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solradguy · 8 months

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Alright. The scribbly text font... I took a swing at figuring this thing out back around January this year (2023) then got bored, but it's come up again recently in the lore server where a bunch of us have been trying to figure them all out. There are a few.

The first is what we've just been calling Font 1 because it's the most commonly used one in the textures, the most legible, and the one we've figured out the most about. Here're some samples directly from textures. This first one is from the Outrage, "Sol Badguy no Buki Dayo" (Sol Badguy's Weapon):

A big sample from Faust that provided a lot of characters for the key (I'll include a "translation" at the end of this post):

The key:

The next 2 to possibly 4 fonts are the ones we're now stuck on. Here's a few samples I compiled and then @shmuelbrain drew some connections between similar characters. Top right text is from I-No, Millia middle-right, the tiny middle-top is from Testament, and the others are from Chaos, who used these fonts the most out of all of the characters.

The bottom text and top row text are the same font, Font 2, but the two middle left fonts look like a possible Font 3 and the Millia text may even be a Font 4. We think that these fonts are actually handwritten and not a vectorized font like Font 1. Even similar glyphs have variances with these 3 fonts, whereas Font 1 was consistent across every character that had it used in their textures.

I spent several hours yesterday downloading and sifting through font websites and AI font finders to try to find any of these 4 fonts and had zero luck. We're getting the impression that, if Fonts 2, 3, and 4 aren't handwritten, that they're at least in-house fonts. Font 1 might exist outside of ASW offices simply because they've used commercial fonts before; the weathered "Strive" font is based off Impact and FOT-ManyoSosho Std E is used on a bunch of character textures too.

Working with these scripts is difficult because, as you can see with the Sol text, it isn't always in English. Sometimes it's actual nonsensical keysmashing. So, if anyone is a font finding wizard and would like to lend a hand we'd all be very grateful haha

Faust texture text:

A merry heart makes a long life

A sound mind in a sound body

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Care killed a cat

Desperate diseases need desperate cures

Fancy may kill or cure

The Imaginary Invalid

ManyoSosho Std E looks like this. You've probably noticed it before just because it's actually legible.

Here are some more samples from Ariels of Font 1:

#textpost #long post #guilty gear font #TAGGING this time because I had to dig through so many posts to find the one about this from January lmao

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bodycountgame · 3 years

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secret kisses with charlie from the prompt list? 👀💜

secret kisses + charlie

“If we get caught…” Charlie whispers, breath hot against your neck as he searches for any reason that you might both turn around and leave.

“It’ll be bad,” you conclude for him, gripping the sides of his t-shirt to pull him closer. He sucks in a sharp breath as his body comes flush with yours.

“Really bad.”

Charlie’s nose brushes yours as what little resolve he has begins to crumble.

“Disastrous.”

You press kisses along his jawline and roll his earlobe between your teeth, relishing in the low hum that escapes his lips and the way his arms tighten around your back.

“Catastrophic.”

“World ending, really,” you smirk, pulling back to meet his gaze, eyes shining even in the low light. Charlie shifts in place, squaring his hips with yours as his uncertain expression is replaced with a mischievous grin.

“You know, I’ve never really been that attached to the world anyway. Only a matter of time til we colonise Mars, right?”

Then he kisses you, and if there’s ever been a kiss that would make the end of the world feel totally worth it, it’s got to be this one. Or the next one. Or the next. Or, really, any of the many that follow.

#ch: charlie #drabbles #it's nonsense keysmashing hours

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maramahan · 3 years

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Some days I just wish it wasn't so painful to write. My thoughts sometimes feel like they're trying to fly out of my brain and my fingers can't keep up when I type. Just so many ideas and phrases keep pouring out and it physically hurts if I can't keep up. Do you have any advice you can share or is this a unique and weird experience?

Oh mood

I don’t have super solid grasp on what counts as “weird,” but I think I get the vibe you’re describing

Like. Just. That strange frustration.

Your brain is flying so fast and you’re feeling things so Much and all the words are trying to HAPPEN but they’re all happening At Once except reality is Constrained by linear perception so it feels like rush-hour traffic is jamming through the eye of a needle in your soul and the Pressure won’t stop BUILDING and building and building and aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAA

(Much like a teapot, when a writer gets too steamed-up they will scream.)

…Actually, you know what? That’s not a terrible comparison — a teapot whistles when there’s too much pressure trying to force all the air out at once, right? And you can relieve that pressure & get it to Stop by removing the lid or by turning off the heat

“Removing the lid” on a pressurized writer-brain is finding a way to vent the excess energy — something like keysmashing ‘til you feel better, scribbling wildly on a blank sheet of paper, drafting an overdramatic tumblr post, or even braindumping an incoherent ‘outline’ that’s all nonsense abbreviations & question marks connected by weird squiggly arrows & lines

And “turning off the heat” is finding a way to step back and let your brain settle down — like doodling, making a playlist, putting together a moodboard, going for a walk, taking a shower, meditating — even just staring at the wall & zoning out for a while can help your brain cool off

BUT ANYWAY— setting the teapot metaphor aside, my ramble here boils down to three main points:

If you can’t keep up with your brain, you can ask it to slow back down

It’s okay to Rest when creating starts to hurt

Weird is relative — I promise you’re not alone ♡

#anonymous #writeblr #Mara rambles #low-key all of the examples are things I regularly do #well. playlists and moodboards are more ‘ocassionally’ than ‘regularly’ — but you know what I mean #sometimes the brain goes brrrrrrrrr & you gotta smack it with a wrench / turn it off & on again #(metaphorically speaking)#(I do not advise hitting yourself with a wrench)#(although…. I HAVE been in the position where I attempted to get my writer-brain to cooperate via Percussive Maintenance #(aka thumping my head against the wall)#however Having Tried It: that’s not an approach I’m keen to recommend)#(so therefore My point still stands)#anyway yeah #thanks for asking!#I hope this helps

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coredrill · 3 years

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ok full swv thots now that i’ve seen them all:

the duel:

me while watching: huh this art style reminds me of jojos, which i have not watched in part bc i find its artstyle off putting

me when i found out it was animated by a studio that’s worked on jojo’s: 👁👄👁

i liked the story and the umbrellasaber and the music!!! just the artstyle was not for me :( i like colors lmao

tatooine rhapsody:

cute!! chibi bib fortuna was SO FUNNY LOOKING me n my brother laughed at it for like an hour 😂😂😂

i’m CRYING the one band member was like “working for the hutt syndicate is BORINNNGGGG” but then his band ended up working for the syndicate 😂😂😂

the twins:

GALOLIO KIDS MY BELOVEDS

this one being by imaishi and trigger, and also most evocative of the ot, really just gets me in the fucking heart lmao. i’m as full of love as any trigger anime 💜💜💜❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

i’ve already talked abt this one extensively so i’ll leave it at that for now lmao

the village bride:

the SWORD BLADE LIGHTSABER HELL YEAH

i wish there was more lightsaber fighting the design was so cool!!!

the ninth jedi:

i think this was my favorite after the twins!! kara was so cute!!!

bro when they mentioned “the lightsaber changes colors with the force user” i was like “oh we’re totally gonna see a sith then” but i did not expect them ALL to be sith FNSNDNSNDMKEI

i loved the animation too!! especially the lightsaber duels + ice fire thing + speeder chase!!!

to-b1:

i loved the music and the animation on this one!!!

it took me forever to get through bc i kept pausing to read the aurebesh (which was mostly either nonsense or a language i actually don’t understand) LMAO

the rogue one reference!!! hell yeah!!!!

the elder:

another one i have already talked about so i will just say i love dan!!!!

oh wait also i do want to add that i thought the lightsaber fights were very well done and creative and stylistically unique (as in like. fighting style)!!!!!

lop & ochō:

the imperial officer reminds me of fuckign. ROMAN TORCHWICK AJDNDNNSJSKSL i do like his undercut tho 👀

good dads and found family………….WAAAAAAHHHHH

bro that was so sad what the fuck. like i loved it and it was one of my favs!!!!!! but. FUCK

akakiri:

ngl the music in this one was pretty distracting……..people are FIGHTING and DYING and its like. Lofi Vaporwave Beats 😭😭😭😭😭😭

overall:

really my only big critique is the voice acting :( i only ever watch dubs bc i’m too stupid to read subs and watch at the same time and it was pretty disappointing that most of the voices were just off putting??? like some were good (AM SOUNDED SO UNHINGED, her voice grew on me tbh) but some weren’t (karre…you deserved to be johnny yong bosch or yuri lowenthal or like any other trigger protag dub va lmaoooooo).

also the music!!! like it was good at times but ESPECIALLY for the twins i thought it wasn’t the best. like they should’ve just brought in sawano for some unhinged gay keysmash vocal track for that one scene. and clearly other people agree bc i’ve seen it with sorairo days, libera me from hell, and before my body is dry!!!!! DONT LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAYYYYY

overall i really enjoyed it though!!! it feels wholesome and healing to consume new star wars content and not be consumed by blinding rage :)

like i feel like they all understood the essence of star wars but wanted to put their own spin on it!!!! you can tell the creators love it and want to honor what came before!!!! and they’re giving it the highest honor they can: carving out their own stories in the universe that share what they love so much about it!!!

like. MAN. just PLEASE turn all of star wars into anime at this point. this was so refreshing and good and i loved it!!!!

like the lightsabers ALONE were the coolest they’ve EVER been. and they’re LIGHTSABERS!!!!!!! theyre cool by default!!!!!!

truly genuinely amazing what happens when you give star wars back to the culture that so much of it was poached from in the first place………..

#f: star wars #sw: shows #sw: visions #t.txt #my beloveds………..

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stonedopossums · 5 years

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it's been a while so i feel the need to ask.. how do you feel about tommy bracco

GOD sweetheart there is not enough room in the universe to hold my love for him. I love him so damn much you have no idea

Tommy & Sebastian Stan are the reasons I figured out I was gay like… he has a special place in my heart and everytime someone mentions him to me or sends me a pic i just go !!!!! that’s him!!!! thats the man i love!!!

i can and will be unabashedly gay on main for him for the rest of my time on tumblr

#this ask makes me feel like i don't talk about him enough #richie answers #trust me i could talk about him for hours but most of it would be keysmashes and nonsense because there's no words for how much i love him #tommy bracco #anonymous

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el-gilliath · 4 years

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2019 Creator Tag

I got tagged by @prouvaireafterdark

Rules: Time to love ourselves! Choose 5 favorite works you created in the past year (fics, arts, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2019. Tag as many creators as you want to spread the love!

Hooooo boy, I’m not the best at picking things amongst my stuff that I love because I honestly try to love it all even if I see all the flaws. But here it is, in no particular order.

1. The Cowboy Vigilante (M - 9242 words) Is it a little tiny bit of a cheat to pick a series? Maybe. Do I care? Honestly, no. This thing started by the fault of @lsobelevans and her gorgeous edit found here. I salivated at the through at the thought of making something based on this edit, because it is so up my alley that I don’t have words for it. I love this premise, I adore this series and more than anything, I love how I can text Lucie at random hours of the day about ideas or just OOOOOO about something and she usually responds with a keysmash and I’M SO EXCITED. A bond has been made, people, and I am dying to write the last four parts and share them too.

2. I Thought You Didn’t Love Me (T - 6575 words) What can I say. Angst and hopeful endings are my honest to life bread and butter. I love it in my reading, I love it in my writing. It’s what I do best, because it reflects exactly who I am as a person and the dark yet optimistic nature of my entire self. This piece just encompasses everything, anger, pain, misunderstandings, furious natures but also love and loss in a way, even if I had the hardest time not to angst it up more and had to be yelled at by @bestillmyslashyheart (thank you babe).

3. It’s All In A Hat (T - 2428 words) We also all know by now that @christchex is my beloved, she raises me up so I can stand on mountains and walk on stormy seas. We also know how much Christi loves the hat and Arturo. This fic was a love letter to her, a chance for me to angst and do hopeful, and a chance for me to express how much I also love the hat. And Christi. It might not be the best thing I’ve written, but everything that it means just makes it so much better.

4. Because I Could Not Stop For Death (M - 18348 words) Every time I’m asked about my favored stories this comes up. Why? Because I did one hell of a job with it. @seeaddywrite gave me the perfect prompts, which gave me the perfect ideas, which gave me the story I might love more than anything. I am so fucking proud of this story, and I will continue to be so. It hold my perfect mix of angsty and hopeful, while also incorporating bonds, Science Bros RNM, Sibling Love and a damn good cosmic connection. I will continue to be proud of this forever.

5. The Darkness Within (E - 24213 words) Ahh yes, the AU where the Alien Squad are raised differently, have soulmates(Intendeds as I call them) and run around the country killing bad men. This is the story I wrote for me, the first thing I started writing after 6 years of not writing a word. At this point I write it for me more than anything, but that just makes it more special. The fact that @hannah-writes helps me out and makes me better, creating a beautiful friendship between us is just icing on the cake <3

+1. Live So Close To The Truth (G - 15399words) I only lent my voice to this, @nielrian @irolltwenties and @christchex did the heavy lifting but holy hell was it fun. Reading the story is amazing, but also listening to the glorious voices in the pod cast and just knowing I was a part of this as both voice and cheerleader? It makes my heart grow fonder than you can imagine.

I’m gonna tag @jumbled-nonsense @isakvaltersnake @bisexualalienblast @bestillmyslashyheart @ohstarlings @chasingshhadows @seeaddywrite @andrea-lyn and @hannah-writes because I don’t think you guys have done it <3

#creator tag #roswell new mexico

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jack-kellys · 5 years

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so today is. the first day of me joining tumblr back in....2016, right after the new star trek movie came out jajsjkd. the point was i needed a place to be excited without feeling alone and/or crushed, and here I found the perfect place.

now i know none a ya give two shits abt st and marvel and dctv and my political opinions so. thats why this aint my main blog hehe. newsies only came to me last year at a place in my life where I felt I was missing something. and that something was creative interest. i found it in this show because there was so much freedom with characters (and also an actor ive worked with since my theatrical start was jack last summer)--they were such blank slates that I could make them almost however I wanted and it’d basically be canon. I had wiggle room. I could write that.

so after and because of meeting @suddenly-im-respecsable, that’s exactly what happened. I posted Stay, and it got attention right off the bat, and I have to rlly thank yall for that because I would’ve stopped right then if not for the support.

so today is just celebrating this new fandom home I’ve found and calling out a few specific people who i hold close to my heart because of it. if you’re not mentioned you gotta know i love you tho. ALSO there’s a nice surprise message to writers at the end !!

@technically-whizzy and @starrysence: for always being generally supportive, making little comments, and always being down to talk. two of the sweetest souls on here, i swear.

@getchapapes: my god kait i just love you. wtf. i can talk to you abt literally anything, we can just start yelling and maintain a convo, we have an AU TOGETHER GAH that one day we’ll deal with for real oops. you’ve reblogged i think every single one of my fics? and that means the literal entire world to me? you’re the maria to my tony, girl. i fuckin love you bby

@papesdontsellthemselves: mikey...gahhh anchor bro ilysm. we rlly keep each other chill when the other Really wants to scream, we’re og marvel buddies, we share radical aus at 3am. same wavelength, all the time, bro. you’re going to do incredible things in college, i wholeheartedly know that. ps i miss u come back here bitchass

@suddenly-im-respecsable: where the FUCK do i begin ma’am oh my god. my first newsies mutual. i wouldn’t be posting without you. you don’t know what spies did to me when you posted that first chapter (actually. you do. bc i yelled at you on the tags without knowing you yet), like....i got so inspired to dig deeper into aus and shit so thank you. for a year now ive known you. a year of yelling and 3am nonsense and our trio with mikey and keysmashes and everything in between. you know i love you. you’re incredible

@practically-peter-parker and @race-ace: my discord bois. my first introduction to this fandom. you two are so so important to me and i’ve missed you so much and im so happy we’ve reconciled. you’re both brilliant writers (yes, you TOO, PAPES), always up for anything, always open to talk at nearly all hours of day (ungodly or not). we’ve rlly stuck through it huh fam. and i couldn’t be happier for it. i might not be posting if not for saphie, but without you all, i wouldn’t even be writing.

@stripeyboy is an honorable mention bc he’s a newer boi but i’d def die for him....i love u pietro my angst man

and to anyone i have reblogged a fic from, ever: keep writing. i am behind you in your creative process every step of the way, and i believe in you. your words are words hearing, and i really want to listen.

aright boys sap hour is over. consider yourselves honored; i don’t do that kinda stuff.

#y e a h its lov boy hours #mutuals #mikey tag #saph tag #fansies #fizz freaks #anniversary! amazing!#THANKS TO ALL MY NEARLY 700 FOLLOWERS YOU ALL MEAN THE WORLD TO ME THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHINGGGG

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thespooniewrites · 6 years

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I finally visited your WIP page and ::keysmash:: I am SUCH A SUCKER FOR URBAN FANTASY. I know you talked about Reed's magic in a Magic Monday post, but can you talk a little more about the other "fantasy" creatures in your WIP?

AAAaaAAA Hello!!! Oh no.. I’ve never just… explained it before? But I will try! but .. i ramble, so I’m just gunna put a preemptive cut here.

Vampires

Okay SO first fantasy creature we meet is a vampire. We don’t like him. He’s an ass, but here’s the first so. I decided that a vampire’s bite is sort of like… poison with a supernatural kick? Which I realize isn’t particularly unique but I had different vampire lore to pick and choose from, so this is kind of what I decided on. The poison is sort of like a temporary paralytic, and if they don’t just drain you then and there (which will mean you don’t come back) it kills you in roughly 48-72 hours, and you sort of experience low-key vampirism symptoms while dying, sort of just a side effect of the poison. Once you die and wake back up, you can’t touch silver, looking in mirrors feels like acid in your eyes, and sun leaves you with third degree burns. Traditional vampire shit. When they go to bite someone their jaws almost seem to unhinge and their fangs grow from their incisors, thin and translucent like a snake. Bloodlust is a thing, a big thing, and if you don’t satisfy said bloodlust you eventually just turn into a mindless murder machine. If you do satisfy said bloodlust, you can control yourself but you will likely kill many people in the process of satisfying it anyway.

Werewolves

MOSTLY we deal with werewolves. Wolves can be born or bitten, and the bite takes immediately. Beta bite is more likely to kill, alpha bite is more likely to take. Werewolves can’t be changed into vampires. The automatic is a full shift, which means you just straight up turn into a wolf. They’re huge, like your average grey wolf is a couple inches over 2.5 feet at the shoulders, these are like.. 4-5.5 feet at the shoulders. And they aren’t all just grey wolves either. Some of them more closely resemble yukon wolves, some look closer to arctic wolves, some don’t actually fit properly into any species we know. A werewolf’s shifted form tends to sort of go with their hair colour, since it’s easier for the shift to deal with DNA available in regards to colouring, but not always.

If a werewolf even thinks for half a second about shifting, their eyes, even the whites, will flood that wolfy yellowish gold so they can never hide their intention. Some of them, but not all, eventually learn a half shift which is meant to be a quick defensive thing, so you just end up with popped claws and fangs. Pointy ears and sideburns won’t do you any good because if you have time to listen for an enemy then you have time to do a full shift. Half shift is meant to help if someone’s like.. already on top of you, so weapons only. There is pack hierarchy, there is territory, but I tried to lean away from the “obsessively protective” and “MUST obey an alpha’s orders” type of things we sometimes see in werewolf stories.

Witches

Witches are fucking wild y’all. The only witch we meet is Reed but he’s a good li’l sinnamon roll and I love him. I’ve already explained this a little so I won’t go into too much detail. Basically his magic is just inside him, he’s born with it, it can’t be transferred. For him, it visibly manifests as silver electricity, wisps, and mists. They can basically do anything they damn well please so long as they have the power to do it. Reed has the power, he scares me a little. If they DON’T want to use that level of magic, they can do potions. In my world, all plants are sort of already magical, but can’t do anything on their own unless they’re mixed together by a witch (with other ingredients depending on what the potion is made to do) and then said witch sort of presses that “go button” by infusing it/enchanting it a little. Reed sticks mostly to potions now, because he doesn’t take his medicine and using too much magic causes something akin to seizures for him.

Fae/Fair folk/Fairies

They exist. We meet a leanan sidhe which exchange lifeforce of their chosen lover for creative inspiration, they’re powerful muses. There’s a gancanagh whose lore I essentially took to mean “wildly attractive male fairy and you WILL want him because he’s beautiful and intoxicating all on his own, but his magic helps you push away your inhibitions”. True to lore, if you sleep with them, you become addicted and eventually either kill yourself because you can’t have him again, or you kill someone else out of jealousy, whether they were actually with him or not. There’s a Nokk, which I sort of just went “water fae! they lure you into their waters and keep you!”, and then some nameless fairy I made up for funsies (her name is Helen but like… her TYPE doesn’t have a name). There’s seelie and unseelie court which I sort of treat like actual justice systems, with officers that are like police and social workers combined. I know other people have done that too but y’know. Nothing’s original anymore, it’s all about how you do it.

So… yeah. As predicted, I rambled. I don’t know how to make a long story short. Which is why I write novels. Not short stories. Yeah. THANKS FOR ASKING I HOPE YOU DON’T REGRET IT BECAUSE OF MY RAMBLY NONSENSE!

#ask #and the moon sees me #my lore shit #aaaa #i rambled #sorry #thank you for asking tho

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mattenee · 7 years

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#pls excuse my million (΄◞ิ౪◟ิ‵) faces I did this at like 3 am #*

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sunnybimbo · 7 years

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for Shunk Week! @cumdumpsternero

ao3 link here!

this is for my MMO/Gaming AU, which is probably why it reads so funny <3 i hope y’all like it anyway.

also i made a Frozen reference somewhere in there because i couldn’t resist

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He turned to Shiro instead, whose blush had faded to look less like embarrassment and more like he’d been kissed upon the nose and cheeks by an ice queen.

He looked happy, though, with the way his head was tilted back up to the sky, snowflakes softly resting against his eyelids and melting into his eyelashes, adding a pretty highlight to Shiro’s already pretty face.

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Winter

A violent shiver coursed up Hunk’s spine as he clutched his mug full of warm cinnamon and apple cider, valiantly trying to warm up his body before he got a tragic ‘game over’ from the cold.

It was a new feature just implemented: weather and temperature changes. Besides rain (which had been a feature already implemented when the game first came out), new types of weather such as hail, snow, and thunderstorms had been added, and even sandstorms in certain biomes.

Hunk had the unfortunate pleasure of being on a server where it was the middle of winter. He’d always hated the cold, and it was just his luck that he spawned in the middle of a snowy field with nothing but his robe and witch’s hat to protect him.

Luckily he’d made it to town just before he’d started to lose health from it.

In front of him loitered most of his team. Lance sat cross-legged in front of the fireplace, fiddling with a lute that sat there, courtesy of the tavern-owner, for whoever felt like playing that day. Though he missed a chord or two, and a few notes were off-key, Lance had a real good chance at making coin from his solo.

Pidge was near him, perched on a barrel that was nestled in the corner between the fireplace and the barkeep’s counter. She, too, sat cross-legged as she studied whatever runes she’d gotten her hands on that week. It was a tedious process with lots of boring words to read in order to gain that skill, but she seemed to enjoy it immensely, if only to torment her friends with unkillable spiders and haunted dreams.

Shiro stood next to Hunk’s chair, playing with magic. Balls of harmless colors juggled from palm to palm, arching high in the air and giving them (and the few patrons that littered the bar) a private light show to enjoy along with Lance’s tunes.

Keith was the only member not present. If anyone hated the cold more than Hunk, it would definitely have to be Keith. As soon as he’d logged on and seen the weather, he promptly logged back out, and furiously typed up a long rant that was mostly keysmashes and the phrase ‘fuck this’ over and over again to each of their private message boxes.

“You sure are getting good at that.” Hunk said to Shiro about his magic display, proud that his teeth only chattered once or twice as he finally got his shivers under control.

The mage gave a half-hearted shrug, nearly dropping the yellow and purple orbs as he lost his rhythm. “I’ve practiced the motions a lot.”

“You can juggle in real life?”

Shiro grinned, tossing him an excited nod. “I can do a lot with my hands.”

Lance, from behind them, snorted so hard that his fingers slipped from their positions on the strings and a loud twang vibrated throughout the room.

Hunk had never seen Shiro change colors so fast, cheeks a rosy red that blended with the ends of the scar that curved across his nose.

“I didn’t mean it like that!” He quickly tried to amend, and Hunk couldn’t help laughing at him.

“Don’t worry about it, I got what you meant.” He consoled, knocking his knuckles against Shiro’s shoulder. “You’ve just been hanging around Lance too much, I think.”

“I’m a wonderful influence, thank you very much.” Lance said, strumming away again as if he’d never stopped. “It’s not my fault lover-boy has no moves of his own.”

“Lance.” Pidge admonished, pushing her copper wire-framed glasses up her nose to give him a look. “Not everyone likes to hop from person to person like you.”

“I resent that!” Lance pouted, though it quickly turned into a smile to match Pidge’s teasing one. “But I’ll give the lovers a reprise.”

His tempo on the lute picked up as he stood, twirling around the room as he hummed lyrics to a nonsensical song, mischievously waggling his eyebrows at the pair of them.

A soft ping alerted Hunk that his temperature was no longer in the danger zone, and he shooed Lance away to offer his hand to Shiro.

“C’mere before you turn into a tomato.” He teased, borrowed blanket bunching on the stool as he pushed it from his shoulders, tugging Shiro into a stand.

Pidge and Lance wolf whistled as they scampered out the door, leaving sparse laughter from the other patrons in their wake.

They found themselves sitting on the back porch of the tavern, leaning against the snow dusted railing to watch the near-empty road that lead towards the stables. Hunk shivered again, huffing so that a cloud of his breath plumed out in front of his face.

Bits of straw lined the corners of the balcony, crunching beneath their boots, and Hunk had no clue how it had gotten so far up here, when hay barrels were far around the corner. Just a mystery of life, probably. And Hunk wasn’t really in the mood for a headache from pondering unanswerable questions at the moment.

He turned to Shiro instead, whose blush had faded to look less like embarrassment and more like he’d been kissed upon the nose and cheeks by an ice queen.

Hunk stepped towards him, sliding his hand down Shiro’s arm to place his hand over Shiro’s prosthetic one. The metal was cold, but Hunk could feel the whir of the machinery as it worked to keep it from freezing in place. It was always such an interesting piece of technology that Hunk wanted to study for hours at a time. Even if it wasn’t real, per say, whoever had designed its code for the game was a genius.

“Hunk?” Shiro asked, and said witch’s eyes darted to his face to find Shiro’s staring intently at him.

“Oh, uh… repeat that for me?”

Shiro smiled as he tangled his fingers in the ones that rested just above his own. “I asked if you were cold again.”

“Pfft.” Hunk huffed, rolling his eyes. “I’ll live.” With a slight pause, his body went rigid as he checked his stats on a different screen before it moved more naturally again. “For at least twenty minutes.”

At that, Shiro hummed, bringing their joined hands to his mouth to press a kiss against his fingers. It sent a shiver through Hunk’s body for an entirely different reason, and he didn’t find himself minding the clinking of his teeth this time. “Good.”

“Good?”

“I like to spend time with you. In private, like this.” Shiro murmured, stepping forward to lean against him, head coming to rest against the side of Hunk’s head.

“I like spending time with you, too.” Hunk grinned, about as bright as can be. “We’ll have to do this more often. Just, uh… without the threat of me dying. How are you even standing out here without dying?”

Shiro shrugged. “The cold never bothered me.”

Hunk’s eyes squinted, and Shiro took that as well enough distraction to ghost a kiss across his cheek. “But let’s get inside before you freeze into a Hunkcicle.”

“After you, o chivalrous mage.” Hunk said, ostentatiously swinging his arms towards the door again, voice taking a silly quality he only seemed to get around Shiro and the rest of their ragtime team.

Shiro curtseyed as best he could without a skirt to lift, fluttering his eyelashes like a southern belle, and the two of them laughed harder than the joke deserved as they twirled back through the door they came from.

Summer

The buzz of virtual cicadas echoed around the group, and a warm breeze burst into the clearing to caress again Shiro’s face like a mother’s gentle hold. Though it was nearing noon, the air around him wasn’t as hot as it could have been, and instead was a pleasant hum that calmed his spirit.

He relaxed even further against the soft bark of the tree than his already boneless form was, leg swinging in a languid motion as he watched the rest of his team run around, enjoying the soft summer heat.

The branch gave him a nice view of them all, and even of the rocky path that lead towards their little hideout.

“Shiro, help! I’m gonna die!” Hunk screamed from below, legs kicking as he tried to keep Lance and his branch full of bugs away. Lance lunged towards him, and a worm flew dangerously close to his nose.

Shiro couldn’t help the snorting laugh that resulted, but he quickly took pity on Hunk’s terrified expression.

“Alright, guys.” He shouted, cupping his hand against his mouth to let it carry towards all of their ears. “Leave him alone!”

“I didn’t do anything!” Keith huffed, and quickly dodged as Lance rounded on him with the stick.

“You want some of this, Mister Tank?”

“Lance, I swear if you- stop!”

Pidge had snuck behind Keith with her own weapon: a fistful of beetles that were promptly shoved in his face.

Keith took off in a sprint, and the two of them gave chase with a near-evil cackle.

Hunk quickly darted to the tree, apparently deemed as the safety zone. Shiro still laughed at him from above, and Hunk didn’t hesitate to flip him off. That only made him laugh even harder.

“Yeah, yeah. Yuck it up. You won’t be laughing when I sneak a friendly little critter into your shirt.”

“Oh?” Shiro turned his body to watch as Hunk began to climb the exact same tree he rested in. “And how do you plan to get my shirt off?”

Hunk paused, and nearly missed the branch he aimed for. Shiro reacted with a near-full bodied jerk to try and save the mage when Hunk sent him an exasperated look.

“We need to keep you away from Lance.”

“I heard that!” Said thief shouted from across the meadow, having abandoned his stick (almost as soon as Hunk evacuated) to weave flowers into Pidge’s and Keith’s hair. Though the two looked grumpy about it, they sat still as he expertly twisted their hair a fashionable style.

“Good!” Hunk stuck his tongue out, and joined in with the resulting laughter. In a softer tone, he addressed Shiro. “Now, give me your hand.”

“Are you gonna slap a bug in my hand?” Shiro asked, though he did as requested and leaned over, bracing both his legs around the branch to give Hunk a steady hold as he lifted himself to another tree arm that was only a few inches lower than Shiro’s choice of roost.

“I’m still deciding.”

Another laugh from the mage as he pushed his sweaty forelock from his eyes. “Well then, I must do what I can to keep in your good graces.” Shiro didn’t remember the last time he laughed so much when he wasn’t around Hunk.

Hunk hummed, and he gently squeezed their still joined hands. Not another word was added between them as they fell into a soft silence that somehow sent Shiro’s heart racing. He looked below, to his almost-lover, and shivered despite the warmth that surrounded them.

He (along with both Lance and Pidge) had abandoned their overcoats and any undershirts they had almost as soon as they’d found this place. Hunk sat there in nothing more than a plain shirt and the trousers he’d rolled up as far as he could go to escape the heat that he’d immediately deemed to be ‘oppressive’.

He was so beautiful, though, and Shiro had no clue how he was able to do it with so little effort. Yet here he was, head tilted back as he gently hummed a melody, thumb skirting across Shiro’s knuckles as his eyes flickered shut. The smooth slope of skin had Shiro tracing his eyes all across his face, and he found himself wanting to kiss every single dip and curve he saw there. He would have done it, too, if it wouldn’t have caused him to fall the few feet to the unforgiving ground.

“Hey, loverbirds! Keith is gonna roast up some chicken, if you want some!” Pidge called, fingers already fraying the faux-hawk Lance braided for her across half of her head. From behind her, Keith and Lance worked to get a steady flame going in the crude firepit they’d hurriedly built.

“Just give us a tick!” Shiro called back, tossing them a thumbs-up for good measure.

When he turned back to Hunk, their eyes met. For some reason, that sent him into a stuttering mess, and his face flamed as Hunk smiled at him.

“I guess we’d better get down there before they burn down the entire forest, hm?” Hunk said as he slipped his hand from Shiro’s grip, hardly waiting for a response as he began to jump down from branch to branch until he reached the base. “Don’t worry, I’ll catch you if you fall!”

Shiro fondly shook his head. “I’ll hold you to that.”

His descent was much slower, and Hunk was there to wrap his arms around him, even though he’d hardly stumbled a bit upon landing. Their hands found one another, and they gave little thought as to how. It was too easy to just let it be.

And so they let it be.

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