Hi! I saw that you were taking requests and was wondering if I could request a Truthless Recluse x child!Reader (platonic of course) who's trying to decide whether to join TR or not, or just overall being stuck between two really bad decisions. Thanks, have an absolutely wonderful day/night!❤️
you betcha, it's gonna be angsty, but I've had so much fun making this, imma make a part two! >:3 Also, I'm assuming you're referring to the beast yeast TR, not the SoT & TR version. (I wouldn't know how to write that version anyway), anywho, enjoy!
Pick Your Poison- (platonic!) Father!Truthless Recluse X child!reader
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⛈️This isn't how it was supposed to go.
⛈️When you had stowed away on the airship, you never would've imagined what would've happened.
⛈️It was a shocker to see you on board (A heart attack if you were Pure Vanilla), but by then, it was too late to turn around, and not because you were all more than half way, Pure Vanilla would've turned around if you had already landed, the issue was the crash landing.
⛈️The encounter with Shadow Milk was scary, yes, but you weren't that scared, your papa would always be there to protect you!
⛈️So when Shadow Milk was defeated and forced back, you were confident that this wouldn't be all that difficult!
⛈️But you were wrong. Oh so heartbreakingly wrong.
⛈️After getting separated, you eventually spotted him, he looked different, but it wouldn't be the first time he's looked so different, but your run quickly slowed until stopping completely just before him.
⛈️The light in his eyes... it was gone. Snuffed out, if it wasn't for you recognizing his hair (and the near exact same outfit minus the color scheme), you wouldn't have recognized him at all.
⛈️ The worst part of all? It didn't even seem like he cared to see you.
⛈️Over and over again did he tell you to leave. How could you? You couldn't just leave Beast Yeast, you had no way to get back. And you couldn't just go back to the Faerie Kingdom, between finding your way and actually getting there, it was just asking too much of someone so young. Besides, how could you leave the person you loved the very most...?
⛈️ But no matter what reason there was, the dim eyes that used to be your dad's didn't care. He wanted you as far away as you could go. And it hurt. Hurt more than any taunt Candy Apple could fish out, hurt more than any danger the Spire seemed to hold, and most of all, hurt more than any illusion the Master of the Spire of Deceit could conjure up.
⛈️But the truth was, it probably hurt Truthless Recluse far more than it could've ever hurt you. His light may have dimmed, but you were his little light, you're the reason he kept going, kept enduring through Shadow Milk's games. He didn't want to see you go, he wanted you to stay, to see your eyes that seemed to always glimmer, even if just barely.
⛈️But he couldn't. Not when the Spire of Deceit was so full of danger, he tried to protect you, and he was doing well, but if Shadow Milk were to ever turn his eyes towards you... He doesn't want to think about that.
⛈️Point is, anywhere would be safer than inside the Tower of Deceit. He would be able to protect you from most things, but he wouldn't be able to protect you from the most dangerous thing of all. Shadow Milk Cookie.
⛈️But you, you don't know this. All you can see is your dad who just doesn't want to see you anymore, your dad who has changed so much you can barely even tell it's the same cookie. And the worst part of all? He's proven to you himself he's not one of Shadow Milk's illusions.
⛈️ Truthless wishes he could explain to you why you need to go, but he can't. Not when Shadow Milk could easily weaponize it against himself or you. So all you're left with is a devastating choice:
⛈️Do you stay in the Spire of Deceit, with the person who you love the very most, despite him being heartbreakingly different, or do you try and brave Beast Yeast, wandering without a clue where to go, what's safe, or how to go home?
A/N: and now I'm off to make a part two because I'm out of school, have nothing better to do, and really loved writing this (despite crying midway through). Heads up, part two is gonna be fluff. Because this gal likes her angst finished with some fluff.
Edit: done! Here's the link to the part two! Link