@irrwicht sent Terrible First Meeting Starters ft helios & sei
“is there a reason you’ve been following me for an hour?”
“O-Oh..” Helios mutters softly as those eyes settle upon him. Now they had the clarity of wakefulness and they did not look upon him with the same, soft crinkle at their edges as he was used to. They were skeptical, confused and a little distrusting. What had replaced sweet, endearing curiosity and admiration had the god’s eyes lower as he feels diminished in the sight of someone he now realises, he doesn’t know at all.
Weeks he had been looking, surfing social media profiles and using sketches from what he had remembered of his sweet cloud’s face, rendered digitally to find him - and he had! The elation he had felt, watching that waking body walk with solidity he wasn’t used to, had quickly faded to a gut wrenching nothing as soon as the man had rounded on him, and not even a glimmer of recognition met him. His light once more extinguished as he tries to think up an excuse.
He had been following Sei for a little while, watching him interact with his friends, bristle against the cold and laugh out loud - it was all so endearing to watch him interact with the world around him. Maybe it had gone on longer than he’d meant and maybe he had stood out more than he had intended to and not been as subtle as he’d hoped. “I’m sorry, I thought perhaps I recognised you from somewhere-” he answers, peering up a little. Dressed in an over sized puffer jacket against the chilly winter air, tufts of blonde curls visible under a hat and fingers wrapped in mittens - nothing felt as cold as to be spoken to like that by someone who previous had had nothing but sweet words for him.