ominous

His eyes laid on a figure unknown to him. They looked kinda nice, kinda intimidating and that was just the type Ra liked to mess with indeed. The meaner the better- they usually had golden hearts inside.

Or not always, his best friend and casual fuck was not a good person but he was a good person to ra. Anyway, too long of a story- he got distracted thinking of Mingi’s thighs. Instead he watched the man for a moment and then threw a snowball at him, it was a spur of the moment decision as he bend down, grabbed the snow and formed a ball.

Ra then teleported away, to the other side of the man and watched the other’s reaction. Feigning total innocence.

Looking down to see the snow as it was brushed off his shoulder would be like admitting defeat, so Ruki didn't do it. Instead, he kept his narrowed gaze on the guy’s brilliant grin and raised his own hand to knock the one that was touching him out of the way. Replaced, he began patting away the remaining snow that he refused to actually look at. 

“I wasn’t sulking.” Ruki replied, his face morphing into a scowl that made his words seem less reasonable. Part of him wanted to kick up a gust of snow at the man, just to be petty. “I don’t hang around out in the open much.” Meaning, he spent most of his time in the water, away from the students milling around on campus. 

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I n s i d e B e a s t 

You thought you’d enjoy a nice day by the river outside the village. Have a tasty picnic, drink some wine, maybe go for a little swim before it gets too cold in the season. The mistake you made was to litter the waters where a water spirit waits, ready to catch and punish anyone who harms his territorial waters. Can you appease this angry being, or will he drag you under? 

D o g m a

The water spirit has lived his whole life in isolation, free from principles and morals born of human contemplation. The idea of being anything other than entirely free in thought is strange to him. You see him as a reckless figure, admirable in his bold lifestyle that does not bend to anyone. Can you learn a thing or two from him? Or will you try and convince him that certain types of lifestyle/belief/morals are the way to live? 

T o D a z z l i n g D a r k n e s s 

What made you think that it was a good idea to go swimming when you were already tired? Now your limbs are giving up and your body succumbing to the cold water. Slowly, slowly, you are loosing the ability to think or fight. You are falling deeper into the lake’s deep abyss and will surely die this way. That is, until you see a water spirit approaching, or is it a water angel? Either way, they are your saving grace. 

The snow was soft and made a nice sound under his shoes as he walked through the academy grounds, past the lake that was half frozen over. If he wanted to he could probably stand on the edges and slide a little part but that would not hold long and he did not fancy a swim. The tuanji watched his hot breath colour the air around him, trying to blow little hoops but failing miserably.

His eyes laid on a figure unknown to him. They looked kinda nice, kinda intimidating and that was just the type Ra liked to mess with indeed. The meaner the better- they usually had golden hearts inside.

Or not always, his best friend and casual fuck was not a good person but he was a good person to ra. Anyway, too long of a story- he got distracted thinking of Mingi’s thighs. Instead he watched the man for a moment and then threw a snowball at him, it was a spur of the moment decision as he bend down, grabbed the snow and formed a ball.

Ra then teleported away, to the other side of the man and watched the other’s reaction. Feigning total innocence.

Whatever. Ruki was tired and not in the mood for melancholy. Not quite ready to head indoors and find a decent lunch somewhere, he kicked up a patch of snow with his boot and shivered just slightly beneath the heavy black coat that covered most of his body down to his knees. 

A heavy plop sounded near his ear and was accompanied by an unfamiliar weight that just barely caused the water spirit to lean backwards from impact. White clumps of snow were now stuck to his jacket, and clearly visible thanks to the black material. Ruki’s eyes darted down to his shoulder and then all around him with an angry glint shining through his unmatched eyes. 

Nobody was standing in the immediate vicinity. A few girls were treading happily through the snow too far away to be culprits, so he continued to circle his gaze unhappily. That’s when he caught sight of another man. He looked guilty. Not for any logical reason, but because he was there. The innocent look on his face was not convincing enough for Ruki. 

Without a word, Ruki dove for a scoop of snow in his bare hands and flung it without first forming a ball at the offending male. The result was more like dousing the man in an aggressive snow flurry than making solid impact with a properly compressed snowball. 

Ruki had a short temper and knack for acting quickly, but a terrible inexperience with snowball fights. 

(  lyric  sentence  starters  taken  from  various  joji  songs.  )

❛ will your tongue still remember the taste of my lips? ❜

❛ will your lover caress you the way, that i did? ❜

❛ i just wanna make sure you’re okay. ❜

❛ i thought we’d last forever. ❜

❛ the demons told me everything. they whisper in the night. ❜

❛ you don’t know me, what the fuck you mean? ❜

❛ i’m a bitter fuck. ❜

❛ i don’t wanna live in my skin no more. ❜

❛ i won’t fuck with you if you don’t fuck with me. ❜

❛ so tell me, am i crazy? ❜

❛ i don’t wanna waste my time if i can’t be by your side. ❜

❛ you’re only on my mind when i need you. ❜

❛ i promise you my heart is made of gold. ❜

❛ would it kill you just to throw a little bit of attention? ❜

❛ would you hate me if i said goodbye? ❜

❛ i don’t smile for the camera, only smile for you. ❜

❛ don’t follow me, you’ll end up in my arms. ❜

❛ you should be with him, i can’t compete. ❜

❛ i’ll see you in the next life. ❜

❛ i promise i won’t lie, we’ll make it out alive. ❜

❛ so punish me, i’m hanging on your noose. ❜

❛ so pull me up so i can breathe with you. ❜

❛ i can’t get over you. ❜

❛ teach me to love just to let me go. ❜

❛ but right now i’m just not strong enough for you. ❜

❛ i don’t feel the way they programmed me to feel today. ❜

❛ you and i, we are one in the same. ❜

❛ i wish you were here with me now. ❜

❛ right now, laying here alone is heaven. ❜

❛ i just need you one more time to get it right, you know. ❜

❛ i fell for your magic, i tasted your skin. ❜

❛ i know you’re not in love like you used to be. ❜

❛ when night falls i am your escape. ❜

❛ when you lay alone, i ache. ❜

❛ if you’ve been waiting for falling in love, you don’t have to wait on me. ❜

❛ i’ve been aiming for heaven above, but an angel ain’t what i need. ❜

❛ not anyone, you’re the one. ❜

❛ what you want is what i want, sincerity. ❜

❛ hold me close cause you never know just how long our lives will be. ❜

❛ there’s something in your laugh that makes me fear the way you smile. ❜

❛ we can pretend we’re normal people. ❜

❛ we don’t gotta love each other right, we just gotta make it through the night. ❜

❛ by the way you move, i know you want me to. ❜

❛ if you ever go, all the songs that we like will sound like bittersweet lullabies. ❜

❛ those chills that i knew, they were nothing without you. ❜

❛ you’re the one i can’t lose. ❜

❛ no one loves me like you do. ❜

❛ since i met you, all the gloomy days just seem to shine a little more brightly. ❜

She knew it, just by looking. Another one like her?

Excited she walked over and just stood in front of him. Telepathically talking to him

“Hey! You’re another water spirit aren’t you? I am Marina, everyone calls me Merry and I am so happy to meet you! I didn’t think there were any other waterspirits around hello!” A little too excited she wobbled on her heels from side to side, too thrilled to stay in one spot as she giggled a little and then bit her lip to control herself.

This one didn't seem offended. Maybe a bit deterred. 

“More than talking, hearing people talk with their throat hurts my ears. This way is better. Something about vocal cords is more grating to listen to. There’s too much vibration.” Ruki didn't know if she would understand, but he assumed that she would. A water-spirit who felt using her physical throat to be exhausting should understand that using the physical ear was equally tiring. Maybe knowing her would be a good thing, after all. Someone who shared his experience as an existence in this place couldn't be too bad. 

So she was desperate too. Ruki wrinkled his nose at that and shook his head. The action didn't look like much though. Rather than appearing like he was frustrated with her line of questions, it put on display the way his black hair shifted out of his eyes and then fell stubbornly back into place. As though he had intended to shake his bangs out of his face. A moment, brief as it may have been, where the dual shades of his individual eyes was exposed. One brown, one blue.

“I’m not one for crowds. Where I come from, I only interacted with my younger brother. Very isolated place.” Taking into consideration that the girl was a fellow water spirit, Ruki decided to at least try and spare his usual biting words. Rather, he wove together an excuse about the crowds of the village that was not entirely untrue. He did hate crowds.

The shop behind the girl stood solidly as a testament to her words. It looked plenty popular and well kept. The glass was clean and the interior warm and invitingly visible from the outside world. Hardly his style, but it was at least a little better than remaining in the middle of the bustling city street. 

“I can’t swear the same thing, but I’ll take you up on that offer.” Ruki said, his plump lower lip pulling upward in a smirk that made him seem more mischievous friendly than grouchy threat to society. 

The air was dry and Merry was sitting in her salon, feet in a small basin of water as she was filing her own feet when she sensed something. Looking up from her nails she looked around and saw the spirit of her dead brother also looking around. He had also sensed something. A mind that was able to connect with her own. Getting up she got out of the basin and slipped on her heels as the young woman walked to the door of ‘Doris’ Day’ and looked around. It was then that she saw him.

She knew it, just by looking. Another one like her?

Excited she walked over and just stood in front of him. Telepathically talking to him

“Hey! You’re another water spirit aren’t you? I am Marina, everyone calls me Merry and I am so happy to meet you! I didn’t think there were any other waterspirits around hello!” A little too excited she wobbled on her heels from side to side, too thrilled to stay in one spot as she giggled a little and then bit her lip to control herself.

The water back home was much more agreeable. Pure water, untouched by filth. The desire for isolation was great, as there were too many voices here. All very much vocal and ringing in his ears in jarring waves every time a group passed him by on the sidewalk. Not to mention all the rumbling that came from cars and construction machinery. It was so noisy. 

Ruki was so focused on not kicking a stray cat that had come very close to tripping him up that he faced a full blow of surprise unprepared when a very female voice spoke up in his head. It was telepathic communication, he knew, but he had only used it with his brother before. He halted his aggression towards the feline and shifted his attention to a woman who had come to stand directly in front of him with purpose. Lucky. The cat had been very close to becoming a furry football.

It took a second, but he put two and two together quickly. 

“I’m a water spirit, yes.” Ruki said, using his telepathic voice to reply in kind. Even so, his disembodied voice was gruff and deep. “I didn't know there were any other water spirits here either.” 

What else was there to say to this woman? Part of Ruki’s brain was still set on strangling the cat, but the other part that was more dominant was taken off guard by the appearance of another water spirit. 

“If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered to listen to my brother about moving here.” 

The subtle clink of chains could be discreetly heard as Ruki walked. It was the sound of his metal chains clanging against one another, the ones that hung decoratively from his pant pockets up to a belt loop near his hip. Even though he was following the other guy, he was walking with ease, ready to change direction when the other did. “Bars are fine. Haven’t been to one in a while. It can get stuffy.” 

Ruki’s eyebrow raised slightly at the offer, but he kept his head forward. “I guess it’s worth it, at least.” Ruki briefly turned to look at the man walking by his side and winked. The gesture made him seem far more experienced than he really was with exchanging flirtations, and far more interested than he really was. “Ruki.” 

@zitao-ia 

“Let’s go then,” Zitao said as he led the other to the nightclub where he usually hung out, Demonic Pleasures. Since it was during the day it was quiet there and only a few patrons were hanging out. “Nice to meet you Ruki, the name is Zitao. So you’re new at the academy huh?” He says with a smirk and then keeps the door open for the other.

“Yea, I’m new. First time in Korea too.” He offered sullenly. Ruki leaned up against the bar, his fingers beginning to tap against the polished wood. “I’ll take the same.”