middaeg | [ open ] When you light a candle...

Who: Vanitas + Open
When: All Iuneril
Where: Various
What: Open Quest Prompts + Closed Prompts | Hit me up at

jardaan if you'd like!
Warnings: TBD

( On Fleece )

[ This isn't the first time there's been something going on with the sheep, right? Well the first time Vanitas hadn't been all that interested. Honestly he's not all that interested this time either. However, the reports of sheep with fangs has sort of piqued his interested. The only reason that Vanitas is there is to poke some fun at people. He has no intention of actually helping. So that's what he does. He'll see someone intimidated by one of the wooly beasts and then he jeers. Vanitas mocks and teases. Because that is the sort of person that he is. Who could possibly be afraid of these things?

Of course the tables turn a little, don't they? While Vanitas doesn't help anyone out - not one bit - he seems to have his own following of sheep after some time. They eventually block Vanitas in and he shoves at them. He's not nervous about their forward attitude. ]

Go away! [ Oh they aren't budging. ] Come on! Get lost!

[ The sheep aren't going anywhere. In the process of Vanitas trying to get them to go away, one licks his cheek instead. ]

Augh! Gross!

[ He might have forgotten about the fact that animals like his aura, okay? ]

( Berry Picking )

[ Seems like all of the bakeries are wanting these iunerberries. It feels like pretty tedious work, so Vanitas doesn't really take any interest in it at all. However, when one of the shops is offering double? That is when he takes notice. How hard can it be to pick some berries and get some money for it, after all?

Hence he is out in the fields, with what feels like a bunch of people. Vanitas' basket is coming along fairly well, but he is trying to keep to himself. There are a few people that Van can get on okay with, but for the most part groups still annoy him.

Come bother him? All he's doing is plucking berries. One in particular catches his eye. Just what do these iunerberries taste like? ]

( Candle Crafts )

[ After Irhya drags him to this activity the first time, Vanitas will stop by now and then. How many people have told him that he needs to find a hobby? Thancred sure seems to have been encouraging it. Vanitas would prefer to do something other than create candles for a holiday that he knows nothing about nor cares to but whatever.

He doesn't take to carving anything or designing. Vanitas is pretty content with just the pouring aspect. The staff teaching those that are wanting to learn are used to this, but are trying to coerce Van into learning how to design as well.

The look on his face is one of disgust. ]

( Silent Forest )

[ Vanitas is going to be going out each and every time an infusion is requested. Each and every time he's going to say this: ]

I don't need any help. I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself. Go find someone else.

[ At least that's what his response is to anyone that approaches him. Yet in the end that isn't going to work, is it? In the end someone is going to be stubborn enough to work through his prickly exterior and come along with him, huh? Thus here he is, in the company of someone that he never asked for, walking through the forest. ]

The leyline should be somewhere around here. Let's just get this done and go.

( Wildcard )

[ As always, I am open to any and all ideas. If none of the prompts tickle your fancy, just throw something my way and I'll roll with whatever. Or just get with me and we can do something else! ]

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What's yours is yours?

( That's... a rather peculiar thing to say about people who supposedly aren't his friends. )

Yes. And what is mine shouldn't be messed with unless it is I that is doing it.

[ Again. Super simple. ]

( So, he doesn't think that someone should be cruel to them? Well... )

... That's a peculiar way to say that you care about them.

But it's my way.

[ Not your way, oh guardian of Light. This is a way that he can continue to be himself. ]

... Vanitas, I know that you may not feel this way, but... you've grown much more than you realize that you have.

[ Well... She may be surprised to know that he does think that she has a point. He isn't really looking at her at the moment, as he is thinking about this. Yes, Vanitas is aware that he's not quite the same as he had been. There's no way he could be the same. That has always been something he's been unsure of - who would be become as his heart healed? As he became whole...

Apparently the answer is he just becomes more. ]

Some things haven't changed all that much.

[ Because he still doesn't like people in general. However it's not the same loathing nor desire to see people suffer. Vanitas still prefers violence and still enjoys messing with people. He doesn't see any of these things changing any time soon. ]

You're right.

( Aqua answers honestly - but her tone is unchanging. Despite everything, she wouldn't ask Vanitas to change who he was at his core. That isn't the way that things should be. )

But... I don't think that's a bad thing. Still, the things that have changed - it's been for the better.

[ He would be awfully surprised to hear that this is Aqua's actual opinion on the matter. Van always had thought that the guardians would want the core of his person to change. Because the core of who he is, what he has always been, just doesn't work well with what they want. ]

I know a few people that would disagree.

[ Namely the Organization, of course. ]

The people who really care about you won't.

( Real friends - true friends - want for the people who care about them to change for the better. )

[ Honestly he doesn't have anything to say to that. What could he even say? Is there even really a valid argument that could be made? In the end it's just Vanitas not being able to take a complement... Though he doesn't recognize it for what it is. ]

( He seems to fall speechless at that, and Aqua takes that as an opportunity to repeat herself a little. )

.... I just wanted to thank you Vanitas, that's all. You seem to have made Sora happy.

[ Van huffs. He shifts uncomfortably... ]

He.

[ Come on... ]

Makes me happy.

( Aqua can't help but stop at that, eyes widening a little before she smiles slightly. The fact that Vanitas admits to feeling like that - that he has someone who can do that for him... it says so much about their relationship.

There's much more to it than Sora had told her, she thinks. )

That's good. You should chase that feeling.

[ Chase that feeling? What does that even mean? ]

Well obviously I'm not running away from it...

That's good to hear, Vanitas. .... Everyone deserves a chance to be happy. You, too.

So I keep hearing from people, yes.

[ At least he isn't completely shooting down the idea now? ]

It's advice that you should take.

( She knows how stubborn Vanitas can be. )

[ open ] When you light a candle...

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