#btw lychee's before name is lawrence :)

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lychee, lemon, papaya, mango, persimmon, kiwi, kumquat, cherry, plum, key lime, pear, grape, strawberry, blueberry, cantaloupe, honeydew, mango, freakin TOMATO…help I can’t stop!! RAISIN! PRUNE! DATE! no, that one’s bad.

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Oh gosh lol. So many choices! I think we have a few too many red-haired Apple-sonas, at least for now. But Lychee is looking very interesting indeed. :)

For those of you that don’t know, these right here are lychee fruits! The outside is this little spiky shell and when you bite it, it cracks open and the inside is this really soft fruity center (and like a giant seed as you can see lol). It kinda tastes like a pear to me but the internet says it has more of a “tutti fruity” flavor.” It’s just like a really soft flavor in case you were interested xD.

Quick CW: Cuts, bruises, food, mentioned kidnapping, mentioned torture, mentioned recapture, scars, starvation mention, mentioned mouth sewn shut, Stockholm Syndrome, threat of death (not a death threat, more of a looming “this could happen if...”),

But anyway, onto Lychee the Apple-sona!

Introducing Lychee!

Like a lychee fruit, this Apple-sona certainly looks tough on the outside. His hair is bright pink like inside of the lychee shells pictured, he has tiny circular scars above his upper lip and under his bottom lip from when his mouth was sewn shut, exactly twenty-one, and he has a thicker scar that runs from behind his ear to under his right eye. Of course, those are just the ones on his face, not even counting the faint collar of scar tissue and scabbing around his neck and the thousands of cuts and bruises littering the rest of his body.

Said shortly, he looks like he’s been through some things. Which he has, yes. He’s suffered a kidnapping, daily torture, an escape, a recapturing, worse torture, and finally this second escape, which leads him to the back alley of a flower shop in small town far from home—more importantly, far from his torturers.

Lychee w/ the Salesman and Clay

You read that right. Torturers, plural. In this AU, Lychee’s Clay and the salesman work together, and Lychee just happened to be one of two other unlucky victims.

Three years Lychee’s spent with them. Three years of pure sadistic torture. But three years is long enough to teach yourself to pick a lock, and it’s certainly long enough to understand the schedules of your captors well enough to time your escape.

It’s also long enough ti understand that being recaptured a second time is likely not an ordeal Lychee will survive. Hence the flower shop in this small everybody-knows-everybody kind of town, far from the two of them.

Lychee w/ Jimmy

One thing to note about the lychee fruit is that its soft fruity yet somewhat floral flavor means that it pairs quite nicely with other floral flavors, like rose! And Lychee... really likes flowers.

Of course, it’s sheer coincidence that he ends up walking past the flower shop when Jimmy is coming in for work. Jimmy’s walking in with his little lunch box and all of a sudden he just sees this tall, half-starved scarred guy peering around from the back alley. His first instinct is to book it--just run into his store and lock the door behind him and wait until he leaves.

But Jimmy’s a softie, and this guy is just staring. After a little debate, Jimmy lets him inside and hopes he’s made the right choice.

Of course, Lychee walks in and he’s immediately awestruck by the huge assortments of flowers in the little building. And skipping ahead because we’re not trying to write a drabble here (but maybe later 👀), Jimmy’s actually kinda shocked that this guy is into flowers and he’s actually really got an eye for them.

While Lychee gets himself together, Jimmy lets him stay in the back of the shop for a while. He starts bringing lunch enough for two. And then, after a week of suggesting wonderful flower assortments and helping Jimmy get the shop ready in the morning, Jimmy offers him a job.

Lychee is terrified that the salesman and Clay will find him, but the thought of getting to work here, in a flower shop, is just too good a prospect to pass up. He agrees.

And he has a really great time until Clay and the salesman inevitably show up to take him back.

It’s a whole thing. They show up at the flower shop and Lychee freezes up when he sees them, and Jimmy has to take over and then pulls Lychee to the back room when they’re gone and asks what the heck just happened.

And poor Lychee totally breaks down because they’re scared, so very scared, and Jimmy promises to do everything he can do help him.

And then they definitely hug because while I am sometimes merciless, I am also soft for this boy.

Example two of me being a softie, Lychee could totally run far away and Clay and the salesman might never find him again but he can’t not be with Jimmy (wait, do I like them together romantically in this AU?? I might lol) so the two of them are definitely going to figure out a way to keep Lychee from ever going back there. :)

Lychee w/ the Apple-sonas

Lychee’s a little bit more reserved than most of the other Apple-sonas, but he has no problems speaking when he’s spoken to and starting conversations when he really feels like it. He really likes Star Fruit (Peach) because of how passionate he is in particular, and he and Radish actually talk a little, too, although pretty sparsely most times. Almost all the Apple-sonas come to him for flower advice, Coconut being the most reluctant, but Lychee just gathers them all around one night and gives them good, generic advice for putting together a great flower bouquet because he really doesn’t like getting into the specifics of their infatuation with their Clays.

Okay, off topic but I don’t like raisins lol. Like, just be grapes?? I don’t-- Anyway XD.

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