#lostandwayfound

Send 🍼 to see how my muse would react to being handed a baby

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“Oh...!  Uh.  I don’t know if--Iiiiii...”  She’s so tiny.  And Terra can sense her light, and...also her darkness, which is a strange experience.  Still, the baby lets out a trickling sort of laugh and Terra’s only aware of how easily he could crush that tiny body without meaning to.

Do not drop the child, he reminds himself sternly, and freezes up with an expression that’s really trying to be a smile.  But the balance isn’t as hard as he’s making it out to be, and it doesn’t take him long to start to relax.  “I guess you’re pretty cute,” he tells the baby’s indomitable smile.

She makes a cooing noise, then rears back as if she’ll sneeze--and abruptly pukes all over Terra’s shoulder.

The Gummi ships were the sort of technology that Master Eraqus would probably frown on, being made up of broken worlds, but Terra hadn’t felt safe putting himself so close to the darkness in the Lanes Between.  Besides...even now, using the Keyblade at all felt so much like tempting himself to tap into its power.  Maybe someday he’d be comfortable wielding it as thoughtlessly as he once had, but that day wouldn’t be for a long time.

So when he returned to the Land of Departure (or Castle Oblivion as he also, tragically, knew it), it was without fanfare.  He wasn’t surprised not to see Ven as he stepped up towards the castle doors; they’d probably missed one another in transit, but Ven had now and then caught up to him without convincing him to come home.  (That was an odd reversal that Terra still wasn’t sure how he felt about.)

Nonetheless, he hesitated at the door.  Xemnas’s intense fight to get past Aqua’s defenses and into this castle came to mind, and Terra was gripped by a brief and terrifying certainty that it would come off the wrong way if he just let himself in.  The whole reason he’d left was to get away from thoughts like those--but it’d been kind of spur of the moment, so maybe she was still upset about how quickly he left.

Aqua really was not happy about this state of affairs at all.

‘Marriage’ was really never an institution Aqua had ever wanted to be a part of. Of course she knew she was the only adult princess of Liber in her generation, but she was a Keybearer! She had a right to dedicate her life to that calling, princess or not. Terra and Ven were equally angry at the situation. Aqua suspected even her mother was unhappy with it, despite her politic words about it.

But it was her uncle the King who wanted a marriage alliance, and none of them were in a position to tell him no. Aqua would have to find some way out of it. But for now, her duty was to be polite. Prince Lea himself hadn’t done anything wrong, after all. Aqua forced herself to pay attention and pasted on a polite smile.

“Oh, this and that,” she said, avoiding the question a bit. It wasn’t that Aqua didn’t know how to have fun, but it wasn’t…exactly a priority in her life. “Actually, most of my time is taken up with my duties. What do you prefer to do?” A deflection; if the Prince was talking about himself, Aqua wouldn’t have to.

‘This and that’ sounded suspiciously like ‘none of the above.’  And Lea groaned inwardly at the thought of duties.  At least maybe things would line up for them if she considered this, too, some kind of duty, but Lea reeled back from the thought of actually raising heirs or any of that business.

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Lea got through the introductions and everything just fine.  He needed no prodding to be on his best behavior; the anxious faces on his siblings and his mother’s fretful optimism reminded him of that.  She and his father were adamant that this was up to Lea, and if he wasn’t happy then they wouldn’t go through with it, but Lea understood the meaning behind the unspoken words they shared when they didn’t think he was looking.

This had to work.  Or else they would have to take a different kind of step, and none of those possibilities appealed to Lea.

So he forced himself to relax a little, once he was left alone (more or less) with the Princess.  She had ties to Liber and Zeal, and Lea was the crown prince.  It was a no-brainer...right?  But if he didn’t impress her then somehow Lea didn’t think so.

She was...kind of intimidating.

┐(‘～`；)┌ : When your muse can’t answer something, what do they do?

[MAKES UP AN ANSWER no but terra will absolutely make an educated guess, which for terra is probably.  not going to be very accurate, but He’ll Try, okay.  it also sort of depends on the person who’s asking him, because if it’s eraqus or aqua then terra will be very strategic about whether or not he admits he doesn’t know and how much detail he gives in his response, but with ven it’s different.  ven doesn’t know much, and won’t judge terra for not knowing things, so he can afford to be more frank that no, terra doesn’t know for sure, but it’s probably bright, burning balls of gas, ven.]

( ﾟдﾟ): What amazes your muse? 

[aqua beautiful new sights and strange contraptions and impressive shows of strength and power.  but also i mean, aqua, seriously.  she’s always pulling ahead of him and manages incredible magical feats that terra can’t match, and terra resents this yes (which is why he rarely if ever directly says so) but he is also amazed by it.  more amazing to him still is that she can find it in herself, after he has screwed it up the hardest, to exert all that power to bail him out again.  terra is not as certain that he could, in her position, do the same.  he could.  but he doesn’t realize it.]

┌(；`～,)┐ : What discombobulates your muse?

black nail polish: do you have a bucket list? if so, what are the top three things?

Axel:

“Get my heart back, go adventuring (without it being a friggin’ mission), and uh, I dunno.  Get a dog or something.”

Lea:

“Save Isa.  Get Roxas back.  Then…then just…sleep.  For, like, a decade.”

oil paints: what would you title the autobiography of your life so far?

☠ Is it better to avoid pain or to survive through it?