#perpetuel

dont turn around, perpetua

fandom: hadestown inspired, ghost (Sweden band)

tags: Greek mythology mentions, creature/vampire perpetua, human/vampire relationship

pairing: papa v perpetua/OMC

full fic found on ao3. written for @genuinezenith and his guys ♡

The evening was quiet, and peaceful. Axel would spend many sunrises and sunsets here, cradled in Perpetua's leathery wings. When the weather became chilly, Axel would curl them up with a warm beverage and a thick, woolen blanket.

Axel would discover over the course of many sun dappled days that Perpetua had a fondness for sweets. When he was very sleepy, Perpetua would gaze at Axel with an adoring, intense gaze, as if mapping and memorizing every inch he could before it was taken away. It was enough to make him blush and avert his eyes, which would never fail to make Perpetua chuckle quietly and pet his chin with his long, spidery fingers.

It made him swoon, and melt, enough that he could ignore the pangs of hunger in his belly after one too many skipped meals. Enough to ignore the bite of the chill that frosted his fingertips when the fire died low enough and there wasn't enough spare wood.

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Minutes turned into hours. Hours passed into days. By the time Perpetua made it back to him, he could not remember a him that existed before. He remembered… a man, with soft, leathery wings. A man who took him into his bed of feathers and flowers and made tender, peaceful, unhurried love to him. The memories came and went like the whisper of wind he sometimes felt tickle his cheeks.

He could not remember a time when he wasn't digging, wasn't building a wall. He very clearly remembered hunger, and faded pain, and the biting sting of a cold winter. He remembered why he signed his life away.

A sweet moment between Axel and Perpetua captured by the wonderful @wendi-g0 🫶

In perpetuum et Enum Diem - Forever and a day

Details and ramblings under the cut.

Here take my oc x canon *throws it at you and runs away*