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jammyjamster · 4 months

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Morden au sorta with near and mello aka silly meronia (platonic or romantic is up to you :D)

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meroniazine · 1 year

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🌙Cursed Moons: A MeroNia Fanzine out now!🌙

After much hard work, we are proud to announce the release of the very first MeroNia based fanzine! This fan creation contains over 100pgs of beautiful artwork and writings!

You can download the zine completely free from the link found here: https://meroniazine.carrd.co/#zinedownload

🤍From all of us on the Mod team, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has worked on this project! We hope the wait was worth it, and that you enjoy reading through these wonderous works! 🖤

With much love, -Mod Soul

#Death Note #DeathNote #Meronia #mellonear #MelloxNear #fanzine

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asmilethatshines · 3 months

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I have been lazy lately and lied down all day. I just upload one of my old works for Valentine's day ._.

I have nothing against Matt. He is a cool character. But he'd better stay at their best friend or wingman =v=

#meronia #valentines day #mello #melloxnear #near death note #tsk tsk

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forbiddensoul562 · 10 months

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Which one is easier to picture or get behind, a shy mello or a shy Near?

Interesting question... I think a shy Near is easier to envision in a more general sense, but I like envisioning them both as a bit shy.

That is to say: I think Near would be shyer for longer than Mello.

I think Mello would be a shy child, too. But when he gets fucked over by life, or realizes that his shyness is only going to get him taken advantage of by the world, I think he sets that aside in favor of the more brash kind of persona we see throughout the series.

Near on the other hand, I think he'd hold onto that a little bit longer than Mello.

I think Mello would find it endearing, too~

#Or Mello would deem it to be his personal goal in life to break within Near #Meronia #MelloxNear #death note

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redmelawashere · 1 month

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Alright I got woken up at like 3 AM with FORBIDDEN MEMORIES™️ and remember that MelloNear literally had a fandom video game. What other fucking fandom has SHIPPING VIDEO GAMES.

I think it just hit me since recently I've been thinking a lot about how fandom spaces shift over time (especially as we have re-boots, live-actions, or other media that helps reinvigorate fandoms like currently with A:TLA) and honestly, MelloNear has had so many ups and downs and like…as someone who was in this fandom WAY too young and grew up with it I want to see how many people on tumblr, who were there in ye olden wild west days, remember the stuff I do and also for those of you who weren’t around back then but are big now, here’s the insane history that I remember:

1 - LiveJournal (LJ) and the LOST FICS LJ was initially one of the better places to find fics – but a lot of authors jumped ship when FF.NET started to take over and for other reasons that were before my time. Finding fics on LJ that haven’t been deleted was/is hard and their UI is trash I never could get a grasp on it. (The irony of FF.NET now being dead and people jumping ship to AO3 and Tumblr lol.) Astyzia_ii used to write really fucking good MelloNear stuff there. She was one of the first people I ever read that had insanely good Near characterization. Unfortunately, her account no longer exists. But some of the things she wrote were things like:

Near being a total brat (at the time, no one else was really writing Near like that. Including Near lying to Mello about being assaulted by other children at Whammy's, just generally putting him in his place, etc.)

Mello painting Near’s nails black (then this trope just went off on FF.NET and everyone was writing fics like that - I really like when stuff like this comes out of fandom)

Mello finding out that Near, despite being in love with him, thought Mello was so unapproachable he had sex with someone else (implied Giovanni) and Mello is basically confronting Near about it at a time when Near was treated as a prudish virgin in fandom

Finding each other in the apocalypse AU

Mello and Near being like high school sweethearts (salthearts?) and Mello wanting to go to a University in the BIG CITY but would ignore the offer if it meant staying with Near (and super tragic fic too. They pull over on a freeway after an argument about it and then Near just straight up gets hit by a car after pushing Mello out of the way 💀 and you don't know if Near survived)

And obviously, many more really creative AUs

2 - KurosakiAkane and VIDEO GAMES Akane, as Spanish artist and the original “cursed moons” drew some of the most viral and prolific MelloXNear doujinshis and EVEN MADE FANDOM VIDEO GAMES. Like I can’t believe I forgot about this. Akane literally made fandom yaoi video games and they were SO GOOD. What other fandom has shipping video games you’d think it’d be the norm I can barley wrap my head around it

Pretty sure her website (www.cursedmoons.com) is down so you can’t download them directly from there or see her full doujinshis anymore

Her DeviantArt account is still live so you can see some stills and teasers from her doujinshis.

Her LJ account is also still live but more so as an archive.

Her first game “D.nD Poisoned” can be downloaded here if you scroll to the bottom (but I haven’t checked the link so be wary…) but it was basically taking place during Whammy’s days, and yes, Mello has a knife cause he’s unhinged since those were just the times ig.

“D.nD Infection” was her second, unfinished game, which would have been when they were mid-Kira investigation post Mello blowing up the base. I found a website that hosts the short demo she released.

Her games literally inspired a new wave of AUs for the fandom in the fic department and she was just a titan who kept everyone together on all corners of the internet. When she decided to leave the fandom in like 2011 after 2010’s great FF.NET purge of M rated fics it kind of felt like the beginning of the end.

3 - Doujinshis (fandom comics) Most doujinshi artists had their own websites and MANY were Japanese / Chinese translated into English (pretty sure Akane was the first one to create them exclusively in English...). There are so many archived on YouTube that I used to watch all the time. You can even still find some of Akane’s doujinshi’s on Youtube like:

January

Lost Innocence

The Last Birthday

Game Over

Chocolate Kiss

One of the ones that was most impactful on me was this one that I cannot remember the name of, and it wasn't by Akane, but basically Mello, freshly 16 trying to stay alive, resorts to prostitution, and the big revealer at the end is he’s just kind of left there, alone, opens up his hand and there’s a little white puzzle piece he stole from Near and pretty sure the last line was something along the lines of “no one else” and I just 😭

4 - Lost Art and the Famous Water Colours

A lot of that water-colour MN art you see floating around was from, if I'm not mistaken, a Chinese MelloNear artist and their website I think was just "w" or something and she had created 100s of MN art.

5 - ForbiddenSoul562 and FF.NET Beef and Fan Fic Rap Battles

Soul was one of the BIGGEST creators on FF.NET (and luckily, she’s still active both on FF.Net and here on tumblr!) I remember when she had like a fic battle with another creator FragilePuzzle (who is also on tumblr and active – but they post M-ll-M-tt stuff now and pretty sure they deleted all their MelloNear fics... Their active handle on tumblr is mizzmellos I think? Anyways, they’ve also switched from writing to art and its really good!) And there was like a whole “vote who you think wrote the better fic” and it was like Clash of the Titans. Shame that Fragile, as they used to go by, doesn’t like MN anymore since they also wrote a lot of really good stuff. When Fragile stopped posting and Soul went on an extended hiatus that also felt like another beginning of the end loooooool (pretty sure Soul and Mzz had an interaction here on tumblr reminding each other of each other and I had so much social anxiety I was like headbanging watching this interaction go down and if I'm remembering correctly it started cordial but didn't really end well but I could be 100% misremembering the tone of the interaction but if you dig through Soul's tumblr you can probably find it or mzzs for that matter.) 6 - Kids Writing Dark Tropes

I feel like I should make another post and just…describe how Mello and Near were portrayed individually and in a relationship during that time since it was honestly insane. Very toxic, very star-crossed lovers who revolve around each other but are devastating together and are healthier a part, and so much more. I’m much happier with where their characterization and how the fandom has evolved currently from those times lol. But I think over the years I’ve also realized how fucking young all of us were (I was literally like…13 consuming all this media which retroactively, I’m like YIKES 18+ is 18+ for a reason and I even realized some of my favourite authors / creators who I thought were way older than me or like “cool teenagers” were also close to my age and not that much older so no wonder we were all writing crazy unstable relationship shit like that - which can be fun! - but this was literally all. the. time.).

Honestly that’s all I can remember for now but what a wild ride. I know FF.NET is like, a super hard platform to use now (and just gets worse every day 🙃) but if anyone wants some MN fic recs from the vault lmk and I’ll make a post about it.

-Redmela

#redmela screams #redmela rants #death note #mn #mellonear #meronia #cursed moons #like shit I wish Akane could have at least finished Infection I can't even begin to grasp the talent of writing/scripting/drawing/codding #ALL BY YOURSELF #FOR FREE #FOR THE FANDOM AND THE PEPOLE #mEANWHILE I have like 50 WIPs for multiple fandoms byeeeeeee #Mello | Mihael Keehl #Near | Nate River #D.nD Poisoned #D.nD Infection #Fandom video games #fandom culture #fandom history

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puropoly · 7 months

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Hi!!!

I love your DN art so much, it gives me will to live, it gets me through the day.

I wanna draw like you oh my god you have this storyboard artist kind of style. Effortlessly expressive and dynamic.

Can I worship you? Jk jk (or am I?)

Your A is the best interpretation of this character I have ever seen. I love her.

I have some questions if you have a minute or two 🥺

Can you give me 3 favourite DN fics?

Do you have musical associations for characters (especially B)?

How do you personally feel about L and about Mikami?

What is your favourite food and day of the week?

Please never stop clowning ! 🤡❤️

This is extremely nice of you, thank you !! it's been ages since I've drawn canon DN stuff...

Thank you for the sweet message, I know I still have a long path ahead in terms of improvement as an artist but I value your words immensely as they motivate me to go on now, THE QUESTIONSSss...

Fics I remember killed me on sight

This is how I disappear. (gen) 10/10, work of art, made me sit at the edge of my seat. I recommend everything from this author, definitely DO MIND the tags though! it's dark

If you're into AUs and Lawlight, here's one where Light runs for presidency (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything) and one where he's a cryptid investigator (The forest holds strange creatures), they're both awesome in unique ways. Both are explicit, take that into account

If you're interested in reading different interactions and a very unique twist to the canon events where Naomi is the protagonist, Silent Partner, Unifinished Business is amazing and very suspensey

This one is long, immense, ultra suspensey, with a lot of different characters interacting in interesting ways I never thought before, very lawlight and very explicit, (but I read it all in like 3 days because it caught me BAD and was foaming at the mouth during the entire course of it), also was the founding inspiration to my BB brainrot and design-> Nights

I also made a masterpost of all my favourite meronia (melloxnear) fics back when I was balls deep into it

Finally, my AWESOME friends have made abbie x my BB fics for me back in the days which I treasure with my heart, I feel a bit schoopid sharing them because they're basically my OCs and their story remains a secret but they're beautifully written and. I die. I die everytime I remember they did these for me -> First Christmas (explicit), Stand under my Umbrella (short n funny), Just Another Day (sad and short, based on a comic I did years ago)

ANd also, same author as Silent Partner, wrote Dead Letter Office as a gift to me once, and it melted me into a sugary puddle in the ground

Characters and music

Like every other BB kinnie / stan I have my fair share of associated songs, mostly by style and delusion and very few by actual fitting lyrics lol. But here's what I consider his theme song - and also, I headcanon HARD that he has Danny Elfman's voice

How I feel about L and Mikami

L is special to all of us, love the guy, haven't met a single DN fan who doesn't like L. He's just fun and unapologetic which is what I like about him the most.

Mikami I have a hard time caring about, he's just not my usual type of character at all. He's too rigid for me, although he has his unintentional funny side. I also felt he had no chemistry with any other characters, so that made him less interesting for me

Favourite day and week day

I've been very obsessed with cremonas lately : o]

And my favourite day is saturday now, cause I finally get to have some time for myself to exist!!!!!!!!!!!!! and not work!!!!!!!

#anonymous #AO3 is glitching severely for me and didn't let me see the abbiexBB fics that were made for ME but i guess #its because it's been long since I logged in #anyway thanks for the ask !!!!!!! it's been ages since I interacted with anonymous and have been feeling kinda crappy abt my art #so this was v welcome #have a good sunday #or a happy sunday like we say in my country #death note #fic recs #l lawliet

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paradisepoisoned · 4 months

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Tag game: 9 people you’d like to get to know better

Thank you @iknowwhereyousleepatnight and @empressofthewind for tagging me😈

1. Last Song: Somebody to Love by Jefferson AIrplane

2.Currently Watching: nothing at the moment 😂 the last series i watched and finished was The Bear tho which i really liked. I also recently watched the Queen’s Gambit which was great.

3.Three Ships: meronia, melloxnear, MN,lol (I do love me some toxic BBxL and lawlight , also many crackish ships lol)

4.Favorite Color: Black (yes I know its not technically a color but I’m not here for that bullshit rn lol) I also love all shades of purple but i have so many weird specific shades of color i love like cosmic latte and such lmaoo

5. Currently Consuming: a bodega coffee and beef patty with cheese smothered in hot sauce

6.First Ship: meronia is the only ship i ever cared about and participated in. There is no beofre or after them. (But if we wanna get technical sasunaru lol)

7.Relationship Status: Married to our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

8.Last Movie: Five Nights at Freddy’s LOL I was drunk and it was a mood no cap i got nostalgic a little lmao

9.Currently Working On: Fuck if I know lmaoa😂 being a person lol

Fuck uhhhh 9 people right I tag @deelavis @neallo @squidish @fruitynear @brothercrush @mellothetic @92fs @quicktimeeventfull @muttyagami if they like 🌈

#if you saw me post this before no you didnt #it was a dream #Death Note #near #nate river #near death note #wip #my art #death note fanart #screencap redraw

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eirabaker1313 · 2 years

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Meronia (MelloxNear) ❤️

Mello: Near, spell "ME".

Near: Okay... "M-E".

Mello: You forgot the "D", Near.

Near: Wha-... There is no "D" in "ME".

Mello: Yet. Not YET baby ❤️

#death note #meronia #mello x near #mihael keehl #nate river #mello dn #near dn

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litterateur97 · 2 years

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Okay so... For the ask game: What do you think of the LxLight ship? Is it worth shipping or their relationship in the story is more interesting than the ship itself? I mean, as enemies.

I rate it a solid 5.

The thing about Lawlight is that I understand its appeal, really I do, but it was so everywhere all the time from the moment I joined the fandom, and I had interest in other ships that didn't get as much attention (or really any at all), that I became bored of it pretty quickly.

When I first joined the fandom I was pretty neutral towards the ship, but by the time I was 14 I kinda hated the ship because I was sick of seeing it everywhere. I wanted to see LxMisa, MelloxMatt, RayexNaomi, LxNaomi, MelloxNear, MelloxHalle, MisaxTakada, and MisaxRem. And while there was stuff out there for those pairings, there was just so much more of LxLight. While it wasn't too hard to find stuff for MelloxMatt and MelloxNear, well, let's just back then people were oddly fond of using homophobic slurs in gay fanfiction, and that made me very uncomfortable.

And that was a big trope in a lot of LxLight fanfics as well. Light would have a lot of internalized homophobia and some fics really liked to throw those slurs out. I remember struggling with that with Zukka and NaruSasu fics back then too, so reading gay fanfics in general was just kinda tough back then. I faced enough homophobia in the real world, I wasn't too interested in reading about it in fiction.

But the fanart, the FANART, was magnificent. Beautifully horny. And a lot of times artists loved to make fun of Light and I LOVE making fun of Light. And the two do look good together, I can't lie. And I understand enough of the appeal of enemies to lovers that I understand that the two have good chemistry.

But that's kinda it. They're hot together, but I really can't see the two forming a true emotional connection. Based on their personalities and their expression of hatred towards one another, I really don't see any romantic attraction between them. A lot of that has to do with how I interpret each character.

First we have L, and as I've said before, first and foremost I see him as a liar. It's kinda hard for me to gage when he was being genuine and when he was just fucking around or trying to get ahead in the case. In my personal interpretation, I think he is a bisexual man who tries to repress his sexuality because it doesn't really benefit him to acknowledge it. He is too focused on his career, on the challenges he faces, to engage in any kind of meaningful relationship, physical or romantic or platonic. His only true connection seems to be Watari, although I do think he genuinely held a lot of respect for Soichiro. But I think he would view most relationships as useless unless he could benefit from them in some major way.

I think he acknowledges that both Misa and Light are attractive, but that doesn't really matter to him. He probably doesn't think he can get with either of them to manipulate the case the way he wants, so it's not really worth thinking too much about it. And aside from that, I think L genuinely hated Light. I think for the first time in his life he saw someone who reminded him of himself, someone who could have fit into his world, and then that person became the worst serial killer on the planet. And I think L holds a lot of resentment towards Light for that. Maybe if Light hadn't become Kira, then L would have respected him more, but I think he would have still had some resentment towards Light for having such a perfect looking life. Light was always going to be his rival, and I think L's too much of an ass to truly get along with someone he's competing against.

And then you have Light. Light is difficult because he's two different people in the story of Death Note. He's the perfect honors student who is kinda bored of life, and then he's Kira. As the perfect honors student, I think it could be argued that Light was gay with no intentions of acting on those feelings out of fear of ruining his perfect image. I think Light had sexual feelings, but I think he was aromantic. Even when he recognized Misa as pretty and told himself not to fall for her, that moment felt more like he was acknowledging that she was aesthetically pleasing and charming and that others would fall for that, but he was better than others so he wouldn't fall for it. He never shows any real interest in dating, not when he's just perfect honors student Light. He also just like doesn't seem to have any interest in the people around him in general, especially when he's not Kira. I don't think Light even had any friends. And sure he says he cares about others, but when do you actually see him do anything for someone else? Sure he says they have to save Misa and go after Yotsuba Kira, but I think that was because he knew it was the right thing to do, not so much because he actually cared about doing it. He often seems to do what others expect of him, but it's hard to tell if he actually cares about those things.

To put it simply, Light is written as a sociopath. Now personally, I don't believe sociopaths exist in real life and I think it's messed up to call real people that, but when it comes to fictional characters, well those guys aren't real and they are written to fit certain ideas the author holds, and I think Light is Ohba's idea of a sociopath. He puts on the front of caring about others, but he doesn't seem to really care about anyone except maybe his family sometimes, but even then he was willing to let every last one of them die to pursue his New World. So it's hard for me to picture Light with anyone romantically. The way he was written made it seem to me like he was incapable of romantic love. Or possibly any love at all. But I definitely think he was obsessed with L, especially after L died, and I think that could have come from his repressed sexuality.

But as Kira, Light strikes me as both aromantic and asexual. And I want to make clear that I don't think there's anything wrong with being asexual or aromantic and I don't think Light is good representation for that group, it's just that I notice Light doesn't seem to focus on sex or love at all in comparison to characters like L and Misa who do say sexual and romantic things. Especially as Kira, his focus just seems to be on building his New World, not on getting any ass or true love. And when he notices he can manipulate the women who fawn over him, he does it, but he still doesn't seem to be thinking of sex. He manipulates them with romantic words, or his idea of what's romantic probably based on what he's seen on TV and in movies. And he seems to think that's enough to keep these women loyal to him and doesn't explore any further than that. (It worked because Ohba wrote women terribly in the series.) And not once does it occur to him to try and take that same manipulative approach with L, a man who he clearly sees as "deviant," a man who has been labeled as such by others like Misa, and a man who did not deny it. But Light doesn't try to seduce L as Kira like he did women. He seemed closer to making moves on L with his memory wiped than he did as Kira. Which is interesting to see with his character, it's almost like his focus on becoming God just took away his libido or something.

Now is the ship worth shipping, you ask? Sure. The fanfics are very well written, there's lots of beautiful fanart, and there's even good doujinshi of the pairing. I think that makes it worth shipping, even if I don't think the pairing would ever be canon. But whether or not something is canon shouldn't be included in the decision to ship it in my opinion. As long as you like the pairing, yes, it's worth shipping. Even if Light is asexual and aromantic, the dynamic he holds with L is interesting, and you can still ship it.

Is their relationship in the story more interesting than the ship itself? Yeah, I would say so. Personally I love when there's two characters who just fucking hate each other's guts and there's nothing more to it than that. I think the rivalry between them is great and I don't need anything to happen between the characters sexually or romantically to be invested when the two of them are in a scene together.

But it is fun sometimes to read the fanfics, to look at the fanart, or to randomly throw him into a LxMisa story.

TL;DR: I'm not too invested in Lawlight like I am other ships. I think it's hot, but I don't see any potential for anything beyond physical relations. I think the two hated each other in canon and their personalities make them a bad match. But I think it's still worth shipping, even if I think their canon relationship is more interesting.

#ask game #ask response #thanks for asking!#my death note opinions

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77dekiru · 3 months

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Ohhhh I've been thinking a lot about death note since I watched mha s6 and got very badly brainrotted, bc death note had my og forever otp that was still unchallenged to this day all this years later until bkdk sauntered in and punched me in the face sob

(I shall not say who the otp was bc it's not even the good one, OR the fun fanon one, it's just like. irredeemably embarrassing)

(but idc, cringe is dead! It's melloxnear.)

I originally watched the series in middle school but I completely forgot the plot up until now… I didn’t expect to get a hyperfixation on it (🥲) I’ve started reading the light novels and I probably will start the manga soon (the brainrot is all consuming)

Mello and Near are both great! I like them a lot! (Don’t be embarrassed I have a lot of pairings like that lol)

#sorry for the late response </3 #asks

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m1chael-langd0n · 9 months

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If you're comfortable with it do you have any MelloxNear incest hc's?

I don't really have any head canons involving MelloxNear incest.

I can't picture them as family and I have never (and most likely will never) write about that sort of thing. No shame to anyone who does, I just feel like I need to be able to picture it and feel it to be able to write about it.

However, maybe an Au I could give you is, Mello's father marries a woman who has a son herself, making Mello an older brother and Mello's protectiveness for his younger brother starts to become a little too obsessive/intimate.

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antaarf · 3 years

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#mello #near #melloxnear #deathnote #meronia

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brokenkneecapmello · 3 years

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#meroniaevent #meronia #melloxnear #Day2

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forbiddensoul562 · 10 months

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Chasing Hues, Chapter 1: Steel

Co-Creator: @delilahhyuuga; @delilahhyuuga238-art

Chapter 1 (of 3): Steel

Summary: ‘Would finding my soul mate… Would seeing the world in color somehow help me towards my goal?’ Mello wonders to himself as he gazes past the windowpane of their classroom, to the tree just beyond it, whose light gray leaves dance upon the music of the wind. ‘No, I don’t think so…’ His tone is bitter, spiteful.

Yet, a small piece of himself held out a meager ounce worth of hope: Perhaps, his heart contended, if he was incredibly lucky… He too might find someone worth witnessing the world coming alive into color with.

My first submission for Meronia Event 2023, hurray!

(Bingo Board beneath the cut)