fire & light & sun.

and the sun spoke to the lion, telling him to remember who he is. isnt that just a lion king quote? it fits, doesn't it?

[ccxmichael-blog]

jammed.

@ccgavin

there’s some things that just aren’t worth worrying about. like, yeah, he could get hit by a meteor falling from the sky or he could have his leg bitten off by a shark when he dips his toes in the ocean, but those are such rare and improbable occurrences that michael has never wasted energy worrying about them. he has more immediate fears; will this monster he fights be the last? is there a card waiting to stab him in the back? it’s a strange life he lives that he worried more about magical creatures causing his demise than a car accident.

elevators are another thing that he expects to work just fine. he’s never had a problem with them before, not in his old apartment in austin and certainly not in this new place he now lives in. michael mashes the button to go up, checking emails on his phone idly. nothing important there; he pockets the device as he furiously taps on the button to close the doors. there’s nothing worse than the awkward half a minute with a stranger on the elevator. apparently the button does not work, because the doors are in no rush to close.

[ccgavin]

gavin is nothing if not lazy. and he lives on the seventh floor, so he absolutely refuses to take the stairs up to his apartment. he knows it’s faster, knows it’s “better for him,” but especially after walking home from work he refuses to put himself through anything else. he’s stood in front of the elevator for ages before, because their apartment is so shitty that it only has one elevator servicing twelve floors. no matter how long he has to wait, though, it’s still better than taking the stairs. 

but it’s still better to not wait at all, which is why he hurries a bit when he sees the elevator doors open when he enters the lobby. he hurries his steps a bit, raising a hand to try to get the attention of the guy stepping on. “hold the doors!” he calls, and he doesn’t know if he’s just lucky or if the guy hears him, but he manages to slip in just before the doors start to close. gavin lets out a relieved sigh and leans back against the back wall with a grin. “cheers, mate,” he says, not even knowing if the guy made any effort to hold the doors open for him. “hit seven for me, would you?”

the elevator starts moving up, and the lights to track what floor it’s on haven’t worked since gavin moved here, so he doesn’t bother watching them, instead pulling out his phone and idly scrolling through his several pages of useless games and apps. just as he’s about to pocket the device, knowing that it’s nearing time for the doors to open on the seventh floor, the elevator shakes weirdly before jolting harshly, the lights going out and leaving them in almost total darkness, gavin’s phone the only source of light in the small space. 

“oh, bugger me,” he says in english, his voice breaking the surprised silence between them. 

[cardcaptorsrp]

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[ccgavin]

we’re just young gods ✿

@ccxmina / @cchyeri

as much as gavin likes humans and has come to appreciate them in all their quirky, funny ways, it’s nice to be around fellow cards for a while. it’s nice to be able to use his power freely, to allow his skin to glow slightly with the light he carries inside himself simply because he can. it’s nice to appreciate hyeri’s power of creating and entering her own dimension. it’s nice that she’s introduced him to another card, one he somehow hasn’t managed to meet yet. 

as the flower card, mina intrigues him. flowers have been the center of the human life he’s built for himself, and he rarely associates them with magic, his own or anyone else’s. but her magic is built around flowers, and he’s amazed by how crazily opposite they are, while still being oddly similar. he supposes he might just be looking too deeply into it, but it’s pretty cool all the same. he’s also intrigued by her spot in the new idol group -- he’s on twitter enough to at least know their faces -- and he wonders if all the members are cards, and how they ended up with such an intense and public job.

he trails behind hyeri, aware of mina beside him and unsure what the rules are for this dimension. not necessarily the rules of physics, but just what hyeri’s comfortable with them doing. he’s never been invited into her dimension before, though he knows she spends a lot of time in here. he doesn’t want to upset her by potentially invading her privacy or messing something up. 

“wow,” he breathes when he spots the garden, and the faint light around his body grows a bit brighter as his face splits into a grin. “this is amazing, ri!” he tells her. “is this why you’re showing us this? you want the florist and the flower card to admire your handiwork?” he nudges her playfully in the side with his elbow, a silent and gentle addition to his light teasing. 

[feysuji-blog]

—* young folks

    no one will surprise me unless you do — @ccgavin

generally, aya thinks, men aren’t the type to be florists; maybe that’s just a stereotype (honestly, it is is the 21st century. but then why aren’t more men florists? it’s a good passion to have in her eyes), or maybe it simply doesn’t appeal to men as it does to women. it takes a special kind of heart to tend and nurture nature, and he seems to have a knack for it. he’s different too, some sort of magic (different from her brothers- aya assumes that he must be a card, or maybe a different kind of hero? certainly something) clings to him and she’s drawn like a sun to the moon, as if it were an unspoken rule that she keep her distance. but he’s fascinating.

he grows beautiful sunflowers, and other flowers too, but moon  flowers are her favorite. they’re unique in the way that they only bloom when the moon’s rays shine upon them- and somehow a plant is smart enough to know the difference. and since wandering here, she visits at least once every two weeks to buy something. (truthfully, her apartment looks more like an overgrown garden than a living space, and her hermit crabs may not appreciate it much.) they don’t talk more than a normal buyer and seller, but his smile is secretive, almost, and she finds herself wanting to ask if she can be privy to them.

today, she remembers him, and it feels almost as if she’s dipped her feet in too-cold water. he knows that he’s familiar because they’ve met- what feels like long ago now, before her sickness, before her brother, and before she forgot. it’s still hard to remember things sometimes, and it leaves her with headaches often, but gavin she remembers just as well as the oft-rainy weather of england, when she thought university was a good answer to life.

today, she purchases a sunflower. it’s smaller than the others, but just as pretty (and probably more size-appropriate for her apartment), and as she plinks it on the counter, she smiles.

     “i do know you.”

[ccgavin]

the girl is back. 

people, for the most part, don’t tend to be regulars at flower shops. they come in for anniversaries, or birthdays, or when they or a friend move to a new place. flowers aren’t really an everyday, or even every week, kind of purchase. it can be rare for people to come back twice in the same month, let alone the same season. 

so when gavin starts noticing the same girl in the shop multiple times over the summer -- albeit a couple weeks apart each time, but still more often than most people -- he notices her. he watches her, watches how she lingers over the moon flowers with a soft smile on her face, watches how she reads every information card attached to the plants with what seems like genuine interest in her eyes. 

the way people treat plants is important to gavin. it’s easy for humans to see plants as just things, pretty things that last for a few weeks and then need to be thrown out. especially since moving to the city he’s noticed how few people truly appreciate plants, even the kind that don’t bloom. they’re not just temporary bursts of beauty to be thrown out when they wilt. if properly cared for, many exist in a cycle, constantly dying and growing back again the next year. some even last all year, their survival through all four seasons a true testament of their strength. 

gavin notices people who appreciate these things, because they are all too rare in the city. at the beginning of the summer, with the girl’s first couple of visits, he noticed her interest, but didn’t note much beyond that, as she was just another customer. but when he realized she’d been back three or four times already in the season, he started really observing her when she came in. he noticed which flowers she bought, and how they always were potted plants that could be easily managed indoors. he even advised her on some good houseplant choices a couple of times.

after they had talked a few times -- though their conversation didn’t stray much from that related to her purchase -- he had discovered her name. aya. he started noticing, then, how pretty she was. her long dark hair, sometimes falling over her shoulders and sometimes pulled back in a loose ponytail or bun. her piercing eyes, a gaze that could be intense but is somehow always soft and gentle, even towards him, a complete stranger.

he notices her this time too, of course. and when she approaches him at the counter and gently presents a small sunflower -- one of the toughest little flowers he’s ever cared for, actually, and his favorite kind of flower to boot -- he feels his too-human heart skip a beat for some reason. he can’t pinpoint it, but something about her just feels right, like there’s a sort of gravity between them and this is a sign that they’re on the right track.

he looks up at her with a crooked grin on his face and a sparkle in his eye, raising one eyebrow at her words. “i should hope so,” he says smoothly. “you have been coming here all summer. and i do wear a nametag,” he adds, one hand gesturing to the silver tag on his apron. 

[ccgavin]

two nerds, a foot, and a mouth

@ccniel

gavin has become far too accustomed to just flat-out ignoring the strange gut sense he gets around daniel. logically, he knows what it means: that daniel is magical, and based on what he knows about him gavin highly doubts he’s a card. that means that daniel is likely a hero, but gavin ignores it. he ignores the gut feeling, ignores every sign and logical part of his mind that insists that kang daniel is a hero, because gavin hates heroes. 

and he doesn’t want to hate daniel. 

so instead he turns from where he was watering an azalea bush -- she’s really doing well for having just been repotted -- and raises an eyebrow at daniel, whom gavin invited over to hang out. “how much for you to try to put your foot in your mouth?” he asks in english, glad for the chance to speak his first language, even if he does still have a thick british accent. 

the question, while it may seem random, isn’t actually that out of character for gavin. he loves proposing crazy ideas like that, especially ones he doesn’t want to do himself. only spending his spare money on video games leads to him having quite a bit extra for ridiculous bets and dares like this, and proposing them to daniel is even better than usual because the other often won’t even bother to ask for money before doing whatever stupid thing gavin’s come up with -- he’ll usually be so curious about whether or not he can even do it he’ll jump the gun and start trying without asking for money.

[ccgavin]

wizardry **

You aren’t someone who normally receives the morning mail from an owl, but there’s a Snowy Owl perched outside your window. Held in its beak is an elegant, burgundy envelope with your name and address handwritten in black ink. Should you decide to open the window, your winged messenger will take off to the skies after handing you the envelope. You look for a seal or family crest to no avail, yet it still carries the aura of something official. Do you dare open it?

Opening the envelope releases the warm, ashy scent of incense. Yellow flower petals shoot out from the envelope as though they were spring loaded, and they bring with them the refreshing scent of Ylang Ylang oil. You look inside the envelope. As it turns out, its actual contents aren’t as elegant and mysterious as you’ve been lead on to believe.

It’s nothing but a flyer for some store holding a 50% off sale. Ah, marketing tactics these days! You scan some of the offers for this strange place – Yuuko’s Shop, it’s called – and none of them are accompanied by pictures. The coupon expiry dates are odd too, most of them either expiring decades ago or will expire decades from now. You read only some of the deals:

Enchanted Glasses are 50% off – be able to see magic for the very first time!

Owl Delivery Service are 50% off for a limited time only

Fortune Telling is purchase 1 meeting, get the other half off!

Whether you choose to visit the address or throw the letter in the garbage is up to you. But before you make your decision, the bottom of the flyer catches your eye:

Get all your magical needs before it’s too late! Something big is coming soon. ☹︎☜︎✌︎☝︎🕆︎☜︎😐︎✋︎☪︎☠︎✌︎

Yuuko Ichihara

of course gavin is familiar with harry potter. it was one of the first fiction books he read when he was back in england teaching himself about the world. he actually does love the series -- though he lives a magic life himself, he loves the wizarding world and owns a full set of all seven books. 

so when he sees an owl outside his living room window, resting on the railing of his balcony surrounded by his familiar plants, he does a double take. he rubs at his eyes, blinking a few times and letting his mouth gape open as he realizes the owl is still there. the bird ruffles its wings, seeming almost impatient with him to come out and relieve it of its burden. in a kind of daze, he opens the glass door and steps out, taking the letter from the bird and watching as it immediately flies off. 

is hogwarts real? do they think i’m a wizard? holy shit, he thinks, turning the envelope over and over in his hands. 

the effect of it opening makes him squint and cough, the sudden ashy smell surprising him. he picks a yellow petal off his own shoulder and examines it for a second, his mind automatically trying to identify it. he pushes the thoughts aside and instead turns back to the envelope, highly suspicious now because that definitely didn’t happen in the books. 

he’s even more intrigued when he sees the brightly-colored flyer. the name yuuko actually sounds familiar -- he thinks he’s heard it a bit around the other cards he knows, but he can’t entirely place it. the note at the bottom of the flyer really intrigues him, though, and with nothing better to do, he makes his decision. 

twenty minutes later, he’s pushing open the door to the shop, the flyer still held in his hand. “a little bird told me about this shop,” he says, grinning a bit at his own joke. “so i came to check it out.”

[cchyeri-blog]

*custodian—!”

@ccgavin

humans and their stupid rules. hyeri wanted to scream whenever she had to abide by them. she wasn’t a human, but god, did she have to act like one. she convinces herself it’s for the sake of disguise, to hide among them, but man, was it a blow to her pride.

so, humans had families – homes, whatever they wanted to call them. humans didn’t just live in their own universe as god, apparently (they’re missing out). so as the pattern follows, hyeri couldn’t simply stay in her dimension all the time, which was very much a pity. she had to have a ‘place of residence’, especially since for some reason she had been assigned the body of a ‘teenager’ (again, more stupid human concepts). though, on the bright side, she had found some cards, allies, that were willing to share their fake human houses and pretend to live fake human lives together.

“surprise,” hyeri deadpans, resting her chin on top of gavin’s head. she had spotted him on the couch in front of the tv, too immersed in his game to even notice her arrival. she didn’t understand the appeal of games, but each to their own, she supposes.

“how are you still playing this game? weren’t you literally on this exact same level the last time i left?” she stands back up and swings her bag off her shoulder and onto the couch. it lands with a heavy thump, it’s contents unknown to anyone else (and it’s staying that way). “i’m hungry…” she whines, now moved around the couch and facing the leo card. she exaggerates her pout, crossing her arms. “gotta feed my stupid human body.”

[ccgavin]

one of gavin’s favorite new things he’s discovered since being sealed is video games. they’re immersive and addicting, and they give gavin something to spend his extra money ( and extra time ) on. he’s currently immersed in destiny, though he’s mainly just doing some side quests to grind his character and find some new gear.

he plays with the tv’s volume low and most of the sounds reaching him through a wireless headset over his ears, since he’s gotten one two many complaints from the neighbors about the volume level. as such, he doesn’t hear his apartment door open and close behind him, leading to him jumping about a foot in the air when he feels something touch his head.

the top of his head slams into hyeri’s chin, and he rubs the sore spot as he turns in his seat, one hand moving the headphones to hang around his neck. “you scared me!” he exclaims with a bit of a pout, sending the dimension card a sulky glare as he turns back to the game, only hearing faint noises and sounds from his nearby headphones now. 

“this is a hard quest, ri,” he says, using a nickname he’s had for her for ages. “well, actually, everything but the boss is really easy. i must have done it about fifty times, but the damn boss keeps killing me. it’d be a lot easier to play with someone, but oh well. i’m just a lonely gamer who has to solo everything,” he explains with a mournful sigh, expertly guiding his character through the map and then crouching behind a box in a room he knows enemies will enter soon. 

“oh, so is that what you’re doing here then?” he asks as the enemies enter on the screen, and he automatically starts shooting them down from his hiding place. “is that all i’m good for, then? providing food? you know where it is. i’m not gonna wait on you hand and foot, you know. especially when you show up unannounced and nearly give me a bloody heart attack.”

he’s exaggerating, of course. she almost never gives him a heads up before she comes over, because since gavin is her guardian of sorts, hyeri practically lives with him. that still doesn’t stop him from complaining about it, though. but truly, he does like her. it’s nice to have someone around the house all the time -- it can get lonely all by himself. even if she does randomly disappear off into her little pocket dimensions sometimes, but he’d never admit to her that he gets lonely without her around. 

[ccgavin]

SUPER belated intro post here but hi this is actually kate aka the mun of @renaxcc!! she’s a cute star princess and this is gavin, the leo card who actually. exists in the stars bc ya know. leo’s a constellation ( yebin’s rlly jealous that he has his own constellation and he loves holding that over her head )

but anyway i’ll put some facts about gavin under the cut! if you wanna plot pls give this a like and i’ll slide into your ims -- or if i know i have you on twitter/discord i’ll message you there! if you don’t have my twitter you can feel free to follow me @/kibumnida and my discord is nyayoungs#9438! ( i am in the discord group chat so you can find me through that as well! )

here we go with some facts about this asshole

he works in a flower shop. he really likes flowers

his power is light manipulation! which he uses to keep all his fav flowers alive

he hates heroes bc one of them accidentally killed the first human he ever loved ( kinda father figure type -- read more on that in his bio )

he loves humans though he thinks theyre really cute

talk to him about astrology with a straight face. like if you actually believe in astrology he’ll think it’s the funniest thing ever

kind of a prankster/agent of chaos. rlly good friends with @ccseongwoo and they cause mayhem together a lot

seriously he HATES heroes like he wants them all to die it’s Not Good

definitely open to him being friends with heroes without realizing they’re heroes though i’m [eye emoji] at that angst potential

liking humans doesn’t at all stop him from fucking with them. he loves causing chaos but he especially loves being in the center of the chaos bc he gets a lot of attention

based on gavin free from achievement hunter

also an actual fan of achievement hunter; chose his name because of gavin free. he named himself after gavin free, who he’s based on. i hate this muse

spends a lot of his spare time playing video games. he plays p much everything but he prefers console to pc. he’s an xbox nerd through and through

but he still owns a playstation bc he’s a whore for those pretty graphics

all his spare money goes to video game stuff. literally he buys food and games and that’s it

he steals plants from the shop he works at all the time. his apartment is full of plants and they all have names