[it's time for illusions where Styx and "Minuet" are just having cute pond-side moments.]
Got an illusion up of us just sittin' here. Thing I'll say that I'm not sure you've been able to get so far is that if it starts to hurt, that's when there's trouble.
If it don't hurt, then don't worry 'bout the wings. We need to get 'em moving around more anyway.
[all the times he's seen Vash lose it, he's always been in some kind of pain, so... well, maybe? it's fine.]
[man. Styx sure is invested in keeping Minuet's body in one piece and good shape huh. honestly admirable. a little alarming when Minuet is not the one driving.]
[it's so much harder to hold onto this shape when he's around Styx specifically anyway, and he cannot just tell him to leave with this setup. incredible. he might as well give in to the inevitability.
so. fine. he lets Minuet's shape go. lets it unspool completely. tries as a courtesy not to hit Styx in the face with any of the massive pile of emergent wings that results. folds some of them over whatever remains humanoid of the body and face, because he truly does not want to both do this and be directly perceived by Styx.
[... muttering about how Vash keeps holding back jesus christ.
anyway, gonna slowly and gently check over the wings. some of them are definitely ruffled from other blortings. probably comparable to the level of care he took when Charon was bsod'd during gun shooting]
[Styx can do whatever the fuck he wants. maybe it's better for Minuet's body to get this back after the person who cares about Minuet the most has been kind to it in a way he doesn't get to be normally. he himself can just, like, dissociate from the experience due to how completely outside the human norm it is. probably.
(the wings get fluffier when Styx checks over them. it does appear to be normal responsive fluffing-out this time rather than the shrieking Pusheen stress response of before, and incidentally is pretty great for revealing disarranged and damaged underlayer feathers.)]
[cool cool he doesn't have to acknowledge that this is also a bid for CALM THE FUCK DOWN WHEN I'M AROUND, JESUS. just gentle finger combs and straightening of ruffled feathers]
[amazingly, it is much easier for him to calm the fuck down if he has let go of the active unfamiliar stress response he has been holding onto by the skin of his teeth, has twenty metaphorical quilts weighing him down to the ground, and doesn't have to look anyone in the eye anymore for a while.
if he lets out a real big sigh at some point during this preening and everything seems to measurably smooth and settle some all through the heap, well.
[there are so many things he could say here and all of them feel like whining. he would in fact rather eat a flower crown made of oleander and aconite than whine at Styx. the cocoon of feathers shivers with indecision.]
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featherduster) wrote2023-06-15 02:30 pm
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[it's time for illusions where Styx and "Minuet" are just having cute pond-side moments.]
Got an illusion up of us just sittin' here. Thing I'll say that I'm not sure you've been able to get so far is that if it starts to hurt, that's when there's trouble.
If it don't hurt, then don't worry 'bout the wings. We need to get 'em moving around more anyway.
[all the times he's seen Vash lose it, he's always been in some kind of pain, so... well, maybe? it's fine.]
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Sorry, you're...asking me to put them out?
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Yeah. Can look 'em over and make sure feathers aren't messed up--like how Perci does his wings.
And bein' outside's better for stretchin'. More room for it. Wingspan's pretty large.
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so. fine. he lets Minuet's shape go. lets it unspool completely. tries as a courtesy not to hit Styx in the face with any of the massive pile of emergent wings that results. folds some of them over whatever remains humanoid of the body and face, because he truly does not want to both do this and be directly perceived by Styx.
holy fuck what a relief, actually.]
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anyway, gonna slowly and gently check over the wings. some of them are definitely ruffled from other blortings. probably comparable to the level of care he took when Charon was bsod'd during gun shooting]
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(the wings get fluffier when Styx checks over them. it does appear to be normal responsive fluffing-out this time rather than the shrieking Pusheen stress response of before, and incidentally is pretty great for revealing disarranged and damaged underlayer feathers.)]
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if he lets out a real big sigh at some point during this preening and everything seems to measurably smooth and settle some all through the heap, well.
maybe they can just not talk about that.]
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... for the record, the illusion's Minuet making flower crowns.
[because that's funny]
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I can't move. You're going to have to make them all for plausibility before we get out of here.
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[this is how we bully a Vash.
but also, lowkey, a Charon.]
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Rude.
[very vaguely raises a wing in the direction of Styx's face, though he's not really trying that hard. bap]
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plucking out a bent feather, undeterred. very quick. blink and you'd miss it.]
But accurate.
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[all the wings just kind of twitch and shake out when he registers that a second later, not in pain, just ???what a weird sensation???]
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[doesn't seem fussed about the details, anyway.]
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You are being nice.
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Yeah? And?
... I ain't good at it but people keep sayin' I should try it anyway.
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...fine.
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[fine with him, he sucks at this "nice" thing anyway]
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No. You should keep trying it.
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I hear it's good for you.
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