middaeg | [ open ] If you do what you always did...

Who: Vanitas + Open
When: Throughout Mareuer
Where: All around
What: Quest Prompts and semi-open prompts
Warnings: Mentions of last month's event

( Scarring ) - open to close CR ; Beginning of month

[ For the first week after Vanitas had returned home, he really hadn't left bed much. His body had been healing and recovering from the events of the previous month. He hadn't felt much up to doing anything or talking to anyone. There had been a lot that Vanitas had been dealing with internally as well. He had been beating himself up for being too weak and for allowing his guard to drop. Blamed himself for his circumstances and busted wrist. Screaming and having fits in the middle of the night to the point where he'd try to slip away and try to find a place where the voices aren't so loud.

The following few weeks are better, but not by much. Vanitas still hasn't been sleeping well, but he is roaming about the house. Maybe he makes it to the front porch and around the yard, but that's where he stops. For now. If anyone asks, he snaps at them. Vanitas may very well pretend that nothing is wrong and everything is fine. He's defensive, closer to how he had been a year ago. It makes him sick, but he can't stop himself from lashing out a bit.

Because he's fine. He should be fine. So why isn't he? ]

( Gerard's Gardening )

[ Now after about a week into the month, Vanitas can't stand it any more. He doesn't need to be treated with care so he's going to show people that he's fine and that they need to pay attention to themselves and not worry about what he's doing.

Which leads him to where he is right now, planting some seeds. It's a task he's actually done a lot since he's been here and is more familiar with plants than he cares to be sometimes. Anyone watching for a lesson might see - ]

I'll show you how it's done. The right way.

[ Which means Vanitas digging his fingers into the soil. Sprouts magically rise from the flower bed and begin to bloom. He pulls back soon after. ]

Anything more than that and you'll kill them.

[ He's totally done this before. ]

( Birds of a Feathered Cap )

[ Sure, one could probably look for feathers in the city but everyone's going to be doing that, right? Hence Vanitas can be found right outside the wall. It's likely an odd sight, seeing him pace around the area - checking out vegetation and even going so far as to climbing some trees. Looking for nests, of course. They're bound to have feathers as well. ]

You can get lost. I can handle it.

[ This is his job. He doesn't need your help ]

( Curiouser Cats )

How often do these Chimeras run off... I swear there was another incident like this.

[ He's mostly grumbling to himself. This brat's run off and whatever. Vanitas is pretty sure he can track the child down. Without help. Though if pressed he'll motion to the Flood at his side and say that this is all he needs. It's like he's trying to prove to someone - mainly himself - that he's not weak. That Vanitas is still the same as he had been.

Hopefully he won't go out there and get overwhelmed by the Caitagàire.

Even so, he's pushing on - with or without you - into the woods proper with his Keyblade strapped onto his back. ]

Need a bell or something on these kids.

( Wildcard )

[ You know what to do. If you want to plot just hit me up on plurk at jardaan! ]

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[ Vanitas looks at Sora. Then grins. ]

"Sugar," you say...

[ He grabs at Sora's ears and tugs him down for a kiss. SUGAR indeed! Van even licks the bun's lips. ]

Sweet.

[...!! Sora makes a small little yelp but the kiss is very much welcomed! Honestly, it's been a little while since they've flirted like this. It makes Sora's heart make so many little bounces in his chest. His fingers coming to rest on Vanitas' thigh.

He's smiling and leans forward to take more of that sweet kiss.]

Sweet! Hmm, all mine.

[ The flirting is an improvement. It means, at the very least, that Vanitas is healing a little from being infected. Being kidnapped and experimented on had just brought back too many memories that he had thought that he had gotten over. Pushed away. One day he'll have to deal with all of those moments and the new ones head on and actually process them...

But this is good too. For now. It's much easier to focus on Sora rather than obsess in his room about being too weak.

Sora is so possessive though. Vanitas likes those claims. Makes him grin. ]

Which do you prefer? Me or those candied flowers?

[In return if it does something to lift Vanitas' sprits even in the slightest bit he's happy. Light moments where they can just forget about everything that's happened are good too. With just the two of them. He guesses that's all that they really need in the end.

Sora is still smiling and he gives Vanitas' cheek a tiny rabbit-like nuzzle.]

Come on, you gotta give me a harder question than that.

[His choice is Vanitas, of course.]

[ It's a more pleasant distraction than sitting around stuck in his own thoughts. Oh he'll likely return to that the moment that he is left alone. Those moments that he's in his room in the dark. Right now though, this chases them all away. Gives him something different to focus on. ]

Hmmm... How about....

[ Vanitas tugs on those ears some more. Playfully. ]

What do you want for your birthday?

[ Their birthday ]

[And Sora shuts one eye and leans into the tugging like he's enjoying the little tugs. Touch and flirting and everything else. He's smiling softly.]

Uh, I dunno. I wasn't really thinking of anything I'd want. [He ponders... He does love gifts, though.] I haven't made a model airship in a long time? Or something for the plants and garden?

[Simple, simple boy.]

Or just a day with cake and you.

[ This brat! ]

You're so simple, you know that? How am I supposed to blow you away this time if you give me nothing to work with.

[ Flirting and touch. This is such a stark contrast to how Vanitas has been. A bit of his old self had resurfaced over the last couple of week. Though no one would blame him and he's not going to ask forgiveness regardless... He still knows it. Still acknowledges it.

But this. Being like this, he thinks, is a little better. ]

Pretty sure I brought you a cake last year.

[He grins at the expression he gets to see on Vanitas' face. That little change in expression makes Sora's heart feel warm. This little happy feeling- Like something just clicking back into the place where it's supposed to be.]

I don't think anything's going to top how much you spoiled me at Christmas time, Vanitas!

[He was so, so spoiled.]

Just get me two cakes! But you know, all I really want is this right now. Just time with us together.

[ More of that clicking will happen, in time. Those wounds just need to heal a little bit more is all. Sora really is the balm that Vanitas needs. A shame that it has taken so long to actually find it. ]

I can keep trying though. Do you really think I'm about to get complacent with these things?

[ Maybe it's a bit of insecurity that feeds into showering Sora with those material things. Just a little.

Hearing what Sora says, Vanitas can't help but roll his eyes again. Time with them together? ]

Cottontail, you don't even have to ask that. My time is always yours.

Geeze, and people say I'm dramatic.

[Sora teases softly and his hands reach up to touch at Vanitas' cheeks. Tugging him close so they can be brow to brow. Sora's matching earring jingles as his ears tilt back in ease. He loves this witch boy so much.]

Okay... If you're gonna be like that. What about a charm?

You're far from dramatic, Bunny Boy.

[ Sora is allowed to grab at him. It's fine to bring them closer. Makes it easier for Vanitas to breathe in that scent and to focus his mind. Still his heart. Sora really is a grounding force for him now and, as Vanitas' grip grows righter, he's not about to give that up any time soon. ]

What kind of charm?

[Sora chuckles softly. Vanitas is allowed to grip back at him all he wants too. It's almost as if these two want each other all the time, huh!!]

How about a charm that can tell me something funny if I hold it tight.

[... That's so lame. Sora is smirking with amusement. He's maybe only half-serious.]

[ You mean they don't want to be near each other all the time? ]

Sora. That's not real magic I can do and you know that.

[ Though he supposes that he could imbue some sort of object that will cast a constant illusion to make Sora's eyes blue. It would just need recharged from time to time? ]

[Sora snickers, knowing that bluff would be called out.]

Okay, okay. Still, I wanna wear something that you made. It can be anything!

[Just craft it!]

But what about you? What do you want for our birthday?

I don't know if that's possible.

[ Vanitas is not good at making things. There's not a creative crafting bone in his body. Ingenuity in battle. Creative with words. Not with making things. ]

Anyway. I don't really need anything...

Sure it is. Anything you make for me I'll keep forever, Vanitas.

[Even if it's macaroni glued to a piece of cardboard. Sora would love it to pieces.]

Then how about I make something for you too?

[ Sora... You know that's about where Van's skill level is, right? That's about what you'd get.

Instead he just looks at the other with a curious look. ]

Can you do that? Save for food?

[ Teasing? Yeah, seems like. ]

[He's going to lean forward and head bump Vanitas for that.]

Uh-huh. I can do anything if I try harder enough. You'll see.

[Confidence!!!]

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