#skyen respite

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sprout fight 2026 - #8 metamorphosis (palette: macarons)

yeah its about gender

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evening's grief

Story: Respite (original work) Prompt: #FFF 360 Stuck Inside My Head - @flashfictionfridayofficial Word count: 489

Content: lengthy (not too graphic, more "poetic") descriptions of grief, character death, and suicide. this one's heavier (and longer) than my other fics.

Summary: evening grieves as the world moves around her.

one day

two days

three days ago

i can't remember how long it's been.

i lie in bed alone.

one day you were with me,

today you're not anymore

the tree they planted in your place

can't remember how much you meant to me

one day? one week, maybe? i don't know. i can't tell anymore. the ticking of the clock means nothing if i can't hear it with you.

a friend visits me. ... our friend. her strong arms pulled me close as her voice attempts to soothe me. she cares about me. about us. i know it. but the warmth of a hug means nothing if i can't feel it with you.

another new day arrives. i close my eyes as quickly as i opened them. the sun doesn't rise in the pocket of darkness we live in, but even if it did, the light of the moment means nothing if i can't share it with you.

i visit the garden to watch the flowers bloom for the first time since you left. a tree stump sits alone like you used to. watching. waiting, for me. though stained by your blood and weathered by rust, the blade you once wielded stands proud, embedded in the stump in memory of you. it reflects a glint into my eye. it has never touched me, but it pierces through me all the same. and it is cold. so cold.

"evening, that was a year ago. you have to move on."

is what my friends tell me

my friends? are they, really?

no. no, they can't be. friends wouldn't say that. friends wouldn't brush off something like that like it means nothing to them. friends don't leave other friends behind.

friends... don't leave other friends behind.

... friends... don't...

don't leave me.

why'd you leave me?

why'd you leave me? why did you leave me?! if we were friends, why did you leave me? if i meant so much to you, why did you leave me? if you wanted me to stay, why did you leave me?!

if you wanted me to stay, why did you leave me first?

if you wanted me to stay...

then that's what i should have done

that's what i should have done

i'm sorry

i reach my hand forward as your shadow escapes my grasp. your voice rings in my head, repeating words you never said to me. when you called for me, i wasn't listening. when you needed me, i wasn't there. and now the note in your pocket is all i have left of you.

"i don't know what to do, or where to go."

i lie in bed alone.

"i feel worthless, like i don't matter."

a friend visits me.

"i'm not wanted here, or anywhere."

another new day arrives.

"i'm sure life can go on without me."

and the days end the same way they started.

"good night."

good night, skyen.

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you've never liked people like me

Story: Respite (original work) Prompt: #FFF 355 A Curious Connection - @flashfictionfridayofficial Word count: 129

Content: parentheses is different pov, you can read both povs at the same time or individually

i've never been one to seek out friendship.

(i've never been someone worth seeking out.)

i've never been one to get close to others.

(i've never been someone worth getting close to.)

but there's something about you that compels me

(it's something about you i don't understand)

is it how you talk to me, each and every day?

(why do you talk to me, even without anything to say?)

or how you're here to show me how you feel?

(why are you still here if you don't like what i feel?)

everyone i've met wasn't different from you, no

(everyone you've known, were they different from me? no)

i've never liked those people.

(you've never liked people like me.)

but you're nothing like them

(and i'm nothing, like them)

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guess how many fics i've written for fff are about evening and skyen. hint: this is one. i wanted to make something sort of poetry adjacent but i don't like rhyming so this is all you're gonna get

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fun fact about this oc is that hes canonically kinda boring. literally just there

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oc dynamics week day 7 (With Color‼️‼️🌈🌈)

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experimenting with diy stuff and made a pin of my oc :3

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whats up babygirl

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@ocdynamicsweek day 7 - distant relatives / difficult

man i had plans for all of the prompts but couldnt do any of them because literally my entire schedule the whole week was taken up by irl stuff....... ill color this as soon as im able to ig