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3am Challenge Day 2 Prompt: #96 - One Moment (300 words) Song: Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Fandom: Kingdom Hearts Characters: Axel, Roxas

(dedicated to Asher~)

Sunlight creeps along the skyline and dyes the heavens with a brilliant array of pinks and yellows, lavenders and reds. It’s like stained glass, he thinks, like windows in a castle tower. It may very well be the most beautiful sunset he’s even seen.

The wind smells like autumn, like the dying of summer and while it’s fresh and calming, he doesn’t want these sticky-hot days to end just yet. Not if it means an end to the hours where the sun refuses to sink down below the horizon without first burning everything in its wake with scarlet and gold.

He looks over at Roxas, a shining halo of blond in his peripherals. He stares for a moment, just observing the way his shorter companion balances the bare ice cream stick against his lower lip, sucking on it in thought while they sit in silence. Minutes pass like days and Roxas turns to face him.

The movement causes the sunbeams trapped behind Roxas’ head to burst free. He is wrapped in radiance – bathed in the light of infinity and glowing like he is a celestial body all his own. It makes Axel think of the gilded, arching gates of his original home world and, just for a moment, Axel thinks he can feel something stirring in his empty chest. A wave of nostalgia crashes through him, knocking him off balance and out into unknown waters. Salt stings his eyes and it takes a moment for him to realize it’s not the last vestiges of the ice cream still clinging to his tongue. He feels his breath catch in his throat.

Love.

He is in love.

give me a character and i’ll tell you:

what they smell like

Cinnamon and woodsmoke; or, “spicy campfire in October.”

what music they like

I feel like he’d be into Marina and the Diamonds, She, Pendulum, and Starset.

something they collect

Trinkets. Like, little bracelets or stud earrings, pots of eyeliner or shadow, things that were shaped or colored like fire…

what their bedroom looks like

Surprisingly pristine, and all his makeup would be in neat little rows on his dresser. He doesn’t have much, so what he does have, he hoards.

their eating habits

Uhm. This one is tricky cuz of my RP muse… He probably makes sure to enjoy what he’s eating because, since he can’t feel, he tries to make up for it with sensations. I actually think he really likes food and is adventurous when it comes to trying out new tastes.

intellectual pursuits & other hobbies

He likes to hide under his sheets and read at night by firelight. He gives off the impression that he doesn’t like it much, but this is a total lie cuz he probably reads a ton and just doesn’t show it. I imagine he tries to learn what he can about the different worlds he’s assigned to, as a way of blending in better, yeah, but also because he’s genuinely curious. As for hobbies, the sky-watching is already canon, so there’s that. He probably works on his collections, too, and also steals a book or something from each place he goes to put in his secret stash. He practices different eye makeup, too, when no one is around.

their most prized position

It happens again but this time Axel wakes up and then gets up just to flop back down directly on top of the bed hog.

I was sketching and Axel happened.