#or will he be youthful forever?

[justwannabecat]

“So you’re the king of the afterlife? Does that make you a god?” Nightwing asked.

“Afterlives. Plural. Some people become ghosts, some go to whichever place they believe in, and some pass on to a place where consciousness can’t follow. Even I can’t go there.” Danny stopped and thought for a moment. “I don’t think I’m a god. I’m still half human after all. I guess when my human half dies, I might be considered a god? But there is a distinct possibility my human half won’t die and I’m already a god, too. I won’t really know unless I stop aging.”

Of course, this only brought on a new wave of chaos.

#danny phantom #dc x dp #dp x dc #ghost king danny #dp x dc prompt #basically danny trying to explain what he is to the bats #and he kinda goes ‘yeah I don’t actually know either lol’ #is he a god if he’s still half human? #will he re-die or grow into his ghostly self more? #or will he be youthful forever? #he has no idea #just a fun little blurb #not enough people point out that he might be immortal but he doesn’t know for sure #it’s either he knows #or he doesn’t know and someone (Clockwork) just tells him #I want more flippant ignorance!

[bittergloss]

--I only wish to be with you from dusk to dawn, watching the world's frost and snow. Just want to wander long streets and narrow alleys with you, watching the moon on the eave.--

THE LAST IMMORTAL 神隐(2023) - EP. 14 Dir. Chan Ka Lam

#the last immortal #zhao lusi #wang anyu #cdrama #mygif #cdramaedit #cdramasource #tli #im not even caught up to this point yet it just rly got me even in a clip? #i loved this scene 😔 esp. with the ost like it really captured the sweetness and innocence of young first love #like something abt young love...... its at its purest form unsullied by external forces and you only experience it in this state once #b4 growing up and getting jaded and cynical abt relationshps and the world and i feel like a world weary old person #looking at their youth and innocence like i just want it all to work out for these kids i hope their hearts don't break too much #i want this to last a little longer for them i want them to live in this bubble a little longer b4 they get bulldozed by the world #its sweet tinged with a bit of sadness she's all dressed up to marry him. gathers flowers along the way with- #excitement and expectancy. lovingly puts a flower on him to match hers with his promise of forever in mind thinking its not far while he ha #no memory of his promise or his feelings towards her #ost so good and hits a weak spot of mine- singing abt wanting to experience just the ordinary everyday things with the person you love #don't you wish that's all love could and should be?

[jedi-starbird]

I think it's so funny that fic writers consistently describe obi-wan as ginger meanwhile fanartists and even canon artists are squinting at ewan mcgregor like that bitch is brunette. maybe blonde sometimes.

#i have been informed that ewan IS a ginger but hes just that strawberry blond inbetween stage where it changes based on lighting #do i agree with this? debatable. look if the man has brown hair in over half his photos it is what it is #obi wan is forever a ginger to me though <3 #i will concede ewan was a lot more orange in his youth #star wars #obi wan kenobi

[bruhstation]

younger henry cringe compilation

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte henry #ttte spencer #ttte edward #ttte gordon #casa tidmouth #senjart #consider this a celebration for henry coming in third place in the topdisease competition! #henrysweep2k23 forever.....! #anyways for some reason I'm obsessed with the youth of the rws trio. their story before casa tidmouth #what if henry worried about everything and constantly sweated like a sad dog when he was younger (parallel to his cgi version) #then when he got older especially after he met lady he became mentally stronger and even sharp (parallel to his rws and model versions) #food for thought in this au.... tsk tsk.......

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

makoto naegi as fresh-faced & hopeful co-leader of future foundation on the outside but grizzled and exhausted adult on the inside. he's still 5'3" and has a babyface but when there's no cameras on him he's smoking cigarettes like that ben affleck photo

#makoto naegi #danganronpa #someone let my guy rest #something very funny and yet very fucked up about makoto's seemingly perpetual baby height and relative youth #along with him being one of the sole survivors of the killing game + the ultimate hope #having to be essentially media fodder. hey everyone its ur favorite guy #and he has to put up with it bc of a sense of obligation among other things #but it just exhausts him all the time forever

[flovoid]

What kind of love are you?

Love as Youth

Your love is buoyant. Your love is bountiful. It is ageless, and it will never age. When you fall in love, it is breathless. It is joyful and endless, it is magnificent. You think it, like your youth , will last forever. Youth is eternal, and so is your love. Your love skips rocks and tells stories, your love roasts marshmallows over fires, and laughs freely. Your love does not take itself too seriously. Your love is jumping into puddles just to watch the water splash, and dancing in the rain, and it is watching Sunday morning reruns of cartoons to feel young once more. Your love is forever, forever young. Being loved by you is to be loved by the summer months. And those never end, do they? Well, I won’t tell if you don’t.

Love as a Choice

You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

AAAA THANK YOU @roos-bowl-o-soup for the tag!!!

also tagging @elderwisp @elksun @circusjuney @buttertrait @nikatyler @ninawhims @autumnserenade @machinegrl @acuar-io

& anyone who wanna do it go do it! also if you are tagged and don’t feel doing it just ignore this!

#floyd cyprus #draco almond #omg I actually cried. #the results of them both is so on point. #this quiz is everything they even gave me more more inspiration #I also cried at draco how he actually did love someone but they didn’t love him back. so him can’t choose who to love is harsh- #AND ITS SO TRUE how if anyone was loved by floyd is just sooo refreshing he literally will make you happy and youthful forever #the fact it said on draco that love does not come to him easily is so true… hurts. #(When you fall for someone you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead you resolve to see them for who they are) I ACTUALLY CRIED. #a detective who fell for a criminal no? LOSING MY MIND. #floyd facts #draco facts

[lovrbooy]

considering dennis was the golden child of his mom i like to hc that he started wearing makeup the first time barbara noticed a physical imperfection. she saw a pimple or anything unseemly and immediately showed him how to cover it

#i also like to hc that he didnt actually use makeup that much as a teen and in his early 20s but as soon as he realized his face wouldnt #maintain youth forever he gradually used it more and more until you get to like . Dee Day #dennis without makeup is funny and when charlie says thats what his soul looks like is even funnier #but its also sooooooo true. okay little miss picture of dorian grey! #dennis reynolds #iasip

[thepringlesofblood]

fckin. i've watched Tin Can Bros' masterpiece Spies are Forever a bajillion times. I've listened to the soundtrack a bajllion times. when my phone malfunctioned and I lost all the music I downloaded from my dad's giant folder of pirated mp3s, the fuckin Spies Are Forever soundtrack was one of the 3 albums that remained bc it was one of the only ones I'd actually bought. which means i listened to it over and over and over until I was able to get student-discounted Spotify (and tbh i do still listen to it over and over, just on Spotify).

and I JUST NOW realized that Curt's beard from the 4 years after Owen's death is a double entendre.

the only other queer person he knew in his line of work just fucking died. of course he gets a beard.

#he needs to mourn without people questioning #why he's so upset over some guy from fully another agency #so he misdirects it as general depression/hiding himself from the world #so people don't pay attention [badum tssh] to the cause of his grief #fuck man every time i look at saf it gives me more interesting subtext #spies are forever #saf #tcb #tin can bros #curt mega #original post #i should've written my intro to queer studies final paper on spies are forever #i had it all planned out and i scrapped it bc i was scared my prof would watch it and not get the full context of the nazi stuff #and i did the adventure zone balance instead #which was nice but not nearly as deep of a lasagna as spies are forever #this shits got layers for days #tagpost #if you dont know what i mean by 'beard' in a queer context #google it before yelling at me #i know its kind of an older term idk if the youths use it anymore

[forever-1895]

Dorian Gray and Basil Hallward

Recently been reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and I had to make this.

SPOILERS - Basil did not only get rejected by the love of his life after confessing his love, he got FRIENDZONED.

'... You and I are friends, Basil, and we must always remain so.' - Dorian Gray

#basil really did love dorian #all the way till the end #and boy #the level of GAY in this book #is WOW #extra spoiler #things are about to get much worse for both dorian and basil #for anyone who doesn't know #the picture of dorian gray #is about a beautiful young man called dorian gray who trades his soul for eternal youth #he remains young and beautiful forever #but a portrait of him (painted by basil hallward) gets uglier and older every time he commits a sin #his sinful behaviour is influenced by a horror called lord henry wotton #the relationship between these three is VERY homoerotic btw #if you haven't read it you ought to #have a good day/night! #tpodg

[posletsvet]

Nothing from what I've learnt this morning is true, I'm gonna cuddle up with my cats and stay in bed all day and daydream about everyone being alive and happy

#jjk #jjk leaks #jjk 236 #the most cruel thing of all is that gojo never got to claim the happiness of his youth back #all he ever knew in his life was being the strongest and fighting #gege goes around saying things like what gojo truly lacks is the sense of self #meanwhile gojo was othered throughout his entire life for what he is #he was slaughtered for what he is #he was sealed for what he is #he was left fighting alone because of what he is #gojo coveted change but he himself remains a static symbol etched into the narrative #and now he dies and his death is nothing but a symbol a cautionary tale for others to derive meaning from #at the end of the day gojo is a case study of a romantic hero archetype #he rejects established conventions because they suffocate him as much as his strength does only to be rejected by his society in return #he is the center of his own existence but still carries ideology which has others placed at its core #and he dies for his ideal forever estranged from the world he's put in #and it is all in vain #and it is the cruelest thing of all #and it can't be true it's not true it's not true it's not true it's not true #i need to go scream in the woods #me: it's devastating and terrible and makes me feel sick. i'm emotionally overwhelmed and would not be prepared to talk about it for weeks #my brain: okay but what if we analyze it– #apparently my coping machanism is compartmentalizing #the narrative never pretended to care about gojo as a person his character introduces a body of meaning and that's it #and it's how it's supposed to be honestly since he's not the main character he adds to the narrative but he isn't supposed to drive it #but it still aches so bad #he dies so that his ideal can live on he is not a person he is a narrative's symbol and this is as far as objectification can go

[beastren]

it's implied that miquella was acting as st. trina in the period of time where he was using his body/blood to feed the haligtree, and that stopped when he was taken by mohg.... i'm almost like.... i wonder if st.trina was his way of trying to do what ranni did and sever his own more spiritual existence from his cursed empyrean flesh....

since he was banking on his youth/abundance to keep watering the tree forever it's safe to assume he might've had really big plans for what he wanted to do as st. trina.... i saw a theory comparing the haligtree to the world tree in berserk that links the spirit and physical realms i wonder if that means anything abt his st. trina alter ego being able to cross over.... again thinking abt him wanting the eclipse for the same reason to bring back godwyn's soul (if only to have him die a proper death) and ofc the theories of st. trina being a tool miquella used for the goal of locating godwyn's soul in the first place

the haligtree almost looks like it's attempting to double helix like the world tree, and in the shadow of the erdtree teaser image there seems to be two trees, (one likely the erdtree) forming a double helix.... the other tree looks severely blighted. there's something to be said abt a dark tree overtaking one which is symbolic of the sun- golden, shining, life-giving- and a solar eclipse.... much to think about

and lastly going back to his potentially endless font of blood he was using to water the haligtree.... mohg has so much to do with blood and in cut content malenia says something about the someone selfishly bleeding miquella dry (implied to be the player and in a much different content; likely the blood would've been a consumable item?) .... it leads me to two questions.... did mohg take him just for his blood? and, how much of the blood at mohgwyn could be miquella's....

#clyde.txt #miquella the unalloyed #elden ring #theories #analysis #idk man.... throwing this one out there #it only seems natural as time goes on and something isn't done about godwyn's corpse that he would grow something big enough to eclipse #the erdtree itself.... only a matter of time.... #i did it i am being brave and vulnerable and actually posting words and thoughts and ideas on this acc 😱😱 #miquella #what better offering for a goddess who craves wounds than a guy who can bleed forever.... sat right on a huge pelvis in a cocoon womb.... #something abt that almost feels infantalizing.... like he's not being allowed to escape his eternal youth.... which IS what's happeni #and it's all a very good allegory for trauma and the creepiness of what mohg is doing.... ugh 💔💔

[goldenpinof]

honestly don't care if Troye never performs youth again as long as he keeps performing bite, ease, too good, dkla, talk me down and heaven

#dkla must sound amazing live. the music #wild ep has better songs than youth. like im sorry that's a fact #and tmd is just next level #i hope he comes to berlin so we all could have a party there 😭 #also happy little pill? for the real ones please? #like he said that now he is much more comfortable and confident in songwriting #but blue neighbourhood has amazing lyrics. it's simpler but it hits just as hard if not harder #im sorry babes don't be so harsh on baby you #anyways blue neighbourhood rights! forever and always #troye sivan #forgot to say that blue is fucking surreal #it just throws you in another dimension

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[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

the higher-ups (and Yaga) immediately trying to leverage Gojo & Ieri's absence to put Yuuta on the roster??? God that's such a stark moment. Thank god Nanami and Gojo saw through that one immediately, because Yuuta wants to justify his own survival so badly he would've fallen straight into it.

That whole scene, with Yuuta immediately jumping on the opportunity to help people even though something is Extremely Wrong with him and he's on the brink of physical collapse--this boy is selfless to the point of self destruction and I am chewing the drywall about it. I love him so much.

If only he was able to summon his newly found homicidal rage in defense of himself, the higher-ups would no longer be a problem. Alas, this boy is Extremely Unwell.

(Sea Glass Gardens is absolutely incredible and i am obsessed with it in a way that is totally and 100% normal. I'm so normal about it, trust me <3 )

The thing about Yuuta is that he really is prime to be taken advantage of right now and the higher ups know it. They had him try to kill himself for them--they know that there's a window of opportunity that they can use to get him under their thumb and avoid The Problem of Gojo, which is, namely, having a human weapon who you cannot fully control. Gojo nailed it from the beginning: they want a magic gatling gun with no personality or free will. They learned their lesson with Gojo and are trying to rob Yuuta of his agency before he learns how to protect himself.

And Yaga's part in that scene really was meant to kind of emphasize how, even with the best intention's, he just doesn't work to protect the kids. Like. everything he said was technically true, and he meant it with the best of intentions. He's the guy who has to think of everyone's needs. he has to manage this crisis. he's got a lot of people hurt badly who just came out of a war, and a lot of people going into fights with some very aggravated curses spawning without sufficient manpower to address the danger and no healer to save them if they cut it a little too close. He didn't have the intention of manipulating or sacrificing Yuuta, but he was aware that it would come to his detriment and risk.

The issue is the higher ups. They don't give a shit about the people in their workforce. They should be the ones doing whatever it takes to solve this crisis and save their people--and if that means giving up on their machinations? They should have already done it. It's their responsibility.

They just don't care. They want Okkotsu Yuuta under their thumb, and their society hemorrhaging is treated like an opportunity, not a dire problem to be solved. They don't care if half a dozen of their own people need to die to do it. Hell, it's better if they do die--they can put it straight on Okkotsu for not being willing to sacrifice himself, when they should have been making whatever promises they had to in order to make this work.

Gojo's done this before, is the thing. He was Yuuta, a long time ago. Nanami was right there watching it happen. They both know what the higher ups do: They let society get to a crisis level and put all the responsibility on you to save it. they let you maneuver yourself into a vulnerable position as a result, and then they use it as leverage to put their goddamn boot on your neck.

The thing is that Gojo adopting megumi all those years ago really did put them into a crisis state. the zenin pitched the mother of all bitch fits trying to secure his unconditional return, and they were a huge percentage of jujutsu society's labor force and resource pools. instead of the higher ups managing the problem at all, they took advantage of the situation and shoved more and more of its weight and responsibility onto gojo, until he was dropping off his own kid at his abusers' compound thinking it was the only compromise that could resolve things. megumi paid the price for gojo not calling bullshit, and right now, with him in a hospital bed? gojo's less willing to repeat mistakes than ever.

he knows that they're going to use the safety and suffering of everyone else as the leverage against him, and he knows that as terrible as it is, he cannot blink first. He's played this game before, and he knows that the only way to get the higher ups to back off on something like this is to dig in your heels.

I think what happened to Megumi all those years ago and how bad it got before they put a stop to it is something that haunts all three of them. When they first started raising him, they were very young, and they were very broken, and they loved him very, very much. He was their little boy, and he was never the same after the Zenin. They were supposed to protect him, and they didn't, and not a single one of them has forgiven themselves for that.

Megumi was sort of sacrificed for the greater good when he was a kid. None of them thought that that was what they were doing when it happened, but that's what happened. His happiness, safety, and wellbeing were sacrificed to pacify the Zenin and make it easier on everyone else.

Megumi and Tsumiki had to become their non-negotiables after. They had to become the things they refused to compromise on. The Zenin would take miles and miles if you gave them a millimeter, let alone an inch.

Gojo didn't think he was compromising them when he left them on their own to deal with Geto's war. They were disgustingly self-sufficient kids. They had been alone for longer stretches of time when they were practically toddlers--they should have been fine on their own for a couple of weeks.

But they were still his kids, and he still left them alone for everyone else's sake, and now his kid is blind and half dead in a hospital bed. It's like being punched in the face by old mistakes.

So they're off the roster completely, all of them. And they're not compromising an inch on what their focus is, and they're not letting anything happen to any of the other kids in their care.

It's terrible that their coworkers are suffering, but it wouldn't be happening if the Zenin hadn't fucked with Gojo Satoru's kid, of all the goddamn people. It wouldn't be happening if the higher ups would actually do their job and start managing shit.

And if they use Yuuta as an anxiety riddled bandaid on the bullet hole in their society? Then they'd be sacrificing him the way they sacrificed Megumi all those years ago. And they have never been less willing to do that.

I'm so so glad you like the story! Thank you for talking with me!

#i think gojo has such a big emphasis on giving kids the tools to protect themselves because no one ever did that for him or geto #geto snapped under the pressure and was lost to gojo forever #Gojo repeatedly focuses on giving the kids the tools to enjoy their childhood without being hurt #like with yuuji--he doesn't want him to sacrifice his youth and happiness with the others #so he focuses on giving him the strength to protect himself when gojo isn't there #in my mind that's also why gojo was always trying to feed yuuji the fingers #like when i first started the series it seemed kind of weird to me because gojo very obviously didn't want yuuji dead #until i realized that yuuji canonically had a good chance at suppressing sukuna even at 20 fingers as long as he had them spaced out #if yuuji had sukunas power level and had gotten it in increments eventually the higher ups couldnt touch him and hed still be under control #honestly none of the adults are doing well right now #a little under a decade ago the issue with the zenin came to a head and megumi ended up being very small and very hurt in a hospital bed #and they promised him that it would never happen again #now he looks very small and very hurt and he's in a hospital bed and the zenin put him there #as much as he's an angry teenager who hates displays affection he really is their little boy and they adore him #nanami was the one who took him from the zenin the final time all those years ago and he personally promised megumi that he would never eve #go back to that place. he feels like a complete failure right now. #gojo always blamed himself for not digging in his heels and refusing the custody compromise and now he's FURIOUS that this happened under #his nose a second time. i think gojos really interesting in the hero role because he's canonically low empathy and struggles with homicidal #impulses and let me tell you he thought about just killing all the zenin back then and he's REALLY thinking about it right now. there's one #fucking way of making sure this never happens again. #shoko generally feels like shit because this is supposed to be the one thing she can do to help and she /can't/ do it right now to help #megumi. also she privately thinks she had the most opportunity to realize how bad it was with the zenin back then and /didn't/. #she was going through a lot of her own issues back then and the zenin had some kind of believable excuses for why megumi was always banged #up. like. he was already getting into fights at school. its not like the zenin had issues procreating. they said he was picking fights #with other kids and that's where he got hurt. they actually blamed maki more than once. and some bruises here and there is expected for a #kid in combat training even at what was meant to be a very preliminary level. he was supposed to be in like. kiddie karate classes and they #didn't realize the zenin were training him like a fucking marine. it was SO obvious in hindsight and that tortures them. #protecting yuuta right now kind of feels like a chance to get it right the first time and all of them need that now that they feel like the #fucked it up with megumi a second time #sea glass gardens

[azumasoroshi]

oh of course izaya is an oscar wilde fan. he would definitely use this as his bio for his private discord/twitter account

pulls out the importance of being earnest and the picture of dorian gray. time to analyze these from the psychological/literary perspective of izaya lets go baby (he has his own category)

edit check tags and rbs for some actual analysis stuff lmAOo

#izaya orihara #as a lit student and psych student izaya is literally ticking all of my boxes rn #bruh imagine if i made a dorian gray!izaya au. fucking imagine #every time he does something particularly sus he comes home and his image gets older and uglier #it fits too because izaya is like. young adult man. seducer of women. there's absolutely a theme of eternal youth in there #he wants to be young forever so that he can continue flipping through the streets and keep his mind sharp and keep being an informant #he never wants to gain enough wisdom to think 'man this sounds like a bad idea' or 'i'd be better off staying out of this' #im not sure how i would end the au though pff knowing me id just make it shizaya and have either a happy ending or stupidly tragic ending #happy ending: izaya grows a few braincells and starts to find contentment in growth rather than the thrill of stasis #tragic ending (spoilers for dorian gray. whoops): izaya goes insane from seeing his portrait so marred and stabs it and dies #good ending could be ketsu compliant and the picture reverts back to normal after he undergoes the Royal Ass-kicking #hm. ill workshop this more #meanwhile the whole thing with Earnest and the multiple names and stuff sounds like something izaya would to fuck with people #which would just be funny #plus the gay jokes are peak izaya #durarara #starts reading all of oscar wilde's works so i can write more entertaining izaya fanfiction #thats just how it goes babyyyy

[itspileofgoodthings]

thinking about Henry’s overwhelming (to my feelings) but still deeply restrained and gentle kindness to Catherine after he has to tell her to stop making up stories about his mom’s death.

#Austen is SO clear about it #there is a line that goes something like: #his behavior to her [ after the scene ] was no different than any previous evening except rather more gentle #and it makes me want to die #Catherine is resilient with the true resilience of not over-precious youth #it is not in her temperament to brood forever #but she is in utter ANGUISH at her mistake. just totally devastated and in shock at the newness of it #and he just walks her through it. and it’s never condescending. it comes from a deep place of love and respect #as the (necessary) wound-dealer he felt some of the grief of her wound #anyway yeah Emma’s right. the JJ Feild northanger adaptation completely skips this #northanger abbey #jane austen

[sparklecryptid]

More random thoughts that made me laugh - a Lovecraft-inspired thought about how a Lazarus might respond to a question about Luche’s whereabouts. “In her Uncle’s home on Angelgard Rita’s daughter lies dreaming.”

Auto-correct, the bane of everyones existence!

ahem.

have a thing.

@hamelin-born

-

Cor is good at getting information. He knows he is good at getting information. Cor is one of the best at sniffing out leads and then rending the leads and the trail of traitorous garbage it leads to to ashes. There is no trail he can't follow and no one he can't threaten.

Or at least he thought that was the case, until Luche Lazarus blew up half a battlefield, ripped fate apart in a carnage of magic and blood, and proceeded to vanish off the face of Eos.

Cor can't find her. Her comrades can't find her. Titus fucking Drautos probably knows where she is but is refusing to tell him or Regis where the erstwhile princess is. Drautos had pulled out some bullshit about honoring a 'life debt' when threatened with treason and Regis and Cor had back down because the two of them know what that means.

It's the same thing that binds Cor to Regis after all, punishing Drautos for not tattling on his princess seems to be in bad taste.

So Cor goes to the next available source of information.

He goes to Clan Lazarus. The fact that they're seers means they must have some sort of information on their wayward daughter.

It turns out they do.

It also turns out they do not want to share that information with Cor or the King.

"She's with her uncle," one says, repeating the words others have spoken to Cor in the past three days, "She's safe."

"I need to know where she is," Cor grinds out.

"She's safe," the Lazarus repeats, "That's all that matters isn't it?"

-

Cor finally gets an audeince with the Clan Elder. She's an old woman, the white in her hair overtaking the strands of black that that still show.

Terra is also warm - not in body temperature - in the same way Regis is warm. Like she looks at you and knows that you're a threat but will treat you kindly anyway.

Cor is uncomfortable.

"Where is Luche Lazarus?" He asks Terra.

"Tita's daughter rests in her uncle's home on Angelgard," Terra says and Cor's blood runs cold.

-

Angelgard is unpleasant. The smell of salt in the air and the warmth of the sun that Luche can finally feel on her skin doesn't detract from that. Angelgard is too full of memories, of the echoes of Ardyn screaming and begging for it to be pleasant.

Still Luche is here for a reason. No one will think to look for her here, and although walking into her uncle's home - a small two bedroom cabin that is furnished far too expensively for Luche's taste - had gotten Luche almost sliced open by a scythe she can't say that she minds having Ardyn be a hovering presence as he scowls at her and drags her away from the parts of the island that hold his worst memories.

Luche doesn't mind it.

That doesn't mean she's expecting it when a furious Tredd blasts open the door and is treated to the exact same treatment Luche received when she arrived.

Cor has a blade to her uncle's neck and Luche considers stabbing him for the affront.

#a darkness born in youth verse #and somehow things calm down. tredd is still pissed off. luche is ignoring him in favor of eating the dainty sweets #ardyn brought over from the empire. #and then cor sees her doing that and looks pained as he tosses a package of baked goods at her #'from drautos' he says as if that explains everything #and it does #ardyn meanwhile: can i murder? #luche: no #ardyn: can i MURDER A LITTLE BIT #luche: unfortunately the furia is mine so no #ardyn: you didn't say anything about the lion #luche: i dont care what happens to him. you might though #anyway ardyn had a niece walk into his summer home that he never uses and force him to like her. #so now hes going to complain about it forever