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balladetto · 6 months

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showing affection / accepting / @gloryseized ( Shion )

BACK, sender pats receiver on the back.

"It's nice, y'know?" the mister who's taking his measurements says. The tape floats along his waist, then just under where he's holding his arms out. "Don't often get to see young brothers travelling together."

Link freezes tighter into the statue he's made of himself.

What must they look like from the outside? This isn't something he's thought any given level of too hard about. To someone who'd sooner laugh about the truth of Shion and Grasshopper than accept it, "brothers"— seems like a reasonable conclusion to come to. He wonders, with the foggy awareness of a mind ploughing through a journey's worth of memories, if that's the impression everyone they pass by takes from them. Link's kind of always left the talking to Shion.

Once upon a time, this wouldn't have been so terrifying to consider.

He smiles, strained, as the mister laughs at something Shion must've said from behind him. Those wings motion for him to put his arms down, so he does, stiff and cautious. The tape goes sideways now. Something about his shoulders. Or his torso. Link registers all this the way he imagines a pictograph box would.

How long has Shion had to deal with this assumption, knowing this — whatever they've got here — won't be forever? Without saying anything about it? Is he...okay with it? Will just play along with it, 'cause it's easier to not have to explain? Link can't even begin to tell where he himself stands with it all beyond this worry, and— and.

There's a warmth, suddenly, at his back. It's light enough that it doesn't bloom into a crawling burn across his skin or nerves, and present enough that he can tell it's Shion: stepped up beside him, in all his mindfulness. Link turns his head to the hero. He can't feel what sort of face he's making.

Shion's is so soft, though, that he hopes his might even reflect a sliver of it.

#gloryseized #( it's not super clear but guess who also had to place at least one reply in ri.to village #commissioning a smaller snowquill set....how about that....#emo about the thought of people assuming the linkies are brothers because grasshopper can't even. conceive thinking of #anyone who might be close to him now -- as he's travelling -- as a friend because he's always had to leave them behind #so when shion and grasshopper go their separate ways he'll put that word to the memories of his face then. but now it's just #(subconsciously) /companion/. so. brother would hit him very hard okay 😭 )#* lionheart / ic.#* lionheart / answer.#* ic / para.#* v / from the ashes.#long post cw

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