Finale

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Finale

Today, tonight? Has been a long, long day. At least you've been afforded some small window of rest after the carnival, for however relaxing it might not have been. Hopefully by now you've been able to process some of what's happened, or maybe you're just looking past it.

Either way, a little over an hour after the Goddess of Ish's dreams vanished, she reappears.

[OOC: Welcome to endgame! We'll have some IC discussion and then characters will split into two different teams. Here's to the end, wherever that leads! ]

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[calamitish]

[ ? ]

You—I— [ he's as bright red as he was that night. ]

Y-you really want to?

[coldseep]

I'd never tell you something I don't mean.

( He presses a kiss to an apple-red cheek. )

I love you, we will ( soft emphasis ) be together forever, we have a child . . . So why not tie another knot between your life and mine?

[calamitish]

[ ...not that he was going to say no, but hwylryn has a point. this is the next step isn't it? even if they're already there in some ways.

funny how two weeks ago he only had eyes for norna. ]

I love you too. I love you more now than I did a minute ago and I'll love you more five minutes from now.

...so yeah, you're right. Let's get married.

[ a beat. ]

Can I call you my fiance now? I should get you a ring first, but—

[ he's lost again in the sea, swept away by the impulse to have something else that belongs just to them. but that's fine, he's happy here. ]

[coldseep]

( Ish had gone from someone who couldn't say it at all just a week ago; to someone who'd slipped it in obliquely, shy; and then he'd said it full and proper - and now look at him, ah. Hwylryn's heart swells with melody - surely one familiar, but new in chord and tone. He wonders if Ish can hear it, even without his hand in his heart.

Surely he can see it, how it colors his cheeks and glitters in his eyes. )

Fiance? Is that what they call it? ( He doesn't know the term, but he already likes it! Paramour, duet, fiance . . . more ways to name his love. ) Fiance first. And then we can get rings. We have all the time in the world now, don't we? We can gather them, craft them, buy them . . . we can have as many rings as we'd like. And with marriages come honeymoons, right?

( And he kisses him again (he feels he's in debt - he hasn't forgotten every kiss Ish had given him when Hwylryn was at his worst after the murders, and he means to repay it all exponentially), and he kisses him long, and passionate. )

. . . I would have shattered if I lost you. ( You, or Junior. ) That's how much I love you. And . . . I nearly did, when she disappeared with you that first time. I don't... want to be apart from you again. Not for a long time. Do you mind?

( Like Ish is free to do his own thing, of course - they're both free, and respect that - but!! but!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )

[calamitish]

[ ish sees it and he feels it, the way hwylrynn returns the affection (well to ish, he always sees it as hwylryn giving it to him, because he never expects anything in return). he said it just a second ago, but he stumbles in saying it again, voice trembling. ]

My heart and fiance. Now I have two names just for you. [ this really is happening, huh? ]

Rings and then uh, a ceremony. Then the honeymoon. [ he's grateful that he's pulled into a kiss, which he lets himself fall into, giving back as much as he's getting. he has a lot of thinking to do, logistics wise but maybe that's for the best.

something to keep himself busy as he figures out how to completely center his orbit around the new love of his life. he laughs a little, mostly nerves and incredulity. ]

Why would I? That's what I want too. [ gently he takes hwylryn's cheeks in his hands. it's not a gesture natural to him, but he's slowly learning new ways to express himself.

but he can't manage eye contact when he does, so the whole effect is pretty demure. ]

You're my whole life now, Hywlryn. If that's, uh, fine with you.

[ he could not put this genie back in the bottle but he could do a decent job at pretending! though it's getting harder to imagine being satisfied with only a look every seventy years. maybe every...five now? he could probably live with that still. ]

[coldseep]

( After the murders? *After the deaths. But the murders, too. That was a different kind of worse he also owes Ish for. He owes Ish for a lot. )

I feel I've waited centuries to coil my body with yours. How could I say anything but yes? ( He nuzzles one of Ish's palms. ) Ish, my fiance, my love. Where you exist, I exist. Where your heart beats, mine does, too.

( Does this mean he's informally given Ish the title of his heart, in turn? Hm - something to consider later. )

And so, if I comprise your life, you comprise my life, too. And there's nothing that can make me happier now than to spend it with you and Junior. That's just how much I love you.

( He's said this as much in pieces, in intent, but he'll say it again in full, the melody spelled out on the staff instead of simply played by ear. )

So let's have a big ceremony for our wedding, and our family. Let's make it a celebration. Let's make everyone attend, for seven days and seven nights.

( big god energy... he's throwing a celebration and people Will celebrate it or Else )

For something that makes the both of us happy, we deserve nothing less, right?

( A strange and slight departure from their usual - not just offering love from the self; not just spoiling, out of generosity, out of fondness; but a sense of - I've decided we are wonderful, and we deserve this, and we are allowed to have this, even if it means we take from someone else.

Because isn't that what he'd done, to secure this happy ending for himself?

He had done great harm to his heart and those he knows to achieve this. It would be an insult to embrace no less. )

[calamitish]

Hearing you say it like that...I believe it. [ not that it's easy for him to accept, but hwylryn has burst through into his heart like a tsunami, relentless and overwhelming. even now he can feel his heart beating, soaking it all in like a sponge. ]

Have I told you that the one thing I was forbidden for wishing for was my own happiness? I never cared, but, with you it's not a wish. It's reality.

[ the next part is whispered but resolute. there's nothing to be done about the bright flush of red, but purple does finally move to look at silver. ]

Let's have a big grand wedding, just for us. My heart, my fiance, my future husband.

[coldseep]

( That's a cruel rule, he thinks - but he sets aside this articulation with a kiss, laughing bright. )

My future husband.

( He repeats this back. A kiss! )

My fiance.

( A kiss!! )

My heart.

( Kiss!!!

And that one had come last, because he had felt undecided about where to place Ish when Hwylryn had used this term so synonymous with Gwawlyn, but.

It feels right to him now, so he uses it. And maybe it's really as simple as that. And he likes when things are simple. )

I want you to care for your happiness as much as I care yours, and you do mine. And I want you to expect it. ( Brushing a little bit of Ish's hair back into his bangs over one eye, fingers delicate against his skin, like the first time they'd stumbled into this whole thing. ) I want you to think that I should be there every day beside you - and if something troubles you, I want you to look to me.

( That sounds a little bit like codependency, Hwylryn, but he doesn't sweat the small stuff. )

If it's no longer a wish, it's just a will. And I'll make you happy, no matter what. Because I love you so much words than I have words to express. I can't . . . wait to go home with you, most of all.

[calamitish]

[ hwylryn out here really trying to max out how red ish can get. he smiles through it all, warm and fond even if he feels like he might loose his footing at times; hwylryn will be there to catch him, won't he? what a weird wonderful feeling.

ish doesn't see it as codependency either, mainly because this is the only way he knows how to live. if anything, it being mutual will be a marked improvement. ]

I'll always look at you. I don't even know if I'm capable of looking anywhere else. [ this gets a nose nuzzle, all so that he can look at the love of his life without his bangs getting in the way. just for a moment, so hwylryn knows how truthful he's being. ]

You know, I haven't had a home in a long, long, time. But... [ his voice is somewhere between giddy and sheepish. ] I'm looking forward to having one with you.

I guess I'll need to buy a bed. [ kiss! ]

[coldseep]

( wahhh kissing back???? Hwylryn doesn't go tomato the way Ish does, but even he's not immune to getting pinker with such an ardent declaration. Ish really hurts his teeth... he's way too sweet... But what's even sweeter is how he smiles with his bright red cheeks. It's criminal - he thinks his heart might burst. )

Mmm, that's true. And we can fill it with pillows and blankets, because we'll be sleeping in it all the time.

( Every night, even! Or whenever they felt like it. But definitely more than Ish now. And definitely together. )

... I don't know if I've really had a home, either. ( Not since his den with Gwawlyn. Ever since then, he's just been drifting where the tide takes him. ) I wonder... if we're getting a bed, I guess we need a proper house to go with it, right? Do you like castles like this?

( Well, not "this" as in here, but (vague gesturing to chateau).

He presses a kiss to the edge of that cute smile, against those sweet lips. )

Whatever we get, let's fill it with things you like.

[calamitish]

[ "all the time"... well ish figures that means more than he does now? that's fine (probably). because he could sleep for years at a time given his level of sleep deprivation but he can't because junior! ]

Not really. If anything I like the opposite? Something smaller and not as stuffy, I just like stealing from nobles.

[ fuck the rich. ]

Hmm...and by the ocean for things you like? [ cuz that's important too!

he returns the kiss in a perfect mirror. ]

[coldseep]

( Junior sure will be a topic... if anything, Hwylryn is a little nervous to broach it, because he's more than aware of Junior's lifespan, and he does think Ish could rectify it... but he's more afraid of Junior saying no, so... he doesn't know when to broach it. Definitely not now, but in the future - but in the future when? )

Definitely by the ocean. ( kiss...! ) We could even set it on the ocean...

( How Junior will get on and off isn't even a question - between the both of them, he presumes they'll give Junior a self-sufficient means to get there and back. )

We can make something nice and cozy. A home made of wood and straw and coral and pretty stones. When I lived with Gwawlyn... our den was just a single cavern. So a house is already fancier than I've known.

[calamitish]

I've really never lived anywhere before. [ thinking about it is nice, and he yawns. ]

But no matter where we stay, it'll be home as long as we're together.

[coldseep]

... Yeah.

( And that's something he hasn't really thought of before - and it's nice. And it's nice, and new, and a little scary - to think they're so close to it.

He presses a kiss to Ish's cheek. )

... Rest, for now. Even if it's just a few minutes. Once the fighting's over, it'll get busy again. ( He strokes his cheek - affectionate; fond. ) I'll be with you.

[calamitish]

[ god, he wants to so bad but- ]

I can't, I need to take us over there.

[ to where the fighting is, or some people here will have his head. he nuzzles hwylryn back with a small smile. ]

Before we leave? We should take a nap together.

[coldseep]

( Hwylryn's expression is a very "do you have toooooo"... but he knows Ish has to... )

... I'd like that. For as long as we want.

( Not longer than Junior can wait, but long enough. )

I think you've earned it, most of all.