baby, we’re not built for this
Happy(?) Code Yellow Day! I’m sorry I’m celebrating with this mess of angst and tragedy, but we’ll get through it together!
Summary: The beginning and end of color in Deke Shaw’s life. [ you can't see color until you meet your soulmate, and your world loses color when your soulmate dies ]
Warnings: major canonical character death, brief implied self harm
Deke’s POV, TrevorDeke soulmates AU, fluff with a tragic ending
The idea of actually having a soulmate was nothing more than a fantasy, in the future.
Deke knew they existed, of course, everyone did. It was the only explanation he had for why things were always so... dark. He knew grey, and black, and white, and all the combinations of the three, but few people got to see color, anymore. His father had known color, and his mother, and her parents before that, but almost no one in the Lighthouse actually got to see them. He knew that Kree were blue, that lemons were yellow, that oranges were orange - that one was pretty self explanatory - but the colors themselves were a mystery to him.
His jacket was brown, according to some, but he only saw black.
The lemons that were sold on rare occasions were yellow, but he only saw white.
His eyes... grey was grey, whether you had a soulmate or not.