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Can I request this but with the second years please.

-- ! i really had to go back to the original post and re-read the initial ask once again to understand what i wrote for that first one. but once again imma provide a few details on how i hc this language barrier myself down below for an easier understanding when reading through the second years reaction! (and oh god i never realized how many second years there were until now)

✧ second years reacting to a sudden language barrier between themselves and their s/o

✧ gn!reader

Crowley would provide you with some sort of device to prevent the sudden language barrier in the form of accessories most of the time.

The cast of twst wonderland speaks an entirely different language, but it's been easier for you to be able to type out simple sentences in their language then try to figure out what they're saying in the scenario that you forgot to wear the accessory with the translating magic on it.

✧ Riddle's eyes are incredibly sharp. So when he initially got to learn the news of your predicament, he would ask you what the accessory looked like and where you usually adorn it to always check if you're wearing it every time you meet.

✧ So every time you two met at the main street, he would always smile softly at you before his gaze would avert to where the accessory would be hanging from.

✧ When he doesn't see the item on your body, his smile turns into a small frown. It always puzzles him how you can go so far ahead from Ramshackle dorm up to the school gates and not notice that you can barely understand the students around you.

✧ "I really can't comprehend how you can be so airheaded at times, love." he mutters lowly as he grabs your wrist, glancing up at you as he can practically see the gears in your brain turning before your mouth forms into a knowing: "oh."

✧ Riddle only raises a questioning eyebrow your way, clearly not understanding a word you're saying, but your frantic movements says enough - you were quite good at expressing yourself through gestures after all.

✧ "¤£%€^Æ-" Riddle ignores your frantic hand gestures and merely grasps your hand in his before sliding a bracelet over your wrist, "There we go," he confirms, noticing how you abruptly stop when you're able to understand him, the dorm leader before you only giving you a smirk in return, "It would be unfit for me as a lover and a dorm leader if I couldn't fix a tiny problem such a this, right love?"

✧ He will be reprimanding you about the importance of such a vital item while the two of you head to class, just because you're his lover doesn't mean you're free from that after all.

✧ You're on your own.

✧ He will inquire about your predicament when it first shows up, and he would feel sorry for you, he would! But isn't it entirely your fault that you forgot such an important item in the first place? He's your lover, not your caretaker like he is to Leona.

✧ The moment he notices the missing item on your body, he just starts to tell you about his day as he stares straight into your eyes with a deadpan expression, just waiting for the moment it clicks for you.

✧ And when it does, he snickers when you let out a loud groan and turn around tio head back to your dorm - merely waving you goodbye before continuing the task before him.

✧ When you come back, and he notices the item adorning your body he snickers again, "Well hello again, do you want me to retell how the alchemy lesson went?" You're only shoving him to the side with a glare.

✧ "I would rather you do my homework if you're going to make me spend majority of the lesson running all the way back to Ramshackle," you huff with a pout, your hyena lover only laughing at your sunken self.

✧ "That's gonna cost ya, darlin," he says, opening the palm of his hand towards your direction, as if asking for some sort of pre-reward for your request. "I have a few on me somtimes actually. But if you want them I expect compensation for my time with some meals." he gets another gentle shove at his shoulder - because you're both aware that if you forget again and he has one on him, he would hand it over without even thinking twice.

✧ He's quite intrigued actually. The one factor that decides whether or not you'll be able to understand and talk to him is a mere trinket that you have to adorn at all times?

✧ When he first learns of that fact, he politely asks if he can look at said item, that turns out to be a simple steel bracelet. He can detect a faint sense of magic on it, but can't exactly pinpoint what sort of magic has been woven into it to help you understand their worlds language.

✧ While he makes small talk with you, Azul will casually unclip the bracelet to see how fast the effect wears out - and is once again pleasantly surprised by how quick you revert back to your native language mid-sentence. Any form of communication broken off when you tilt your head to the side in confusion when he asks you a simple question to double check.

✧ The merman finds it all very interesting.

✧ So on a day where he's not around you, he waltzes over to Crowley's office with his signature service smile. A smile that sends shivers down the headmasters spine. Needless to say, Azul does walk out of the office with a content smile and a folder of loose papers in his grasp.

✧ Doesn't immediately tell you what his plans are when he politely declines your invitations to hang out, but you don't complain when he instead gestures for you to hang out at the lounge - the drinks you order free of charge for his continous cancellations of your plans.

✧ Until one day when you come into his office, he's gesturing you over and wordlessly takes off the steel bracelet. You're about to question him when he leans over to instead clasp a necklace around you. A content smile on his face as he fiddles with the jewel in the middle, "If you were forced to wear an item every day to be able to understand me, it would only be fair that I make you some that aren't as plain as that steel bracelet, right?" he mused, smirking at your flushed face because you could indeed understand every word he said.

✧ Another fascinated merman. But unlike Azul's general curiosity, he's extremely curious.

✧ But everything on land intrigues Jade a lot, so he has been curious about you in general with the knowledge you're from another... World? Universe? He doesn't know, but nonetheless he's curious.

✧ And he's not secretive about it either. Jade has frequently asked you questions here and there about how your world was like and would compare it with the knowledge of the land dwellers he knows here.

✧ While he was made aware of what would happen if you weren't carrying a certain item at all times, he wasn't as crude to ask you to just take it off for his own entertainment and curiosity,

✧ But he doesn't immediately go and get your accessory the day you forget and you waltz up to him with a smile. Jade just merely blinks and greets you like always, but the moment you open your mouth and talk you can almost see his eyes widen with excitement over not being able to understand you.

✧ Floyd finds it weird that Jade seems a bit too excited upon not being able to understand you, but to each their own.

✧ After his initial big curiosity fades away, Jade would actually want to learn some phrases from your own native language, in return he'll help you get better at learning this world language. An eye for an eye they say, and the notion does allow the two of you spend time together.

✧ The first sentence he makes sure you memorize is both in written and spoken form is: "Please remember to wear the translator today," and he sends that message every morning whether or not you have school or is gonna meet him.

✧ The one who takes away the translator item just to see you struggle to understand him. The reason? "It's fun to see you struggle so much, shrimpy!"

✧ The stare of utter disbelief you send him each time he nabs it makes him cackle as he swings the aforementioned accessory around his finger like it's a basketball. The first few times you tried to reach over and grab it, but he only throws it to his other hand or raises his arms up further away from your reach.

✧ Only tilts his head with a smile every time you talk back at him, even when he can't understand you he can sorta guess what you're complaining about, there's not a lot you CAN complain about after all.

✧ His mischief is something that helps you in the end though, you don't know if it was Floyd's end goal or not when he first started. But the amount of times he's done it while striking a casual conversation to you eventually allows you to understand more.

✧ And the best part of it all? Floyd gets the exact same benefits by slowly starting to understand what you say when you get over the initial embarassment of speaking a language no one knows about.

✧ It gets to a point where the two of you are able to hold a semi coherent conversation while speaking two different languages, although it's mostly reserved for easy sentences that takes numerous repeating before you both can answer each other.

✧ Floyd does eventually get bored of making your life hard though, having gotten used to your small defeated sigh and halfhearted glare. The eel only huffs when you return back to your books, "You were cuter when you would try to grab it back from me," he says loudly. His signature gleeful smile seems to come back when he notices the slight flush paint your cheeks, clasping the item back to it's rightful place with a chuckle, "Oh? Shrimpy have become so smart that you're able understand that now?"

✧ Is actually distraught the first time he realizes he doesn't understand you. Did something happen? Were you struck with some sort of magic? Did you drink something that made you speak an entirely different language?!

✧ Drags you to Jamil despite your protests (that he can't hear nor understand). And Jamil just stands before the two of you with a questioning look because what is he supposed to do? The vice-leader merely takes a glance at you and you point towards your next where the translator accessory would usually be hanging from - and that's all he needs to know.

✧ Jamil has to be the one to remind him about what Crowley had informed them about your situation - something he had already predicted he would have to do because Kalim's attention was on relaxing you who looked a bit tense next to the headmage.

✧ Absolutely refuses to let you leave his side even when Jamil explains that you need to wear the necklace to be able to talk and understand him. Even when he's told it's safe, he still has you gripped in a bear hug. So the vice leader ends up being the one who has to make the trip back to your dorm to get the accessory.

✧ The moment it's back on your neck, you're turning around and reprimanding Kalim for making Jamil make a trip you could easily do alone even. But Kalim is just happy he can understand you again, laughing along amidst your scolding.

✧ Barges into Crowley's office the next day and asks about the magic used on your necklace. Kalim doesn't need to ask twice before Crowley's already handed the documents - and on the way back home he's already making a couple of phone calls with a content smile on his face.

✧ A week after he's barging into your dorm with a few boxes behind him, "We can't have the same situation happening again! So I asked the headmaster about the magic and had some help from my family to make these! It's all from jewlery, to even some clothing that u can wear underneath the uniform so it's easier!" You don't have the heart to refuse him when he excitedly pulls out every garment to tell you the thought process of it.

✧ Mildly annoyed at first at this predicament, but he doesn't openly display said annoyance on his face. It's not your fault after all, but he can't help it.

✧ But you're sensible right? You have some common sense, right? He knows you won't forget the one thing that allows you to communicate with the rest of the school, right?

✧ But as you shuffle closer to him before the first period start and scratch your head in apology, Jamil sends you the nastiest frown before he quickly composes himself - but you still saw that nasty frown and can only clasp your hands together in apology. Lover or not, a disappointed Jamil is a scary one.

✧ "This is the 5th time you've forgotten," you blink in surprise, pleasantly surprised to hear the disappointment in your boyfriends voice in your own language. Abruptly looking up to see Jamil only stare back with a somewhat proud grin, "I- huh? When did you learn-"

✧ Jamil only shrugs before he digs into his blazer pocket, gesturing you over to which you obediently do. He goes the extra mile to flick your forehead while he does so, you can't really do much but pout his way - you deserve it, and you're both aware of it.

✧ His next gestures are oh so gentle however, brushing a few strands of your hair away from your ear so he can clip on a simple earring on the lobe, "You've gotten into the same situation enough times and said the same things for me to sort of figure out how to word things, after all." he whispers as he adjusts the earring to stay properly on.

✧ "At this point you're gonna take all of the spares I have hanging around for you with the amount of times this have happened, maybe I should ask Crowley for something's that bigger and more noticeable in the mornings?" he mumbles as you continue on your way, glancing over at you and only raising an eyebrow at your confused expression, "What? Isn't it natural that I would have something prepared for you?" Dear god you think you fell in love all over again.

✧ The two of you rarely spend time together as it already stands, being that he usually spends his time at Diasomnia as Malleus' guard, at club or is off to dreamland. While you're either getting dragged around by Grim or running off after two troublesome idiots that you still call your friends.

✧ The few times you do hang together is when you stumble upon your lover dozing off, and most of the time are the one to wake him up - You realize that is a reward in itself, being able to see Silver's soft smile and a quiet apology for dozing off again.

✧ So Silver does treasure those small moments the two of you have with each other when you both don't have anything urgent to do, and a lot of the time you don't forget to wear the translator on you. (Or you have, but Silver isn't the first person you meet in the morning to reprimand you and as such you're able to run back to Ramshackle and get the item before stumbling upon him) Silver eventually forgot that you needed that item at all times to be able to understand you.

✧ So imagine his surprise when he wakes up and sees you smiling down at him. But his soft smile eventually drops to a confused frown when he asks what time is it, and you tilt your head to the side in confusion before opening your mouth.

✧ And he's not able to understand a damn thing that just came out of your mouth. But just in case he asks another question, he's greeted with another confused smile. It doesn't take long before you pat down around your neck and come to the realization that you forgot the item, but before you can excuse yourself to grab it. Silver is already up from the bench and dragging you by the hand to somehere.

✧ You try to call out his name and tug your hand away from his grasp, but dear lord he's stronger than he looks. You eventually find yourself in front of a confused Lilia, and while he beams at you at first - his gaze turns towards Silver who seems to tell him something while you're still trying to tug yourself free.

✧ Lilia only laughs, before he vanishes into thin air before Silver can even finish explaining. A second later you feel something being wrapped around your neck and Lilia appearing back onto his place with a smile, "Silver, did you forget that [Name] can't understand anything unless they're wearing that necklace?" he muses, and you can see the moment Silver connects the dots. You merely laugh when he whips his head around with a panicked look on his face, patting him on the head before he can apologize, "It's fine, Silver. I often forget mysef anyway - so don't feel too bad."

✧ He's still gonna feel bad, so now whenever he wakes up and sees you smiling down at him, the first thing he does is to reach towards your neck to feel the necklace himself. And once he confirms it's there he eases up and greets you. The feeling he got the first time is a feeling he would rather not feel again.

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