#harrison is a visual artist WHICHHHH

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Lonan as fine art in Seventh Virtue x Moth Work x Feeding Habits

get you a man (harrison) who only describes you as elaborate works of art lmao

A range of Lonan descriptions from Harrison’s POV, circa 2019-2023.

In order of appearance: Seventh Virtue, Moth Work, Moth Work, Feeding Habits.

Text transcript under the cut!

Seventh Virtue (2023)

Some of this was taken from an early 2021 exploration for Feeding Habits that never made the cut.

At first, he’d tried to resist it, the way his hands seemed to unconsciously flick out Lonan’s jaw in charcoal, blot his eyes in ultramarine. Lonan was his raven with the Pacific in his eyes, his muscle memory. By the end of it, Harrison’s fingers were stained irreparably with a body, and on Reeve’s seventh day away, he found himself nearly finished the sketchbook, every single page grafted with Lonan’s unsuspecting, two-dimensional face. Harrison tore each one out, threw them into the solitary air of their room and left them all there on the floor.

Moth Work (2020)

The flame tints his jaw gold, glares in his eyes so they look like blue fire. The night halos around Lonan, burnishes the cove walls, turns the sand into a mirage. As Lonan nurses the fire, Harrison traces his face, the violet impasto around his eye. Lonan has always looked like a masterpiece to him, damp black hair that almost looks navy blue, a smile so subtle, it’s almost acquired.

Moth Work (2019)

Lonan turned as he caught him staring and hid under his sheath of hair, and he was Harrison’s David, statuesque, carved in soapstone, polished, ready for a museum.

Feeding Habits (2020)

Final line was written in 2022!

Lonan’s blips of humanness are disturbing for the reason that yes, he’s a better person now, but yes, Harrison is a worse person because of it. So he wishes to be yelled at. To be left unspared. But instead, Lonan sits there, silent. In the snow’s glow, he is sunbeamed, could be holy, some soapstone cherub iconized, a luminist painting. Cael could never be this man before him, this divine being Harrison loves.

#writing #amwriting #writeblr #writerblr #lonanasona duh #i'm SORRY BUT THE FACT THAT DESCRIBING LONAN AS ART IS #HARRISON'S BRAND #soooo cute #also #harrison is a visual artist WHICHHHH #has always been the most... out of character detail about him #HOWEVER #IT'S ALSO been a thing since book 1??? lmaooo #so it's a very consistent out of character detail #all of this probably stems from a note from one of the early #fostered spinoffs #that didn't happen #where harrison in his late 20s is like in his office #drawing lonan lmao <3 #idk why he had an office :) #THIS DIVINE BEING HARRISON LOVES #ok bye! #fancy excerpts