and the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart

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and the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart
III. WOE TO ALL WHO INHABIT THE EARTH
there were twins. growing up together and against each other; two sheltered 'special' children. they aged and fought for power, bláth lost. his brother wasn't stronger, just a little more stable.
still, bláth stayed and was used in attacks both from and on the family, only managing to break free by his late-twenties. he ran with the money while the white dome went up in flames, arranging it just so everyone surviving was under him. in the organizational chaos, his twin was dead.
for years it remained so: bláth holed up in a new and colorful city with no plans of ever dragging his past out. then he met cris, and it was a sweet story, really, built around tentative gentleness and care entirely foreign to both of them. cris lived with his own criminal ties, nowhere near bláth's nightmare, yet close enough to not see himself having a future. so bláth did what he was best at: put together an operation to bring another ring down, for cris.
the plan needed a foolproof intimidation tactic. he shaved his head and ate what was left of his brother.
casual engine heart for a change...🌞
clean, the cleanest I've been
Vanishing and leaving nothing behind, romance.
bláth is a pumped up cybergoth queen, full of shiny details and sparks. he wants to be attractive, almost animalistic in his understanding of the word: shiny, bouncy, colorful with lots of jiggly sounds. this and a certain degree of self-objectification. he is pretty, but he’s also broken: missing an arm, covered in scars, suffering from chronic pain and frankly getting older. so he leans into the pretty doll act, but he doesn’t believe it himself.
cris on the other hand, is a bisexual cis man that happens to embody a perfect butch vibe. he’s a simple worker, wearing jean on jean with just a bit of self-awareness there: he knows it's attractive. his previous relationships have mainly been heterosexual, with him taking on the typical masculine role. none of them lasted long. he took that as a given and only started questioning it with bláth.
semiotic lesbians is what a friend of a friend used to describe people who flagged the lesbian symbolic without actually being lesbians. in a very vague-casual conversation sense. in a how COME she is straight way. these two are a running joke with their dynamic and coding, you can figure the rest out・゚✧*:・゚✧
silly things for serious men
сris at his butchest inspired by the holden hottie
a moment when he's genuinely mercilessly bláths-steaming-from-the-ears hot, but he himself doesn't see what's more appealing abt that than what he normally does...
meet the sweethearts i based off Nick and Vashhhhhhhhhhhha-ha! their names are Cristopher and Bláth!
really proud of myself for pulling off this feat of backwards engineering. their faces are modelled after sketches of their Marriage and this delightful kiss from my next wip. been chipping away at it slowly and suddenly there were two new guys with a story...
they're in their late twenties/early thirties and all kinds of messes, but... hopelessly in love. bláth would be a tattoo artist recovering from the hell that was his brother (dead now) and trying out this 'life' thing everyone's been raving about. brown hair that he bleaches to hell and back, with bangs ironed. trans, of course.
and cris'd be a mechanic, also struggling for independence, but in the financial sense. maybe four years younger and trying to seem tougher than he is. like he'd be butch enough if he just stopped trying, but he's not there yet with his ugly sports glasses. he's also unlucky enough to fall into a bad gang. bláth's a survivor of that coming from the other side, putting his all into dragging the other out. he won't be too deep. they'll make it out. after they stop running from each other that is!