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heartofthestar ([personal profile] heartofthestar) wrote2024-01-09 08:37 pm

Labyrinthium Inbox

Hear.
Feel.
Think.
Call.
Message.
placation: placation (art: nono_ppppp) - dns (another season passes by you)

[personal profile] placation 2024-10-02 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Every word radiates through him. Like a clear note struck on a bell in an empty room. Like the wings of a dove in flight. Like crystalline-bright light, splintered into kaleidoscopic fractions dancing in the sun. Like a wish.

Maruki is a man who puts an exceptional amount of weight on words. Simple kindnesses spoken in times of need, genuine praise for work well done, reassurance when he forgets what he already knows to be true, affirmation that someone feels the same as he does. Talk isn't cheap, not to him. And words aren't only words, pretty and romantic but ultimately meaningless. They are significant, tremendously so; sacred.

Venat will die. He isn't naive. He has known this since the very day they met in dreams. She will die beyond death, the very essence of her soul rendered discorporate.

Yet memory persists. If not in the way that he knows, then in the echoes of all reality.

It's no small thing. It's the most phenomenal thing of all.

They are the most phenomenal thing of all, he thinks. A force to be reckoned with that will be felt throughout time, simply because they've allowed themselves to come together.

Maruki is entirely silent as her words settle over him like powder-fine snow. Venat's eyes – brilliant, ethereal, glowing with all her conviction and all her radiant joy – locked inexorably on his, her touch lingering on his face, her heart bared just as much as his.

All at once, his face splits into a smile like he's not felt in long years. A luminous thing that glows from within. It aches, and if he has learned anything in Somnius, anything by being with her, it is that it's not such a bad thing, to ache.
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I'm so grateful your soul made this detour before its ultimate fate. More grateful than ever.

[ He mirrors her motion, cups her face in one warm palm, thumb skating over her cheekbone for a moment before he draws her in closer. The motion is slow, tender, almost impossibly so. He's well aware how unexpected all of this is to Venat; it's why he's waited months for this moment: To meet her halfway, to breathe her in, to press his lips gently to hers, like a promise. It's a soft kiss, but Maruki is nothing but steady, assured. He'll anchor her through something entirely new. It's the very least he can do. ]
placation: placation (art: adachi_000000) - dns (of every animal)

[personal profile] placation 2024-10-05 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a profound relief, to be embraced so wholly – physically, spiritually. Maruki's entire body sighs into it. There will be more moments together, hopefully many more, but there will never be this moment again. He wants to commit every bit of it to memory: Their hands resting gently on one another's cheeks, the warm summer air hanging still around them, Venat's radiance poured into every tender moment of that kiss.

He's smiling as they part, a flush sprawling across his cheeks. He feels giddy, weightless and breathless, and utterly content.
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Venat.

[ Said quietly, reverently, like a final seal placed over his heart.

He tips his head up, presses another kiss between her brows, then backs off just enough to be able to see her properly, still grinning.

For once, he doesn't have more to say.
]
placation: placation (art: nono_ppppp) - dns (everything i love is on the table)

[personal profile] placation 2024-10-05 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Every time he thinks Venat looks as joyous as she can, she somehow manages to ratchet that elation up exponentially. There may be no upper limit to her warmth, her delight in new experiences, her love for the world. It soothes in a way that little else can.

Maruki laughs at that – certainly not at her! – and his brows shoot up past his messy flop of fringe. His hand drops to rest against the side of her neck, tucked into the cowl of her robe.
]

Is that so? Like I've said before, there are some things that us mere mortals got right.
placation: placation (art: angstyastro) - dns (of the way things were)

FRANKLY THIS THREAD COULD GO FOREVER IN MY HEART but we can wrap on yr reply if you want :3ccc

[personal profile] placation 2024-10-11 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ If there is one thing that first drew him to Venat, there are a hundred, but that mischievous nature of hers is high up on the list. Maruki is a man who can and will drown himself in his own sorrow if given half the chance; he has always needed, will always need people around him who simply allow him to have fun instead. It's always been easy to laugh with her, to flirt, to be teased. And it's no different now.

He flushes brighter at that, exhales a stunned little laugh.
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You really are unbelievable...

[ But dear god, he won't waste a second of this opportunity given.

He leans in close again, brushes their noses together, smiling, whispering:
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Practice all you like. We have nothing but time.