#renkai

[iliveunderarock]

kailen magnet,,,

[tabicoeur]

HAPPY RENKAI RABU (wednesday in indonesian) & 3 YRS!!!!

EXT . ROOFTOP, FIRE ESCAPE LANDING — NIGHT

a city night’s hum below / neon bleeding up the brick / an empty bottle tipped on its side / pale light kissing skin. BLADE leans back against the railing with his legs sprawled and his leather jacket slipping off one shoulder, a cigarette burning lazy between two fingers, while KAI is tucked warm against his side, head on his shoulder and a little loose from the wine, watching the smoke curl up into the dark. she tilts her face up to him--big, kind eyes, no words--and her gaze drifts from the cigarette to his mouth and back again.

BLADE (amused and fond) yeah?

he offers it down to her and she reaches, hesitates, fingertips brushing his without quite taking it, and watches his little love for a beat. reads her.

BLADE (CONT'D) (privately smiling) c’mere.

he takes a slow drag himself, ember flaring bright, then sets the cigarette aside and tips her chin up with two fingers, his thumb rests at her jaw as he leans in and parts her lips with his own, exhaling gently into her mouth. she breathes it in and holds, a little dizzy and a lot in love. when the smoke is let go of, it ghosts up in warm wisps between them, his thumb stroking once across her cheek.

BLADE (CONT'D) (against her mouth) sweet girl.

+ extras that didn’t fit in the mb but are recent fave additions to my renkai board :<

[khainovo]

FLASH WARNING!!

(no you did not see me post this on the wrong account)

anyways, have some renkai/kaiai angst because theres nothing s1 kai loved more than running away from his problems

[ariiadnes]

𑣲 ‧₊ the rhythm that is you ( it's alright, i understand )

how many times have you played this scene? it's new and raw for me, but not for you, no.

𑣲 ‧₊ character : blade 𑣲 ‧₊ fandom : honkai star rail 𑣲 ‧₊ notes : quote from catherynne m. valente. for @renkith for the winter wonderland event! IUFJALF THANK YOU FOR TRUSTING ME WITH MODERN AU RENKAI I WAS VERY EXCITED ... i have written for blade one ( 1 ) time so i hope this is okay !! I AM SORRY TO GO THE MORE BITTERSWEET ROUTE i was digging through your tags and reading up on renkai. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE i adore you so very much my friend, i am rooting for you forever and always ok!!

beneath the sunset, you find home in blade's arms. leather and lace / hand in hand / a familiar song / the fresh air / and gentle footsteps on the concrete of this place you share. you lean into him, warmth against warmth, this dance more muscle memory and love than anything else.

"...it's been a long day." he murmurs against your temple. a soft kiss, just barely felt, but there and light and known and comforting nonetheless.

it hasn't been a long day for him, not in the slightest. but it has been for you, and he knows very well that your heart hurts, that the wound aches, that the strings threaten to fray beneath the weight of it all.

you don't always talk about it, the heaviness and the hurt. you try to, you do, but sometimes it's too difficult. that's okay. he knows. he understands your heart with words unspoken, and sometimes that almost frightens you.

you've place your heart in his hands, calloused and rough and worn from guitar strings, and he holds it like it is part of him.

it's always been like this, he thinks. he doesn't understand it, but he does at the same time. it is something that haunts him deeply and dearly, but it is a good thing, this hauntening of nostalgia and the unknown. from the beginning, you were always each others, somehow, some way. always that familiarity, always that understanding.

it's subtle, the way you tremble in his arms, your footsteps still synchronized, the dance more of a steady sway now.

"my little lamb," he murmurs, pressing another kiss to your temple, then your forehead, then your eyelids, "you hide yourself as if our souls don't speak."

you find that you are too tired and too worn to respond. he does not mind. he breathes in, deep, and instinctively, you follow. in and out, slow and steady.

he does not know how long you stand there for, but he does not count. there is all the time in the world. for now, you stay in each other's arms, swaying ever so slowly and softly with the gentle breeze. he'll hold you for as long as you need. as long as you want. as long as it takes until you find yourself distant from the edge of break.

( surely you have known each other in the past. sometimes he dreams of it-- he's sure of it, but when he wakes, everything is a haze, and there is something almost akin to longing and relief in his chest.

he hopes back then, you were both happy, too. surely you must have been, he thinks, to find each other in this life. )

[solemoreacademy]

@shannonaesthetics for the art. Handsome Ren'kai and a Hunter live reaction :]

[coconigiri]

renkai 𓂃 kai ෆ blade

a friday in late october, and the sky shines a midnight onyx. the windows are flung wide open in the penthouse suite of the hotel, and the sounds from cobblestone streets below drift into the room: people laughing, glasses clinking, a soft city breeze.

KAI [freshly in her twenties, lamb-hearted, starry-eyed] sits on the sill, in between spread legs— BLADE [well-regarded, more musician and less rockstar these days, jewel-eyed], and the acoustic guitar he holds around her frame. out of the plethora he has, it's his favourite guitar. purchased from a garage sale some many moons ago, with both his and his lover's initials (a B and a K) carved into the body by their own hands, so... why would it be anything but his favourite? he hugs it closer to him in preparation to play kai the song he wrote for her birthday, tugging her flush to his chest in tandem, and she smiles to herself at the shift. so shy— even after all this time with him.

BLADE: [following a false start] ooh. baby, don't be like this to me.

kai bursts into a lovely little peal of giggles, which then breaks off into a tiny yawn, and blade finds himself growing evermore endeared to her— in the same way humans are to baby animals.

BLADE: [cooing and coddling, gently pinching the apple swell of her cheek] perhaps the song can wait until the morning.

KAI: [adament and pouting, tugging at the collar of his shirt] no, i want to hear it now. pretty please.

she glances up at him with an adorably sleepy gaze— for a day full of love and excitement with the person she holds closest to her heart tends to do that to oneself. the stars twinkle in her droopy eyes and the moon in her smile, and blade thinks he must surely be caught in a dream.

BLADE: [kissing her temple and softly strumming his guitar] what the birthday girl wants, the birthday girl gets...

and so, blade sings for her the sweetest lullaby. quietly, from not only his lungs but also his heart, with a voice so tender that if kai were any more awake, he's certain she may weep to receive such affection openly. he chuckles to himself at the thought, coming to a rest when he notices her adrift in her slumber on his chest.

he puts his guitar to the side and takes her body within his arms in a proper hug, careful not to wake her with his movements. he holds her like she is a precious thing, like her sinew is of cotton and her bones are of glass— because it is in such moments of tranquility and quietude that blade remembers best how, despite the front she puts up, she could shatter at any second.

BLADE: [linking pinkies with her, as if in a silent promise] if only you knew... just how loveable you are.

— for my renkai, my angelhearted @tuskpir , a happy belated birthday <3

[celestial-spike]

renkai selfish machines is so real to me

[seyaryminamoto]

Fic-to-Art #20: Azula's Squad (Part 3)

So... this month's prompt was squad goals. There's a loooot of potential squads in Gladiator, so many fun group dynamics because, frankly, I've always loved writing big group dynamics so it just happens before I know it x'D hence I thought I'd give this prompt a shot... and the winning prompt just so happened to be one of the most spoilery ones it could be :'D

That being said... I was stoked to have a pretty good excuse to draw these folks together x'D like I said on Patreon, this whole team isn't always going to be together, there's a chance it might never be fully assembled with all of its members in the same place, but that doesn't change that they're all pretty much members of Azula's support group and they'll stand by her through thick and thin in the coming chaos of Part 3. What awaits us in the future is not going to be easy for anyone... but Azula will certainly get by thanks to, on great measure, the bonds and relationships she'll build with everyone depicted in this artwork.

Anyway, I hope you guys like it! If you would like to be part of the creative process behind these art pieces, a $1 pledge would allow you to suggest prompts and vote on my monthly polls on Patreon!