Time is an illusion

Unus muttered, simply keeping a calm expression close inside the tone he maintained. Soon carefully taking the taller’s face gently in his hands to make sure his eyes were met with their’s.

“Everything is fine, relax.”

They had nearly attacked one of those odd shadowed ones when Unus had shown up, allowing Annus' attention to shift to him. His eyes remain wide for a few seconds, up to a minute as he then reaches up as well once the calmness had finally settled in.

"I do not know what you are trying to do, but Unus is nothing but the best. He does not deserve the pain that he goes through... I know because I go through the same myself, why would I allow such a thing?"

They pause and seem to be getting a little bit more 'huffy' now.

their sharp gaze is turned towards the other once the words are spoken. There were flashes of the 'past'... memories were littered across the path of nothing but fogged up thoughts. November 15th 2019 into the year 2020 wasn't his best idea he'd done and it'd caused quite a bit of trouble for a few others.. but he was learning to be better-- to be nothing like what had happened.

                 it hurts. they find themselves leaning towards that for a split second and it causes them to actually smile, for once. dove’s raising his own arms to return the embrace. They blink a couple of times before clearing their pearl eyes back to the familiar brown... they felt happy right now!  With a smile that grew ever wider as seconds passed by, the white suited one finds his voice after a couple more seconds.

unus sat in the closest corner, the once calm and collected entity shaking like a leaf as he tried to claw through his own suit to reach the searing pain in his back. Almost as if the mutilation was taking place all over again.

Though, since he couldn’t reach, it simply made the sobs worsen as the hot tears escaped, the faint rocking back and forth causing the pain to worsen. He got these from time to time, and simply caused his peaceful world to crash.

“Make it stop.. make it stop.”

His attention had drawn straight to the energy shift in the air, which allowed him to locate Unus right where he’d thought the other would be. Annus felt his feet carry him forward quickly to Unus’ side, kneeling down.

There was absolute horrible pain in his eyes which allowed the white suited one only reach out to his shoulders. Annus wanted to take the pain from him, he wished that he could but he only tried to make the other look at him.

“Focus on me. Let me help.”

The words were something that sparked an emotion that he hadn't felt for sometime and it was only Unus that could even get that out of them in the first place. They reach out to the other, thumb brushing across his cheek in a.. loving manner. Annus needed to understand more about love, about care and he needed to do this in a way that it wouldn't hurt anyone else.

(very curious about the Stockholm syndrome prompts with Annus so here ya go ^^)

Annus was their name, they had that name and several others throughout their life. This though, with this name, it makes them realize just how much they seemed to matter more than they realize. 

He’d always been told that he was remarkable, that he was getting better and better to becoming more human like he’d been working years for... but there were times where he caved and let in that darker side because he couldn’t help it.

This is where they stand now as the gaze having been simply cold... simply white before, Annus is actually looking towards the other with a very caring expression, he even had brown eyes that he’d been acquainted with for a full year and even more so now.

Seems that the Entity had quite literally lost control this time, they were growling, teeth were sharp and their eyes were nothing but pearl white as they stalked towards the other with nothing but intent to injure. They had lost the small bit of humanity that they had been working on so when they did get closer to Oliver, their hands now fixed into what were very sharp claws matched his feral side of this whole bit.

Annus... tilts his head towards the other. Death was something that was inevitable but at the same time, it couldn't keep it's grasp upon many individuals, they were included in that. The Entity actually forms a smile at that, deciding to reach up with one hand to lightly place it upon Oliver's shoulder with a light pat.

@jumpinagain

They’re quiet, staring down at the black and white coffin that had managed to be dug up before turning their gaze up to the Engineer. The fact that that had been pulled up from the ground was surprising to say the least, it was a resting place for Unus and themselves when they needed time to recover from the lack of energy for either. Now it had a few marks on it as well as pulled up into the public eye if one were to find it in the forest, but the entity didn’t seem to mind it as they tilt their head.

“... It is okay, you didn’t mean to.” Their voice was softer than one would think, it almost mirrored Mark’s in a way but perhaps it was another one of them out there. “Come here.”

... Listen.... Annus is just a bit too not human, but if you teach them about stuff, they’re willing to learn. They deserve to experience human things!! Love on puppies, eat food, all that! They know they did fuck up when possessing Mark that full year, essentially eradicating any sort of good interaction between them and a certain shadowed entity, but they’re going to get better!!

KNIVES OUT.

there's a twitch of an expression change from hearing that statement and it brings them to turn their gaze towards the other with a head tilt that followed after. the entity looks as if they're unfocused with their pearl white stare, but with a few proper blinks, their eyes changed to a familiar brown from someone in the past.

they chuckle.

Annus isn’t human of course, also he isn’t an evil demonic being, in fact he’s kind of ... just one that needs to feed on the energy of a human or something akin/alike to such. if he cannot get the energy or is deprived of such, he... becomes more feral. This is why he was oddly calm during 2020 with Mark... Mark’s got quite a lot of energy.

PROMPT.

of course one would say that he's caused some hurt within others involved with Mark but Annus truly was only there for a full year as that was all they were allowed. now the being who did look pretty similar to Mark, raised an eyebrow towards the other's actions of aiming to hurt, it only did really sting in the end of the day. with a turn, he's tilting his head towards Wilford.

❝  are you mad for the same reason that shadowed one is?  ❞