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𝐈𝐒𝐇 ✴ 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍 ([personal profile] calamitish) wrote2025-03-09 11:25 pm
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-25 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
( yeah hwylryn doesn't do cutlery so have fun manifesting those on your own magic man, but there's definitely a variety of snackies and snackie accessories to choose from, have fun :D

The question, though, seems to surprise him - and he smiles in a way that's a little softer than the smile their little banter about silly human anatomy earned Ish already. )


Mmhm. Could you feel it?

( He doesn't know the logistics of Ish's emotional sensing, so he asks. He was certainly relieved when Ish seemed to acquiesce to rest, delighted when he went snake mode (sulky when Ish did not let him go mini dragon mode), and then ... very happy when Ish let Hwylryn have his coiling, and they dozed off. It's a sort of simple contentedness that isn't easy for him to find, that he values very much. )

And you were extra cute as a snake. ( no but he means it for real real... no reptile bias... ) Is it more comfortable for you to be in that form?

( Hwylryn's own dragon slips and swims around, taking up casual orbit around Ish. Hard to say what emotion this is in a human sense, but if coiling is what Hwylryn likes to do, then it's probably not hard to guess it might be a fondness or affection. )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-25 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
( Kindness is not calling out Ish on spending just a little bit too long preoccupied with the oyster every turn of conversation, but Ish resolves that soon enough regardless. hehe )

Flying and floating is way better than walking. ( He agrees, chews the shrimp tail idly. Guy who basically just walked for the novelty of it, prior to coming here, ) Can't you just make stuff float without hands? Though, it's true hands are nice for some things . . .

( Like holding people, things...

The dragon will happily coil tight once offered, pressing its little head against his hand (will accept pets or rubs if offered). It seems to have the temperament of a quiet but aggressively friendly cat.

Hwylryn is scandalized, but not for the right reasons, )


—Hey, that's not fair. Me, too.

( Hard to say if he's upset because he wants coil and pets, or because he wants to touch the dragon too, or because he's back on the "make me a dragon again c'mon" thing again. )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-25 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
( ding ding ding

He stretches out even longer on the chaise (dragon making itself more appealing) )


I'm right here, aren't I?

( If Ish weren't petting his souldragon then maybe it'd be different, but it's literally be illegal to pet an extension of him and not he himself. He is the most important dragon in the room? Hello? )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
( Oho... whinging always wins!!!

Hwylryn smiles with both surprise and a sense of pleased indulgence, closing his eyes as if it were the nicest feeling in the world. Sometimes, gesture means much more than sensation.

His dragon mirrors the sentiment - eyes closed, sighing (in that much cuter, animal way) as it settles and rests its head against whatever Ish's hand will be at, no matter how uncomfortable (cat energy).

After a little while: )


... Hey, Ish. ( A gentle voice. He's been a lot more sedate (for a Hwylryn) since the execution, like a light turned low. ) Are you happy with the way you are?

( Ish with his warm little magic and his warm little greenhouse... Ish, who plunged his hand through Siffrin's heart; who found delight in the mistrial... Ish, who has been working toward some end (has he been, for that 1,700 years?)... who's lived through pain and grief - and inflicts it in turn. Does he like what he's become? Is he happy with it? )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
If you did say you weren't happy with yourself, I'd say I hope you can become a version you're happy with soon.

Though, I'm sure I'd wonder if I could do something beyond just playing your game...

( The trials and murders and stuff. He's going to be doing that, anyway, if for his own reasons, do that doesn't really feel like it counts.

He opens an eye to peek at Ish's expression, and the next sound he makes is ambiguous. )


... Mmmm. What did you kill him for?
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
( That last bit sounds very native to the North... he doesn't want to be reminded of last trial, though. )

What did you get off him?

( Referring to his specialities.

"Going about this"... pin in that for just a second. )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hey.

( He'll catch his hand, but gently. He can pull it free if he wants. )

... You don't have to tell me. But you don't have to pull away from me, either. ( ... ) Unless I upset you?
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

( Unlike the times before, where he'd just kind of shrugged it off, he does stop to think on it.

Yeah, he sees that. )


... Sorry. I was just asking to know you, but...

( ... But he can see how it's hard to divine motive when he's the game master, getting pestered about stuff all the time. He knows other people visit Ish, they'd even talked about them when Hwylryn was at the door, but he sort of forgets about them.

He shifts his hold. He'll take Ish's hand like before. )


... This game is important to you. Right? ( He's not gonna ask why! He has his assumptions, and they might be wrong, but he thinks Ish has a real motive for all this. ) So I don't really want to break it. And I don't want you to break, either.

( Like game master of the previous loop Ish was trapped in... And, he'll admit the talk during the crystal phone town hall about Ish getting fatigued did worry him. )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
( catgunning at this tag because it hurt ME

... Hwylryn uses his unoccupied hand to sit up proper, squeezing Ish's hand in his. He looks - worried. hesitant.

What does he want? He always just follows impulse - goes with the flow of the harmony around him. But if he has to stop and listen... what melody does he hear? )


... I...

( ...

He raises his other hand - fingers lightly, lightly brushing Ish's cheek, like - he's trying to feel the shape of him there; see where the cracks run. And yet - he's a at war with himself. One hand grasps him tight; this other seems almost a little afraid to shatter him. )


... Is the only thing that can make you whole again your Goddess?

( For what it's worth, the question doesn't sound leading. The tone seems to ask - is that what you need? )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
( Oh,

Oh,

It's a sight he's seen before a thousand thousand times - humans and wizards he's charmed; magic beasts and all the things in between he's taken into his arms; the old and the young after an evening of sudden flight across half the world on a whim—

but,

this one, this time, makes him pause.

And he hesitates, like he'd rather bubble this moment in time, and take it with him deep under the sea, where no one else might see it, or mar it, take it from him.

But, like Ish said— time always moves somewhere. )


...

( The fingertips that so lightly brushes his cheek trace back, pushing aside a few strands of hair to expose Ish's warm cheek, and his palm so lightly comes to rest against it.

These aren't the things he came here to ask about, or even do. One thing of import, the rest of it spent on fun, and fussing over Ish. But now that he's here - now that he's been asked - now that he's broached a boundary he hasn't had the privilege yet to touch, he wants...

He wants... )


... Can I... stay with you?

( ... more, he thinks. )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
( Like his dragon had pressed into Ish's hand before, Hwy can't help but press lightly into his palm as he feels Ish there. His smile warms his cheeks, and his eyes hood slightly, like this is the happiest he could be in the world. The little dragon, for all its neglect in favor of the bigger dragon here, seems to thrum happily. )

... Then don't count on me to go anywhere.

( He's clingy! But Ish knows that. Ish knows that, so - maybe he won't (or will) be surprised when Hwylryn's face pulls closer. Their noses and foreheads brush, the air between their warm cheeks hot - their lips close,

but not,

quite yet. )


... So please... don't go anywhere, either. Even if you mean to come back.

( Whether it is to leave for awhile, or die, or otherwise - please just stay ... right where you are. )
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-26 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
( When they part, it will feel like going from sea to shore: the people will be grim, the steps there will be heavy; the prisoners there held by the warden of gravity. And these things are all because Ish has trapped them there, and he cannot argue with their complaint, and he can only be anxious as they discuss closer toward a means to kill him.

But, until then. He is here, and Ish is stumbling so close to his lips, and he is silly and warm, and Hwylryn feels what he had offered to Akira: why don't we put aside your role, why don't we set down our obligations and friends, and why don't we play, just the two of us? Why can't we? Why not? )


"Right now"...?

( His lips curl, his tone the familiar time of teasing. He's making it hard for Ish, huh. He's so cute. Ish is really, really cute. He wonders how many other people get to see Ish like this.

Selfishly, he hopes it's just him.

He laughs lightly, a prelude to mischief, before he releases Ish from his hold in both ways - before he quite unceremoniously wraps his arms around him instead, tugging him from his invisible seat and onto the chaise so they can flop over there, Hwylryn holding Ish against his chest. His heart thrums quick and loud; a happy caper in the fields of his heart.

Hwylryn does this because he wants to hold him like this. But he also thinks it'd be a little easier for Ish to break out of than face to face. A whole bit of selfishness and a little bit of mercy. You're welcome!

And his dragon, in the process, slipped off Ish's arm, to curl and coil and and settle around his neck, like Ish had done to Hwylryn the day before. )


Well, since I'm not going anywhere, maybe you'll have all the time in the world to figure it out.
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