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Brushstrokes on Canvas [M]
POSTED ON Mar 7, 2023 1:34:23 GMT
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"Yes," she says simply, as if this is a normal question to ask someone of their own self-portrait. "It was one of the first pieces I managed to finish after the accident."[break][break]

Maybe it should shame her to share her work in such a way, but it doesn't.[break][break]

The human body, to Isolde, had ceased being a taboo subject some time ago. Enough art models had made the concept of nudity as redundant as a doctor's view of his patients; a body was a body, nothing more and nothing less.[break][break]

She tells herself that now as Shay's eyes linger on the portrait, but for some reason, she feels self-conscious despite herself. Strange. She'd never felt that way with Vivienne, not even before they'd begun dating.[break][break]

"There are better ones I've painted here, though," she says, turning to him. "I think I'm just partial to this one because it's what broke me out of my..." Depression? Depression. "...artist's block."[break][break]

Lucy nestles in her lap, getting comfortable as her mistress loses a hand in her white hair.



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Brushstrokes on Canvas [M]
POSTED ON Feb 28, 2023 3:49:36 GMT
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She sits on a bench before her own artwork, blinking at it with large blue eyes as the colours blur into one another and unfocus. Her Chatot, Lucy, is prettily perched in her lap, warbling at such a low volume it has yet to startle the other gallery attendees.[break][break]

"...Rather dark, isn't it?" she can hear someone commenting as they linger in front of one of her works, seeming befuddled at the subject matter. "You have to wonder about the mental state of some artists."[break][break]

Vivienne would have jumped up and started yelling at them, middle fingers up and blazing. They'd have gotten kicked out in minutes, regardless or what Isolde did or didn't do to provoke or calm the situation.[break][break]

Without her girlfriend's rage to intervene, she simply takes the criticism in silence.[break][break]

"It's a bit dark, I suppose," she agrees softly instead, staring up at the picture as her Chatot echoes her: "A bit dark, a bit dark..."[break][break]

Shadows grasp at the artist's subject, clothing a pale white-haired angel in her stark nakedness. The darkness seems to seep into the portrait's skin, torn wings and red-flecked feathers surrounding her as she plummets from the sky, staining the nearby stars in her blood.[break][break]

She descends like Icarus of old, but rather than searing flame, it is a starlit beast of gleaming fangs that sink deep into the flesh of her shoulder blades -- rendering her mortal, once more.[break][break]

No fear reflects itself on the angel's face, but rather a rapture, as if she finds peace in her own inevitable downfall.[break][break]

Its title sits neatly beneath the frame: The Angel's Descent, Self-Portrait.[break][break]

Isolde doesn't hear @seamus approach. She is prone to losing herself to daydreams, in that way.



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COMMUNAL CURRY #5
POSTED ON Feb 1, 2023 7:23:43 GMT
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REPOSE


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thread summary: Isolde visits her comatose girlfriend, Vivienne, in a hospital room in Hoenn months after a car crash left them both broken in different ways. Guilt and remorse nags at Isolde for the fighting she knew preceded the crash, followed by the frustration that she can't piece together the meaning of the events due to gaps in her memory. It is here as she wrestles with these feelings that Seamus, Vivienne's older brother, enters the room. A sexual tension that neither has ever admitted to permeates the encounter, and Isolde's guilt only heightens at the realization that maybe she doesn't want Vivienne to wake up after all.

why is it important?: Isolde and Seamus are a remade pair of characters that Gunsmile and I wrote in a much different setting several years back. They are the sort of couple that has so many odds against them that it's really best, in many ways, for them not to get together at all. There's too much messiness, there's too much pain, and too much mutually shared trauma for them to perhaps live a healthy existence with one another.

And yet that's the fun of writing characters like this, isn't it?

Writing this thread doesn't just let me write Isolde, but write memories of her girlfriend, Vivienne: a conniving narcissist who has wrapped her brother and her girlfriend both around her finger, manipulating them both so that they continue to orbit around her like the sun itself. Both Isolde and Seamus are blinded by their unconditional love for her, and yet their secret mutual attraction to one another feels like a cruel betrayal of that affection.

Vivienne has wronged them both many times, but they both resist wronging Vivienne. Or have, at least, for many years now.

Isolde is a timid, sheltered woman who was born into a life of privilege, and she struggles to make sense of her needs and wants outside of the context of someone else's. She has lived most of her life for other people: first for her parents, who expected her to be a proper lady, and then for Vivienne, who selfishly dragged her along in her chaos, without caring how it might affect Isolde's relationship to her family or herself. Part of Isolde suspects that the rosy-tinted romance she shared with Vivienne is missing crucial pieces of memory, that things were Not Quite Right between them, but guilt rules her that she would think such things of a woman lost to a coma.

The silent discovery that she has less than platonic feelings for Vivienne's brother fills her with shame, but at the same time, loneliness is a powerful thing. Seamus's desire to protect and to care for Isolde is something she quietly aches for, the same way he quietly aches to comfort her in her time of need. It's the beginning of a slow descent to selfishness, to taking what you want despite the fact it hurts someone else.

A sentiment that Vivienne would approve of, were she not the collateral damage.

(I'd missed writing these messed up beans with Gunsmile very much, and I'm grateful she wants to play in this shipping sandbox of angst and longing again. It's been fun reimagining them in a modern setting, and I'm delighted by the ways in which Guns is exploring Seamus here in all his conflicted, brooding glory. <3)
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POSTED ON Jan 31, 2023 18:37:34 GMT
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She blinks as he emerges from the water, his quiet request for her to confirm their plans unexpectedly arresting her in place.[break][break]

This juxtaposition in him -- the softness that inexplicably comes from a man so coarse and rough -- has always silently fascinated her.[break][break]

It distracts her sometimes as she paints, experimenting with rough brushstrokes of gentle, pastel colours, or delicate imagery defined by sharp lines and bold composition. She's never confessed the origin of such works to Vivienne, not once, for fear of what jealousy it might inspire in the covetous woman.[break][break]

Vivienne had -- has, Isolde reminds herself -- never been good at sharing. That she tolerates her brother and her beloved being close at all is something of a small miracle.[break][break]

"You have to take the things you want," Vivienne had explained to her once with an easy shrug, unbothered, as Isolde sobbed into her arms in the aftermath of her parents' fury at her new relationship. "You have to learn how to be selfish, Issy. Fuck what other people think and feel."[break][break]

Maybe she's learned that lesson a little too well.[break][break]

Drenched in water, Seamus's tattooed body reminds her of a sculpture she'd studied, once, of a man bearing the weight of the world on his back: how his muscles had tightened beneath the impossible weight, refusing to yield even as gravity fought him every step of the way.[break][break]

How long has he carried the world for Vivienne? For her?[break][break]

Is she wrong to add to his burdens?[break][break]

"Saturday at three," she agrees, and as she gathers a towel around herself, she wonders when she started becoming so comfortable asking for things she didn't deserve.



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POSTED ON Jan 26, 2023 23:49:40 GMT
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Isolde is and has always been a timid, flighty creature, one that hid behind the bolder silhouette of Vivienne's shadow for so many years it surprised no one when the two women became two halves of the same whole.[break][break]

She has no concept of the power she holds over him here. She never has.[break][break]

If she had, perhaps the first act of their story might have been written differently.[break][break]

Eyes as clear and blue as the sky itself stare up at him, and they mistake his enthrallment for discomfort. Strangely ashamed, she breaks away from his stare, whatever hypnotic allure had kept him in her sight soundly suppressed as she moves to step out of the water and steam.[break][break]

"There's always too much time to fill, isn't there?" she agrees, but there is a sadness in her concession. "I hope you can find something -- or someone -- worthwhile enough to fill yours."[break][break]

She wrings her hair, droplets scattering with the movement as the evening sky bathes her in its moon-blanched rays. Her back remains to him, unwilling or unable to face him in her flushed state, and again she blames it on the heat.[break][break]

Somewhere deep inside, she knows to blame herself.



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POSTED ON Jan 24, 2023 1:08:45 GMT
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"You've always been discerning."[break][break]

Triumph burns through her with the rising heat, though it is a hollow and unearned feeling. What does it matter to her if he has met someone? He deserves that. He has always deserved that.[break][break]

And yet, hadn't she been secretly pleased at how Vivienne would sneer at and mock every woman that Seamus brought with him into their small home? Hadn't she joined in with the sly, knowing smiles as she and Vi judged each stranger for her appearance, her manner, but mostly her audacity in thinking somehow she knew Seamus better than they did?[break][break]

Although Vivienne had taken it too far, on more than one occasion. Those memories Isolde smoothly pushes aside, just as she pushes aside the curtain of vapor and steam with an idle stretch of her arms. Dewy droplets shimmer on her pale skin with the movement.[break][break]

"Sometimes I wish I lived with someone again. I have too much room to know what to do with myself."[break][break]

Her sky blue eyes focus upon him, wondering if he might feel the same. If he gets lonely, as she does.[break][break]

Unconsciously she begins to drift closer to him, the daring of her thoughts now mirrored by the way she encroaches upon the shadow of his territory. Ripples of mist butterfly out towards him, her eyes meeting his at closer proximity.[break][break]

"Do you have any resolutions for the New Year? Regarding that or anything else."



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POSTED ON Jan 19, 2023 2:47:00 GMT
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Her head bobs up and down in agreement, her tied up hair becoming loose with the unsteady motion. White locks spill over her shoulders and into the water like liquid starlight, and despite the way it covers her skin, it makes her feel all the more exposed.[break][break]

She furtively glances up at him for a moment, as if seeing him for the first time.[break][break]

Has he ever seen her art, really? Has she ever shown him this side of her? An uneasy fluttering in her chest betrays her with an excited, nervous energy. The idea thrills her. It frightens her.[break][break]

She wants him to know her, but it's a selfish want.[break][break]

"For some reason I always imagined you living alone."[break][break]

That he has roommates shouldn't surprise her, but it does. A tiny pang of disappointment fills her, followed by a thread of jealousy that winds its way around her heart.[break][break]

She does her best to suppress it, an easy smile coming to her lips that shows nothing of what she truly feels. Kindness is her mask, in that way.[break][break]

"Just friends? Or anyone who's more than friends?"



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POSTED ON Jan 15, 2023 6:01:28 GMT
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"Sure," Isolde says, and again she questions if she's said something wrong. "There's this art gallery? The university shares a lot of student work there. Some of my paintings recently got featured."[break][break]

She wonders if it's any good, honestly. People are so quick to coddle her feelings ever since the accident, even here in Hoenn. Her professors understand the meaning of her transcripts, and her parents' money implies other things besides. An artist with wealthy donor parents is worth more to a university than a poor one.[break][break]

Vivienne has been the only person in her life she's trusted to tell her the truth, always. Even when it hurts.[break][break]

Maybe especially then.[break][break]

"Where do you live these days?" she dares to ask @seamus, peeking up from the water and steam. Set against the moonlight, he appears more shadow than man to her: enigmatic and unreadable as ever.



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"Really?"[break][break]

Joy bubbles up inside Isolde and releases out in that single word, her open surprise and delight radiant in her smile. Some part of her has always quietly feared that Seamus only tolerates her, in the way a protective older brother might endure an annoying, overly clingy girl dragged in by his little sister.[break][break]

The way he looks at her now warms her with a heat that puts the hot spring to shame.[break][break]

"You could come by my apartment in Slateport, sometime. If you're free."[break][break]

It's a brazen invitation, slipping out without cunning or guile. It leaps out before she can second-guess the wisdom of it, and when that revelation finally hits, Isolde lowers herself into the onsen's milky waters, hoping her words might disappear with her into the steam.[break][break]

Her bare skin is almost translucent here, dappled white beneath stark rays of starlight.



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Onsen [M/CC]
POSTED ON Jan 8, 2023 4:36:06 GMT
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The white-haired woman tilts her head skyward, soaking in the sight of the stars twinkling overhead. They wink at her, as if conveying some secret signal only to her, as she contemplates her answer.[break][break]

What has Isolde been up to? Not enough, to her mind: she has become such a dull, uninteresting, unsocial person compared to the girl that Seamus had known in Galar.[break][break]

She should have paintings to boast about, music that interests her, or at the very least, friends that she spends time with outside of school.[break][break]

Instead, she merely says, "I'm taking a course on Johtoian woodblock printing at the moment. Are you familiar with it at all?"[break][break]

A silly question, she realizes too late. No one could accuse Seamus Hunter of being an art snob.[break][break]

"They have these gorgeous water-based inks," she continues, her voice becoming animated with an undercurrent of anxiety intermingled with genuine interest, "in all sorts of glazes and colours." Pale hands begin to gesture and draw images upon the air itself, and tension unknowingly dissipates from her body with the motion. Her features begin to relax, the uncertainty fading from her smile as she says, "They're very striking. I think you'd like them, actually."[break][break]

She doesn't have a good reason for this opinion, really. Merely a hunch, implicitly affected by her own biases.



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Onsen [M/CC]
POSTED ON Jan 6, 2023 3:42:25 GMT
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An onsen is meant to be calming to the mind, and Isolde's is such a restless place she'll take any reprieve, no matter how seemingly insignificant. Her sky blue eyes slip shut as she allows the steam to wash over her, causing her pale skin to flush pink with heat. Strands of her white-blonde hair escape from her bun, damp and loosely curling about the nape of her neck.[break][break]

Choosing the most isolated location here is natural for her; she prefers to be a wallflower, shirking away from unwanted attention. Vivienne would laugh at her, saying, If you were meant to hide, you wouldn't have been born to stand out as you do.[break][break]

There is truth to that observation, in a way. No matter how hard she tries to make herself disappear, Isolde feels so painfully visible, always.[break][break]

Only as a faint splash interrupts her solitude do her eyes open, and her flush reddens and deepens. She shrinks in moments; a timidity seizes her as her legs cross, arms primly folding across her lap.[break][break]

"Shay?"[break][break]

Hoenn is such a small region, for @seamus to appear here as he does.[break][break]

Despite herself, her blue eyes linger a little longer than she should allow them on the muscle she's always known him to possess, its constellation of tattoos revealed to her in fleeting glimpses over the years.[break][break]

She catches herself before curiosity tempts her gaze to wander too low, and she forces herself to meet his eyes with her own.[break][break]

"Did you want to be alone? I can leave."[break][break]

A sense of wrongdoing overcomes her at these words, that she has upset him in some way with her reaction. It is an irrational thing, purely emotional in its nature, but it is enough that her answer becomes impulsive and immediate:[break][break]

"Oh, sorry, no. You can stay, if you like. I don't mind."[break][break]

Her hand idly seeks a purpose, and finds one in tending to her bun's disarray, neatly tucking a curl of hair back into place. She searches herself for a smile to give him, reassuring and kind.[break][break]

"It's soothing here, isn't it?"



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REPOSE [M/CC]
POSTED ON Jan 5, 2023 5:44:33 GMT
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Something aches in her at the sight of the delicate avian Pokémon perched in his hands: the way a rough man can be so sweetly, disarmingly gentle.[break][break]

This is what the others don't understand about Shay. All the fight in him begins and ends with what he believes is worth protecting.[break][break]

"Lucy, please," Isolde chides with a soft laugh, extending a hand for the Chatot to return to her. How magnificent creatures of flight are, she thinks to herself as the parrot alights on her knuckle, so grand and yet as light as the feathers they possess.[break][break]

Her favorite dreams are when she's flying alongside them. How freeing she imagines it must feel.[break][break]

The world seems to expand the longer they remain outside of the hospital room. When Vivienne is out of sight, her ghost cannot linger over Isolde like a penumbral shroud.[break][break]

She is allowed to daydream again. She is allowed to know laughter.[break][break]

Yet when Shay asks her to join him after the visitation, alone, there is a brief second where this rare privilege is taken from her. The guilt returns like the slam of a gavel, and once more her sky blue eyes avert themselves to stare at anything at all except the man next to her.[break][break]

You have all the privilege in the goddamn world, Issy, and yet you do nothing with it, whispers back a sly, treacherous memory. Vivienne's voice is casual in its bored, blunt nonchalance; she has never hid her thoughts from Isolde, nor has she ever tried. If I were you? Born in the life you live? I'd be the most fucking selfish person alive.[break][break]

Her Chatot sings in the silence of her indecision, giving her an excuse to hesitate. To wonder. To doubt herself, and her own intentions.[break][break]

"That would be nice," she says finally, and there is a shyness to the smile she gives him now, endearing in its awkwardness.[break][break]

"Would be nice, would be nice," Lucy the Chatot echoes.[break][break]

She smothers the part of her that knows this is betrayal, that hates herself for not fighting this harder.[break][break]

Isolde comforts herself instead with this absolution: everyone has to eat.



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REPOSE [M/CC]
POSTED ON Jan 3, 2023 18:56:25 GMT
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Where he is all heaviness, she is air itself -- gliding as if floating a half-step above the ground. She knows how to make herself silent, how to make herself small and unnoticed.[break][break]

He looms over her in the hallway, and Isolde feels herself swallowed in the vastness of his displeasure.[break][break]

Her Chatot dares to disturb him, perching on Seamus's shoulder with a crooning meant to soothe his agitation. Isolde would fear for its safety, were it anyone's Pokémon but her own.[break][break]

He won't hurt her, just as he won't hurt Vi. He never does. He never will.[break][break]

She knows this, a belief held deep in her bones.[break][break]

The things they say about those Hunter kids, her parents would sigh. You can do better than them. They're no-good for you.[break][break]

As if some people didn't deserve friendship, or love.[break][break]

This time, the smile she shows him peeks through a lopsided grin. "You still haven't changed," she teases.[break][break]

It is a small act of bravery, a boldness she feels she's earned with him.[break][break]

Maybe she's wrong to think so.



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REPOSE [M/CC]
POSTED ON Jan 3, 2023 18:24:59 GMT
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She tries, as she always does, to make sense of the fragments that led up to the accident. They are stained-glass shards of memory, rearranged and pieced together with slow care, only to result in a window that refracts uncomfortable, unfamiliar imagery back at her.[break][break]

Had she shouted back then, even? Isolde never shouts, never fights back, but she could swear that she had.[break][break]

"Mm. It's all still hazy. I think--"[break][break]

The shift in Seamus at the nurse's arrival is all too familiar. It is the same way he stiffened up when Vivienne was waiting for him in the principal's office, when Vivienne was detained in the mall department store as a girl for shoplifting, when Vivienne mouthed off one of Seamus's ex-girlfriends only for them to bite back at his sister, expecting support from him that they would not receive.[break][break]

Isolde knows all this, because she had been there, too. She'd been dragged into the chaos with Vi, who always gleefully pulled her into the whirlpool of her havoc, luring her with dreams of drowning in excess. Isolde's parents were wealthy and well-connected enough to blunt this negative influence on their daughter's life, but it spared Vivienne true ramifications just the same.[break][break]

Seamus had always loved Isolde for that, hadn't he? For protecting his sister. For understanding, in a way no one else had, how special Vi was.[break][break]

Is, comes the quick self-correction. She's still here. She's still alive.[break][break]

This time, Isolde does reach for him, placating him with a feather-light touch. Let me handle this, her eyes beg him.[break][break]

"Of course, we understand. Thank you for letting us know." She does not have Seamus's difficulty in being kind, in smoothing the hardness from her edges into something soft and easy to hold. "We can come back after, can't we? Visiting hours should still be a bit longer yet."[break][break]

Her Chatot mimics her with a bright note: "A bit longer yet, a bit longer yet."[break][break]

The nurse's stern look sweeps over them both, the man beside the white-haired woman seeming moments away from baring his fangs. Only fragile fingertips on his wrist hold him back.



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REPOSE [M/CC]
POSTED ON Jan 3, 2023 17:51:20 GMT
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Why is he apologizing? Her sky blue eyes stare up at him, her confusion suddenly exposed by the brush of a large and tattooed hand. For a moment, skin unexpectedly meets skin, and she half-expects the figure lying on that bed to waken.[break][break]

To rise up and face her, with a glare cold with betrayal.[break][break]

Don't you miss me at all, Issy? Or is this the result you wanted?[break][break]

"It's not so bad," she tries to say instead, and again her facial features manage to find the smile buried in all her turmoil. "My parents aren't very happy I'm here, but, I don't think they're usually happy with what I do, anyway?" It isn't a question, but she affects the lilt of one anyway, subconsciously seeking his approval in their absence.[break][break]

I don't want us to be strangers, he says, and she almost asks him why.[break][break]

"I don't want us to be strangers, either."[break][break]

He's so close to her now. She could touch him, if she wanted to, and for a moment that traitorous thought flashes through her mind: her hand gently alighting on his, squeezing it with comfort she's certain he needs right now as much as she does.[break][break]

Selfish, that voice hisses back at her with unspoken reprimand, and Isolde refrains.[break][break]

"We were fighting, before it happened."[break][break]

It's a blurted out confession, needless and unasked for. Guilt tumbles and churns within her -- for speaking aloud this shameful truth, for feeling it in the first place -- and she awaits his judgment.[break][break]

For not being enough. For not being someone Vivienne might want to wake up to.



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