.closed starter for @fatetrapt‘s diluc
Laughter bubbled up his throat, raw and hungry. Fire smouldered all about him, setting grass and wood alike aflame, yet all he felt was glee, to meet this shadowed man upon the battlefield, the space between them strewn with the broken bodies of fellow countrymen he really should avenge...
Eyes flicked down towards them.
Ah, but that could wait; the dead had so long before them, and he, with fire burning in his veins and limbs aching for the burn of adrenaline; the vicious poison of blood to spill; splitting skin and bones snapping beneath his hands. A grin split his features, boyishly handsome visage as if a mask melting in the flames.
Water heeded his call, spilling across open palms.
“How brave of you to face the Fatui by yourself,” he laughed. The stranger’s very silhouette burned bright in his eyes; wanting and desire a heady drug as he closed the distance between them. There was no room for hate; no place for vengeance when so perfect an opportunity presented itself.
Oh, how beautiful he would look, blood watering the grass beneath their feet, Childe’s nails tearing beneath skin to count every string of his muscles; to find his beating heart and hold it, gentle as if it were a fluttering bird in the palm of his hand. How pretty he would be, smeared across the ground like a stain, begging for mercy, for death that would not come.
How Childe yearned to feel that blade in his hand, too, tear into him. Leave scars in their wake; stories to tell and tales to grow to legend. He wondered if fire burned the way ice burned, the moments before sensation gave way to the numbness of death.
Childe yearned to hold him down, devour him whole, find the strength that inspired him to destruction, and keep him all the same. The way his breath caught as the man’s feaures sharpened into sight; the way his flame-red hair billowed in the wind like desire swelling within him-
-Oh, how besotted he must be.
“Don’t worry, I’ll be gentle~”
And closed the distance beteen them with the sizzle of blades meeting flame.
