#RUBIESINTHEROUGH. ( aedus. )

[vengeancefcrged]

@rubiesintherough / aedus sent a meme.

“Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax.”

"I don't need you fucking permission, I'm the one with the gun," she snapped, the gun held steady, aimed mid chest at the stranger, finger ready to slip to the trigger in a heartbeat or less. There wasn't supposed to be anybody here, this was one of a half dozen safe houses that she and the other Firefly remnants had set up on the outskirts of Seattle. It was supposed to be a place that she could get away from everyone and clear her head, let herself just think or -- or maybe, not think. She should've shot him already, should've shot him on sight. "You're not supposed to be here," Abby retorted, her tone accusatory, and angry, cheeks red with upset and the cold.

[outlawfcrged]

@rubiesintherough / aedus sent a meme.

"Listen, I'm not here to cause trouble." ( aedus. he lied like a lying liar who lies. fireirb is always looking for trouble )

"That's weird, cause the flashing neon sign hanging over your head that screams danger magnet and trouble walking seems to imply otherwise." The smirk that grazed her lips belied the dry sarcasm that tinted the words, a glance given towards the bartender, to flag them down for a drink for the newcomer. Not that she wasn't just as much a walking trouble magnet, but that's what made her run in's with Aedus all the more .... entertaining? "Been a while since you showed up to get me shot at, anything I should know?"

[inmentemusae]

rubiesintherough asked:

"Are you alright?" ( aedus / duma )

There was a sadness to be seen in the angel's eyes, was she alright? No, she was not. Duma was on her way home from a hard day at work when she stopped for a coffee when she heard the voice beside her. Looking in the direction the voice came, she tried to offer a smile but that did not go too well. She sighs as she picks up her coffee and turns to face Aedus. "No, I am not alright." She admits in defeat. She was tired and exhausted both physically and mentally, which was not normal for her. She was hoping a coffee would help.

@rubiesintherough : Accepting// Tired / Exhausted / Feeling Very Weak - Starters

[vvaywardhunter]

‘ i feel a responsibility to do what’s upstanding and right. ’

@rubiesintherough

"Good for you, pal. And what, as the kids say, the fuck is that?" Morality was a sort of sliding spectrum in Dean's experience. He couldn't always pinpoint his own ethics, let alone someone else's, and monsters of any kind tended not to think in the same terms as a human.

Not because they were worse by nature--humans could be plenty terrible all on their own, and he'd met monsters who just wanted to live peaceful lives--but because "right" looked like a lot of things depending on where you were standing. He had no fucking idea where this guy was standing.

[lifefcrged]

@rubiesintherough / aedus sent a meme.

[ FORMAL ]  ―  for sender to tie receiver’s wrists together with their tie

It never fails to elicit a shiver down her spine, watching him tug the luxurious strip of fabric from the collar of his shirt, the way his eyes gleamed with that moment of anticipation and desire when he turned his attention to her, the tie tangled between his fingers. There was a sliver of something else, of something cold and fearful, an echo of another life, that threatened to rise, but the warmth in his gaze melted it into nothing but a flicker. A shadow. She'd watched him endure the hours of attention, of questions and idle, prattling conversation at the dinner hosted by the hospital's board members. Watched him smile, and indulge the hosts and her coworkers, because he'd known what it meant to her, to not have to endure it alone.

She stepped closer to him, before he could discard the tie and continue with disrobing, a light touch against his hand to halt his movements. A shift of her hands, wrists presented upwards, fingers half curled in to her palms, her gaze dances, almost shyly, to meet his. An offering, if he wants to take it.

[fightfcrged]

@rubiesintherough/ aedus sent a meme.

“Things are pretty desperate, I’m afraid.“

''Fraid that doesn't really narrow it down much, given ...." His words trailed off, and he peered around him for a moment in general, if brief, contemplation of the world as a whole. "Well. This shit hole hasn't exactly improved much in the last thirty years, we'll just say that." He let out a sigh, fingers rubbing at the nape of his neck as he cast his attention back to the man who ... he was pretty sure had introduced himself earlier when they'd first met, but he'd be damned if he could remember it now. "Something in specific you're concerned about, friend?" That was a loose turn of phrase, but it was better than most things Joel called people these days.

[crownedinsin]

~ @rubiesintherough || ❛ at every moment in our life, we have one foot in a fairytale & the other in the abyss. ❜ ( aedus ) ~

"Speak for yourself - I much prefer to keep myself grounded in the abyss." Lucifer's unsure if he's ever really bought into the idea of fairytales. Mostly because the villain in them is oftentimes modelled after his own demise. Maybe before? Then again, he's so far removed from the angel he was then that he can't really claim to know what that version of the Morningstar would've thought.

"Fairytales are for children and naive adults."

[drkroots]

@rubiesintherough said: “There are more things possible on this earth than you could ever dream of.” ( aedus / joshua )

          supernatural & paranormal sentences

               Former hunter knew just how hellaciously vast the world was and there was a time when he was being raised to identify and kill every known species of non-human there was. But luckily for him, he was able to escape what was essentially a cult and was able to shed that mindset of everything non-human being evil. But then if they were all good people, he probably wouldn't have the scars all over face to prove otherwise.

Cane was tapped against feet as he leant against bench with guide dog by his side, him going forward with playing the boring mundane human façade. "Considering what the world's going through now with a whole entire world learning about a society they never knew they existed... I think we're all gonna be learning real quickly."

[fiirstnephalem]

rubiesintherough asked: “Where there is kindness, there is goodness and where there is goodness, there is magic.” ( aedus )

" I feel like my sister is rubbing off on you more and more. Not that it's a bad thing by any means --- I wish she'd rub off on more people in that way. " THERE were times when Sima truly questioned if her kindness was noticed. Most of the time, someone always wanted something from her, whether it was a patient wanting care or family wanting her time and help in some way. But she did a lot of things out of kindness and goodness. She lived her life wanting to be good, wanting to not be cruel or cold like her mother. Kindness and goodness were met with an abundance of love in the long term. She and Phen held a magic far greater than any magic conceived of bitterness and hatred.

Her sister's magic was beyond anything Sima had ever seen, considering all she'd been through. Despite everything, Phenex had remained kind and sweet; bitterness was not something in the firebird's soul. Aedus had helped to amplify and build that magic more and more. He'd shown her sister what love was like and for that, Sima was eternally grateful. Phen deserved to let her magic flourish, let her kindness be experienced and her goodness be seen.

@rubiesintherough cannot find the meme / not accepting

[tinymute]

@rubiesintherough said:

“Every time I look at you, it feels like the world quiets down. And if that’s not love, I don’t know what is.” ( aedus )

It was one of those nights, the ones where she would wake after only an hour or so of sleep, drenched in her own sweat and to panicked to sleep. She had been pacing the house, arms wrapped around herself and trying to convince herself that her nightmares could not breech into reality.

Aedus had found her mid-pace and brought her back to the bedroom, where the words came out like vomit. Replays of her dreams, the ones where he woke up and realized, one day, that he did not love her. Who would love a damaged thing like her?

If she hadn't already been crying, the genuine warmth in his voice as he spoke would have broken her. She smiled through her tears, taking his hand and gently kissing his knuckles.

"Thank you," she shifted closer to him. "I love you. I am sorry I worried you." She leaned in to hug him, leaning so her head rested against his chest.

[firebirby]

rubiesintherough asked: ❛ today simply isn’t your day, is it? ❜ ( aedus )

TODAY HAD BEEN BEYOND DREADFUL. FIRST A CAKE HAD BURNED, then she'd fallen down the stairs and had broken her favourite mug in doing so and now she'd set off one of her triggers in trying to run herself a bath. If anything, she'd just wanted to relax after the first two things but now, she was on the bathroom floor curled up in a ball with tears falling down her cheeks.

She just wanted to be normal. Why was it so hard for her to be that? Normal. Her arms tightened around her knees as tears flooded and her features contorted. Her chest hurt from the panic that surged through her being. Her Aquaphobia ruled over her life more than her regression did and she just longed for it to go away, to not make her so much of a burden anymore.

She must have screamed out at some point within her panic, though she was not entirely sure when that had been. Then again, she often became blinded to it all when her mind raced with the memories of being trapped in a tiny box with no escape and an ocean of water slowly filling the small area around her. It took her a moment to register that Aedus had come in and found her, evidently alerted by her scream or something at least. But his voice was ever-calming. He was her safety net and she quickly scuttled across the tiled floor and into his arms, curling herself up even tighter as her face buried into his chest and her fingers curled into his shirt with a tight grip.

She tried to be independent. She longed for the independence and not having to rely on others so much but after this third event of the day, she found herself pulling back internally. She didn't want to be an adult anymore ~ she didn't want to face all of the panic and upset. She sniffled and inhaled shakily in an attempt to calm herself down, luckily Aedus's scent helped. Familiar; associated with safeness. He was her caregiver now, and her fiancé. She knew that she could slip back and he'd still look after her and protect her. " I --- I just wanted a baths... "

Emerald eyes slowly flicked upward and peered at him, her face a picture of child-like sadness as her bottom lip quivered. The faucet still ran in the background with a small mountain of bubbles slowly beginning to rise above the rim of the bath, but she did not care about that right now. She was trying her best to get over everything wrong that had happened throughout the day, get over the panic attack that running the bath had brought on. " C --- Can you join me...? Please? "

@rubiesintherough various sentence starters / accepting.

[magicveiledts4]

@rubiesintherough i love them

[lanternlit]

@rubiesintherough said: “Restrained?” ( aedus / iris )

Send me “Restrained” + a number for a starter in which one or both of our characters are...    /    Or send “Restrained?” for a randomly generated number    /    4. In a cage    /    ACCEPTING ↷

Shit, she knew she  shouldn’t have trusted him.  She hadn’t trusted him, she’d not had a choice but to let him help her, she’d have bled out. But he’d treated her nicely, been perfectly polite and hospitable, and she... had let her guard down? It doesn’t make any sense. Why not do this to begin with? She’s been unconscious and asleep around him, she... Is it some sort of a mind game he’s playing? Make her begin to trust him, only to... She’s not sure what happened; it doesn’t feel like she’s been knocked out. But somehow she’s come to, locked in a cage, somewhere dark and damp and...

❝ Aedus? ❞

She can barely see him, in a cage that looks identical to hers, on the other side of the room.  OK. Not his doing.  ...Doesn’t really look anything like his home, here, anyway.

What the hell.

Her cage is small, like for a dog; she can crouch and move around a little, but it’s too low for her to stand up. The bottom is solid, the top the same type of a grid than the walls. She can think of more people who would want to hurt her due to her associations than she can count, but... the both of them?

[painofhumanity]

@rubiesintherough it's just giving Felicity & Aedus

[strawberista]

⚅ — @rubiesintherough asked: — ⚅

⚅ — “A good man is hard to find, so I consider myself very lucky to have found a great one. Would you care to be my Valentine?” ( aedus, also offering flowers, bc reasons ) — ⚅

Valentine's Day Starters

— ★ ⚄ ★ —

Hanekoma's heart hammered hard in his chest, a feeling he'd grown so accustomed to at this point that it almost felt like his natural heartbeat, at least when he was around Aedus. The phoenix had a way of drawing his emotions tight on a string, have the angel melting at his feet, wanting desperately to kiss his hand. That was the way of things for the two of them now, Hanekoma a soft puppet in the hands of his sorrowful, hopeful, beautiful firebird, but even with all of that, this was different.

It was almost like... A confession. Could he dare to dream as much? Was Aedus really saying what Hanekoma thought he was saying? Should he fall into Aedus's arms? Should they kiss...?

No no, he shouldn't be silly. It was just a poem waiting to take root on his lips, a moment of fire raking up the coals in his heart to stroke the flames burning his whole body. He couldn't allow himself to fall victim to the impish wiles of his heart. Couldn't allow himself to seek out poetry where the moment stood but a mere illusion.

Instead he smiled fondly, determined to steel himself against his own heart, and he slowly took the flowers into his hands, "A'course I will, Hinotori. I'm a little surprised ya find yourself so lonely, but I don't mind spending time with ya. You know I... Always love your company... Did ya have anything in mind for us? We could take a platonic date out to a nice restaurant or... Ah, but I better hear your ideas first, yeah?"

[luckhissoul]

@rubiesintherough asked :: ❛ HUNGER . give my muse something to eat / drink

he's grateful for the drink. it had been a long ride coming all the way out here. and he's thirsty, hungry, too. he had spent a good amount of time wandering. not wanting to turn back. that was always the goal, to not have to turn back. in spite of being glad for it he doesn't touch it. he eyes it a moment before lifting his eyes to the man's face. searching his expression as if trying to find the right foot to step out on. "in my experience people usually don't do anything for nothing. i won't buy it that you're buying drinks for people out of the kindness of your heart." he lets out a small laugh, to play it off as part joke. it's not. but he's no mood to stir up any trouble.