#avior and starlight

[redactedbloop]

This song but it’s all of our couples who wont make it

[the-galaxy-fiend]

once upon a dream (lana del ray) with Avior and Starlight

i know you, i walked with you once upon a dream

i know you that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam

[peraltuki]

a ship that when you start thinking of them you start crying

[riot-control-camp]

good afternoon. i am incapable of grappling with the new avior and starlight installment that dropped yesterday and am going to instead be hyperfocusing on the "you're the lighthouse in my sunset" line and writing AVIOR STARLIGHT BEACH TRIP

avior never bothered much with traveling in "human" ways whenever he wasn't stewarding a newly coalesced demon and getting them acquainted with elegy's vehicles. as such, he only nominally knows how to drive.

starlight, however, who grew up with summer road trips to national parks near and far from dahlia, practically lives and breathes their clunky old SUV.

one semester after finals, burnt out and homesick, they scrounged up enough money for two days' worth of gas and some shitty snacks and just. drove. that's how they found the beach avior and starlight end up going to after they escape.

avior pulls them aside after they've finished up rounding survivors and explains that they might not want to tempt fate more than they already have. that they might want to lay low and get out of a cornerstone city so department presence isn't quite as suffocating.

starlight counters that they might not have the kind of time necessary for laying low if min'ara and e'laetum are to be believed. avior rejoins that min'ara and e'laetum maybe shouldn't be believed at all.

...starlight doesn't want to discuss that tonight. they're tired in a way they never have been before, soul bruised and aura drained, head flooded with memories that they finally recognize but haven't been able to categorize yet.

so instead, they say, "...okay. i know somewhere we can go."

they don't head out that night. not even that week. starlight has to reacquaint themselves with their everyday routine, get back in touch with people who didn't even know they were gone. the empowered world has screeched to a hault in the face of unimaginable tragedy, and they're grateful for the department-mandated PTO their job gives them. it's only three days, but it's better than nothing.

after a paycheck comes in, there's not much keeping them in dahlia but fear, so... they go.

avior teases them about the bathroom-sized trash can they keep behind the passenger seat filled with soda cans. they offer to move it but he shrugs them off and accordions himself into the seat.

his horns tear a hole in the headliner of their car and stuffing leaks out of it whenever they hit a bump in the road. by the end of the road trip, when he extricates himself from their car, all of it falls off his lap and plops on the sidewalk in one fell swoop. starlight absolutely dies laughing as he picks up each piece of it and throws them at them.

the first few days of the trip are a sandy whirlwind. ice cream on the boardwalk. avior gets acquainted with a few questionable beach cocktails. they make a sandcastle and avior conjurs some stars to embed into the towers. some children nearby poke at a crab until it scuttles across starlight's back as they nap and avior almost breaks covert by rifting away from it and remembers himself just in time, picking it up by one leg and tossing it into the waves. starlight buys a couple pulpy novels and reads particularly heinous parts out to avior, laughing at his disgusted reactions until they almost cry.

at night, they look at the stars together. they look dimmer than the ones avior used to conjur for them, and the constellations are different considering the season, but they try to memorize them all the same.

soon, they'll be back to saving the world. but for now, swaying back in forth in each others arms to the rhythm of the waves rolling over their ankles, it's enough.

[bagelbucket]

hell yeahhhh enjoy!

i loveb him