Maybe I'll change my tumblr aesthetic to ayato to appease him. Maybe he's mad that I was eager to replace him as a DPS when Wriothesley came out that's why I got C4 Qiqi. Maybe Dainsleif isn't my husband all along. Maybe Ayato really is my true lord. I'll be back. I'm going back to Inazuma. I'm going to go back to being a retainer. I shall appease my master.
[ Special: Rat ] This one looks real good. A twitchy sort of nervous, lurking around the edge of the ballroom like she'd melt under the spotlight. Griss had caught sight of her by chance, because like her, he was also lurking around the party's periphery, but unlike her, it's not because he's avoiding the other guests. He trailed her for a little bit, just to make sure she'd appreciate the furry thing squirming in his fist.
He thinks this one might be one of the musicians from last year's ball, because he'd heard the rumors of the rat band making its appearance again recently and why else would a rat be wandering around this ballroom full of people? (for plenty of reasons, just none that Griss likes as much as the idea of gifting a little trombonist to someone)
But his time's up now. She knows he's here, so he catches up with her, his own heart thundering with excitement like the little one under his thumb patters away with terror.
He sees his chance. His teeth bare in a grin.
"Hey, hold this for a sec!"
A Big Ol' Rat flies through the air, squealing, straight for Bernadetta's chest. [ // hello :) ]
the shiver prickles up the buttons of her spine and back down throughout her body, sending bernadetta into a tizzy that nearly has her trip over her own two feet. it is a chill with fangs, a needling death knell. it is a looming presence that might just be as harrowing as hubert von vestra's, goddess love him, goddess or whomever else had the guts.
in retrospect she should have appreciated him more. because without the familiarity of hubert's particular horror, bernadetta slinks through the night without any leads on what this could be. she slinks along walls, corners, any stretch of shadow as she is prone to do—yet she cannot shake off this unspeakable, morbid sensation, cast upon her like a sheet of ice. it follows her everywhere. it haunts her every move. eventually, too, it tails her into one of the halls tapering off from the ballroom.
this is her fatal mistake. with her surroundings stripped bare of other stimuli, bernadetta finally perceives him: hunter, circling prey, and far less well-intentioned than any classmate could be. for all of her misplaced panic a broken clock is still right twice a day—she is certain that this reaper is here for her, to split her very soul from mortal flesh and bone.
her ribboned slippers pick up with a startle, and a sob, but she does not make it far. no, not at all.
this ghoul grins, all teeth, and bernadetta's shriek from that sight alone is punctuated by what he chucks at her. the fuzzy projectile thwacks into her chest with a squeak that mirrors her own; on pure reflex bernadetta's arms spring up to catch it, and as they do, she opens her eyes to see the "gift" blink right back at her.
it pauses.
she pauses.
"... michael?"
their mutual shock lasts for one, two seconds. then, throwing up its little paws with huzzah, michael the rat is the first to break their silence when it squeaks in merry recognition:
"princess bernadetta!!!"
bernadetta screeches. somewhere in the distance, another person's wine glass splits with an abrupt crack.
her eyes and head both roll backward. darkness bleeds through the corners of her vision, swallowing the rest of the world before she can move.
and thus once again, bernadetta von varley has fainted while standing upright.
10 years after they arrive at safe haven, the swipe begins to fail. memories are slowly returning to survivors like the way the gentle waves lap at their feet each morning.
thomas does not want to remember. he is still grieving, will always be grieving, of brown eyes and blonde hair and a smile dripping with honey.
but thomas never gets what he wants, and so his swipe fails and he falls. he falls back in love with newt, with a skinny child knocking on his door, with tangled limbs and brushing lips. he remembers loving newt and newt loving him and both of them knowing they loved one another. he remembers kissing newt, cradling newt, loving newt in the way he never thought he did.
he has to lose and mourn newt all over again, and he cannot do it. it was unbearable losing newt thinking that maybe they had something. it is worse knowing that he lost his lover all along, and he resigns himself to his fate of his hut for one person by the beach.
he lets the waves lap over his ankles, and clutches the cord around his neck, feels the ancient love weaved into the pages. he will always be alone because the love of his life has been taken from him once, twice, thrice.
“i have always loved you,” thomas whispers to the sunrise of molten gold.
it will never be enough. those words will always be made for newt. he will always belong to newt, so much so that he feels like his body is side by side with his lover’s under the ruins of a lost city.
It’s been about a year since I got into codywan and almost a year exactly since I posted my first codywan art i think and let me tell you the brain rot is real probably not a day has gone by since then where I haven’t thought about these two fucks lol
sorry to be kpop on main for a second but I GOT TICKETS FOR ATEEZ WOOOOOOOO so excited ugh ugh i didn't think it would let me grab floor tickets but >:333 WE GOIN!!
Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).
I dont have many wips since i like to finish things in one sitting but I have these thumbnails for a superhyadin of the bg3 girls fighting over tav, i have no idea if ill ever actually do this though HAHHA
I dont have that many people i can tag so just feel free to do this if you see it !!
the pouch i made the other day + the inspiration! i initially made the design bc i wanted to make a shirt or tank top of it, but when we were making our bags at work it seemed like a good opportunity for it