“I'll find you every time, my dear. No matter what it takes.”
Yan!Multiverse traveler x gn!reader who dies every time.
[mdni or do, i don't care. asks are appreciated and very much needed im horrible at making prompts argh]
Every time. Every time. It's not fair. Why must the Gods curse him so?
You were his in every Universe, every life time. Yet you died so young. So pathetically every time. Once it was a disease, the next was suicide, and the last one was murder.
Of course, everyone who HARMS and FAILS YOU dies in every Universe. They don't deserve to survive. They don't deserve to live.
Just once, just once he wants to hold your hand as the two of you grow old. Or bring you along on his travels of the Multiverse.
Arche sighed as he walked across the Universe, planets and different Universe’s surrounding his body.
Arche wasn't a God but neither was he Mortal. He lost the ability to die to Death a long, long time ago. So now he walks the Multiverse’s to spite the Gods who kill his lover every time.
The Gods do this as a punishment for cheating Death, perhaps. But they dare not actually try and get close to Arche. If they do, they will live a Fate worse then Death herself.
When he's not pretending to be human, his skin is covered in blues, purples, and pinks like the galaxy itself, his eyes, one black one white. Black always forced to watch your Death, the white watching every new Life.
Arche walks to the next Universe, wincing at how horrible it seems. Another war Universe? Alright. He always hates these ones. You almost always die in his arms.
Arche steels himself, all six arms wrapping around the Universe as he leaves his body, his subconscious melding with the world.
Arche’s eyes flutter open, taking the form of a child, barely 7 years of age. His “parents” tell him to go to his hiding spot, and he does.
Arche hides as he hears gun shots, screams, begging. He fiddles with the ends of his sleeves, curling into himself in the small hide of his.
People run into the house, searching for resources and other survivors.
A hologram laptop pops up in front of Arche, telling him everything he'd need to know about the Universe he's currently in.
This Universe was created by Death, to get more souls...Everyone will die in twenty-six years due to a bomb...Alright, so he's got twenty-six years to find YOU, to get into a relationship with you, and hopefully confess to you what he is.
And then help you become one too.
Arche waits, freezing as someone opens the door. “Hey! I found....a kid?” The person pauses, and another adult walks over, frowning as they realize what they just did.
“Fuck. We just orphaned a child.” The adult with brown hair curses, while the blonde smacks them away with a roll of their eyes.
“Hey, little one. I'm Georgia, she/her, what's your name?” The woman asks, kneeling down as she smiles gently. Arche crawls further back, whimpering.
“...Ar-Arche. He/him. Wh-Why’d you kill them...?” Georgia pauses, and sighs. She glances away, biting her lip.
She's pretty, he's got to admit. Blonde hair that reaches her navel, a mole under her eye, green eyes that seem far too kind for a war. She's going to die young.
The other adult interrupts. “That's just how life is right now, kid. You kill or be killed—” Georgia slaps him, and the two bicker for a few moments before Georgia sighs.
“That’s Wyatt, my husband. He's...a bit blunt, isn't he?” Georgia snorts. Arche slowly crawls out after a ton of coaxing, and can finally fully look at Wyatt.
He's got brown, curly hair that's rather long, in a ponytail. He's got brown eyes and tan skin, and a permanent glare on his face. He's got a huge scar over his nose.
But, he notices something. No, someone. YOU. You're just a kid, maybe a year older or two, hiding behind Wyatt, glancing at him quietly.
Wyatt glances between Arche and you, before Georgia pulls him away, as they go and talk in a corner, whisper yelling at each other
You're curious but cautious, glancing at him, or well, glaring. You look so pretty, even as a kid.
The two sit in silence while the adults yell at each other, as it gets more intense. Arche frowns, and goes to cover his ears.
But then, you pull him to your chest, covering his ears. He freezes, and you look away from the scene and him.
“I’m sorry about them. They're stressed.” You murmur, and hours pass before the yelling stops.
The two walk over, and Georgia smiles at the sight of the two of them huddled together, asleep. Wyatt snorts, picking up Arche, and Georgia picks up you.
The two walk out, going to their hide out. Arche’s not asleep. He rarely is.
Years pass and memories are made. Days where the good and bad happen.
Georgia dies first. Arche can remember your screams, and Wyatt and him having to pull you away.
Wyatt died a few months later, leaving fourteen, almost fifteen, year old Arche and sixteen year old you alone. You quickly became a good caretaker for him, making sure he never got harmed.
The day of your eighteenth birthday he confessed, and although at first nervous, you agreed. The years passed and days got better, brighter because he was around.
Arche was stupid. He thought he had more time. Maybe this was the one. He ignored every warning, despite it having been twenty-six years.
Foolish. A fool in Love is what Arche is. He defies Gods for you every day, and yet you can't even stay alive for him.
It's the day of his 33rd birthday. He doesn't think anything of it. Nothings wrong, you're smiling and happy. Thats all he cares about.
Then the fires start, he tries to get you out, go somewhere else. By the time the bomb drops, he realizes he's messed up once more.
You're dying. In his arms once more. Arche curses every God he can think of, sobbing into your chest as your burned fingers glide through his hair.
“'m sorry, 'm sorry- It's all my fault. I should've realized.” Arche sobs into your chest, the soft smile he so desperately wishes wasn't on your dying face directed at him.
He feels the flames burn his human vessel as he protects your body with his own, and he screams from the pain.
You're tears are like acid against his skin, he loves seeing you smile. But not like this. Then you mutter something against his skin that makes him freeze.
“Do...Do you think we're together in every life, my moth?” The words are quiet, barely a whisper amongst the flames. And he can't help but nod.
You ask this every time you die. Every time he can't help but remember every death before this. And think of every one after it, too.
“Of course we are, firefly. Till Death do us part like she always shall, and we find each other in the next life. I'll always be drawn to your light, like a moth to a flame.” Arche can feel you smile against his skin, as the flames finally take both of your lives.
When he comes to, arms unwrapped around the Universe, he makes a promise.
“I'll find a life we both shall live peacefully, Firefly. No matter what it takes. No matter who's blood I shall spill.” Arche promises, floating away to the next Universe as another death is stored in his memory.
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“And that's the story of Arche and his Firefly.” The historian, named after the “story”of Arche finishes, smiling while holding his lovers hand at the children surrounding the two.
One of them raised their hand, and he nods as a response. “Are you named after the story, Mr. Arche?” The child asks with wonder in their eyes.
Arche chuckles, nodding along. “I am. Me and my very own Firefly will always be together. No matter what the Gods have to say, or Universe.” Arche brings a finger to their lip, winking at the child.
The children laugh, and move on to the next exhibit. You raise a brow, glancing over at Arche. “Really? You shouldn't be saying that, what if someone finds out, my moth?” You cross your arms over your chest, smiling gently at the exhibit of your history together.
“Firefly, they're children. I could show my true form and they'd think it was a Dream when they grow up.” Arche waves a hand in dismissal, smirking at you. You roll your eyes, and the two of you turn to your true forms as you leave.
“Alright, ready for the next one, Firefly? Where should we go, hmm?” Arche pulls you into the painting, and you find yourselves in the galaxy.
“Oh, I do love the one where you're the prince and I'm the jester, moth.” You smile, and he nods.
Now that you're his, no world or realm, God or man can take the two of you apart. ♥︎