#feralcutting

wordless prompts | nudge!

She’d been napping in that same flower field, with eyes closed and a slight smile as though the entire world had fallen away, save for the dappled sunspots that shone through her eyelids and the soft flora cradle. 

Barely detectable rustles in the field alert her, but she does not react. A shadow looms over her, blocking out the foliage-filtered sunlight. Still, she does not stir.

Something prods her cheek. Lightning fast, Yggdrasil grasps at the thing— an ankle from the feel of it— and yanks with all her weight! Incited to roil with her mental command, the earth destabilizes underfoot, and she grins at the audible thump, then oof! As her veneer of sleep had been thoroughly broken, she opens her eyes to acknowledge the boar-masked boy who ungracefully sprawls in the flower field at her flank.

 This place is absolutely amazing, and Aloy hasn’t been able to stop gawking at just about everything she passes by. It’s like the ruins back where she’s from, only... not in ruin!  That being said, she’s a little out of her element, and it’d be nice if she could find anything out about this place. Unfortunately, talking to the people around her seems hard, because just as she can’t stop staring at the architecture... she also can’t stop staring at everyone else. It’s not her fault, though, because all of them look so strange!

 Well, almost all of them. Wanting to explore this place top to bottom as soon as she can, Aloy comes to find herself at Savior’s Respite. It’s perhaps the most familiar seeming place yet- it reminds her of the Sacred Land back home, and the beautiful flora provides her with a bit of comfort. It seems she’s not the only one who appreciates it, either, because she soon spots a boy nearby whose garb actually isn’t that strange to her. And, he’s got a sword! It’s wooden, just like her new lance.

 Thinking he might possibly be from the same place as her, she starts into a slight jog to catch up to him.

Welcome to beautiful Isola Radiale, Inosuke!

You’ll be staying in HOUSE 105

You’ll be given everything you had during your previous stay.

Enjoy! :)

Welcome back to scenic Isola Radiale, Inosuke!

You will be housed in CONDO 421!

You will retain everything you received in your previous stay.

PLEASE NOTE: As you were removed in an activity check, you have one week to make three IC posts else you will be considered inactive once more.

He’ll be taken off hiatus!

As she mulls over what would be the most appropriate action to take, it seems he senses her presence first. And when Inosuke turns to face her, Shinobu greets him with the same smile that she always does and sighs. "Hashibira-kun," Some things don't ever change. It appears that he's stayed more or less the same, too. She'll give him the room to react if he wants to, which she's sure that he will because none of this should be possible. The last time he had seen her, he reasonably thought it’d be the last and yet here she is, alive and well.

"You seem well."

      in between the broken seams of this city, there’s a pretty face spewing profanities that only Tanjiro would find nostalgic. It incites an impossibly euphoric joy to hear his companion’s voice, no matter how delicate it sounds, nor how fair he suddenly appears. ( It might be unfair to say he wasn’t ‘fair’ before, truth be told, but that boar mask did help everybody forget what was under it. )

       “Inosssukkke! InoooSUKEE!” Being in Zenitsu’s body, he finds himself waging war with conflicting emotions. The thunder-wielder perceives him with aggravation, while Tanjiro feels nothing but joy. Yet both, as he wants to believe, feel relief. Regardless, the conflict is silenced as soon as he forces him into an embrace.

STONEWORK HEADCANONS. | ACCEPTING | @feralcutting

What sorts of things bring your muse comfort in trying times? Are there any habits they have when things get difficult to help cope?

... uh... fam...ily.

Rui doesn’t exactly have... good coping mechanisms, or anything, uh, to... do... to distract himself. He relied on anger for so long that now that his own anger hurts if not scares him he doesn’t... know what he can do to cope. It’s -- led to a lot of issues with him handling... anything, really.

Because -- he gets so worked up that he doesn’t know what to do to make everything stop hurting, so he’s... been privy to a lot of emotional breakdowns!

He hasn’t really solidly found anything else to bring him comfort yet and it’s not like his parents are here, and Sanae and Emiko hate him and he still doesn’t know his own feelings to them anyway, so it’s. A time.

Are they pessimistic, optimistic or somewhere in the middle? Was there anything that happened to them in their life that caused them to think in this way?

Pessimistic. He always has been but it’s only gotten worse the more he’s been through, but poor kid has really never had a shred of optimism in him. The one time he was really optimistic about something (becoming a demon) it backfired, and he’s been stuck fully pessimistic again since then. You could also argue he had a shred of optimism that he was going to be with his parents again in Hell but that’s a bit of a weird thing to call optimistic.

Also, it’s more a question of what hasn’t happened -- Rui’s carrying so much pain and trauma on his shoulders that, due to the nature of those traumas and how he is as a person, there’s really no room for anything but pessimism.