it should be expected, surely, at this point - boy with teeth and tails fanned, an arctic thing in the snow, pale as the moon itself save for the red that coats fur, stains skin. the other cryptid is larger, indeed, but boy has a fire that russian winters have not seen quite yet, and when teeth meets flesh, there are howls of agony and a snarl that sounds too much like laughter with blood caught in throat.

(thinks he could choke on this, all of it running into open mouths. it’s hardly hunger anymore - no, thirst - for bodies under nails, for the sweet-soft-tender way throats yield under jaws, under fingertips)

and monsters take human form - (is there really a shift, when it comes to him?) - when fur becomes skin again, tails swaying until they disappear again. the blood, though, always stays. stains. when he smiles, he does so with a mouthful of teeth that is not his own.

PEOPLE IN MY MUSE’S LIFE

🔥…someone my muse would die for: Listen this girl would self-sacrifice herself in a second, and then there’s her thinking it’s what she deserves/it’s owed with her visions beyond it being her nature. but also there’s this Long list: Soren, Carter, Lenny, Aura, Theo, Sol, Ceydran, Li Hua, Ata, Jin

👻 …someone my muse considers a best friend: Soren and Carter hold a Special place

PEOPLE IN MY MUSE’S LIFE

🌟 …someone my muse trusts: Lenny, Xue, Marci, Ata, Sol, Rafa sometimes, Adelita

💩 …someone my muse dislikes, but admires: Nadia mostly rn

001 | Send me a list of characters and I will tell you my:

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): xue x soft girls i know i keep repeating this but really plus i also have mentioned my xue x mal doctor parodies that live in my headcanon dreams!! ata x sean because also ouch, sol x noah x ceydran, nadia x kanta x theo???? yeah i’m all about that one too - with theo being a favorite chew toy and neither kanta nor nadia being the sharing types

Character I find most attractive: ata probably because courtney eaton??? 

Character I would marry: xue definitely omg because she is the REAL sweetie i would say ata but i have bad history about people just bouncing off to do their own things for god knows how long so for my own good i’d be like nOPE 

Character I would be best friends with: xue or ata or maybe like young young young nadia before all this shit before everything bad happened, or maybe kanta too tbh 

A random thought: my real question is why does nadia have to hate on all these cute sweet girls and then i remember exactly why and i’m like ouch, did you know kanta has an incredible amount of dirt on nadia and is aware of her past life prior to the menagerie, which is the one reason why she just doesn’t rip his head off with her bare heads and i guess he’s handy sometimes, xue is the only really really nice one of this grouping isn’t she???? someone give me xue bandaging up ata’s little burn wounds or something like little bandaids around her fingers. also give me the horrible, terrifying combo of sol, kanta, and nadia tbh 

Most badass character: toss up between nadia and sol tbh though ata is up there about to beat a man with a metal rod 

Favorite friendship: throwing it back to xue x soft girls OR ata x li hua because literal fire girls i love it which is my fault they have no threads yet so 

“i just - i don’t know how to explain it, it’s just - “

the words are mumbled, hair tousled from fingers running through it too many times in an hour, boy curled up in the corner of the train, too much leg and torso and arm to be considered small but trying to be so all the same.

“it doesn’t feel right, alessia, i can feel it - like it’s coming. something’s coming. someone’s going to get hurt and i don’t want to feel it, don’t want to feel someone i know dyi - “

words are stopped abruptly, boy believing speaking of such things are omens. makes them come true. as one himself, he knows such things too well.

“hey, hold up a sec - “ the boy says to his companion, nudging them slightly in the rib before unwrapping his arms from their waist, easily swinging his legs off the bike. the other makes a noise of dissent, lets the engines growl with it but soren merely laughs, sound muffled through the helmet. “it’ll be just a second - i’ll be back soon big boy, don’t you worry.” 

(does he even speak english? he’s not sure but the man waits all the same and god knows language was never a concern to fox boys who drank words right out of lips anyways)

“xue!” he calls out, half-jogging towards the smaller girl on the sidewalk, tugging off his helmet as he does so. a breathless grin adorns his face, silver hair spiking up in wild directions as he greets the girl, eyes perhaps a bit too dilated, neckline of shirts perhaps a bit too dipped.

“xue, xue.” he’s almost half-chirping, swaying on his feet with the helmet under his arms throwing him off balance. “my friend over there - “ a turn and a wave to the unimpressed man on the bike revving his engine “ - he said he’s gonna take me someplace fun tonight! he’s got a motorcycle xue - i’ve never been on one before but he said he’ll go on the highway for me!” he’s almost crowing now, boyish enthusiasm clear on his face.

“d’you wanna come with? i think he’s got friends coming soon so you can hop on with ‘em if you’d like!”

LEE XUE ER X SIN: ( @xuebird​ )

oh, and what a heart you have - silver-winged, fluttering, eating away at itself with a smile faltering. you ask too much of the world with not enough bones in frail bodies to trade for it; want something soft, like dewdrop on tongue, like swan-necks snapped. want a conscience clear, want this blood on your hand to mean something; want a reason for all your failures piled six miles high, want every wrong you watched happen to be wish-upon-a-star false. pretty thing, don’t you know? snap your jaw first and then we’ll talk about what to do with that poison-apple want. 

“bet you i can scale this thing faster than you can climb up the stairs.” he’s grinning, all fishhooked lopsided, wind in hair and mischief between teeth when he looks at her. the building before them is looming and quick eyes are already scaling; finding footholds, finding security.

thinks he can win, probably. wonders if he can pick up a couple of swear words in french when the guards come chasing.

he places hands on the side carvings of the building, feet already looking for ledges, looking back at the smaller girl with a half-laugh in his voice. “how about this - winner gets to pick what to do for the rest of the night, hm? a pretty good deal, right?” he’s tilting silver hair, letting it catch reflections of passing cars, of city lights. makes his eyes look brighter, almost more starshine than boy.

“better start climbing, xue - we’re starting in… three, two, one - go!”