head in the clouds

but my gravity's centered.

[wxseulki]

hi hi! this is a thank you & see you again ( i hope! ) ♡ it’s been 3+ months since winx opened & i got to write the bouncy ball that is seulki—i’ve absolutely enjoyed myself, meeting & writing with such wonderful people so i wanted to write a lil thank you note to everyone who’s been in winx! it’s been the loveliest experience here & i really appreciate everyone who’s been a part of that, past & present both ♡ ily all hehe thank you for the wonderful time & i wish y’all all the best, i hope i’ll see y’all around someday! ♡

[wxseulki]

seulki’s head is going 🤯 rn!! i think she ( probably ) made it back to the academy in time, if a lil later? so that’s where she’s gonna be location wise for part 4 hehe & under the cut are some ideas of what she might be doing now wuhu

( 1630 )  she was flying back to the academy when the broadcast came—maybe she was flying your muse back & nearly dropped them? or a companion for the danger filled trip back that’s surprisingly not so dangerous after the broadcast/ceasefire?

( 1705 )  finally back at the academy! now that they’re out of danger & world shattering revelations,  a freakaroo’s happening on her side! she’s all shocked & confused & lowkey kinda interested in this whole NEW HISTORY stuff? probably wants to yell at someone about the new & improved conspiracy theories that this gives her too!

( 1745 )  highly considering sneaking out to the west to witness history & hot witches, y’know what she means? does not succeed yet again though, darn!

( 1800 )  did she get foiled or did she get hungry? probably both, but a lil dinner/cooldown thread of everything that’s happened to them in this single, very long day would be a cute wrap up while they ponder the new possibilities of whatever the fairies & sexy sexy witches are discussing!

[wxseulki]

wxnabi​:

( thank mother nature. seulki seemed to be buying the little show she has put up. ) yeah i am, is that bad? ( the air fairy’s sudden grasp of her cheeks was indeed unsurprisingly. this is totally something only seulki would do, always doing things that are out of the ordinary. countering the attack, nabi cups the older female’s cheeks and gives them a light squeeze. ) you actually remembered the south, i’m impressed. ( the better days when everything was fine. where things were much simpler. so many things happened after seulki left. time flies and she still remained the same clumsy, loud, and outgoing goo seulki. well, maybe not as outgoing with the state of things now. but definitely still loud and clumsy. ) the central? what made you wanna go- right. ( ah, right. like a flock of migrating birds, seulki’s family is fond of moving from place to place. the central’s their new home. of course, she’ll go there. sometimes nabi would think that seulki’s old hometown was in the south when it’s basically everywhere. ) i kept forgetting your new home’s in the central. silly me! ( the girl knocks on  her temple gently and gives a sheepish smile. ) i think bitna’s going? out of all places, the south seems to have the coolest mission and i’m sure miss overachiever will tag along.

not at all! it’s a good thing.  ( ` she shakes her head vigorously at nabi’s words, stopping straight when the nature fairy returns the gesture with her hands on seulki’s cheeks. blinks, an exaggerated squeeze of her eyelids to match the pinch on her cheeks. nabi might not be falling to pieces, but this is still out of the ordinary for her; seulki isn’t used to this surprisingly collected and forward winx. she squints. maybe the effects of stress manifest differently? )  you’re really okay?  ( ` double checks, though she’s not usually prone to such carefulness on a faily basis—ahh! more proof of world-ending stress-induced weirdness! )  nevermind! and yeah, it is,  ( ` an offhand reference to her old house back in central, despite her new address in sma )  or, was. now that we’re here n’ all! well, me and you, not my family, they’re still in the north!  ( ` nod nod nods her bobblehead, grinning when she hears her friend’s name )  lucky you! bitna’s all good at this, isn’t she? let’s go!  ( ` both fists clenched, a declaration of war on the destruction and artefacts waiting for them. pumps one of her hands up in the air, grinning )  our first mission ever!

[wxseulki]

wxjunho​:

(...)

knock on wood. drywall or brick? the sudden gust of wind pulls him from his mind, and he frowns, like the overwhelming feeling of shifting suddenly from one complex situation to the next. the threat of seohae mall’s devastating collapse, to the eccentric gu seulki he’s not supposed to know. it’s a tale for another day, because she’s directing him to the dangling beam that’s threatening to smash into the wall. he hears mother’s deep timbre, a palm placed disapprovingly on her hip and she points to him with a hammer. how far will you run, boy?

“it can’t smash through the wall: it’s concrete brick,” his answer is succinct, spoken in an obvious tone as if he’s among family. and so the prodigal son returns, “but when it falls, it’ll pull the roof down.” junho points to the glass and concrete she balances with her air, “you need to let those down gently. this building can’t handle much more before it’ll collapse. i can—” an intake of breath through gritted teeth, and he’s vexed. because hwang junho feels useless, because hwang junho doesn’t have the tools he needs to fix things. in other words, he can’t. he lifts a palm to indicate that he needs a moment to think, looks around as he takes in the whole situation before he whips his head back to her direction, “i have an idea. if you fly up to the beam, i can tell you what to do.”

as it turns out, gu seulki isn’t that good at multitasking, after all. not when it’s buildings and lives resting on her shoulders—and it’s not even hyperbole now. this isn’t what she thought she was signing up for! she squints at his words, trying to wrap her head around them the way her air’s wrapped around the chunks of building, but she can’t quite match up what he’s saying to what she’s seeing. and she can’t exactly turn her head all the way over to him either, but she follows his voice to the beam he’s talking about, understands just enough to know her plan wasn’t going to work out.

she thinks about arguing, but she’s also pretty sure she recognises his voice. it’s haksu’s dormmate, the brick mason-construction-infrastructure guy, so she’ll bet he knows what he’s talking about. he knows how many bricks it’d take to build maruhan’s wall! if that isn’t a mark of genuine civil engineering, she wouldn’t know what is. there’s something about the low, smooth timbre of his voice that she trusts, even though she can hear the start-stop uncertainty in it too. i can, he says, and she decides she’s gotta trust that.

“ okay, ” she agrees, but that’s the easy part. her wings hurt. she never thought she’d say this, but she’s getting tired of flying. though it isn’t like she has much of a choice. listening’s not her strong suit, but she’s willing to make an attempt when it’s a million gazillion tons of glass and concrete threatening to come falling down on their heads. seulki strains, air flickering solid and then not, debris stuttering to a stilted rest through the obstacle course that is the other parts of the structure sticking out like little unstable, building-collapsing hazards. her element escapes her in a sigh of relief, a brief, wide smile at the specialist when two seconds pass and nothing happens.

seulki darts up towards the ceiling, light on her wings without the added strain. they’re gonna get through this so good. he’s got a plan, and she sure has the mana to carry it out! “ now what? ” she shouts down, probably a little more than loud enough to reach his ears from the few metres that she’s flying above his head. the ground tremors in response.

... her voice isn’t loud enough to shake the earth, right?

[chaelinsbitch]

[mjalti]

listen, when i go to open my mouth & what comes out is 12 degrees of seperation from what the original topic was, u need to connect the dots bitch. think fast. i’m not gonna hold ur hand but we’re leaving now and visiting every topic along the line. wave it goodbye, don’t get hung up on it

[wxseulki]

wxjihwan​:

(...)

     speaking of… the water fairy nods along to the final words, “ and you’re okay too. we’ll be okay.. everything’s gonna be dealt with and we’ll go back to how things were in no time , okay? ” she even chuckles a little at the mention of the word again before taking a little breath and looking down at the younger woman. “ and i’ll tell you if i’m not okay only if you promise to tell me if you’re not.”  she promises and wishes for a second to be blessed with a boost of confidence that would have her reaching out and hugging her best friend no problem. settles for a little smile.

    “ i met him outside our campus after our first day, ” she says calmly while looking down at the little fella, “ he looked at me with these.. these big eyes and i just.. had to get him back. i wasn’t going to keep him and i was worried about everyone else being okay with him but then i saw you feed him and.. i guess he likes you a lot… i guess you have that effect on everyone. ” words slip out unintentionally but as long as jihwan plays it cool and also.. rushes to continue , it’d be okay. “ i’m sorry i never told you about him but i guess i was just.. waiting for the right time to ask if you’d like to.. co-parent this little guy? — i mean i know nothing about raising pets.. well , i know a lot , i read everything but.. it’s different actually doing it and i could.. use your help? only if you want though! ”

seulki nods, okay. okay! this’ll be totally fine. and the distraction helps too, with fluffball’s backstory unlocked. “ wait... fluffball’s been yours this whole time? you never said! i thought he was just a little guy who hung out in our dorm! ” she can’t believe she never noticed that fluffball had an owner. no wonder he was always escaping her offers of a comfy bed, he had his own! and jihwan’s so endearingly kind, her heart as proportionally big as the rest of her. but she’s always known that, of course—that’s why jihwan’s her favourite roomie and best friend!

and now, co-parent! “ yeah! ” she beams at jihwan, who doesn’t manage to get through the if you want though before she’s yelling her excitement. “ of course, ” seulki nods, picking the fluffball up and kissing him. “ hi, jam, ” she coos, baby voice activate! “ would you want another mummy? uh huh, you would, wouldn’t you! ”

wait a minute, she’s a mum now! she’s not sure if the rush of maternal feelings are supposed to feel so much like doomsday panic, but her heart sure is beating fast. perhaps it’s a combination of the witches—and now they’re threatening the lives of everyone she loves and her newly adopted little fluffball. but she’s not letting that happen, if she gets to do anything about it!

and do she will. “ i gotta go do something! ” she’s gonna hijack an aircraft, collect a whole team of super winx and specialists, and get to the witches before the witches get to them! that’s a plan, all right! should she get the aircraft first, or the team? “ i’ve got a plan! ” fluffball gets transferred from her arms to jihwan’s, determination a flurry in the air. she’s already running off, halfway out the door as she shouts. “ gonna do something about this! ”

[wxseulki]

wxbeomseok​:

(...)

…what is not as sweet, but that which he unfortunately has a lot of experience with, is being caught cheating. the accusatory tone of their newest contender diverges beomseok from his path, and it’s like muscle memory, really, the way he slams his palms on the door, one to the left of her waist and the other over her wrist, and he leans so closely to her ear, he almost kisses it. “play along, gu seulki,” he instructs, slides the palm up to interlock their fingers before he pushes himself off the door to face the newcomer, “this your room, bud?” the question is paired with a free thumb gesturing towards the door, “my girl and i were just having some fun, and we got a little carried away. i’m—” he lets go of her hand, wraps it instead around her waist and pulls her close, “—sure you understand… but hey, thanks for letting us use your room.”

beomseok pulls her away and as he turns, his eyes briefly dart to the obstructed keyhole, and the grin that pulls at his lips somehow feels more like a frown. fuck. he hears it then, the set of keys jiggling in what he assumes is the latter removing it from his pocket, and beomseok squeezes the palm he’s left hanging around seulki’s waist as he ducks slightly to her level, “you know, sweetheart, you’ve got amazing vibrato, but how good are you with your wings?” he whispers and reaches for her hand, just in time for the “what the— hey!” that’s echoed from behind them.

“run.”

... huh, that’s a new way to get a door open.

but brute force feels like cheating, and she doesn’t think this position is streamlined for knocking a door down. personal space bubbles have never been quite her thing, but even she’s a little mystified by the sudden and abrupt invasion of her own. seulki’s not trapped, though—if she braved an armpit she could escape from the makeshift cage of his bare arms around her, probably. thank maruhan she doesn’t have to, although she does get five more fingers than she needs in her hand and an instruction she hasn’t decided if she’ll follow yet or not.

and is she drunk, or is shirtless mister man implying things? his girl? carried away? a hand squeezing around her waist— “ hey! ” she protests on instinct, slapping his hands away from her waist. rude! she didn’t even get into the room, and she’s not putting out for someone who can’t even crack a simple door lock ( never mind that she couldn’t crack it ), either. so: she’s been caught red handed, empty handed, locked doors and nothing to show for the broken bobby pins she might have left behind in said locked door. she’s taking a loss here, actually. why are they being so grumpy about it?

“ we are not together, ” seulki assures the newcomer, horrified look on their face. “ your room is completely undefiled! ” an exaggerated bob of her head, overcompensation tipping the truth into questionable territory, and an entirely unnecessary addendum as the owner of the room scrambles for their keys, “ by me. ”

pop goes her personal space bubble, a hand wrapped around her waist and warm breath offering another wager on the wind. she’d stomp on his foot for it, but ooh. she loves an unpredictable game, uncalculated gamble; gu seulki does things in careless leaps and hops, goes all in on a bad idea and forgets there are... what are those things called again?

a metaphorical snap of her fingers. consequences. fun, and it rhymes with what they’ve gotta do to get rid of them!

she doesn’t question the hand in hers this time, his suddenly-necessarily long legs pulling her along as she tries to gather her mana up. but maybe she shouldn’t have had that last cup of mystery punch, winx form phasing through her. mother of air does not smile kindly on her today, an absolute tragedy!

they round a corner, open window stretching out. a lightbulb moment right in the middle of it—if she gets her wings up and working. “ you shouldn’t trust me, ” she warns him cheerfully, breaths coming short and sharp, “ but if i’m your girl, ” a thumb pointing towards the window, “ jump out, and i’ll catch ya! ”

[wxseulki]

wxjihwan​:

( * stuffs in another hoodie into the duffle bag and it’s the way that its not neatly folded that betrays her otherwise unfazed exterior. it’s also probably the fact that she’s packing for something that really… needed no packing, y’know considering jihwan isn’t even stepping out of the academy. she isn’t… ) huh? ( * she turns to the younger, the one who came in earlier and stopped her spiral.. she didn’t even have to say anything— although this is seulki we’re talking about so words were said.. but! she didn’t have to. her calm in the storm and all that. ) yeah, yeah sure. ( * and jihwan swallows a little hard before making her way to the younger, fingers gently raking through silky strands, one bunch over the other and just like that, in the trusted process.. jihwan finds some steady ground ) ( * her words though bring her right back to the reality that awaits and jihwan, clad in all her steady voice, the one that always has a certain subtle tone of emotion to it whenever gu seulki was involved, says ) no. ( * but that’s not the right answer and jihwan hardly ever gave a wrong one, so she takes a deep breath ) but it doesn’t matter what i think.. it’s selfish for me to ask you to stay just so i know your safe. especially when you’re always so.. unselfish. and i’m.. not.

( ` she sits in front of jihwan, an exhaling softening her shoulders as she feels the other fae comb through the strands of her hair, sectioning them out. it tickles, but never too tight that it’d hurt. jihwan’s careful that way, the moon to her sun. steady, unwavering in the motion, in the words seulki trusts in more than most other people )  no?  ( ` the word stuns her, unused to hearing the word—unused to caring about it, really, nos brushed off like sand to gu seulki, the ultraviolet riot who won’t stop for anyone or anything. but this one holds weight. it’s from jihwan, who’s never told her no so unequivocally without offering a second suggestion )  i signed up already, though. and—hey!  ( ` a scramble up, hair half done and falling out of jihwan’s painstaking work when seulki whips around, spotting the self-deprecation on her friend’s features immediately )  no! you’re not selfish, you take that back!  ( ` crosses her arms and frowns, stretching to get to the water charmix’s eye level. there isn’t a single selfish bone in jihwan’s body, she’ll swear her freshly bloomed giving day sprout on it. she takes both of the other fae’s hands and squeezes them )  you’re not being selfish, you’re being caring. and a really good friend! the best friend ever! i’m gonna save all those people, and you don’t have to worry—you just gotta stay safe, okay?

[chaelinsbitch]

[wxseulki]

haksuwx​:

(...)

“ah,” haksu says. as it turns out, his words do a lot less communication than his face does, tinged a pleased pink as he reaches out for the wrapped little gift. “what is it? oh — …” there’s a note. he takes a moment to open it up and mouth over the words, brows rising. it may be cold, but his chest has never felt warmer (which is saying something, considering haksu’s lived through many of the most infamous summers of the south) — and a smile bursts in full aching force over his face.

there’s a tiny, quiet moment where he holds the box in his hands, basking in the simple happiness of receiving a gift from a dear friend. then he realizes with a start — he has to do something extremely important, too! well, there are several important things he’d meant to do, but seulki’s a bit early for the second one, which still needs to go in the oven…

“d’you… uh, if ya got time… wanna come in?” he asks, a little shy. “i - i got your gift in my room… we could open ‘em up together.”

seulki pops back up and dusts herself off, present successfully delivered to haksu’s waiting hands. not that he knew to wait, or his cheeks wouldn’t be dripping all over the floor, but that’s okay! that’s the point of giving day, surprises all around! seulki grins when she gets just the reaction she wants, pink cheeked and tongue tied, and that very familiar smile. her nose wrinkles up as she beams back, warm and fuzzy in this winter chill. it’s the giving day spirit, definitely just that, it’s all innocent friendship here!

“ i’ve got time! ” she’s exuberant, flouncing into his room and throwing his covers off. hm, there isn’t a present hiding under the sheets. maybe it’s under the bed? she nearly knocks her head on the floor as she bends her body down to check, spinning back to face haksu when she doesn’t find anything. “ where’s my present? gimme gimme! ” grabby hands stick out, seulki throwing her butt onto the bed. she bounces, legs dangling off the edge with enough space to kick around.

she’s not exactly a stranger to his room, more its semi frequent occupant and chatterbox. so she shouldn’t be shy, to be plopping on his fluffy duvet and watching haksu around his room, but there’ve been some... happenings lately. flutters she’s not sure how to deal with, so to speak, location of which have been in the middle of her chest. just for giving day, though, she thinks she could set all of that aside for a little while. “ hey, remember when we were lil’ kids and you stole my hot cocoa? ” cups her face in her hands, leaning forward with a cheeky grin. “ you still owe me one! ”

[wxseulki]

wxnabi​:

⟨ she just got off the phone with her ex-landlord. the one who agreed to take care of her brother until she returns as a proud guardian fairy. nabi’s far away from the crowd. everyone’s busy preparing for their deployment, some excited they’ll be doing actual work instead of hitting the books while others are shaking from fear. the nature fae, on the other hand, has a different set of emotions. her train of thought vanished the moment someone collided into her. ⟩ hey, seulki.  ⟨ she replies, groaning while rubbing her arm. of course, it’s her friend. who else has such a burst of energy other than the air fairy herself? ⟩ i had to get away for awhile. got a call from home. ⟨ her tone was casual. she tries to keep it that way. after all, nabi’s not one to show her true emotions or tell anyone about her problems. her heart is filled with worry and nervousness but not because of the deployment. ⟩ yeah, i’m deployed to the south. home sweet home, huh? come on, seulki. my comms is fine and i know how to turn it on! ⟨ the other girl can be such a mom, a better mom than hers. that’s why nabi loves her. seulki may be annoying but it shows that she cares. she holds up her phone and presses the power button, showing seulki that she knows how to use it. ⟩ got it. i’ll be fine, you don’t have to worry about me! will you be deployed too?

huh. you’re super okay.  ( ` nabi’s voice is calmer than she’d expected, no waver or tears in sight. huh, that’s not what she thought would happen. seulki cups the nature fairy’s face in her hands and brings her closer, turning her cheeks this way and that. not even a tear track! is this what they call shock, or is nabi coping with this whole thing way better than seulki herself? )  oh... yeah! the south? i haven’t been back in ages!  ( ` seulki never looked back after she moved, and she’s picking up on old friendships at the academy now—catching up on all the changes everyone’s been through, apparently, including how nabi’s just cool as a cucumber in the face of the witches. she tweaks her friend’s cheek and lets go of her, finally )  fine, you’re all set. i don’t worry!  ( ` a shake of her head to emphasise her point. she’s free as a bird, worry free! whoever was running around like a headless chicken earlier wasn’t her, she swears )  uh huh, i’m going to central, with, uh, i dunno who? guess i’ll find out! ( ` a shrug, grinning. maybe nabi’s calmness is infectious, seulki feeling her own hummingbird heartbeat flutter slowly to something more manageable in her chest. they’ve got people to save, artefacts to retrieve now, and they’re gonna set everything wrong, back to right! )  what about you? 

[wxseulki]

HAPPY GIVING DAY, SEULKI!  the giving tree acknowledges the kindness you’ve shown and coaxes its little sprout to blossom into a magical flower! if you look it up during your potionology class, you’ll find that it’s actually a flower of REPLICATION. consuming it will grant you the ability to create one copy of themselves with independent thought for 2 hours. it can only be consumed once. isn’t that something special for winter! or, you could display it in your dorm room until you need it—a gift from the giving tree won’t wilt, of course. have a lovely giving day with your new plant, SEULKI!

OUT OF CHARACTER DETAILS  please feel free to use your new gift in any way you’d like, whether it be a plot point for threads, a solo for character development, or anything you’d like! whether your muse chooses to use it or not, please post this on the dash so others can see what gift you got!

[wxseulki]

wxkahi​:

(...)

     "of course rin would be the best winx,“ after all, she’s his ferret and she’s nothing but perfect, even in her own imperfections. "she’d be great in anything that she wants to do.” and maybe kahi sounds a little too much like a proud dad, but hopefully seulki won’t point it out.

     "it wasn’t, no,“ he wished that was the reason why he joined the academy, especially when that seemed less complicated, less pressuring than his actual reason. or perhaps that would be the achievement that would get his family back to its glory before the war. "it’s a little more complicated than that. like family complicated.” and maybe it’s because kahi is feeling tired that he lets that slip, his energy to keep the walls around himself almost completely gone at this point. besides, seulki was known for her short attention span so it might even pass right over her head.

the unexpected response ( it’s unexpected that he responded, not the response itself, because of course rin would certainly make a good winx, for the record! ) makes her grin, leaning forward. what a wonderful question to ask, she pats herself on the back. mission accomplished! seulki takes down a mental sticky note to save up all her rin questions in times of kahi-distracting need; there’s at least five more in store where that came from, and a much longer way to go with their curriculum. “ uh huh! maybe she’d even be very first ferret mythix! or, y’know, would she be a ferret...ix? ”

kahi seems a little less stuffy like this, all proud of rin and kinda dorky while boasting about her. not what she expected from him, but she doesn’t know know him, y’know? doesn’t mean seulki can’t get to it, though! and if she happens to manage to put off her ethics homework that’s due in about ten hours while doing it, well, the instructor was the one who told them to learn from each other. about ethics, probably, but who’s to say she can’t learn other things? like top notch distraction tactics and uncovering cool hidden things about her fellow classmate, aw yeah!

although... she might have stumbled into a big character secret with that one question ( okay, series of, but who’s counting? not her! ). family complicated? hm!

seulki’s ears perk up. there’s nothing more complicated than the words of dead fae centuries old, so she leans in, like a goldfish with bait in her mouth. “ why’d you really join, then? ” a tilt of her head, pushing the textbooks away—both hers and his, casually swept off like the most natural thing in the world. goodbye to those dusty old fae! she’s got a very much alive, and suddenly much more interesting light fairy in front of her instead. “ did you... wanna join? ” a furrow, shallow as the thoughts start to piece together, possible family secrets held up to the light and put down again, trying to understand. “ what’d you do before enrolling, anyway? ”

[wxseulki]

december 25, for @winxrp!

she’s doing a last minute giving day delivery for her second oldest sibling, the fastest in her family now that she’s officially a charmix. zips through the holiday crowd and down central’s lanes, balancing a stack of neatly wrapped presents almost as tall as she is. she loves this part of giving day, pleased to be the one who gets to do the gift giving. and she gets to claim a little credit for each present she drops off—from her and her sibling, happy giving day!

the last stop for the morning brings her over to the forest of flowers, parcel placed on a bed of cushy soil for the store manager to discover. might not be the safest place ever, but that’s the spirit of giving day! you never know when you might get a gift! which is why she’s got her eye out on this very special day too, ready to welcome the blossom of a very special tree. and today truly is a magical day, because:

two vibrant yellow buds appear on either side of FOREST OF FLOWERS’ entrance. it appears to be the perfect mirror to each other, its budding leaves swaying identically to the left or right as the wind blows.

huh. a two for one deal!

seulki picks up the sprout oh so carefully, sneaks a look around the greenhouse and grins to see that no one else seems to have noticed this sweet lil’ thing. it’s all hers! “ hiya, ” she chirps to the buds, and it’s totally not just her imagination when they wave back to her. she doesn’t have to pay for a sprout from the giving tree, does she? better skedaddle before anyone notices, because they’re going to have a very merry time together, this giving season!

so she gets to work: the giving tree likes gifts, right? pity they didn’t come along while she’d been delivering all those presents, but of course, seulki’s giving day isn’t done just yet. she strings up a bunch of shiny trinkets, gift boxes stacked all over the campus for anyone to pick up, a pocket of soil and sprout with her all the while. it’s mixtapes and cookies, snowmen and jelly bags and the most important of all, tree decorating for her dorm! festivities abound! she’ll teach her sprout how to blossom, all those gifts handed out with the little plant peeking from her pocket. see, this is how you give a present, sproutie—so won’t you show her what you’ve got under your petals, too?

[wxseulki]

haksuwx​:

but – ( ‘ he falters, falling quiet - there’s no getting a word in edgewise when seulki’s activated like this. it’s something he admires about her, the take-charge personality, the immediate instinct to do good, but it also brings up the age-old question: how the hell do you anchor a hurricane? )  i can’t not worry. ( ‘ so he sits down, in the most tense way you really can, and for the first time in a while seulki’s standing a bit taller. ) even when i think about it, like – all cerebral – the way professors tell ya to… ah, it’s just all so crazy. ( ‘ why’d the witches have to come out now? at the time he’s felt the safest - while learning the proper ways to fend off beasts and protect people better - it feels so targeted and so unfair, and he just knows, deep down, that the witches must have rushed to prepare an attack as soon as they heard about the academy opening, because as students they’re threats-in-the-making and it’s best to pull out the weed before they get their roots too deep. so how are they supposed to stand a chance? ) 

yeah… you’re right. you are. ( ‘ he sighs, gently knocking one of his fists against the air fairy’s battle-ready hands. ) but we’re partners, too. it ain’t all up t’you. ( ‘ if haksu had a say, it’d be zero percent up-to-seulki, but for now… the command to stay put is enough. ) so… don’t forget that, either.

crazy, huh.  ( ` the little fist bump makes her smile, a tiny one that’s more lips pressed together than her usual, all teeth displayed grin. haksu’s not wrong about the situation they’re in, and all the more that means he should stay where it’s safe, but there’s nothing much either of them are going to be doing after that announcement... yet. she returns the knock against his fist, a little harder than the first, resolute certainty clenched in her hands )  okay, partner. ‘s up to us. so you gotta tell me what you’re thinkin’, okay?  ( ` a tap to the side of his head, lips bunching up to the side )  you’re my smarter half!  ( ` she doesn’t flush at the reminder this time, head a little too tangled up in the impending invasion that they’re going to have to deal with. seo yerim might’ve said stay put, but they’re guardian fairies to be—and she’s a charmix of air. there was no chance of that, really, but she’s not telling if you don’t! and speaking of plans in the making... )  oh! i gotta go find the others.  ( ` she’s pretty sure her best chance is gonna be all those fairies who’ve unlocked their charmix, and she knows just the pair to bother for recruitment of her top secret, panic induced mission! what was that about smarter halves, again? she bounces off and out into the corridor, staying put an easily forgotten thing of the past already )  be right back!

[wxseulki]

wxjihwan​:

(...)

    the little fluffball… of course… he’s a smart little fella’ isn’t he. jihwan looks at him and smiles before eyes widen at the thought of her rambling about seulki to the little guy late at night and the possibility that the fluffball has… picked on the energy seems ridiculous but.. valid. well…… as long as seulki— seulki!! right!! 

     jihwan gives a little nod as she looks back the younger, “ i was looking for you. i did hear the announcement. thank you for saving the little one.. i know he likes you. ” smiles a little as she answers all of her questions one at a time like she usually does and takes the little puppy from her before setting him down with a little pat. “ i’m okay.. now… but are you okay? ” her voice stays calm but there’s still worry in her eyes, brows furrowed and perpetual adoration on a gentle simmer. 

she’s gotten used to jihwan’s quick, short little answers to all her questions, not a single one missed out or dropped, like everyone else tends to do. she doesn’t forget what she asked, y’know! just ‘cause she asks a million questions doesn’t mean you can give her only nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine answers, for the record. everyone should learn from jihwan. it’s her steady, certain voice that smooths out the heebie jeebies rattling in her chest, nodding along to the minute cadences she thinks only she’s privy to.

“ yeah! i’m okay, ” seulki nods, bobble head going up and down, a pause, “ i’m not super duper, but i don’t think anyone is, right now. and the fluffball’s calmed down, ” she notes, grinning, surprised when jihwan just takes him out of her hands so naturally. “ when’d you meet him? i’ve never seen you two together! i was startin’ to think i was just imagining a fluffball around, ” hold on, that isn’t what’s important right now! she tiptoes and pets jihwan’s fluffy bob, too, a matching set with the little guy bouncing happily around their feet now. “ you gotta tell me if you’re not okay, okay? ” whoa, that’s confusing. she repeats the word, feeling mealy mouthed. “ okay, okay? okay? ” blegh, what a word! the witches are here and nothing’s okay!

oh. the witches.

the reminder fissures through the rest of her calm, face screwing up into pure, frantic terror. “ we’re not okay! ” seulki grabs jihwan by the upper arms, shaking her a little. she doesn’t remember a thing about the witches other than the fact that they were banished, and that wasn’t even true. but, “ you’ve unlocked your charmix, ” she says, nodding to herself again. that’s good. that means jihwan’s going to be great against the witches. she thinks? she hopes. “ you’re okay, ” she reminds herself, nodding harder.

but what about everyone else?