☣️ the court, the church, love, all left behind | OPEN

[enblightened]

Who: Bigby the Abomination, OPEN
What: Catch-all for January! Includes a prompt for the Snake Den and Shedding Ceremony. Prompts will be broken up into comments for ease of finding and tracking.
When: January
Where: Snake Den and other various locations

Content Warnings: References to severe depression, self-loathing, forced transformation/body horror, torture, and religious zealotry. Snakeden is considerably lighter in tone if that's what you're looking for. Crimson curse prompt includes cannibalism, gore, and body horror.

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[enblightened]

She came for all, if I'm not mistaken. Where else might I have gotten my own clothing? As it was not of my own volition.

[A chuckle escapes him, a quiet and humbled sound as he gently guides Varian with him.]

I think we will manage, you and I.

[droptheious]

Awww, and here's me thinking you'd finally decided to treat yourself.

[His tone is teasing as he lets Bigby lead him off towards a better dance space. ]

At least if we end up making a mess of this, we can be disasters together, right?

[enblightened]

If you insist on teasing me like that, you should not be a hypocrite.

[The tone Bigby takes is not accusatory, but also teasing in his own way, a faint smile remaining on his face.]

That much is assured. How good to know you will forgive me on my lack of grace.

[droptheious]

Hah, trying to get me to stop being a hypocrite is an uphill struggle, ask anyone.

[At least he's aware of it, small mercies. He's definitely going to let Bigby lead this dance, he is not good enough for that, nope.]

What can I say? I'm a very forgiving soul.

[enblightened]

So long as you are self-aware, I suppose that is a start, hm?

[Fortunately, Bigby might have his stumbles, but he still more or less remembers how it goes. He's in no hurry, trying to gently guide Varian.]

How... is Fern doing? I've not seen him yet.

[droptheious]

Yeah, there is that. Baby steps, y'know?

[He appreciates the gentle guidance, he tries not to stumble too much.]

He's...okay? Well, okay as you can be. He's mostly back to himself. It always takes him a little while to get back on his feet after... [he lets out a slow, shaky breath] well. After dying.

[enblightened]

I... can only imagine that, truly.

[And he tries not to think about Falco. How that must have been for the boy, returning, how long does it take, how much do you lose and remember--]

He is here. And you have others. Sometimes that is enough reason to celebrate, to have your lives.

[droptheious]

It's...mostly a plant thing. The fact this place doesn't get a lot of sunlight doesn't help.

[It's not only the plant thing. There's...so much more that preys on Varian's mind when Fern dies- and plenty for his boyfriend to work through himself when he does.]

Hah, yeah. There is that at least. And at least no one loses their memories now, that was a pretty rough part of Deerington...the memory loss. [He glances at his leg.] ...There was always a prince to make people suffer less when they resurrected.