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The parfait glass is cool against your fingertips, as if it might absorb the heat of everything you cannot say.
Outside the cafe, people move like they have destinations stitched into their bones—crossing the street, laughing into phones, disappearing into corners of the city as though they are being gently erased and rewritten somewhere else. A woman in a pale coat pauses at the curb. A boy runs after a bus. Someone drops a receipt and does not notice. The world continues its small mercies of forgetting.
And you sit still, as if stillness might summon him.
Sebek.
The name does not feel like a word so much as a reflex of the heart—something that happens to you without permission, like breathing or blinking too slowly when you are tired. You imagine him somewhere far from here, upright as a drawn blade, arguing with duty as if duty were a living thing that could be persuaded by volume alone.
Training, guarding Malleus, or simply enduring the quiet gravity of his family’s expectations—each obligation arriving earlier than affection ever learns to gather itself into words.
He moves through them as though time itself were structured in ranks: duty first, then duty again, and only in some distant, unassigned hour, the possibility of anything softer. As if affection were not denied, but perpetually rescheduled by forces more ancient than his desire to remain human.
Now you are left to understand him in that language of delay—where love does not disappear, only waits behind closed doors it does not have the authority to open. Hence the learned shape of his absences.
They are full—crowded with discipline, with obligation and the relentless architecture of his devotion to others. Yet still, there is a corner of you that keeps knocking on it like a hand against locked wood.
Maybe I should have gone out to see you.
The thought returns again and again, as a kind of stubborn tenderness, like a prayer that refuses to learn humility. If I had walked further. If I had waited less. If I had become faster, quieter—if I had folded myself into the timing of his world instead of my own.
I would do it all again.
The café continues hums softly around you. Cups clink in the background. A spoon stirs something too carefully. Someone laughs too loudly at something that is not that funny, and you envy them the ease of it—the unthinking permission to exist without measuring every second against someone else’s absence.
You want to see him.
Never in the abstract way people say it when they mean “I miss you.” No. It is sharper than that, almost embarrassing in its clarity. It is physical where it has weight. It presses behind your ribs until even breathing feels like negotiation.
Even a text is not enough.
Because a text is a polite ghost. A sentence that pretends it can substitute warmth. You read them carefully, over and over, as if repetition could turn ink into presence:
good morning, (y/n) don’t forget to eat later.
sorry for the late reply I was training
I was cleaning
I was—
Always something interrupted. Always something more important than the space between your fingers and his.
Nevertheless, you keep every unfinished excuse like pressed flowers. As if they might one day bloom into arrival.
You imagine him writing them rushing, posture straight even in solitude, brow furrowed as though punctuation itself is an oath. You imagine his voice in the spaces between words—firm, slightly roughened by exhaustion he would never admit to.
You imagine, and it is not enough.
Your hands lift slightly from the table without your permission, as if your body has its memory of him—of how it would feel to loop your arms around his neck, to rest your weight against the solid certainty of his shoulder. A fragile coexistence of obligation and desire, where what he must do and what he feels are allowed, briefly, to share the same air without conflict.
You wonder if he ever thinks like this too.
Or if he is better at partitioning the heart into neat, obedient compartments.
Outside, a bus sighs to a stop. The doors open like an invitation that forgets it was ever tender, yet soon close like a verdict already decided.
A man in uniform passes the window, and for a moment, your chest tightens with the ridiculous hope that the world has made a mistake—that it has misplaced him here, in this ordinary street with its indifferent traffic and afternoon light.
But it is not him.
Leaving would feel like admitting that waiting has no shape, no logic, no reward. Only motionlessness disguised as faith. Your mouth is slightly parted, suspended in that delicate interval between silence and speech, as if language has come to the edge of you and hesitated there—too shy, or too honest, to cross fully into sound.
Sebek would scold you for that look. For wasting time. For sitting idle when there are things to be done, duties to be fulfilled, strength to be trained.
Because you know him—you also know he would hesitate, just for a fraction of a second, if he saw you like this; a hesitation so infinitesimal it would barely disturb the stern architecture of his composure, and yet it would exist similar to a hairline fracture in polished stone.
For Sebek is not made for hesitation. He is all straight lines and sharpened conviction, all thunder held in the throat of duty. Though even the most disciplined geometry has its secret fault, its almost-imperceptible softness where light insists on entering.
So you press your forehead lightly to the glass. Only to feel, for a moment, closer to wherever he is becoming himself without you.
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What is a bag?
It seems, at first, a question too insignificant to deserve thought, and yet the longer one lingers on it, the more it resists such dismissal, as though even the most ordinary object conceals within it a quiet hierarchy of meaning.
To the wealthy, it is seldom merely functional, but instead a declaration—chosen, displayed, and understood without ever being explained.
To the privileged, it becomes an object of discernment, something to be examined, compared, and quietly judged by the quality of its leather or the reputation of its maker.
But to those who cannot afford such considerations, a bag sheds all illusion and reveals its most honest purpose. It must endure.
And I find myself pausing there, out of something closer to reluctance, for what right does one have to weigh these meanings against each other without having truly depended on any one of them?
There are forms of necessity that cannot be imagined into understanding, only lived into it.
The city offers no answer, though it seems to remember the question. Its streets bear the softened marks of countless footsteps, and its buildings, worn but unyielding, accept the slow persistence of time with a quiet dignity that borders on indifference.
Life continues within it without hesitation, as though time itself has chosen this place as its favoured instrument.
Vendors call out—not merely to sell, but to assert their existence into the thick, breathing air—each voice carrying a different cadence, a different hunger. Their cries rise and fold into one another, a layered chorus that never quite resolves, only deepens.
Voices overlap until language itself becomes texture, something felt rather than understood, brushing against the senses like heat.
Movement never ceases. It streams and eddies through the streets in restless currents—shoulders brushing, footsteps syncing and breaking apart, garments whispering in passing. No one truly stops; even stillness here is only the briefest illusion, a pause already dissolving into motion.
The city does not sleep, nor does it tire; it simply persists—carrying within it the quiet, relentless insistence of life that refuses, under any circumstance, to be undone.
As per usual, you move within it, unnoticed.
Your backpack, worn thin by five patient years, clings to its purpose with a stubbornness that borders on dignity. The fabric has softened into something almost pliant, its edges feathered with quiet surrender, seams loosening not in protest but in fatigue. It does not pretend to strength; it endures instead, which is a subtler, more honest virtue.
At your side, the small tote bag sways lightly, unburdened in both weight and history, its presence tentative—as though it has not yet earned the right to matter.
It is then, within the seamless current of the street’s ordinary insistence, that you notice the child.
They never demand to be seen—there is no cry, no sudden gesture—but because something in them resists omission, as if the world has failed to absorb their presence fully. So they occupy space differently—persistently, like a thought that will not dissolve.
They are small, yes, but smallness is not what unsettles you. It is the imbalance. The slight, deliberate hesitation in their gait, each step placed with a care too measured for someone their age. They do not walk so much as negotiate—with the ground, with gravity, with the quiet burden that seems to press upon them from within. Their movement is not fluid but considered, as though motion itself demands permission.
Another thing that you noticed is their uniform. A uniform marks them as a student of the Akademiya. One might imagine they have come from a place of learning, of careful thought and structured knowledge. One might even assume they have been given the tools to understand the world.
And yet, the strap of their bag has already betrayed them.
One side hangs loose, a quiet surrender of stitching and strain; the other clings on with a thinning resolve, fibres drawn taut in a way that feels almost pleading. It is not built for this—not for the accumulation of weight, nor the insistence of being carried beyond its limit.
Still, it holds, if only barely. The child’s hand closes around it with a kind of fragile determination, fingers tightening, as though effort alone might persuade the material to remain whole.
There is something in that gesture that catches at you— persistently. The instinct to hold together what is already giving way.
To pretend that endurance is a choice rather than a delay.
You approach them because remaining where you would feel like a quieter and a deliberate failure.
“Are you alright?” you lower yourself as you speak, bringing your height down into something less imposing, your voice softened for awareness—that kindness, offered too abruptly, can resemble intrusion.
Slowly, you meet their gaze instead of asking for it, careful not to take what is not given.
The child hesitates.
It is a small pause, easily overlooked, but within it unfolds something far too practiced—the silent arithmetic of risk and consequence, the weighing of a stranger’s intent against the cost of trust. It is not fear alone, but caution shaped by repetition. No child should be so fluent in it.
“I’m okay,” they say at last. “It’s nothing.”
The words arrive intact, but they do not settle. They hover instead—thin, insufficient—like something rehearsed rather than believed. The answer comes too quickly to convince.
You recognize it not because it deceives you, but because it resembles something you have said too often yourself. It is not a denial of the problem, but a quiet refusal to place its weight into someone else’s hands.
For a moment, you do not move.
Then your hand drifts toward your bag, guided more by habit than intention. Inside, the sewing kit waits—small, unremarkable, dependable in the way only quiet things are. It would be simple enough.
A few careful stitches, a brief pause in the day. You could fix it. You have fixed worse.
But your fingers hesitate.
What if they are in a hurry? What if stopping them—kneeling there with thread and needle—becomes an inconvenience disguised as kindness? The thought unsettles you. Help, when mistimed, can feel like an obstruction.
And the strap… it is already so worn. Even mended, it might fail again. Soon. Perhaps sooner than either of you would like to admit.
Your hand withdraws, only to find the fabric of your tote bag instead.
This would be easier.
You feel the shape of the decision forming before you can fully examine it. The tote is intact, untested, light in a way that suggests promise. You could give it to them—no delay, no fumbling with thread, no risk of doing too little. A clean solution. A kinder one.
But then—your backpack.
Five years of use, seams softening, edges worn into familiarity. Not strong, no—but still holding. Still enough. You have made do with it. Continue to. The quiet arithmetic begins to take shape: This is enough for me. More than enough, compared to what they have. The logic is swift, persuasive in its simplicity. I can give this bag to this child—
But— something in you resists the neatness of it
Because this is not really about the bag.
Your gaze returns to the child’s hand, still gripping that failing strap with a determination too deliberate to ignore. Not asking nor expecting. Only enduring. The gesture settles somewhere deeper than reason, in a place that does not weigh options so much as reject their necessity.
Fix it. Replace it. Do something.
The thoughts begin to overlap, less like choices and more like pressure—one insistence layered atop another, until hesitation itself feels like the only wrong answer.
Your grip tightens around the tote, where you could hand it over now. End it cleanly.
Or kneel, thread the needle, and offer something slower—something that requires them to stay, to trust, even briefly.
Neither is perfect. Both are imperfect in different ways. But standing here, doing nothing—that, suddenly, feels impossible.
Your hand begins to lift—and stops.
“Really, (y/n)?”
The voice cuts in, soft but precise, carrying a familiarity that makes it no less unwelcome. There is no urgency in it, no sharp rise in tone, and yet it lands with quiet certainty, as though the moment has already been judged.
You turn swiftly to the familiar voice.
Scaramouche—or, as he now calls himself, Mr. Hat Guy—stands there, watching you with the faint, incurable air of someone who has already drawn his conclusion and finds yours tedious by comparison.
“In the middle of the road,” he remarks flatly, as though your timing is just another minor inconvenience the world has forced upon him. “Of course you would pick now. Subtlety really isn’t one of your strengths.”
You glance past him, and only then does the world sharpen—the distant rattle resolving into an approaching carriage, its presence no longer abstract but imminent, bearing down with the indifferent certainty of something that will not slow simply because you have hesitated.
You open your mouth—whether to argue or explain, you’re not sure—but he has already moved.
One hand closes around the child’s, gently, but not unkindly either; the other finds your wrist with an unceremonious precision that leaves no room for refusal. You are pulled forward—not rushed, exactly, but decided for. The crossing happens in a brief, disorienting sweep, as though hesitation itself were an indulgence he has no patience for.
Only once you reach the other side does he let go.
“You make things unnecessarily complicated,” he says, voice flat with impatience, his attention not on you but on the failing strap—as if the object itself has offended him by existing in such a pathetic state.
“I was trying to help,” you reply, though it comes out softer than intended, the certainty in it fraying at the edges.
“I’m aware,” he answers at once, with the kind of dryness that suggests he finds the fact unimpressive rather than commendable.
He crouches in front of the child without ceremony, movements precise, economical. There is no gentleness in the way he assesses the broken strap—only evaluation, as though it were a problem already deemed simple and beneath discussion.
His fingers lift it, turn it slightly, and in that brief inspection it feels less like concern and more like judgment delivered to an inanimate object for wasting his time.
“And you,” he spoke to the child with a tone almost bored, “are about to lose this entirely if you keep relying on it.”
Before you can react—before the protest even forms properly in your throat—he is already reaching into your bag. The sewing kit comes out like it was always meant to be there, as if its location was obvious and your ownership incidental.
“That’s—” you start.
“If you’re going to interfere,” he cuts in without looking up, already threading the needle with effortless precision, “then at least have the sense to be useful about it.”
Each movement is exact, economical: thread drawn cleanly through the eye of the needle, fabric aligned with a brief, assessing touch, the torn strap eased into position between steady fingers that never hesitate twice.
And yet—contrary to the sharpness of his words—his handling of the bag is not careless. He does not tug or force the material into submission. Instead, there is a quiet control to it, a practiced restraint, as though he understands precisely how far fabric can be pushed before it gives up entirely.
When the strap shifts under tension, he adjusts without fuss, loosening just enough pressure with two fingers, guiding it back into place with an absent precision that suggests memory rather than thought.
“You’ve been using this as it is,” he says to the child without looking up, voice level, almost conversational. “It was going to fail sooner or later.”
The child nods faintly, watching him more than answering.
“Hm,” he continues, threading the needle through the torn edge with a smooth, unbroken motion. “So it chose a convenient time. That’s something, I suppose.”
It is not comfort he offers, nor reassurance—just observation delivered with the bluntness of someone who sees no reason to soften reality. Still, his tone remains even, and strangely steady, as if the act of speaking while working is as natural to him as breathing.
The needle passes through the fabric again. Then again. His fingers guide it with an ease that is not showy, but unmistakably practiced—the kind of competence that comes from repetition, from having done this enough times that the motions no longer require attention. The stitches form clean and consistent, drawn tight with controlled pressure, never distorting the strap, never wasting motion.
At one point, the thread catches slightly.
He pauses—a simple correction—tilting the strap fabric minutely, adjusting the angle of the needle before continuing as though the interruption had never occurred.
The child watches, hesitant but curious now, as the rhythm resumes.
“You don’t have to pull so hard,” he says abruptly, as if continuing a thought already in motion. “It’s not about force. It’s about holding it in place.”
Only then does he glance at them—briefly, almost lazily, but with a clarity that suggests he has already taken in more than he lets on. There is no indulgence in his expression, but neither is there dismissal; just instruction, given as fact rather than advice.
His hands return to the strap. Another stitch. Then another.
From this distance, it is easier to notice what is not said: the steadiness of his grip, the lack of wasted motion, the unbroken coordination between eye and hand. He handles the needle like something long familiar, not precious, not fragile—simply understood.
Even the way he supports the fabric feels deliberate, thumb bracing one side while fingers guide the other, maintaining tension with quiet control, so the repair does not warp under his own work.
It does not look like performance.
It looks like experience.
You watch in silence, the kind that feels fuller after motion has finally settled.
“There,” he says at last, tying off the thread with a final, precise knot. The movement is small, almost unremarkable, yet it carries a sense of completion that does not invite argument. “That will hold.”
The child hesitates before testing it—first cautiously, almost as if expecting betrayal from the very act of hope. The strap bears the weight without complaint. They test it again, this time with a little more certainty. Then once more, just to be sure.
In their expression shifts, though it does not bloom into joy. It softens instead, cautiously, like a guarded door opening only a fraction. Relief, for them, is not immediate—it is negotiated, approached carefully, as though it might withdraw if treated too freely.
“Thank you,” they say.
It is simple. Earned, somehow, in a way words usually are not.
This time, when you offer the tote bag, they take it without hesitation.
But it is not the same acceptance as before.
Earlier, it would have felt like convenience or substitution—an easy replacement for something broken. Now it feels different. Deliberate. Considered. Their fingers close around it not as if it is a solution imposed upon them, but as something given with intent, received with understanding rather than uncertainty.
There is gratitude in it, but not the fragile kind that bends under implication; more grounded, as though the exchange has been properly acknowledged on both sides.
The child adjust the strap over their shoulder, testing its weight. It sits differently now—not fixed, not perfect, but workable in a way that no longer demands apology.
“Bye, bye!!!” said the child as they move back into the street’s current, slipping easily into its motion. Still small. It's still carrying more than they should. But no longer fighting the act of carrying itself.
Strangely, the space they leave behind does not feel empty.
It feels… resolved.
For a moment, neither of you speaks.
The street resumes its indifferent rhythm around you—voices passing through one another, footsteps dissolving into the larger current of motion—but between you, there is a stillness that feels oddly deliberate.
“I was only trying to help,” you say again, softer now. This time the words don’t land as argument. They linger uncertainly at the edge of meaning, as though you’re testing whether they still hold.
“I know.” His reply is immediate.
Then, quietly—without raising his voice, without even shifting his stance—he says, “That’s exactly the problem.”
Your brows draw together at once. A subtle tightening in your expression, the kind that precedes resistance. “You keep saying that like it explains anything.”
Scara exhales through his nose, like restrained impatience. His shoulders remain relaxed, but there is a faint stillness in the way he holds himself now—attention gathered, focused, as though he has decided this is worth less effort than frustration.
“It does,” he answered snarkly.
You tilt your head slightly. “Helping someone is the problem?”
“No.” His answer is sharper, immediate. The faintest shift in his eyes tells you he is correcting something he finds unnecessarily misframed. “You are.”
That makes you pause.
His gaze stays on you now. Unblinking as if he has no intention of letting the thought slip past unnoticed.
“You don’t hesitate,” he continues “You don’t evaluate. You see a problem and immediately start subtracting yourself from the equation.”
Your mouth parts slightly, then closes again.
Scara notices anyway.
The corner of his mouth tightens—not quite a frown, but something restrained, as if he finds the pattern predictable.
“That’s what I mean by unnecessary complication,” he says. His head tilts a fraction, eyes narrowing just enough to emphasize the point. “You turned a broken strap into an excuse to give away something that wasn’t even the issue.”
Your fingers flex faintly at your side, as though you’re only now aware of how tightly you had been holding them earlier.
“I was trying to fix it,” you say, quieter.
“And you did,” he replies at once.
That stops you.
His gaze flicks briefly toward where the child disappeared into the crowd. Not lingering—just acknowledging. Then it returns to you.
“Without sacrificing anything,” he adds, almost offhandedly, as though the conclusion should have been obvious from the start.
You look at him for a moment longer, uncertain.
“That’s what you’re not understanding,” he continues, and now there is a faint, almost imperceptible shift in his posture—one shoulder angled slightly, weight redistributed as if he’s grown tired of repeating something he considers self-evident. “Helping doesn’t require depletion.”
Your expression tightens. “It felt like the right thing to do.”
“I’m sure it did.” The reply is immediate, but not mocking—just flatly analytical. “That doesn’t make it accurate.”
His fingers adjust once at his side—a small, precise movement, like he is punctuating the thought rather than fidgeting.
“You keep treating generosity like it has to be absolute,” he says more quietly. “As if anything less than total surrender doesn’t count.”
“And what?” you ask, voice steadier now but still searching. “You think I should just do less?”
His eyes narrow slightly—not in irritation, but in correction.
“No. I’m telling you to stop disappearing inside it.” He holds your gaze as he says it. Still. Unflinching.
“You saw something broken,” he continues, “and your first instinct was not to fix it—but to erase yourself as the cost of fixing it.”
His attention shifts briefly again—down, to where the child had been. Then back to you.
“You don’t solve imbalance by becoming the imbalance yourself, (y/n)"
Scara's expression remains unchanged, but the edge in it has softened into something more precise than judgment—closer to instruction than criticism.
“Fix what’s in front of you,” he concludes, “and stay present enough to remain useful after it’s done.”
a/n 🍨: this is based on a real experience of mine two weeks ago...it still lingering in my mind now. I didn’t manage to sew the child’s bag strap because we were crossing a busy road and there wasn’t time or space to stop safely. So I gave them my tote bag instead, which was still new. I hope the child is okay and that they’re able to get a proper replacement bag soon, especially since they were carrying heavy school books.
Hi! I really love your writing! I just wanted to ask could you please avoid adding comments about how much you miss or love certain characters under x reader fics? Since those stories are meant for the reader to immerse themselves, it can sometimes break the mood. Maybe you could keep those thoughts private or share them elsewhere instead? Thanks!
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Hi Hiiii~🩷 thank you for reading my writing!! !and for sharing your thoughts—I sincerely appreciate it ✨ I understand your perspective regarding immersion in x-reader works, and I’m sorry if my comments (usually in author notes) disrupted that experience🙏🏻. For my writing, I treat the comments i made (in author’s notes) as separate from the narrative itself, and placing them before the fic is an intentional choice.
It helps set context before the story begins and is also part of how I connect with readers outside the narrative itself. Since my writing style tends to be quite prose-heavy and philosophical, I sometimes use the notes to briefly frame my approach and create a sense of familiarity, so the writing doesn’t feel too intimidating for readers who prefer lighter styles. Hence the comments about the character.
That said, I understand it may not work for everyone, and I’ll keep your preference in mind going forward🙏🏻☺️ Thank you again for reading and engaging with my work✨
Remember to eat warm and happy fulfilling meals 🍲~
“A goodnight kiss,” you demand, as if it was written somewhere in law and the night itself will refuse to end without it. You are already curled into your bed, voice softened by sleep waiting just at the edge, phone pressed warm against your ear.
On the other end, Sebek goes completely, catastrophically still before his reaction arrives all at once—a spluttered protest followed by the immediate and indignant rejection of a man whose dignity has just been ambushed.
“A kiss?! Through the phone?! What kind of nonsensical—absolutely not! Such frivolous behaviour is entirely unnecessary before rest!” His voice rises, then stumbles, then rises again, each word trying and failing to restore order to something that has already unravelled him.
You hum, unimpressed, rolling onto your side as if his outrage is just background noise to something far more important. “Why not?” you ask, simple and devastating in its sincerity, the kind of question that does not argue but quietly dismantles Sebek's guard.
There is a pause on the line—longer than usual, heavier than it should be—and when he exhales, it is no longer thunderous but restrained, like pride being folded down into something he can carry. “Because—because it is improper,” he insists, though the conviction flickers. Another second pause accompanied by almost begrudgingly thoughtful, “And… insufficient.”
The silence that follows is different now, charged with something he does not name. You can almost hear the shift—the way his posture changes even without seeing it, the way decision settles into him like a cloak being fastened into place.
When he speaks again, the change is almost imperceptible, but it settles into you all the same—his voice smoothing, certainty threading through it in a way that feels far too intimate for something as simple as a call. “… Fine.”
The word lands like a decision already lived through. He is picturing you exactly where you are—curled, waiting, already half his to reach. “Stay where you are,” he adds, softer now, the command slipping into something dangerously close to care, like he is placing you somewhere in his mind and refusing to let the world rearrange you.
“I’ll be there in five.”
a/n 🍨: as per tradition in Kefiteria, i am once again half-asleep and missing Sebek like it is a full-time occupation… so naturally i wrote this instead of resting like a normal person 😴~ yes with the usual cliffhanger ~ story cutoff just like that~~~~ im currently in that cozy state where a “goodnight” feels like a confession and a kiss request to Sebek feels like a life decisions💥 GOOOOOD NIGHT EVERYONE 🗣️🩷💛🩵
Can I get a scene where Reader is teaching Scara to dance? (Scaramouche from Genshin Impact)
She often performs dance routines, so she has experience with that. Scara, even though he doesn't care much about it, is captivated every time she dances
Sooo one day Reader is dancing slowly, and she sees Scara. She takes him by the hands and gently leads him across the room (the kitchen? A living room? The bedroom?) and everything is soft and cute
I was thinking that she was dancing something he had already seen in one of her performances, so he tries to keep up with what he remembers, but he's a little clumsy
Thank you and goodbye 👋
Held at the Waist, Taught to Breathe Again
scaramouche/ wanderer x fem! reader
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a/n 🍨: YES YES!! YES SCARAMOUCHE FINALLY YESSSS—he has been freed into the waltz dimension and I am emotionally unwell about it 😭💃I may or may not have blacked out while writing this and emerged several paragraphs later holding hands~
Also I think I accidentally made this longer than the actual Viennese Waltz training syllabus, but listen🗣️💥I love his lore. I love his attitude. I love putting him in situations where he has to learn tenderness against his will. THANK YOU FOR REQUESTING THIS BEAUTIFUL PROMPT!!! I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS!! I genuinely had way too much fun making him suffer through “count 1, 2, 3” therapy💥
ahem—important disclaimer: I am NOT a professional dancer (I cannot afford lessons, I can barely afford food). This fic is powered by love, delusional, and extensive research via Google articles "how to do Viennese waltz for beginner, easy steps", forums, and people on YouTube who looked very confident while spinning🩷
So yes, my interpretation of Viennese Waltz may be slightly legally distinct from reality but let’s just agree that Scaramouche is adjusting his timing in his own canon universe and it’s fine 👍
The room is quiet in that particular way where even dust seems to hesitate midair, suspended in the honeyed light. Somewhere beyond the walls, the world continues its ordinary gravity. Inside, however, everything feels arranged for motion.
You are already moving when Scaramouche appears.
There is nothing of performance in it now, only continuity—like breath you forgot you were taking. A Viennese waltz lives in your body the way tide lives on the moon: not chosen, simply obeyed.
Step. Step. Turn.
But not really a “turn,” not in the way beginners imagine it. There is no frantic spinning, no desperate search for balance in rotation. Your movement is something else entirely—linear, deliberate, as if the room itself is a long ribbon you are quietly unrolling.
Scara was leaning against the door frame, watching from the doorway with his arms crossed. Still as ever with sharp-eyed in that way that pretends to be disinterest.
You do not stop.
On count one, your step lands forward—decisive, unadorned, almost severe in its clarity. No rise, no theatrical lift—just placement. Weight committed fully, like a sentence ending in a period rather than a question mark.
On counts two and three, the world gently follows.
Only then do you see him properly. In your expression shifts—recognition yielding into invitation, as though memory had paused mid-breath only to unfold, slowly, like a flower deciding at last to open.
“You’re early, dear,” you say, and your voice does not rise so much as arrive, as if the music had been expecting it before you spoke it. Your head tilts a fraction, a quiet adjustment of balance, and even that small motion feels choreographed by something older than intention.
“My love, you're loud— I—” he replies automatically, though there is nothing loud about you—only the unbearable clarity of being precisely where you stand, as if the air had agreed to make room.
You cross the space between steps.
In measured continuations, as though the floor itself is counting you forward. One foot settles, then the next, each placement deliberate and inevitable, as if the room is no longer something you move through but something that moves with you. You are not chasing him; you are extending the sentence of yourself toward him until distance ceases to be separation and becomes punctuation.
And then you take his hands.
It does not interrupt anything.
It corrects gravity itself.
His fingers tighten for half a heartbeat—an instinctive recoil that never fully becomes withdrawal. His wrists remain caught between resistance and surrender, suspended like a thought that forgot how to finish. The rest of him goes still in a way that is almost defensive, shoulders holding their line too rigidly, chin angled as though refusal could be maintained through geometry alone.
“This again?” he asks softly.
But even the question leans slightly unbalanced, as though it has already begun to follow you.
“This,” you correct softly, and your hands adjust him with unbearable gentleness—thumbs settling, guiding the architecture of his frame as if reminding a body how to remember itself—“is a Viennese waltz.”
Though his gaze stays—caught not by spectacle, but by continuity, by the strange honesty of a body that knows what it is doing without asking permission from thought.
You begin again.
Slower now, yes—but not diminished. This slowness is not hesitation. It is translation, as though you are taking something written in fire and rewriting it in breath.
“Don’t think about rise and fall,” you murmur, and your voice lowers with the room, folding itself into the floorboards. “There isn’t much of it here. That’s where people get lost.”
His eyes flick to you, sharp as a blade testing air.
“I wasn’t lost,” Scara answered snarkily.
“You were, my dear.” you say gently, and it settles into the room without force or flourish, like weather finally being named after it has already arrived.
His jaw tightens, that familiar architecture of resistance gathering along his face, as if stubbornness could be carved into bone and held there without fracture. Yet, he does not step away. He does not break the shape of what you are beginning to form around him, this quiet geometry of shared motion.
Heavy in the way truth is heavy when it finally decides to be spoken. No turning yet—never turning yet. The room does not spin. It waits, as if rotation is something that must be earned through patience rather than attempted through urgency.
He tries to match you.
Scara fails—beautifully, inevitably—because his body does what untamed energy always does when it meets structure: it spills into the wrong channels. Too much intention in the wrong direction. Too much brilliance without containment. Like lightning insisting on becoming fire before it has learned the shape of wood.
You feel it before you name it.
A misplacement of effort. A fracture in efficiency.
“Less force where it doesn’t belong, darling.” you say softly, and your hand adjusts his—not correcting him like a mistake, but redirecting him like a river being reminded of its banks. “The speed is only illusion. If you rush, you break the shape.”
“I’m not rushing, my love,” he mutters immediately, adorably frowning, as though denial alone could negotiate with physics and win.
“You’re absolutely rushing, dear.” you say lightly, like you’re pointing out something obvious in the weather. “It’s almost impressive.”
His eyes narrow. “I’m not.”
“Mhm.” Your tone softens into something dangerously playful. “You’re just arriving early to everything. Even the parts you haven’t been invited into yet.”
“Now now~ listen to me,” you say, smile barely touching your voice now. “Three counts. That’s all it is.”
One.
A step forward that does not ask the floor for permission because permission is irrelevant to inevitability. It is weight choosing direction, not searching for it.
Two.
Continuation—an extension of the first decision, not a new one. The body refusing to doubt itself mid-sentence.
Three.
Closure. Not ending, but gathering—feet returning to themselves like a thought finally punctuated.The movement is so simple, it feels like honesty stripped of ornament.
He tries again.
This time—he almost keeps up. Almost.
His timing slips only a half-breath behind yours—so slight it would be nothing in any lesser dancer, a hesitation too small to name if not for the precision already living in him.
Then he corrects—too sharply, too deliberately—as if the body itself were something that could be coerced into obedience through sheer refusal to accept imperfection. The adjustment cuts through the phrase of movement like a blade drawn over silk, not tearing it so much as insisting it conform.
His shoulder brushes yours in the process, brief and incidental, yet charged with that familiar intolerance he carries for anything that refuses to align with his internal exactness.
Frustration threads through him like static under silk: not ignorance, never that, but control that refuses to settle into ease, control that keeps reasserting itself even when the world has already begun to move without asking his permission.
“Don’t rotate, dear.” you remind him softly, your voice arriving not as interruption but as continuation of the dance itself, as though speech and movement share the same breath. “Not yet. Think of it as a line. Always a line.”
“I know what I’m doing, love.” he huffs at once, too quick, too polished, the words assembled with the reflex of someone who would rather declare certainty than examine its seams.
But the truth betrays him in the space between counts, in that fractional delay where his body arrives half a breath after yours, not from incapacity but from divided attention.
Because you are there, and you are not merely present—you are unfolding through the room with a kind of effortless inevitability that turns motion into something almost lyrical, as though the air itself has learned to part for you in anticipation.
You do not move like someone occupying space; you move like space reorganizing itself around a thought too beautiful to refuse. Each step you take resolves into the floor with such quiet authority that even the idea of hesitation feels foreign in your wake.
And he—who is not unskilled, who is not even close to inexperienced—finds himself perpetually a fraction behind you because his attention fractures at the wrong moments. Scara was pulled toward the way your turn does not spin so much as unfold, the way your balance exists without effort, the way grace in you does not announce itself but simply persists.
“Tch—” he exhales under his breath, irritation sharpening into borders on disbelief, as though the universe has become mildly offensive in its insistence on your composure.
“You’re doing it again…” he mutters, lower now, as if accusing you of something unreasonable and personal. “Moving like that.”
“Like what?” you ask, though you already know.
“Like you’re distracting me on purpose.”
A pause slips into the rhythm, delicate and unforced. Slowly your smile arrives—not theatrical, not exaggerated, but faint in the way sunrise is faint before it becomes undeniable.
“I’m not trying,” you say, and the admission lands with the strange neutrality of truth rather than boast.
That is precisely the problem.
Because you are not performing anything at all. You are simply existing within the structure of the waltz as though it were always designed for you, as though the Viennese count had been waiting for a body that would not resist it.
Forward. Forward. Close.
The pattern continues, but even that simplicity becomes altered in your presence, each step acquiring a kind of inevitability that makes it feel less like instruction and more like remembrance. You guide him through it without force, only placement, only timing, only the patient insistence that his body will eventually understand what his pride refuses to accept.
Still, he falls half a beat behind— from attention that keeps betraying him at the wrong moments, drawn inexplicably toward the way your movement softens at the edges when you turn into him.
Lethally toward the subtle alignment of your frame within his hold and toward the sensation of your waist briefly settling against his arm as the rotation brings you close enough that even distance forgets how to exist.
A contact that feels inevitable, as though the dance itself has decided where you belong in relation to him and simply refuses to be argued with.
“… You’re doing the impossible, love.” he says at last, quieter now, the accusation lacking its earlier edge, worn down into something closer to reluctant acknowledgment.
“Am I?” you reply, guiding him through another turn he almost misses again because he is, against his will, looking at you instead of the count.
And for the first time, when he catches up—when his step finally lands in the same breath as yours—it does not feel like victory. It feels like being allowed, for a single fraction of time, to exist inside the same rhythm as you without being left behind by it.
“Most people try to copy slow waltz rise and fall,” you murmur as you move, voice threaded into his timing now rather than interrupting it. “But Viennese waltz doesn’t live there. It lives in efficiency. If you feel like you’re failing, it usually just means the energy is going somewhere it shouldn’t yet.”
“Wow... that's comforting, sweetheart.” he says flatly with a playful eye roll. There is irony in it, but not dismissal.
“It is~” you reply while chuckling.
The pattern softens further—like cloth being folded down into something smaller, something closer to the hand. You let the structure simplify into boxed beginnings and careful returns, not because the dance demands less, but because he does.
Your stride shortens. Within the refinement—each step reduced to its most necessary truth. Grace stripped of excess until only clarity remains.
His hands are still in yours.
He notices them only in passing, like an idea that keeps forgetting it has a body. As though touch is not the point of the exercise, but an incidental agreement between two moving things that happen to be human.
The waltz continues—not as a performance now, but as something closer to correspondence. A letter written in movement, addressed not to an audience, but to time itself. Forward becoming forward again. Return becoming continuation. Nothing wasted. Nothing forced.
Scara becomes aware of something he did not choose to notice at first.
You.
As presence made visible through motion, as though the dance has quietly translated you into something legible only through rhythm.
The way your body does not argue with the floor but converses with it in a language older than hesitation. The way your balance does not announce itself or seek approval, but simply persists with the calm inevitability of something that knows exactly where it belongs. The way softness in you does not dilute precision, but refines it until even gentleness feels engineered with impossible care.
When you turn, your frame opens slightly in his arms, and for a fleeting moment, he feels the shape of your waist settle against him—not as possession, not as claim, but as consequence of proximity, as though the dance itself has decided that this is where you are meant to exist relative to him and has rendered all argument irrelevant.
The perception in him falters at that. Because you are not merely moving through the waltz anymore.
You are becoming it.
Radiant in a way that does not resemble brightness, but clarity made visible, like glass catching light without ever trying to be seen. Soft in a way that does not blur your edges, but defines them more sharply, until gentleness itself appears as the most exact form of control.
Even the smallest shifts in your posture feel deliberate without being performative, as though grace is not something you perform but something the world negotiates with you in real time.
Your hair moves with each turn, not as decoration but as continuation, catching light in passing as if it has learned the art of not demanding attention yet receiving it anyway.
Your expression never fixes itself on him, never clings, never searches, and yet it feels more aware than direct gaze ever could be, as though seeing you properly require something other than looking.
It is unbearable in its simplicity.
He had expected precision from you. Discipline. Perhaps even a quiet insistence on control, something he could measure against his standards.
He did not expect this: the slow unveiling of someone who does not become different under movement, but more completely themselves, as if the dance strips away nothing and instead reveals everything that was already there.
His grip adjusts without permission. To become more deliberate, more anchored, as though his hands are no longer simply guiding steps but acknowledging something they have begun to recognize as real.
“…My love,” he breathes, but the sound carries none of its usual dismissal. It is thinner now, quieter, like a thought that has lost the confidence to insist on itself. “You’re… annoyingly … radiant.”
“Of course, I was loved enough by you after all~” you answer lovingly while guide him through another turn, slower now, the phrase beginning to soften at its edges, as if even the dance understands it is something approaching it cannot prolong indefinitely.
Forward. Forward. Close.
The pattern continues, but it no longer feels like instruction. It feels like inevitability given form, like time agreeing to be shaped by repetition rather than resisted by it. Even his earlier resistance no longer reads as opposition, only as an old habit learning, too slowly, how to become participation.
The phrase begins to settle, easing into itself the way a sentence lowers its voice at the end of a letter it was never meant to finish quickly.
His hands remain on you a fraction longer than necessary. As if he is listening for something in the silence that follows motion.
Soon, almost reluctantly, as though it has bypassed every layer of pride before reaching speech, he releases one hand only to lift yours.
His gaze drops—not fully softened, not fully surrendered, but altered in a way that makes it quieter than before. Respectfully, he presses his lips to your knuckles.
A single, precise gesture that feels less like affection displayed and more like acknowledgment finally choosing a form. When he speaks, it is barely above the residue of the waltz lingering in the air.
“… Don’t get used to this, (y/n).”
But he does not let go immediately and neither do you.
Hiii can I request overblotters(if it's too much then the ones you find most interesting for the prompt/ones you like the most) x reader that's unable to get jealous?
Like they accept most of things they have as they are and are genuinely happy or just straight up don't care if others have things better or get what the reader wanted. For the latter the reader could even feel healthy motivation to get better themselves.
I'm just curious how the overblotters would react to this type of person, tysm!!
Take your time, your works are great💗
When You Don’t Get Jealous
overblotters x gn! reader
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a/n 🍨: HI HIII~ 💛 thank you for requesting and reading my works💛🩷💛🩷💛🩷💛🩷💛 I decided to write for all the overblotters since I really loved this prompt~ In this route, the reader does not experience jealousy as a guiding emotion. Comparison does not wound them, it refines them. What others may call rivalry, they experience as motion forward. This is a path of quiet stability rather than emotional turbulence 🍮✨Honestly, this prompt is pretty different from my usual existential dread / yearning type writing HAHAHAA~ but I’m really glad I got to write it. I also kept it less wordy so it’s easier to read 💛
Riddle Rosehearts
Loving you, he learns, is like standing in a garden where every flower has been taught its own exact height, its obedience to light. And yet, you grow without asking permission from the sky.
He expects rupture. He prepares rules in advance of emotion. But you do not arrive with jealousy in your hands like a shattered teacup. You arrive whole, and when the world tilts in favour of others, you do not tilt with it.
It disturbs him more than defiance ever could.
“Why,” Riddle thinks, watching you calmly acknowledge another’s success, “does nothing in you demand correction?”
Of course, against his will, he begins to understand that your strength is not rebellion. It is absence of panic. As you are not measuring yourself against the world every second because you are simply living in it.
For someone raised on strict scales, you feel like something dangerously unmeasurable.
Leona Kingscholar
He is not sentimental about much. Even less about people who do not compete for air, but you exist beside him like a horizon that refuses to move closer or farther, no matter how he shifts his weight.
When others win, you do not flinch. When you lose, you do not rot. It irritates something primal in him at first, like watching prey refuse to behave like prey.
But then Leona notices something stranger. You do not dilute yourself with comparison, and you certainly do not waste hunger on things that are not yours yet.
“Tch,” he thinks, half-awake in the sun-drenched quiet of your presence, “you’re not even playing the same game.”
So for the first time, he considers that peace might not be laziness. It might be strength without theatrics.
Azul Ashengrotto
He understands contracts. He understands desire sharpened into leverage. He understands envy as currency—liquid, transferable, exploitable.
Fortunately, you are none of these things.
Unfortunately— in his view, you observe the world’s uneven spoils with a calm that does not translate into weakness or indifference.
When someone else receives what you wanted, you do not fracture into bargaining. You simply… adjust your trajectory. It makes you harder to predict than anyone who storms or pleads.
“How inefficient,” Azul muses at first, with the polished certainty of someone who believes emotion should have utility.
“Or perhaps… they are not leaking power the way others do.”
You never lose energy to comparison, and you do not feed others your attention as tribute to their success as you remain intact through times.
To Azul, who has built his world on emotional transactions, you are unnervingly solvent.
Jamil Viper
He has spent too long living in the shadow of want—of other people’s ease, their privilege, their effortless arrival at things he had to calculate.
So he watches you with a guarded scepticism.
Strangely to him, you do not envy. Not even when the world gives someone else what brushed your hands and slipped away.
Instead, something else happens in you—something quieter, more constructive. You seem to fold disappointment into motion, not identity.
It unsettles Jamil because it is unfamiliar.
“If I were like that,” he thinks carefully, “I wouldn’t waste so much time turning myself inside out.”
That is where the contradiction begins—you do not erase ambition but purify it to make it less poisonous.
Vil Schoenheit
He has lived too long among mirrors to mistake reflection for truth. So he watches you carefully, expecting distortion, expecting vanity, expecting the quiet rot of comparison disguised as discipline.
But you never compare—not in the way he knows.
When others shine, you do not dim. You do not rush to outshine them, either. You simply take note, as one might note the weather, and continue refining your shape.
It is almost infuriatingly clean.
“There is no waste in them,” Vil realizes, and it is not praise so much as diagnosis.
You do not let envy smear the surface of your ambition, since you let admiration pass through you without becoming distortion.
For someone who has spent his life sculpting perfection through strain, you suggest something radical— improvement without self-violence is possible.
Idia Shroud
He assumes at first that you’re just… missing a process like a game without a damage mechanic.
People get jealous. That’s just how the system runs.
But you don’t trigger it nor touched the button to activate it. You see someone unlock something you wanted and instead of spiralling, you reroute.
It breaks his expectations in a way that feels almost glitch-like.
“That’s… actually efficient?” he mutters, half to himself and half to the screen of his own thoughts. Because you don’t waste processing power on comparison loops so you don’t lag in resentment.
Hence, it bothers Idia differently—If you can be that stable, then maybe the chaos he assumes is “normal human behaviour” isn’t mandatory after all.
That possibility is louder than he likes.
Malleus Draconia
He has seen kingdoms rise and fold like paper in rain, longing twist into ruin, and desire become a kind of weather no one survives unchanged.
But you do not weather the world that way.
When fortune passes to others, you do not sour. When something you desired goes elsewhere, you do not fracture into shadowed unrest. You remain… present unbroken and with a smile.
“You are not easily stirred,” Malleus reflects, voice like distant thunder softened by distance.
There is something ancient in that composure, with a deeper acceptance that the world does not owe sameness, only continuation.
To him, you are not dull for lacking jealousy— you are vast for not needing it.
I was wondering how some of your TWST favorites would react if Yuu dyed their hair the same color as them?
Thank you 🩷
Well, Colour Me Surprised ~
characters : Jade / Lilia / Ruggie / Sebek / Vil x Yuu
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a/n 🍨: HI HIII~ Thank you for the request🩷! I’ve been working on this over the past few days, so I’ll be posting the rest gradually~ Also, fufufuu, these are some of my personal favorites, but I really do love all the characters in TWST.
Jade Leech
He pauses mid-step when he sees Yuu. Just for a second before that usual composed smile returns.
“… My, how intriguing.” he approaches at an unhurried pace.
“To see my colouration replicated so precisely… even down to the streak.”
Jade studies Yuu carefully, eyes sharp despite the polite expression.
“Was this done intentionally, or is it a coincidence I’m meant to find amusing?”
After a moment, Jade hums while tilting his head.
“I see. Then I suppose I should consider it a compliment. Though I must say, taking on my appearance may invite certain misunderstandings.”
The corner of his smile lifts a fraction.
“And I wonder… how you intend to handle those. Regardless, it suits you. In a rather curious way.”
Lilia Vanrouge
“Oh? Oh my~” he notices immediately and lights up like he’s just been handed entertainment for the day. Lilia swiftly went right behind Yuu.
“When did I acquire such an adorable twin?”
He gently lifts a strand of Yuu's hair, examining the magenta streaks.
“You even copied the highlights. How meticulous~ I quite like it. You’ve got good taste, clearly.”
Lilia circles Yuu once, hands clasped behind his back with a teasing smirk on his face.
“Though, if you start acting like me too, I may have to start charging you for the privilege. Tell me, was this admiration… or mischief?”
“Either way, you’ve made things much more interesting.”
Ruggie Bucchi
“Pfft—seriously?!” he blinks and squints at Yuu for a second before cracking up.
Ruggie walks up, pointing at Yuu's head.
“You went and copied my hair? That’s bold, Yuu and you didn’t mess it up either.”
Ruggie grins, a little impressed despite himself.
“Not bad at all. Kinda makes you look like you belong in Savanaclaw.”
He nudges Yuu with his elbow.
“But don’t get it twisted, yeah? I make this look work ‘cause of me. Still… if it helps you blend in and score better scraps, I’m not complaining. Might even help me out too.”
Sebek Zigvolt
“… Human. Explain yourself at once!” he stares completely rigid. While Yuu can practically hear the gears in his head grinding.
“Why do you bear such a striking resemblance to my—”
Sebek steps closer, inspecting Yuu like they have committed a formal offence. “Imitating the appearance of a retainer of Lord Malleus is not something to be taken lightly!”
“… However.” His expression shifts… just slightly.
“The colour is… accurate. You have not disgraced it.”
He huffs, turning his head sharply.
“If this is your attempt to better understand the dignity required to stand near Lord Malleus, then I will permit it. Do not become complacent! Appearance alone does not grant you worth!”
Vil Schoenheit
“… What have you done to your hair?” He stops you immediately.
“The gradient—hm. The transition is smoother than I expected.”
Vil gently takes a section of your hair, inspecting it critically.
“You didn’t choose this colour thoughtlessly. That’s something.”
He releases it with a small sigh.
“But understand this: beauty is not imitation. If you’re going to wear a look like this, you must own it. Half-hearted effort will only make you look foolish.”
He turns his head slightly, as if dismissing the moment.
“… Still. It complements your features better than I anticipated. Maintain it properly. I won’t tolerate seeing it fade into something careless.”
And this is why I have so much respect for people and characters like Lilia and why he became one of my top favorites.
Lilia's been through so much Hell, been disrespected by the Senate, lost his best friend during war, yet he still has so much love to give never fails to get me choked up.
It was those same bloodied hands that hatched the crowned princess when his father went missing and his mother was murdered, and it was those same hands that helped awaken the boy he found in the ruins of Castle Wildrose.
I guarantee you that if Lilia decides to have another child or he becomes a grandfather, those same hands that were stained with blood would be those same hands that would look after the youth with just as much love and tenderness that he gave to Malleus and Silver
This is why I adore that he wants to become a teacher. He’s living and shaping the future. One that’s full of love and life flourishing. A future where all kinds of races can get along and be in harmony.
For all those years and lives that tainted his hands in blood, there will be just as many if not more where those hands will cause life to flourish and peace to spread.
I LOVE LILIA SO MUCH TOO🩷 like how does someone carry that much history and not become entirely closed off? how does he continue to raise a child—patiently as if the past does not echo behind every gesture?
his character teaches me about love that persists through damage and time, the same how I feel toward Elysia🩷 both of them, in their own worlds, carry a kind of warmth that refuses to disappear no matter what they have been through.
hence why it makes me rethink what it means to continue loving, even after life has given every reason not to :)
