Thinking about sitting with Gilbert in the bath, but not together. He's sitting in the tub, amused that you won't look at certain parts of him, but still insisting on sitting by him outside of the tub.
"It's much warmer in here," he points out, swirling his finger across the surface, "this tub also has room for two, I would say."
"I'm not the one who came back soaked after a trip out."
Gilbert shrugs, "weather can be unpredictable."
You don't believe him for a second. When he came back to the palace, he he was still dripping from the downpour he had been 'caught' in, and had the gall to grin at your panic. The whole time that you shoved him towards the bath, trying to figure out scoldings that wouldn't cause a war, that grin stayed plastered to his face (alongside teases that you had gone too far with your words, and now he was contemplating war again unless you found a sweet way to apologize.)
Lips pursed, you tried to focus back on the book in your hands. Hopefully, he hadn't noticed you've read the same page about five times now.
You hear the water slosh as he moves, and out of the corner of your eye, you see him rest his arm on the edge of the tub, a dramatic sigh escaping him.
When you ignore it, you hear the water slosh again.
"It would be such a shame if your book got wet-"
"Prince Gilbert!" You huff, swatting his dripping hand away, "maybe I just want to make sure you warm up properly."
"Only just?"
"Only just."
"Washing my hair yourself led me to believe there was more-"
"Well, there wasn't!"
Resting his chin on his arm, he chuckles over your answer. And for a moment, you believe you're fine. That he's settled down now, but he points at your book again, letting out an amused chuckle when you defend it from water droplets.
"Read to me, then."
"I'm sorry?"
"Read. To. Me."
Really? You glance at the page, skimming the words to make sure there is nothing explicit. When you deem it safe, you glance at him again.
"It is fiction, but it's not the type of romance story you said you prefer..."
He shrugs, settling back into the tub again, "I read more than my preferences, little rabbit."
... It felt ridiculous to fulfill his 'request', but as you shakily began to read the words aloud, you couldn't help but notice his posture become more relaxed.
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You drew your palm away from it. Sticky with Red. The imprint of your being painted upon it. Red against blue.
A palm print, akin to the hundreds, thousands, millions of its copies in a not-so-distant past. The universe blinked, and mankind screamed. Alive, gone, instantaneous. Fraction of a tick in the grandfather clock – the grand scheme made everything so small.
What’s left of humanity was it. A being pure of heart, for it had no heart to begin with. A being eternal, until all life drains away. Until no one can recall its name.
And an imprint on its chassis. The exact shape and size of your left hand. You left your mark. Greedy. Your mind drew up images of similar copies made by human beings. Littered against cave walls, pottery, paper. Young and old, raised their hands and pressed to leave a mark.
I am was here. This is was my place. I took a part of the universe and, in spite of death, wished for more.
You glanced at your hands, stained thoroughly in your own blood. An angel bent to this degree of animality. Crimson red burned onto the deep blue frame. Iron oxide etched into the ancient walls.
My palm prints are here. Representing me. Lasting millennia. When someone sees it, they will think of me, and I will live on.
All fades away at the end of it all. A slow sleep into non-being. The past, present, and future sweep quietly away into total absolution and oblivion.
You brushed your palm against the red on blue. No one will be left to see this palm print. Painted in the first colours of our blood. The events here will be lost, just as all stories that came before. Just as all life that came before.
A hand close around yours. It is still here, right now.
And that must be enough to stay.
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Quick note:
Iron oxide = first red paint made. Though I still feel like blood is likely the "first paint" <- did no research. The 'first colours of blood' is also a reference to the creation of angels being prior to humans'.
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So H2Woah....
We don't have any info on them except for what's in this picture really. The one on the left is obviously an octoling with some really interesting markings.
But the one on the right looks like a Brain Coral. In all likelihood they're an anemone like Harmony, but they really truly look like a Brain Coral.
And two of the three members shown of Yoko and the Gold Bazookas had costume pieces that looked like dead coral (Yoko with her new hat and the funky little jellyfish/leech creature with the dead coral decoration on their hat)
They definitely are trying to push a coral theme with these new bands, huh?
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*crawls to you* rie if ur still taking requests may I plz req a lil sidsledge fic inspired by the lyrics/song ribs by lorde?? if possible <3
erin my beloved anything for you truly. i am always taking requests so long as they are this brilliant i hope you enjoy <3
i. ribs by lorde
He always left his window half-cracked open, if not to hear the cicadas or the soft murmur of wind through trees than so Eugene could slip nimble fingers under the glass pane and push into his bedroom.
He didn't ever go to the door, and Sid didn't blame him none; they both still lived with their parents, and although he was sure he could explain this in some way that made any semblance of sense to either the Phillips or the Sledge’s, he didn't feel like he should.
This was just them. Always had been, in a way.
Eugene didn't make a noise, climbing up the side of the house and pushing through his window, foot hitting the wooden planks of Sid’s bedroom floor with nary a sound. Sid stayed in bed, face tilted up towards the ceiling, pretending to be asleep.
Unlike him, Eugene closed the window all the way, blocking out all noise that wasn't his breathing, steady and slow, or Sid’s own. Sid imagined that he could hear a heartbeat, and pretended that it ain’t his.
He only knew that Eugene came closer when the mattress dipped with the weight of him, Eugene pushing under the covers of his bed to lay next to him without saying a word.
Sid rolled over, throwing an arm around Eugene’s waist and tugging him closer, his back to Sid’s chest, tangling their legs together and keeping his eyes closed. “Dream?” He asked, a tired murmur.
Because he didn't think there’s any way that Eugene Sledge would clamber through his window and climb into his bed with him like they were eight years old, all over again, for anything less than a dream.
Eugene’s hand found his – both of them scarred and calloused, marked by motors and mud – and laced their fingers together carefully. Sid couldn’t see his face, pressed his nose to the column of his neck.
“No.” Eugene whispered to him, socked foot rubbing absently along the length of Sid’s calf. “Just thinkin’.”
Oh.
That was even worse, than a dream.
“Good thoughts?” Sid asked, even though he knew that they wouldn’t be. Eugene leaned further back into him, and Sid tightened his grip to compensate for it.
“Not bad ones.” Eugene said, voice lilting around his words and softening them. “Just… different.”
“Different.”
“Mm. Thoughts I wouldn’t have had, before.”
What before was went unsaid, because it could. Because neither of them wanted to say it. Sid pressed his lips to Eugene’s pulse point almost absently.
“I’ve been havin’ more of those, too.” He said, like he was maybe at absolution. Like he had a confession. “All turned around on ‘em. They ain’t bad, just different.”
Eugene’s fingers smoothed along the back of his hand, where it rested over his sternum. “We got different minds now, I think.” He said, almost softly. “From what we had before.”
Sid hummed. “Guess it comes with gettin’ older.” He said, trying to feel wise, drowsiness not-withstanding.
“Guess so.”
They were both about a million years old, now. Sid turned twenty-two three weeks ago, Eugene following after him a week after that. Both old enough to watch a nation turn, both old enough to watch friends turn into dust.
The thought made Sid close his eyes again. “What’re you doin’ tomorrow?” He asked, and Eugene hummed.
“Thinkin’ I’ll go down to the wharf.” He said. “Then, if it’s too busy, go out to the woods. Try and find somethin’ new.”
“Mind if I go with you?”
“Don’t you got a job?”
“I don’t have to go if I don’t want to. Don’t think I will, tomorrow. Not like my parents’ll do anything.” Sid would rather stay with Eugene, who shifted in his hold.
“I’d like it,” Eugene murmured. “If you’d go with me.”
Sid just pressed his lips to Eugene’s neck again, letting himself be lulled back into a half-sleep.
He didn’t really mind much, being so old. Being so different. So long as Gene kept climbing through his window.
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