open post 2025

[impractical]

leave a starter or prompt; happy to plot first via pm or plurk.
muselist here.
spoilers and nsfw possible, will mark in tls.


wip list of tropes and stuff i pretty much always want to play:

• lotus-eater situation, aka "you're living your perfect life and don't realize it's killing you!"
• pining! you know the hand flex gif from p&p? of course you do
• vampires...
• misunderstandings between people who have feelings for each other, i.e. thinking one of them is interested in someone else and it comes to a head in heated admissions of Feelings
• slow burn over a psl
• ALL the h/c, whether one or two-sided
• fwiw some of my favorite bstreet memes are morning after, train to the afterlife, drunk meme, find them dying, and insomnia
• text is always going to be a yes from me dawg
• classics: only one bed, huddle for warmth
• amnesia???

 

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for amourperdu

[peindre]

[ Another person might have asked if this is either wanted or needed. Asked Verso if it was tolerable, even. But Maelle hadn't done that, when she'd made the decision to bring back the woman from her brother's past, and she doesn't give it a second thought now. ]

Okay... [ It'd been one thing to restore Sciel and Lune, whose chroma had been fresh, and who she knows so well. It'd been another to Paint the citizens of Lumière back into existence en masse (difficult, draining her immensely).

This is...a different kind of puzzle. Because she has to piece together the form of a woman she's never met, and who hasn't been alive in decades. Her understanding of the Search and Rescue member is almost completely based on secondhand accounts, whether the odd journal they'd found scattered across the Continent or other records still held in the city of the team that had gone and never come back.

Her intentions are good, as they always are. Surely, if anyone can help shake Verso from his...well, depression, then this woman can. After all, Maelle knows they'd been close (romantic), and even with the betrayal at the end...well, the whole world is different now. Surely Julie could forgive Verso, with so much changed.

(And maybe, eventually, he could forgive Maelle in turn.)

So she begins on an unused pier at the break of dawn one day, concentrating. It takes a long time: this isn't where Julie died, of course, and the time and distance make it incredibly difficult to pinpoint and stitch together those ounces of the dead woman's being. The sun is high in the sky by the time Maelle really manages it, and a bead of sweat trails down the side of her freckled face as, finally, it all clicks into place. ]

Come back to us. [ The Paintress coaxes softly, bringing Julie into existence again with a swirl of chroma and petals. After, she half-collapses with the exhaustion, falling to one knee and drawing deep, laboured breaths. ]