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Malkuth ([personal profile] ignoreher) wrote in [community profile] synflux2024-04-01 11:07 am

[closed] we shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us

WHO: Malkuth & Others
WHAT: Various threads for April (hmu for starters if needed!!!)
WHERE: Pretty much anywhere
WHEN: Anytime during April
WARNINGS: probable violence, drinking, cannibalism, sex, spoilers for Lobotomy Corporation & Library of Ruina will be marked as needed

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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-16 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He lets out a little breath out his nose he didn't know he was holding. He is forgiven.]

[How nice. How nice that is.]

[And even nicer, when she continues to speak. I like being around you, and I like the way you talk about me.]

[I want to hear the words you wrote.]

[Ah, a request. He can grant her this much, after this sorrow he has caused.]

[He thinks about it for a long moment. Those words, spilling from brain to arm and finger as he typed away, blurry-eyed, but sincere. Like a poet who found a muse, his mind aflame of the possibilities.]

[His scarred hand reaches out, slowly but surely. A determined path, as it grasps one of her delicate hands to start pulling towards him.]


For one, I'd absolutely be unprofessional.

[He moves it upward - like that moment on the battlefield, where he couldn't help himself - her fingertips meet his sallow cheek.]

The kind of stuff I would set one's own heart on fire for.

[He leans into that palm, his heart beating furtively in his chest, tell-tale.]

The stars are nice. This looks very good, I think. The color matches my eyes. [...] Wonderful. Wonderful. Like a light in the sky, and here I am in the darkness.

[Bold. This may be too bold. He should ask her, first. But even if he hates himself for it...it's freeing, isn't it? Instead of falling back on his own self-hating nature, to simply think:]

[I want to grant what she wants.]

[He turns his head, lips brushing against her palm.]


Miss Weiss. You're too....irresistible.
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-16 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I have.

[And that's his true nature, under the surface, he thinks. Even that voice, like cherry syrup, had been so sickeningly sweet as to remind him: under his self-destruction, his desire for penance, there was another dream, wasn't there? Even a variation of sorts, ready to tear the world down with his bloody hands.]

[Selflessly selfish, to the extremes.]

[Her whisper makes his eyes flicker - stronger now, no longer as lost as he thinks. He wants to keep her as an anchor, his lighthouse at sea.]

[...Ah, of course, though. Her heart may belong to another. He thinks of Kaito, and his heart genuinely hurts at the thought. Perhaps the wolf should be shunned, here. The starving beast should be beaten back for its greediness.]

[Even so, he nods at her question, almost speaking into her warm palm.]


I read it many times. I wanted to cast your answers in my gaze, regardless of my own responses. The picture...was a nice touch. I miss the red.

[It was a very, very nice touch. He appreciates the trap.]

[Another gentle resting of his lips against her fingers, his eyes fixed on her face. He asks a question, awaiting the answer with baited breath.]


Do you...want this, Miss Malkuth?

[The unspoken question. Despite all that I am, do you want me?]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-16 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I?

[He naturally would assume in a bad way. It must be an instinctual response for most at this point. The Red Gaze, more phenomenon than man. A force not to be trifled with. But Malkuth, well, Malkuth has always looked into his eyes.]

[When a monster becomes a man in someone's eyes is when they're at their weakest, he thinks. Not that's in a bad way.]

[She pulls up more, and his eyebrows tilt. She didn't exactly answer the question. But she's not pulling away - is that enough? He doesn't know. But when she puts the question right back to him, those same eyebrows knit together.]

[He wants to say so much, like kneejerk reflexes.]

[I'm someone who should be punished for his sins.]

[In the end, I'll lose you. I will always lose that what I love.]

[Kaito wants you. Is this not also unfair to him?]

[I am too selfish. What a wretched soul I am.]

[But as much as he wants to say it all, he makes a conscious effort to pull it back. These layers of excuses, like dried blood. He can't make the same mistake as before. He beats them down like he would the monsters of the City, in waves - because as much as he's seen things now from a new perspective, it's hard. It's the hardest thing in the world. He's been in the pit for so long that he convinced himself that's how it always was, and always should be.]

[But for her, he has to try. He has to wash to the core of it all, and offer it to her with a shaking hand. Even if it may kill him to do it.]

[His voice cracks. He focuses on this warmth against his face, and relaxes into it, his own heart fluttering like a restless, needy thing.]


Yes. [He's quiet, so quiet.] I want you, Malkuth.
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-16 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[It makes a lot of sense in hindsight. Miss Malkuth, who is as precise as anything with her architectural drawings, who thrives on details held in her hands, wants certainty. She wants security. Something even as simple as this confession must be groundbreaking - instead of a bird in the bush, its a bird in the hand. Here he is, bedraggled and wet, nestling into her palm.]

[The wavering of her voice makes a trickle of fear course down his spine, if only for a moment - perhaps he was too assumptive. It's best not to tread lines. But suddenly, the shade of red that blossoms on her skin makes his own eyes slight. It reminds her of when he had massaged her ankle, grasped her calf, called her by her other name. He swallows. What was once a rapid heart now feels like a hummingbird, a wave of heat sparking on the tips of his ears to turn them crimson in its wake]

[Perhaps if he simply said his part without having touched her hand, that self-sabotaging part of him could have potentially snaked its way, made him assume the worst. But then she reaches out with her other hand (she's shaking like a leaf) and grasps him there.]

[He knows he's done for. She has captured him. Head, heart, mind, and body. He's been skewered on his own thorns of passion, grown from her well-kept garden.]

[Vergilius shifts a little closer, scarred hands dropping to rest lightly over the sides of her chest. Safe and secure. He's a bodyguard here, after all. She "hired" him for that, once.]


Of course. Miss Malkuth.

[A murmured promise, and he bends in with vibrant eyes, allows her hands to shift off of his face for a moment.]

[He feels he has hungered for this from when she touched his face for the first time. A insatiable little monster of a wish.]

[A kiss to build a dream on.]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-16 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's soft here, too.]

[He can feel that tension - the way her muscles shift under his scarred palms. In other contexts, these same hands have held down men spitting and writhing in their own blood in the throes of death. Here, it stands as direct opposite, and his hands are careful, so careful. Not because he think she's fragile, but because his hands are used to harm.]

[Even so, he hopes she can relax. The more he wades into the sea, the more he wants to simply drown himself in it. But he's careful, still, drawing back to give her a little time to breathe before kissing her once more, a little more deeper with a sigh against her lips.]

[After all....Be easy with me, okay?]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-16 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[When was the last time he did anything like this? A lifetime ago. It feels like he's been chopped into bits and pieces, each part of his life a different Vergilius, made to experience his own path, his own flow.]

[Would the Vergilius of the past be able to appreciate anything like this? When he was nothing more than a weapon, a killing machine, a Fixer trying to survive?]

[He doesn't know. Maybe the seeds of this were only recent, maybe they were planted long ago. He had that dream for a long time, after all. Guilt did much to tend the soils of it. He wonders if that same guilt will drench this moment later, drown him in sorrows untold.]

[But he doesn't want to let it. Malkuth smiles at him, and her voice is like a song he can't help but follow. It makes a surge of feeling well up in him - different from the plain desire from his body, and altogether affectionate. He smiles - a brief little twitch of a thing, so rare on his lips - as he kisses her, before pressing little warm spots of kisses alongside her jaw and cheek.]

[For this brief, brief moment, perhaps he can feel human.]


Alright. I might be, too.

[He guides her, now, to lay on her back completely onto the bed. He follows, swinging himself onto the bed before he dives down for another kiss, then pressing his lips against the crook of her jaw, sliding to the artery that beats in quick time.]

[One of his hands is sliding to her side, squeezing lightly as he feels up to her chest. A tease.]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-17 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wasn't kissing about impatience. He really did mean to take it easy, be sweet and smooth and careful. But this guide has been grasped and taken into the inferno, here, like roiling tornadoes of flame and ash.]

[She looks at him like so. Her eyes even more vivid as his, excited and eager like a perfect little devil. Malkuth's hands shift, and now she's bared herself. Unblemished, beautiful skin. She might dislike her hair, but he finds a new obsession with it, unable to keep his eyes from tracing the lines as it frames her body like some kind of knockoff halo.]

[He thinks he wants to see her body flare up in his color, again.]

[Vergilius kisses her again over her neck, like a little promise before he himself draws back. The jacket, discarded. The shirt, lifted up and over his head, tossed to the side. This husk of a body has been opened for the architect to explore.]

[He's not as perfect a specimen like he was, perhaps, several years ago, but this skin tells tales. These ruins open their gates to her - the crisscross of scars like a map, damaged and roughened patches, the tautness of muscles - and it all leads to a summary of the same thing, perhaps. He has came, he has won, he has conquered, and he has survived.]

[His other hand draws hers upward to splay onto his chest. He won't wait, now, spurred on by the rush of feeling - Vergilius kisses down her chest, before placing his lips over what he sees of each breast in almost unsubtle worship.]

[His hand will be busy, too. It cradles her curve, before sliding down to her belly to roll a thumb around her bellybutton, kneading a little into soft skin.]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-18 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[He likes when she says his name.]

[He's liked it since the beginning. The warmth in it, the teasing, and now, the way she has it on her tongue makes him marvel in it for a moment. He will burn that into himself, a more pleasant version of a scar to hold onto himself in the cold and darkness.]

[It almost sounds like she can't believe this is happening. Neither can he. He would've never predicted it from the beginning. But this is here, this is now, her hands are over his skin, nails tracing against his body, and there's a reckless vision of her flaying him open, seeing every broken piece of him to marvel for her own.]

[He sighs into her skin, raising his head to catch her face before he dips down to kiss onto the soft patch of skin over her bellybutton.]


Miss Malkuth.

[His ears are feeling like they're heating up, making the cool metal of his earring almost like ice against his neck. Now, it's his time to implore, to ask. He wants to be sure.]

...Further?
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-19 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Color. A word that has haunted him. In the form of a title, a role, a thing whispered to him by that voice. To paint it all with all the colors in the world.]

[A word he could care less for, at this point. Perhaps he should take offense at that. But he remembers what she said before, under the cherry blossoms. He remembers her vibrant pictures.]

[He told her then that he didn't think he could see the world like she could. That his colors were limited, that it was already too late. But here, she asks for it, and maybe, just maybe, he can see that meager light at the end of the tunnel. There should be no saving for his wretched soul.]

[In this moment, there's a painful part that wants to believe it can be.]

[He nods, pulling back up to give her a light kiss to the lips, before his hands unzip her, start shifting the fabric down. Carefully, off one leg, then the other, knocking off her shoes in the process. Oh. She's red here, too. Wonderful. A sight to set the heart aflame.]

[Vergilius then hooks his thumbs on the sides of her underwear to pull them down as well, something crushingly soft in his eyes as he uses one hand to pull hers towards his abdomen, above the line of his pants.]


Touch me...all you want.
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blair in the corner popcorning

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-20 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[While Malkuth is thinking of her novels, attempting to grasp understanding from their pages, Vergilius is attempting to try to remember if he's had anything like this. Its been rare. Fumbled nights, drunken, some mess of limbs trying to hold onto some momentarily fleeting feeling. Its all been temporary, and he wanted it to be. He starved his heart like an abusive beast tamer, willing to let it hunger if only to better control it.]

[But to hunger is to allow a weakness. Malkuth takes his invitation, and he sighs into her lips when he feels her hand move over the swell. Her touch feels like heaven and hell. He wants to choke on it.]

[He licks past into her mouth now, a minute warning as he lowers down to let his abdomen and chest press against hers. What a blossoming of heat! The Fixer rocks into her grip, encouraging, even as his hand naughtily shifts underneath the line of her bra to slip down and over her back. Using a fingertip or two, he plucks over the hooks, before tugging it off and to the side when he's succeeded.]

[Like opening a present. This is a holiday he wants to celebrate unto eternity.]
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me closing my eyes. i See

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-21 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...that's good...

[She could eat him whole.]

[Its a thought that flits in - perhaps an odd one, as he's not especially in some obvious state of vulnerability what with her underneath him, but it feels more apparent than ever. She had that E.G.O, that fairy, that made her wanting and hungry. A part of him, almost a little eager for self-destruction, would have laid himself down for her. He doesn't know why he thinks it now, but the way she gasps and sighs and pulls him further in makes him shudder.]

[He called her a wolf in sheep's clothing. She can consume what she wants, he thinks, delirious. He's not drunk, but his head is swimming, heart beating so desperately in his chest. More, more, more.]

[He detaches for a brief moment, already missing her, so that he can hurridedly pull his pants and underwear off and take his place once again against her. One hand strokes to her hip, her thigh, to pull it snug against him. Even here, the soft skin brushes against the snarl of scarred skin.]

[Vergilius again kisses her, hungry too. He shifts his hips against her, the heavy heat of his arousal brushing against her to make him let out a little wanton groan. His eyes are vibrant, terrifying, but warm all the same as he whispers against the lips he's worrying.]


Ready? Malkuth.
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thank god for curtains

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2024-04-21 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Please.]

[She says, and it makes something dangerous spark in his gut. Perhaps he has done this over the years, in forgotten beds and bland nights, but this is something new. A fire to burn through them both. He's always associated her with light, with the sun, in both the good and the bad. Too bright for him, giving life to something broken and battered.]

[Maybe this won't make him whole. He's traversed this journey with all his guilt too long to assume that. But he can fumble at rays of light at the back of the tunnel and marvel at the angel who graced him with it.]

[He nods, thickly swallowing, before he positions himself. Both hands cupping down now onto the bottom of her thighs to adjust her, holding her there briefly, before he starts to press in with a choked noise at the back of his throat. He doesn't want to simply shove down like some brute. He'll let them both get used to the other, the pressure and heat alike heightening into an awful, exhilarating feeling. Its the type of thing to make his body break out into a sweat - it feels more potent than a battle could ever make him feel.]

[He hopes it can make her feel the same way, too. He needs her to feel it. If someone is to be brought happiness, let her have this over him, wretched excuse of a soul he is.]


Malk...Malkuth...

[As he bottoms out, his hands shake ever slightly, fingers dug into her skin. Allowing them both this brief moment so the heat between them can intertwine and solidfy - and then, with a definite, slow movement, he can start to shift back and then forward again to allow them a new dance to savor.]

[She's so beautiful like this.]

[I want you. His gaze says, burning like never before. I want you.]

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