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𝕕𝕒𝕣π•ͺ𝕝 π••π•šπ•©π• π•Ÿ ([personal profile] dadyl) wrote2023-05-27 07:10 pm
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-12 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
I am too.

[ no proof of her weakness. the other scars were from battles won and hardships overcome. they are marks of honor and resiliency. not from the one that bested her.

she turns towards him again as she pulls her shirt back on. despite not being able to see him then, she'd heard and felt plenty.
]

I made you uncomfortable.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-12 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't believe that. [ she hadn't done it to punish him. ] We've been naked together before.

[ not in the void. but then, she recalls, he'd been uncomfortable then too. she would have thought even the people who were uneasy with that originally would have gotten past it here, with the festivals being like they are.

not daryl, though. he may be the person she knows with the strongest sense of who he is. it'll take more than that to change him. more than death, too, she hopes.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-12 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ she shifts her weight. it feels stupid to apologize for something like making him remember that, all things considered. it will probably be a while yet before she apologizes to daryl for anything.

but it's clear she hadn't meant to thrust it upon him unwelcome, from her awkward lingering.
]

Those clothes don't suit you. [ she changes the subject inexpertly, pointing to the clothes that the duchess had provided them with to leave. to replace the ones that had been destroyed in their death. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-13 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Rough. Sturdy. Smells like the woods.

[ she draws a line down the side of her chest. ]

With straps.

[ she's never seen work overalls before coming here, but she already knows to associate with people who can't be yanking their pants up all the time because they're busy doing manual labor. that's daryl.

not this fancy thing.
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LMAO OH GOOD

[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-13 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she tries to imagine another use for a belt. looks at his briefly, doing some kind of mental calculations. while he may be thinking tourniquet, she's thinking garrote. eventually, she tips her head in acknowledgment, which turns slowly into a nod. yes, he's right. that's useful. ]

The hunting lodge can give you good work clothes in exchange for kills. [ she moves to the other bed, pulls her feet up onto it and crosses her legs. ] What else did you lose?
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-14 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
The woods are full of weapons.

[ mavis says this almost automatically, dismissively. ]

I will make you one.

[ at least, one that is functional enough until he can get his own. she's already working on that bow for leah, anyway. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-14 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Knife. Bow. [ she shrugs her shoulder. ] What else do you need?

[ these are the hallmarks of any good kuruko's kit, anyway. skill with either would keep you safe and feed you and yours, give you a place among the hunters and warriors of the clan. ]

I learned to carve wood.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-15 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ she shakes her head. ]

Wood won't hold an edge for that.

[ not any wood she's used to working with, anyway. you could get maybe one use out of that if you're lucky. she looks him over though, thoughtful. ]

You don't need one. [ it seems like a waste, trying to apply clean lines to his face. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-15 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I can do bone. It will take longer. It may not work.

[ mavis thinks through this as she explains. ]

I have never used one.

[ a razor, that is. but she gathers how others use them. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-16 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she shakes her head. ]

Downstairs, with Felipe.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-18 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ she picks at the dead skin beside her nail beds. you'd think that if the duchess was going to resurrect people, heal up their old wounds, that you'd come back with undamaged nail beds. fewer callouses. no dead skin.

maybe this is proof that john and ari are right. that she's just mavis, still, no matter how it feels.
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Complicated. [ she acknowledges. ] But he came back.

[ he'd been the one to leave in the first place. mavis isn't in the business of leaving if she isn't forced to. she doesn't know how to segue between these thoughts. ]

He is too weak to be alone. [ she says this dismissively instead. how pitiful he'd been about missing her. how he'd held her. she can't admit most of it, so she just falls back on the old stand-by that felipe is embarrassing. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-18 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ she reaches for the nearby pillow and throws it at him. fuck off with that.

she isn't laughing, merely flustered by his amusement. but she sits with it for a silent moment after that, and then stretches out onto her back on the bed, staring up at the ceiling.
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He betrayed me. [ this gets its own space. ] I felt stupid. I trusted him. [ she settles her hands on her abdomen. ] Then he left. I felt stupid again. He didn't care about me.

[ she huffs out a breath. ]

He came back and made me stupid three ways. [ she looks over at daryl, smiling now a little. stupid, this time, for thinking he hadn't cared. he was a coward, yes, but stronger than she gave him credit for, given what he'd done to daryl for her, and given how he'd held her and come back to her and apologized. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-18 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she laughs. it feels good. even if she seldom does it, it feels like her in a way that she has struggled with since leaving the castle. she rolls onto her side, taking the thrown pillow and tucking it under her head. she stares across the space at daryl. ]

Do not punch him. He is too fragile. [ and dumb, yes. but at least she feels better having articulated the complexity of it. he doesn't quite grasp the ins and outs, but the general pattern seems to have conveyed, and that's better than mavis expected.

it feels good. not being alone.
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