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[grice]

Who: falco grice, others, and you!
What: a catch all for the month including a player plot, general prompts and event prompts in the comments, all open!
When: december; date will be in the header if any!
Where: waves hands at too many places

Content Warnings: possession, violence, gore, self harm, child death, war imagery, child soldiers, racial oppression, genocide, forced experimentation, torture, mutilation, gun violence (against children)


see below for open prompts of all kinds! if you have any questions or would like to plot something specific, hmu at liberos!

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[grice]

[ when falco closes his eyes and slides himself into the embrace being offered, he ends up squeezing— tighter, and tighter, because the last time, falco was trying to thrust him away. every word sounded more and more like colt speaking. it wasn’t his smell, though. it wasn’t his embrace. it was childe, but everything else spoken from buddy to it’s alright rang like colt in his ears.

falco’s shoulders shudder on and off; occasionally, his throat hitches a sound, but he’s breathing, in and out. sniffing as whatever tears had to come, came. ]

He died doing this. [ an explanation, but partially a fact, a reality that he reminds himself of. childe sounded ridiculously like colt, but childe was childe— and colt was gone. ] —My brother.

[monoceroscaeli]

[Childe lets Falco hug him as tightly as he wants, as long as he wants. He's been through a lot recently, and this seems to be the icing on a very terrible cake. It's the least he can do.

Then comes the reality of what this is about- Colt had died.

Ah. He had a feeling that was the case.]

I'm sorry. [He says softly.] I'm sure he was doing what any brother would do. That's part of our job.

[It's now that Childe hugs Falco a little tighter- thinking back on nightmares he'd had from Deerington, and how...]

Because he loves you. Don't ever forget that.

[grice]

[ eventually, falco would feel that he’s overstayed his embrace— when he’s felt like he’s had enough, or that childe has had enough and it was time to let the tears tone down, falco loosens his hold and lifts his head, a signal that he was ready to bring the rest of his body back once given the room to.

despite having the chance to run, he didn’t. he hung onto falco and made sure he’d remember those words even after the fuzziness of his pre-turn amnesia. he hadn’t remembered at first— but with time . . . ]

Thank you— for using loves. [ falco rubs his nose with the back of his hand, as subtly as possible. loved was past. over. gone— colt was gone, but there was always a lingering comfort in thinking and acting as if they live on. even in memory, because that sort of love wasn’t the type that would die. ] Your brothers are lucky to have you.

[monoceroscaeli]

[Childe pulls back and gives Falco the space he needs, taking a deep breath. He hadn't meant for his own personal feelings to get in the way so much just now, but he still hasn't dealt with his own demons.]

Ha... [It reminds him of what the traveler's little fairy companion Paimon said, before he'd disappeared from Teyvat.] You're the second person to say that, so I guess that makes it true after all.

Your name's Falco, right? [He'd heard it from the others.] Do you have anyone else here with you? You know, from home. Or did you arrive alone?

[grice]

[ through another now subtle sniff, falco nods— to both accounts, hands on his lap and at last, pulling out one of the bars childe has given him. even if it was made with him in mind, falco gestures the bag forward; he wants to share. ]

There’s Mister Erwin, and Mister Levi. [ both of which would be gone by the time falco returns to them. ] I haven’t . . . Talked to them yet.

[ he hadn’t felt ready, but then again— when would he? ]

[monoceroscaeli]

[He takes a bar out of the bag, breaking off a small piece to chew on.]

It's good to hear that you have them to talk to at all. [And a relief for him too. Being so young and being here by yourself would be terrifying. How awful that they would disappear later.]

Do they also know that you can turn into that giant?

[He doesn't use the word terrifying on purpose, so as to not make Falco feel bad about it- but that's what the jaw titan really was, something terrifying that he'd more expect to find in the Abyss rather than just appearing in the middle of a city.]

[grice]

I’m . . . Not sure about Mister Levi, but Mister Erwin did. They’d talk a lot, so— maybe he knew, too.

[ maybe both of them were on the same page, though he’d expect levi to be quiet about it. he doesn’t make much a fuss of anything unless it has to do with monke. ]

It’s called the Jaw Titan.