(closed) february catchall

[miyagimagic]

Who: Ange (entreats), Chizuru (tealeafs), Daniel (miyagimagic) and various others.
What: February shenanigans.
When: During all of February.
Where: Locations vary.

Content Warnings: Nothing right now, specific warnings will be in headers when they come up.

( starters in the comments! if you want to plot anything with me, feel free to either pm the journal or contact me at queeningsquare, i'm always open to new ideas and threads! )

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[entreats]

What about them..?

[ Sure, Ruby misses them. She gets that. It's something that Ange has been aware of for a long time now - ever since some of them didn't come along with them over the sea, and Ruby has had to miss others for even longer than that.

And she cares. It's not like Ange doesn't care, but right now it feels a little more beyond her than it usually does. There's just something about the sight of Ruby frozen like this and the thought that it might be because she misses those people that her corruption greedily eats up, feeding it, letting it grow.

If these people are just hurting Ruby, do they matter? It whispers to her. ]

I'm right here, aren't I? [ She isn't sure if Ruby can even hear her, across the bond or otherwise.

But Ange speaks on without thinking, running off sheer emotion, sheer desperation. ]

Am I not enough? Is it not enough if we just have each other?!

[onekindsoul]

[Ange's words do pierce further through the loneliness. It was true... Ruby may not have her friends, her teammates, her family from home. But Ange was there for her, she had been there for her for years now.

...Was that all she needed? Was It enough or not? She wasn't so sure. That uncertainty feeds into her corruption more. Her skin slowly taking on a ghastly paleness to it.

There's a pause as that longing feeling starts to push further through the bond, reaching out for Ange and seeing warmth in something familiar.]

...You'll stay with me? You wont leave me alone?

[entreats]

[ Ange exhales. She moves forward, trying to wrap her arms around Ruby's form. It's kind of hard when the other can't move to accomodate the hold itself, so it's very much like trying to hug a statue, but Ange does it anyway.

Closing her eyes, she buries her face against Ruby's cold shoulder. ]

Of course.

[ It's an answer she doesn't have to think about.

Her voice is a little more muffled against Ruby now, but it's not inaudible with how close they are in the moment. ]

Isn't that why we came here together? Isn't that why we got married? Because we're going to stay together forever?

[onekindsoul]

[At first Ruby doesn't respond. She's still wading through the loneliness of missing those she had from back home. But Ange's words make it feel like less of a slog, like there's a guiding light out of it. She holds onto the warm feeling she feels on shoulder and it spreads out to her chest.

She feels her limbs start to move but just a touch.]

It is.

...But what if I lose you too?

What if I can't protect you and keep you here.

[entreats]

We've been together for so long now. [ Ange says, almost breathing the words out more than she's saying them. Like they exist more in the bond between them than necessarily as words said out loud.

Because she gets the sentiment. She was afraid too - for the longest time. Isn't that why she didn't allow herself to get close to Ruby in the first place until she just couldn't avoid it anymore? Getting close to people just means you'll lose them. And losing them just means you're hurting yourself.

But if she hasn't lost Ruby by now, then surely she never would. ]

There's no way we could be separated now, right..? I've known you longer than anyone here.

[ She's been longer together with Ruby than she has with anyone ever. At this rate she's almost been together with Ruby longer than she was with her family when she was young. Even as friends came and went, even as people slipped in and out of her life-- ]

You've always been here. And I'll always be here with you too. As long as we have that, then why would we need anyone else..?

[ Ange reaches out, a hand against Ruby's statue-like cheek. ]

So.. come back to me, Ruby. Snap out of those thoughts. I want-- I need you here.

[onekindsoul]

[Something about the words slowly drag Ruby back into reality. It still feels like there's an intense loneliness trying to drag her back into her thoughts- But she's lived with that feeling since she lost her mother. Since she lost Pyrrha, Penny, and her whole team briefly, and again when she wound up in the dream.

There is always a lingering sense that could end up alone. But Ange provided a steady warmth that she couldn't deny. Someone who would stick by her through thick and thin. ...And someone that Ruby had been drawn to since they first arrived, someone she could help, and hold, and tease, and laugh with when no one else was around.

Eventually she feels more movement return to her and she slowly leans into that touch against her cheek.]

...I'd never leave you alone. You know that, right?

Not if you need me here.

[entreats]

[ There's such a relief in feeling that sudden movement. It did almost seem like Ruby was going to be stuck as a statue for a while, if not a really long time - but Ange can feel the way the other moves closer to her hand. It's a subtle movement, but it's movement.

That means Ruby can move at least somewhat. ]

Of course I know that. [ Ange's words come a little hurried, almost as if she's now wondering whether those are doing the trick. If she should supply Ruby with more of them, just to defrost her wife even more. ]

You're the one I can rely on more than anyone else. And the same goes the other way around. [ Usually Ange would think a little more before adding that last part, but right now her mind truly can't imagine anyone else could be better for Ruby.

It has to be them, at all times. Even if it's them against the world. ]

I love you more than anything in the entire world.