So this snuck up on me. I didn’t even realise it was a Hug a Tiny Day, the time between this and HAG Day was too quick!! But anyway, I’m stealing my last year’s thing so I can at least post something cool today and then follow it up later. I hope you enjoy the abundance of hugs (more below the cut) and reblogs are always loved over here!!!!!!
A Compilation of Hugs!
Varying Perspectives - 12 (Risk)
"No one’s killing anyone." Jack says, smiling bright
He cups her form and hugs her tight
"Even though you're scared of my size,
She looks straight up into his baby blue eyes.
"Can you stay with me?"
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Varying Perspectives - 13 (Shelter)
"I-I'm fine, let's just go inside, you don't have to- HEY!" Pepper found herself cupped to Daniel's chest, face pressed against the fabric of his shirt. She prepared her vocal chords to yell at him, but she realised that she'd stopped shivering. His hands were providing her with some amount of warmth. As Daniel continued through the rain, Pepper relaxed into him, barely hearing his heart over the pounding water, feeling of his fingers laying gently on her back, and his chest expanding and contracting.
She felt safe with her giant.
Varying Perspectives - 18 (Close)
"Where are you going Oon." he slurs almost drunkenly, still half asleep, and pulls the tiny right up to his chest. Oona's stiff as a board at first, these actions so unusual and intimate that she doesn't know what to make of it. But eventually, the curl of the giant’s hand, the heat that seems to cradle her, and the soft sounds of breathing, their source now inches away from her cheek, pull her into sleep's gentle embrace.
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Stranger Danger
Ajax watched as his new friend was practically snatched from him, Gabriel left with the 'room' spinning as the hand squeezed him tight into his chest and fingers became unyielding forms that pinned and smothered him against his giant. The moment he was set free he was given a thorough inspection, limbs swiped over by the warm pads of fingers to check for injury, before Seto turned his back and kissed his little boy once on the head.
"I'm so sorry, Gabriel. I wasn't thinking, and I didn't even notice and you could've been hurt, and I was panicking and looking for you and, I'm /so/ /so/ glad that you're okay and I found you. I'm so /sorry/ I left you, cap." The torrent of apologies only ceased with a sigh of burden, the child is given a much softer hug where he draped his arms partway over his father's quivering shoulder, fingers at his back only supporting his weight.
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Leaving the Nest
"Seto...we need you to be here. I-I-I need you, a,a,and if you're gone...
"It w-won't be the same."
Seto can't just leave her hanging half out a window, her tears wetting his nose until he pulls away; the space left quickly filled by his gentle grasp curling around her shaking back. His palm coming beneath her legs and holding her weight inside a cup as he wipes the tears with the back of his finger, murmuring quiet apologies to her. Because it hurt to see her crying, not knowing how to truly comfort her when he was the cause of her pain. The giant's hands curled closer, leaving her curled in a loose ball inside his warm grasp, arms wrapped about his digits as she leans her head into the pad of his thumb.
"Shh, shh. I'm here, Jewel.”
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Safety
"When I beat him, and I /will/ beat him/, it's over." Seto emphasised with a shake of the fingertip he held, smiling as Jewel came close enough for a hug and kiss to her cheek, feeling his whole body relax into her embrace as his back was gently petted. Even though being human wasn't the best feeling for the sorcerer, he was always happy to have his wife surround him like the sunlight itself.
"Then I'll be here until that happens, sugar cube."
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No Words
"Thank you.."
He breathed, eyes full of something real that the Anhemite had never seen before, wide and swimming as the giant watched /his son/. Then a smile broke out, and before she knew it Jewel was snatched up and pressed against him tightly, Seto wanting her as close as possible. He didn't hesitate to lean down and kiss her either, smothering every part of her in affection he never wanted his wife to forget, leaving Jewel frozen and blushing furiously in his fingertips.
At that, Seto settled down and put them both back onto the stand, the image of Jewel gently wrangling their sleeping son into his cradle was all he could see.
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Under the Knight Sky: Stars
A hand eclipsed his lower half, pinning and simultaneously smothering the human in warmth, while he was moved into the centre of a /real/ hug, where arms that could wrap another giant in them comfortably chose to press around a human and hold them tight. Gabriel felt like he was at the centre of the universe when he was there in Seto's arms, listening to the voice as it spoke multitudes in so few sentences.
"Don't be scared, cap. A love like Theresa's was special, and I know that prayer was not only for me. You are their captain, you are my captain, and I think that they are somewhere among the stars. Watching. And I know that they would be proud of who you have become."
Gabriel was set free to lie upon Seto's steadily lowering chest, arms still outstretched to complete the hug he could never truly complete without some kind of sorcery, eyes finding the twinkling heavens opened before him. Reflected in the two pairs of eyes, so vastly different, and yet this was the one thing that could never change.
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There for You (FRITZ belongs solely to @blametheeditor)
There was a pause as Seto shifted and reached forward, scooping all of Fritz and his sleeping bag into his hands without asking, not because he forgot, but because it felt right, and one doesn’t question something that feels right. And some things are always the same.
Everyone needs a friend after having a nightmare. And he could only assume Fritz needed more before being encouraged to sleep.
Fritz held up his hands to the older, trying to tell him to stop, that he was perfectly fine, to go back to sleep, but it was clear he wasn’t. And didn’t until it wasn’t possible for Fritz to do much because he was held against Seto’s chest protectively, surrounded on one side by warmth radiating from his hands, the other a crisp singlet that smelled of strange flowers.
“Would you like to talk?”
“N-N-N-N-N-N-”
“Alright. Just lean against me, it will be okay. You’re alive, you’re safe, they can’t hurt you here.”
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Pipsqueak (ALEX belongs solely to @blametheeditor)
“Did you have a nightmare?”
“No...I h-h-h-h-aven’t been ab-b-ble to sleep.”
“Ah, is it the dark?”
“I miss my d-d-dad. E-E-E-Even though w-we aren’t...close, I still can’t sleep w-w-without knowing he’s /n-n-near/ me.” Alex chokes out, rubbing at the stubborn tears that continue to fall in front of a stranger who only watches him with a concerned gaze. And it’s not until a single gentle touch that the boy begins sobbing.
“Oh, Pipsqueak, come here.”
Alex gasps as the hand seems to spring against him, grasping him and his sleeping bag in his fingers to bring to his chest. Digits not flat against him but cupped behind his back like protective arms resting over him. A fingertip offered for the boy to hold close for comfort as Seto murmurs calming words.
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Under Scott’s Wing (SCOTT belongs solely to @blametheeditor...and doesn’t like getting caught up in hugs)
That was until shiny black shoes appeared in the doorway, replaced by knees that sent earthquakes through the guard's already weakening legs, a catastrophic hand swallowing up his charge /whole/ and sending Scott diving for his Gabriel who /couldn't be hurt/ just /fuck off/ giant he's only a-
"Hey there, don't hurt yourself."
A voice rumbled overhead, as Scott found himself /shoved/ onto his feet by something that /burnt/ his skin with its heat, that was the only explanation. Except...fire didn't have a pulse he could still feel pumping against him. Fire didn't swallow up innocent little /kids/ like that.
Why was Scott close to crying from shock? He /knew/ he could hear Gabriel, but not above the pounding of his heart in his head, throbbing like a bruise from those old cartoons. There was no /way/ the kid was alive, he'd seen him mercilessly crushed with his own two eyes, felt the small hand slip out of his own as he was /taken/ by those powerful extensions of /bone/ and muscle.
"I'm sorry, my name's Seto, I'm Gabriel's dad. Are you S-"
And that’s all for now!! Well....there’s something else coming imma post w/ everyone in America tomorrow.
