#how to sum her up

[pcktknife]

i got ei but i dont play genshin what is she like

depressed like so soooo depressed

#shes pretty complex and probably is one of the if not The best written character currently in the game #like people were upset with inazumas storyline but when eis second quest came out multiple ppl were like 'oh this might saved this arc' #shes not really a good person but she isnt totally bad either #how to sum her up #lost p much all her loved ones (one of which died by her hand others possibly preventable) bc of that she locked herself in her mindscape #isolated herself and built a puppet stand in of herself to run her country to make sure it never changed (keep it the same for an eternity) #and like any threat to eternity gets eliminated thrown in jail vision stolen etc etc her ppl love her but like her fear of change is bad #really bad for everyone #like the country is shut down no one in no one out theres people being displaced theres a war its alot and its all cause ei cant really #move on i think yae and ei herself even says she was being selfish and childish to an extent #you eventually go into the mindscape and yae (pink fox lady probably eis last living non human friend actually) shows up like bitch get up! #youre lonely this isnt healthy girl!!! and eis like damn youre right im still not ready to move on so i think i need to reflect on shit wow #her first quest was her seeing how her country changed and getting out of her head for a bit second quest was her actually facing the #trauma she experienced from all her loss and also fighting her puppet replacement to get it to chill out w the whole eternity thing and #reuniting with her dead sister for one last time it was actually like super beautiful almost cried #i said id give u a summary and just gave u the whole story sorry shes just like a super compelling character 💀 #genshin fandom had probably still has a hard time understanding her as a character cause shes not textbook evil woman #people often hate her or glorify her but i feel you wont understand her if your too far on either side of those #tldr: shes complicated a traumatized woman who made poor choices because of it and shes not perfect a bit far from it but shes trying to.. #get better and be better for the sake of the people she'd been hurting and being kind of a shitty god to #also shes gay but thats neither here nor there #asks #anon #lucky you getting the genshin character i apparently seem to know the most about #i was going to bed and you activated my brainworms 😭

[lotus-pear]

lore accurate teen soukoku. the worsties ever

#rewatched fifteen w my bestie bc she finally reached season 3 and i forgot just how insufferable these two idiots are💀 #literally calling each other slurs in one scene and then holding hands in the next #what the fuck is wrong with them /gen #anyway this accurately sums up their dynamic to me. toxic besties. gossip gals. teenage girls. whatever that dynamic is called #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #lotus draws #also my friend is literally insane bc she was like “chuuya n dazai are satosugu coded but if like stsg actually had BEEF w each other” #LIKE WHAT😭😭 #THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE YAOI #sobbing you guys shouldve seen the face i fucking made at her. i was so disappointed

[blueiight]

claudia still gets infantilized by media surrounding iwtv despite this being core to the tragedy of her condition

i think shes always been infantilized & ppl dont see the merit of her arc bc ppl rly only care about female characters in relation with romance or if they are children [or someone’s child of sorts?] in so far as they relate to the men rearing them. [cue 5001 lestat-claudia webweaves]. claudia is both selectively infantilized & excessively adultified whenever convenient to character/s [somehow both a ‘child interfering’ and both powerful enough to ‘turn louis against lestat’] nd to a certain extent by the fandom too. speaking of the show here too - show!louis now wanting claudia as his child is never disseminated for what it is in relation to louis (how he wanted children, and how hes forcibly exiled from the public sphere & makes do with the quasi-domestic) or claudia (in her want for a companion in immortality & wanting to understand the origins of their existence. in both the book and the show its claudia who initiates the question of ‘who made lestat/vampires as a whole’) but rather ppl render show claudia inert solely as a fictional moral bludgeon to character bash louis or make stuntin like my mommy/daddy posts with lestat. i was thinking too the other day how people often talk about iwtv in the sense of outcasts but never mention claudia… which is insane bc this line in the show alone says so much

But it was 1939, and the only N* allowed in first class was the porter, and the N* passenger rode the rear. The N* vampire made do with what was left, which was fine with her.

neither second-class passenger nor porter directly serving whites: claudia is the black vampire sitting in the stowaway with the dogs and people’s luggage, earlier hiding out in university corners pretending to be the cleaner’s child, engorging herself on blood and taking body parts from her victims to put in storage all if it means she could have something for herself. shes really the ult. outcast of sorts.

#yn. #yn answers #yn do sum maymays. #kaelio #iwtv #claudia #opinion rate #The word is censored bc i dont believe in using it recklessly in mixed company^_^ or at all tbh. #Not in the modern day. #and it also irks when ppl r like ‘claudia needs a woman’s touch’ #but forget how in the book estelle & the other theater chicks groped her n treated her like a doll #or how book!madeleine sees claudia as a proxy for her dead daughter #but bc book lew+ clauds r in this quasi incestuous set up shed take dead daughter over wtf lewis wanted out of her #like ‘women’s touch’ dont do her very much up until the ghost psychic mind link w/ jesse im afraid. lol #its a bizarre form [& actual example] of essentialism applied to claudia. #which makes me excited for s2 claudia bc like #like why is she dressed as a doll on stage!! in the theater #Oh baby esther we rly in it now. #I like romance i just dont like pop fandom’s idea of romance

[rosenecklaces]

the types of brain you need to have to really be the kind of person to hold elain and nesta age as a ¨gotcha!¨ as evidence that they are oh so terrible about their first interactions with feyre... one of them is just like one year older if not two than her... yall now that, right. thats common knowledge... right?

i want all of you to tell me if youre mind and maturity at 21-22 changed completely from your 18-19 self all of a sudden, quickly

#the archeron sisters #THEY Where THe olDERS thEY shOUld hAd donE mORE To tAKE caRE oF FEyre #feyre was a 19 years old... how the fuck yall expect early 20s summ to basically raise someone as grown as them #sure they could help. but we dont know if they didnt in the first place... someone had to do sum for the damn house and sure as hell wasnt #feyre. she literally told the reader that lol #all this people hating 1/2 of the archerons needs to a. learn what sibling relationships are like outside dysney movies #and b. gang up agaisnt the real bad guy of the story: their fucking lame neglectful shitty ass dad #and the equal shitty mom that raised them with clasist ideas and misogynist grooming futures for two of her kids #but shes dead so whatever the devil already took her #feyre archeron #elain archeron #nesta archeron

[renarin-spren]

reading a Sanderson book is like. wow I can't wait to read the most fucked up insane sibling dynamic ever

#im a simple man. i read Sanderson i think about what it means to be a sibling and then i scream #wasps are trapped in my head everytime i think about how adolin and renarin literally adore each other #but then you hop over to mistborn and read about kelsier and marsh and youre like FUCK oh my GOD #lets not even delve into how hard i go thinking about shallan and her brothers #something something ive known you since the day you were born and i love you so much but sometimes i have to hold back #AND TIEN??? ohhhhhh ohhhh my god #Kaladin sums up the eldest sibling thing he really does like. imagine. #tien being the person who cheers him up and then LOSING HIM?? #then getting a bio brother plus all of bridge four as brothers #im sobbing <3 #stormlight archive #cosmere #renarin kholin #adolin kholin #tien #brandon sanderson

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i think i've talked about this before but fuck it, i want to talk about it again. i find it concerning how little the spop fandom cares about morals or compassion towards others.

they think that adora should have stayed with catra and let the horde kill everyone in etheria.

they think that catra trying to destroy the universe and kill thousands of people was justifiable.

they think that shadow weaver is evil only because she's abusive, and refuses to acknowledge the fact that she's the only character who was actually trying to do something useful during the war.

they think that adora should not have taken the failsafe and that she should have instead stayed with catra and let everyone die, including herself.

they don't give a fuck about the characters who suffered because of the horde and because of catra, especially angella, micah, glimmer, etc.

and i know that these don't necessarily reflect their actual morals. i'm not saying that these people are bad just because of their opinions regarding fiction. but it is still a bit icky to see people be like “omg adora is so mean for abandoning catra, she should have stayed in the horde” when adora was trying to put an end to a war.

we're talking about a war here. adora didn't leave the horde for glimmer and bow, or for some luxury she didn't get in the horde; she left because she didn't want to support the group of people who were literally slaughtering innocent people by the hundreds.

#that one post that's like “haha catra and hordak destroyed salineas because their gfs left them” #yeah that about sums up how spop fans view the theme of war #btw that part about shadow weaver i'm not justifying her abusive behaviour #just saying that she's not a 100% evil like people think #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop #anti stans

[writer-room]

Honestly Rayla is equally 100% ride or die for Callum too.

That's so true I almost mentioned it in that post. They're so ridiculously feral for each other it's hilarious to watch. Callum's the legitimate "we ride AND die together" whereas Rayla is the "I will ride and die FOR you" sort of deal yknow?

Could be literally any situation, no matter how dangerous, and she's already decided she will die here. Does it ensure Callum lives? Then batter-up buckeroo we're going in swords blazing! Everyone cheer and clap for her human or she'll blow this whole place up. Kinda person who says "even if you hate me I'd still lose everything if it meant you were okay". She thinks they're in a tragic love story where she's always at risk of losing him but that's okay as long as it keeps him safe and happy like y'know Viren parallels, she'd risk losing her very self for him over and over. Except Callum would wait until the end of the world itself, and even beyond, and she wouldn't even have to ask.

The difference between them, really, is that Rayla will die for Callum on any given day. Callum will kill for Rayla on any given day. Something something matching sets

#tdp #the dragon prince #asks #rayllum #tdp callum #tdp rayla #talk #someone in the tags of that post said 'raylas self loathing works hard but callums devotion works even harder' and they own that post now #its theirs. they summed it up beautifully. they own it #'yes hes cringe but hes MY cringefail loserboy!!!!! get your OWN' #everyone else would say the 'hes a 10 but--' except for rayla. shes just 'hes a 10. hes just a 10 striaght-up' #he is not. he is so not a 10 i love him but hes not a 10 shes just so ill for him #so insane that the girl who has issues abt not being or being wanted by anyone or not good enough for ppl to stay/want her #proceeds to find maybe the 1 guy in the entire world who will choose her no matter WHAT #and even when SHE was the one who left & he was pissed he was still 100% sticking by her. hes staying #oops she showed him affection. now hes stuck forever! shame. welp guess thats how it goes! #and its partially bc of that she'd die for him. she needs him to b okay even if shes not there. mix of that loathing like #'he could still b happy without me so i need to ensure he lives so he can STAY happy at my own detriment. he means more than me' #girl if you died he would literally crumple into dust. fold in like cardboard in the rain. lay face-down in the sand & just die there #same w callum hes like 'i can hurt myself over & over for her if shes alive. if the danger is dead then she can live longer. i will live bu #tear myself apart so long she is safe' #bestie. if you reach the point of no return she will sacrifice herself to get the old you back WHAT THEN

[thestellargoblin]

i swear to god, if i see one more "poor calypso, she deserved better, such a tragic unrequited love story 🥺🥺🥺" post/tiktok/content/literally anything online, something is getting brutally stabbed

#like im sory bbgs but she is fckn rapist #she literally rapes a guy constantly for seven years #i don't see poor victim in her in any way #how could anybody read odyssey and think that??? #fuck calypso #calypso can choke #calypso #greek mythology #the odyssey #odysseus #i love riordanverse but rick wtf why is she there paired with LITERAL TEENAGERS #i fucking hate her #calypso should die #tw sa #to be clear im not attacking rrverse fans who like her character there but i definitely have beef with rick for putting her there #but if someone is talking about actual greek mythology calypso that way #its just so gross to me #especially if they read the odyssey #justice for odysseus #in a way that yes #he is a horrible person and have done a lot of shit #but he also suffered enormous SA from calypso and this should be recognised #so yeah :) #to sum up: #burn in hell calypso

[junkjounral]

June 6, 2023

“There is no difference between trying to love and loving” —Joy Ladin

#joy Ladin #junk journal #junkjournal #journal #art journal #gluebook #quote #bujo #aesthetic #bullet journal #scrapbooking #bird aesthetic #nature aesthetic #ion normally say what these are abt in the tags but this one was abt my mom #v messy and not one of my favorite pieces but it was honest and I did what I could which I think sums up where she and I are too #the partial quote from joy ladin’s book had me sobbing when I read it #I was feeling it on so many levels. being trans and Jewish and how do those fit together. having family problems. going thru change that #strikes u to ur core and u would die without but also not wanting to do it. so uh anyway she’s incredible #and I recommend her to anyone for any reason just read her shit it’s so fucking good

[chrollohearttags]

everybody sims being looking so cute and shit, and I’m still so mf lost 😭 can’t play worth a damn.

#this ho been reading and doing random push ups for the past two days 😭😭😭 #imma create her a man as soon as I figure out how #bout to find a play through or sum LMAOOO #cherry chats 🍒

[melien]

𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒆'𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓

🎵

#sims #ts3 #sims 3 #photoshoots #character verse #emmelie hyun #taylor astra #so I reblogged that song prompt thing but decided I won't do it in order but instead just take vague inspiration from it #and this is how I came up with a lot of song edit ideas #this is supposed to represent the time when emmelie tries to erase taylor's memory and send her back to her world #but she remembers everything #and emmelie can't forget her either #there's a whole backstory to it which can be summed up by emmelie accidentally messing up things and contributing to her dad's disappearanc #when she went against the time rules to travel to the past to see her ex #and this is an additional layer to why she's afraid to fall in love and feels really guilty #also in the current version of this story taymelie are kind of the main focus #with also possible lydia/jin spotlight #milo and irene are just in the back chilling #maybe I'll write it someday and it won't be as cringe as the 2020 version lol #I was planning to do it in the future gen of the new fletcher chronicles but there's a loooooong way to go

[lightsaberlinguist]

"Shadow Warrior" and Ahsoka's plot-development coma is still picking at my brain months later, not really because it was That Good (though it was admittedly quite good) but because it was all about the part of Ahsoka and Anakin's relationship that interests me the most: the way he haunts her for decades. Their original reunion in Rebels involves her literally passing out when she senses him, but despite this terror we see her a couple episodes later fondly rewatching Anakin's training videos on Kanan's holocron. In the shows it is Ahsoka who bridges that gap between Anakin and Vader for the viewer, and reminds us constantly that they are one and the same, two sides of the same character. They have an immensely complex relationship and it was interesting to see Filoni's idea of how she might make "peace" with what he did to her and what he trained her to do.

Ahsoka's lovingly-remembered master was the cruel lord of the Inquisitors who hunted her. The hero of the Clone Wars was the terror of the Rebellion she worked tirelessly to build. Ahsoka's stalwart guide through the memories of her childhood is also the demon she must defeat within herself so that she may move forward. Anakin shaped who she is, but "Shadow Warrior" says that he was also the thing holding her back. That's cinema.

#ahsoka tano #anakin skywalker #sw meta #ahsoka tv #ahsoka tv spoilers #anakin and ahsoka #i have my own idea for an ahsoka dream quest that would probably involve more order 66 #simply because i think their relationship is summed up by the fact that anakin trained her exactly how to survive it #but he is also 50% of the reason it happened #ahsoka's jedi master is also the person responsible for the genocide of her people and she HOLDS him responsible #wish we'd seen a bit more of that in ahsoka

[nulltune]

there was a scene in the manga where hakuno was being strangled HELP!! /j but even then hakuno was asking the attacker (julius) "why are you making that face?" because hakuno could tell that he was suffering deep down 🥹🥹😭😭😭 and we get a julius monologue: "i didn't want to accept that i still had these feelings within me. let alone have this guy see through them. i hate it..."

IT SAYS A LOT ABT HAKUNO METHINKS!!! and these lines too.... i love hakuno's heart sm istg 😭❤️ + how well written the hakuno-julius development is..!!!! hakuno being nice doesn't magically fix everything and there's a lot that happens ue ue uee 😭

i'm trying to keep this hakuno-relevant but PLS IM IN SHAMBLES BC the manga adaptation rlly told us that "if there was one salvation he could've gotten, it would've been having someone who could understand his agony."

and then cue hakuno kishinami-

#&&. out of #AAAA I HOPE I COULD SUM IT UP IN A WAY THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE- #cuz ik a lot of my moots aren't v familiar with f.ate/e.xtra!! but i rlly loved these h.akuno scenes so 🥺🙏 #i had 2 post it..!!!! IT RLLY IS SO VERY H.AKUNO...... #/and also real quick- tysm for interactin with my silly lil blog despite that 🥹🫶 IT ALWAYS MAKES ME FEEL SO EPIC GRAHH #BUT YEAH #i rlly love the way h.akuno interacts with others 🥺🥺 u can tell she's vv considerate and perceptive #but also very eager to learn more and understand others as individuals- which is ironic considering her view of herself orz #but that's what makes it interesting!!!! #i also just love her kindness okok 😭😭 and how h.akuno becomes more empathetic and human as she interacts with more people #/MUFFLED SOUND AS I SOB INTO MY GRUBBY RACCOON HANDS

[its-stayville-forever]

@astraystayyh

#she's the reason i think twice when i say “I've lost all faith in humanity” #there are so many ways to define her #but the best one is 'beautiful' #bevause the word 'beautiful' sums up everything #the way she thinks is beautiful #the way she believes is beautiful #her soul is beautiful #her opinions are beautiful #being an angel #her wings are beautiful #her name is beautiful #her writing is beautiful #her hands are beautiful #beautiful #so so beautiful #she is beautiful #why is an angel here among us vile humans #actaully #she needs to be here #so that she can help other people become 'beautiful' #so that she can purify souls #the reason i believe i might have a chance with love #thank you. #so much. #you have no idea sahar #how much i love you

[inlocusmads]

things that make me go "Nora 🫵"

#crimes of passion #nora rose #trystan x nora #how is this literally her personality summed up this is it you guys im done writing character-centric fics this is her thank you goodnight #thorne rose headcanons

[everlastiingiimmortals]

"I've always wondered...."

The words take on a breathless quality as lidded ember gazes upwards, directly at the oldest friend she has ever had. Familiar sunkissed skin now bore smudged ruby petals of her lips, deep sea locks tussled. It mirrored the cascade of crimson hair upon her pillow, the waves of silken dress that remained ruffled. "Why did you still believe in me back then?"

In the heat and drunkenness of affection the thought still lingers between kisses. It stays as she is pressed deeper into her own bed. It remain on the tip of her tongue with ever parting of lips. A hue of coral rest upon Himeko's complexion, almost artfully smugged. It's a debauchery that is only for his eyes, that's Andreas sculpted into her like the rose bud bites that are planted around on her neck.

That promise to extend.

"I know-" She cannot help but wonder if this indulgences spurs her mind further. When was the last time she felt anything but graceful and controlled, the rise and fall of her chest quick and the desire of heart and mind linked. "I know it has nothing to do with anything like our closeness now, we both were too young for something like this."

To want him, to know why he wanted her.

"My Andreas..." Himeko's voice deepened, low yet no less passionate. No less laden with love. The ember dreams in her eyes do not muddle her gaze from him but only incorporates him within those stars. Gentle hands guide him ever closer as the woman's lips curled into a breathtaking smile of disbelief.

"Are you the first to trailblaze......because of me?"

😳 Unprompted. Always accepting! | @chasersglow

The moment they share feels like a secret, a thrill not unlike that when she used to run up to him on the beach and show him something clasped in her hands, a little shrimp she'd caught in the tidal pools left behind by the waves. Not unlike the way they'd both explore the cliffs far past dinner time, or sneak out of bed to catch the sunrise while their parents slumbered, all the more blissfully unaware. She's warm beneath him, and the pressure of their bodies pressed together is, for once... comforting.

He hums idly as she speaks, drinking in the flush on her face and taking his time to duck down and indulge in the blossoming bites on her neck, sometimes worrying away at them further, sometimes soothing them with gentle kisses. The next time he pulls away, he sees the lipstick smudged on his lips left behind on her neck.

How funny.

She has asked him a question, but it's clear that she's not done speaking. He contents himself with continuing to indulge in her, cheekily interrupting her with languid kisses but no less listening intently. She knows he is listening. I know it has nothing to do with anything like our closeness now, we were both too young for something like this.

"Is that what you think?" he rumbles, trailing kisses down her chin, throat, chest, ending right over the beauty mark just above the rise of her breast. If he nips her there, well. Nobody will know. The marks left by his teeth will not last, he's careful to assure that, for her sake. It's a tease, perhaps a prologue of what's to come, perhaps a translation of the omission left behind by his rhetorical question in response to hers. He doesn't explain himself further; there's no need to. He's loved her for a long, long time, longer than Veritas Ratio has existed, long enough for him to fully and freely shed the self the rest of the world knows in her presence. It is a comfortable existence with her, and the prickling unpleasantness against his skin is easily manageable -- quiet. His mind is quiet.

How funny that is, too, for the woman who sparked all the hunger for knowledge in his mind to also be the one to quiet it. Perhaps it's because he has no need to search for her anymore? But he had no need to search for her the first time mention of the Express' revival reached his ears, and his mind was no less noisy for it then. Maybe, then, it's because he's finally caught her, has her in his arms once more. Sensibility is something he prides himself on, but the impression of home is not something even he can ignore. This moment won't last, but for as long as the two of them are intertwined, Himeko is home. And for the two of them, for now, home is a peaceful, quiet thing.

The kisses over her sternum -- never further, never lower -- are chaste, notes left behind in thought as he ponders her question. "It would be too easy for you to die like that," he answers finally, peeking up at her with wine-gold eyes. One more kiss over her beauty mark (for good measure, he thinks) before he's slinking up to meet her lips once again. "I believed in you because you gave me something to believe in. Reason to ponder, ideas to question, an irrefutable truth to discover. Your death was no such irrefutable truth, thus I believed in your survival." You would not so easily let fate sway you, just as I would not let it sway myself. If his smile is smug, it is out of playfulness. "And would you look at us now? I was right."

Gazing down at her, laying nose to nose and chest to chest, he comes to a sudden realization. She's beautiful. And yes, that much is obvious. With her deep red hair and dazzling eyes and figure, Himeko is an objectively attractive woman to just about anyone. But it's an impression that doesn't strike Andreas until he catches his own reflection in her eyes, sharing the depths of her irises with the stars that live in her gaze even when the sky above is obscured.

...How he missed that sight.

How he missed this, though they've never shared this kind of intimacy before, but the timelessness of her company remains as if they'd never grown apart. She's beautiful in the way she smiles, the rise and fall of every breath, the disheveled state of her makeup and clothes and hair, in the way she sees him, her eyes and attention on him alone. She's beautiful in a way that is real and wholly, inexplicably his.

His name spoken in her voice elicits a little shiver that races down his spine, sets his heart skipping. Her hands find his face and that familiar prickle is once again washed away by the warmth of her palms, something to sink into, something safe. What's with that look, Himeko? his eyes ask. You regard me with such incredulity. Do you struggle still to fathom the weight of my faith in you? And then she asks that question, and he understands, and he smiles, as if they're engaging in another secret, a little inside joke known only to the two of them. Really, what else could he be? Though not a Nameless, did he not pursue new paths too? Light new ways not just for himself, but for all the worlds he helped? Did he not undertake a journey to find himself, and her?

"Would you like me to be?" he whispers against her lips, hands cradling her ribs. One kiss, two kisses, three against the corners of her mouth. "The universe may know Veritas Ratio, scholar of the Intelligentsia Guild, but you, αστεράκια μου, will know Andreas, first of the trailblazers under your light."

#suggestive cw #just in some parts cuz they makin out #ratio: my mind is quiet also ratio: doesn't stop monologuing about how much he loves her in his head #who allowed him to be romantic what is this (it's me) #anyway WEEPS INTO MY HANDS INCONSOLABLY #THEM!!!!!!!!! #koi and i pioneers of the himetio ship #definitely don't read too hard into the foreshadowing about home teehee #also good fucking god i'm so sorry for how long this is koi i hope ur asleep #//an answer sought; (ASK) #chasersglow #//everlasting; (IC) #//cogito ergo sum; (RATIO) #save tag #//blaze the trail before us / i'll pull the lost up behind you; (RATIO | HIMEKO [chasersglow])