hiii helloooo heres more cerberus because she is my wife In Real Life and im sorry but im trying so hard to focus on writing this caption but LOOK at what is directly in front of me
Fanon-wise i like to ship Goosefeather x Hawkheart and if you think it sucks... thats the fun of it literally ❤️ they suck 💕 Hawkheart would fight Goosefeather's battles if he could and then fight him 🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀 Goosefeather wants the worse for Hawkheartt period hes been in denial abt his feelings for him since Moonflower died
Ashton feels the blade knick and snap and catch, something flakes off them in shards. Part of them. That's a fun party trick.
They'd not describe it as blacking out. It implies a softness to getting hurt, so fucking hurt your brain or your opal or whatever the fuck you have shrieks for it to stop and stops you, too. Knocked out feels a little flimsy too. They'd invent a word for it if they were the nerdy type, and not in so much fucking pain.
So, yeah. Everything stops, for a second, and they said they'd scatter, and is it so bad to expect he'd be left behind? That's how it works. At least he'd know Letters would be alright.
But nope! Too fucking much to expect people to stick to their word and stick to how things work.
He comes to choking on red, not blood his is darker, not the moon that's too big, not the storm - well maybe the storm. Or not - it's Orym, too practiced at this, too good at feeding him the potion, and it curdles on the way down that this is familiar for him, too.
(get left behind; hold the line)
And Ashton tries. Fuck he tries, don't you ever fucking imply he didn't try. Up and down and up and down and he's stuck in his portals he's stuck in time he's here not there but he's both and he's just so tired.
But he knows the rules: shit goes to hell, run. Run and get yourself out and how dare they - how fucking stupid are they to keep trying with him? How fucking stupid is Imogen - Imogen you fucking moron go we're dying so you can go, if you don't fly far and fast we'll die for nothing if no one gets away.
And Orym's dead. He should have kept that potion for himself. Stupid, stupid, who let a body guard martyr himself? Fucker should have been dragged away as soon as he got that look in his eye, he should know heroes die like pigs to people like her.
And Fearne's dead. Fuck, she’s so sensible, she’s so sly, why the fuck did she stay? Just for fun? It's not fun if you die, run with me, we can continue our game. please?
And Laudna might be. They aren't sure, she dances so close to death as part of living. But Imogen wouldn't scream like that if it was good. Thry want to take back everything they fucking said about damage because they've both taken so much.
Ashton will listen. Ashton will run. Maybe because he sticks to the fucking plan, in the hopes they will too and they'll get out and meet up and laugh over this with claps on the back and dramatic retellings and a fuckton of hard alcohol. Maybe because he follows the rules, stubborn stone, obey the continental forces at work of this is how a gang works. Maybe because he's a coward, and he can’t be the one left behind again, because surely when he next goes down they'll leave him.
They aren't sure what their tears are like, as a genasi. Guess they'll find out, now. Against all hope, Ashton fucking prays, prays to something, that he'll cry diamonds.
That'd be useful, huh? Wishful thinking, Ashton knows better.
That's why you always need someone to run - you always need someone to pick up the pieces, somehow. Get shit back together. Tell the story. Never thought it'd be him.
(why couldn't they have just left him behind? that's what they're supposed to do.)
Me, in the @amtrak-official Texas Eagle: oh there's Trump's damn wall cutting right through people's property except where they've taken it down because it's too damn inconvenient and/or the Rio Grande's been dammed for a reservoir to make an international recreation area which he proposed to mine with revolving spikes because he's an evil asshole
also I have not seen a soul out there across several hundred miles apart from a few sheep
TMobile:
Me: Ah yes border crossing is illegal unless it's Americans doing it and/or corporations can profit 🙄
Okokok I am finally almost free of my busy academic weeks
Would y'all mind giving me single-word prompts to kickstart the muse? I can't guarantee ficlets to go with them (I need to work on some Two for joy and existing WIPs), but if you don't mind spoilers I can privately share what the prompts spur me into completing 🥺