Sapphire blue eyes meet red

I love these shoots of us as Kurogane and Fay!

@chiakimori aka my beloved girlfriend as Fay D. Flourite

Me as Kurogane

It’s been over 2 years since my last proper Tsubasa RC illustration… TwT Nostalgia finally took me back to Fai because he’ll always remain my #1 dorky/sexy wizard. Baby I love you forever. ♥

Prints @ Society6

perhaps he thought he could take his brother’s place one final time, guaranteeing his loved ones’ passage from hell by martyring himself. let himself take the fall. finally repay his debt in blood (rather than living in happiness as his brother truly wished).

the look of disbelief on fai’s face when kurogane pulls him out still haunts me. he had given up. he had given up since his brother’s body fell in the valley; he knew he would not have a peaceful death.

but kurogane (though initially disgusted with his death wish) never gave up on him. he pushed and pushed and pushed to keep fai alive, keep fai moving forward even when all fai wanted to do was fall to the ground and be left behind. even when keeping him alive caused him to lose fai in a certain way. he just wanted to keep him alive, because he knew fai had a bright shining self beyond his trauma and a bright shining future beyond others’ manipulations. he just had to stay alive.

and so kurogane - first introduced as a man who only wants to kill without regard for human life - makes the cut. pulls him out. carries his weight when fai is wholly unable to, because fai is important to him. fai helped change him into the upright man who would find a way to save fai, again and again and again, despite all the odds stacked against them.

fai always believed kurogane would leave him because he believed himself to be a worthless leech and liar. doomed. kurogane never wavered for a second in his resolution to keep fai alive because he knew a man full of kindness and strength and love.