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mammomlette · 1 month

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thinking about how Belphie’s situation in s1 is so Blackbird (the song) coded

(Because I never stop thinking of lesson 16 and Belphie in season1 I could go on a word rampage about that arc.)

warnings: SPOILERS FOR LESSON 16 OBEY ME lesson 16 is its own warning guys

Notes: I basically just rewrote the s1 Belphie plot line. That’s it. It’s basically the exact same but written narratively lol. Also!! I plan on writing part 3 of the obey me as soulmate tropes (barb and dia are already done) but Solomon’s part is giving me such a creative block for some reason so it’s taking a while! Sorry!

Constructive criticism welcomed :)

“Blackbird singing in the dead of night,”

Shouts for help echoed through the hallways of the House of Lamentation. Why did it seem nobody but you (and the man who tried stopping you from approaching the attic, Lucifer) could hear them?

You snook your way around the house, trying to avoid the stars visible from Lucifer’s doorway and other places you’ve seen him roam at night. Even if he was distracted listening to Levi’s TSL vinyl, you didn’t want to risk it. You were determined to go up to the attic and listen to the voice shouting for you to please help, so you could free whatever may be trapped up there or at least hear it out.

You thought for a moment his calls for help sounded akin to a blackbird singing a morning’s song, though there are no mornings in the eternal darkness of the devildom; only the dead of night forever.

“Take these broken wings and learn to fly,”

You carefully made your way up the stairs, “MC, finally, no one is going to stop you. Now’s your chance to climb the stairs.” How did this voice know your name? More importantly, why are they asking you for help? What got them up there in the first place?

Your internal questions halted when you finally came face to face with the person behind the caged door of the attic. He never said his name, however he did ask you for help, and who were you if not humane? You’re here as a human, after all. He instructed to you to make pacts with the six demon brothers, starting with Beelzebub, in order to gain the power to free him. Your heart hurt for the poor human who claimed to have been locked away for so long they’ve forgotten who they are and how long exactly they’ve been locked away.

Make pacts with my brothers, learn to set me free.

“All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arrive.”

Belphie has been waiting for so long, months now spent just sitting in the same room, air long turned stale. He could tell you exactly how many boards were on the floor and cobwebs were in the corners of the room. Of course, his brother had to lock him away. Of course, his brother chose Diavolo’s rule over his own little brother.

Finally, after so long, there was finally something. A human no less, who had finally managed to enter the attic. If it had to be a human who would save him, so what?

He had been waiting so long for this moment to arrive. A moment to be free again, and even a moment to seek revenge.

“Blackbird singing in the dead of night,”

All Belphie heard at night now was the voice of this human. It’s strange how much comfort its grown to bring him, given his plan. But the voice of his brothers and his dead twin would be much more comforting to hear, and his sister was a much more comforting presence.

He knows he won’t miss you when you’re gone, or else he just wouldn’t go through with it, he just wouldn’t continue to manipulate you into working to free him just for him to kill you. But he will miss the routine of having a concerned voice chirping at him in the dead of night while everyone else is asleep. He’s sure Beel will suffice.

“Take these sunken eyes and learn to see,”

At last the moment came, you had finally freed him, even if you weren’t there when the cage opened, he knows it was you. Had you finally made a pact with Lucifer? Is that why he’s free? Credit given where credit is due, you were surprisingly competent for a human. It’s a shame the fate that befalls you. The fate Belphie has the power of stopping, but chooses not to.

Your eyes were so tired he noticed in the brighter lighting of purgatory hall. Sunken and tarnished by dark bags. Was this the result of your late night visits to the attic? Had you just been working too hard? Who knows, I’d rather, who cares? Any pity he felt, he swallowed down and it was quickly drowned by his seething and growing hatred for your kind. Maybe in another life, he and Lilith would be sneaking down into the human world to watch you and your kin, but not anymore. You can’t teach him to see humans as more than vermin.

“All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free.”

A humans life is always only building up to death. It’s what every human spends their life anticipating, waiting for the sweet relief or curdling torture of death. Would you feel dread in your last moments? Perhaps irony? He never could grow fond enough of you to change his plans, but you did plant an invasive seed of interest in him. He hates how he wants to understand you now more than ever, how does the human mind and spirit face death? Are you different from the countless other humans he’s killed? Are you more accepting?

It’s sad to say that the only regret he has from killing you is not making it last long enough for you to express your final thoughts to him. If only he had dragged your death out longer, given you time and air to carefully pick out your last words, maybe even a last emotion shared just with him. The thought of wanting to be the one to see your dying face, hear your dying thoughts and feel your dying senses feels quite intimate for a murderer and the murdered. Maybe in another life you weren’t unfortunate enough to be born as a human. In another life, he thinks. He dwells on the ‘ifs’ too often.

It’s only natural for humans to die. They wait their entire life for that moment of freedom, really he gifted you by killing you while you were still well loved by those around you, his brothers. Oh, his brothers will be mad… they’ll get over it, in time. They can’t love you enough to stay mad at their sweet little brother, right?

#obey me #obey me solmare #obey me!#obey me shall we date #obey me belphegor #obey me Belphie #om! belphie #I will NEVERRR get over lesson 16 #like don’t get me wrong I love Belphie #but we forgave him WAY too fast. why did the brothers take longer to forgive him that we did?? WE died!!!#the brothers should’ve helped us forgive Belphie rather than us help the brothers get comfortable with him #cause I know damn well if you stuck me in the same BUILDING let along room alone with the guy who just killed me #whoowie my first reaction would NOT be trying to befriend him and make amends with his brothers #solmare rushed Belphies arc so bad and I’ll never forgive them for that SO MUCH ANGST POTENTIAL WASTED ON ALL THREE FRONTS #I should make a new post out of this atp instead of hiding in the tags erm lmao

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gaytobymeres · 6 months

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York train station, a cold November Sunday 2023

Taken on Rollei 35S on Ilford HP5 film

#I got my first roll of black and white film back!! it was fun but I’m not used to thinking in black and white. if that makes sense.#also I love colour so much but I’m really thrilled with b+w and I’m excited to use it more #photography #my photgraphy #rollei35 #photographers on tumblr #<- I feel weird using that tag but. oh well. now the requisite tags are out the way let me carry on my ramble #again I’m not sure if I got the exposure right because once again I was just going by vibes #which is fine when it’s brilliantly sunny but it was pretty overcast when I took these #and it was freezing. so no way was I fumbling around with my camera and my phone when I couldn’t feel my fingers #I love taking pictures so much guys #very fun #might post more we shall see #I won’t spam you or inundate you #maybe :)#oh my god I think tumblr has killed the quality </3 #okay might repost when I’m home #don’t judge me pls

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shmorp-mcdurgen · 1 year

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Seth (Alt au) wearing a Hooters outfit would be funny I think.

You have no clue of what you have brought into the world

I hope you know this is one of the most cursed drawings I've made since joining the TMC fandom.

#asks are neat #doodles are neat #I. guess i'll tag it as him #seth greer (tmc)#I have gone through every stage of grief while making this just to let you know /lhj #we shall never speak of hooters seth again after this day. we shan't #What will you do. for the funny haha

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seventh-district · 2 months

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so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

#hsr #honkai star rail #hsr 2.2 #hsr spoilers #hsr leaks #the body of this post reads as far less enthusiastic than i really am #i just don’t know how to casually return from my latest 2 week hiatus only to gush abt a game i’ve hardly blogged abt before #but i’m not making a whole ass sideblog for it like i did for Genshin. nah y’all r gonna bear witness to my fixation with this one #so anyways don’t mind me. vibrating into another dimension with anticipation for the next 11 days #it’s insane man. a year ago i Never ever woulda thought i’d be so invested in this game. and it took Months for the game to really grab me #but i’m v glad i kept coming back even when i was struggling to really get into it. like i just had this feeling that if i stuck around and #gave the game a chance to really like. come into its stride. i just always felt like there was Something there and i just hadn’t found it #and holy shit i finally found it in Penacony. the devs really truly outdid themselves with this region and these characters and this story #not to discount everything that’s happened prior. like i was genuinely Liking it all before now but i wasn’t Loving it y’know #but that may be more a ‘me having to fight tooth n’ nail to force myself to consume new media’ thing than it is a matter of the actual game #anyways i came here to talk abt the program! bc since i’m not filming my HSR stuff i’m gonna be insufferable abt it on Tumblr instead ! :)#and i’m probably not filming any more Genshin stuff. or anything else at all for that matter but let’s not talk abt that dead dream #pun not intended lmao. Anyways let’s return to the subject at hand while there’s still room left in these tags shall we #i’m so fucking glad they had Aventurine on this program man. especially since he’s leaked to only have 18 lines in 2.2… it was nice to see-#-him here at least 🥹 i’ll take what i can get. his unenthusiastic little bird noises at the beginning.. him being reluctant to come out..#the way one of the first things to come out of his mouth was ‘y’know DR RATIO once told me…’ like boy we get it ur in love with him 🙄 (/J!)#i love how they can’t go on these programs w/o talking abt each other it’s adorable. AND THE WAY HE WAS THE ONE TO EXPLAIN BOOTHILL’S KIT!?#they can’t just fuel my crackship like this… god and his whole ‘muddle-fudger.. son-of-a-nice-lady?’ thing had me wheezing #Aven mocking Boothill’s inability to curse was not on my special program bingo card but fuck i’m here for it #and Robin being all curious abt him was so cute.. ‘who /is/ he? … does he order milk at the bar?’ i’m crying she’s so sweet #also the trailer was fucking insane. which feels redundant as hell bc all of HoYo’s version trailers go hard but like. still. wow.#that millisecond long shot of Boothill surveying the skyline is so fucking good. also what the fuck is Jing Yuan doing here!!#not complaining at all tho. we’ve got JY & DH(IL?). Argenti(?). Boothill. Sunday. Aven. all my men r here and i am eating so fucking good #Seven.txt #viddy game stuff

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princessjung · 2 months

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Rika's Appearance in The Ssum (June's Route Day 36 Spoiler)

Yeah... honestly I'm already suspicious of her intention the moment she mentioned about wanting to come to his atelier. I'm gonna assume that this is during her initial stage of creating Mint Eye ideals and all that.

And Cheritz, for goodness sake, you will never catch me saying V and Rika has a good personality or make a good couple etc. Nope, never. So stop forcing these options into my face please. 😩

I do think Piu Piu's analysis is interesting as well. Especially if you're already familiar with MysMe lore.

#not gonna tag this with any fandom tag #srsly i played the ssum to get away from the mint eye drama #just to stumble right into its hole again 💀#I'm okay with this half brother of jumin thing #or the other heavy references of mm that they're making in the ssum #but i don't really know what to feel when i see v and rika interacting directly with june #i just hope this is the only time they'll make an appearance in june's route #or else i wouldn't know what to think of them #especially with rika heavily hinting this whole cult stuff like #no #let's not recruit another sickly child into your cult ranking shall we

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withoutalice · 5 months

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Show us that old art gurl

I-

These were drawn approximately ~5 years ago based on the time stamp. i remember drawing both of these in the car on a long road trip with my Ibis Paint X app + finger on my S4 lmfao

but yeah i had (still have) a furry phase and have always wanted to build fursuits and draw people's OC's, just hadn't (haven't :/) found my community yet...

...granted I was like 12 when I started furry art, and only 10 when I started my art journey in the first place. the internet was def no bueno for someone my age (i had an aminoapps FNAF/undertale account i can't say SHIT xD)

#withoutalicespeaks!#asks #wyrm I trust you (sideeyes you but like in the nervous dog way) so I'm showing you the easiest most cringe art I've got #wyrmwithawhy #thanks so much for the ask!#new tag alert!!!#alice-lore!#i once bought ~$200 worth of fursuit material (faux fur/foam/head base from etsy)#I had my OC all designed and a pretty solid body suit pattern/plan #I must've been 13 #anyway it's all in my sewing closet to this day bc my mom wouldnt let me make it bc she thought...well...lets not shall we?#HELP PLEASE THIS IS MY OLD ART FROM MIDDLE. SCHOOL. THIS IS NOT MY ART NOW PLEEASSEEE #PLEASE IM A STAR #my art #my OLD art #furry art #furry artist

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luyo-mi · 2 years

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This is what I can come up with so far with the Au rn lol @12am-motivation

//I'll start with the infection. Think of it like The Flare virus from the maze runners except with demons :D This whole au is like a survival type basically except with modern tech, given the whole techwear designs.

// Lower level demons don't have the same kind of immunity that the higher demons have, so they fully transform into these savage monsters faster. They can still use magic but don't have control over it. The lower demons who have wings can fly too. They're sensitive to light so when it becomes night that's when become more active.

//Even though they have a so-called immunity to the infection , higher demons who get infected are still eventually gonna end up like the lower levels, it's just a much slower process, that's why sometimes, in the heat of the moment, they lose control.

//Lucifer was the first to get infected while protecting Belphie. He lost control a total of 3 times due to being stressed.

//Barbatos was the second to get infected while trying to protect his special person. He's lost control once on the day he got infected

Now Ima go into the roles each character has rn

//The characters are part of a group, literally like the student council, expect idk what to name this one

// Diavolo is obviously the Commander/Leader. He's in charge of all the rules, Assigns mission to who he see fit, all that jazz.

//Barbatos is Diavolo's personal guard but also like If anything were to happen to the leader, Barbatos is the one to be put in charge next.

//Lucifer is the Enforcer of the group, idk if i'm using that right. He's the one to keep everyone in check, mainly his brothers.

For the brothers Ima sections them off instead of giving them descriptions bc I'm rad like that

Survivalist// Mammon, Satan

Lookout// Beel, Levi, Lucifer

Guard// Beel, Mammon, Lucifer

Marksmen// Levi, Belphie

Hunts/Scouts// Asmo, Belphie, Satan, Mammon, Levi

Mammon is in charge of Beel and Satan, while Levi is in charge of belphie and Asmo.

Mammon and Levi tend to venture out together to find any signs of survivors or to map out any new areas. That's how they stumbled upon Barbs.

Satan sometimes joins them as well to learn more about the virus and to maybe come up with a "cure" for Lucifer and Barbatos, though he wont admit it.

Levi, Mammon, and Beel were all out on a mission to gather some more supplies when they encountered their first Infected High ranking demon. ((these guys are a lot stronger and actually have more control over their actions unlike the lower levels)) Levi and Beel only came out unscathed because Mammon bought them time, though at the cost of his arm

That's why Levi took it upon himself to build him a Prosthetic Arm

Despite knowing the dangers, Belphie tends to sneak out during the night to go star gazing, Mammon sometimes follows him to make sure he comes back home safely. Though this would eventually be the reason how Lucifer got infected as he went off to get Belphie back home.

Belphie hates himself for that but only Beel knows.

Asmo is the one who tends to the brothers injuries// scratches, cuts, burns, etc. He taught himself after seeing how dire the situation actually is once lucifer got infected and mammon lost his arm. He says he hates getting messy when out scouting but his smile after killing something says other wise

And thats all I can come up with for now :D

#jesus this was long #but i think i did good #hopfully this makes sense #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me au #i was only meant to draw tech wear #not start a whole au omg #but its fun #so ill let it pass #also omg ur tag #made me sad #ouch #my heart #😭😭#if you want to add onto this plz do #im so here for it

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morkofday · 1 year

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If anyone out there (I saw your tags Vi @isvisomewhere) is interested in knowing how I choose the colors for each of my Our Skyy 2 episode edits, here’s the story:

So, to put it simply, I just know. Sounds silly? Yeah, kind of is. But each episode has those 1-2 scenes that get stuck in my head and reveal the color to me. It’s that easy! (Or hard. Some episodes are easier than others to place. Some episodes have several colors I could use but then one color just takes the crown, so to speak.)

Now, after several of these edits, I also try to consider what colors I have already used and which ones still remain unseen. I hope to create variety, and so far, I think I’ve managed to accomplish that. I also enjoy naming the episodes, but I’ll ramble about that separately at the end of this.

Listing the episodes and the reasons for my color choices, mostly to my own amusement:

Episodes 1 & 2: Both the Never Let Me Go episodes come down to Palm’s outfits in the old times. In the first episode, he wears this olive green shirt when he first wakes up as the lord and I adored that color so I decided to use it. It also seemed to fit the overall greenery in many of the other scenes, and making the green turn more towards yellow fit well with the bathroom scene (which, despite being kind of funny, looked very pretty imo).

The second color comes down to the shirt Palm wears when he comes to sneak a peek at Nueng's English lessons to the servants. I loved the darker shade of pink on his shirt, so I searched for a red color close to that and came across burgundy. It felt fitting when the scene with Phum/Petch and his merchant crush made me see pink too. (I wish I could’ve used Nueng’s stunning umbrella scene in this edit, and I first thought I would take the red from there just because, but eventually left it out.)

Episodes 3 & 4:

Star in My Mind as a show itself is very blue coded for me, so that was one of the colors I had in my head when I first went into these episodes. But the things is, I am generally trying to pick colors that are “surprising” considering these shows and their common color themes (i.e. picking green and pink/red for NLMG instead of orange/brown or yellow), but this first episode didn’t give me much to work with, sadly.

The cinematography in SIMM is a lot more simple than it is, let’s say, in Vice Versa where this whole edit series idea stems from, so I gave in to the blue. Another color I considered beside it was yellow (for the continuous sunflower symbolism and the sunflower apearing in the first episode occasionally), but eventually the scene with Daonuea on the balcony with the night sky behind him (the first pic) made the choice for me. The duvet on KluenDao’s joined bed also played its part.

The other color for them being orange was a funny one tbh. I knew I wanted to include the scene of Daonuea walking across the floor with the rose petals, but refused to pick red just because of that. Instead, the tent in which Kluen and Dao spend their night, happened to gift orange to me. There’s literally just a tiny streak of orange in the picture of Dao’s face where he’s looking up at Kluen, but my brain still got stuck on that. The tent refused to leave me, and so I made it fit. Eventually, I think orange was a good choice and made these episodes a bit moe interesting.

Episodes 5 & 6:

Knowing The Eclipse was very dark themed and seemed to lean towards black (& white?) a lot, I decided to not use those colors for these episodes. Thankfully, these episodes were extra colorful instead and offered me several options. After using orange for the previous set, it felt a bit silly but also funny to use yellow for episode 5, but I couldn’t get that old train station(?) with the bright yellow station building out of my head. It was just so beautiful I knew I wanted to include it, and I feel like yellow worked very well for this show. (My personal favorite out of all the images I’ve edited for these sets until now is still the second pic in this edit btw. I love Ayan in his country outfit, with his motorbike, looking over the lake.) Pine seemed to come for me from every direction while watching the second episode of The Eclipse. I first noticed the color in Thua’s shirt, which appears in two of the pics too. Another scene that played its part was Teacher Sani sitting in the café, surrounded by this delicate, ligh blue. One more player were the lights in the bar they celebrate Akk’s birthday and Wat’s award in, as it already colored Ayan’s hair with this blue green. All this combined, I decided I would create a gradient where it goes from blue to green, varying in darkness and intensity. (I hope that in one of the last six edits, I get to use another gradient like this to balance it out.)

Episodes 7 & 8:

Tbh I did not expect Vice Versa to continue with the color name titles for the episodes in Our Skyy 2. Everyone has been saying they would, but I never truly trusted that. I figured that as NLMG left out the episode titles seen in the original series, Vice Versa would follow the same rules. Relying on this, I had kind of already decided I would bend these episodes to my will and use two colors I associate with VV the most: pink and purple. (Because with this show, I would absolutely be sentimental about colors.)

When we got the color titles after all, this plan flew out the window. It made choosing the colors a lot easier, but also allowed me to play around with this concept a little. I strictly followed the same pattern while making my original VV episode edits (until the last episode which was special), so I decided these two would be wilder. The first episode took the title very literally – the pink is “fading” throughout the frames. Which means only certain parts of the images kept the color and others I turned to gray. In the last image, the pink is so light you can barely see it.

Multi color then made me think about rainbows and color mixes. I generally love gifsets where gifmakers play around with a show’s own color palettes and especially contrasting colors. I thought this could maybe work with the colors turning into different gradients for each picture. I started looking for scenes that would fit that idea. I first decided on the pink/green in the bathtub scene, then the obvious blue/yellow as Puen and Talay sit outside the house after Talay’s outburst to Jigsaw. The final beach scene was also obviously purple/yellow, and the rest just came from there. This one was a more of a challenge than the others, but rightfully so. I wasn’t even mad.

Episodes 9 & 10:

From previous experience, I knew My School President was going to be filled with colors. These people are young, and I love how all of their outfits and even the environments show that. Everything is bursting with color and the cinematography is so nice. I love how the friendgroup even has matching outfits most of the time, or at least the color scheme is very pleasing to the eye.

Black turned out to be my first color choice for this show only because of two very specific moments: 1) Tinn in his black tuxedo during their ballroom dance and 2) Gun in his dark blue sweatshirt when he and Tinn are sleeping together in Gun’s house. Before these two scenes I had considered yellow again very seriously as yellow is very much Tinn’s and so Lion’s color, but tbh I am very happy with black. It gave this show a very different feeling, which fits well with the idea of choosing surprising colors. The second episode was a lot more complicated, the hardest one so far. It took some thinking to actually come up with a color. Usually, one or two options will appear in my head while I’m watching the episode, but this time I drew blank. I was wondering if I should just take the obvious one and go with green (or something like jade) because of their sport uniforms, but I felt against it.

Then it clicked. There was a lot of yellow and blue in this episode – and somehow my head decided copper was both the name and the color to go for. It appears a lot in the brick walls of the surrounding buildings plus I loved changing the yellow behind Lion’s practice room into this orange hue. It makes the whole scene look super soft. I am very happy, even if I first thought maybe this was going to be too close to the orange I already used.

As we’re not done with this series quite yet, I’ll probably add my thoughts on the rest of the episodes here too so I can have everything in the same post. Feel free to check back on this post occasionally if you’re interested!

And lastly, a couple of words on the episode titles:

Picking those has been its own type of journey. I love the names in Vice Versa as each one seems very fitting for both the color and the episode itself. I wanted to continue that “tradition”, but instead of choosing already existing color names like VV did, I wanted to make up my own that would feel like real color names.

These names had to feel unique to the episodes they are representing. So I tried to pick up central themes or any specific detail that were important to these different shows and their two episodes. It helps when I’ve watched all of these before and know what is significant to the characters, because even in these “special episodes” they haven’t strayed too far from those.

I don’t know how well I’ve managed with the naming overall so far but I’ve seen some nice tags saying they like the names a lot. So thank you! I’m happy if these edits have brought some joy to the people following this insane journey with me.

P.S. Each couple’s “last” episode includes my thanks to the pairing through something important they have taught us or given us/each other. I first thought I would just include the same thanks to each pair but then wanted it to be more specific. I’m attached to all of them in some way, so the thank yous have been my personal goodbyes to them ♥

#putting this to my edit tag just bc #countaspieceofme #our skyy 2 #let's see what insane decisions i make #with the rest of the episodes shall we

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amethystpath-writes · 2 years

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You Will Not Fall

(NOT A PR0MPT)

Nice to see you folks. It’s been a while, huh? :)

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Villain was dying. If his scratchy and lazier-than-usual voice didn’t tell Lover that much, the twangy scent of iron seeping into her dress did.

“You have to stop the bleeding,” Lover pleaded. Her mind was fatigued with worry and panic. With her arms glued around Villain’s neck, there was nothing she could do but to be vocal.

“Oh hush.” Villain said, and gave a sharp inhale. Usually, Lover would have scolded Villain for letting him get this far, for taking those breaths his body could not afford rejecting. Now, she seemed to realize that it did not matter if his breaths were desperate so long as he was still taking them. In this very moment, neither were sure when Villain’s last measly breath would be. “Let me hold you like this one last time.”

“It does not have to be the last time!” Lover argued. “Let me save you. Let me run and get you help.”

“Why save me now just to save me again later?” Villain remained calm and reasonable as he noticed himself wheezing. “You know I cannot stay in their hold, and what will I do when they start chasing again? When they post guards at every inn, in every barn, and on every corner? I will always be hunted. I am a threat.”

Still in Villain’s arms, Lover continued to gripe. “They will realize,” she said. “I will testify to the bloody king on your behalf if I have to- tell everyone you are a good man.”

Villain laughed, and in doing so, he could feel Lover tensing despite his control over her- proof that he was loosing grip with reality, with life. “You really think they would give me a court case?” He smiled, cheeky, and had he not been focusing on Lover, she might have regained control of herself and smacked him on the cheek for giving a smirk at a time like this.

His smile fell before he cocked his head at Lover. “What would happen to you, huh? If you called to a teller and then fell back into my arms…the court might want to kill you. They would call you a witch for associating with me.”

“It would be a selfish move on your part to make me hold you like this if I did manage to call for someone.”

“Yet you have not managed.”

“You forced my arms into this embrace.”

“What a villain I truly am then, yes?” His chest did not raise as high as before. It barely moved- all of him barely moved. Villain blinked slowly, parted his lips slowly, and wetted them with a slow tongue…he was losing too much blood. “I have been losing my hold on you since I chuckled,” Villain told. “You could do whatever you wanted now. Call, leave, stay…it is all up to you.”

Lover tested his words herself, pulling her arms away, brushing them against his shoulders like a heavy snake. “I could not leave you.” One hand rested on Villain’s shoulder, while the other caressed his cheekbone.

“I would want you to.”

“Well, I would not,” she snapped.

Regaining a small piece of himself, Villain quipped, “This is it.” He coughed, but ultimately continued, “You can let me die- holding me or no- or you can make the call. But if you call, I will put every last ounce of my life into your stayed departure. You will not fall where I do, do you understand?”

The two were quiet for a moment- Villain’s arms laying uselessly beside him, but his eyes sparkling like he was watching his last sunset in Lover’s own eyes. “Leave me,” he begged. “Let me die. And you run- rid yourself of your blood-ridden dress. Let yourself live without the death sentence of an executioner’s axe or the scorch of a hot stake.”

Without a further moment’s notice, Lover’s hand slid away from Villain’s cheek, and she felt her stiff legs extending beneath her. “Villain, no. No! Let me stay with you!”

Her sudden tears almost instantaneously convinced Villain to release her, to let her sit back down if she so pleased, but he held his ground. Her weakened state of mind made it easier for him to control her, to make her face the woods which would lead her to her new home. “You will not fall here,” Villain promised, “but I must.”

“This is selfish!” she called over her shoulder, her voice cracking, and her legs continuously- and unwillingly- moving away. “I love you. I love you and I can save you. Let me!”

But Villain had already made up his mind. He would die here, in this bloody grass. He would no longer be chased. He would no longer hide. He would no longer jeopardize the only person who ever saw him for what he was- another passionate man, one so unfortunate to be gifted with a heightened mind, with powers only a god could possess.

“I love you,” Villain said, as loud as he could, “but you will forget me now, and you shall never find yourself familiar with my memory. My name is nothing, so as my hair and cheeks that you adore so much. Such features similar to mine will be thistles to your eyes, and a voice as melodic as you find mine will sound to you like two swords clashing in battle. You will hate me, Lover, and so you will let me die here without ever looking back.”

***

Lover was walking, to where she was not sure. Through the woods, over a hill, then through more woods until she stumbled into a town, one bustling with movement and childrens’ laughter. She was home. And home was not not a bleeding man in the woods.

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(A/N) As much as I want this to be my big return, chances are it will not be. I post as I’m able to, and as I have the inspiration to do so. This semester has consisted of zero creative writing classes (which is my major), which means I truly have had no time dedicated to writing, except tiny drafts on Tumblr that I’m never able to finish. With that said, I miss this blog with all my heart, and I’m so happy to be posting something today. <3

#not a pr0mpt #You Will Not Fall #I acknowledge that I begged for medieval asks and then disappeared only to return with a non-requested medieval drabble but hey. it’s been #a while. Let’s make peace shall we?#Unto the typical:#villain x lover #lover x villain #civilian x villain #villain x civilian #I know some of you guys hate hero x villain tags in mon her x villain stories but to me it’s all theoretical anyway.#It’s all the same universe wherein character have roles instead of names and the roles become a little subjective I think.#Couldn’t lover be a Civilian or Hero? Hell couldn’t Villain be too? He sure doesn’t seem like a Villain to me. He seems VIEWED as a Villain #which makes the role I gave him pointless. So-#hero x villain #villain x hero #hero x villain story #hero x villain drabble #hero x villain snippet #hero #villain #hero/villain #villain/hero #medieval #medieval writing #medieval fantasy #fantasy #witches #gods #medieval gods

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