#will bauer

[thethistlegirlwrites]

Lab Rat Fox

Went with an alt prompt today and an OC I haven't played with for a bit (who was hoping I forgot him), Will Bauer!

It was almost easier, when the nightmares were something he could believe he woke up from.

He knows, now, it didn't change anything. Wasn't going to erase the magic in his blood, or magically turn him into the human son his father wanted.

All hiding his real nature from him had done was cut him off from the truth. From his chance at learning to control it before it controlled him. Before it turned him into something feral and dangerous.

He can almost understand the cage.

It didn't have to be this way. He's seen the others, now. Others like him. Who don't have to fear the other side of who they are, who know it and control it and maybe even love it.

But he's too far gone for that.

He's never fought to get out, not like the wolves here with him. The others think it's because he's afraid of his father, or because he doesn't believe he can escape.

He's not afraid of his father. He's afraid of himself.

He might be able to escape these bars, but he can never escape the monster in his blood.

He wants his father to be right. For there to be some way to undo the wild side tangled in his DNA, for some trick that pulls on the threads and unravels it all like a snagged sweater.

But maybe, even if it worked, he'd unravel so far there'd be nothing left.

Maybe, that's the only fate left he can hope for.

@nade2308 @whumptober @catwingsathena

[stay-close]

When the worst that can happen has come and gone And you’re still standing, remember that you won.

Joan Bauer, Almost Home

[lightthereis]

John Bauer - The Ring, Riding in the moonlight, 1914

[enchantedbook]

'She Kissed The Bear On Muzzle' - John Bauer

[thunderstruck9]

Frank Bauer (German, 1964), Stilleben (Frühstück) [Still Life (Breakfast)], 2013. Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm.

[1five1two]

John Bauer.

[random-brushstrokes]

John Bauer - Sleigh ride to Christmas Eve - Cover image for the magazine "Julstämning" (1908)

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

[beautifulwomen047]

Michelle Bauer

[lightthereis]

John Bauer - A Knight Rode Forth (1915)

[enchantedbook]

'Girl Seals Christmas Present' by John Bauer, (1882 - 1918).

[thescorpioking1983]

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[outsidewolves]

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