May Catchall

[mooninthewater]

Who: Mizuki and [vague gestures at everyone]
What: Various May threads so I'm not clogging up everyone's inboxes all the time alkdksglj; Honestly? Shoulda had one for April but I am the stupid
When: All of May!!!! Posts will be tagged w dates
Where: [vague gestures again]
Warnings: Blood, Biting, Scars, Ebalon/Mizuki being yandere as per the norm.


05/01 | Clarke | Mizuki gets a box. It's full of sad.
05/05 | La Pluma | Mizuki not dealing with a breakup well, and La Pluma being Fucking Pissed at Venti.
05/15 | Ebalon | Dantalion's very interested in Mizuki's ability to shred people apart. It's weird and people should worry.
05/20 | Venti | Mizuki Glows Now, and he wants his boyfriend to know.
05/20 | Ebalon | Mizuki glows now and he wants his best friend to know, but then things get A Bit Too Intimate and it turns into a love confession whoops!
05/20 | Clarke | Mizuki still glows
05/00 | Character | Thread Description

Comments

txt @ Clarke; 05/20

[mooninthewater]

clarke!
how do u feel about things that glow in the dark??

[skaikru]

Like an emergency kit glow stick?

[mooninthewater]

ya sort of!
or like, you know, plankton
fireflies, algae, some mushrooms
and like hypothetically
me

[skaikru]

Bioluminescent butterflies and flowers were one of the first, truly beautiful things I saw on Earth. I think of them sometimes, and... yeah, I guess I like things that glow.

( wait uh. )

Sorry, what? You glow?

[mooninthewater]

whaaat? i didnt know flowers and butterflies could glow too!!!
ya
well, now!
i got a box
i opened it
started glowing in the dark??
it was very strange, but now i dont need a flashlight anymore
which is cool

[skaikru]

I mean, after years of radiation exposure they can, yeah.

( that's not what you got in the box, right mizuki??? but give her a second to remember some animals could glow with the right chemical reactions going on under their skin, specifically sea faring creatures. and... huh, that must apply to jellyfish too, right? not just plankton? maybe it's nothing to be too concerned about... )

That is actually really cool. Can I see you do it?

[mooninthewater]

that was honestly my first worry tbh
but i think im fine
i dont feel funny, anyway
also im not like constantly glowing or anything, its just when it gets dark
um and when
i get a little emotional, i think?
lol
i would take a picture of it, but the phone doesnt pick up the lighting very well so u wouldnt b able 2 c it that well



also hi im outside ur cabin knock knock

[skaikru]

( ...of course he is.

and honestly, of course she isn't even that surprised.

it's only a few steps from the door to her cabin that clarke suddenly recalls just how painfully tense of terms they'd left off on last time they'd spoke. it feels absolutely natural to go open up her door for all of three seconds, and then the divisive line she's felt mizuki had drawn by choosing to believe ebalon over her is... suddenly stark and bare. backlit by hurt, very present — like a rift in the earth, even as she opens the door and greets him with a noted absence of hostility. )

Hi, Mizuki.

( no hugs here, though. she hadn't liked how much that last one had felt like an emotional goodbye. )

Wanna come in?

[mooninthewater]

[ And, of course, there's Mizuki. Cheerful as ever, as if their last conversation hadn't been so tense he needed to turn invisible and dissociate for a bit before he felt like he could go do things again. There was absolutely none of that happening. Instead, Mizuki is here, giving Clarke a smile and a wave as he shuffles inside at the offer. There's a quick glance around the place to confirm that… yeah, Clarke, you really need to decorate. ]

You know, I've been putting up origami in my room. Should I make you some, too? You might be able to do little curtains of paper butterflies.

[ He turns to her. ] Or maybe at least we can make you a poster or something?

[skaikru]

( sorry, does an entire wall dedicated to murderboarding and another dedicated to hoarding odds and ends from the shops not count as decorating??? look, the murderboard even has a few sketches! there's even a new one, her best recollection of what the void-wound in the captain's skull looked like, just nestled amidst a few partially obscured images of things and people that are inherently impossible upon the ship.

...actually, peel back any number of pages of her wall mounted notes, and there are so many portraits. she may have been inspired by that box of photographs mizuki had cried his eyes out over not that long ago, but cagey enough that she keeps her homesick keepsakes just obscured enough that don't draw attention.

but, a little color never hurts. )

I like butterflies. ( will they be glowing origami butterfly curtains tho, because look, she's interested in — )

But maybe we can talk décor after you show me how you glow? Please?

[mooninthewater]

[ Look, they're beautiful, and Mizuki adores the art, but some color is important! Maybe he should get Clarke some watercolors or something? Though, maybe that might be too messy. Watercolor pencils, then! Surely they'll have those somewhere? He might be able to ask Friday about it, if not…

Or, origami butterflies. He knows what his next gift to Clarke is going to be, at least. He just needs to figure out how to make cute butterflies! That shouldn't take too long. ]

So impatient! Ehe, don't worry, I didn't intend to keep you waiting that long. [ He hops over to the light switch to flick it off. As soon as the lights go out in the room, Mizuki gradually does, in fact, start to glow. His hair, most notably, but along his cheeks and the bridge of his nose she'll notice specks of light, like glowing freckles. These spots are apparent on his shoulders as well and… any place else are currently covered with clothes so it's hard to tell, for sure. ]

I'm not entirely sure how it works, but it seems to be when there's a lack of light source around. And, uh... apparently when I get a little emotional?

[skaikru]

( color, huh? clarke could probably... crack open a red ink pen next time, add a nice splatter of blood over the next gut wrenching scene that fixes itself in her brain and demands to be sketched. would that count? ...no? look, every artist has their own personal style and —

wait, impatient? clarke can't help but scoff a little, so passively defensive it almost doesn't register. ) I can't help it, I've never seen a bioluminescent human before, ( she chides while mizuki moves to flip the light switch and darkness bathes the cabin. it's not completely pitch black, but dark enough that when his skin starts to glow, it's immediately noticeable.

and fascinating.

and absolutely stunning. clarke's breath is catching in her throat just looking at him, and before fully realizing her feet are moving, she's just right up in mizuki's personal space. his light spot freckles stand out more starkly when she's directly in front of his face, but it's a strand of hair that she's reaching out to touch first, twirling illuminated blue strands between her fingers and marveling at how brilliantly they glow. )

Oh my god, ( she whispers, transfixed and reverent as one should be when faced with full scale chemical reactions at an atomic level. ) This is so cool, Mizuki, I can't —

( fathom it? look away?

oh, had he said something? a further description, a caveat? glows more when he's emotional, so — ) Like if you're scared? That would make sense, um. There's a word for it in the animal kingdom. Aposematism? Visual cues to any potential predator that they're likely to be poisoned. This is a defense mechanism, right?