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devotion | true form!r.s
s: servants lie, you recoil from the king of curses. sukuna doesn’t let this slide, and he reminds you who you belong to, and what happens to measly peasants who dare try to ruin you.
tw: MDNI, smut ensues | f!reader, she/her pronouns used for reader and envisioned with female anatomy | post shibuya but au bc this is true form sukuna, depictions of sadism, master/slave dynamics, potential stockholm syndrome, unhealthy relationship dynamics, violence and torture, minor character deaths, uraume is kinda sweet, oral m&f receiving, overstim, sukuna's belly mouth is used, sukuna has two dicks, rough handling, deepthroating, comments on cannibalism, hints at dehumanization depending how you look at it?? i think that's it!
a/n; i have nothing to say other than yeah. i had this idea for a while but true form sukuna making his debut riled me up enough to finish this. idk i haven't read a lot of sukuna fics but most of what i have read makes him out to be a sweetheart and im so sorry i just cannot see that so in my version, he's a little bit evil. nothing too crazy. i hope this is enjoyable it is my first 'full fic' ! || wc: 13.1k
ty if you decide to read ! not beta read bc i had no one to ask :p
Sukuna noticed you were acting strange.
His four eyes noticed everything. Every tiny change in your demeanor, whether you did your best to disguise it or not.
You avoided his touch, avoided being too intimate, and asked for privacy during showers and baths. Sukuna assumed you had not been feeling very well, or perhaps that you had just wanted alone time, but it was getting strange. Too strange. So, being the king he was, Sukuna made his way to confronting you. Not that he truly cared if you were wanting space, he didn’t want you to think you could get away with doing whatever you wanted.
You were his, and he decided what was best.
Your voice sounded, soft as rain, coming from the kitchen, directing him to change his path down the narrow hallway. He approached the arch that led into the kitchen and paused when heard some servants who were supposed to be preparing dinner, speaking to you. A highly unusual thing, his servants were not to speak to you unless he had directed, they were ignorant to his presence as you were.
"Lord Sukuna has been quite vocal about his disappointment lately," one servant said, her voice dripping with false concern. "He mentioned just yesterday how tiresome it's become, having to constantly tend to such a needy thing like yourself, little blossom."
Another servant snickered quietly, but the harsh sound was hidden behind a deceptive smile. "I heard him say that the branding was a mistake. That they make you look even more pathetic than before. Like you’re trying too hard to be interesting. Or that you’re desperate for his approval."
Your voice came out small and wounded, unexpected from what you were hearing. "H-he said that...?"
"Oh yes," The first servant continued with a hand on her chest, like a concerned parent might be. "He told us he's grown bored of the whole arrangement. Apparently, he said you lack the grace and dignity expected of someone in your position. Your posture, your tone of voice, your body. None of it inhibits a true slave sitting beside him."
"I also heard," Another chimed in, circling behind you like a vulture. "That he said keeping you around is more of a chore than a pleasure these days. That he only tolerates you out of pity, really."
There was a long pause, and when you spoke again, your voice was barely audible, trembling with hurt. "I...I didn't know he felt that way...but pity? That hardly sounds like him…"
"Well, you’re still new and we’ve known him much longer than you," The servant waved her hand dismissively. "Perhaps you should give Lord Sukuna some space. Stop being so...suffocating. He lets out all of his frustration on the rest of us." She quipped at the end, turning back to the countertop to cut up more food.
From his hidden position, Sukuna's eyes narrowed. These servants dared to speak for him? To fill his pet's head with lies? His hands curled into fists, more pissed off by the fact they thought they could speak for him rather than how it made you feel. But he remained still, wanting to hear how far this would go and what you would do.
“You really heard him saying all that…” You asked softly, looking at the servant who had started the conversation for one last clarification.
The servant nodded with false sympathy, though you failed to register it at that moment. "Every word, I'm afraid. He was explicit about his feelings. We thought you should know the truth rather than continue embarrassing yourself."
At the confirmation, your shoulders slumped, your eyes glistening with unshed tears as you processed the words. The hurt was written plainly across your face, and you wrapped your arms around your body protectively, as if trying to hold the pieces of yourself together. One last weak nod was given, then you walked back towards your shared bed chamber.
Now, Sukuna was never that easy to get along with, but he always spoke to your face. Even if the words he spoke hurt. They often did, he wasn’t a coddler and he didn’t give a shit about how you felt when he spoke to you. The way he saw it, he hadn’t killed you, he let you within his private chambers, let you sleep beside him. That, in his mind, was enough to show how he viewed you.
The reveal of his servants telling you these lies came a week ago. He had been biding himself ever since. Stewing, letting the anger build. He was curious…to see what you’d do. How you’d handle what you thought was the truth.
He didn’t expect you to recoil so severely from him. And it pissed him off more than the servants did.
“Enough of this, what is the meaning of this behavior?” He demanded sharply, pulling you away from the wooden puzzle you had been occupying your mind with. He pulled you inside his bed chamber from the balcony, the same one he ordered to be built because you had cried one night about missing the rain. The smell of it. The feel of it. An odd, mortal worry that made him roll all four of his eyes but…the next day there it was. A balcony extended from his chamber, overlooking your favorite pond, sat just beneath a large blossom tree growing against the palace. He allowed you to sit out on it whenever you wanted, you had grown so frustrated being kept to his room alone.
“Speak!” He ordered again, yanking on your arm as an extension of his frustration.
You froze at his touch, shoulders stiffening under his grip. The puzzle piece in your hand slipped from your fingers and clattered onto the wood floor. “I-I’m sorry,” you whispered, your lashes fluttered and felt wet at that moment. It was ironic, it wasn’t raining outside. You tried to think how you could shape the words into something that would not get you hurt, he hadn’t hesitated to lay a hand on you before, but it had been a long time since he had. You didn’t doubt that he may smack you again, as pissed off as he was right now.
Sukuna’s hand snapped to your chin, forcing your face up. “You’ve been flinching from me for days,” he growled. “You stop speaking when I enter a room, you bow your head like you are any other servant in my palace, you lock yourself away like a coward.” He nearly spat down at you, his sharp teeth baring through his sneer.
You trembled under the wrongness of being held like this when you had been trying so hard to be small. “I just needed space,” you tried, but your attempt died with a quick huff that left his throat.
“Space,” he repeated, tasting the word like something rotten. “Is that what you call it? Evading me like I carry the plague.”
Your mind flashed to the kitchen, to the way the servants' voices sounded. So sure. So practiced. To the humiliation that had flooded you when you realized they could say those things about you and still smile, still come to work the following day as if nothing had ever been said. Their words had been like a serrated engine running rampant inside you, tearing you apart from the inside.
“Do you want to be truthful now?” Sukuna’s voice cut through you, sharp and impatient. “Or will you keep protecting those little insects from my hand?” He forced your chin up again until you had no choice but to meet him, his palm nearly swallowing half your face as he moved to grasp your jaw more head on. The pressure wasn’t painful, but it was humiliating in a way that made your stomach twist, like being held still for inspection. His gaze didn’t waver, carmine eyes pinned you in place, scorching, searching.
“I am not a fool,” he continued, each word bitten off like a threat. “I have ears everywhere. Everything that happens within these walls finds its way back to me.” His thumb shifted, a slow, possessive drag along your cheekbone. “So here it is. Your one chance to tell me what this is before I decide to take action.”
Your throat tightened around a swallow that refused to go down. The lump in it felt absurd, as if your own body were trying to block the truth from escaping while heat crawled up your neck. You hated the way you were trembling, hated that he could feel it through his grip.
You didn’t like being cornered.
For days, you had told yourself the feeling would pass if you waited long enough, if you stayed small enough. Sukuna didn’t do anything soft. Sukuna didn’t do talking things out. He never seemed concerned with emotional problems unless they inconvenienced him. And yet here he was, demanding an answer out of you like you had been caught stealing from his shrine.
A cruel part of you wondered if this was a test, the kind he liked best: the sort that left you guessing until you failed. Maybe he wanted you to confess to something you hadn’t even done. Maybe he wanted you to beg, to insist he punish someone for inconvenience, to make you complicit in the violence so you couldn’t pretend you were innocent later on.
His intentions were always a maze, his moods turned on invisible hinges, and standing there with his hand on your face, you could not tell if he was trying to protect what belonged to him…or if he was reminding you exactly what you were.
“I spoke to some of the servants recently,” you managed, the words scraping out of a throat that had gone too tight. “At first I only overheard them. I thought they would stop the moment they noticed me.” A shaky breath slipped between your teeth. “But they didn’t. They looked right at me and kept going, like it was me they’d been waiting for.” Your eyes dropped to the floor before you could stop them, lashes blinking too fast. It felt childish to be standing here with your pulse in your ears, trying not to sound like someone begging for reassurance. “They…said things about you. About what you think of me.” You hated how small your voice became on the last part, like you were confessing to a crime. Your fingers curled into the fabric at your side, twisting it until it bit into your palm. “They said you were disinterested and tired of me.”
You finally forced a swallow and it didn’t help.
“They told me you regretted the brand.” The word brand landed heavy, a weight you could feel under your skin even though the mark itself was hidden. “That it was a mistake. That it makes me look pathetic.” Your breath hitched, humiliation burning hotter than the fear. “It was a lot to hear all at once, and it didn’t sound like you, but…”
But you had no proof it wasn’t.
You forced yourself to lift your head, even though it felt like walking into the edge of a blade. “You never tell me how you feel,” you emphasized, honesty slipping out before you could soften it. “Not about me. Not about anything. So I didn’t know what to do with it. I just…assumed the worst.” The admission tasted bitter. It was so embarrassing, saying it to his face. Embarrassing that it mattered, that the thought of him looking at you with boredom could make your ribs ache like something inside you was trying to claw its way out.
And Sukuna wasn’t stupid.
Every servant in his palace wanted to be where you stood. They watched you like you were a jewel left on an altar, waiting for the moment someone forgot to lock the doors. He enjoyed having concubines and being worshipped, but he had taken you after the destruction in Shibuya, he had quickly regained his form after that. Since then, he had not reached for another. Not bowed at his side. Not kneeling at his feet. However anyone wanted to frame it.
Point being…he was satisfied. You just didn’t know it.
Servants, on the other hand, were full of greed and mortal longing. They wanted riches, status, privileges they hadn’t been born into and still believed they were owed. They cared little for anything beyond what they could collect and display. Fruits and silks and jewelry woven with jade. A new title, a better room, the right to speak as if their word carried the same weight as Sukuna’s own. Those kinds of people irritated him more than anything, and the palace was crowded with them.
But you…you had never been like that.
You didn’t grow gluttonous over the amount of rarities you could gather, or the quality of tea poured for you. You cried about missing the smell and sound of rain. You mourned a soft breeze like it was a luxury. You turned your head away from offerings that the others would have clawed each other apart for, as if they were nothing but noise. You were the only one in the entire palace who seemed more interested in the koi swimming through the ponds than in winning favor to climb the hierarchy. That strange, quiet lack of hunger, your refusal to reach for what everyone else would kill to hold. That was what had drawn him to you in the first place. For your mind to be waved so much from a few measly comments by the servants infuriated him.
Sukuna was quiet, processing everything you had said.
Then, he fucking laughed.
It was low, sharp, and without warmth, the sound of a blade being drawn just to remind someone it was there. “Those little parasites,” he said, voice dark with amusement that didn’t reach his eyes. His thumb pressed harder at your cheekbone, tilting your face as if he meant to inspect the damage their words had done. “They used my name like it was their own.” His fingers tightened, not quite painful, but possessive. “And you believed them Or your naive little head feared they were right,” Sukuna murmured, “If I were bored of you, you would not be standing here in my chamber.” Sukuna’s hand slid from your chin to the side of your neck, thumb resting over your quick pulse like he could feel the proof of you there. “You want to know what I think of you?” he asked, and the question sounded like a threat because it was.
Your lips parted. “Sukuna-”
“Do not interrupt,” he snapped, watching your face, the tremble in your lashes, the way you tried to make yourself smaller at his command.
“I don’t speak like mortals do,” he said, almost bored again, almost cruel. “I don’t offer pretty words to make you stop shaking, but you will not doubt me because of insects.” A beat stretched between the two of you, then he adjusted his hold on your jaw, another hand coming up to swipe your skin. The way you looked up at him after that, with what he saw as need, made him grumble back. “Don’t be greedy now…I will not repeat myself. You are more to me than what you believe yourself to be…just remember that.” He chuffed under his breath, “I would never allow such luxurious treatment for a true slave of mine.”
Sukuna slid down your body with his lower arms, decisive and unhurried, as if he had all the time in the world. His hands hooked behind your knees and lifted you effortlessly, rearranging you like a king moving a piece on a board. Instinct made you cling to his shoulders, fingers tightening against the architecture of his muscles for support. “What are you doing-” you started, but the words came out thin, fraying at the edges as his presence dominated the room like an oni that had come to drag you to hell.
Your back met the bed in a controlled drop that still knocked the air from your lungs. He hovered above you, a shadow with too many eyes, too many teeth; the space between you felt suddenly too small to breathe in. “Ensuring you understand your place,” he rumbled, voice low and absolute. He pressed your knees wider, claiming the distance like it belonged to him while he prowled over top of you. His expression was dark with intent, he would burn this lesson into your memory without ever needing to raise his voice. “You will remember who truly owns you. And it is not those lying servants.”
His head moved down, hot breath against your core. The thin fabric of your panties did little to protect you against him. He could smell you, see the imprint against the fabric. The claws at his fingertips shred them off you, revealing your bare pussy to his hungry eyes. Your voice was lost as his tongue slid up from your entrance to your clit, flicking over it once before he dove in harder to lap more vigorously. His hands splayed over the meat of your thighs and hips, one pair snaking up and grabbing at your breasts with eagerness.
“S-Suku…nna….oh god…” Your initial shock faded into pleasure, though you were still caught off guard and in disbelief. Sukuna had never given prior to this.
He always demanded and took, never once had he tasted you this way, never had he lowered and bowed his head to you like this.
His tongue worked you expertly for someone who didn’t give often, each lick and lap found the bundle of precious nerves and toyed with it. Your muffled cries grew louder despite your attempts to quiet yourself, one of your free hands fisting in the sheets at your side as pleasure shot through you in waves you had never experienced before. This was a declaration, ownership that left no room for the poisonous doubts those servants had planted.
He did not penetrate you, he did not try to stretch you out this time. He simply used his mouth, and only his mouth, against your swollen core. His tongue licking over your throbbing little pearl, polishing it and nursing it as you soaked the sheets and his chin with your syrupy arousal. He enveloped you completely, every single twist and tug his tongue made was intoxicating and you found yourself growing a little irritated that he held out for so long. “Why…nngh…why did you…hold out? Ah…feels s’good, s’good, please, please…”
He chuckled, the sound vibrating through your body and to your belly. Fuck, the deep vibration, the tone of him, everything. It was driving you mad.
Your back arched on instinct, chasing the sensation before you could even think to be ashamed by it. It was overwhelming in a way you couldn’t define, like heat threaded straight through your bones and lit every nerve it touched. Your clit was the source, that damned thing was on fire.
Your breath hitched, then broke apart entirely between what gasps you could intake. Your hand drifted down without permission from your mind, fingers trembling as they found his hair. You gripped it, shyly at first, not to pull so much as to anchor yourself. Part of you worried he would snap at the touch, would make you regret reaching for him like this, but he didn’t. If anything, he seemed to take it as confirmation and doubled down his efforts.
And holy shit. Sukuna knew exactly what he was doing.
The room narrowed to nothing but the rhythm he set and the way your body responded to it. Your thoughts dissolved into flashes of sound and breath, the soft scrape of sheets, the pulse in your ears. The sloppy sound of his mouth and tongue flicking and slurping at your pussy.
You heard yourself making noises you didn’t recognize, half-plea and half-prayer, and you couldn’t bring yourself to swallow them down.
Your hips moved on their own, desperate and uncoordinated, chasing relief like it was the only language you had left. He was very pleased with the clumsiness of your movements, loving the fact he could make you this way just from his tongue. Sukuna’s hands stayed firm at your sides, not restraining you like he normally would, just holding you in place when you started to lose yourself. No more bucking.
And as you laid there feeling this electricity, you wanted it to last. You wanted to stay suspended there until you could breathe again, until the trembling in your limbs stopped feeling like it might split you apart. But your body betrayed you, cresting too quickly under the intensity.
When your orgasm finally hit, it stole your voice clean away. You went rigid for a heartbeat, then fell apart, shaking through it as if the aftershocks had to find somewhere to land. Your mewls and moans were loud and desperate, messy begging for him not to stop, quick and harsh ‘right there’ and ‘fucks’ sailed through your parted lips.
Your hands gripped his hair now, blabbering helplessly as your cunt oozed and clenched around nothing. “Fuck! Fuckfuckfuck, don’t stop, please don’t stop-” Rapid and nearly unintelligible, your voice was utterly pathetic. Whines and mewls and stupidly high pitched cries left your lips in sobs. Your hips tried to roll and buck against his face, he held you firmly at first but he eventually let go, allowing you to rub yourself all over his mouth and nose like a horny bitch in heat. He looked lazy, basically just letting you grind into his face at the peak of your climax, watching you chase the sensation of ecstasy.
When your body gave out and the muscles released their hold, you could barely process what had happened. But the high of your orgasm faded faster than you liked. You felt his mouth retreat, a wet smack and strings of gossamer saliva and cum kept his lips connected to your core. He was panting like he had just feasted upon a corpse, tongue coming out to lick over his teeth and lips in an exaggerated flick. Hot tears slipped out before you could stop them, you turned your head to the side as you felt mortified with the sudden emotional hit.
Sukuna moved back over you with the same predatory grace, like a tiger returning to its kill, arms caging a fallen fawn below him. He tilted your chin up, forcing you to meet his gaze, and the look in his eyes made your stomach tighten all over again. His thumb pried your mouth open as he let the evidence of your orgasm drool down into your mouth. “Swallow,” he ordered calmly, a tone he did not use often.
You wanted to retort something smart, but that action was not expected at all from him. Your face burned as you indulged him and obeyed, throat working around the command while his thumb pressed lightly at your jaw, tilting your head back so he could watch your throat bob. Only then did he lean close enough for his breath to brush your mouth, his voice dropping into something quieter.
“Good pet,” he purred like a lazy feline, “You did so well for me.” You were flipped within a second, his back now laying against the bed and your chest pressing into his large body. He could feel you slowly recovering from the intense orgasm, your thighs continued their occasional tremor. He was sitting up too much and you felt too exhausted to maintain the position, so you slid down his body to lay down more. He peeked his eyes open to watch you, one of his split brows arching slightly when you pulled the blanket over you.
"You’re warm," you mumbled from beneath the blankets, your voice muffled but unmistakably pleased as you nuzzled closer, cheek pressing into the firm plane of his abdomen. "And…safe." The word left you on a sigh, like admitting it might make it vanish. Sukuna’s lower arm tightened around your waist in answer, heavy and possessive, drawing you back as if he could keep you there by sheer will.
"Safe," he repeated, tasting the idea with mild disdain at the ridiculousness of the phrase, but he didn’t let go. “You are high from your culmination…”
Something stirred.
The seam of skin against his abdomen parted with a slow, lazy stretch, as if it were waking from sleep. A slick tongue slid out and licked your cheek, one long, deliberate swipe that left a trail of warm wetness against your skin. You jerked back with a startled squeak as heat rushed to your face. You blinked wide-eyed from under the blanket, then looked at him, "Sukuna!" you hissed, equal parts scandalized and amused, wiping at your cheek with the edge of the blanket.
“Mm?” Sukuna’s voice rumbled above you, far too calm for someone with an extra mouth that drew joy in misbehaving. “What is it now?”
"It tickles," you protested, and the way your laugh slipped out betrayed you. His belly mouth, something you had never really interacted with before.
Your hands lifted cautiously, then settled against his stomach, palms splayed over the strange, living warmth beneath. The intimacy of it made your pulse hop, because it felt absurdly domestic to touch him like this, like he was something you were allowed to hold. The tongue darted out again, licking the side of your palm with shameless curiosity.
You made a noise, a gasp and soft laugh, and drew your hand back only to put it there again, as if testing whether you were really being indulged. "It’s rude," you said, trying to sound stern and failing immediately.
Sukuna chuckled, low and dark, the sound vibrating through his chest and down into your hands. "You are easily entertained," he hummed to you.
The mouth, offended by the accusation, puffed its lips in something like a pout before the tongue resumed its teasing, tracing slow, careless patterns over your trembling stomach, dipping into your navel with a wet flick that made your breath hitch. Your back arched on instinct, body reacting before pride could catch up.
"S-Sukuna," you breathed, trying to hide your grin behind the blanket. "Tell it to behave."
“It has a mind of its own,” he replied, feigning innocence so poorly it was almost insulting. His hand slid into your hair, fingers combing through it with a lazy claim that made your throat tighten. You glared down at the mouth as if it could understand you.
“Does it?” you asked, voice quieter now, as if you were speaking to something that might answer. "Naughty mouth…" you whispered at it, though you couldn’t help the smile creeping on your face. The lips quirked again and the mouth let out a low hum that vibrated against your palm.
"Perhaps," Sukuna mused, deliberately cryptic. The tongue gave your palm one last playful lick, then paused, hovering like it was considering the next sin. "Or perhaps it simply knows what pleases its master…" His thumb stroked your scalp slowly, like he was feeling the tenderness of a cut of meat. "…and how to torment you."
You resisted at first.
It was ridiculous, that was the problem.
The lips parted in an idle, expectant curve, the more your hesitation turned into a strange, bubbling curiosity. The mouth looked hungry in a way that wasn’t quite threatening. It was shameless, almost…petulant. Like it wanted your attention. Sukuna was watching you, his eyes were heavy-lidded, expression carved into that familiar arrogance, but there was something sharp beneath it. A quiet patience that wasn’t patience at all. More like he’d already decided what you were going to do and was simply waiting for you to catch up.
Your throat went tight briefly, then you leaned down to it and gave a quick, timid kiss. “Muah…” you breathed, the sound soft, like you were testing whether you’d be punished for it.
Nothing happened for a moment, then the mouth pressed up eagerly, lips closing around yours with a sudden enthusiasm. The tongue swept over your lower lip, wet, insistent, and far too alive, as if it were trying to learn you by taste alone. A startled gasp slipped out of you, and the mouth chased it, kissing you deeper with a sloppy, affectionate greed that had no right to be so intimate. Your hands splayed against Sukuna’s abdomen, fingers curling in reflex.
Above you, Sukuna’s grip in your hair tightened, his low rumble vibrated through his chest and into your palms, approval that felt like a brand of its own. “Look at you,” he breathed deeply, voice thick with amusement. “Kissing it like you mean it.”
Your face flared hotter. “Shut up,” you whispered, though you didn’t pull away.
The mouth made a soft, pleased sound and nudged up for another kiss, demanding it.
You gave it one.
And another.
The sensation was wrong in the most dizzying way. Warm mouth, wet tongue, skin that should’ve been flat and harmless and normal moving beneath you like it had its own intention. The intimacy of it made your stomach flip, because intimacy with Sukuna meant laying down and letting him touch and move you. Right now, you were doing the exploring and he was letting you.
You could feel yourself growing bolder without meaning to, your lips lingering longer, your fingers tracing the edges like you were learning the shape of a secret. Sukuna’s thumb stroked your scalp lazily in a gesture that was almost tender, but the possessive weight of it made your pulse jump.
“Can you…taste from it?” you asked, voice quieter now, breath catching as the tongue flicked against your lips again. Curiosity slipped in around your flustered mind, sharpening it into something braver. “Do you eat with it?”
“I can,” Sukuna confirmed, his voice a low rumble. The mouth opened a fraction, obedient to him unlike what he claimed earlier, and you caught a glimpse of the rows of teeth, too neat and too sharp, identical to the ones in his true mouth. The sight made you shiver, half fascination and half fear. “Every sensation,” he continued, eyes trained on your face, “Every taste…” The tongue slid out again, slower now, and traced over your bottom lip as if proving the point.
Sukuna’s expression barely shifted, but the glint in his eyes sharpened. “I rarely use it for eating,” he added, like the idea bored him. “I prefer to save it for…other purposes.”
Your brows drew together as you pulled back just enough to look down at it properly, fingers still circling the edges in small, careful strokes. “Other purposes?” you echoed.
The mouth followed you, lips parting like it didn’t want the distance.
You swallowed, then asked the next question that rose up anyway, unable to stop yourself now that you’d started. “Not for eating…can you speak from it? I haven’t seen you use it for anything else-”
“Sit on it.”
Your whole body went hot, from your cheeks to the base of your spine, as the meaning caught up with you. “Sit on…?” you stammered, eyes snapping up to Sukuna’s.
“Do you need it spelled out?” he asked, voice thick with that lazy cruelty. His fingers flexed in your hair again, the pull subtle but unmistakably possessive. “Or are you going to pretend you don’t understand?”
You glanced down at the mouth, it was open now, waiting. The tongue slid out and swiped over its own lips slowly, obscene and deliberate. A tremor went through you at the act, subtly lewd and obscene in nature. “No,” you whispered, mortified. “I understand.”
“Good.” Sukuna’s gaze flicked over you like he was measuring your courage. Then his mouth curved into a smirk that made you want to hit him and kiss him at the same time. “Go on then, unless you’re chicken.”
“Wh…chicken?? How do you even…” Indignation flared up fast, sharp enough to cut through the embarrassment. You huffed, shoulders squaring as your pride latched onto the insult like a lifeline. “I’m not chicken,” you snapped, the words coming out breathy because your body was already betraying you. You shifted, bracing your hands against Sukuna’s chest as you climbed over him. His muscles moved under your palms, solid and steady, like nothing about this was strange at all. The mouth on his abdomen watched you with invisible eyes and blatant anticipation.
Sukuna’s never left yours while you settled, “Slow,” he advised smoothly.
Your throat bobbed around a swallow as you positioned yourself above his abdomen, knees trembling, and hovered there for a heartbeat, staring down at the wet heat of that waiting tongue. Your pulse hammered, pride screaming at you to stop. But curiosity and that unbearable awareness of Sukuna’s attention drew you lower.
When you finally sank down, the enlarged tongue met you with a slick, warm press that stole your breath in a shaky, broken gasp. Your fingers dug into Sukuna’s chest, knuckles whitening as you pulled back up again, “Gah-wait!” You blinked in shock, for some reason this made you feel more shy than having his face between your legs. Your clit throbbed, you could fucking feel it throbbing. Your body demanded you to sit back down, but you felt so self conscious all of a sudden.
Below you, Sukuna’s approving rumble deepened, his hands slowly pulled you to sit back down against his belly mouth. “Mm,” he murmured, satisfied. “There you go.” Sukuna’s hands moved down to hold the back of your thighs, coming up to the round of your ass and lightly spreading you. “Don’t hold out on me now, little one…”
You were shaking at the sensation, your entire body trembling as you slowly sank down further. The tongue moved eagerly against you, exploring and teasing as Sukuna's grip on your ass kept you shamelessly spread and vulnerable. "S-Sukuna," you gasped breathlessly, your hands clutching desperately at Sukuna's chest as pleasure began to build with alarming intensity. “W…wait-still sensitive…”
The tongue did not wait.
It pressed against you, probing both holes before playfully pushing inside your pussy, making you yelp and moan out. Your eyes widened, the tongue was thick and stretched you a little, just around the tip of it where it had gone inside. The tongue began lapping your slit and thrusting shallowly, tasting and rubbing your velvet walls, the tip gently rocking against that spongy sweet spot inside you.
Four eyes were glued to you while you writhed above Sukuna, the tongue working deeper as you slowly got used to its size and gave in. "Such beautiful sounds," he purred, his grip shifted as he guided you into a slow, torturous rhythm. The mouth beneath worked relentlessly, the wet muscle curling and stroking inside that made you see stars. “You’re so pretty like this, pet…nngh, so pretty making those little noises…”
Your eyes rolled back, body trembling violently as the tongue continued its relentless assault, stroking against that perfect spot over and over until your vision began to white out. "A-ah! Sukuna, I-I can't…hold it!" You cried out between rapid inhales, breaking into desperate sobs of pleasure as your thighs shook uncontrollably in Sukuna's firm grip. You leaned back, chasing that hot build up of pressure in your cunt, your hands flying behind you and clawing into Sukuna’s thighs for support.
"Good," Sukuna growled approvingly, his voice thick while he watched you arch beautifully above him, the new position allowing the tongue to delve even deeper. "Show me how much you can take, my precious pet." His hands slid to your hips, gripping possessively as he began to control the rhythm, forcing you to literally ride the tongue with increasing desperation.
The tongue forced its way deeper, your poor pussy stretching more and more while it slithered inside you like a thick free-thinking appendage. Your breath came in ragged gasps, trying to control yourself. The thing curled inside, hitting your sweet spot again and again, never letting up until you became overwhelmed with constant pleasure. Your head fell back, a string of curses with Sukuna’s name tied in began to rush from your mouth. Lewd cries and gasps, the sound of saliva and your cum began squelching below your hips as you continued bouncing on him even after your orgasm hit. You chased every ounce of pleasure you could take, even in passing, even as the high faded away into nothing but sensitivity.
Sukuna eventually halted your hips with a firm, final hold. You quivered with aftershocks as the tongue slowly withdrew with a loud pop, glistening more than it should, leaving you oversensitive in a way that made your breath stutter. "Shit…" you whimpered hoarsely, fingers still dug into his thighs like you needed something solid to keep from floating away. Sukuna’s hands gentled despite the strength in them, guiding you down until you could collapse against him again.
His lower arms wrapped around you, anchoring you to his chest as your breathing slowly steadied. "You enjoyed that far too much," he chuckled, one hand stroking through your hair while the other traced lazy patterns down your bare spine, claiming you with every pass. The King of Curses allowed himself this rare moment of indulgent quiet, savoring the weight of your body, his cherished possession, like it was something he’d earned and had a right to.
You swallowed thickly, still trembling and gathering your strength to talk again. “I didn’t do anything…” You whispered, lazy and sleepy, cheeks burning. “I just let you do the work…”
Sukuna hummed, amused. "And you think that makes you innocent?" He tipped you up, forcing you to meet his gaze. "You surrendered yourself to me," he rumbled after a moment, voice a low purr of satisfaction. "That is more than enough." His arms tightened around you like iron chains, as if he could physically bind you to his side for eternity. “Sleep…that should be enough of a drop to put you to bed.”
“Are you sure this looks okay…?” You looked in the mirror after Sukuna dressed you in expensive fabrics, sheer red silk that framed you, jewelry that featured all your best assets and, well…his favorites too.
He circled you slowly, drinking in every detail. "You look like a divine offering," he purred, his hand trailing along your silk-draped shoulder, "Adorned precisely as you should be. Everyone who lays eyes upon you will know you are mine. Now…let us go punish those vipers.” He stood, turning and patting his leg. “Come.”
You followed, the silk fabrics flowing around you like liquid crimson as you moved. Your heart pounded with nervousness and unexpected trust, he had only briefly explained what was going to happen today. Adorned as his prized possession, you would stand beside the King of Curses as you confronted those who had dared to poison your mind.
You walked through the halls of the palace, keeping a step behind Sukuna, head down, silent, just as he instructed you to be. Appearances were strict, you had to obey and maintain a proper display in front of others. When you reached his throne room, you were taken aback by it, truthfully you had never been there. You were only really taken to and from the garden outside the palace, the few ponds he had ordered to be built for you, and his bed chamber. You had never been inside his throne room; vast and brilliant in its malevolence.
The throne room stretched with a natural imposing feeling, its ceiling disappearing into shadows that writhed with malevolent energy. Massive pillars of black stone lined the chamber, each carved with intricate scenes of conquest and suffering, their surfaces gleaming with an unnatural sheen. The floor was polished obsidian, reflecting distorted images like a dark mirror, perhaps something to mimic trapped and fallen souls Sukuna had struck down in his glory days. Scattered around the room were the remnants of those who had displeased the King of Curses, bones arranged in specific patterns as warningful decor.
At the far end of the chamber, elevated on a dais of skulls and dark marble, sat Sukuna's throne; a monstrous construction of twisted human bone and blackened metal, adorned with vermillion silk that matched the fabric you wore. Torches burned with eerie red flames along the walls, casting dancing shadows that made the room feel alive with menace. The air itself felt heavy with cursed energy, thick enough to choke anyone who wasn't accustomed to such overwhelming power.
The atmosphere was suffocating in its grandeur, designed to make visitors feel small and insignificant before Sukuna’s might.
He took a seat, then glanced at you. “By my feet…”
You walked up to his throne, it almost felt as though you were on trial, the walk up the few steps was intimidating all on its own. You carefully lowered yourself to kneel beside the throne, the sheer red silk pooling around you like blood as you settled into position. You made sure to keep your head bowed in a display of perfect submission, the jewelry adorning you catching the eerie red torchlight and gleaming like fresh wounds. You favored one side of your hip as you sat, legs still together but folded in front of you instead of being tucked beneath you. Right now, you were the picture of devoted obedience; a beautiful, living trophy positioned exactly where you belonged at the king’s side.
Sukuna reached down, carefully adjusting some decorative things in your hair.
You sat perfectly still, feeling the gentle tug of Sukuna's fingers working through your hair. Each ornamental piece was placed with purpose, golden chains that draped across you, crimson jewels that dangled near your temples and forehead, and delicate pins adorned with tiny skulls.
“Eyes.” Sukuna muttered.
Your eyes met Sukuna's as he quietly ordered. The stones in your hair and draped along your skin caught any light hitting the surface as you tilted your head slightly upward, framing your face in a way that made you look ethereal yet utterly submissive, a perfect vision of beauty and obedience for all who would soon witness.
“Such a perfect thing you are…” Sukuna hummed, fixing one tiny stone to face outward..
His words made your heart swelled with warmth at the praise, a soft blush coloring your cheeks as you lowered your gaze once more. You could feel the weight of Sukuna's possession in every ornament adorning your body, every silk thread that bound you to his will. And if you were honest with yourself, you couldn’t bring yourself to mind right now.
The sound of approaching footsteps echoed through the throne room, signaling the arrival of those who would soon face Sukuna’s wrath. The anxiety of the unknown made you instinctively pressed closer into his leg. It helped, you used his leg for support as you leaned into it, relieving any pressure that might’ve been held in your palm from your seated position.
His hand came to rest on your head as the doors to the throne room groaned open. The sound of multiple footsteps echoed across the obsidian floor and you could feel the cursed energy shift as figures entered: the very sorcerers who had whispered poison into impressionable ears, who had dared to suggest he was anything less than absolute.
“I have called you all here to discuss your speech.” Sukuna began, voice calm enough to be almost conversational. One of his hands lifted lazily toward the cup Uraume offered on a lacquered tray. Uraume did not move until Sukuna’s fingers brushed the rim.
The servants lined below the dais shifted like a school of fish sensing blood. Their shoulders drew tight beneath their robes, eyes flicking from Sukuna’s throne to the figure kneeling at his feet, then back again as if trying to measure which sight was more dangerous. The air already tasted of iron to anyone sensitive enough to notice the cursed energy pressing down on the room. Sukuna took a slow sip, watching the crowd over the rim of the cup, unblinking, delighted in a way that made the torchlight feel colder.
For a moment, the only sound was the soft clink of jewelry against silk and velvet as his fingers idly toyed with the ornaments in your hair. The mouth on his abdomen opened in an exaggerated stretch, lips slick and obscene. It licked itself, displaying enlarged fangs with shameless pride, and the nearest servants flinched hard enough that their sandals scraped against obsidian.
Sukuna set the cup back onto the tray, the sound echoed through the room like a gavel. “I don’t like snakes,” he said, almost mildly. He tilted his head into his knuckles as if considering a problem of etiquette, “And it seems that I have several among you.”
The pressure in the room thickened, Sukuna’s touch in your hair remained soft, fingers stroking through chains and pins as if you were a favored ornament he wore for his own amusement. “Would any of you care to confess before I reveal what I already know?”
A few of the servants exchanged frantic looks. There were only three who had dared to speak to you directly, but Sukuna’s gaze made it clear he was not interested in technicalities. Complicity counted. Silence counted. Even listening without reporting counted. That was betrayal enough in his eyes.
No one spoke.
The quiet stretched, long enough for shame to start sweating beneath skin, and a weak stomach to threaten revolt. A sleeve trembled. Someone’s knee knocked against the floor with a soft, accidental clack.
Sukuna’s fingers stopped in your hair, the sudden stillness was worse than a shout to those who understood his body language. “Very well, then allow me to enlighten you.” He leaned forward a fraction, and the movement alone made the servants recoil as if the throne itself had shifted. “There are those who deemed it appropriate to speak to my pet.” Each syllable like he was carving it into bone and adding it to his throne. His eyes narrowed, cruelness sharpening, “To deceive her.”
A beat passed.
“To use my name like a tool and smear it with their own filth.” The mouth on his abdomen hummed, lips curling with ugly anticipation. Sukuna’s gaze swept the line. The guilty were obvious to him, and their bodies betrayed them before he would ever point a finger. Three faces drained white as rice paper. Two others tried to hide behind lowered chins, but Sukuna’s stare found them anyway.
His hand resumed its slow stroking like he was soothing a prized animal while deciding how to slaughter the ones who had frightened it. “Little prize,” Sukuna said at last, his tone shifting when he addressed you, the red flames painting his eyes brighter, more inhuman. The demon in him slowly making itself known as it was slowly crawling out of him.
You lifted obediently, expression serene despite the violence coiling through the room. You did not move from your place at his feet, if anything, you looked like you belonged there, like kneeling beside him was as natural as breathing.
“Do you remember who spoke to you?” Sukuna asked.
You nodded, lashes lowering for a heartbeat as you forced yourself to recall the kitchen, the false sympathy, the practiced venom. Your eyes lifted again and briefly landed on the three servants who had approached you, the ones whose hands had been too bold, whose mouths had been too free. “Yes, Master,” you said softly, the term felt weird to say in front of others, but that is what he demanded you use.
“You do?” Sukuna’s gaze returned to the line of servants, predatory and pleased. “And are they here in this room?”
Your throat tightened, but your voice did not waver. “Yes, Master,” you confirmed again, gaze settling on them like a blade choosing where to cut.
Term again. It wasn’t so bad after the first time.
A strangled, desperate sound muffled out one of the servants’ mouths. Another’s legs buckled, barely saved by the person beside them.
Sukuna exhaled, amused. “Good,” he said, and the word was a promise. His hand drifted from your hair to your jaw, tilting your face up with ease as if to remind everyone present that you were not a witness they could intimidate.
“Look at them,” he murmured to you, voice low enough to be intimate. “They wanted you to believe you were nothing. They wanted you to doubt what is mine.” His thumb traced your lower lip slowly, an action dressed as affection. Then his voice rose again, filling the throne room. “Guilty, step forward,” Sukuna ordered, and even the flames inside the torches seemed to bow at his voice., dimming ever slightly.
No one moved. Typical. The guilty were always cowardly.
Sukuna smiled, showing teeth. “Ah,” he sighed, almost indulgent. “So you require encouragement.”
He leaned back in his throne as if the entire matter bored him, elbow propped on bone and marble, cheek resting in his knuckles. His gaze dragged across the line of servants once more, slow and deliberate, as if counting them the way a butcher counted carcasses. “Last chance,” he said, voice smooth enough to pass for mercy. “Confess…or my pet will tell me who.”
No one dared to meet his eyes for long, even fewer dared to look at you.
At last, one servant broke, a thin man with hollowed eyes stumbled forward, knees nearly giving out beneath him. He bowed so hard his forehead hovered a breath above the floor, shaking like a leaf pinned under a dagger. “M-My Lord, I…I only wished to protect her from-”
“Protect?” Sukuna’s voice cut through the air like his invisible cleaves, a sightless blade already at the throat. “You presume to know better than me what she requires?” His hand tightened on the arm of the throne, bone creaking faintly under the pressure. Blood red eyes brightened, and the shadows at the edges of the room leaned inward, eager as he inclined forward just a fraction. The servants recoiled as if he had stood. “My dear…” Sukuna addressed you, “Point them out.”
Hesitation was not an option, not with that tone or look.
Your breath caught high, but you kept your posture perfect, chin lowered, hands still for one heartbeat longer than comfort allowed. Then your hand rose, graceful, obedient, inevitable. A single finger extended and you might as well have lifted a reaper’s scythe towards each one.
First, the thin man who had stepped forward, trembling so violently his shoulders jerked.
Then, a woman with sharp features, her jaw clenched tight enough to crack, eyes wide with the dawning horror of consequence.
Then, the younger servant whose face had gone ghost white, lips parted as if they could not remember how to breathe.
“Those three, Master,” you whispered, voice softer than you intended, betrayed by the quick, anxious flutter in your chest despite the fact that there was nowhere safer in the world than at Sukuna’s side, planted beside him, at his feet. His gaze followed the path of your finger, lingering on each culprit in turn.
And then his lips curved. “How considerate,” Sukuna purred, rising from his throne with unhurried grace, “To save me the trouble of extraction. The rest of you…out of my sight.”
The innocent servants scrambled toward the exits, their footsteps echoing frantically against the polished floor as they fled from the throne room. Only the three guilty ones remained, frozen in place, their terror rendering them immobile as Sukuna descended from his throne. A tiger prowling down, a step sharpening extended claws towards trapped prey. You stayed sitting where you had been, watching through lowered lashes as he approached the trembling traitors like death incarnate.
“My darling pet…” Sukuna turned, voice almost singing. His finger curling, encouraging you to come close. “Don’t fret, my dear…they will not move a muscle.”
You rose from your kneeling position as the silk fabrics whispered around you like a precious veil, or an extension of his energy. You approached quietly, the jewelry clinking gently, tiny chains flashing with riches, awaiting whatever command would fall from his lips.
“Be a good girl and tell me…which one spoke the worst.”
Your eyes shifted to the sharp-featured woman, whose voice had been the most venomous when she spoke of Sukuna's supposed cruelties. "Her, Master," you said softly, your chin lifting just slightly toward the trembling figure. "She claimed you would tire of me and discard me like all the others. And that the brand was a mistake…and that I would be left to die when you were done ruining my body."
Silence.
Then-
“Go sit back down, sit pretty for me…” Sukuna muttered.
You moved back to your position beside the throne and lowered yourself to your knees. The shades of red caressing you, as you smoothed it all into place, coaxing every fold into perfection. You adjusted the drape so the silk framed you exactly how he preferred, so the chains and crimson jewels caught every glance of light instead of hiding from it. Your hands folded in your lap, fingers still, spine straight, chin lowered just enough to read as satisfied reverence instead of forced fear.
“Do you see her? How dare you spit such venomous accusations and lies about your KING!”
The woman’s face twisted as Sukuna’s cursed energy unfurled from him, sudden and suffocating, like a storm deciding where to strike. The torches guttered. The soulless floor darkened under the pressure as the images distorted away from where he stood like he were oil placed onto ink. Even the air felt sharp to breathe, charged with malice that made the servants’ teeth chatter.
“I wonder,” Sukuna murmured, voice almost thoughtful as he drifted around her in a slow circle, “What punishment suits a mouth that dared to speak for me.” His sadistic eyes raked over the line with lazy ownership, then landed on her again, and the look alone made her knees threaten to fold. “One who thought it amusing to poison my pet’s mind with vile squalor.”
Uraume stepped forward at a single tilt of Sukuna’s chin, expression smooth as ice. They did not utter a word. You remained kneeling, jewelry cold against your skin, the room no longer felt warm. The red fabric looked like you were doused in fresh blood. Was it intentional? The soon to be spilled blood is your cause? You tried to keep your face still, but your stomach tightened anyway. You did not know what he would do, only that he would do it thoroughly. He loved this type of shit.
“Uraume, ensure they do not run.” The last word barely left his tongue before winter crawled across the throne room.
Frost blossomed at the servants’ feet in delicate, vicious patterns, crystalline veins spreading over the black floor like a living thing. The ice rose with the patience of a blooming flower, encasing ankles, shins, knees. Panic flickered across their faces in a wave. One tried to jerk free and only earned a sharper crack of freezing air as the ice tightened like a vice. Their muscles and blood froze, subzero temperatures rushing through their bodies and halting at the waist. Sukuna watched it like a man enjoying a performance, smile slow and satisfied. “Now…” he said, and the single syllable made the woman flinch.
He reached for her as if she weighed nothing. His hand clamped around her jaw, bruising in an instant, forcing her mouth open until her lips stretched and her breath turned into a strangled, wet sound. She gagged on fear. She nearly vomited. Sukuna held her there, steady, unhurried, as if he were inspecting a tool that had disappointed him. “I wonder…” he repeated, eyes glinting, then released her abruptly, only to stroll back toward you like the violence belonged in his pocket.
You looked to him as he neared, Sukuna took your wrist and turned your palm upward. Something dropped into your hand and your fingers curled reflexively to trap it.
Jade.
A single die, smooth and cool, its faces carved with tiny symbols painted gold that caught the red torchlight. It felt heavier than it should have for something so small. You looked up at Sukuna, confusion tightening your throat.
“Roll it,” he commanded, settling back onto his throne as if this were entertainment to pass the evening, three trapped jesters awaiting trial..
“Odd number, tongue. Even number, teeth.”
Your pulse knocked hard beneath your ribs. The die sat in your palm like a verdict. You glanced at the three frozen servants, their eyes wide and glassy, the frost creeping higher as they shivered. Their terror was loud in the silence. “…Can I,” you asked, voice small despite yourself, “Roll however I want to?”
Sukuna’s mouth curved, pleased by the question. “However you like, dear pet,” he purred, and it sounded indulgent only on the surface. “Each of them will receive what fate decides.”
Your mind flashed back to the kitchen. Their false sympathy, their cruelty was so practiced that you wondered if they rehearsed it. The way they had watched you hurt like it was a sweet thing to taste. You remembered how small you had felt, how stupid, how easily their words had found the soft parts inside you and pressed until you bled. You remembered how giddy the servants looked while tearing your self esteem and mind apart. Watching you tremble with shiny eyes, tears pricking your lashes as they continued spitting words and phrases that weren’t true like black scaled cobras, just to watch you crumble.
Maybe they hoped Sukuna would get rid of you so they could swoop in and replace you, that’s what everyone wants to do, right? Replace you, like you weren’t good enough. They thought you weren’t good enough, not for anything, not even to be a slave.
The die clicked softly against the floor, once.
Not a roll.
A simple choice.
Even.
Sukuna’s grin widened as a low chuckle rolled out of him, pleased as a god watching a mortal finally admit what they were. “Teeth it is,” he said, voice warm with approval. He rose, the sharp-featured woman went so pale you thought she died right there, lips trembling around a sound that never fully formed. He crossed the distance in an unhurried stride and seized her again, fingers digging into her cheeks, forcing her mouth open wider than any should tolerate, fingers digging into the hinge of her jaw. Her scream came out mangled around his grip, muffled and ugly, turning instantly into sobbing breaths.
It was the more painful choice, having all her teeth forcibly extracted rather than her tongue being cut out.
Neither is preferable surely, but you were hurt. You had wanted her to hurt, you did. But when it began, when the room filled with the raw, unmistakable sounds of it, the wet desperation, the crack of roots tearing loose, something in your stomach lurched. The violence was too real up close. Too visceral. It stopped being satisfying and became something that made your throat tighten and your eyes sting.
You tried to keep watching but your gaze broke, flinching away as if you were the one being punished.
Uraume noticed, they had only been standing a few feet away from you. They moved to you in a quiet glide and gave a subtle, elegant flick of their fingers. Tiny spheres of ice formed, perfect little marbles that clinked softly together near your hand. A narrow trail of frost appeared on the floor in front of you, a small maze drawn in delicate lines. It was a silent distraction provided to you without you needing to voice your discomfort.
You focused on the marbles in your palms, rolling them back and forth until your fingers stopped shaking. You guided one through the icy path, eyes locked on the harmless game while the throne room filled with sounds you refused to acknowledge.
A crack.
A choked scream.
A wet, gargling sob.
Frantic begging that barely got around the blood that nearly choked the servant. Maybe she swallowed some of the teeth. The click of them hitting the floor didn’t add up to the number she had in her mouth.
You breathed through it, slow and shallow, letting the cold bite your fingertips until it anchored you.
When the noise finally died down, replaced by broken, hoarse whimpers, you dared to look up. Sukuna stood with blood on his hand like a glove he’d forgotten to remove. His arm extended toward you, palm open, fingers flexing once, expectant.
Your breath caught and for a slight second you hesitated, unsure whether you were meant to come to him or stay where you belonged, unsure what he wanted from you now that you had made your choice.
Sukuna crooked a finger again. The gesture was lazy, almost playful, but it was still a command.
You rose, silk whispering as you moved, ornaments chiming softly with each careful step. You approached slower this time, eyes averted from the woman barely upright in Sukuna’s grip, body trying not to tremble as you came to a stop a few steps away. You waited for whatever he desired next.
Sukuna’s bloodied fingers reached out to your face, tipping you up until you had no choice but to meet his eyes. The touch was almost gentle, and that made it worse. “Did you enjoy choosing her fate?” he asked, the question was mostly curiosity, but there was a hint of a testing tone to it. His thumb dragged along your lower lip, leaving a faint crimson smear behind like a mark.
You forced yourself to look past him. The servant was still alive and the sight of her pain turned your stomach in a slow, ugly roll. Fresh blood looked like paint. Unnaturally thick and wet.
A part of you felt vindicated, heat curling in your chest like a secret you didn’t want to name. Another part of you wanted to close your eyes and disappear back into the silk cradling you.
Your throat burned, “…I did, Master,” Your lip trembled as you added, quieter, “I just…didn’t like the sound after a while.” You admitted, voice small but steady. You were honest, knowing he’d detect a lie.
His mouth curved. Not quite a smile, not quite a snarl. “Such sensitivity,” he murmured, thankfully he sounded more amused than anything else. He wiped the blood from your lip with his thumb, as if you were something to keep pristine even in a room like this.
He moved in front of you, then turned his head, voice dropping into a low hush that still filled the chamber. “Dismantle.”
The executions that followed were swift.
Not kind but brief, precise, a clean ending instead of a drawn-out lesson like the first. Even that small concession made the air feel wrong, like the world had tilted for you in a way it never did for anyone else. You almost felt wind around you like invisible blades wooshed past you, but you didn’t see the executions because of where he had stood.
Sukuna didn’t bother to watch the aftermath with any reverence either. “Take this one down to the cells,” he ordered, chin lifting toward the sharp-featured woman. “Let her bleed out for all I care. Preserve the bodies for later consumption.”
Uraume moved immediately, lower-ranked servants stepped in with bowed heads and shaking hands. The woman’s hoarse, broken whimpering echoed as she was dragged away, leaving a dark, smeared trail across the polished floor like spilled ink that clotted every now and then. A steady faucet of blood pouring out of her mouth. Perhaps her jaw had been broken in the process, you weren’t sure. You honestly didn’t want to know nor did you look too closely. You only knew something had snapped or torn to make that sound. You stayed near Sukuna even after they left because that was where you were safest, the room itself seemed eager to punish anything that stood alone.
“...worthless vermin,” Sukuna muttered, already bored. The high of his sadism already fading and leaving him feeling dull. He crossed to a basin along the wall and plunged his hands into the water.
You followed, watching the water cloud pink around his fingers, then darker, swirling like diluted wine. You reached for a cloth from the stand and offered it with both hands. Your gaze flicked up, it was only for a heartbeat before you lowered it again. He took the cloth and dried his hands slowly, watching you as if he were weighing something. “You did well today,” he said, and the softness in his voice was strange on him, dangerous in its own way. “Loyalty deserves to be rewarded.”
Your breath caught, you feared what a reward from him meant. It could be anything. Sukuna loved games, loved tests, and loved messing with you.
Last time he claimed you deserved a reward, he held a hot iron against the back of your neck and branded a mark against you.
You could still smell burning flesh if you focused hard enough. “…I don’t need a reward for obeying,” you whispered. “I simply do what I am supposed to do.” You felt Sukuna’s hand on your cheek, that eye closed briefly as his thumb had trailed too close to your lashes.
“You obey because you are mine,” he rumbled. “But I reward what pleases me.” Another hand settled at your waist, “And you, my pet, have pleased me greatly today.”
Heat rose under your skin at the praise, now that you were flush with him, his clear arousal was obvious against your belly. “Master…” you breathed, blinking hard, as if the word could steady you. “I…feel your eagerness already…”
A low sound rolled out of Sukuna’s chest, pleased. He drew you closer until you could feel the weight of him, the steady power that made everyone else in the room feel like prey. Despite your position, you didn’t feel that way. His mouth brushed near your decorated ear, voice dropping. “Then perhaps,” he murmured, “You should feel it more intimately.”
The implication made your face burn, but it also lit a reckless spark in you, pride, devotion, and the dizzy relief of being chosen. A sudden wave of adrenaline rushed through your veins.
You found yourself pressing your hands to his back, urging him away from the basin and back toward the throne with careful insistence. Not pushing, okay maybe a little pushing, but mostly guiding.
Something inside you felt loose and bright, as if the chain around your throat had turned into jewelry instead. The lengths he went to because of words, because of what they tried to make you believe, left you shaking with a terrible kind of gratitude. You had never felt so protected. So kept despite the circumstance.
Sukuna allowed it. He returned to his throne with your soft ushering, settling into it as if the seat. His stare pinned you there, four burning eyes, patient and hungry with expectation. “Oh?” he purred. “What’s this…?”
You lowered yourself to your knees before him, the silk like a deep cocoon, a throne all in itself, your ornaments chiming softly with the movement. Your hands slid up his muscular and stupidly thick thighs as you lifted your face. “Allow me,” you whispered with devotion and thrill, “To worship you…properly. Such a king who goes through the lengths to punish servants for speech deserves to be pleased.”
Sukuna’s head tilted, approving. His legs spread wide at your tone. “Then worship me, my beautiful pet,” he said, voice thick with desire. The red flames, velvet, silk, sheer maroon sheets, the gemstones and delicate gold chains made you appear more like a divine offering than a human servant.
“Always, master…” You whispered, undoing the fastenings around his waist and pulling Sukuna free as you bit your lip, both of his cocks sprang out and throbbed eagerly for you. Your hands gently took one in each, offering a few steady strokes before you picked one to suckle on.
Sukuna groaned deeply as he watched your lips stretch around him, the wet heat of your pretty mouth drawing a rumble of pleasure from his chest. "That’s it," he praised, his voice roughened with desire as his hips shifted slightly, urging you to take him deeper. For now, he refrained from touching you, giving you the chance to please him on your own accord.
His sounds were encouraging and you took him deeper, slowly taking more and more as you bobbed steadily, drooling and whining as the fat head of his cock coated your tongue in salty precum and hit your uvula. You popped off and took the other one in your mouth, giving it a turn.
Sukuna's eyes blazed with approval as he watched you lavish attention on both of his cocks, the sight of you so eager to suck him off sent waves of pleasure straight to his core. "Greedy little thing," he growled, his voice thick with lust as he guided your head back to the first, now slick with saliva. His hips rolled forward demandingly, seeking the heat of your throat again.
“…greedy…and you buck into my mouth.” You sputtered out, giving Sukuna a playful look, though unsure if you were allowed to speak this way since you were out of his bed chamber. “Sorry,” You whispered quickly, his mood was so sensitive, you didn’t want to accidentally kill his arousal or anger him.
But instead, Sukuna's laughter rumbled through the throne room instead of a quick correction, rich and dark with amusement. His tone was indulgent as he traced your jawline with a bloodstained finger. "Your boldness pleases me."
With that, you playfully nipped his thumb, then hid against his thigh.
Sukuna grinned even more, a rare flicker of something almost fond crossing his features before the usual predatory hunger reasserted itself. "Brat," he guided your mouth back to his aching cocks, each one glistening and twitching. “Suck, or I will take over.” Beads of clear precum continued to grow at the reddened tips before drooling down the underside like clear droplets of dew. The throne room fell silent save for the soft crackling of the torches, the wet sounds of your worship, and Sukuna's deep, satisfied groans echoing off the dark walls. His praise encouraged you, even the slight degrading words that fell from his lips made your pussy throb under the silk.
“There you go, take more…you can do better than that. I’ve fucked your throat much harder than this.” He urged, watching you struggle to deepthroat him. You gagged and choked, gurgling around him as you tried your very best. Drool was everywhere, you were making quite a mess during your sucking. Still, you didn’t care, you took him until his swollen heads hit the back of your throat with each bob. His fat tips kissed your throat over and over, sliding down and bruising the tender flesh inside and made your eyes water.
Sukuna looked at you with carnal satisfaction as he watched you struggle beautifully, the sight of your tear-streaked face and drool-slicked chin only heightening his pleasure. "There we go," he groaned, his grip tightening in your hair as his hips began to move with more urgency, chasing his release in the heat of your mouth. “That’s much better, nngh…come on, tired already? Keep trying…”
In that moment nearing his orgasm, Uraume came to report the prisoners and they paused, as if the erotic scene was just a nuisance and something they happened to see often. “…must you do this here?” They questioned evenly.
Sukuna's gaze slid lazily toward Uraume, utterly unbothered by the interruption as you continued to work his cocks, forcing them down into your throat as much as possible. "I may do as I please, wherever I please," he drawled, his voice thick with pleasure as one hand remained tangled in your hair, guiding you up and down on him like you were a cock vessel or sex toy at his disposal. "Speak your report."
“The prisoners are preserved, the woman alive but she will likely die from blood loss or hypothermia, as I have preserved all but her head.” Uraume paused as you popped off with a gasp, then dipped your head down to the second cock to choke on. You slid it down your throat until you audibly gagged, but kept it snug enough that your throat bulged. His other cock laid across your face and spat out thick globs of precum into your hair, the heaviness of it almost plugged your nose. You looked like the definition of cock drunk.
“…all will be ready to prepare for meals in a moon.” They finished.
Sukuna's expression remained impassive, though satisfaction crossed his features at the report. "That’s perfect," he rumbled, his attention never wavering from your efforts, his hips rolling forward as he bared his teeth to keep back a loud groan as you switched cocks. "You may leave us." He waved off with a free hand.
Uraume bowed, walking out of the throne room, maybe a tad faster than their usual gait. You came off the dick that had been nearly suffocating you and whined loudly, your face hot and blushed, chin sloppy with spit and precum, panting as you looked back up at Sukuna.
He took in the debauched sight of you, lips swollen, face flushed with exertion, utterly devoted. "Such a beautiful mess you've made of yourself," he growled approvingly, his hand cupping your chin to tilt your face up further. "Come here."
Eagerly, you frantically crawled up, “Wan’ y’r cum…wanna feel it, swallow…it…wan’ it!” You whined loudly, your hands on Sukuna’s thighs, looking up to him with blown pupils, not off the ground completely, as if part of you wanted to stay in that position. Which you did. You loved it, the place between his legs, they themselves shielded you from the world and you knew you were safe there. Forbid anyone from daring to even look at you, the obscene nature of it, the way Uraume saw it and ignored it, like you belonged there. It made your cunt throb, your thighs were completely soaked with need.
Sukuna's raw desire skyrocketed, a feral growl rumbling from his chest as he pushed you back down between his thighs hard enough that your knees rocked into the floor. "Then take it, all of it," he commanded, his voice thick as both his now swollen cocks twitched. He hastily guided you to wrap those perfect lips around one while your hands worked the other, determined to give him exactly what he needed.
It took a minute to build him back up, but just as Sukuna’s groans grew loudest, you popped off the cock you were deepthroating and pulled both tips into your mouth and suckled hard, intending to fully milk everything he had from both tips, squeezing and jerking each one off to ensure every drop was pulled from him.
Sukuna's release crashed through him, a deep, guttural roar tore from his throat as he spilled into your slutty mouth, both cocks pulsing in tandem as you drank as much cum as possible with greed. He looked at you with savage satisfaction, watching your throat work to swallow it all, yet the sheer amount was too much, it trickled down your chin and to your chest, bubbling at the corners of your mouth and foaming white, translucent pearls. Lewd.
"Perfect," he growled breathlessly, his hand gentling in your hair as the aftershocks rolled through him, releasing the knot he had gripped onto and relieving your scalp. "My perfect little pet..."
“...you made my hair messy,” You pouted playfully, you reached up and felt the knots, the precum staining your hair, the way some of the chains and decorations had gotten tangled.
He chuckled darkly, his fingers threading through the disheveled strands as he smoothed them back into place. "A small price to pay for such exquisite worship," he murmured, his touch lingering. "Though I must admit, you wear disarray beautifully."
You caught your breath as he touched you and leaned your cheek into his thigh, poking your tongue out.
“Impudent little thing,” he murmured, the words threaded with clear amusement. His thumb traced the line of your jaw, then slid to your mouth. He tapped your tongue back in with a soft, almost mocking press, like he were putting you in your place with the smallest motion possible. He gathered some cum still on your face, then pushed two fingers into your mouth until they found the back of your tongue. Your eyes nearly closed, a soft gag choked out of you, yet he didn’t pull them out until you swallowed around them.
“Did you enjoy yourself, hm?” Sukuna’s voice dipped low, he took his time, drinking you in like a decadent, private feast. “You were more eager than I’ve ever seen.” The corner of his mouth lifted, and the look that followed was pure, satisfied cruelty. “Perhaps I should execute servants in front of you more often, if it reveals such pretty little reactions.”
“Sukuna…” You rolled your eyes, but your breath hitched on the sound of his name. The heat in your cheeks betrayed you faster than your pride could catch up. You crawled up his body anyway, jewelry chiming softly, and settled in his lap. Your forearm swept across your mouth, an embarrassed, clumsy attempt at dignity to wipe whatever had been left on your face. “I’m messy,” you whispered, the words small, but edged with the boldness you’d apparently forgotten how to hide.
He tilted his head, one hand slid to the small of your back, steadying you, “Messy,” he repeated, savoring it. A thumb brushed your lower lip once, then again. “Mm. I suppose I can clean you up.”
Before you could decide whether to be mortified or defiant, he lifted you.
Your body rose against his chest, and you made a sound you hadn’t meant to let out. Sukuna carried you out of the throne room as though the blood and frost and fear left behind were nothing but background noise. “Come,” he said, already turning toward his bed chamber, his tone turned into something familiar that made your stomach flip. He tightened his hold on you just enough to be a reminder, “And perhaps we can keep this boldness going.” His gaze dipped, indecent and knowing, the promise in it making your pulse stutter.
“Maybe you’ll beg for both tonight.”
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dividers by @/strangergraphics ; boarder image is just a screenshot
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Almost through all the dorms 🦁🍩🐺
As a slow artist that also gets bombarded by school work I don't get to put out that much fully rendered artworks </3 so seeing how I managed to do four fully rendered Leona pieces in 2025 is quite an achievement for me HSKAJSJAHA IT'S NOT A LOT BUT IT'S MORE THAN WHAT I PUT OUT LAST LAST YEAR AND THAT'S GOOD‼️‼️‼️ let's hope I can make more this year 🥹 (maybe more focused on my yumeship/OCxCanon stuff too.....? 👀)
fontaine, the nation of justice — ft. wriothesley
your soulmate has spent his whole life in constant pain, and you’ve spent your whole life feeling it—fleeting for you, unending for him. after years of hoping, you finally find him…right as he dumps piping-hot tea onto his leg and burns you both at the same time
word count. ❤︎ 11.2k words — i promise its not too bad pls give it a chance
before you read. ❤︎ female reader + female gendered terms like “miss” and “pretty lady” ; canon compliant + soulmates au ; feeling your soulmate's pain trope ; heavy references to wrio's backstory, which alludes to child exploitation and trafficking ; mild implications of sexual trauma (wrio) ; reader sits on his lap + gets carried by him ; reader has an unspecified job at the palais/court ; protected vaginal sex ; slight handjobs ; very vanilla sex ; a series of events of you and wrio navigating how to fall in love and enjoying every second of it ; alternating povs
commentary. ❤︎ happy birthday to my bewtiful boy
Your soulmate is always in pain. It’s all you’ve ever known about him.
“His back is killing him again,” you sigh in concern, rubbing your lower back for a moment.
Clorinde looks at you, raising a brow. The fortress is…well, it’s not the cleanest or brightest of places, but there is at least enough light to still make out the look she gives you. “You mean, your back is killing you, yes? You can feel it, too.”
“For just a moment,” you huff, “it’s gone very quickly. It’s not as though it troubles me for long. He, on the other hand…well, I wonder what that fool could have gotten himself into this time.”
The first time you feel what he does, you’re ten. It feels like there’s a sharp kick to your ribs, and then your back feels like it’s slammed hard against a surface just a moment later. You remember it vividly—how you cried out and hunched over. How your mother had rushed over to you and whispered words you couldn’t even hear, wiping your tears. All you knew then was that he was in pain, too. Agony. For a blinding second, you felt it with him, before it dissipated like it was nothing.
At age ten, you learn what it means to worry for someone you’ve never met. To fear for another’s safety more fiercely than a child should be capable of. To wonder about his well-being. His survival. Whatever your soulmate is going through, it can’t be safe. Can’t be the life of a normal child with a normal upbringing or a normal home. You know it’s worse for him, even if you feel it too. Where your aches vanish in seconds, his must linger—throbbing, bruising, weighing down small limbs that have no business carrying so much hurt.
At ten, you learn that not all children are created equal. Some are born to live their lives as children. And others…well, others it seems, are only there to prove how blessed those children truly are.
That is the reality of Fontaine, the nation of justice.
By the time you’re thirteen, there’s a constant ache in your muscles and your bones that comes and goes. A phantom pain that haunts you in bursts, disappearing as quickly as it comes. You can feel it—the burdens he carries. The constant soreness in his back and the tightness of his shoulder blades. Like he has nowhere proper to rest. No surface that curves along his spine and nurtures his developing body the way it should.
It isn’t until you’re fourteen that it gets bad. You’ve known for a long time now that he has a habit of getting into fights—the soreness on your knuckles only implies that he can throw a punch or two back at least now and then. But this time, it’s…frightening. Something dark. Something heavy. It’s a long fight. You can tell that much. There’s a hard tug on your hair, then a bruising grip around your throat, then a swift kick to your stomach. Finally, you feel that familiar sting in your fists. And then it stops. For two days after that, you feel nothing. It’s almost as though he’s no longer conscious, as though someone has eased the pain and left no trace of it—and then, suddenly, it returns all at once. Like he’s been thrown back into reality after two days of being blissfully removed. This time, when the pain returns, a rawness to the skin around your wrist joins the list of things that hurt.
Since the age of ten, you know that he has always been hurting. Always.
There is always some part of his body that is bruised and battered and tender from cruelty. Even as he gets older, even as the sharp injuries stop along with the fights, the sore muscles never do. The throbbing in your arms and legs, and lower back, never goes away. Like he’s been fighting, even if no one has been there to fight him back. Like he’s been keeping his strength, so no one could knock him off his feet again.
“How far is this warden’s office, exactly?” you huff, “and how do you even find anything down here? All these halls and tunnels look the same! I’m starting to wonder if agreeing to work down here was a mistake.”
“All you have to do is come down here for official Palais matters twice a week,” Clorinde hums, “and you’ll learn the tunnels just fine.”
“Ah, Miss Clorinde! You say that like you didn’t get lost for three weeks straight,” an unfamiliar voice calls ahead as she twists the door handle to enter a room.
Clorinde exhales through her nose, unimpressed. “I wasn’t lost. I was exploring alternate routes.”
“You walked into the same dead-end storeroom six times,” a man—you assume to be Wriothesley—says as he comes into view, leaning against the doorway to his office.
You pause. He’s…handsome. That’s the first thing you can think of. Second, you realize he can’t be much older than you. A lot younger than what you were anticipating for a Duke who runs a prison—a prison that he reformed all on his own, no less, from what you’ve heard. You meet his icy, blue-grey eyes, and it puts a shiver down your spine. There’s something…well, you aren’t quite sure. But there’s something about him.
And you wonder if he senses it, too, because his brows furrow for a second as he takes you in.
“I had to be sure you weren’t storing corpses in there,” she replies dryly. You blink out of your trance and look between them—apparently, this is normal. “Anyway,” Clorinde says, gesturing you forward, “this is the warden’s office, and this is Wriothesley. He’s supposed to brief you without embarrassing himself, but I make no promises.”
Wriothesley scoffs. “I’ll have you know I am an excellent host. I even made tea.”
“For your own interest, I presume,” Clorinde shoots back smoothly.
“Okay, so I made some tea for myself,” he huffs, “but I’m more than happy to share.”
He gestures for you both to come in. Clorinde gently nudges you forward once more. “I’ll leave you to it,” she says—and then she throws him a pointed look. “Try not to scare her off, Wriothesley.”
“You’re the scary one,” he calls after her, but she’s already halfway down the hall.
He shakes his head after her before he clears his throat and lets you in, gesturing for you to sit across from him as he settles into his own chair. “Right,” he says. “Formal introductions are probably overdue. I’m Wriothesley—warden of the Fortress, glorified administrator, part-time peacekeeper, full-time babysitter, whatever you would like to call it.”
Your laugh slips out before you can swallow it, and he grins, pleased. “Rest assured, you won’t have to babysit me,” you hum as you introduce yourself.
“That’s quite the relief, miss—but not to worry, nothing you’ll do down here is too complicated. Monsieur Neuvillette has given me the rundown of your responsibilities, and I’ll walk you through protocols, safety procedures, all the boring stuff—really, it’s easier than it sounds. Would you like some tea?”
“No, thank you,” you say politely.
“Well, if you don’t want any,” he sighs dramatically, “guess I’ll drink some all alone.” He reaches for his mug mid-sentence, still flipping through a folder with his other hand.
Except his grip on the handle slips. Then the glass tilts. Then—
“Ah, fuck,” he hisses, the scalding liquid burning through his pants and leaving the skin of his thigh raw.
A moment later, you feel a ripple of pain burst through…your thigh? You gasp, letting out a low hiss of, “Shit!” as you grip your upper leg.
His head jerks up, glancing at you with narrowed eyes for a moment at your gasp, seeing you clutching your own leg. He leans over the desk, concerned. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah,” you mumble, “just felt like I got burned….”
It hits you then.
It hits you as you notice him watching your expression, still feeling the remnants of the same burn as you on his own thigh. His eyes widen as the realization hits him at the same time as you.
“You felt that?” he gapes.
You blink as your eyes hold his gaze. Could this mean…could he be…? No, you think, perhaps it’s just a freak coincidence and…
“Hang on a second,” Wriothesley murmurs, and then he pinches the skin of his forearm hard. He grimaces at the sting, and not even a moment later, you hiss and clutch your arm as a wave of pain radiates along the perimeter of your own skin.
“What the fuck?” You glare.
He blinks again. Then he whispers, almost shaky, “Well, what do you know…you do exist.”
“Was that really necessary?” you huff.
“Sorry,” he says, rubbing his neck awkwardly. “Just…just testing a theory there.”
“You could have tested your theory without pinching so hard,” you pout, rubbing over your arm as if the pain hadn’t already faded away. The phantom linger of pain is always the worst part—the part where you can’t forget how it felt to be hurt, even if it didn’t last long. The ghost of the injustice of it all. The unfairness that torments you without so much as a bruise as proof. The reality that somewhere, the person you are meant to find is hurt, and there is proof taunting you without making itself known properly.
But now…now he isn’t just somewhere. No—he’s right here.
It dawns on you just what theory he’s tested and proven. Your head snaps up, getting a good, long look at his face before you stand and walk over, gripping the collar of his shirt and pulling him closer like you’re inspecting him more properly now.
He stares at you in bewilderment. “Um…wha—”
“Oh my god,” you gasp at the mark under his eye, “this scar—I remember this! That one felt awful—oh my god! Wait! I remember this, too,” you point to the one peeking through his collar at his neck. Without thinking, you quickly unbutton his vest and the shirt underneath, making him squawk in protest. But you pay him no mind—your hand delicately, gently, slowly tracing over the years and years and years of evidence of pain.
Pain you felt. Pain you shared. Pain you carried with him, even if only for a moment.
Your hand trembles as you take in the awful, cruel marks scattered across his skin—the raised, discolored grafts melding into the healthier patches. You ignore the way his eyes bore into your face, watching you carefully as every emotion twists across your expression.
“How could anyone…I don’t…I don’t understand,” you whisper, tracing a particularly thick scar across his left pec. You wonder if it narrowly missed his heart. Your eyes well up with tears against your will, much to your disdain.
His own eyes widen with alarm. “It’s not a big deal,” he says quickly. “They’re nothing, really! I’m strong, see?” Wriothesley flexes his arm, showing the bulging muscle of his bicep before he tries—poorly—to lighten the mood with, “Nothing’s beatin’ me down, miss.”
“Are you joking? These hurt,” you hiss. “Don’t pretend they didn’t! I felt them all too, in case you’ve forgotten!”
His face drops at that—guilt sprawling across every feature. (It’s a beautiful, handsome face. He’s gorgeous, and you wonder if he’s ever been made to feel that way. Even if only for a moment.)
“I’m sorry,” he whispers, “I never…if it were up to me, you would’ve never felt—”
“Never mind me,” you sniffle. “What in the Archons’ names have you been dealing with all your life?”
Your hands gently pull off his vest and the shirt underneath fully, giving you a proper look at the full map of suffering carved into him. It should be a bit unprofessional, really, to undress your new colleague the moment you meet—but, well, the circumstances are a bit unique here. And he just sort of lets you without protesting, this time.
Your breath hitches as soon as you see his bare upper body. His torso is a constellation of old wounds—some thin and faded with age, others thicker, more jagged, warped in ways that make your stomach twist. Every scar is proof that this nation does not serve justice the way its divine nature intends. No one, especially not a child of his age when these injuries had marked him, should have endured such cruelty under the Hydro Archon’s watch.
You lift trembling fingers to his arm, tracing a long, uneven scar that snakes along the front. “This one,” you whisper, voice cracking, “I remember waking up in the middle of the night because of this. I thought—Archons, I thought someone had sliced me open.”
Wriothesley winces—not from your touch, but from the look on your face. His hands hover like he wants to steady you, but he doesn’t have the courage to fully reach.
“Ah, that,” he mumbles. “It…it wasn’t that deep. Just…caught a knife the wrong way, that’s all.”
You give him a watery, withering look. “Don’t you dare lie to me.”
“That was years ago,” he insists. “It’s over now! I’m…we’re okay.”
“I was always okay,” you bury your face in your hands. “All this time, I was okay, and you weren’t. If we’d…found each other sooner…or if—if maybe we’d tried to communicate somehow…perhaps if we’d even tried to—”
His hands gently wrap around your wrists, tugging them away from your face before pulling your hunched figure forward so you’re no longer bending awkwardly over him. Instead…you’re on his lap.
His lap.
Sure, he’s your soulmate, and of course, you’ve always felt a great deal of care for this stranger you’ve been bound to for years, but never really known, but you only met him not too long ago. And now you’re sitting on his lap.
You gasp, flustered as you stammer, “W-what are y-you—”
“Hey,” he hums softly, tilting your face to look at him. His hand cradles your jaw—gentle, delicate, impossibly careful from someone who’s known nothing but hardship at the hands of others. Your eyes lock with his as he murmurs, “I’m okay, sweetheart. See? I’m sitting here in the flesh right in front of you…if that’s proof.”
“Guess…guess it is,” you swallow thickly.
“Y’know? It’s strange,” he admits, voice low.
“What is?”
“Finally having you here. And not just some weird temporary feeling every now and then.”
You hum, studying his face. He really is young for a Duke. Handsome, sure, but too young to carry the burdens that he does. Then again, you think that might have been true all his life. “Strange as in good?”
He huffs a quiet laugh, eyes crinkling at the corners. “Yes. Very good.”
Your fingers have begun tracing along a scar on his shoulder slowly, without even realizing it. He glances down at your hand, then back to you, lips curling into a loose, amused grin. You quickly stop the movement, clearing your throat as you mumble, “This is not professional work behavior, you know.”
“You took my shirt off,” he points out.
“And you pulled me onto your lap!”
He tactfully ignores that part and hums, “You know…I think you should come by outside of official business. That way we’re not interrupted by duties and all.”
Your heart thumps hard enough that you’re sure he feels it. “Is this your way of asking me on a date? Because then it’s a little lackluster.”
He shrugs, giving you a boyishly charming smile. “Are you gonna turn me down? After I waited this long to find you?”
“Guess not,” you sigh dramatically, “perhaps I can spare some time here and there. In these…dark, dingy halls.”
“Your kindness moves me, miss soulmate,” he beams.
You stare for a moment. (You should be embarrassed that you do, but he stares right back, and he doesn’t seem to be complaining about the circumstances. You can’t help but get lost in him—it’s almost a force that’s beyond your control. Perhaps beyond his, too.)
Finally, you blink and force yourself out of whatever trance he has you in. “I should get up…” you say, mildly embarrassed. You try to move—but he has one arm around your waist, keeping you in place as he gives you an unhappy frown.
“What’s the rush? Not like either of us has to be anywhere.”
“This is unprofessional! And entirely not the sort of position anyone should see the warden of this place in if they walk—”
“Well, that’s the fun part,” he gives you a confident, wolfish little grin, “no one walks into a warden’s office without knocking.”
“I’m gonna write that in my report,” you warn, “that you use unlawful tactics for intimidation and control.”
“The fortress is an autonomous region,” he shoots back.
“It’s still a partnership!”
“Yes,” he grins, eyeing you softly, “I suppose it is.”
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Wriothesley knows he’s not very lucky in most departments. The soulmate one, however? He likes to think he got pretty damn lucky.
You’re pretty and funny, and you have a good head on your shoulders. That much is evident, and most people would be thrilled just by that. But you have other endearing things about you—things he tallies up over the weeks as he gets to know you and keeps locked away in his memories.
You can’t drink liquids if they’re piping hot, but somehow, food is not a problem. You like flowers even if you’re allergic to half of them. You’re passionate about how much you dislike Fontaine’s silly, unnecessary laws. You work at the Palais because it makes you feel useful. You insist you can’t decide what your favorite color is, but you unknowingly always seem to favor a certain one. You always insist you don’t want anything when he offers to pay, but you’re very bad at hiding your excitement when he buys you a pastry anyway.
He could keep a list. He doesn’t need to write them down because his mind could not forget these little things even if he wanted, but he could keep a list. A list of everything he learns day by day, week by week, month by month.
“I thought you hated bananas,” he raises an amused brow. You sit across from him in the bakery, happily slicing through the banana bread he bought on his mora.
“I do,” you argue, “but banana bread doesn’t count. It makes the banana work—and there are chocolate chips, see?”
He doesn’t say anything—just stares and takes in the sight of you. All of you. You.
“Want another slice?”
“Oh no, thank you,” you shake your head, “I’m good, really.”
(In the end, he gets you another. You pretend like he’s gone out of his way for nothing, but you eat it with no complaints, a happy gleam in your eye. He wonders if he’ll be blessed by the Gods enough to buy you sweets until all of his hair turns grey.)
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It takes a few months before Wriothesley talks about his past. You work at the Palais and sift through legal documents often enough that coming across his trial’s records is not difficult business. But you wait for him to tell you on his own terms.
The first time he brings it up is also the first time you fuck him. It’s been a long time coming—you want him so badly, it almost hurts. You think about him all the time, and you’ve seen him in enough instances without a shirt that your imagination has begun to run a little wild. You want Wriothesley, and if you can just find out if he wants you too, you can have him, you’re sure.
So you set out to find out.
“You wanna make out?” you ask from the couch in his office as he does paperwork.
He pauses, doing a double-take. “Sorry?”
“You and me,” you gesture between the two of you with a finger, “do you wanna make out? Like kiss and stuff with our tongues and—”
“I know what making out is, thank you!” he interjects, neck flushing a little, faint trace of red, “We’ve done it before, I’m not clueless. I’m just astounded by your forthcomingness, is all.”
You pout. “Well, I’m bored. And you look very handsome right now. So? Making out—yes or no?”
He drops his pen as he stares at you. It rolls off the desk. He makes no move to retrieve it. “Sweetheart,” he says slowly, like he’s talking to a toddler, “you can’t just look at a guy while he’s trying to finish disciplinary reports and ask if he wants to swap spit.”
“Why not? If you don’t want to, you can just say so.”
“I—” He blinks. Once. Twice. His ears are also red now. “I didn’t say I didn't want to.”
You grin excitedly, walking over to him with a little bounce in your step as you lean your hip against his desk, arms crossed in victory. “So you do want to.”
“I didn’t say that either.” He rubs a hand down his face. “We’re in my office.”
“So?” You shrug. “We’ve made out here before—you didn’t care then. Why start now?”
He glares, but it’s the useless kind—more fluster than defiance. “W-well, that was…after everyone was in their bunks for curfew!”
“Mhm.” You take a slow step closer. “So what about that time we made out behind some pipes in the middle of the day? Curfew only matters selectively, huh?” His breath stutters. Very slightly. But you notice. You push a finger under his chin, tilting his head up so he has to look at you. His pupils are blown—just a little, but it’s enough to knock a spark of heat straight into your spine. “You can tell me no,” you murmur. “Just say the word.”
“M’not ever going to say no to kissing you,” he mumbles, pulling you onto his lap, “you know that good and well, you little troublemaker.”
“Troublemaker?” you gasp, “I’ve no criminal history, your grace!”
“For now,” he snorts, “may have to take you into court myself for the damages you do down here.”
Before you can protest, he leans in and closes the gap, kissing you soft and sweet with a little edge of desperation. You gasp, and his lips move against yours again—harder this time, as if the first kiss has cracked open some dam to his self-control, and everything he’s been holding back is now spilling over at once. His hands slide to your waist, fingers digging in just enough to make your breath hitch. He pulls you flush against him, swallowing the small sound you make as he kisses you deeper, fuller, like he’s been starved for this—starved for you.
You fist the front of his shirt, dragging him closer, and he groans into your mouth, low and rough. The sound shoots straight through you and goes straight to your core. He tilts your head back, cradling it as his mouth slots against yours impatiently. When his tongue grazes yours, you answer him with a low moan, wrapping your arms around his neck and tugging at his hair.
He makes a sharp, pleased noise at that. You feel his smile against your lips—brief and crooked, making something between your legs ache. “Like that, huh?”
“Be quiet,” you huff. He only laughs before deepening the kiss again, his mouth claiming yours with an amused smile.
Suddenly, an arm wraps tightly around your waist and hoists you closer—you can’t focus on it too much with the way he’s nipping at your bottom lip. It’s not until your back hits the wall that you even realize that he’s been moving you, walking to the short distance to the wall behind his desk with his arm curled around you, holding your weight like it’s nothing. One of his hands fiddles with something behind you—a click later, and you realize it’s a doorknob.
The door opens, and he quickly strides in with you in his grip. You pull away, panting, glancing around as you take in this new room. A bedroom, you realize—his bedroom. His gauntlets are there, in a corner, tools sprawled around them from the last time he spent tinkering away at them. You take in the simplicity of it, how there isn’t anything in here apart from his essentials. The bare necessities.
“Is this your room?” you whisper.
“Didn’t think I slept in the bunks with the inmates, did you?” he murmurs, gently setting you down on his bed as he hovers over you. “What’s the point of being a duke if I don’t get at least a few perks?”
“You should decorate the place more,” you murmur, “I’ll help.”
“Yeah?” he pecks your lips, “awfully nice of you, sweetheart.”
You tug him down by the collar, chasing his mouth when he breaks away to speak. He huffs a laugh, breath warm against your lips, and then he’s kissing you again—messy, hungry, more unrestrained now, like he’s finally given himself permission to want this as badly as you do.
His teeth catch your lower lip.
Your answering gasp is all the invitation he needs to bring his hand to your thigh, rubbing up and down the side of it as he groans into your mouth roughly when you tug at his hair some more. “Was this your plan all along?” he rasps, “get me in your bed?”
“This is your bed,” you point out, “and you brought me here.”
“You have a smart little mouth,” he grunts, angling your jaw up as he fixes you with a playfully stern look, “that’s insubordination, miss.”
“I think I need to be disciplined, your grace,” you say, giving him a cheeky little wink.
He huffs out a disbelieving laugh, looking at you in awe and wonder before he shakes his head and brings your arms up, pinning them over your head as he presses kisses along your jaw. “You,” he murmurs between kisses, “are a handful.”
The moment he pulls back enough actually to look at you, though, something shifts. His breath hitches, barely perceptible, but there. His eyes glaze over with something as they take in the sight of you under him—you can’t quite make out what it is, but you know it makes you feel important. Special. Some sort of feeling that no one has quite made you feel before. Then his hands, firm a moment ago, loosen just slightly around your wrists, as if the reality of holding you like this suddenly hits him all at once.
You watch him swallow. His gaze flickers from your eyes to your mouth, then lower, before he willfully forces him to look up and direct his gaze to your forehead so he’s not looking into your eyes or downwards along your body.
“What?” you whisper, a small smile curling at your lips.
“Nothing.” He clears his throat, though it comes out rougher than he means it to. “Just… you’re—” he cuts himself off abruptly, the unfinished thought hanging between you. He releases your wrists, carefully, like you’re something fragile that he’s only just realized he’s strong enough to break. His palms settle instead at your waist, hesitant in a way they weren’t before.
You tilt your head, watching him with growing curiosity. “You okay?”
“Course I am,” he huffs. “Just noticed you’re…very pretty. That’s all.”
“Only now?” you pout—but your lips are already curled into a cocky little grin.
“Stop that,” he grumbles.
“Stop what?”
“You know what,” he huffs.
You giggle, tugging him down by his stupidly loose tie and bringing his forehead against yours. His eyes are always icy blue, but they’re the brightest pools of warmth you’ve ever swam in, all the same. “You’re getting shy on me, you know.”
“Am not,” he argues.
“Are too,” you grin.
“Nope,” he all but pouts. His breath hitches as you untie his tie and fling it somewhere, slowly working at the buttons of his vest while he lets out a shaky breath over you. “You’re…sure about this?”
“I’m always sure about you,” you smile softly. He closes his eyes, breath stuttering for a moment as you pull off his shirt and vest, admiring the hard planes of muscle and the broadness of his physique. “You’re pretty, too, by the way.”
“You’re killing me,” he rasps.
Undressing is an awkward ordeal. But endearing. Wriothesley struggles to kick off his boots, and unclasping your bra takes him a moment before he can tug it off—but finally, in between kisses and soft, amused giggles and breathy, embarrassed chuckles, you’re both bare and tangled in his sheets.
He’s hard—his cock is thick and curved, and the tip leaks with the evidence of his arousal in the form of pre cum. You bring a hand between your bodies, gently smearing it with your thumb like a lubricant while he shivers and lets out a soft groan.
“Fuck,” he hisses out, breathing harder as you wrap your hand around his girth. He stares down at where your touch meets him—and he’s more than a little dizzy by the way your hand can barely wrap around the full width of his thickness.
“It’s…so big,” you murmur, staring in awe and disbelief.
“You can’t just say that,” he groans.
“Sorry,” you giggle, biting your lip as you give him an innocent smile.
“You’re not sorry even a little,” he huffs. Then his eyes flutter closed and his lips part in a low, shaky moan as you slowly move your hand and drag your palm along his length, stroking languidly while he buries his head into your neck.
“I am,” you insist, kissing the side of his head sweetly, “here, I’ll even make it up to you.”
“Ngh—fuck,” he curses as your pace quickens, the friction of your hand gliding over the sensitive skin of his erection making his breaths come out unevenly. He’s pretty when he feels good—and Wriothesley is pretty and easy on the eye any time, of course, but when he’s bare and vulnerable and trusts you to witness him at his rawest, he is particularly beautiful.
Your eyes can’t help but keep themselves glued on him—and he can’t help but notice and get more flustered.
“Stop staring,” he grunts.
“What am I meant to look at then?” you huff, “the wall?”
“Close your eyes.”
“You’re unbelievable,” you shake your head with a snort.
There’s a building ache between your bare legs, a wetness leaking and spreading down your inner thighs as you watch pleasure sprawl over his features and hear the sweet, delicate sounds of approval he makes when you touch him particularly right.
Finally, his hand gently grasps onto your wrist as he stops you, panting and gritting his jaw as he murmurs, “O-okay—think…think we should get to…you know.”
“What?” you tease.
“The main part,” he glares weakly—and then, he spreads your legs and takes a closer look at your wet, needy cunt. “You want this just as badly—I can literally see it. Don’t be so smug, sweetheart.”
“Of course I want you,” you hum, “why wouldn’t I?” He shivers at that. Gives you a dazed look before he leans in and kisses you—almost like it’s more to distract himself than it is to distract you.
(Wriothesley is endearing when he’s flustered. This is the conclusion that sex with him draws you to. When he fumbles through his side drawer to pull out a condom, and when he struggles to open the package, you are hopelessly endeared. And when he gives you a half-hearted glare as you giggle, you realize how endearing he also is when he is grumpy.)
“Ready?” he whispers, eyeing you good and hard once he finally lines up with your entrance. You nod, and he mumbles, “I need words, please, sweetness.”
“Ready,” you sigh fondly, “I want you. M’not backing out.” He takes a moment to look at you properly. Like he has to be sure you’re here and want this. With him. Wriothesley has brought you pain before—against his will, he’s made you ache and throb with soreness and harsh stings. He makes you ache again—this time, though, it’s a little different. It’s not because you carry his pain with him. It’s because that look he gives you makes your chest tighten and your heart ache all on its own accord. “I want you, Wrio,” you breathe, cupping his cheeks, “swear I do.”
Only then does he close his eyes, smiling softly as he nods and murmurs, “Lucky me. Got you all to myself—the universe said so. You’re all mine.”
“All yours,” you breathe.
He presses the thick tip of his cock along your entrance, rubbing along your folds and collecting your wetness as you shiver. You gasp, and he chuckles softly at the fragile sound, pecking your lips as he murmurs, “Barely even done anything yet, sweetheart.”
“Then do something,” you click your teeth, wrapping your legs around his waist and pulling him closer, pressing his pelvis closer.
He swallows, whispering, “You’ll tell me if I hurt you, yeah?”
“You’ll feel it anyway,” you murmur, “quit your worry-warting and move.”
“So demanding, miss soulmate,” he chuckles.
And then—finally—he pushes past your folds, pressing into you slowly, carefully, delicately. Wriothesley has a reputation. It’s a bit out of his control—people tend to see a prison warden as rough and strict, and people often mistake him for a brute with just a glance. You know better. You know him to be soft and sensitive and so caring, it’s almost unfair that he spends his time under waves of the ocean instead of up in the real world, where he can share his warmth. You know him as the kind man who feeds squirrels in Fontaine and pets stray cats in the alleyways. You know him as the gentle guy who holds doors open for children and lets them cut in line at the ice cream shop. You know him as the delicate boy who never wants to hurt you with his strength when he already feels waves of guilt for having brought you so much hurt all these years without meaning to.
When he sinks into your tight, welcoming cunt, and stretches you open, you wonder how you went this long without him. How you survived without knowing him. How you lived this long without being tangled in his arms and being connected to him deep and close.
He feels so right—so good. He curves into you so perfectly, stretches you apart, opens you up with his thickness, and presses the blunt head of his against a delicate, sensitive spot in your walls that makes your head spin.
“W-wrio…” your breath hitches, “f-fuck—so deep,” you whine.
“And you’re…so tight,” he groans, “shit, sweetheart—never felt so good before.”
You never dwelled on the reality of soulmates. Your mother and father were lucky enough to meet each other—you know that soulmates are real before Wriothesley’s pain is ever yours because you watch them love. You watch them nurture you, the byproduct of that love, with so much care and diligence. You don’t need the proof of your own soulmate to know that they are real and they exist.
For the longest time, you know nothing about Wriothesley apart from the fact that he exists. You’ve only ever known that he was yours. That one day, if you were lucky, you’d find him. It never occurred to you that once you did find him, you’d realize how incomplete you’ve always been. How everything was there, but there was no one to share it with. Now that he’s here, pressed into you deep into you, you wonder how you’ll ever disconnect. How you’ll ever part from feeling so whole and complete.
His hips move—he pulls almost all the way out before slamming back into you, hard and rough but still careful enough that it doesn’t hurt you. It blinds you with a pleasure that burns through your spine and finds every nerve. It makes a soft, pleasant ache start to form at the pit of your stomach, building up stronger and stronger with every roll of his hips and every drag of his cock along your walls.
The friction makes you sob, curling your nails into his shoulders as you whimper, “S’good, Wrio—so…so good, please don’t stop.”
“Now why would I do that?” he grunts, moaning when your walls flutter around him and squeeze tight. “Why would I stop feeling my precious girl?”
Your head spins more at that—precious girl. Wriothesley is smooth about calling you things like that. He calls you something affectionate so casually that sometimes you almost mistake your own name for a sweet, loving pet name. Sweetheart. Sweetness. Precious girl. Sometimes, when he’s feeling particularly sentimental, he calls you honey. When he’s in a playful mood, he likes to say miss soulmate. (You ask him why he says it once, and he tells you, it’s because I like reminding you you’re my soulmate. And I like saying it out loud, too. Makes it more real.)
You like it when he calls you things that remind you that you’re his. You like being his. It’s your favorite thing to be—the thing that takes burdens off your shoulder and lets you simply exist without having something to prove. Something to offer. You like being so easy for someone to care about you, it feels like it happens for no other reason than just because it’s natural to do so.
“Faster,” you plead.
“Anything you want, precious,” he breathes. “You—hah—you are so beautiful. You know that?”
A hand moves up your thigh and travels to that delicate spot between your legs—and then you throw your head back and mewl as he finds your clit and rubs circles with that rough, calloused pad of his thumb. You’re sensitive—every brush against the bundle of nerves sends a jolt of pleasure that has you hurdling towards your end.
“Close,” you rasp, “Wrio…m’so c-close.”
“Yeah, sweetheart? Is that right?” he asks, his own voice shaky enough that you gather it must be the case for him, too. His pace has become sloppy enough that he must be near the edge himself, as well.
“Mhm,” you nod, biting your lip and letting out a soft, drawn-out moan as he sinks deeper into you and presses right against your sweet spot.
“Me…me too—come with me, okay? Want…want you to finish with me,” he pleads. His thumb is merciless against your clit—it rubs smooth, unpausing circles and builds you up to your release with one, then two, and then a third thrust of his hips.
Your vision all but goes white as you fall apart. Your back arches, and he curls an arm around you and brings you flush against him, kissing you rough and hard and needy. You swallow each other’s sounds as your walls flutter around him and his cock twitches inside of you, letting warm rope after rope of thick seed spill into the plastic that separates you.
“Fuck,” you both hiss.
“Sweetheart,” he breathes, “you…you’re so perfect. Know that? Huh?” He kisses along your jaw. They’re wet, messy kisses, pressed into your skin with a drunken, hazy sense of control as you milk his cock for every last drop of his release.
“C’mere,” you beg, “closer.”
“M’right here,” he murmurs, “fuck, m’not going anywhere. Ever.”
And then he collapses beside you once he’s fucked you both through the last few waves of your orgasms. He pulls you against him, wrapping two strong, muscled arms around you and tangling your body with his.
“That was nice,” you whisper.
“That was your plan all along,” he accuses, “you never wanted to just make out.”
You giggle, beaming up at him. “Guilty. Will I serve a sentence, your grace?”
“Life in prison,” he gives you a faux stern look, “directly under my supervision.”
“Doesn’t sound so bad,” you hum, “serving down here with you. I think I’d live.”
For a while, it’s quiet. You bask in the afterglow of him and you and the skin that melts you both together. And then, his voice carries through the space that hardly exists between you both.
“I served down here,” he mumbles. “Bet you already knew that—you probably have better access to legal documents than me.”
“I’ve seen a paper or two,” you admit.
“You’re rather calm regarding my history,” he says carefully.
“I guess I just…always had a feeling things played out the way they did. I remember it,” you whisper, tracing the skin of his chest, feeling the scars from memory. “The night you killed your parents. I felt it, y’know?”
His breath stills. You’re sure he’s not surprised—it was nothing short of vicious, the fight he’d put up. You’re sure he remembers better than you how it felt in every nerve ending. You don’t think anyone could ever forget.
The truth is that you’d known about his court case long before you pieced together he was your soulmate. It’s a case most people in your line of work know about. A popular case that opened up a popular investigation into chains of corrupted institutions for children. Places led and controlled by people who have intentions to do anything but keep the less fortunate children of Fontaine safe. Most people in your field consider him a hero of sorts—a boy who sacrificed his freedom to make a change the justice system wouldn’t.
You think Wriothesley is troubled. He was as a child, and in some ways, he is now. You wish he could have been like other boys and girls, that he could be like other men and women. You wish life was kinder to him so that his circumstances never had to feel like the extremes were the only way out.
You wish Wriothesley could have had a good life. You wish Fontaine and those who uphold its justice hadn’t failed him every chance he had to get one.
He doesn’t look at you for a while. His gaze stays focused on the ceiling as he swallows. “The night I killed my foster parents maybe wasn’t my proudest moment.”
“Maybe not,” you agree, moving your hand to grab his, lacing your fingers together. “But I think you’ve had a proud moment or two since then.”
He stays silent. For a long time, Wriothesley is silent. You don’t think he’ll say anything else, so you close your eyes, slowly drifting off to sleep against his chest when his voice rumbles in your ear. Low. Hesitant.
“I don’t regret it,” is all he says.
You crack an eye open, tilting your head up. “Killing them?”
“Setting the kids free,” he corrects. “No one else would have done it. That was the only way I could think of. I felt like they deserved it.”
“How about now?”
“Well. Still think they deserve it,” he mumbles. “But…I would do it differently now.”
“That’s because you can,” you point out, “you have the connections and the resources to do things the ‘right’ way.”
“Think so?” he cracks a grin—small, but there.
“I do believe you hold some authority, you grace,” you chuckle. He doesn’t say anything else—just laughs softly and kisses your forehead. You fall asleep lulled by his fingers along your back and the smell of his faint cologne.
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Wriothesley has a habit of throwing himself into the ring when things get hard. It was the only outlet he had down here in the fortress for the most part when he served—the only way for him to break a sweat and get his energy poured into something. And maybe get in a few good hits to anyone who’d been giving him a hard time. But, well…some habits just stick. They’re hard to grow out of.
Nowadays, being in the ring is more or less a matter of keeping in shape. At least, that’s what he tells himself, anyway—he knows it’s no coincidence that when his mind is particularly heavy, he spends more time hitting a punching bag with taped fists. He’s always had a high pain tolerance. The sore muscles in his arms and the sting of his knuckles ground him half the time more than they do hurt him.
He wonders if he’s grown accustomed to pain because it’s been the only constant in his life, or if it’s because he simply deserves it.
“Wrio,” he hears a soft voice call, pausing him from throwing his next punch. He drops his form, straightening his back as he looks over his shoulder. It’s you, of course. It had to be even before he’d registered your voice—only one person is allowed at the pankration ring at this hour (him) and only one person gets away with breaking his rules (you).
“What’re you doin’ here, sweetheart?” he tilts his head a few times to crack his neck, “you’re supposed to be in bed.”
“So are you.”
“Got a little restless, is all,” he says vaguely.
“You’re tired,” you raise an unimpressed brow, “and that poor bag has had enough—it never did anything to you.”
“I’m not tired yet,” he denies. (He is. Even for his standards, his arms and shoulders are rather tense and sore. He’s pushed himself further than usual. He bets you would know because you can feel it.)
“You can’t lie to me when I can feel the same things as you,” you huff, rubbing sleep from your eyes. “You’re too young to have stiff shoulders, y’know.”
His eyes soften with guilt before he lets out a heavy sigh and lets his shoulders drop. You walk over, standing behind him as your arms wrap around his midsection and your nose buries into the bare skin of his back.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” he lies.
“Wriothesley,” you say flatly.
“Just a busy week,” he says half-heartedly. “Seriously, I’m fine. So…just drop it.”
“Okay,” you sigh, too tired from your sleep being interrupted to put up a proper fight. You kiss his back, and he melts a little at the gesture, limbs loosening up even more. “You’ll talk to me if you need to?”
“Yeah,” he whispers, “I’ll come find you if I need it.”
Wriothesley is aware that you know he won’t. Not of his own free will. He doesn’t talk about his feelings or share his burdens because then he’s no longer in control of his image. The less strong of an image he has, the more innocent and frail he seems. The more innocent and frail he seems, the more likely it is that he’ll be taken advantage of.
It’s not that Wriothesley doesn’t trust you, or that he thinks you’ll take advantage of him. You won’t. He trusts that much. You’re the only good thing that’s his. But muscle memory is muscle memory.
Some habits just stick. And they’re hard to grow out of.
You gently shuffle to stand in front of him, wrapping your arms to rest around his neck now. His hands find your hips. “Let’s go to bed,” you whisper, pulling him down so his forehead rests against yours. “If you’re really that energetic, I’ll tire you out some other way.”
“Yeah?” he cracks a grin.
“Mmh,” you hum.
“Then lead the way, sweetness,” he chuckles.
(In the end, he’s out like a light as soon as his head finds that comfortable place against your chest. He’s sure you’ll tease him for it as soon as he feels himself start to drift off, but he thinks it’s worth it when he feels your fingers card through his hair.)
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Sometimes, you forget Wriothesley can feel your pain just as much as you feel his. Your whole life has been spent so focused on how often he endures suffering compared to you, that you forget to focus on your own.
He doesn’t forget to focus on you, though. He never does. He’s one deep scowl and a hand on his hips away from making that known.
“With a headache like that, I’m surprised you’re still conscious, let alone finishing paperwork,” he clicks his teeth.
You glance up and give him a tired look when you register his words.
“I just need to finish these up and get them out of the way so they don’t haunt me—”
“No, you need sleep. And maybe a proper meal,” he interrupts.
“But—”
“No buts. Let’s go.” Before you can protest any further, he has you lifted and settled in his arms as he drags you to your bed from your desk.
You learn quickly on that Wriothesley doesn’t like spending nights apart. He’s grown too used to your presence. On nights you can’t come down to the Fortress, his simple solution is just to come spend the night up at the surface. You can’t pretend like you aren’t relieved by his presence yourself—one night without him makes for a terrible night of sleep. And maybe a worse headache the next day.
He shuffles through your apartment with a sense of familiarity that makes your heart full, even if your head is pounding. You nuzzle into the crook of his neck as he walks with you carefully tucked against him.
“You give me headaches,” he mumbles, “literally.”
“S’only fair,” you yawn, “you’ve put me through worse.” Your words have no bite to them. Nothing more than a good-natured quip. You’d go through worse in a heartbeat for him.
He smiles fondly, sighing as he kisses the side of your head. “Yeah,” he whispers, “guess that’s true.”
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Sex is a complicated topic for Wriothesley.
It’s a topic he’s been thinking about more lately. The more that sex happens between the two of you, the more he’s starting to realize that it’s a complicated topic for him.
Although if he’s being honest, what he engages with you can hardly be considered just sex. It’s intimacy. Wriothesley has never partaken in intimacy before you. Sex, though? Plenty of times. Sometimes, it was more for survival than his own desires, and sometimes it was simply because he was a growing, curious boy with needs and wants. Sometimes, a quick fuck got him what he needed for survival much quicker when he was still a prisoner. Sometimes, a quick fuck got him through his pent-up emotions better than sitting and processing them.
Whatever the case may be, Wriothesley has always had just sex because it was just that. Sex that has a purpose—some purposes less sanitized than others, but a purpose all the same.
But being intimate is something different from having just sex. When Wriothesley is having just sex, he can put on an air of cockiness. He can play into what people want, slip into whatever role they carved out for him—innocently sweet and naive, or dangerously charming and experienced, sometimes even a little rough and a little wicked. He can wear confidence like a mask, sharpen his smile into something rakish, tilt his chin just right, and say the things he knows people want to hear.
He can disconnect. He can keep his heart out of it. He can survive it.
Intimacy, though? Intimacy is different. It demands that he stay honest, not perform. That he be soft. That he be seen.
With you, there’s no room for the cocky smirk or the confident swagger. And he tries—he really, really tries—but the moment your hands are on him with care instead of expectation, the moment you kiss him like he’s precious instead of convenient, the moment your eyes are fond instead of just lustful, his whole front crumbles.
The mask doesn’t fit. The persona slips. The smooth, practiced words get stuck in his throat.
He’s clumsy with intimacy in a way he never was with just sex. His touches hesitate. His breath stutters when your fingers thread through his hair. He keeps searching your face like he’s waiting for the moment you change your mind, like he’s terrified you’ll see too much of him and walk away. Vulnerability of this kind turns him quiet, nervous, almost boyish in a way he hates himself for, and yet can’t seem to stop.
With you, he’s not performing. With you, he can’t.
You’re not just hoping he touches you for your own pleasure—and you don’t want to touch him back just to indulge your own wicked fantasies. You care about how he feels, how it is for him more than it is for you. You care about his experience with affection and gentleness.
The more that you and Wriothesley are intimate, the more he opens himself up to gentleness. And Wriothesley has never known what to do with gentleness.
He doesn’t know how to accept it. Not ever since the day he realized it came with a heavy price that he could never afford. (And how could he afford you? You are so patient and happy to have him, so willing despite knowing his past and the horrors of his crimes, despite enduring the agony he put you through physically. Your affection, of all things, should come with the highest of prices.)
“Did it bother you growing up?” he whispers, tracing your hip bone with his thumb as you lie against his bare chest. You like cuddling after intimacy. He likes it, too. You curl against him in his dark bedroom, bare and sleepy and satisfied, and for a moment, he feels normal. Like you’re not with him under the literal ocean. Like he’s not an ex-convict who now sees over other convicts. Like he’s not the guy who made you feel sharp kicks and deep bruises all your life.
“What?” you hum.
“You know what,” he huffs. You give him an earnestly confused shake of your head, and he sighs. He decides that perhaps you are being honest and not purposely dense just to make him properly communicate his feelings. “The pain,” he mutters. “It didn’t bother you that I was always bringing you pain?”
“It did,” you say bluntly. He tenses under you. You gently press a kiss to his chest as if to soothe him, like you’ve already read his mind. “Not for the reasons you might think, though.”
“Oh?” he arches a brow, “then do enlighten me, miss soulmate. How exactly did it bother you that I’m not gathering here?”
You roll your eyes. It’s affectionate.
Wriothesley misses that. He misses affection in the simple forms he once knew—Mother’s fond eye-roll, the way she’d sigh and grab a handkerchief to clean the chocolate smeared at the corner of his mouth after Father brought home treats. The way she’d bend down and wipe the smudges away as she’d gently scold, You’ve got to be more careful, ▇▇! Heavens know what other people would think if they saw you so filthy. Whatever would you do without me? The way she’d sigh and pull him into a hug, kissing his cheeks when he’d pouted at being lectured.
Mother was always so soft—he still wonders, sometimes, how anyone could possibly fake so much gentleness. Some of it had to have been real, right? Just a fraction? A small morsel? It had to be, hadn’t it? Even if he wasn’t worth loving long enough to keep, he must have at least been worth loving for that temporary time she showed him that affection.
If only he were worth more than a pretty sum of mora. If only he could have made Mother fond enough of him that keeping him was worth more than selling him off like some animal on the market, a piece of meat to butcher and cut open and devour with filthy, disgusting hands.
Affection has always cost him something. Some price that is not worth paying. His innocence, his freedom, his life. You are the only person who affords him affection without any price. And how funny, he thinks—that the one person capable of it is the one person meant for him, decided by fate. He wonders then, that if there was no such thing as fate and divinity, if he’d be worthy of any affection at all. If you are the one person the world has granted him because it is their begrudging duty to assign him another half. If you alone are a miracle that he was lucky enough to be allowed by Celestia, as they smiled down on him out of a single, twisted instance of mercy.
He can’t dwell on it too long before you’re cupping his cheek and pulling him out of his thoughts, pressing a kiss to his lips. His breath hitches for a moment—he forgets sometimes that can do this whenever he wants. He can kiss you. Claim your affection. Feel the proof of it for himself. He presses into you harder, desperately trying to swallow down as much of it for free as he can in case one day, this too has a price that is out of his means.
“It never bothered me to carry your pain,” you whisper against his mouth, “though I won’t lie—it did hurt,” you chuckle. You peck his lips before he can say anything in response. “It bothered me that it was your reality. I couldn’t understand why it was like that—how different we were.”
“You shouldn’t have had to try to understand it,” he mumbles, “if you weren’t stuck to me, you’d have—”
“Mwah,” you cut him off, pressing a loud kiss to his mouth. “Don’t say that, silly. I’m not stuck with you.”
He blinks before he huffs out a soft snort, shaking his head in disbelief. “Silencing me with a kiss isn’t going to—”
“Mwah!” You kiss him again, theatrically louder this time as you giggle.
“If you keep kissing me when I say self-deprecating things, it’ll only condition me to say them more,” he warns.
“Then I’ll kiss you after you say anything,” you hum. “Then you’ll only bother saying the nice things since you might as well.”
“I don’t know if that’s how it works—”
“Mwah!” You kiss again.
He laughs, pulling you impossibly closer before he tilts your face up, cupping your cheek with a large hand that practically swallows your face entirely as he kisses you. Hard. You hum against his lips, eyes fluttering shut as you kiss him back. As if kissing him is enjoyable. As if someone like him was worthy of your time and affection and touch. As if someone of his status is worth tangling your life with, despite being who he is and where he is from.
“Wrio,” you murmur, trying to pull away from his needy lips.
“Mmh,” he mumbles, bridging the gap every time you try to create it. You giggle, gently stroking through his hair before delicately tugging at the strands to pry him away. He caves, sighing before he pulls away, grumpy as he stares at you, dazed. “What?” he frowns.
“I would have taken your pain for myself if I could,” you whisper, “if it meant you didn’t have to live like that. Feeling it was never the issue. You should know that.”
“You’re insane,” he breathes, “now c’mere.”
He moves to kiss you again—but instead, you cup both of his cheeks and force him to look you in the eyes. “You didn’t deserve to feel it all either.”
“I know that,” he mutters, frowning. (He is grouchy when he’s vulnerable. He’s known that from a young age. Feeling weak fills him with a sense of anger and disgust that makes him lash out. Maybe he’s angry with himself for being so weak. Or perhaps at the world for making him that way. He doesn’t know. All he knows is that it makes him want to become bigger. Stronger. More untouchable. Whether it’s through bloodied gauntlets in his childhood living room or some bulked-up muscle in the pankration ring, he is always trying to seem stronger.)
“And you deserve someone to carry everything with you,” you continue. “You know that too, right?”
“Course I do,” he grunts, not meeting your eyes, “what’s the point of saying all this?”
“The point,” you say firmly, “is that you start believing you can have nice things.”
“I have nice things,” he says petulantly. “Got a decently good income and…and my title is literally Duke, and I got you—I have a pretty lady that’s all for me, don’t I? You wound me, sweetheart. Are you trying to say I don’t have anything nice because I live under the sea or something—”
“Wrio,” you say softly. “Please.”
He deflates.
Wriothesley has always kept a respectful distance away from people. His colleagues and this prison are all his home. His family. But he keeps a respectful distance. It’s the smartest option. Because distance is what keeps him most safe. What keeps people close enough that he’s never truly alone, but not close enough that they are people he can lose and suffer the loss of. But distance is difficult to maintain in an intimate relationship, though—distance is impossible to keep for longer than a small period of time.
Wriothesley is realizing that, slowly but surely—that no distance means having all the hard conversations. The ones that make him feel so raw and vulnerable, it’s like he’s peeling his skin straight off and exposing his bones and tissue.
He takes a moment, focuses real hard on tracing the skin of your arm rather than meeting your eyes before he mumbles, “Yeah. Fine.”
“I don’t want you to feel guilty,” you say softly.
“S’not a feeling I can just turn off,” he shrugs.
“Yes,” you agree, “it’s not. But we can talk about it when your mind goes there.”
“I don’t like talking.”
“But you like me,” you smile, “and I like you, too. And if we want to like each other and make it work, we have to do that thing you don’t like where we talk about our feelings. Communicate. Do that couple-y sort of stuff. Yeah?”
You’re right about one thing—Wriothesley likes you. He likes everything about you. He likes hearing you talk and listening to your voice. He likes learning about you and the things you like. He likes looking at you and the way you smile or laugh. He likes everything. He even likes the way you add too much sugar to the tea he brews up for you (even if you don’t properly enjoy its flavor that way). He likes having you. Likes being able to say you’re his—not because he doesn’t want to share you with the world, but because he wants to have something he can keep. Something that isn’t here one second and gone the next. Something that was meant for him, so he can have it and never have to exchange it for something else because the universe only lets him have one good thing at a time.
But Wriothesley also knows that things are just a set way for a guy like him. Not all people are created equal. Some people are blessed and lucky and can have a good life. Others are simply there to serve as a reminder that those people should count their blessings unless they want to end up like the others.
He’s one of the others. And you’re one of the blessed. And sometimes…well, sometimes he wonders if it’s better that you stay in your blessed little bubble of a world instead of getting caught up in the whirlwind that is him. And his life. And his terrible, awful luck.
He’d love it if he could save you the trouble of mingling with someone like him and realizing you were made for something better. And maybe, a little selfishly, he’d love it if he could save himself some heartache in the process and lose you before it would wreck him completely. He feels like he deserves that much—feels like he’s helped enough people and atoned enough for some of his darker sins that he should be able to just hold onto the stability he’s built himself. Sure, he’s not exactly fulfilled or happy, but he’s not exactly miserable or suffering.
He’ll take that minimal win happily.
You…you are everything he’s dreamed of. Maybe more. Maybe even more than more. You could very easily leave him miserable and suffering—not because you’re bad and you want to hurt him, but because he’s one of the others. And you’re one of the blessed. And things just work out a certain way for people like him versus people like you.
You kiss his thoughts away again. Kiss his lips all soft and sweet and filled with a certain amount of adoration he doesn’t know he’s earned. (But he’ll take it. He’s not above something soft and sweet and just for him.)
“Your head is not a very nice place,” you murmur, tapping his forehead. “I can tell. It’s being mean to you.”
He laughs at that, raising an amused brow. “Yeah? Think so?”
“Yeah,” you hum. “In my head,” you move your finger to now trace his chest, running your fingers through the hair that litters his skin, “you’re just a good boy who did some bad things. And you’re trying to be good now, see? You reformed a whole prison! Very good. I think that we can work with that.”
“Good boy,” he repeats in disbelief, “you’re talking to me like I’m a dog?”
You pet his head teasingly. “Such a good boy.”
His face lights up as he suddenly gets an idea—you watch it in real time, the scheming look in his eyes. In an instant, he’s grabbing your wrist as he pulls it against his lips and murmurs, “Careful,” before gently nibbling at your inner wrist, “I might bite.”
“No!” you shriek, letting out a series of giggles, “no, don’t bite, please! I have treats! Spare me!”
He shakes his head, fighting back a lopsided grin. “Unbelievable,” he huffs, “you’re unbelievable.”
“I’m not,” you brush back his hair. “If you just believe me, you’ll feel a lot better.”
“Yeah? What should I believe then, miss soulmate?”
“That we’re good together,” you murmur, “and that we’ll be fine. And that we deserve each other—as in you deserve this, too. Just trust me on that.”
He lets out a soft, heavy breath. Not all people are created the same in Fontaine. In fact, they aren’t in any nation. But all soulmates love each other the same—and this time, the way you look at him is not the same picture-perfect, falsified look from Mother. Or the same deceivingly kind, careful words from Father.
These are real. He can work with that.
“Okay,” he pretends to cave, shoving his face into your neck. You let him hide away in there. Let him keep that fragile look in his eyes hidden from view. “M’trusting you on that. Deceiving the Duke is punishable by ten years in prison, miss.”
“Yes, sir,” you smile, stroking his hair. “I am no rule breaker, you see. I’m a law-abiding citizen.”
“Good. I’ll hold you to that.”
“Wanna talk about what’s on your mind?” you offer softly.
He hesitates. And then he decides that maybe he can afford nice things—the Fortress has granted him a pretty amount of mora these days, anyway. “Yeah,” he murmurs, “maybe not this second, though. But we’ll talk about it.”
He can practically see your smile even if he can’t look. “Okay,” you murmur, “fine by me. We have plenty of time, baby.”
Your arms wrap tighter around him. Perhaps this is Fontaine. Perhaps this is the nation of justice. Perhaps he has found his justice in your arms, feeling your warm skin against his as you erase every memory of pain from his body where you and he touch.
This is not a very linear format in terms of plot and story telling it. It jumps along many months and weeks and doesn’t have a specific timeline. It is just the journey of wrio falling in love despite his flaws. Hope you enjoyed that
its so deliciously good
🫡🦁 I broke out the pen and paper for once, tested it on Leona.
Hi, I was wondering if you could do a Leona x fem reader, where during a movie night at the Savannaclaw dorms, Leona chooses an action film, but instead of watching the screen, he secretly sneaks glances at the Reader. As the movie gets more and more intense, Leona occasionally jumps or yells, but mostly, he ends up leaning into the Reader for comfort, hiding his embarrassed blushing. By the end of the movie, they're both laughing, tangled up in blankets, and sharing popcorn in a way that’s way too cozy. Maybe the Reader stays the night, and once the movie is over, both Leona and the Reader go to the rooftop and stargaze, while Leona does his gruff commentary about constellations, but slowly, he softens, pointing out patterns and quietly explaining little things he’s fascinated by, ending the night with cuddles and a kiss on the cheek by the Reader? I guess you can say this "Dorm Movie Night" was a success?
【❝A night to remember❞】
【Synopsis: In which you’re weekly movie night with Leona turns into a night to remember】
【Featuring: Leona Kingscholar】
【Tags: reader is prefect, fem reader, fluff, Leona is just a big kitty】
【Word count: 1,846】
【a/n: ty for the request!! I love sleepover fics and I love Leona, so writing this was like heaven!! Hope you enjoy :3】
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When you first arrived in Twisted Wonderland you never thought you'd be buddies with royalty, yet here you are — sharing a bowl of popcorn with none other than the second Prince of Sunset Savanna during your weekly movie nights like it's just another Tuesday.
The idea for the weekly movie was entirely your idea and while Leona would much rather be sleeping, he can't bring himself to say no when you give him those big herbivore eyes of yours. Whenever you come traipsing into the Savanaclaw dorms in your coziest pajamas and a bag full of snacks from Sam's store he knows he's in for a long night.
"If I remember correctly, tonight's movie is your pick. So, what will we be watching, your highness?" You ask with an enthusiasm that's far too much for at this time of night. From the outside looking in, one might think that Leona is annoyed by your presence, but that couldn't be further from the truth. If anything, the already prepared bowl of popcorn he has in his lap gives away his excitement for the night ahead.
"I don't know. I think the new Mission Possible movie just came out, so I guess we can watch that." Leona answers with a shrug, secretly enjoying the way you flop down onto the couch next him. There's plenty of room, but for some reason you choose to sit as close to Leona as socially acceptable for a pair of friends. Maybe he's just reading into things, but your insistence on being to close can't help but make a guy wonder.
Mission Possible is an interesting choice — you didn't take Leona for an action movie guy, but you're not about to question his pick for the night. In all honesty, Leona doesn't exactly care for action movies — he'd much rather watch a documentary — but he finds that just about any genre is tolerable if he's watching it with you.
Well, Leona is watching something, but it's not the movie. He finds action films to be a bit predictable — often following the same plot structure that very quickly grows old. What's much more interesting to Leona is you. While your eyes are glued to the screen, his are glued to you.
Leona's not usually this shameless with his staring, but he just can't help himself tonight. There's something about the way the tv glow illuminates your face that has the prince looking at you with stars in his eyes. You look so adorable with your wide eyes and a few stray bits of popcorn clinging to the corners of your mouth. If Leona were a lesser man he swears he would have pounced on you by now.
Unfortunately, a particularly loud explosion in the film has Leona jumping in his seat, instinctively burying his face against the top of your head as he tried in vain to hide from the noise. Damn his stupidly sensitive ears, he seriously can't believe his own anatomy is betraying him right now.
"Ah, sorry. Is it too loud? I'll turn it down, don't worry."
Oh Seven, Leona wants to crawl into a hole and die. He's supposed to be a big strong lion, not some scaredy cat. Even worse — he just made a fool of himself in front of you. Leona had planned on turning up the charm tonight, but all that's out of the window now that he's gone and made himself look like a pitiful little housecat.
Leona quietly mopes for the rest of the movie, but he doesn't make any move to pull himself away from you. It's admittedly a bit difficult for you to focus on the movie with a big lion pressed into your side, but you're definitely not complaining.
It's dark out by the time the movie finally ends and Leona is still yet to move when the credits start to roll. You're reluctant to move — too busy enjoying the simple comfort of being close to him like this. Alas, all good things must come to an end.
"Tonight was a lot of fun, Leona. That movie was a lot better than I expected it to be. Maybe we can watch the other Mission Possible movies over the next few movie nights." You suggest before reluctantly moving to stand from the couch. Leona misses the warmth of you against him the moment you leave his side. An almost petulant pout mars his handsome features. Both you and Leona are surprised when his hand darts out to grab your wrist in a desperate attempt to keep you here with him.
"It's late, herbivore. I can't just let you walk back in the dark. I may be a lazy, good for nothing prince, but I'm not about to let a lady go wanderin' around at night on her own."
You can only blink at Leona with wide eyes and parted lips. The suggestion is clear, but neither of you dare to say it aloud. You've slept over at Savanaclaw before — specifically in Leona's room when you were displaced from Ramshackle by Azul — but things are different now. You've both grown close — so close that both you and Leona have developed…feelings for one another.
"Are you sure? I don't want to intru—"
"You're never a bother, herbivore. I couldn't sit right with myself if I let you go back to your dorm at this time of night all on your lonesome. You're staying that night and that's final, capishe?"
Well, there's no arguing with that. You know well enough not to argue with Leona once he's made up his mind. It's only after you let out a dejected sigh that Leona releases your wrist, coming to his feet before leading the way to his room.
You trail behind quietly, following behind Leona through the familiar cooridoors leading to his room. As you make the short trek, you find yourself stopping at a small balcony that off the hallway. The stars are remarkably clear in the night sky. In fact, you've never seen them as clearly as you do now.
It doesn't take long for Leona to realize that you're no longer following behind him, but when he turns around to find you bathed in the moon's pale glow he finds his complaints dying on his lips. The prince was admittedly hoping to go get some shut-eye after his disasterous display during the movie, but he's wide awake now.
"Do you know any constellations, Leona?
If Leona is anything, he's well learned — his royal tutors made sure of that. Kifaji taught his all sorts of useless information simply to make the him seem more 'cultured' and 'worldly' — whatever that means.
"Yeah, I know a few."
"Well, tell me about them."
A rough chortle passes Leona's lips as he steps out to join you on the balcony, quietly shaking his head in disbelief before moving to lean against the railing beside you. Only you would dare to bark orders at a prince, but he likes that about you. You're that only one around here who's not scared to call Leona out on his bullshit and he honestly finds that attribute incredibly attractive.
"That one's Andromeda — the chained woman." Leona explains while pointing out the cluster of stars.
"That's Cassiopeia — the seated queen, she's Andromeda's mother. And if you look over there you'll see Cephus — the king, who's also Cassiopeia's husband and Andromeda's father."
You can only watch in awe as you watch Leona point out the family of constellations. You're honestly a bit surprised that he knows so much about the stars. You wonder what other random facts he knows and make a mental note to question him about this at a later time.
"Wow, look at you go! I'm impressed — didn't think your were an astrologer." You tease with a playful nudge to Leona's shoulder. He snorts at your praise, quietly lapping it up like a parched man would water.
"Alright, alright, that's enough astronomy lessons for the night. It's way past both our bedtimes, herbivore. Now, let's go hit the hay," Leona yawns. A yawn of your own tells you that he's probably right and once again you find yourself trailing behind him on his way to his room.
There's a welcoming sense of comfort that greets you as you enter behind Leona — almost like coming home to finally relax after a long day. Although messy, the space reflects it's inhabitant incredibly well. His sheets are messy, like he rolled out of bed and hadn't bother to make it up afterwards — which is likely that case — while various books are haphazardly strewn about and a chess set sits out with a game left half-finished atop the board.
"We're sharin' the bed, herbivore. I'm not about to let a lady sleep on the floor and I'm not gonna let you usurp my mattress either, so you oughta' get comfortable." Leona explains through another yawn before collapsing into his bed with a huff. Your first instinct is to argue. Like any rational person, you're flustered by the idea of sharing a bed with your crush, but you know that your fighting a losing battle. It's a bit too late to back out now and you really don't want to sleep on the floor, so you're gonna have to suck it up.
Leona waits with closed eyes for the mattress to dip with your weight before turning on his side to face you. It's surreal for the both of you to be here like this. If you told Leona when you first met that he'd end up willingly inviting you into his bed he likely would have called you utterly insane — and yet, here we are.
"Are you gonna keep staring at me, or are you gonna go to sleep?"
"I can't sleep when you're over there breathing all loud and getting your herbivore scent all over my sheets. Come here."
Seeing the perfect opportunity to make up for his pitiful display durning the movie, Leona's pulls you flush against him. The surprised squeal that leaves your lips is so adorable that he has to stop himself from taking a bite out of you right then and there.
You're not sure how holding you closer is gonna fix any of Leona's complaints, but you're too nervous to call him out on it. Instead, you choose to relax into his embrace. It's almost embarrassing how many times you've daydreamed of exactly this. Little do you know that Leona has been longing to finally get you in his arms too.
"Now, stay still and keep your mouth shut. If you wake me up before I'm ready I'm gonna make you regret it."
"Right, goodnight to you too, Leona." You grumble, punctuating your sentence with a quick kiss to the underside of Leona's jaw. What a bold little herbivore you are — Leona's gonna make sure to get you back for that little stunt once he's gotten an adequate amount of sleep. For now, you'll get away with it — just know that retaliation is heading your way.
"Goodnight, herbivore."
it twas the night before kinkoctober
Sugar, spice, and everything nice
The world if the TWST anime gets cancelled due to piracy
Before: After:
Worried about a whole ass corporation.
Call me a fake twst fan but I genuinely don't care if the TWST anime gets cancelled. We've been living without it for years bro.
real
Leona Kingscholar - Overblot Animation
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEONA!!
I made some art for my Leona moots 😼 hope y’all like it