🖐️ , 🕊️ , 💢 , 🌧️ . 🎀 , 🕸️ , 🌀 , ⚓ !!
[ 🖐️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat do their hands feel like: soft, calloused, trembling ?
more calloused than someone expects out of a bar owner, but sabbia's a small place and luca works many jobs- hauling crates of ice after a twelve-hour shift, lifting barrels of beer, cleaning the place from top to bottom, and he's earned a couple burns on his hands from working the kitchen, too.
[ 🕊️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen did they feel the safest ?
oh, that was years ago- back when his kid was little, maria was still alive, some summer when the business was doing well and the constant stress of bills to pay was quiet for a few weeks. stability, for luca, is safety, and those summers were the few times in his life where he had nothing to worry about.
[ 💢 ] ㅤ. ㅤwho have they never forgiven and never will?
himself. when he was spiraling, he was awful to a lot of people who loved him. even if he can repair his relationship with his kid (and god, he hopes he can), there's plenty of friends who still won't look at him the same or won't look at him at all. every person he drove away is another thing that keeps him up at night, and luca refuses to let himself forget it.
[ 🌧️ ]ㅤ.ㅤis there a pain they refuse to heal from ?
not anymore. for a while, luca thought he'd feel the pain of maria's death for the rest of his life, but after emerging from his mess and seeing everyone that he'd hurt, he knew that not healing wasn't an option. he works on himself as much as he can, and has learned to set aside his pride to open up to people when he needs to. holding on to pain is just going to make things get worse again, as far as he's concerned- healing doesn't mean forgetting, but he knows he has to move forward.
[ 🎀 ] ㅤ . ㅤwhat is their main love language?
to receive? physical touch. one of the little things that he misses the most since maria died is coming home from a long day and being held, going to bed and wrapping his arms around his wife, or being in the kitchen and feeling her settle her arms around his waist.
to give? acts of service. luca loves feeling needed, necessary, he'd always wanted to give maria the stability that they never really had. he used to buy her little gifts, make breakfast before she could wake up, or put their kid to bed so she could relax- he was always trying to do something to prove she could rely on him.
[ 🕸️ ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a favourite lie they like to hear?
when tourists tell him that they're fine. he's been running his bar for nearly thirty years, at this point, he's heard every kind of drunk tourist tell him about their relationship troubles over their fourth beer. and after having to hear kids in their twenties complain about cheating partners while working through his spiral of grief, there's nothing he enjoys more than a patron who will tell him that they're fine when he offers to talk, because it feels like giving himself a minute to breathe.
[ 🌀 ]ㅤ ㅤ. ㅤdo they have a recurring dream or nightmare?
it's a recurring nightmare, of course it is. not hard to decipher, either- the day maria died. it's the same dream every time- walking into his home, seeing her, calling the emergency line, and the doctor who told him that there was nothing that anyone could've done. every time it happens, he dreads sleeping for the next week, and he always wakes up with his hands shaking and tears in his eyes.
[ ⚓ ] ㅤ. ㅤwhat does “home” mean to them?
it's having people around him, feeling loved. luca's lived in the same place for nearly all his life, but there's nothing that makes him feel more comfortable than having his close friends around. it used to be his family, but now it's friends who make it feel close enough.
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