A Long Fall Coming

Indie | Priv | Selec Original Character

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wanderingthroughideas​:

“I love it!” he said, clearly elated. He liked Fei’s long hair, but there was something undeniably adorable about the new look. He hoped Fei would be able to grow used to it in time- cutting that much hair couldn’t have been an easy decision.

“You look great! Do you like it?”

Joey wondered if he should get Fei something to fidget with now that his hair was gone. Something to keep his hands occupied. 

The haircut had been his idea, and yet the half blood didn’t reply right away. Instead, he tilted his head this way and that. Seeming to truly consider the question, and quiet literally weigh the change. 

Then he offered a small smile and nod. 

“I do. I think it will be...strange, to get used to, but I feel lighter and it is...nice. To make a choice like this about myself.” 

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wanderingthroughideas​:

Joey scrunched his mouth to the side, trying to keep back everything in his mind that he wanted to say about the queen.

“Uh…huh,” he said. “I’ll send for some gauze and ice.”

He knew how much dental work sucked even with his modern amenities. He couldn’t imagine everything Fei had just gone through. He hated how they treated him here, and he hated that he couldn’t do anything about it. 

At least, not yet. 

“Try your best not to touch it, ok? Has this happened before?”

With a quick nod, Fei proceeded to sit on his hands, as he- and likely Joey- knew that doing such was really the only way he’d be able to keep himself from poking the swollen spot. 

Logic and reason were no match for his need to fidget. 

“She took all of my first teeth.” Well. Most of them. He’d given one to a crow that flew up to his window but that didn’t feel very important to mention. “And a few of my second when we learned they keep growing back.” 

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wanderingthroughideas​:

Joey gently reached out and put his hand over the one Fei had reached into his hair. He laced their fingers together and brought it back down in front of them. 

“I mean it, Fei. You’ve got so much amazing potential to do wonderful things. I know you do. And I hope that someday, you’ll be able to see that, too.”

He kissed the back of Fei’s hand.

Fei didn’t believe it. He knew he had skills. Years of training and missions assured him of that but...none of them let him do good things. Let him be anything but a monster. 

Yet...

“I...I do not know how you see so much good in me, but I know you would not lie. So...I will believe in you until I can believe it.” 

[romantic-musings]

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Morning light

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[factumnihil]

"the trauma made you kind" fuck that. no. i am kind because i cannot allow anyone to go through what i did. i am soft because i chose to be.

[peculiar-persephone]

Trauma made me scared, angry, and vulnerable.

I made myself kind.

[quotemadness]

I exist in two places, here, and where you are.

Margaret Atwood  (via quotemadness)

[labors]

am i bitter? yes. but do i try to move on and let go of past anger? well, actually, no

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@lost-and-found-in-the-forest​ said: “This is the power that the humans feared.” 

“Unimpressive. Humans fear any power that they can not understand and control.” 

There is a moment where he looks bored. Then his own words seem to sink in and the image shatters. Crimson eyes widen and a clawed hand moves to his own mouth, as if he could force the thought back in.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. 

“I---I did not mean that.” 

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@wanderingthroughideas​ said: "You're so pretty!" 

The soft purple flush spread all the way to his pointed ears. Clawed fingers reached up to tug experimentally at the end of his hair. Trying to get his brain to accept the new- much shorter- length. 

It felt like a weight had been taken off of him. Well, a second weight, outside of the very literal one. 

“You like it?” 

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@wanderingthroughideas​ said: “Who did this to you?” 

“My queen needed a tooth.” The fae replied as, tone casual. Or, at least as casual as it could be with swelling in his jaw and cloth in his mouth. Absently, he reached his hand up to poke at the spot, only to cringe and pull his hand back. 

Right. Still hurt. 

“They grow back.” 

[questionlife]

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@wanderingthroughideas​ said: "In you is a world of promise." 

Pale fingers pull his hair back. Stray locks being tucked behind pointed ears, as a light flush colored his cheeks. Red eyes drop, raise, then drop again. A smile tugging the corners of his lips that can only be described as sheepish. 

“You think so highly of me.” A sting in his heart. Uncertainty and self doubt breed into him. “I...wish I could see things the way you do.” 

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