#xu morimens

[raumen]

Lady of the Dreamless Land

[tirabeesu]

the caro awakeners that people said for their fav awakeners! :3

ultra and aequor are next (i really am doing these, prommy LOL) so if u have favourite ultra or aequor awakeners u want there to be a lil guy of feel free to lmk o7 )

[yukisetsura]

Xu doodle

[k49a]

TW GORE

her event may be my fav one atp

[beastenraged]

Thais and Xu are really interesting when it comes to how they're both embodiments of Human Desire but also both really DESPISE being desired, it that makes sense.

Like Thais' Thing That She Hates, in her voicelines, is the 'faces of humans twisted in desire' and that could be either a) desire in people not fulfilled or b) people looking at her with desire. Maybe even both?

And Xu's Thing That She Hates, is beings/people commanding things from her, acting from their desires on her. Like she would prefer them to do that far away from her, thanks.

But both are very aware of how are they desired and use that to their own ends. Maybe something about how Desire isn't really Desire anymore if it becomes fulfilled?

[beastenraged]

Xu is like-

What if your mother loved you so much, that the monster living in her corpse tried to love you too

But couldn't, not in the way a human can, because it was born from consuming your mother and so thinks that the purest kind of love

is

Devouring you so you can never be alone again.

[beastenraged]

Prompt #27: Season

@morimenswrite

There's a heavy heat in the air. Heavy enough to drown in, rather than suffocate.

The greenery of the bushes and trees is just as thick, creating its own darkness even in the brightness of a noonday sun overhead.

With that kind of weight present in the environment, one would think the air would be full of silence. But it is not. Instead, an insistent screaming fills the air.

One staggers through the undergrowth, her serpentine belly crawling past the weeds. Her hands go up to cover her hears.

"What is that screaming?" The Awakener known as 24 demands of her companion leading her through these woods.

The walker ahead pauses. Listening. Before she answers.

"Ah. Cicada season."

Xu flaps her black fan at her follower. "Aren't they lovely? Truly a sign of summer, if there was ever one such as that."

"Yeah. Lovely." 24 grits her teeth. "They're loud."

"Life is loud. Why, men, I found, can be louder than any cicada in the right circumstances." Eyes smile over the black fan.

"Is it really worthwhile?" 24 asks, as she pushes a branch out of her way.

"Pardon?"

"Men. You know." The Awakener makes a crude gesture. "All of that you did before you joined Mythag."

"Worthwhile, what an interesting way to word that," Xu muses. "Let's put it, it was the most practical course of action."

"Practical?" 24 sneers. "The most practical thing that everyone always agrees on about us is to get rid of us."

She narrows her eyes at Xu. "You can't say it was all practical. Wasn't it satisfying, to show off, when the time for lying was over?"

"My, I wouldn't have expected you of all people to say that, Miss Mason~"

"Not Mason. Not right now."

"Well, yes, not with your sister. A sweet thing, for the bold thief she plays at being."

"That..." 24 tilts her head away from Xu's curious gaze. "Jenkins saw a lot but she didn't need to know everything."

"Including what others said about you? Did about you?" Xu looks thoughtful, for once lowering her fan. Her fan taps against her thigh. "What a good sister you are."

"Don't tell me that. I don't want to hear that from you. It wasn't enough."

"As you say."

Some minutes of silence pass, as they continue trekking through the trees.

"Ah, there. Take a look." Xu points an elegant finger towards an insect creeping up a tree trunk. "A cicada."

"Like the ones screaming?"

"Yes, like those. Symbols of transformation and personal growth. Like yours." Xu looks at 24 meaningfully. "You may have not been enough to protect your little sister before, but now...you're different, now, as an Awakener. You've transformed. All of you. Have you not?"

24 is quiet. Before she answers, voice just a little different from before. Less rough, less angry.

"...You're right. Things are different now. Things can be different now. Thank you, for the reminder."

The cicada hops off the tree, into the woods.

"Think nothing of it, my dear."

[beastenraged]

thais/xu snippet

There's a hand on her arm. Not against the glove Xu wears, but touching bare skin.

"How...forward of you, Thais," she manages to say.

The other woman chuckles, a full-throated sound. "You're allowed to touch back, you know."

The hand touching Xu's arm goes back to trail over its owner's breasts, showcasing exactly where Thais would like Xu to touch her.

Xu has touched the chests of many men, but of women? Less common, even though both sexes tend to fall prey to what they see in Xu's face. Victims to the lusts of their dreams.

She laughs. "Any bolder and they'd call you a common whore, back in Shanghai."

Now this is more familiar ground, the cutting of words between women as they try to make the other feel small. Feel guilty for stealing away the target of their lusts.

A smile, showing sharp canines. "A common whore isn't a bad thing to be, if you get what you want from it."

Xu pauses, taken aback. Now that's a response she wasn't quite expecting.

Thais' eyes gleam and now, Xu sees what they hold: a predator's hunger.

"Don't believe me? Let me show you."

There's something in the woman's other hand, hidden until now.

Thais slowly spreads out what she has in her hand, showcasing it to Xu.

A black fan

Only Xu's many, many centuries of experience of controlling every expression of her face and body keeps her from lunging for the paper prop.

It's strange, to see the fan that means its wielder has become an extension of Xu herself in the hands of someone who could never be fully consumed by her.

It itches something in her chest. A trill, in her slow beating heart.

Strange slitted eyes gleam above that black fan, as the fan flutters before the lower half of Thais's face. A black fan that is snapped shut with a flick of the woman's wrist.

"Desire doesn't have to be a cage, Xu."