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[swordsitter]

Who: swordhaus + cr
When: throughout april
Where: the three apartments swordhaus uses..
What: april catch-all
Rating/Warning: probably nothing, but i'll edit as necessary.

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[ sword mafia at home. ]

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throws u overboard goodbye

[adornmental]

[It's kind of enchanting to see his expression shift like that, to see it turn up into a youthful smile. Souji isn't exactly old, not really, but his face wears the exhaustion that only someone with tuberculosis could have, and the same deep-set weariness of a warrior battling an entire era of change.

That's something he'll remember, he thinks - that look. It's one more point of endearment in the same way that his smile always is, or his honesty, or the fact that he can promise these things and it's enough for Kashuu to feel more at ease. Like this, he thinks that it might be worth the discomfort of having to face down his past every day. It's not so bad.]

Then I'll promise the same thing. [He can't do anything about Souji's home life or what he's undoubtedly going to return to - days and days of wasting away in bed until he can't even lift Yamato anymore, let alone wield him - but he can at least promise to stay by his side as long as they're both here. His hand drops down from Souji's cheek, and he holds his pinky out.]

Here!

drags u down under with me <3

[spes_phthisica]

[In so many ways, Kashuu represents everything in his own life before it started turning truly bad, before he knew he was going to lose so much more than he ever would've imagined. He also represents that moment of first horror when he knew that his own death was inevitable, that he was going to crack under the pressure of days and disease just like his sword, and thrown away to burn and be lost in the same way. But he refuses to let the shadow this throws between them hold them apart, because he wants to hold on to the person he was back then, the strength of faith he used to have.

He wants to live up to everything Kashuu saw in him back then, and grow stronger through him.

Holding out his hand, he wraps his pinky around Kashuu's, humming softly under his breath. ...whoever lies has to swallow thousand needles, huh? In the end, maybe that is what the oni in his chest represents. But it's worth it, worth it for the people he loves.]

It's a promise. Now we both can't go back, I guess. [And nothing could make him happier.]