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hi!! sorry to bother you, but do you by any chance have a rules page? im unable to find it and i may just be blind lol
hi, i think that's more a me problem then a 'your blind' kind of problem, haha! i honestly don't think i ever got around to moving my rules page onto zen's blog. that's something i still have to do ;; so, sorry about that. i do have a rules page listed on my midna blog, and you're welcome to use them as a reference! @atdusk, / rules.
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ask day !! break my heart if you want a yellow thunderer in your inbox!
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@masterswxrdsman said: "Must you cry on me?"
calm. that's the only way zentisu can describe the sound that permeates from this man. it’s a somber thing ; though somehow sanguine in nature which belies how surprisingly grounding it is. even still, the only logical response zentisu has to the other’s question is to, of course, sob louder while franticly clutching to the man’s garb. using it to pull himself further onto his little — raft? coffin? boat? he’s not exactly sure what to classify the vessel as, all he knows is that if he lets go, then that’s it.
it’s only once he’s sure he won’t join the fishes for lunch does zenitsu relax his grip & force his tears to subside with a disgruntled sniff or two. “where are we going?” he finally gets out, inconspicuously using his sleeve to clean the mess off his face before promptly peeking over the yellow garment’s fringes.
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@thunderwept ♥'ed for a starter!
Annoyance tugged at Inosuke’s traits. If only his body had behaved just a little longer, he could have avoided all this.
He sat cross-legged, shoulders slumped, hands resting in his lap. If he hadn’t staggered right into the ground, Zenitsu would never have noticed his injury. Or so the boar believed, unaware that blood had seeped through his boar mask, leaving a large scarlet patch behind the ears.
The boar mask rested by his side, while his companion kneeled beside him, whining panickedly as per his habit. For once, Inosuke was the calmest of the two.
“I’m telling you, it’s just a bump! Just leave it and it’ll stop bleeding, if you’re that scared of touching it!”
he blinks ; shocked into an abrupt dumbfounded silence. momentarily left to stare pointedly at the crimson froth oozing out of his friend’s cranium. squinting at it through the small gap between his outstretched hands. processing.
1, 2, “why would — that’s not —- it’s —- just shut up and sit still!” & there it is.
what was the point in trying to explain the reason behind his fretting. that he’d picked up that something was wrong simply by the shift in inosuke’s cadence. just how loud & grating the sound of impacted hide was against his ears, or the fact that he knew, from experience, exactly how you shouldn’t let head wounds, of any kind, to sit & fester.
with a resigned huff, zenitsu lets his weight settle further against his calves as he carefully begins to card his fingers into the wild-man’s hair ; cleaning away gore & debris alike. deceptively gentle & sure-handed despite his earlier outbursts. he’s done within a matter of minutes, going so far as to tear off a piece of his inner haori to use to pack the wound before finally pulling away. only to give a fretful, & frankly disgusted once over at the blood matted mask still resting peacefully at the boar’s side.
zentisu’s quick to scoop the item up into his hands because just no — not on his life was that thing going another foot with them in that condition. lest they wanted to wake up to a horde of maggots or worse in the morning, & he would not — absolutely would not be subjected to the torment of skittering legs twice in his abysmally short life.
“stay there and rest, i'll be right back… and don’t pick at your head.”
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I can fly without wings⚡
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@slayersaided said: "you should do your best, but remember everyone's best is different. you may not always be the best, but you can always do your best."
“are you messing with me?” he was, wasn’t he? why else would haru purposefully track him down. a breath comes & goes & zenitsu finds himself pivoting back onto the heels of feet. shifting his gaze from the kakushi to that of the butterfly estate itself. examining the walls. “i want to be better — i've uh, been working on something.” his technique, or well, an extension of it anyways. it’s something he’s yet to voice & somehow, now that it’s out there, spoken to another, it feels real. “i want to be better. not the best, i'm not cut out for that, but — better.”
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@higoyoku said: shield: my muse shields yours with their body.
meme : * drabble checklist
the demon shrieks ; & zentisu actually has the ill-pleasure of hearing his ��own eardrums burst under the sheer weight of its frequency. instinctively, he slaps both hands over his ears, with a whimper that can’t hear, in an effort to alleviate his disorientating discomfort as he stumbles back. squinting into the middle distance as he tries to overcome the pain piercing into his skull while simultaneously ignore the patch of sticky warmth seeping into the crook of his fingers.
& then, in the crux of his staggering confusion is a brush of hands at his collar, fingers yanking & pulling at his person. manhandling him until he’s forced to his knees & a weight’s pressed snug over the curve of his spine. & it takes a second too long for his addled mind to fill in the blanks. that this position could only mean one thing given the circumstances & now he’s mentally scrambling.
that is, until he manages to see that glint of fire-kissed red over his shoulder — and the retreating back of the demon as it cackles & dances with the third member of their group. he blinks, & the weight at his back increases. to the point that he’s forced to release his poor injured ears in order to plant the palms of his hands into the ground to support them both with a grunt.
“h-hey.” he tries, probably a little louder than necessary considering he can’t exactly judge his own volume at the moment. his alarm doubles when he notices a secondary trail of warmth seeping into the small of his back & then, like a switch, zenitsu pushes back. rears up on his knees until he’s managed to hook an arm under tanjiro’s & all but pull the other boy into the cradle of his lap. blinking almost owlishly as he searches for the injury he knows must be there given exactly how wet & tacky his back feels. “the hell is wrong with you? what did you go and do a thing like that for!?”
honestly, the only bite in his voice is primed from a place of concern as he works to find & judge the extent of the wound. “i would have been fine.” or he wouldn’t have, but, given the circumstance, he would have much preferred if it meant tanjiro hadn’t been injured in his place. “i swear you better be okay, or i'll haunt you from the grave. you hear me, tanjiro?! ”
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@storystrange said: thunder. kaigaku & zenitsu. go.
meme : * drabble checklist
it takes one piece of paper to narrow his world-view. slotting it back into the shades of grey that once accompanied his youth. clinging fast to the far edges of his haori. clutching to the cleft of his throat with it’s icy fingers. it takes one piece of paper & the harrowing message it holds to cleave his already fractured heart into two. & god, how excruciating it is. to learn that gramps — his mentor had succumbed to such a terrible fate. driven to his breaking point by one of his own.
the tears come ; ushered in silence & strangling with each & every pass. he weeps, pleading to any god despite knowing none would listen while pressing that horrid letter to his face. the edges crumpling under his shaking grip when the realization that gramps had died thinking one of his kids was a nothing but a crybaby who could only master the first form of his technique, & the other, who was able to learn every form but the former, had bespoke himself as the very thing they had been trained to vanquish. both, in hindsight, amounting to be the vain of his existence. a stain of despondent shame marking his legacy.
the letter succeeding in efficiently & cruelly tearing not one, but both of his precious family members from him in one fell swoop. whittling away the only home he’s ever truly known. there’s nothing now: no where to return to, no one to write to — to share his growth with. all he had now, was this paper & the anguish that followed.
he sobs into that piece of parchment. letting it take the brunt of his sorrow when the forefront of his mind zeroes in on a striking toll. one that, before today, he would have associated with that of their little house accented in a grove of peach trees. one that had once held a chime of security. it’s corrupted now. a harrowing mockery of a once fond sound & zentisu feels his jaw creek with the wave of surmounting angry that washes through him beneath it’s wake.
“you’re shitting me, right?” zenitsu barks, voice rough from tears; lightning singing at his heels with each thundering step. freed & uncontrolled. “did you think i wouldn’t notice you? or did you think, that i wouldn’t be able to hear you?” he scoffs, because if that’s the case, then he was surely the idiot.. “or did you come here to gloat at the old man’s death?”
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* drabble checklist
send a word for a drabble! feel free to specify which muse does what.
catch: your muse discovers mine doing something they shouldn’t
note: my muse leaves a note for yours
bed: your muse tucks mine in
console: my muse comforts yours
embrace: my muse hugs yours
rocky: your muse finds mine bruised and bloody
jacket: your muse bundles mine up before they go outside
dial: my muse calls yours
heart: my muse says i love you
why: my muse shows how much they care, without words!
hush: your muse calms mine down (from lashing out, crying, etc.)
pain: your muse looks after mine when they have a headache
clock: my muse is late (home, work, etc.)
soup: your muse cares for my ill muse
shield: my muse shields yours with their body
laugh: my muse laughs at a joke, funny story, etc.
cape: my muse saves yours
scar: your muse touches one of mine’s scars
guilt: my muse apologizes
fright night: my muse has a nightmare
diner: our muses eat at a 24 hour diner
half: our muses share something (snack, blanket, etc.)
book: our muses read a story
twinkle: our muses go stargazing
fight club: our muses argue
popcorn: our muses watch a movie
song: our muses listen to music
roam: our muses get lost
classy: our muses go to a formal event
candy: a fluffy moment
thunder: an angry moment
boo: a spooky moment
whoopee: a celebratory moment
onion: a sad moment
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@storystrange said: " happy birthday, zenitsu. come dance with me. " tanjiro offers him a smile before taking the blond's hands in his own & gently starting to tug him along in a few slow, careful steps of the hinokami kagura. dancing always makes him feel special, & one day perhaps he'll show his dearest friend the full extent of the kagura ... but for now he's happy to share the moment with him, painstakingly showing him where to place his feet & how to move his body. " that's right. you're doing really well, zenitsu! "
“thank you, wait dance—-huh —- HUH!?” for all he’s worth, he goes willingly. letting his hands slide into the steady embrace of tanjiro’s. a motion that would have once heralded hesitance ; but now only holds a touch of warmth. & it’s that warmth that sings through his veins discoloring the apples of his cheeks in a merry flush of crimson.
it takes a second — he’d never SEEN tanjiro use the hinokami kagura, but he’s HEARD it & with every step they take, the silent song only he can perceive maps out a familiar tune. one that matches his friend’s sun-breathing technique word for word, though a touch more subdued without the kagura’s trailing heat. astonished, zenitu’s gaze snaps to their feet, as if he could see a sight he’s painstakingly missed at every turn —- as if he could engrave the movements into his mind’s eye without a simple look.
tanjiro’s got a gentle guiding hand, & zentisu relishes in it. a spark of mirth welling well within him as he dutifully follows suit. stepping were instructed while unconsciously drawing himself closer to the fire-kissed boy. freeing a hand from tanjiro’s grip in favor of sliding it up & over the other’s shoulder ; where he lets it rest, with the pads of his fingertips absently brushing through the small hairs at his hairline.
he can hear the harmonizing contentedness of them both as the dance continues, & he’s happy to indulge the other. basking merrily within the other’s presence while learning something precious with every shared breath.
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@thunderwept asked : kisses inosuke’s cheek bc it’s HIS birthday & he’ll do it if he wants to.
what the hell was that for? the boar is too stunned to speak for a few moments, but once he regains his bearings he considers hauling off and hitting him. then he remembers what tangerine had told him : TODAY IS ZEN GARDEN’S BIRTHDAY, so he supposes it would be rude to punch him.
for today. only for today.
❝ you’re lucky i tolerate you. ❞
fair cheeks flush ; his skin tingles where zenitsu had pressed his lips. its embarrassing, the way his heart gallops in his chest. what kind of demon slayer can decapitate all manner of monsters but loses his cool when confronted with simple intimacy? that bears too much thinking, so inosuke instead grips his mother’s hide tight and yanks the hollow head over his own, concealing his softening expression from the thunder breather’s gaze.
❝ happy birthday, i suppose. ❞
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@brighterburn said: ❛ take down . // akaza @ zenitsu because i want to bully you
it’s as if it’s a game to this upper moon. after all, there’s no mistaking a predator playing with its prey. a cackle sounds, enveloping his senses before a hand catches at the scruff of his neck with wide spread fingers that eclipse the entirety of skull & skin. it’s immediately followed by the twin pressure of a set of knees digging into his lower back. & just like that, he’s viciously ripped right out of his thundering pace & straight into the ground with an explosive THUD. the earth renting beneath the sheer force of the impact.
his katana THUNKS into the ground, just aft of his own finger tips & a distinct weight settles overtop of his lower back. that thready, self-amused cackle is back ; proverbially beating at his eardrums as thighs cinch in at his sides, effectively caging him in. toying with him. the pressure at the back of his neck increases & the air all but hisses in a plume of smoke from between the thunderer’s lips, infuriated.
he’s well aware of the situation he’s in ; had been one of the few who had seen the full extent of the damage inflicted upon his mentor during the mugen train incident. he knows — feels all too keenly the sickening chill of inevitable death as he’s all but forced another grueling centimeter into the rockface by the unrelenting grip at his neck. a thrill of fear shivers up his spine, alighting every last nerve in his body in a shock of ice.
he’s going to die here.
but —
zentisu forces himself to move, the curve of his cheek scraping against jagged stone as he turns his head to the side. there’s the tell-tale sound of skin giving beneath the movement. he can all but HEAR it tearing & yet, all of his concentration is on his technique. filling every last ounce of his body with the breath of thunder.
the air crackles. a foreboding warning to the maelstrom brewing. the small crater they’re in impounds, the very ground itself tearing itself asunder, as if trying to claw away from the demon slayer as a force of reckoning erupts in the wake of activating his first form: shinsoku.
— he’s not dead yet.
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Inosuke:...Do you think worms dream?
Zenitsu:....
Zenitsu:...IT IS 2 AM INOSUKE-
Inosuke: Do you think birds dream, too?
Tanjiro: Those are some..fascinating thoughts, Inosuke.
Zenitsu: Don't encourage him!!
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