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Willow Dryad

In Looming, dryads are a kind of troll. They are a diverse group of magical critters carved as infants out of wooden eggs, that are in turn carved from the chest of their parent.

WHISKERED TREE SWIFT Hemiprocne comata Panti ☺ - top (female) ©Alex Berryman - bottom (male)

Summary: One day, he says to himself. One day, he says to the person with the bi flag who isn’t out to her parents. One day, he says to Phil, who says it right back.

Word count: 500

Genre: Fluff

Based on @whiskered meeting Dan and Phil July 2018 and Dan saying one day while signing both her bi flag and her ticket.

I did the thing @phandomficfests!

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It’s a couple of weeks into the American leg of the tour and Dan feel comfortably settled into the routine. He has his few categorised possessions, he has a set schedule and he has his companion through life by his side.

The meet and greets for Interactive Introverts so far has been an overwhelmingly lovely experience. A lot of people arrive with various pride flags for them to sign. It’s common and Dan absolutely loves that. It gives him a little bit of secret pleasure to write his signature on the colourful material, mentally seeing a little part of him in the community that he’s not ready to announce his attachment to yet.

One day, he thinks to himself.

A girl comes up, a little nervous but smiling, and they greet her with the same big smiles and good energy that they always try to exude. They’re ready to sign right away, and noticing the bi flag in her hands, they get to work immediately. Dan tells her the small flag is cute.

Then she speaks in a hushed voice, a little apprehensive and it makes Dan pay close attention.

“I know you can only sign one thing, but can you please sign my ticket too? I can't show the flag to my parents.”

Dan’s heart breaks a little and he feels frozen while Phil reaches out to take the ticket too, with no hesitation and reassures her all the while. They cross their hands, placing a second signature in the coordinated fashion that has come with experience. She looks so happy at the small gesture.

Dan pauses a beat and then says “one day” out loud. He giggles after it, feeling oddly liberated and the girl’s expression is so worth it. He’s sure he’s sporting a massive grin to match hers. He feels a share of her pain, of not being out to his family yet. He thought he might do it, just last month, but the timing was off.

He wasn’t ready. But one day he will be.

The girl thanks them and they’re both smiling and bidding her goodbye. Dan’s eyes catch the bi flag clutched tightly in her arms and he hopes so desperately that she gets to live her truth soon. He hopes that he gets to too.

A new person is coming around the curtain, and Dan redirects his focus, trying his very best to give each person a unique and good experience, even if the interaction lasts but a minute.

It’s only after the show in the tour bus when he’s curled up next to Phil in that usual post show exhaustion that he thinks of the phrase again. It burns in his chest. He wants it so badly.

“One day,” he mutters to himself. Phil hears him, reaching over to offer him a comforting squeeze because he can almost always tell where Dan’s head is at.

“One day,” Phil agrees, beaming.

thank u but tickling is inaccurate

9 - What chocolate is your favorite?

milk chocolate

45 - Describe your dream date.

idk a walk around the city (preferably not my city 😅)

71 - Are you a KPOP fan?

no. nothing against kpop just not my thing (at least for now)

thank you ♥

thank you so much @whiskered​ for tagging me! :)

name: renee

star sign: cancer

height: 5′3″ 

put your music on shuffle. what are the first 6 songs to pop up?

The Climb - Miley Cyrus

Without the Love - Demi Lovato

What I Like About You (Live) - 5SOS

Let Her Go - Passenger

That Girl - McFly

Money - 5SOS

grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 23; what is line 17?

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (yay school)

Combat with adverse planets in the heavens.

A far more glorious star thy soul will make

Than Julius Caesar

ever had a song or poem written about you?

not that i know of but last semester i did write a poem for this guy i had a crush on. it was actually cathartic to write it and it got me interested in possibly writing more poetry in the future

when was the last time you played air guitar?

i don’t remember but probably at some point when i was listening to music alone in my room

who is your celebrity crush?

i’m not really sure? i feel like i’ve gotten to this point where i recognize that celebrities are attractive but i don’t make the connection that i would like to date them. that being said the last celebrity crush i had was probably tom holland

do you drive? if so, have you ever crashed?

yes and yes but i was not driving the car and it was the other car that hit us. thankfully no one got hurt

do you like the smell of petrol? (gasoline)

sort of? like if i’m in a confined space like a garage then i wouldn’t like it because it just hits you but it doesn’t really bother me when i’m pumping gas in the open and the smell is just a part of everything else

what was the last movie you saw?

the last movie i saw in theaters was Jumanji. the last movie i saw out of theaters was Up

what was the worst injury you’ve had? 

i broke my arm when i five but i obviously don’t remember that. maybe whenever i accidentally hit my elbow on something and it just feels like my entire arm shatters

do you have any obsessions right now?

i mean dan and phil of course. i would say brooklyn 99 as well and i can’t wait for new episodes of black lightening 

do you tend to hold grudges against anyone who’s done you wrong?

i definitely dwell on a lot of things without letting the other person know i’m upset. i like to think i’m a nice person so i don’t really bring conflicts up. that probably also has to do with my fear of confrontation. this isn’t the healthiest thing to do but i don’t always like talking with people

in a relationship?

nope