#walespa

[helianskies]

hetaberia • day 4 • pets 🌄

Dragonbornes were thought to be near enough extinct. Half-dragon, half-human, their rarity had come to make them as valuable as they were revered for the bridge they created between two worlds. Rhys had only ever heard stories (and not often ones with happy endings) so to— to stumble upon one like this, in the wild, by luck? It was… They were…

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event: @hetaberia-week

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[ask--aph-spain--archived]

❤️ i mean maybe not so much here but they cute 😤

|| they’re kind of always in the honey moon phase whenever we have them interact but it be cute af uvu

[helianskies]

hello!! could you maybe tell us about wales and spain? 👀 i'm curious!

hello anon! this is for you: 🍪 and while you munch, we can talk. i mean, i'm not sure what to say without getting too specific or niche, because they are a very new thought to me. but...

something about them together just works to me, especially in terms of personality. there's something about them being the 'looks like a cinnamon roll but will actually kill you' types that i find interesting. i see them being perhaps a bit more devious together, more supported, more at ease, more unrestrained. it's one of those ships i would stick in an au rather than nationverse, probably, though i admit there's comedic potential in grabbing the whole bft and matching them up with england's brothers, just to torment him hehe.

to try and keep it simple, i feel they have the same capacity for good as they do for chaos. i feel like they could be the secret antagonists in a horror film, or the villains of a fantasy story (i totally have not been thinking). i feel that people may easily forget that behind kind eyes lies something perhaps more sinister, or broken, or desperate. there's potential in both of them, i think, to get creative and dark, as well as allowing for softer and slice-of-life moments. and when i put them next to each other, that seems to only get better.

otherwise, i feel this is balanced out by how... nice they are. how simply they would live. the way they would live day-to-day, easy, relaxed, cosy. i love the image of them stood together on the welsh coast, near the edge of a cliff, just staring out across the water while the wind whips around them - followed by a picnic in the grass, a flask of tea, some cake that rhys baked specially. i need them to own a plant store-come-café. i want them to huddle on a single armchair wrapped up in a blanket while they wait for the house to warm up. they're both terrible back-seat drivers. their music tastes do not align. but they laugh so easily and wholly together. they will watch any and every nature documentary they can find. toni will cling and hover and fuss and rhys will not protest. they toss and turn like mad but somehow never startle each other in the night. and when they both wake up with bedheads, still droopy as they make their morning drinks, it's just... bliss. being around each other is sometimes all they need.

i just. i get different things from them in different aus, and i enjoy that versatility. i enjoy having toni in one hand, and a character who i feel mirrors him in certain ways that mean they are likely to get on, and get on well. i hope that all makes sense. i like pairings who are chalk and cheese, like i like pairings where they have some things in comon - but this one just seems to go a step further. a bit like russpa, i guess, but... somehow more. you know? they could be so, so soft, and so, so insane. i love it...

[helianskies]

[ 22 ] for Wales and Spain? I need more c:

easily done! i need more too >:)

Bewitching

Rhys is in the middle of some research when he hears a knock at his door. At first, he calls for whoever it is to come in, knowing that, realistically, it could only have been one of a handful of people. 

When his visitor doesn’t do as told, however, Rhys huffs, abandons his work (hoping that nothing goes awry in his absence; if it does, he makes his visitor suffer the consequences), and goes to the door himself. Maybe it’s Alasdair, he ponders as he walks, trying to kill his boredom. Perhaps it’s Arthur unwittingly trying to wreak yet more havoc on his cosy life.

However, when Rhys opens the door, fully expecting one of his brothers, he is deeply surprised to see—

“I’m not disturbing you, am I?”

—Antonio!

Antonio is relatively new to the area. He comes from a family of so-called ‘researchers’ and academics. The pair of them had met on his third day wandering around the local woods, where Rhys spends most of his time. Antonio had had concerns about his horse, who had become ill after a misadventure with some mushrooms, and had heard of a healer and apothecary who could help…

Of course, Arthur had not done the best job in the world—he’s still having teething issues, in fact. But fortunately, Rhys had been in passing. Antonio had been grateful. And in the few weeks since, the other has stopped by many times to keep a reclusive Rhys company.

“No,” Rhys assures Antonio, readily inviting him inside by holding the door open wider for him. 

“Are you sure?” Antonio checks, though. “I mean, it smells like you’ve got something cooking…?”

“Oh, bollo—”

“Yeah, I’ll let you… Do that…”

Rhys excuses himself and hurries back to the kitchen. He grabs a cloth to help him lift his small cauldron off of the hook it hangs from over the fire, and sets it down on a pile of bricks near the back door of his woodland cottage.

As he stands back up, he realises he had been followed; Antonio leans in the doorway and, as Rhys brushes himself off of nothing but air and apology.

“I feel like… you were in the middle of something,” Antonio says. “I can go, you know. I’ll come back later.”

Rhys is quick to say, “No,” however. “No need. That was done anyway,” he lies, “and I am now free as the wind.”

“Lucky me,” the brunet supposes. 

The other agrees, albeit internally. Though, now that they’re there in the kitchen, he offers, “Tea?” which Antonio readily accepts. 

A few minutes later, they are together in the other main room. Rhys is steadily pouring them both a cup of tea, and Antonio is leaning back against a cabinet, turning a crystal ball in his hands. 

He has this… sort of fascination with what Rhys does, but Rhys, knowing that Antonio’s roots are buried in the trade of secrets and knowledge (and of things that ordinary humans should not know of at all), guards his truth as carefully as he can. No matter how hard it may be. For now, it is safer.

“I only actually came over because I was going to ask if you wanted dinner, since you tend to forget,” Antonio mumbles, his eyes fixing on the ball as he holds it still. Rhys wonders for a minute if he will be shown anything—if the ball would dare—but today is not that day. “I don’t want to bother you, though. I’m not convinced you weren’t busy.”

“Believe what you want. But as far as I’m concerned, you can stay for as long as you like,” Rhys tells him, nevertheless, as he puts down the teapot. 

“Oh! How kind of you.” 

“Pays to be good company.”

“Flattery will get you everywhere,” Antonio remarks with a quiet and brief laugh, soft like fresh butter, as he continues to turn the crystal ball around and around in his hands. “What are you up to, anyway?”

Rhys won’t say—won’t say too much, at least—and chooses to placate him rather than ward him off. “Potions,” he therefore tells him. “As usual.”

“And what sort of potion were you brewing this time, hm?” Antonio asks. The ball returns to its little stand, and he walks over to the fabric chairs and table where the tea awaits. 

“Why?” Rhys returns. He hands Antonio his cup and saucer (the other thanks him). “Are you looking to buy?”

Antonio gives a soft snort, amused. “Depends,” he replies as he lifts his drink towards his lips. “What are you selling?”

“That depends, too,” the other claims. “Is there something you need a potion for?”

“I don’t know…” muses Antonio, as he gives his tea a stir (pointless, because he hasn’t added anything to it, and they both know it). “Perhaps not…”

“Well,” Rhys concludes, still smiling a smile Antonio comes to replicate—a smile that he hopes Antonio would forever give back to him, one way or another, “when you do, you know where to come.”

“Oh, I do,” Antonio indeed smiles.

And Rhys would be waiting for him. Just as he did, every single day.

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[helianskies]

Fyi i havent stopped thinking abt your walespa, you've induced some strong brainrot in me dude 😭😭

good because now YOU'VE got me thinking about them sliding into my inbox like this and im now just 🥺 i need them back in my lifs,, the babies 🥺🥺🥺

[helianskies]

Helia you're making me want to draw them oH NO--

i totally don't want you to draw them i totally don't think you should think about them 24/7 i am totally not encouraging you to develop a borderline obsession with them

[helianskies]

wip tag game 🍎

rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your wip folder and tag as many people as there are documents. let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

thanks @the-heaminator and also curse you, i literally have so many wips this is cruel :) so i've limited myself to the ones i've touched more recently. i've also excluded most hetaberia wips because, well, the event is just over two weeks away so you'll see them soon enough, but there are a couple i feel i just won't have finished in time!

Bitter Teeth - (RomeSpa, NedPort, EngSpa)

12 Days - Spain - (various; 🌶)

NedSpa - Hotel - (says it on the tin!)

RomeSpa - Sicilia - (blame cake)

A Week To Fix Me - (Port & Toni)

The Five Kingdoms - (Frain, EngPort, and more, but that's not really the focus for once!)

Scales - (WaleSpa)

Highwayman - (EngSpa)

Want - Sequel - (EngSpa; from a one-shot)

Tremors - Pirate AU - (EngSpa; from a ficlet)

Eyes On The Prize - (EngSpa, NedPort)

Taxi - (just Toni :))

FrUKSpa ABO - (well then; 🌶)

Couple's Therapy - (EngSpa)

Life and Death - (PortSpa)

Concupiscence - (Toni, Port & many ships; 🌶)

Dandelion Dreams - (EngSpa)

No es como parece - (Toni study)

i'll just tag @maivalkov, @needcake, @oumaheroes, @kaimaciel & @rosesandalfazemas but i dunno if you guys have already been tagged or not or of you have wips for this or even care for this sort of thing, i have no clue, i'm sorry, please free to ignore this, i love u from afar :')

[helianskies]

shit guys where did thay walespa draft go gdi