Amaranth: A Dream

[idolpro]

Once, there was a maiden...

...whose battles called her far from home.
She slew the thing she feared most, and conquered the land that feared her.
As she fought, far away, she knew her children needed guidance.
She knew they faced tyrants.
She knew they faced fear.
In her homeland, things were broken.
So, she held up her hand before the sun, and cast a shadow on the world, and drowned the troubles of her home in darkness.

"Survival's a long reach," she said.

Comments

Re: UPDATE: The Almost Bridge

[worthathousand]

You aren't a monster.

[ that answer, at least, is firm and immediate. ]

So I don't know why my dream gave you this role.
Perhaps that's the part of me that isn't a coward, which won't let me erase that I have wronged you.

Re: UPDATE: The Almost Bridge

[stakesthesame]

You could just-- say you're sorry. Make an effort to actually know me. I don't care about you failing or-- whatever, I just want..

...

You already know what I want. Shouldn't have to say it again.

Re: UPDATE: The Almost Bridge

[worthathousand]

I am sorry. It keeps happening like a cruel joke. Or a crueler test, maybe.

You want me to choose you above my children. And it's the only thing I can't give.
—Not to you, or to myself. I would not even give that to Cardinal.

Re: UPDATE: The Almost Bridge

[stakesthesame]

[ her voice going lower, decidedly sour: ]

You're always going on about things being fair and just and whatever junk, but it sure doesn't matter when it's them involved. I wouldn't ASK you to choose me over Persephone, but Lucifel isn't even related to you. He's not even from your world, he's from Doodle's. So at that point-- it's not about it being your children, it's about you playing favorites with whatever randos you feel like.

But I just want to matter at all, once. But for all your pretty words you can barely manage that.

... I don't actually think you're sorry at all.

Re: UPDATE: The Almost Bridge

[worthathousand]

Of course I'm sorry!
But I won't abandon some other version of my son for not being who I was first fated to meet. I won't abandon my children on LiliS, or Eclipse, or any of the youths I've sworn to protect.

Do you want to be under my protection, or do you want to be my peer? I want to give you one of those things, but I need you to tell me which of those it should be.

Re: UPDATE: The Almost Bridge

[stakesthesame]

-- of course I don't want to be your kid! You're super hot and that'd be WAY too weird because I have way too much unresolved horny tension to see you as someone who's supposed to be a parent and my dad's only ever been a disappointment to me so that's just setting you up to fail EXTRA hard!!

The Almost Bridge - 1/3

[worthathousand]

[ wait what ]

The Almost Bridge - 2/3

[worthathousand]

[



this is a lot. ]

The Almost Bridge - 3/3

[worthathousand]

[ ....pfffffffff. ]

Mela's tits, Requiem, if you've just wanted to kiss me again this entire time, you could have said so far sooner.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 3/3

[stakesthesame]

[ goes










bright red ]

You keep beating me up WHEN DID I HAVE TIME TO WANT TO KISS YOU

Re: The Almost Bridge - 3/3

[worthathousand]

...Are those actions meant to be mutually exclusive?

[ it's teasing but also like. why would they be mutually exclusive! ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 3/3

[stakesthesame]

It's different if it's a friendly rivalry or something this is just ENDLESS GAY FRUSTRATION

The Almost Bridge - 1/2

[worthathousand]

Alright, then, fine—

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ Time to just.

Close the distance between them and grab Req by the shirt for a kiss. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ scREAM OKAY I GUESS. I GUESS WE'RE KISSING?

DO LUNARS USUALLY EXPLODE INTO FURRY FORM OUT OF SHOCK BECAUSE THAT SURE JUST FUCKING HAPPENED ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ SHE HONESTLY WOULD NOT KNOW.
but it's whatever; you don't make it far in Creation without becoming at least a little bit a monsterfucker.

...Anyway, after a few long moments she pulls away. ]

I hope that helped at least a little bit.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ well, she's

definitely more sabercat than requiem, now, so,,,


she can't blush covered in fur but she does pull back a little to cover her face with her paws ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[




....nose boop. ]

I don't know what will remain of me, if I truly leave this place behind. But I am glad to have done that.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ jerks her head back, nose wrinkling, and somehow managing to look a little put out as she stares at her.

and then grumbles a huff of breath, reaching forward to grab amaranth's face in her paws (gently... ish...) and yank her closer again to swipe her broad tongue all up the side of her face and hair.

But like, absolutely intentionally slobbery and gross. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ .........I earned this. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ YEAH! YOU DID!!! ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ Well. That was sure a series of Moments.

Amaranth gives a little huff of a sigh, and runs her fingers back through her hair to halfway tidy it. ]

So... what will you do now, Requiem?

[ She means in the immediate—stay or go, or leave all together—but the question isn't not deliberately open-ended. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ ... shrinks down, a bit, back to that half-transformed state, if only because shapeshifting actually is comforting for her ]

Is there any point of me going-- there?

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ simply ] I don't know.

I'm not sure how much I can trust any of my own judgment about this place, any longer.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

Do you want me to go?