This is just a quick little blurb because I'm so hyped for RE9 and I'm down bad for this man as he ages
word count: 427
warnings: none
(I don't usually specify which Leon each writing is for because we all have favorites but this is re9 Leon)
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You smiled as you carded your fingers through your boyfriend's hair, the light from the afternoon sun that was streaming through the open curtains catching the greys that were woven into his brown hair.
“What?” Leon asked, turning so he could wrap his arms around your waist, head still resting comfortably on your chest.
“I'm just admiring you.” You saw the smirk on his face.
“Oh yeah?”
“Mhm. Salt and pepper suits you well.” You told him, you hand cupping his jaw where his scruff was also decorated with grey, thumb moving back and forth against the hairs there that pricked your skin.
Leon rolled his eyes, “oh yes. My lovely reminders that I'm getting old.”
“Stop it. You’re like wine. You just get better and better as you age.” You kissed the top of his head, “you may not be able to do your backflips anymore but that’s okay, baby.” You teased.
“I can still do my backflips just fine.” He argued and you gave him a skeptical look.
“Sure thing, honey. Whatever you want to believe.” Your hand that was on his jaw gave him a soft pat.
Leon looked up at you, “I'll do one right now.”
He moved to get up, but you locked your arms around him, “No, there's no need for that. You'll throw out your back.”
Leon stared at you with a small smile, “I think you like the fact that I'm old because you get to make fun of me for it.”
“I do not.”
“Oh yeah?”
“I already told you, the salt and pepper suits you well. Imagine how you’re going to look totally grey. When you look up silver fox in the dictionary, your pictures going to be there.”
Leon barked out a laugh, practically falling on top of you, “oh my god, sweetheart.”
“I'm sorry. Dictionaries are a bit outdated, aren’t they? If you google silver fox, your picture will pop up.” You corrected with a smile, and he laughed a little harder.
“God, you say the stupidest shit sometimes.” He joked and you shrugged.
“I was told to appreciate beauty and to be honest. If you don’t like it, break up with me.”
“Not a chance. Who else is going to stroke my ego the way you do?” He pressed a kiss to your shoulder, letting himself settle back on top of you.
“You mean put up with your bullshit.” You joked.
“That too.”
“I'm sure you’ll find someone.”
“Not like you baby.” He sighed, his eyes drifting back to the tv, “Not like you.”
i don't doubt that music is hard to make. But how come there's the indie guy who writes and plays 25 instrument on his own and makes heart wrenching poetry, and it takes like 17 people just for the lyrics of a pop song that is three lines repeated in a loop about, idk, how you get wasted at a party
Listening to it’s a crime and let there be love back to back and I find the changes between the two so beautiful and touching. One specific change that I feel I haven’t seen talked about is how ‘but everybody knows that it’s a crime’ was 1:1 replaced with ‘May all your dreaming fill the empty sky’ and how it’s specifically in the part of the song that Noel is singing to Liam.
The original doesn’t even seem to be sung to anybody in particular, it reads more as an introspection on Noel’s part about his relationship with Liam and how he views both it and him. But the addition of the dialogue, the way that he’s now speaking to Liam instead of about the both of them, makes it so much sweeter that he’s using it to deliver a message like that. ‘You pass around blame for why we are the way we are even though you feel no shame about it, but what’s the point when everyone knows it’s illegal anyways’ vs ‘your dreams are rich and full and beautiful, and I tore a hole into the sky so you could fill it with them’ are two statements that I feel encapsulate two very bold points on the spectrum of their relationship.
