King of Winter, King of Summer

Endymion01/02/2020
Alright, SO

oak tree rights01/02/2020
PULLS UP CHAIR

Endymion01/02/2020
There are two different types fae typically fall into
Seelie and Unseelie
The Bright Court and the Night Court
Four seasons
Four kingdoms
Spring and summer are the Seelie's domain, whereas Fall and Winter fall under the Unseelie

oak tree rights01/02/2020
:eyes:

Endymion01/02/2020
It's a fatal mistake to assume that the Bright folk are inherently benevolent, they merely cloak their mischief in playful tricks and wear the veneer of respectability, whereas the Night folk never pretend to be more than what they are, prone to far darker deeds and eager to return every perceived slight with equivalent punishment

oak tree rights01/02/2020
:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:
i absolutely love this because i'll admit my knowledge of fae is BENIGN AT BEST BUT THIS LIKE ADDS DEPTH.... THIS ADDS... SAUCE.

Endymion01/02/2020
There's no black and white but shades of grey; a Summer fae can be provoked to cruelty as fierce as its chillier cousins, but there are glimmers of kindness in even the coldest Winter hearts

oak tree rights01/02/2020
And they all coexist across the whole year? Or do only fae of that current season go out and about?
gets notepad

Endymion01/02/2020
They do coexist, but their power waxes and wanes as the seasons turn
When summer is at its height, winter fae usually find it best to keep their heads down and sleep throughout the hotter months
They're not unheard of, but grow rarer the further away from their respective season one is
Especially because there tends to be bad blood and feuds between opposing courts

oak tree rights01/02/2020
:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

Endymion01/02/2020
Fae are notorious for their infighting and would happily ally with other races if it gave them leverage over enemies in their shared species
Loyalty is to one's court and to one's family, no one else
ALSO ALSO ALSO, you said that witches and werewolves have some intermingled history so imagine
For every pack settled into a certain stretch of land, they often (but not always!) have a witch as an honorary packmate of sorts to protect their territory and in turn receive protection from their pack
It's a bond of trust and mutual safety
They needn't be a wolf themselves to gain the benefits of being in a pack; the loyalty, the familiarity, and the fierce determination to protect one of their own

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I think that would be cute! Definitely something for witches to consider. (Witches in this universe do tend to take on animal familiars and these do, at times, tend to be shifters! So it would make 100 percent sense).

Endymion01/02/2020
Not the be all, end all, but an option!

oak tree rights01/02/2020
Now lemme talk in more depth about this fae stuff, because for the AU there's an official 'king' and 'queen' of the fae kingdom since they've officially declared themselves an independent country. (As the fae kingdom exists on a different plane of being than the world we know). So I'd be overjoyed if I could hear more about the four kingdoms. (From the information you've told me I think it'd be badass/perfect point for conflict if the fae kingdom came to a rocky compromise and married ruling / noble members of the Bright Court and Night Court  and declared them King and Queen to put an '''''end''''' to the infighting). (Which naturally opens the gateway for fae political games, assassination attempts, people trying to climb the pyramid of power, OTHER people getting put in the middle of things, etc.)

Endymion01/02/2020
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, YES
The Winter King and the Summer Queen
Like Oberon and Titania, natch ;)

Endymion01/02/2020
Summer Court: The epitome of what people think of when they imagine fae, a bright and airy place of eternal summer, these are very loosely considered the so-called "most harmless" of the courts where, if you stumble into them, you're no as likely to find yourself turned into an insect and squashed, but this only comes as a relative comfort. Tends toward tricks rather than outright harm and can most reliably be called in for favors or blessings to the humans that they take a shine to. Though this isn't always for the best: What they consider "harmless fun" can often ruin a person's life without meaning to. They have an inordinate fondness for human children and will often switch mortal babies with changeling twins, taking them and raising them as pampered pets.
Winter Court: Folks you definitely don't want to run into. Winter fae are the reason so many protections and wards are so popular among folklore, because not only will they take every opportunity to fuck somebody over for laughs, they're also the most likely to be actively malevolent in their dealings. They're very powerful and while this isn't to say they're evil so much as just chaotic and self-serving, one must be very, very careful about the wordings in any deals or favors they ask for. They'll provide showy solutions, but the price will be far steeper than many are willing to pay if they're not deliberate in closing off any potential loopholes. Rather than leaving their children in a human's place, they're prone to stealing mortals outright with a great appreciation for artisans and craftsmen, but once they've got their hooks in you, the chances of making it home at all, much less safe and sound, are slim.
Spring and Autumn Courts: Unlike their more extreme cousins, these fae tend to be far more balanced and have traits of both courts between them. When placed on a spectrum, they fall somewhere in the middle and can often be counted on to be more stable, less unpredictable than the other courts.
I lumped the other two in together because while they're obviously distinct from one another, everything of note to say about them has pretty much already been covered. Worth mentioning also is that because I am an Aesthetic Bitch™️, the fae world is divided into its own subsections where the season of each court reigns eternal. Summer folk visiting the winter court will have a rough time even if it's technically summer in the mortal realm, so in their own territory, each kingdom is supreme and intermingling between courts is rare (but not unheard of!)
I'm thinking that something which would be Good and Sexy is if the king and queen alternated between occupying the Spring and Autumn courts at different parts of the year (or just carved out a wholly different space for themselves altogether) because they'd count as so-called "neutral ground" where neither of their respective subjects have any more power over one another and you know that there's gonna be hella resentment on both sides of the spectrum for having their own respective monarch tied to someone the majority of the public clearly detests.

oak tree rights01/02/2020
THAT
IS SO COOL

Endymion01/02/2020
YOU LIKE?

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I LOVE THAT I love all of that

Endymion01/02/2020
YESSSS

oak tree rights01/02/2020
i know that my first horrifying thought was like Hel from Norse mythology and I think it'd be cool if some fae had forms that changed depending on the season so it's like two sides of the same coin (:eyes: @ Bokuto) but like .... yes. yes to all of the above. I'm stuck wondering if we should open up the roles of King and Queen to players or if they should stay NPCs :thinking: Either way... this is such good kush. I'm excited!
Thank you for talking to me about this because part of me was sort of scared to take creative liberties w/ the fae kingdom

Endymion01/02/2020
OF COURSE, I'm always happy to lend my knowledge that I've shamelessly cobbled together from everything Holly Black has ever done, Wondrous Strange, Wicked Lovely, and GOD knows what else over the years
I love fae and I'm so happy to make more people fall in love with these absolute tricksy bastards

oak tree rights01/02/2020
imagining the karasuno pack being invited to a ball being held in the fae kingdom has my heart soft but my mind defensive like :knife: :angry: what're your intentions with my WOLF CHILDREN

Endymion01/02/2020
................ coughs
I totally don't mind if the roles stay NPCs but imagine...
Winter King Fuki

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I WAS JUST IMAGINING THAT ON MY WAY TO THE STORE
DEADASSSSS

Endymion01/02/2020
FHDJKDFJ OBERON WHO?

oak tree rights01/02/2020
i was like :owo:

Endymion01/02/2020
NEVER HEARD OF HER

oak tree rights01/02/2020
WHO IS HIS SUMMER QUEEN IS THE QUESTION

Endymion01/02/2020
Well,
[coughs]

oak tree rights01/02/2020
NPC????? fucking Ukai?????????????????? FUCKING??? FUCKING????
THROWS HANDS UP???

Endymion01/02/2020
Consider that "queen" is just a title since fae have no need for stupid mortal ideas of gender

oak tree rights01/02/2020
facts

Endymion01/02/2020
Also because Furudate hates women I guess

oak tree rights01/02/2020
:unamused: @ Furudate

Endymion01/02/2020
There just AREN'T MANY ADULT WOMEN TO CHOOSE FROM

oak tree rights01/02/2020
there really aren't and it makes me sad
SO OUR CHOICES ARE GROWN MEN (which I approve of) or NPC lady (Who may also be killed/targeted knowing the nature of the roleplay/fae politics)

Endymion01/02/2020
[gestures @ Yachi's mom I guess???]
OTHERWISE UKAI IS THE ONLY OTHER GROWN MAN BESIDES TAKEDA, WHO I ASSUME YOU ALREADY HAVE PLANS FOR
BUT IDK IF HIS PLAYER WOULD BE DOWN FOR THAT

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I WAS CONSIDERING THAT TOO but my stoopid foolish ass has plans of human!takeda being the one who park rangers the forest where karasuno does all of their wolf business :pensive:
but summer queen takeda ................................ still tempts me.

Endymion01/02/2020
Consider...
Consider with me....................................
Ahem
Not all fae are born fae

oak tree rights01/02/2020
TRUE

Endymion01/02/2020
Consider that Takeda, a well-meaning park ranger, stumbles upon what he thinks is an injured woman
He rushes in to help, because of course he would
The Summer Queen, who knows there will be chaos if a power vacuum in her court goes unfilled, but who is too far gone from a plot to assassinate her, makes the only choice she can
The only deal one of their kind is meant never to make
She gives up her immortality, her title, her power and all the bargains she's made with it, in exchange for his humanity, his vitality

oak tree rights01/02/2020
omg
SUMMER QUEEN YOU CRAZY

Endymion01/02/2020
She lives but loses everything that makes her life hers

oak tree rights01/02/2020
Fucking terrifying! I love it.

Endymion01/02/2020
And he is made into something Other
Forged unwillingly into a weapon
Power that he doesn't understand and can't control flows from his fingertips
And with it, the ties that once bound her now bind him

oak tree rights01/02/2020
GEE THANKS SUMMER QUEEN WHY'D YOUR DAD LET YOU RUIN THIS HUMAN'S LIFE
this sounds like it would be so interesting and heartwrenchingly tragic to get into later in the roleplay

Endymion01/02/2020
I mean, the alternative is dying and letting the most opportunistic and ruthless of her kind fill her place, potentially spelling disaster for all of humanity
At least this way, someone who knows humans, who loves humans, will have the influence to protect them

oak tree rights01/02/2020
it just becomes tragic x2 depending on what Takeda's current relationships are looking like ( :sob: before Zev left we had the mushiest gushiest UkaiTake plot planned for werewolf Ukai and Human Takeda so my heart is just imagining a scenario where Ukai's  mate  boyfriend lover and friend has just been unceremoniously taken from him and turned into a piece in the fae's political chess board and??? furious??? furious Ukai. Grief-stricken Takeda who learns that this was the only way while his chest also dies because? He misses him. He misses Ukai so much it's stupid. I just have a lot of emotions about that Ukai/Takeda content).

Endymion01/02/2020
GOOD.

oak tree rights01/02/2020
WHY DO WE DO THESE THINGS

Endymion01/02/2020
Because I love suffering
And meanwhile Fuki is just s

He is just sitting here trying his absolute damnedest to hold everything together because his wife is missing and while there was never any love between them, there was at least determination to see this through
But he has to contend not just with his court, but all of Faeriekind, much of which is either openly hostile or quietly distrustful of him because his is the court with the worst reputation

oak tree rights01/02/2020
Facts
you know there's
FOR A FACT
people who think Fuki was the one who ordered the attempt on the Summer Queen's life, too
so there's discourse THERE

Endymion01/02/2020
OH ABSOLUTELY
Whereas here is over here trying to make up for the mistakes of his predecessors and lead his people into a new era of peace
But because monarchs are traditionally disconnected from their subjects, people either don't know anything about him and are eager to assign the worst actions of the dregs of his court as His Direct Orders, or they've seen what he's doing and assume it's all part of some Nefarious Keikaku to gain the other courts' trust just to betray them later
Either way, he loses
He's either an authoritarian or a snake in the grass

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I LIVE FOR THIS
i hate you because all of these ideas coalesced in my brain and all it had to putter in response was 'tonight i feel like neon gold / i take one look at you and i grow cold / and i grow cold' @ Takeda's feelings for Fuki in an abysmal nutshell of fear, confusion, and quiet understanding (Which he doesn't know if it's? some kind of fae magick bullshit? remants of the summer queen's feelings of respect for Fuki? Is it his own will????? explain @ god)

Endymion01/02/2020
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOHOHOHOHO
I LOOOOOOOOVE THAT
Fuki is, like, quietly furious that Takeda exists because he has NO IDEA what actually went down unless/until Takeda Tells Him "Broh She Was Dying"
He assumes this was some plot to spite him, that she just gave up on her responsibilities, and he's so fixated on his duty to his people that he can't conceive of somebody just (in his eyes) LEAVING and putting some rando in charge

oak tree rights01/02/2020
i'm just wondering about the Queen like. Because if she had the pure ABILITY to just TRANSFER her power her immortality her STATUS over to one person, a HUMAN no less??? would she make Takeda swear to secrecy? (In a very Howl's Moving Castle style I imagine: like, he goes to SAY something and his mouth just ZIIIIPs shut and he's STRUGGLING) because if KNOWLEDGE of the queen's ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT got out? how would that look for Fuki? what kind of conflicts would it unleash upon the kingdom she was forced to leave behind? which would do more harm than good? the ugly truth, or a pretty lie?

Endymion01/02/2020
YEAH YEAH YEAH
WE LOVE THAT
"What transpired here will be erased; so long as I breathe, you'll breathe no more of this tragedy to any soul."
Because a bitch always has to speak in RIDDLES
And POETRY

oak tree rights01/02/2020
AS QUEENS DO

Endymion01/02/2020
I definitely think that, like, it's something all Fae can DO, and there are legends of it happening in centuries past, but it's so taboo and unthinkable that nobody would ever THINK about actually doing it
But then, there were rumors about this queen being prone to flights of fancy, capricious even by their kinds' standards, perhaps ever eager to escape the iron fist of her cruel husband... :thinking:
[Fuki voice] haha her what now

oak tree rights01/02/2020
HOO
FUCKING
BOY

Endymion01/02/2020
https://youtu.be/m4Jqtzcyl0w
YouTube
David Dean Burkhart
half·alive - Pure Gold

A gift for you

oak tree rights01/02/2020
OH FUCKING SHIT

Endymion01/02/2020
Makes me think of Fukeda
Breathe, what defines and describes your worth
Climb, measure height by the wind's discern
Wait, for the tides of change will come
And reach, for the sight of being undone

Oh no, oh no, the beauty You hold
So close, so close, I'm recognizing
Culture unfold and honor restored
Oh Lord, oh Lord, I'm recognizing
(Gold, gold, gold, gold)

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I'M
LET
THEM
DANCE
please let them dance to this
please let takeda be the first glimpse of warmth fuki's felt since his wife's disappearance and let fuki be the first touch of cold takeda's felt since he became something akin to the sun

Endymion01/02/2020
Kill me
Before this, he's always been extremely careful not to touch Takeda more than necessary, and even then, never skin-to-skin
It's not out of disdain, but fear
Worry over whether Takeda's human fragility still lingers
He's never dealt with a human-turned-fae before, never believed such a thing was possible
All he knows about humans is that they're so, so breakable and he doesn't want to destroy anything else
He wants to use those hands to build something

oak tree rights01/02/2020
every iteration of your fuki just makes me fall a little more in love with him every time i'll never get over it

Endymion01/02/2020
THANKS, he's free real estate so I can do literally whatever I want to him and Furudate won't break into my home in the middle of the night to hold me at gunpoint
I control the canon

oak tree rights01/02/2020
[Kit voice] it's MY sleepover and I GET TO CHOOSE THE CANON

Endymion01/02/2020
I have no basis for this whatsoever but I think what really defines my interpretation of Fuki is constantly reaching for something more
The purpose of his character is to aspire to new heights, break rules and turn tradition on its head
He wants to make the world a better place through any means necessary, and whatever he has to do to get to that point, even and especially if it's at his own expense, he'll do
He has an immense sense of personal responsibility and his ambition is channeled ever outward
Not for his own gain, necessarily, but for future generations

oak tree rights01/02/2020
I know this and love him.
tosses furudate's plans for fuki into the sun
there we go

Endymion01/02/2020
Wiki, Furudate, and God Herself: He's an upbeat cheery guy
me, being the way that I am: Okay but it's a coping mechanism to mask the huge burden and pressure he's putting on himself and in quiet moments or with those he trusts, he's far more sober, contemplative, and beaten down by the world and its expectations of him

oak tree rights01/02/2020
Wiki, Furudate, and God herself: [Boos you off stage]
"He's right" a voice says from the back.
And as the light shines on them as they take a stand, their identity is revealed.
Fuki himself.

Endymion01/02/2020
I gave him life
He is my son and I am his grim puppeteer

oak tree rights01/02/2020
;LASKD;ASKJDSAK

oak tree rights01/02/2020
imagine: Fuki uses his King voice in the middle of the Winter Kingdom during an argument amongst the nobility and he just goes Stop. and all of the snow that's been viciously falling just outside of his castle as well as across the entire kingdom freezes (no pun intended). Frozen in the sky, unmoving.
Stopping, just as he commanded.
every fae in the room:

Endymion01/02/2020
YES GOD

oak tree rights01/02/2020
every fae: [shuts up]

Endymion01/02/2020
YESSSSSSSSSS GOD
Imagine that it happens
In defense of Takeda

oak tree rights01/02/2020
OOP
I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOOOOVE IT
Takeda just has a natural glow I feel about him like he stands in the middle of the snowy wastes but all of it just melts beneath his feet and there's a small (But growing, if he gets emotional/out of touch with these strange new abilities) circle around him where the snow that comes into contact with it melts away into nothing

Endymion01/02/2020
Thinking about...
Thinking about something that really upsets Fuki to the point that there's frost creeping up the length of his fingertips and then Takeda just
Takes Fuki's hands into his
Brings them to his face and blows a whiff
"We'll figure this out together, okay?"
And Fuki's smile..................................... Crinkling at the corners of his eyes, unutterably fond
He brings their foreheads together just so they're breathing one another's air for a moment

oak tree rights01/02/2020
G A S P
GAAAAAASP!!!

Endymion01/02/2020
I'm so soft
I'm so soft and tender
Thinkin' 'bout Fuki being awkward around the fact that he knows Takeda's heart belongs to somebody else and he doesn't have any expectations in that regard... but just that he's grateful for the fact that Takeda is even around to make this work at all, that he's trying, and that Fuki will do anything and everything to provide what he needs even if he can't be what he really wants

Endymion01/02/2020
Fun thing to think about:
Takeda can't lie anymore
(OR MAYBE HE CAN and that's a unique feature of once being human)

oak tree rights01/02/2020
omg

Endymion01/02/2020
But he doesn't have the instinct of twisting words to obscure a falsehood in the technical truth
He wasn't mired in it from birth
So when Fuki asks him, point-blank, during some quiet night when it's just the two of them, whether there's someone else that holds his affection, that had it when he was only human...
The words aren't there
All that comes out is the truth
And though he gives no outward sign of it, not the slightest change in expression, the temperature plummets
Fuki excuses himself

oak tree rights01/02/2020
FUKIIIIII

Endymion01/02/2020
He tells himself it's only natural!

Endymion01/02/2020
I leave you... with a thought: There's an assassination attempt on the new Summer King and Fuki thinking he's doing the right thing by banishing Takeda to the mortal world where he can return to his old life as a human and protect him from the danger roaming in faerie
Because he was never taught how to get back there on his own

oak tree rights01/02/2020
oh my goddddd

Endymion01/02/2020
Did he USE HIS WORDS AND ASK? Of course not, he just assumes he knows best and that Takeda belongs with his own kind
That he'd be happier among humans
That he can shoulder the burden of two kingdoms instead of one
That danger wouldn't follow Takeda to the world of humans
(Spoiler: He is wrong on all accounts)

oak tree rights01/02/2020
HOO, FUCKING, BOY.

Endymion01/02/2020
The last thing he does before he sends Takeda away
Is kiss him goodbye and tell him to have a happier life
Goodnight

oak tree rights01/02/2020
FUKI.
DON'T YOU DARE.
HE DESERVES TO GET THE CHANCE TO GIVE YOU AN ANSWER

Endymion01/02/2020
Oh, what's that? [puts hand to ear] You were expecting an immortal monarch to actually care about other people's opinions when he's in the middle of a fit of bullheaded stubbornness and self-loathing at not being able to protect the person he lllllllll... cares a great deal about from an attempt on their life?
Takeda was dragged into this and wasn't given a choice in becoming fae and Fuki thinks it's Just™️ and Proper™️ and Morally Required™️... for Takeda to be dragged back home and not given a choice
Logic is fun when you're blinded by the need to overcorrect your mistakes in the most extra way possible
What's more fae than obeying your kneejerk whims based on passion and feeling instead of braincells and decency, I ask you?
Nothing, that's what!

oak tree rights01/02/2020
Fuki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m91Vq-Yd3BA
YouTube
Tyler, The Creator - Topic
I THINK

Endymion01/02/2020
YOU'RE SO RIGHT

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
I've been thinkin' a LOT about Fukeda
It's stolen my heart

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
oh my god
OKAY BUT SAME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpYXISeKFPg
YouTube
LeeandLie
Spice and Wolf - "Tabi no Tochuu" (FULL Opening) | ENGLISH ver | A...

i'm really weird but i've been really thinking of this song / cover for them

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
SPICE AND WOOOOOOOOLF
GOD CAN YOU IMAGINE
MERCHANT FUKI LIKE WE WERE PLANNING FOR ROYALTY AU...

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
PLEASE
I WOULD DIE / CRY

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
I need it like I need fire

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
And Takeda needs it like he needs the cold square UP
i'm still coughing up emotional blood over this line in particular:
' There's a world we see in our dreams / Is it out there? Is it waiting? / Is there time for one more journey / At the end of everything? ' Just thinking about how their time together in the [COUGH COUGH] is finite.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
GOD I
God
But is it, though?

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
UNLESS...............

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
UNLESS..............
YOU'RE TELLING ME HE WOULDN'T USE HIS GREATEST TRAIT?
HIS FUCKING PERSISTANCE?
CONSTANTLY COMING BACK NO MATTER WHAT HIS MANS SAYS?

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
You know loneliness! And your eyes confess! You know it far too well! @ Fuki
LASJDALSKDJAJSDLKJAD
YOU HAVE A POINT.
IT'S SAVE FUKI THE SEQUEL ONLY THIS TIME WE'RE SAVING FUKI FROM HIMSELF

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki: Dude you can't be here pls leave
Takeda: I DISAGREE, THROW ME OUT AGAIN, SEE WHAT HAPPENS, I'LL BE BACK

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Fuki, in his head: Oh dear God he's serious.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki, pinching the bridge of his nose: I should have known better

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Takeda but he asks Fuki to marry him. Like, really asks. Really does it. With his own voice, with his own will, with his own fire.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
OH

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Imagine.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
GOD
YAKI
YOU PEEKED INTO MY SOUL

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
I'M BOUT TO GET COMFORTABLE IN HERE.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
I LITERALLY HAD A SCENARIO ALL PLANNED OUT IN MY HEAD

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
BRUHHHH
YOU HAD A SCENARIO AND YOU DIDN'T TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEE?

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
"Marry me."
"... It's a little late for that, don't you think?"
"No, I want you to marry me. Not because you were forced to. Because you chose to, because you want me the way I want you."

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki bows his head, sinks down to his knees, humbling himself the way no Winter monarch has done since Oberon. "I know I hurt you. I know I took away your right to stay. No more. Whatever you choose, no matter if the answer is no, I want you to have the final decision."
His head lifts. "I am at your command. You need only speak the truth."

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
F U K I
A KING.
BOWING HIS HEAD.
POETIC CINEMA.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
It's terrifying, putting yourself so wholly in someone else's hands
Someone with the power to destroy you, or your heart
And that's exactly why he does it

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
His icy, glass heart ... so fragile ...

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Because he trusts Takeda to treat it tenderly even if he doesn't feel the same way

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
I'm..... so.............. soft.
If anyone deserves a fairytale ending it's these two.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
:''') And they're gonna get it

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
FACTS

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki... taking Takeda's hand... kissing the tips of his fingers and then pressing them to his forehead

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
OH, NO.
MUST YOU MURDER ME IN THIS WAY
SO TENDERLY

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
It's what I do
I'm tender on main

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
i cannot deny this

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
When Summer and Winter meet on equal footing for the first time, hand in hand, partners in the truest sense...
Flowers bloom whenever Takeda takes a step, the snow falling overhead melts upon contact with each leaf or petal

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
PLEAAAAAASE
my dearest friend,,, if u dont' mind,,,,
i'd like to join u by ur,,, side,,,
where we can gaze into the stars,,,,, and sit together,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
now and forever,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
for its as plain, as anyone can see,,,,
we're simply meant
to
beeee

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020

https://youtu.be/zgwdQVHpAR0
YouTube
Patrick Watson - Topic
Sit Down Beside Me

Sit down beside me and stay awhile
Till the night runs away
Till the morning rises and we part our ways
Till the end of our days

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
i'm CLUTCHING WHAT LITTLE IS LEFT OF MY HEART THAT THIS AU HASN'T TAKEN

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
It's such a soft and tender song

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Oh god
Oh fuck
https://youtu.be/o-BbeLmOAYE
YouTube
Winter Aid - Topic
The Wisp Sings

let me sleep
i am tired of my grief
and i would like you
to love me, to love me, to love me

this is the night when these woods sigh

come with me
there are people who cannot speak
without smiling

they would take me from your hand
or they would try, they would try

this is the murmur of the land
this is the sound of love's marching band
and how they hold you like a gun
and how i sing you like a song
i heard when i was young
and buried for a night like this

🌊 ɪᴡᴀɪᴢᴜᴍɪ | Kɪʏᴏᴋᴏ — Starry01/04/2020
I see y’all being extra gay

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
An extra helping of gay

🌊 ɪᴡᴀɪᴢᴜᴍɪ | Kɪʏᴏᴋᴏ — Starry01/04/2020
Yes

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
I just realized that to anybody just waking up who hasn't seen our DMs it sounds like total gibberish but listen...
The plans
The plots
The schemes
Fukeda will reign supreme

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Does
Is his family alive
Can Fuki meet his folks
Can he ask for their blessing

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
OH MY GOD
YEAH
YEAH THEY ARE ALIVE
LKJASDLKJASD Y E S,
they're a whole ass family of HUMANS too so it's like :open_mouth:

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Imagining this fuckin'
Dude in furs and robes and a whole-ass CROWN just...
Sitting in the living room
Drinking tea

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
THE WHOLE FAMILY IS LOOKING AT HIM
FROM THE KITCHEN
LIKE
[whisper whisper whisper]

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
He's very, like,
Gracious and good-natured but Takeda can tell he's uncomfortable/nervous underneath it
He doesn't know how humans work!
This is his husband's family!!!
He's gotta make a good impression!!!
Fuki has the aang sigh a tea

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
LAKSJDLAKSDJALSKDJASDLKJ
THIS'LL BE AN EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF THEM.
In the end it all kind of falls to Takeda's grandfather because he's like a lowkey patriarch and it's because he got sick that Takeda came back to Miyagi at all
so he just comes like oooooh boy lemme
lemme get a look atcha, sonny
LK;ASJDA NOT LIKE THAAT BUT YKNOW

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki's generations older than Takeda's grandpa but in that moment, under his scrutiny, he feels so young
Smaller, somehow

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
RIGHT!!!!!
alternatively:
Takeda's Mom, good natured: Haha you kids and your new modern FASHION
Fuki, unwavering smile: I am much older than you.
Takeda's Mom:
Takeda's Mom: WELL GLAD TO HAVE YOU.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki: This pelt is from a werewolf pack three... no, was it four hundred years ago? Time is so hard to keep track of these days!
Takeda's dad:
Takeda's dad:
Takeda's dad: So you like sports?
Fuki: Love 'em!
Takeda's dad: ALRIGHT, now we're gettin' somewhere!

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
ALKDJASL;KDJSADKLAJD
LOVE 'EM!
I'M WHEEZING

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
THEY PROBABLY MEAN TWO VASTLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPORT but in that moment, they bonded

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Takeda's parents (I imagine) are both teachers so they don't live an exceptionally extravagant life but they both wear glasses and the resemblance between them all when they're in a moment of thought is laughably endearing

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki shows Takeda Papa horseback archery and then gets sucked into soccer like nothing else
Or tennis

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
they all adjust their glasses with the same hand/manner

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
GOD, HE JUST

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
oh my god FUKI WATCHING SOCCER THERE'S SOMETHING POWERFUL BEHIND THAT

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
His expression goes so soft and so unutterably fond and it's in that moment that everyone realizes that this is the first time he's felt genuinely at home there

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
g a s p

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Imagine that, like,
One of them has Concerns™️ because the lord of all fae? Dating (they haven't mentioned they're technically already married) THEIR little Ittetsu who still has to sleep with the hall light on and triple-check that the doors are locked?

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
(AND HOW COULD THEY MENTION IT, GOD).

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
But all that washes away when they're spotted in the kitchen washing dishes in companionable silence and Takeda just leans against him and Fuki rests his head against the top of his for a second
There's no practiced air to it and there's no audience for them to perform for
Just a little moment where they take comfort in being close to each other

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
(There's everything mystically domestic about Fuki and Takeda doing dishes together.  You know you're whipped for a pairing when them doing mundane shit like dishes has your heart going ' :sob: oh fuck ')

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
IT'S THE INCONGRUITY
Because BOTH OF THEM ARE ROYALTY
Such tasks are beneath a being of Fuki's station yet here he is, asking where the cups go, not batting an eye

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
m y c h e s t,
my h ea r t... for them.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
You know I gotta reference that one post
[Winter faerie voice] My love... how do I preheat the oven?

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
LKJASD;LKJASD;LKSAJD;LKASDJKASL;DJSA;LKDASJDL;KASJDLKASJDASKLDJASLKDJASDKLJSADL;KASJDALK;SJDASKLDJASLK;DJASD


𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Takeda's Grandpa is the first one who picks up on the fact that they're married.
He just has a hunch.
He's known Takeda since he was just a boy and he knows what love looks like when it's held in that passionate heart.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Imagine that, like, they're staying the night, right, and Takeda's in his childhood room with all his childhood Stuff™️ and he's sleeping in his childhood bed (there's just enough room for two if they squish)

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Good enough.
ALSO OH MY GODDDDD
OH NOOO NOT TAKEDA'S CHILDHOOD ROOM HE'S GOT NOTHING BUT DORKY SHIT IN THERE

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
ALSSJALKSLSDKHD

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
He's apocalyptically embarrassed of all his cringe interests and Fuki's just :0 [snoop snoop snoop]

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
you'll find his collection of poetry and short stories that are perfectly coordinated with the years like u can tangibly see the shift and growth of takeda's reading style and tastes as the shelf goes on

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Fuki... slips a lil poetry journal into his robes to read later

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
oh my god
NOOOOOOOO
FUKIIIIIIII!!!!!!

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
Listen, it's his nature
Winter faerie are assholes even when they're being supportive of their love's passions
He likes the idea of having something tangible of Takeda's time as a human
A part of him that's unknowable to Fuki

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
Oh shit that hit different

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
RIGHT

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
Takeda, STRUGGLING to EXPLAIN these BIZARRE topics and similies and devices he used to explore the oddest shit as a child in a way so HUMAN
LIKE IT'S A BIG 'WELL YOU S E E  WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS'

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
They're back home in the Winter Court days later and Fuki recites one of Takeda's poems aloud after memorizing it and there's that instant recognition there
It should be mortifying

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
OH MY GOD

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
But with Fuki breathing new life into every syllable, each pause placed so precisely...

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
.
.
.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
It becomes something different

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
that. You. I.
How dare you conjure such imagery in my head.
Such. Intimate. Tenderness.

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
Fuki reciting Take-chan's poetry to him? :pleading_face:

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
SAM AND I, BOTH: we're th ir sty wittle flowers

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
:pleading_face::pleading_face:

🌊 ɪᴡᴀɪᴢᴜᴍɪ | Kɪʏᴏᴋᴏ — Starry01/04/2020
:sip:

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
A split second after he recognizes his own words, there's this pit that opens in the pit of Takeda's stomach, the horrid worry that this is some meanspirited joke, that it's mocking his lack of skill
But he listens
He watches Fuki embody what he's saying with so much conviction
It's a love letter
Reflecting his prose back at him

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
that poetry journal is going to be a complete walkthrough of Takeda's early life too because I just imagine he jotted down anything and everything going through his little kid mind in his surprisingly neat handwriting going on about the subtle soft and unimportant parts of life that no one else would listen to coming from a child and there's such intimate significance in this being read back to him not only by a winter fae
who he loves
but also just Fuki.
IT REALLY IS A LOVE LETTER

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
There's just something about the way your words are said to you, the words you said to all things beautiful, and he looks at you like you're the most exquisite, the most loved, of them all

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
SHAKES SAM
YOU THINK THIS IS A FUCKING GAME, KID?

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
is shaken AAAAAA
I have feelings tonight okay :pleading_face:

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
It's the one-man performance of an immortal creature trying to understand something completely alien to him
That period of youth

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/04/2020
GOD
FUCK YOU FOR THIS

Shōyō & Hitoka 🌞 Sam01/04/2020
We havin tears for breakfast lads

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/04/2020
You try to escape with absurdity and I will drag you back into pain hell

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/05/2020
So... Winter solstice celebration, right
The fae go fucking wild
Winter fae in particular go the route of a masked ball, luring in humans and pretending like they can't smell the mortality on them as they mix among these mischief makers
Everybody is using glamour to look like someone or something else, making it a true challenge to know just who or what your partner is

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ Yaki01/05/2020
omg
Winter fae are TRULY wild

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 Kit01/05/2020
The philosophy is that on the longest night of the year when the the darkness stretches on and on, foe becomes friend and self becomes other, shadows twining together, murky and indistinct from one another
That wasn't supposed to rhyme but here we are
Fuki normally doesn't participate but this year... Well, this one is special
He unleashes his inner MILF and it doesn't manage to disguise the way he walks and carries himself and YES I stole it from Anime Michael Jackson and you're just going to have to deal with it

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:10 AM
Fun thing:
The Courts each have their own distinct dialect separate from the common language of fae, and even though it all originated from the same root language it's drifted so far away that knowing one doesn't mean you'll know a lick of what's happening in another
So imagine that when Takeda is transformed into a Summer fae, the queen's power lets him pretty much instantly pick up on Summerspeak, but That's It
Fuki has a habit of breaking into Winter speech when he's upset and stressed, leading Takeda to go "????"
And what could be more upsetting and stressful than an assassination attempt on his consort?

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:14 AM
YOOOOOU
i'm still so fucking amused at the idea of him slipping into winter speak and takeda is like 'DID YOU JUST SPEAK WINTER STORM AT ME???'
it felt like he just spoke winter storm at him

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:17 AM
Takeda, smug, testing out his newfound knowledge by calling him a poopyhead in Bright language (I'll nail down a way to refer to it that doesn't sound Fucking Stupid later)
Only for Fuki to respond, with some difficulty but perfectly understandable, in the same tongue, "I heard that."

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:17 AM
Takeda: :SurprisedPikachu:

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:18 AM
As a monarch, it's only natural for him to study his wife's mother tongue, but because she........................... Didn't fucking like him, she never offered the same courtesy
Takeda: Why'd I have to get stuck taking the place of a dumbass :( I love linguistics :(((
So Fuki offers to teach him choice bits and pieces once he shows genuine interest :)

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:20 AM
fuki teach him how to say something very sweet in winter speak, please

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:20 AM
YES

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:20 AM
better yet: teach him how to say fuki's name
in winter speak

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:21 AM
...
H
His true name

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:21 AM
takeda, who doesn't understand the gravity of what he just asked fuki: ?

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:21 AM
Because yes, of course, you have your common name, the one everybody agrees to call you
But your name in your native dialogue is much more than that
It's a direct means to control you, as much a part of your soul as anything else
Whoever knows your true name has the power to compel you, to command you, to destroy you
It's an integral part to a marriage between fae; they're so long-living that true commitments must last a lifetime, and so they give up their power over one another by offering up their names

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:24 AM
:flushed:
takeda:
takeda:
takeda: o....oh.
takeda: so i just ... oh, uhm. I think I understand what you're saying. I said something strange just now, right? Like I wanted you to,
takeda: marry .... me.
takeda: Sorry!?

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:26 AM
Fuki shakes his head, lets out a heavy sigh, and tells Takeda to ask him again
Once he's ready
It's information he's entitled to, since they are technically married, after all, but now that he knows, he gets the choice of whether to use it or not
Only when he wants

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:28 AM
takeda doesnt even 'know' his own true name so i feel like he would venture to know, use, and understand his true name before even beginning to think of using fukis. like, that seems integral. Critical. Like a representation of him understanding what it means to be fae and in turn understanding who he now is / what it means to be Takeda Ittetsu now. And he wants to understand that and the impact it has in all of its nuance and complexity
so when he does ask Fuki, he doesn't do it by asking for Fuki's name. He's gone through a whole journey, he's learned who he is, and who he wants to be. Who he wants to be with. So he does it by giving Fuki his name instead. No hesitation this time. No apology.
just that good ol' takeda determined smile in its whimsical simplicity.

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:35 AM
Fuki's expression is one of shock and wonder before it settles into a wry smile. "There are so many things about you that I just can't make sense of right now. But just like you've taken the time to learn about my people--" He pauses, corrects himself. "Our people... I want to do the same for you." He reaches out, takes Takeda's hand, and draws him close. His lips ghost over the shell of his ear as Fuki whispers his name, pulls away, and presses a kiss to his forehead. "I hope you'll be patient with me in my study, O Great Teacher. We have the rest of our lives to figure it out."

𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙖 & 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙖 ⑊ YakiToday at 1:35 AM
I
AM
TENDER
I AM BEING TENDERIZED

Daichi | Fuki 🐺 KitToday at 1:36 AM
>:)c
I'm so glad you like

EndymionToday at 12:27 PM
https://youtu.be/cmq5yUa6e6s
YouTube
Crywolf
Crywolf - Windswept

So
Just imagined a scene with Fukeda where this is playing in the background

oak tree rightsToday at 12:28 PM
Omg

EndymionToday at 12:28 PM
I'm a sobbing wreck

oak tree rightsToday at 12:28 PM
Great now so am I

EndymionToday at 12:31 PM
I imagine that it's during their separation when Fuki thinks that the best way to protect Takeda is to send him back to the mortal realm
Living among his own kind
With Ukai

oak tree rightsToday at 12:34 PM
CLUTCHES MY FUCKING CHEST
I cannot wait for Takeda to completely take Fuki off guard by utterly shattering his cool mask and telling him that he wants to be with him

EndymionToday at 12:35 PM
Fucking idiot looks behind him as if Takeda might be talking to somebody else
He's just at such a loss

oak tree rightsToday at 12:37 PM
Oh my God
Fuki for a king? You are an idiot.
You are also
Takeda's idiot.

EndymionToday at 12:39 PM
When they get married (which is just such a bonkers bananas thing to say) he just
Can't stop looking at Takeda and checking in with him and adjusting his collar and messing with his hair and making sure he's Perfect
Because he's already perfect as he is and he's so nervous to finally be doing this with somebody he loves wholeheartedly
Before, it was a dry matter of state while his subjects got to do the reveling, but now, it's everything it was meant to be: a promise made from mutual adoration and commitment

oak tree rightsToday at 1:12 PM
FUKI PLEASE YOURE HANDSOME AND WONDERFUL AND ALL TAKEDAS

EndymionToday at 1:14 PM
In the moments leading up to it he asks, "Are you ready?" but what he means is, "Am I really what you want?"

oak tree rightsToday at 1:18 PM
And Takeda looks like he has so much he wants to say but this is the one (1) time Takeda keeps his mouth shut. His emotions are burning a hole onto his sleeve. He's glowing golden with the burn of everything he wants to say. So he does the easiest thing he's ever done: stands on his toes and kisses Fuki and all the heat of an immortal summer romance just transfers between them because of one (1) silencing kiss

EndymionToday at 1:23 PM
I AM BESIDE MYSELF
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO EXCEPT SCREAM

oak tree rightsToday at 1:23 PM
BITCH ME TOO THE FUCK!!!

EndymionToday at 1:27 PM
Fuki melts, both metaphorically and literally, and when they pull away after a long (long, long, to the point where onlookers are starting to get uncomfortable) moment, his eyes are so blue
Like the rare break of a clear sky in the dead of winter
Like daylight had finally broken over the Night Court

oak tree rightsToday at 1:27 PM
AAAAAAH
I am so fucking soft
Takeda thought the sunlight glowing underneath his skin would lessen after doing it but they only grew more intense and he's finally able to put a name on the feeling: the joy of a new day.

He's grinning so wide he can hardly contain himself and all appearances just go out the window

EndymionToday at 1:32 PM
"I can't wait to be married to you."
"Then let's not waste another second."

oak tree rightsToday at 1:32 PM
[HOLDS MY FUCKING CHEST]

EndymionToday at 1:32 PM
The best part is it could be either of them

oak tree rightsToday at 1:33 PM
YOURE SO RIGHT

EndymionToday at 1:37 PM
Hmmmm but now that I've gotten soft
I want pain

oak tree rightsToday at 1:38 PM
Oh no
Fear.jpeg

EndymionToday at 1:41 PM
Thinkin' 'bout how after their wedding, in the tide of well-wishers and congratulations, there comes another suspected attempt on the king's life, but in the moment that they assume Takeda's the target and rush to keep him secure is the same instant they pivot to an unguarded Fuki
A pure iron blade right to a vital spot is a sure killer to any fae, royalty or not

oak tree rightsToday at 1:43 PM
NO
NOOO
NOOOOO
NO PLEASE DEAR GOD REDACT CTRL Z
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
Takeda's reaching for Fuki the whole time, too. Like even before he knew their target was Fuki. He didn't want to leave his side. Not even for a second. There isn't any place he feels safer than at Fuki's side. Which
You know
Gives him a full, time stopping view of a sword being run through Fuki's chest. And the look on the Kings face.
It all happened so fast.

EndymionToday at 1:47 PM
The assassin is apprehended instantly despite all the confusion and it's no opportunistic winter fae trying to seize power or a summer fae mourning their lost queen
It's a human

oak tree rightsToday at 1:47 PM
OH
NO

EndymionToday at 1:48 PM
Perfectly ordinary, not considered the least bit threatening
And convinced that they were on a righteous crusade
That Faerie had stolen one of their own and the evil Lord of Night was responsible
He had even warped another mortal into a creature like him!

oak tree rightsToday at 1:50 PM
You know how the koi fish in Avatar got killed and all of the color got sapped from the world around them because General fucking Zhou thought it would be a smart idea to kill the moon.

EndymionToday at 1:51 PM
:) Yes

oak tree rightsToday at 1:51 PM
Then you know what I am about to say.

EndymionToday at 1:51 PM
YESSSSSSSSS

oak tree rightsToday at 1:51 PM
These emotions are running my life.

EndymionToday at 1:53 PM
Before the iron spreads and corrodes him completely, Fuki only has time to choke out one last, final order
"Keep him safe."

oak tree rightsToday at 1:54 PM
"final order" NO NO STOP PLEASE IM ALREADY DEAD

EndymionToday at 1:54 PM
So's Fuki :)
He falls to the ground in an ungainly heap; there's nothing beautiful or dignified about it
The iron invades his veins and travels from his chest outwards

oak tree rightsToday at 1:58 PM
You are not doing this to me. you cannot do this to me, or them. Fuki the Sun that was smiling upon them and their union and their future is eclipsing in the middle of the sky and takeda does not realize how he managed to cross the distance and catch Fuki in a mess of shock and broken hearted misery in his arms and they both come to the ground.
We can fix it. We can fix this.

EndymionToday at 1:59 PM
I'm sorry, Yaki
But he's gone

oak tree rightsToday at 1:59 PM
You have to tell me how to fix it, please.

EndymionToday at 1:59 PM
That's what Takeda is saying
Frantic
Desperate

oak tree rightsToday at 1:59 PM
that's exactly what he's saying

EndymionToday at 2:01 PM
With his strength fading more and more each passing moment, his eyes lock with Takeda's
They're so blue
And growing dimmer
He smiles
Because at least his husband is protected

oak tree rightsToday at 2:02 PM
BUT IN A LIFE WITHOUT THE MAN HE LOVES
He has to fix it he has to fix it his tears literally burn and singe everywhere they touch and fall into pieces but what can he do?

EndymionToday at 2:03 PM
There's nothing for him to do

oak tree rightsToday at 2:03 PM
Maybe not Takeda ................
But ..................
Looks @ Fuki's previous wife.
Pls. Come back. Please come back and tell him how to use your power to save the man he loves. Like you saved yourself.

EndymionToday at 2:05 PM
"My, oh my, so much tension. I knew I shouldn't have wasted my time buying a wedding gift for the happy couple."
She strides over, every bit the queen she once was
Gives Fuki a light kick

oak tree rightsToday at 2:06 PM
FJDKD

EndymionToday at 2:06 PM
"Always so dramatic, this one. He'll never grow out of it, I'm afraid, but at least he's your problem now."

oak tree rightsToday at 2:08 PM
What do you mean? Takeda's voice is so soft until it isn't until he's yelling and exuding such a power that hairline cracks his glasses when he goes This isn't a game! He's dying! Please tell me what to do. Please, Please tell me how to save his life.
Don't let him say goodbye.

EndymionToday at 2:12 PM
She stops him with a look, one so disdainful that it's easy to imagine how she'd sear any complaints in her wake. "Enough of that. Don't go to pieces about a fool like that. You're making me embarrassed that I chose you. Listen carefully. Do you know what he is? Not some common spriggan, I assure you. While this--" Here, she bends down, grabs Fuki's body by the hair. "Is already a lost cause, it isn't the flesh you should worry about."
The King of all Faerie, Lord of Night, Unseelie Ruler, and master of the Winter Court, his spirit is tied to the Nightlands
Where the Summer Queen would have died in the human realm in the middle of its coldest months, far from her source of power, this is another story entirely
It's the connection with his subjects that creates a bond so powerful, the fact that he's spent centuries trying to mend the disconnect between his people and their ruler
It's their belief in him, their trust, their devotion that keeps his soul bound where other Winter Kings died alone and unmourned
Though she hates to admit it, the Summer Queen was something of a flighty mistress and her people held no real love for her

oak tree rightsToday at 2:19 PM
If this had been at the beginning Takeda wouldve been so lost and hurt and all over the place but sitting there, holding Fuki's body in his arms, and completely unable to stop the fat tears from rolling down his face past crooked, cracked glasses, he's. Processing what the Queen is telling him. You know in that blank faced, slack jawed way people do as they're slowly coming to an unbelievable understanding.

EndymionToday at 2:21 PM
She settles a hand atop his head, the gesture almost maternal
"See for yourself when you return to that dreary palace in the Nightlands. It may take some time, but having you there will speed things along, I'm sure."

oak tree rightsToday at 2:26 PM
Takeda probably would've folded in his desperate need to try and not fall into pieces at her feet if this had been the beginning but all of this time as Fuki's partner, as a fae, as a denizen of the sun has taught him how to hold his head high. But it didnt make him any less humble. Any less kind. It just made him more ... I don't know, certain. It gave his determination a platform. So it's not a subject or even a pawn seeking a boon from a queen. It's two royalty. Two equals. Different sides of the same sun looking at each other for the first time. He does look so incredibly Takeda though. Pushing his glasses up, wiping away his tears, and nodding all the while like a fool.

EndymionToday at 2:34 PM
She smiles, giving one slow nod of approval. "Finally, you're starting to look the part. You had me worried for a moment there, but I needn't have despaired. My taste is still impeccable as always." During all this, the onlookers have been frozen, whether by the shock at Fuki dying or by Takeda's unconscious use of his power, but here, one of the summer fae breaks the silence by rushing up and asking if Her Majesty has returned. An old attendant, perhaps, or just an admirer, but she shakes her head as she turns to leave. "The only Majesty you should be looking toward is four-eyes over there. I've got a life of my own to get back to in the meantime."
One more pause as she turns back a final time. "Ah, that reminds me. I never did tell you my name, did I? Please, call me Madoka."

oak tree rightsToday at 2:35 PM
This whole thing has been an emotional rollercoaster.
M a d o k a

EndymionToday at 2:37 PM
Yachi is adopted depending on what Sam wants to do it's fine It Is Fine but I'm claiming her as an NPC until further notice
ANYWAY

oak tree rightsToday at 2:51 PM
The winter and summer kingdoms have merged by the end of this ordeal. The sun and moon are both always eternally present on their sky. It's a bizarre, but comforting mixture of night and day. The moon's mysterious leer hand in hand with the sun's brightness personified.
Home.

EndymionToday at 2:51 PM
Ohhhhh my god

EndymionToday at 2:53 PM
When Takeda does go to the Nightlands, though (and finds it weird how something so at odds with his new nature could feel so much more like home than the Summer Court ever could), he finds... Silence. The Winter fae are all sequestered in their homes, or out in the mortal realms causing chaos, but no one dares approach the palace. The building feels colder and more imposing than when Takeda had visited for the first time, confused and terrified, but now, it is simply empty. Devoid of all life. His first thought is to go to his (their) bedroom, but something manages to catch his attention, tugging his awareness toward the throne room that's seldom used except in official events.
Inside, there's a wall of ice filling the space completely, impenetrable by all conventional means. Normal fire can't melt it, weapons can't pierce it or chip away at it. But if Takeda looks very closely, he can just manage to catch a glimpse of something inside. A shadow that's moving. That seems to be growing.
Takeda uses his own fire, his glowing warmth that soothes instead of scorches.
It takes hours to carve a path that would have taken weeks otherwise.
At the end of it is... Another Fuki, encased in ice, immobile and looking for all the world like he could be a sculpture. He doesn't move. Doesn't breathe. Doesn't respond to Takeda's presence in the slightest.