@elthruil
𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐲. at times you wonder whether or not it will burn your core to cinders; a destiny carried out, only for the flame to be extinguished. ( hero they call me. the faith they have in me has become suffocating, the need for success has become a noose around my neck. ) your blade cleaves through the air, and sweat stains your brow as you wield the sword into great arcs. ‘ 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧. ‘
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@elthruil
𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐒 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐍 of the ages upon his shoulders [...], a thousand lifetimes weighting down bones. and now, with the darkness growing even darker, he feels it more acutely than ever. weathered hands clasp together atop the staff, though he denies himself the comfort of leaning against it, and instead stands tall. ❝ i am afraid this is one plan you would find many faults in, old friend. ❞ not booming thunder, but the quiet rumble of trees before the storm. cerulean vision shifts towards the skyline, and he shudders. ❝ but i hope you would be able to understand the urgency. legolas must away to rivendell. i will be there too, if it is of any comfort. ❞
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@elthruil said: “you’re home. you’re safe.” THIS IS COMPLETELY FINE
( iluvatar breaks bread into two and the world follows suit: manwë takes the skies, ulmo takes the deep, varda plants her seeds into the cosmos ━━━ and then there's you, and then there is love. it starts small, with the caterpillar, with the worm, and all those things that eat dirt, and then grows into something beautiful. you walk the shores, feet bare against the sand while you get used to having feet, and everything is simple. but then he decrees : i have named you messenger, and your bones reshape inside your body, this black hole of abstract shape caving in on itself until you're inside out, muscle and sinew and gold tinted blood. )
she's never been good at being stationary. like light, she breaks into pieces, she dances with the dawn, she disappears only to overflow. the first children awake and she whispers to them stories, and then the second come and she laughs along with their wide eyed innocence. war comes and goes, lays the land into ruin, and the fire is too hot, too brazen. they praise the names of her brothers and sisters, but never her true name, and that is fine with her. térya died in fire and padmé was reborn in water and so she, like the waves, endures.
she meets him when he is war thorn and kisses both his hands, though he will live and not remember. she is light ━━━ she is half moored dreams and fragments of song and the smell of rain, wet and full, after a draught. when she meets him again he is king, and she dances around his fires, steals food from his plate, turns red like dawn under his gaze.
( oropher, she calls him once and only once. maedhros one morning when the sun bleeds inside the room and turns his hair red. a thousand ghosts, a thousand memories, all alive and breathing under her skin, all so very hungry. she never says mairon's name. sometimes she thinks he's grateful for it. in nights when the moon is hidden, she holds little tauriel in her arms, runs her fingers through crimson strands, and cries. )
she thinks she loves him best under starlight with the forest alive around them and his hands at her hips. she whispers to him in her tongue, pretty things and terrible things and things filled with mourning. traps promises in the dip of his collarbone, where it's safe, places her hand across his beating heart. alive and ruinous are they, beings of light, rooted into earth. a rumble of thunder, the tenderness of morning dew, her lips and his lips and everything in between. aeons has she wandered, unbound, following her heart and the pleas of many voices, but for once, there is a tether binding, red thread around her heart and his, and she forgets to worry.
as expected, it's not all sugar and honey. her temper flares like a hurricane, his levels trees to the ground. she screams herself hoarse and he grows ice around his body, and then she leaves a while, turns into stardust, only to come like the spring and thaw him.
( you're either going to eat each other up or make something beautiful, elrond tells her once, amused, his fingers in hers and eyes still haunted ever since she called him his brother's name. they watch together as the son of arathorn stands on wobbly feet, each twin at his side a sentinel, and something pierces through her heart like an arrow. she looks at him, and his smile turns soft ; you deserve to be happy, the both of you. )
and she is ━━━ eru, she is. happiness was always measured in coffee spoons until now, and now she has to learn to drink it by the gallon.
but then the earth splits open and spits out magma, like it is wont to do. dwarves wake the dragon, something far worse wakes along with it, and in her mind she sees the lamps destroyed, feels the flames scorch the earth and eat away at life. he's stuck in winter and for once her spring sun is not enough to breathe life into his frozen bones, and so unlike her kin, she fears. in sleep, mandos whispers a kiss across her brow, holds her hiemal hands in his, says : not yet, térya. not yet.
thus she wakes and his arms around her are a lifeline. his fingers brush away tears she has not even known she was crying, press her into his chest and oh, she would climb between his ribs if she could. she would hide between his bones, if only to make sure that his heart is beating, that the garden within is not overgrown with weeds. and here is the truth: iluvatar has called her messenger, and the eldar have called her protector, and the children of men have given her a thousand names, but he only ever call her her own. he is pretty with sleep and with worry, and bids her to return home among the living, and she does, one breath at a time, one blink.
❝ i'm home, ❞ she whispers and her voice trembles, presses her face in the crook of his neck where she's safe. her fingers curl into his hair and it's not red, it's liquid gold against her hands, he's sunlight, he's fire that does not burn. her mouth is soft at his daltoid, open and panting with the remnants of terror, but he is patient and gentle, urges her jaw to unclench, her eyes to dry. and here's another secret : she's never been good at staying still, wings aching in the absence of flight, but he does not seek to cage her, merely to hold her, and she's known that her heart lies with him for a long while now nonetheless. ❝ i'm home. don't go. ❞
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🍓 Pleading Emoji
showing up late is kinda my specialty , but you know what maybe this way it’s a surprise and i like that . hello eden my darling , i hope you’re well today . you’re one of those people that i haven’t been following for the longest time but you have so quickly become a staple of my dash around here and i cannot imagine it without you . from the first moments , you have had just such a lovely presence and you really do seem to take such care over the way you interact with people , and it comes across as such a lovely light thing . i hope you know how much that means and how appreciated that is . as for your characterisation and portrayal , you bring such love and care to a muse that i personally adore , and i feel like is one of those characters it’s hard to capture realistically and you do that so impossibly well ! your writing is rich and filled with depth and attention and manages to capture his personality and views so well . i’m honestly a huge fan of the way you present him and i hope you know how wonderfully you are doing that . i have so much affection for you on my dash and i hope you are having a lovely day <3
@elthruil , send me a 🍓 and i shall compliment you!
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