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welcometogrouchland · 1 year

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I feel like for the first few years of guardianship Darius and Hunter really struggle to figure out how to refer to each other.

Like it's easier for Hunter, he pretty quickly settles on "guardian" for explaining their relationship to other people and just referring to Darius by name when talking to the man himself. Overtime the phrasing gradually warms, becoming "foster parent" and eventually, once Hunter's already an adult old enough to move out, "Dad".

(Sidenote: he doesn't move out til he's in his mid to late twenties, bc he's under no obligation too, Darius low-key doesn't want him too, and the two of them want to make up for lost time in a sense, since Hunter only had 2 years of legal dependency on Darius before aging out of the system. Darius adopts Hunter retroactively as an adult)

Darius on the other hand has a real conundrum on his hands for those first few years. He has a lot of options! But "ward" is too formal and makes it sound like Darius picked him up off the street like after his parents were murdered, "apprentice/student" isn't really accurate considering the focus of Darius and Hunter's relationship has less to do with Hunter learning magic and more to do with Hunter being housed and fed. "Kid" and "foster son" are there...but...

Look, Darius isn't going to refer to Hunter more familiarly than Hunter refers to him! He's not gonna make it WEIRD. He's not a dad, because Hunter doesn't want/need him to be (and also parenthood is scary <3). Darius doesn't know the first thing about being a dad, despite how his friend group teases him.

Eda and Eberwolf are the two who are worst about it. They torture him with how 'fatherly' he's allegedly being (allegations Darius will DENY til his GRAVE!!!) And Eda specifically compares his journey to hers, saying it always starts off with you referring to them as your apprentice (again, Darius doesn't plan on doing that), as your roommate (...kinda weird in Darius' opinion? But okay Eda), or even your pet (????HELLO???). But eventually, they always become your dumb kid when you least expect it.

She's had a couple cups of appleblood by this point, but Darius knows on some level she's right and he's steadfastly ignoring that fact, even as Eber continues to refer to Hunter as his "cub" (kinda cute but Darius doesn't know how Hunter would feel being compared to an animal). The only people who are even remotely reasonable about all this (besides Lilith who's a bit disinterested in kid talk) is Raine and Alador, who both sort of neutrally, a bit awkwardly refer to Hunter as Darius' Boy.

Darius referring to Hunter as "my boy" is funnily enough what sticks the longest before it evolves to son boy. Hunter's crushing it at a derby match? Darius is whooping and cheering, yelling "THAT'S MY BOY!!!" At the other parents in the stands. Hunter is doing something dangerous or inadvisable where others can see him? "Darius, your boy-" "AHH! MY BOY". Hunter, a year into his stay with Darius finally comes clean about everything to do with him being a grimwalker, and is afraid that he's going to go back to seeing him as just an inferior replacement for Darius' beloved mentor? Darius (who has just had to process some of the most bonkers, emotionally heavy information in his life) gently, hesitantly puts a hand on his shoulder (the 'good' one Hunter doesn't mind people touching), and says that Hunter's much more than that. He's Darius' Boy and he's not going to kick him out or get angry or love him any less for things out of his control. It's good. They're good.

Like I said, it evolves over time and 'boy' becomes somewhat obsolete as the two get caught up in the joy of finally feeling able to explicitly refer to each other as family. But unlike "guardian" or "ward" the word never gets fully retired. Even when Hunter is 30 and is arguing that he's more of a man than a boy now, he is still getting referred to by Darius as "his boy", the way some parents never really stop calling their adult kids baby or kiddo (Camila and Eda respectively btw).

Hunter makes one of those corny matching shirt sets at some point for a father's Day gift when he's 17/18, where the two shirts say "if lost, return Boy to me" (Darius) and "I'm Boy" (Hunter). Hunter mostly did it so he could own a funny shirt that says "I'm boy". Darius openly weeps upon seeing them. Like Oh my Titan he's boy. He's my boy. Oh wow

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #hunter toh #darius deamonne #dadrius #made this instead of finishing my dadrius week day 1 comic. it's okay i have time #i think this post dips it's toes into being one of those 'part writing drabble/part textpost analysis' posts #which I'm okay w/ tbh i love those #i just hope it reads well #the important thing about dadrius + eberwolf to me is that it's just as unlikely a trio as King Eda and Luz are #just as weird and has just as gradual and retrospectively funny a journey as them #i also specified foster parent instead of adoptive parent just bc i read it in a fic once where Hunter was placed in isles foster care-#-post canon and he had a social worker who was a gargoyle named Chantelle. it was delightful #this is my homage to that. the fic was 'the titan laughs in flowers' i think (thank you user yardsards for the rec)#alador still gets the instinct to refer to Hunter as the golden guard and amity gets on his case about it #so referring to Hunter as darius' boy grew out of that and spread to raine who finds it kind of adorable #darius refers to hunter as his foster son for the first time when his (darius' i mean) family comes to visit #not as like a statement of anything they don't deny Hunter as a deamonne. they love him like they love a scraggly cat #but just like. it felt right for Darius in the moment and Hunter got emotional about it #anyway happy early dadrius week I'm rotating them in my mind I'm biting down on them like a chew toy etc etc

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giantchasm · 18 days

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Hey Peony! Are you a zombie!? O:

It's a favorite nickname of some kids I don't always get along with, unfortunately... these stupid jerks who are still caught up on stuff that happened a really long time ago. They don't like my family— Dad and Miss Sectonia especially, so they don't like me either. It's dumb 'cause all the things they're angry about are things that happened before we were even born. But their parents have told them all about it, and now they're mad even though it never affected any of them. I... hear a lot about how my dad really hurt people or is responsible for all of the current issues in Floralia. Truthfully, I wouldn't mind if they just took it out on me, but that's not what it's like. They're always going on about how bad my family is, and I hate hearing it. They call them awful people, and it's not accurate at all! Dad and Miss Sectonia didn't mean to harm anyone. Dad just loved too much, and Miss Sectonia was sick. I don't meet people who dislike my mom as often 'cause of where I live, but it's the same for her. She's not evil! She was just desperate! Granddad, too! ...It's okay, though. I try not to let their words get to me. I know they're just imbeciles. So it's not like I'll let them affect how I see myself or the people I love. Would still be grateful if you didn't call me that, though.

[Soft gasp] What's this? Not everyone thinks Peony is the specialest girl in the world!?

Yeeeeahhh. Unfortunately it just kind of comes with the territory of being the daughter of two war criminals. Taranza in particular kind of helped Sectonia ravage Floralia, which is where Peony lives. The kids around her have heard a lot of stories about their parents being traumatized or haven't been able to meet certain family members of theirs because said family members were killed during the tyranny. Lots of anger and sadness regarding that.

Not that that excuses them taking it out on Peony. Being mad at Taranza, sure, but Peony didn't do anything. Like she said: she wasn't even born at the time! But Taranza's not someone these kids feel they can lash out at (...in fact, they're kind of scared of him), so they aim at the next best thing: his innocent daughter, and that's where it crosses over into just being cruel.

...Yeesh. Just get some therapy, you brats! Leave her alone! D:<

It's okay, though. Like Peony said, she's coping. Truthfully, half of the time she just has her guardian angel taze these people to scare them off. Doesn't make it any less of a pain, though.

@kirbyoctournament

#peony haltmann #kirby oc tournament #if it helps lighten the mood any i would like to share two facts:#one: one of the kids who picks on her is in fact also a fankid...... of my two ocs who HATE taranza #i thought it would be funny if they seemingly fell in love and procreated based on that alone #two: 'loved too much' here is a reference to one of the most controversial/stupid things the authors of warrior cats have ever said #NOT one peony made intentionally mind you #nor am i seriously comparing taranza to That Dickhead #but the concept made me laugh so i had her say it anyways #i think people should start excusing all sorts of crimes with 'he loved too much'#also i'm trying to get one ask answered every weekday #we'll see if that's a pace i can actually maintain. but

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tachiguin · 7 months

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Adventures in de-girlbossifying female BSD characters, pt. Gin Akutagawa. I've already talked a bit about how I think people tend to write Gin fairly simplistically: as the supportive and sometimes protective younger sister of Ryuunosuke, who is also a badass assassin who rarely speaks.

I think what people tend to gloss over is the implication of Gin being situationally nonverbal. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I've done what research I can as someone who doesn't experience this), but selective mutism tends to correlate with social anxiety, which generally is a trait that I rarely see Gin portrayed with, despite the high likelihood that she has some degree of anxiety surrounding social situations. It even makes sense why she couldn't speak in the beginning of the series, but was able to hold a conversation with Tachihara later on. Gin is the younger sister of one of the Port Mafia's elite, and it can be inferred that Gin only joined the organization because Ryuunosuke was recruited by Dazai. Even someone without a pre-existing disability would probably feel nervous about how they're perceived by their coworkers (accusations of nepotism, general misogyny, etc).

This is just my oc-ification of Gin based on limited canon portrayals of her, but I think Gin would struggle with a fear of receiving criticism or contempt a lot. She's comfortable with speaking within the Black Lizards, and maybe a little bit with the ADA, because she's grown to understand and expect what their responses to her will be. It's not that she doesn't speak because she's shy or reticent (though she can be these things as well), but that she can't speak, because there's the sense that whatever she has to say won't be received well.

Personally, I also agree that Gin isn't innately timid or meek by any means, but I also think that people, once again, oversimplify her because she's a female character into a girlboss caricature that is infinitely capable and strong, when she's portrayed in the series as someone with multiple layers, personas even, in a literal sense.

#akutagawa gin #bsd gin #bsd #bungou stray dogs #pointing to a sign that says 'women can have insecurities too'#i joke but what if i made this an actual series #literally all i ever want this fandom to do #is to write about women like you do any other character #i almost said 'write about women like actual people' but then again people use the word 'scrunkly blorbo' to refer to characters #so maybe not actual people per say #but if he's your pathetic lil wet cat of a man than she can be your pathetic lil wet cat of a woman too #i don't think i'm making sense anymore but that's why i'm typing in the tags

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sargeantsarmy · 7 months

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Ending where Dylan reunites with Schrödinger WHEN???

#the quarry #my art holy wow #the quarry game #dylan lenivy #the quarry dylan #supermassive games #cats #I made her a ragamuffin<3 #ragamuffin #the quarry fanart #the quarry spoilers #??#well technically #kitty cat ily #please don’t mind the subtle Conan Gray reference #(it’s not subtle)#he does listen to him idc what you say #2k games

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rainbowpufflez · 2 months

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“If I could go back, one thing I would do / Try to unravel, cut down, and unscrew / The first double helix that links me to you”

Wow, get a load of these guys. What’s wrong with them?

Also song inspo if anyone would like it! It’s where the top quote is from!

#drawing Gus sad made me feel like I was kicking an already sad wet cat why do I do this to him #supposed to be a weird dream sequence thing about a year later after the Geosenge Incident #believe it or not this piece is about Gus learning to move on #like my thought is that Gus has been trying to move on but he keeps finding Lys’s stuff or references to him #and after dreaming of Lys burning up (literally) and not being able to save him #he wakes up and finds he’s holding Lys’s coat #which finally leads him to finding all of Lys’s stuff around his apartment and throwing it all in a box to get rid of #and it would end with him finally grabbing the photo of him and Lys #and finally cutting him out of it #anyway I love them so much #I NEED THEM IN PAIN AND TORTURED #Gus gets to be happy and moved on later I promise #Lys either got his ass immortal or is dead beneath the rubble 💙#idk what happened tho I heard one song and got locked in and had to draw toxic doomed pokemon yaoi #what the fuck is wrong with me?#yeah I have so many thoughts on those stupid guys fr #I WOULD LIKE THEM OUT OF MY BRAIN THO #PLZ LEMME GO I WANT OFF THIS TRAIN #professor sycamore #professor sycamore pokémon #augustine sycamore #lysandre pokemon #team flare lysandre #pokemon xy #Spotify #rainbowpufflez art tag

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murdleandmarot · 1 month

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@mysticalcats @emimii @toki-toro um hi hello *throws these in your general direction and hides behind a trash can*

#UR OCS DRIVE ME INSANE THEY JUST KIND OF LIVE IN MY HEAD NOW #sigh……..absolutely adore #clownaire is literally a Scooby doo villain if the Scooby doo villains were sweet and kind and lovely #foxglove is so so <333 I love the name and the design #(also pretend that’s a foxglove flower next to his name shhhhhhhh)#ans Chaumet!!!#lord I hope I spelled that right #he gives SUCH Moscow 2005 vibes for the design #and Madrid 2005 for the lighting #I think it’s mostly just because of the blue????#but either way the streaks and stripes and colors drive. me. crazy!!!#the textures!!!#I kept looking at the drawing you posted as a reference and kept giggling #because he just looked so >:( to me #I’ve made this comparison to Alonzo before and I’ll make it again: he kinda looks like a sea creature???#don’t ask I’m so sleep deprived my mind has never been clearer wdym #sigh……I adore them all so much #yall r so talented and creative <3 #cats the musical #cats oc #cats the musical oc #not my oc #jellicle oc #sorah’s silly scribbles

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blood-orange-juice · 1 year

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A thing I absolutely adore about Scaramouche is that aesthetically he is a yokai.

The whispers in the background and weirdly flickering screen in his trailer and when the Traveler first meets him in Sumeru.

The way he flies like a ghost from modern horror movies and not like any kind of monk.

The fact his constellation is a kokeshi doll (there’s a popular belief that those dolls were made to hold the souls of murdered unwanted children).

Just the way his story develops, that very specific shift from something horrible and unnatural to bitter and serene beauty (and the fact that you cannot simply kill a yokai, you need to acquire the knowlege of how it was created first). He could have been another episode of Ayakashi/Mononoke series.

He’s not a ghost, he is an artifical creation, and yet it’s so surprisingly fitting. A lot of older yokais are just inanimate things that became animate for one reason or another (sometimes the most ridiculous things like umbrellas, lanterns or scrolls in a badly kept library). And a sentient puppet is technically just that, an inanimate thing made animate. It’s like... the most natural parallel to draw and yet I’ve never seen anyone do that.

Mihoyo, you mad lads.

#I'm not a huge fan of the Inazuma chapter #but with his story I got everything I wanted to see when they announced Inazuma and much more #me happy #also I think he's made from wood of the Irminsul tree #Nahida calls him a cat cut from the branch of a white tree in her fairy tale #and someone refered to Raiden as wooden puppet iirc #or maybe my memory is playing tricks on me #anyway #it's such a great story #scaramouche #genshin #genshin impact #wanderer

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shannonallaround · 1 year

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GUYS I FINALLY DREW HIM

#I present to you: The Blorbo #from late last night #I LOVE HIM SO MUCH #HE IS SO GREAT #puss in boots: the last wish #puss in boots #he was actually very hard to get a grasp on #gonna keep studying him #he is such an interesting mix of human and cat anatomy #and his face is so hard to get just right #lol I made a reference #if you know you know #puss in boots fanart #puss in boots 2 #puss in boots the last wish

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transmoonpaw · 5 months

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OooHhhh!!! Cat Miguel be upon ye!

I love reclusestar dearly and I’m very happy with how this redesign came out, his oldest design was lacking all of the fluff that he needed I don’t know how he came out that way when I’ve always intended for him to be a puffball. What happened. How did this happen.

Tumblrrrrrr my image quality noooooo 😭😭😭😭😭

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theaxolotlkween · 2 months

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The face of a man flabbergasted that I had the audacity to be asleep while he was bouncing off the walls AND THEN be awake when he’s chilling

#he is my son and his name is the brigadier #it’s supposed to be a double reference to doctor who and the magnus archives #he likes drinking out of the faucet and having absurdly round eyes #he has made it his life’s purpose to be my personal hairdresser #void cat #cat #black cat #the brigadier #theaxolotlposts

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r2y9s · 2 years

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[Ace Attorney]

i heard it was klapolloweek so here's a klapollo roleswap AU comic featuring defense attorney Klavier and blind prosecutor Apollo

#ace attorney #klapollo #klavier gavin #apollo justice #roleswap au #klavier's a bit of a newbie so that's why he doesn't know lmao #'i thought u were just trying to look cool or something'#apollo doesn't have a guide dog he has a cat and she's very good at what she does #i literally made this au bc i wanted to make a reference to that 'justice is blind' quote lmao #also couldn't do prompts bc of work but i had just enough time to do a 1 page comic orz

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sarah-kings · 1 year

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You know what? Screw it

*buckets the narrator*

#he is NOT amused to be in that bucket #and yes I have enough brainrot from this game that I made my own narrator design #he's firend sized just like the bucket!#it's not every day you see a small angry British man in your comfort bucket #my art #digital art #giant tiny #the stanley parable #gt #tsp stanley #tsp narrator #tsp bucket #my pose references for the narrator was looking at people having fallen into the toilet #I was laughing uncontrollably so much every time when I looked at the reference that my cat woke up and got mad at me #fanart

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yersina · 2 years

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Um. For the writing prompts, how about Han Yoojin and Sung Hyunjae slow dancing? They’ve already danced once, so why not again :)

Yoojin’s not hiding, really. It wouldn’t do for the first prince of Haeyeon to be hiding at the birthday banquet of the crown prince of Seseong, so Yoojin isn’t hiding.

Naturally.

There just happened to be a lot of people in the banquet hall, and all of them wanted to talk to Yoojin when they really should be talking to Yoohyun, and none of them took the hint when Yoojin tried directing them away… So obviously, the solution was to hid—beat a strategic retreat to the gardens. Obviously.

There’s a conveniently large hibiscus bush further down the path—not so far that Yoojin could be accused of running away from his princely duties, but far enough that he won’t be spotted by anyone giving a cursory glance out the windows of the banquet hall. The flowers in the gardens really are meticulously kept, Yoojin notes, and blooming magnificently even in the cooling autumn air.

“Prince Yoojin,” a voice comes from behind him. Yoojin lets out an embarrassing yelp and even more embarrassingly tries to hide behind the hibiscus bush, even though he’s obviously been spotted. “Oh? I came out here to ask Prince Yoojin for a dance, but it seems he wants to play hide and seek instead?”

Yoojin wants to go back five minutes and tell his past self to completely abandon his idea of hi—retreating to the gardens. “Prince Hyunjae,” he says, dusting off his clothes with stiff movements. Of all the people that could’ve found him, why him? “Your flowers are beautiful.”

The crown prince of Seseong’s eyes twinkle in the moonlight, which is not information Yoojin ever needed to know, nor ever wanted. “Thank you. I grew them myself.”

“You did not.”

“I could have.”

“But you did not.”

“I sailed to the port of Anyeong and bargained with one of the most renowned hibiscus botanists to have these bushes planted in my garden.” Hyunjae punctuates the lie with an angelic smile.

Yoojin refrains from rolling his eyes, in the same way that he is not hiding in the gardens. “Surely the crown prince of Seseong has better things to be doing than personally buying flower bushes.”

Hyunjae’s smile ticks up a notch. “Well, it was worth it in the end if Prince Yoojin was able to appreciate them.”

It’s all a lie, clearly, so there’s no reason for the heat in Yoojin’s cheeks. “Why is the crown prince out in the gardens during his own birthday banquet?” He changes the topic for the sake of his blood pressure. “Surely it’s much more important for you to stay inside?” Even if Yoojin plans on leaving the political efforts to Yoohyun, he knows that deals and alliances are made at these types of gatherings.

“Like I said, I came out here to ask for a dance.”

Yoojin eyes Hyunjae suspiciously. Obviously, it’d be better for the other prince to dance with a princess or a lady, or—or even Yoohyun before trying to spend time with Yoojin. “If you’re looking to strike a deal with Haeyeon, I’m not the person to talk to anymore.”

“And if the deal is for a dance?” Hyunjae takes a step forward. Yoojin inches back. “Yes, like that.”

Yoojin’s not sure if he wants to spend the effort to try and untangle whatever plan the prince of Seseong must have devised. There’s no amount of mental knots that lead to a dance with Yoojin. “It would be better for you to find someone else to dance with, wouldn’t it,” he says as he tries to round the other side of the hibiscus bush. Unfortunately, right as he tries a step to the side, Hyunjae reaches out and pulls him into the open. “Prince Hyunjae.”

“Prince Yoojin.” He still hasn’t let go of Yoojin’s hand. “Dance with me?”

The crown prince of Seseong is much taller than Yoojin, which is not something Yoojin would’ve cared to notice unless he were standing next to him like he is now. “There isn’t any music,” he tries.

Hyunjae cocks his head to the side. “You can hear the court musicians from here.” This is true—Yoojin doesn’t even need to strain to hear the notes of the slow song currently being played.

“I don’t know how to dance.” Yoojin has suffered through too many dance lessons as a child to not know how to dance. The raised eyebrow he gets for that protest tells him Hyunjae knows this as well. “We can’t both dance the male part.”

Hyunjae tugs him closer—the kind of close where Yoojin is suddenly aware of the space that Hyunjae takes up, and also the space that his own body takes up in relation to Hyunjae’s—and after a moment of consideration, he guides Yoojin’s other hand to his waist and sets his own on Yoojin’s shoulder. “There,” he says, eyes curved into infuriating crescents. “How’s that?”

“Bad,” Yoojin deadpans over the sound of his heartbeat in his ears.

Hyunjae hums and adjusts their hand hold so that it’s more of a clasp than a grip, steps closer to Yoojin, and oh. A part of Yoojin, raised by court scholars and strict teachers, is aware that this is a more proper dancing form. The other part is too busy thinking about how Hyunjae’s hand is quite warm.

If he tips forward just a few degrees, his head will be resting on Hyunjae’s shoulder. The same part of him thinking about Hyunjae’s palm against his also wonders if that’ll be equally as warm.

“Has Prince Yoojin danced with anyone else at the banquet yet?” Hyunjae asks idly, taking a step back and pulling Yoojin along with him. Yoojin is fairly certain he’s the one who’s supposed to be leading, but Hyunjae’s movements are firm and confident, so he lets himself be swept along.

“No.” There's a certain amount of dedication and attention needed to dance with strangers, and while there are guests at the banquet who are more than happy to blindly stumble their way through conversation and a dance, Yoojin would rather not. “Have you?”

Before Hyunjae replies, he directs Yoojin in a more complicated series of steps in time with a trill in the music, before returning to the more basic, rhythmic swaying they were doing before. Yoojin wants to point out that they’re moving too slowly for the music and their steps are too simplistic, but every time he thinks about mentioning it, he’s distracted by how close their shoulders are to touching. “Prince Yoojin is the only one for me, of course.”

Craning his head up to look at Hyunjae is a bit inconvenient from this position, but Yoojin hopes that his disbelief is conveyed loud and clear regardless. “What’s that supposed to—”

“Spin.”

Yoojin spins under Hyunjae’s outstretched arm without particularly meaning to, and he finishes tucked loosely into Hyunjae’s embrace. Any chill from the night air has been driven away long ago by Yoojin’s flush and the feeling of Hyunjae’s arm against his back. “I think this was supposed to happen the other way around,” is the only thing he can think to say, voice barely louder than a whisper. Though he doubts that he’d be able to lead Hyunjae in a spin, even if he tried.

Hyunjae smiles. “Was it?” When he unfurls Yoojin from his hold and returns them to their previous positions, he preemptively claims Yoojin’s waist, hand gentle but no less present for it. “I believe this happened exactly as intended.”

Yoojin spends a moment contemplating the indignity of having to stretch to reach Hyunjae’s shoulder, before consigning himself to defeat and settling an uncertain hand on his arm instead. They’re still so close. “Prince Hyunjae is too tall,” he says, because it seems like the safest topic compared to everything else that’s been brought up so far. “How will you ever dance with anyone else?”

A tightening of the grip Hyunjae has on his waist is his only warning before the music picks up and Yoojin has to fall back on muscle memory, moving together in a circle between the hibiscuses until the music settles down again. Yoojin nearly trips over an uneven patch of land, but Hyunjae catches his weight neatly and hardly misses a beat. “I’m doing so well dancing with Prince Yoojin that I don’t need to think about anyone else,” he answers. Yoojin thinks that he should perhaps save those lines for his future wife.

He falls quiet after that, not brave enough to try another line of conversation, but even silence isn’t safe with the crown prince of Seseong. Silence means that Yoojin’s attention is drawn to every point of contact between them—only three, but there’s potential for more, and Yoojin’s attention is drawn there too. Silence means that Yoojin can focus on whatever heady scent is lingering on Hyunjae’s clothes, noticeable even over the smell of the flowers around them. Silence means that Yoojin can hear footsteps crunching towards them, fast.

He disentangles himself from Hyunjae just in time for Yoohyun to round a corner of the path and spot them next to the flower bushes. “Hyung!” he calls, inexplicably glaring at Hyunjae. “I noticed you were missing.”

They couldn’t have been gone for more than a few minutes. “Oh, Prince Hyunjae was just… graciously showing me the flowers,” he says, trying not to feel like a scolded child. “They’re quite beautiful.”

Yoohyun doesn’t let up on his glare. “Is that all?”

“That’s all, Yoohyun, stop worrying.” Yoojin steps forward and pushes Yoohyun back in the direction of the banquet hall. When he turns back to bid goodbye to Hyunjae, his words die in his throat as Hyunjae reaches forward and tucks a freshly-plucked hibiscus flower behind his ear.

“Since you liked them so much,” Hyunjae explains, eyes crinkling with an amount of mirth that belies just how much he’s enjoying Yoohyun’s exponentially increasing anger.

“Sung Hy—”

“Come on, Yoohyun,” Yoojin interrupts, forcefully shoving Yoohyun down the path back to the building and vehemently avoiding everyone’s gaze. “I’m thirsty. Let’s find something to drink.”

Later, he pulls the flower out of his hair and tucks it into a fold of his clothes instead, the pale petals stark against dark fabric. It visibly annoys Yoohyun whenever he happens to look at it, but Yoojin can’t bring himself to throw the blossom away. It’s a visual reminder of gentle touches under the moonlight whenever he glances down, and, perhaps, a silent suggestion that there could be more.

#definitelyhuman10 #sina writes #sctir #s classes that i raised #fanfiction #jinjae #this post is sponsored by my two lessons of ballroom dancing ten years ago #writing shj without his last name is so weird like he’s meant to be full named like a naughty cat #alas that’s what felt Right for this scene #the hibiscus referred to here is the mugunghwa (national flower of korea) bc I have no creativity #also anyeong is completely made up if it’s a real town that was unintentional haha #originally intended this to be in the same au as two of swords but it kinda grew into its own thing lol

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