Helspulse mountain town anon back to tie yet another thing to that first post.
An immortal can make a mortal immortal if they fall in love with the mortal. There's one small problem. In order for the former mortal to lose their new immortality, the immortal has to fall out of love with them. Obviously, this has led to a lot of situations where the mortal falls out of love but is unable to move on cause the immortal hasn't.
Or in Impulse's case, the mortal was using him to get to someone else.
Around 500 years ago, Impy met Bdubs and was smitten. Bdubs didn't really care about the imp until he saw he was friends with Etho, Bdubs's crush. What he didn't know was Etho was with Impulse's brother and fellow immortal Skizz.
So Bdubs spent a few years buttering up the imp while trying to get to Etho. He even had a ring made.
Impulse found the ring, and was so overjoyed he decided right then and there to make Bdubs immortal. Days later, while Impy was doing chores around the house, he was skipping and just waiting for Bdubs to give him the ring. Instead, Bdubs threw him out of the house saying he has to make room for his actual lover, and called Impy a gullible little fool for thinking that ring was for him.
Impulse ran away and was never seen for 500 years.
At first, Bdubs didn't care. All he cared about was proposing to Etho. Etho rejected him and said he wanted to just be friends. And he took immortality from Skizz. Bdubs spent the next 500 years watching them be the most sickeningly sweet thing to ever exist, Skizz absolutely showering Etho in attention, and Etho giving Skizz a shoulder to cry on every time the pain of not finding his little brother got too great to bear alone.
For 500 years Bdubs thought Impulse did that on purpose to get back at him for breaking his heart. For 500 years Bdubs thought about killing the imp to make himself mortal again so he wouldn't have to deal with this.
Meanwhile, Impulse was trying his damndest to fall out of love with Bdubs. In the first 100 years, he considered going back to Hels and letting the knight unload on him about the irony of Impulse crawling back to the man he rejected after being rejected himself. In the first 100 years, he would have also taken Bdubs up on his plan to kill him(neither Impy nor Skizz knew if they were the type of immortal to shrug off murder attempts or not.) Now he's just trying to let time pull that love out of his heart.
Impulse has hated his big heart ever since. He's kept it hidden away, too afraid of falling in love again. He messed up with Hels, he messed up with Bdubs. Clearly, he can't judge character.
Skizz was always so much better at that than him. He always tried to see the good in people, but he wasn't blind to the bad, either. Not like Impulse is. He hopes Etho and Skizz are happy. And, stupidly, he wishes Bdubs found happiness too. Because despite it all, he still loves the damn guy.
He knows Skizz must be worried about him. After running away for so long, he's too scared to face Skizz's love again. He hurt his brother. He doesn't deserve that forgiveness, not when Bdubs still has a place in his heart.
So when he hears of a small town, far into the mountains... It sounds perfect. Somewhere he can settle down. Where he can stop worrying about everything. It might be what he finally needs to get over Bdubs.
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