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[jhoudiey]

Happy birthday @azusawrites

Thank you for always listening to me rant about dumb and dumber and help be develop their relationship, and help with idia speak and everything else and inspiring me to do so many cool things! You're such a good friend and I'm glad to have met youuuuuu ❤❤❤❤

[azusawrites]

title. a wreck without you

chapter. one

rating. E

characters. Azul Ashengrotto, Diana Arrow

pairing. Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

warnings. light body horror, NSFW

note. This fic is a collab with the talented @oasiswhisper, who was kind enough to bring to life some of the scenes in it! They’re absolutely fantastic, so I encourage you all to check them out!

It's a continuation of the first part "line without a hook"!

Thank you so much for working with me on this, Chilla! ❤️ 

summary. After Azul's secret is revealed, he and Diana start a tentative relationship that makes Azul question many things about himself.

The scent of tangerines wakes him up. It’s almost ten in the morning. The heavy curtains at his window keep the sunlight out, engulfing the room in stale darkness. The red glare of his digital alarm clock makes his eyes ache from the strain. The sheets feel heavy and warm, a sort of uncomfortable wetness permeating. He realizes that he forgot to let the window in his bathroom open, so the cold night air could cool things down a little.

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[girl-in-the-tower]

!! This work is not suitable for those under 18 years old! Please do not read if you are part of this category or do not wish to see adult content. !!

title: something in the way she knows

rating: M, R18

characters: Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

summary: "No matter how much she claimed to accept him as he was, surely there would be a line drawn. This was it. It was the length of this room, encompassing both last night and this morning. It separated them into what they truly were: monsters and the people who thought they could change them."

[R18] Azul and Diana's first time together ends up revealing a lot more about their relationship than he had expected.

Not many things could take Azul Ashengrotto by surprise.

Excluding the small incident with the Ramshackle duo at the beginning of his second year, whose success he determined to have hinged on the intervention of a third party, he could assert that he had never truly been caught off his feet ever since his arrival on land. This, he would then argue, was an impressive feat, as it had been barely two and a half years ago that he acquired them.

Success was for the benefit of those who prepared beforehand. And that was what Azul did. Whether it was a test, a deal, or even a match at his club, he was sure not to leave anything to chance or luck. He prevailed through sheer perseverance.

At least until he ran into Diana. Things began to change then.

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[azusawrites]

title. line without a hook

chapter. six

rating. M

characters. Azul Ashengrotto, Diana Arrow

pairing. Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

warnings. gore, horror, body horror, cannibalism

note. This fic is a collab with the talented @CHILLABLEU, who was kind enough to bring to life some of the scenes in it! They’re absolutely fantastic, capturing the horror element in the writing perfectly, so I encourage you all to check them out!

Thank you so much for working with me on this, Chilla! ❤️ 

summary. All Azul ever wanted was to fade into the background. That’s why he tried to lead as ordinary a life as possible, despite the circumstances of his family. That means no close or lasting relationships.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tries nothing goes according to plan and now it’s getting harder and harder to pretend that he’s fine with being a background character in his own life.

It smells of disinfectant and cleaning products. It feels like loneliness becomes a measurable force that gauges out his insides so he’s forced to lean over and open his mouth, letting the bile fall freely. It’s black and viscous, and the smell is pungent — vile, heavy like the night and cutting sharply through the air. His throat closes. He claws at it, nails breaking and crumbling, falling off in bloody chunks. He blinks as he watches the carnage, eyelids closing harder every time, the eyelids barely covering the length of the pupils until he can’t blink anymore. His eyes feel bulbous, growing and expanding until his lungs want to give way to a howl but he had no voice anymore. There’s just a groan and a hiss. And clicking. 

His skin is tight. And hot. Tight and hot and tight and small. So small. Too small. He feels it constricting him, and he pulls at it until it’s gone. It unravels like the skin of a snake, withered and old, and littered with chunks of his flesh, still glistering with blood and tissue. They fall to the floor, leaving wet stains in their place until all Azul can smell is iron. Iron and death. They go together, hand in hand, like a groom and bride at a wedding, dressed up in their finest, while a mother is crying in the background. 

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[azusawrites]

title. line without a hook

chapter. nine

rating. M

characters. Azul Ashengrotto, Diana Arrow

pairing. Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

warnings. gore, horror, body horror, cannibalism

note. This fic is a collab with the talented @CHILLABLEU, who was kind enough to bring to life some of the scenes in it! They’re absolutely fantastic, capturing the horror element in the writing perfectly, so I encourage you all to check them out!

Thank you so much for working with me on this, Chilla! ❤️ 

summary. All Azul ever wanted was to fade into the background. That’s why he tried to lead as ordinary a life as possible, despite the circumstances of his family. That means no close or lasting relationships.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tries nothing goes according to plan and now it’s getting harder and harder to pretend that he’s fine with being a background character in his own life.

The haze descends.

He breathes in.

There is the familiar scent of iron and rotten meat, the pungency making his head spin and his stomach want to retch. It fills the room, – every nook and cranny. It washes over him in waves of sweat and stifled heat. It gives the impression that it’s all a nightmare, something plucked out from the deepest recesses of his mind taking form and breathing life. Or maybe death. Life does not have this sort of stench. It does not have this sort of heaviness. It does not scatter itself on the floor of his bathroom and the cold surface of his shower cabin, which makes him shiver when he realizes that he’s completely naked. It’s still dark outside – but it’s the sort of darkness that is flimsy and prone to breaking soon at the sight of the first light.

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[azusawrites]

title. line without a hook

chapter. eight

rating. M

characters. Azul Ashengrotto, Diana Arrow

pairing. Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

warnings. gore, horror, body horror, cannibalism

note. This fic is a collab with the talented @CHILLABLEU, who was kind enough to bring to life some of the scenes in it! They’re absolutely fantastic, capturing the horror element in the writing perfectly, so I encourage you all to check them out!

Thank you so much for working with me on this, Chilla! ❤️ 

summary. All Azul ever wanted was to fade into the background. That’s why he tried to lead as ordinary a life as possible, despite the circumstances of his family. That means no close or lasting relationships.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tries nothing goes according to plan and now it’s getting harder and harder to pretend that he’s fine with being a background character in his own life.

She has to blink before the world becomes a little clearer. In the darkness, illuminated only by the light of the moon, peeking from behind the curtain several shapes start to slowly emerge. She can make out the heavy oak of a cabinet, laden with china that rattles when she leans against it. The tip of her shoe touches the sofa, and she feels the soft, immaculate fabric underneath her fingers. The air inside is stale and cold, the smell of disinfectant heavy, and nothing feels like it’s been lived in. It l adds a sense of wonder and terror to her worry. She wasn’t sure what she expected but it was not this bareness. Azul has hidden a lot of his life from her, and still continues to, but she cannot imagine how he could live in a space that left not even a trace of him.

Navigating it makes her nauseous – it is so artificial that it squeezes her lungs beyond capacity, filling them with the smell of bleach and iron. The combination becomes more apparent as she wanders further in, guiding herself by her fingertips. She trails them across the surface of the wall until she finally reaches the corner, feeling out the other side, the soles of her feet dragging beside her. They make an odd sound. Squelching – that’s the only way she could describe it. Wet and moist and thin, almost like water, but pungent too. When she inhales the sourness of it hits her. 

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[azusawrites]

title. line without a hook

chapter. seven

rating. M

characters. Azul Ashengrotto, Diana Arrow

pairing. Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

warnings. gore, horror, body horror, cannibalism

note. This fic is a collab with the talented @CHILLABLEU, who was kind enough to bring to life some of the scenes in it! They’re absolutely fantastic, capturing the horror element in the writing perfectly, so I encourage you all to check them out!

Thank you so much for working with me on this, Chilla! ❤️ 

summary. All Azul ever wanted was to fade into the background. That’s why he tried to lead as ordinary a life as possible, despite the circumstances of his family. That means no close or lasting relationships.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tries nothing goes according to plan and now it’s getting harder and harder to pretend that he’s fine with being a background character in his own life.

The door to the apartment feels cold and heavy, a barricade that tells her everything about the state of their conflict without ever needing to inquire. In the dim and flickering fluorescent light of the hallway, Diana considers the options that are laid bare at her feet, each heavier than the other, each hinting towards a sort of future that she does not feel interested in exploring or even considering. They’re all sheathed into a sort of darkness that cannot be parted with words alone, and she’s scared that her arms aren’t strong enough to do so. 

She still remembers the look on Azul’s face as he fumbled with his keys. She’s seen terror before, in the eyes of the animals at her brother’s clinic, who once learned to equate touch with pain and torment, and rarely with the kindness she wants to show them. Azul had the same face — of a frightened animal, ready to snarl at her if she ever dared come close enough to console him. The pain was etched on his face in such a way, that nothing could have wiped it off, even if she could pick out the stitches herself. With gentle needlework, she could try and untangle the mess there, but it would take weeks and months and time she did not have because even though nothing was said, Diana could sense the coming termination of whatever this might have been between them. Azul wore himself with a mask, always, as if he couldn’t bare to let his skin show even a little, but she learned to look through the cracks. She could peek through with such clarity that he might as well have laid himself bare before her. He had always been a touch distant, just out of reach, just out of focus — a kind of afterimage that she had to hold on closely for fear that he might disappear. 

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[azusawrites]

title. line without a hook

chapter. four

rating. M

characters. Azul Ashengrotto, Diana Arrow

pairing. Azul Ashengrotto/Diana Arrow

warnings. gore, horror, body horror, cannibalism

note. This fic is a collab with the talented @CHILLABLEU, who was kind enough to bring to life some of the scenes in it! They’re absolutely fantastic, capturing the horror element in the writing perfectly, so I encourage you all to check them out!

Thank you so much for working with me on this, Chilla! ❤️ 

summary. All Azul ever wanted was to fade into the background. That’s why he tried to lead as ordinary a life as possible, despite the circumstances of his family. That means no close or lasting relationships.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tries nothing goes according to plan and now it’s getting harder and harder to pretend that he’s fine with being a background character in his own life.

How could he explain why he’s here on a Saturday morning, outside her dorm and holding a cup of coffee in his hand?

She lives in an old building that hasn’t collapsed simply because the roof holds a BBQ every Sunday during summer and thus the laws of the universe no longer apply. The universe manages to create exceptions for these absolute forms in ways that he never could have imagined. He wants to say that everything is ruled by chance, but that would be too vast of an overstatement. It would propose theories he isn’t quite sure he could explain in words that make sense. And it frightens him to think of the gap that exists between that and his own self.

How does one measure one’s worth?

Azul thinks it’s by the sight of a man kissing a woman on the cheek and the various notions it disturbs in him. He has sandy brown hair and is easily over 2 meters tall, with sun-kissed skin and a scar along his temple. Diana smiles – he realizes he has not yet seen this sort of smile on her before, so full of a fondness he can’t exactly place anywhere at all – and leads him by the elbow inside where the building with a roof which defies the laws of nature. 

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