#melinope

[fablesuntold]

@melinope sent: "I'm trying to fix your hair, so hold still!" — From Rumi for Jinu ✨

Jinu hadn’t agreed to this. A spa day. Not a real spa with actual professionals to give him the five star treatment— no no no, Rumi had insisted that she was just as good. And what had he done? Made the stupid decision to accept her invitation. However, instead of the relaxing day she’d promised him? Jinu felt like he was stuck in a nightmare. So far, she’d almost clumsily poked his eyes out while placing cucumbers over them, then ate said cucumbers because she was hungry.. only to proceed to cut his nails a little too short that they now hurt. So much for sit back and relax, huh? If this was what treatment felt like in a spa? Then Jinu really didn’t see the fuss. Humans nowadays really were a strange bunch.

And just when Jinu thought his torment was over, apparently Rumi had decided she hadn’t finished him yet with claims she forgot to tend to his hair. Each stroke of the brush through thick black locks drew out a disgruntled growl from him, his eyes narrowed to stare her down through the mirror she’d forced him to sit in front of. And apparently he was moving around too much for her liking. ‘I’m trying to fix your hair, so hold still!’ Easier said than done when she was almost ragging each strand out!

“Can’t you see I’m trying—! Ow! You’re hurting me!” Whether she thought him to be dramatic or not, Jinu didn’t care. Did she even know what she was doing!? “Geez, do you really have to be so rough?” Was this her way of getting back at him for rudely crashing Huntrix’s show last night? Possibly. “You’d make a terrible spa person.” She should stick to singing. Especially seeing how each strand of his hair now stuck up on end like the bristles of the brush she was currently using to comb it. “Now you’ve messed it up more. I’d be surprised if I even have any hair left on my head by the time you’re done with it.. wait, am I balding now!?”

[notyourbaby-saja]

“How many chickens are too many chickens?” (from jinu hehe)

Truth or Dare! | @melinope

Baby blinked at the strangely mundane question. “Anything more than zero,” he answered flatly. “Those little hell beasts taste good, sure, but they have even more of a mean streak than I do. At least I have my reasons for wanting to fight someone; they go straight for the ankles without provocation!” He still vividly remembered a school field trip to a local farm from his early mortal years. The angry pecking and flurry of feathers chasing him haunted his nightmares on occasion.

[sajabarks]

A hand raises to cover Jinu's shit-eating grin, though maybe the giggles bursting between his fingers belies his attempt to hide. "I dare you to slick back your hair for 24 hours!" he declares, as if it's the worst thing Ever.

he stares up at jinu, blinking slowly. did he really think that this dare was actually was some big effort on his part? "sure." he gets up from where he'd been sitting comfortably with his guitar and goes into the bathroom to style his hair. when he comes back, his hair is slicked back and face is showing. "i think someone forgets that i'm a pretty boy." he flops back into his beanbag chair and picks his guitar up again. 

[bbyidol]

      it's not fair. (from rumi!)

      F    A    I    R    ?    !    life wasn’t fair.    a million times over he’d heard it    –    when he didn’t get his way    ,    didn’t get what he wanted    (    what he rightfully deserved    !    )    life isn’t fair.    at least @melinope isn’t in the underworld    –    things could be much less fair    ,    couldn’t they    ?    still    .    .    .

      a part of him could understand why she found it unfair    ;    why she was so upset over the loss of him.    the only person who’d somewhat believed in him.    the only person that had been kind    –    even if it’d been for his own benefit.    it hurt.    & it’d been her fault.

      ❛❛    you could’ve changed things.    ❜❜

[bbyidol]

      AQUAMARINES    STARE    AT    THE    TELEVISION    ;    thumbs moving quite skillfully to the beat of the game    –    cadence of hyrule    –    came highly recommended by one of the fellow demons.    jelly    ,    was it    ?    he wasn’t really sure.    ever since they’d begun this little    –    boyband    –    the rest of the underworld seemed to envy them.    & if the youngest member was being rather honest    ,    he enjoyed it.    of course    ,    gwi - ma was always quick to yank him back to reality.    today    –    in the form of @melinope bitching about his love life.

            ❛❛    i wanna kick myself for falling so hard.   ❜❜    (from jinu!)

      ok    ,    so maybe not gwi - ma bothering him    ,    but still.    he wasn’t entirely convinced the demon lord hadn’t put the other up to this.    lollipop moves to the other cheek as jinu talks.    there’s three others.    why is he talking to him of all people    ?    hues never seem to leave the screen    ,    leaning in slightly closer to hear the beat of the game better    (    & perhaps drown out the boss’ complaints.    )

      ❛❛    kicking yourself is kinda hard.    want me to do it for you    ?    ❜❜    that was helpful    ,    right    ?

[forebcding]

“I only wanted time.” (from jinu)

@melinope ⸺ prompt. ⸺ accepting.

❝ you have all the time in the world now, dear. ❞ humanity abandoned for the sake of a wish-turned-curse. immortality in the underworld. yeong-won knows not jinu's entire story, but he is not so different from the other inhabitants of the underworld that made deals with gwi-ma during their time alive. a bit more melancholic, a bit more nostalgic, perhaps, something that she... appreciates. their conversations stir her interest far more than those with a demon indifferent to what they once were. ❝ or mayhaps it is the human world you are infatuated with now and want to spend more time in? ❞ once the honmoon is gone, the human world as it is now would cease to exist, after all.

[forebcding]

❛ get the hell away from me. ❜ (from rumi)

@melinope ⸺ prompt. ⸺ accepting.

there she is. the huntress that is part demon, free from gwi-ma's voice and hiding her patterns. my, how blasphemous. how intriguing. never before has she had a taste of a soul such as hers. the mere thought of such an opportunity conjures a smile on the demon's face, although she neither approaches nor disengages fully from the girl before her. ❝ little songbird, ❞ yeong-won croons softly, skeletal arms stretching out behind her as if she was spreading her wings. ❝ i have just arrived here. do allow me to take a look at the current generation of hunters. i have not seen one of your kind in centuries. ❞

[bbyidol]

      we've all got choices. - rumi

      C    H    O    I    C    E    S    ?    what an odd topic.    demons didn’t get choices.    not when their souls were trapped beneath the dreadful honmoon.    what did this    –    hunter even understand of the underworld    ?    of how it felt to be crushed under the demon king’s thumb without possible escape other than erasure from all existence.

      ❛❛    choices    ?    ❜❜    word seems almost foreign to pale lips    ,    gleam dissipating from the irises that narrow in reply.    ❛❛    it must be so easy for you    ,    hunter.    ❜❜    @melinope doesn’t have to hear him.    the constant reminder of baby’s failure in another life    ;    one far beyond what he knew now.    claws extend as innocence disappears.    the only choice available is to protect himself    ,    show the king that he wasn’t useless.

      ❛❛    was it an easy choice    ?    to kill us    ?    ❜❜