#vampire caretaker#? lun just lives there idk#vampire whump#rubies#delta#kitty#apollo#lun#okay so a catgirl a vampire and a psychic walk into a bar
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wahoo I made a design for him :))
#undertale au#dreamtale au#swapdream au#swapdream redesign#SD:CL#SD: clipped wings#clipped wings au#clipped wings Nightmare#clipped wings Dream#clipped wings Lun#clipped wings Sol#Lun#Sol#laura's creations#hhrrrgg i might still change it#but it's better to have something than nothing#the colors are mainly whats throwing me off rn but those arent hard to make edits to#also yeah I'm skipping shattered september today i didnt have any ideas#gonna try to get back at it tomorrow though#Lun has pockets inside his coat where he keeps his cigarettes#and uhhh main character trait he hates Sol and is very disappointed in him. and is generally a massive bitch who wants to be left alone#so he's fun to be around#oh and by the way. his name is pronounced âLunaâ without the A#character ref#Laurart
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#urusei yatsura#ataru moroboshi#lun#shinobu#I may be old (ancient) but at least I grew up watching these superlative cartoons#rumiko takahashi#a genius#and ataru is my spirit animal đ¤Ł#1981 - 1986#anime#toei animation#80s
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Imma call these guys the Galactic Dreamtale au, @hiro-doodlez suggested making a whole Multiverse but,, idk yet, but IF YOU WANT TO DRAW THEM PLZ DOO PLZ PLZ PLZ
#sansau#sans au#sans#undertale#undertale au#popiollie#sans au idea#galactic dream tale#sol#solar#lun#lunar#traditional drawing
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WHY DID YOU REBLOG THAT POST I DIDNT WANNA SEE IT
Bitch you literally need to open the POST TO SEE IT WHY ARE YOU BLAMING ME
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sending support!
Sending support to everyone ^_^
#inazuma eleven#ina11#tsunami jousuke#Tsunami#tobitaka seiya#Tobitaka#Lun Isaka#Lun#fan art#Oc art#Support
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Olive garden| Make sure you follow > Shot By Canipel & Instagram
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This is Lun. Caspian Sea Monster.
Looks like a duck đŚ
Extremely large ekranoplan.
#ŃŃŃŃкиК tumblr#photography#russia#my photos#room with photos#original photographers#photographers on tumblr#russian tumblr#Lun#Caspian Sea Monster#Ekranoplan#soviet navy
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birthday!! birthday!! its my birthday!!
#I FEEL MY BONES DYING#also 1 year anni to when i found out I was born on moon day and suddenly everything made sense#art#lun's art#oc#sona#lun#sketch#original character#drawing#illustration#bday#bunnies#rabbits#kemonomimi
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I think it's really sad that so many ppl on this site assume malice and don't even assume that someone could just be misunderstanding, ignorant, or even being decieved
It's not a moral failing to not understand something that hasn't been explained to you ffs
#mostly abt anytime ppl get on others back about falling for something that is INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING#the answer that takes the least leaps in logic is usually correct and a lot of the time information is arranged to lead you elsewhere#i block these sorts of ppl on sight#not everyone is bigoted or lying when they post a maybe bad take#sometimes ppl have just been decieved#and thats not a moral failing!!#how will someone be able to learn to see past decieving shit when its not pointed out that it is decieving?#and how it is decieving?#i just think its a sad way to see the world if you assume everyone comes from a place of malice#and if you assume everyone comes from a place of malice#what does that say about you?#sol text#lun#ask to tag
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Lun looks very angry in his ref I think he needs a really big burger (if he would like a burger)
If he doesn't like burgers he looks like the type of guy who'd light his cigarette with his birthday candles (He is very cool I like him c: )
You're right - Lun DOES deserve a really big burger. Unfortunately, the hand that fate dealt him is a cruel one indeed.
#undertale au#dreamtale au#swapdream au#swap dreamtale#SD:CL#SD:Clipped Wings#clipped wings au#Sol#Lun#clipped wings Sol#clipped wings Lun#clipped wings nightmare#clipped wings dream#Laura's creations#shitpost#fun fact is that Sol only exists because of a joke I made about Swad stealing sandwiches from people#so therefore Sol is canonically a serial sandwich stealer#though I guess in this case he'd be more of a burgerlar#Laurart#requests#anonymous
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If you don't have bespoke iconography for your spirit companion, the little dragon figurine you got a the craft store will do.
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Maybe I'll stay for a bit longer, but only if my OCs get a bit of attention..
I've made a lot since I've last been here, so I won't post all of it or else it'd just be spamming. I'll just start with stuff I've made recently & move on from there.
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Ents out for a walk, i.e. the ancient olive groves of Lun
#lun#pag#dalmatia#photo#ent#beautiful trees#olives#olive grove#ancient trees#olive groves of lun#lunski maslinici#tree appreciation time#olive tree
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