Dazzling Snake

“ and here I thought you were working on leaving less? ”

“ I should have boiled you. ”

he squints, feeling feisty today apparently.  “ Are you saying I’m weak? ”

Oh no. He senses that he has made a GRAVE error.

“ snakes are boring and ugly. pass it on. ”

Pink

you want badly to be kind, to be loved, to be precious, missed when you're gone. you are terrified of being the thing you fear. you want people to come looking for you. you aren't and never have been one dimensional, even when everyone else insists it would be easier if you were.

Oregano

me to so many people and yet you're not at home with yourself. Everyone needs something from you and you desperately try to prove that you're enough but you're never enough, never good enough, never even you despite all of that. Your hands shake but only when you're never looking at them and your smile is so ever-present you can't help but wonder if its fake, wonder how much of you is real. You're a caretaker, but are you even good at that, or are you faking yourself out into believing you're something that you wish you could, someone that someone else needed you to be when you were small and so full of need and hope and fragility? Who are you underneath the need to be someone's home? Who are you when you come home to yourself?

❝ OH, MON CHÉRI – planning to continue behind closed doors    are we – ? AYA – you sneaky temptress – you’re making me    wonder who truly is the dog between the both of us – !! come    now – !! enough of your sweet nothings – !! surely getting me    all flushed wasn’t your only intention in our little outing, was it – ? ❞

“What can I say? I wand nothing more than to make you happy and completely satisfied.” He hummed softly. Despite him playing along as they always do, there was truth to him wanting Shigure to be happy. He wished nothing more than the people he cared about most in the world to have nothing but happiness.. but given their family that wasn’t always possible.

She’d always been somewhat ANNOYED by the snake. The loud voice and personality, it left Akito a headache and one of the reasons she rarely spent time with him. But there were still OBLIGATIONS to be had as God, she couldn’t ignore his existence entirely. Though she was surprised by Ayame’s words, she had no doubt in her mind that he could burst into another one of his damned ‘acts’ as she’d call them. Like the world was his stage.   ❝     Your brother always was the EASIER out of the two of you to deal with.    ❞    Out of fear but not that Akito would ever admit such a thing, even to herself. But she gave a small hum of thought, dark eyes moving to meet golden ones.   ❝     Does this mean you’ll be changing you ATTITUDE? I wouldn’t mind you staying here if you did. I just can’t deal with your voice.    ❞

Ayame was all too aware of the fact that Akito normally wanted nothing to do with him. One could possibly argue that he had done it on purpose, having gone out of his way to make himself unappealing to the god so he could escape... but that wasn’t entirely true, things were complicated. Just like any of the other members, he felt the pull to Akito.. though it wasn’t as strong as it use to be when he was younger, it still lingered.. the need to please, to be someone that Akito would want. If that wasn’t enough, their was Ayame’s new found need to protect his brother, and if he could make himself more desirable, than maybe.. just maybe Yuki could find the freedom he sought.