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kalmiya "worm off the string" longwillow ([personal profile] longwillows) wrote2025-06-30 09:05 am
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[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-03-26 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[His eyes slip, mapping every inch of her from behind the glass. He isn't upset that she heard him coming. Hell, he's almost pleased. Almost pleased that his signs were a tell all their own.]

[And ah, does she give him as good as he plans. The robe is a nice touch, but that silk - he can practically feel it. How it will, no doubt, play like a water beneath his claws. The way it will (most likely) end up tossed and peeled away, forgotten for the hour for when he's gone again. Like a shadow, slipping at the first hint of dawn and leaving only the imprints of kisses and the dents of bite marks as evidence it had ever been there in the first place.]

[Greed shifts his weight, letting most of him hang by the crooks of claws. Of course, it would be rude if he came empty-handed. The bag spun through his fingers is plastic - its thin shell, refusing to crumble no matter how rotten the world around it has become. Whatever's inside, however, remains a mystery. It's hefty, if nothing else; the soft roll of glass and paper, the only give away.]


Mn. It's been said I can be pretty clever when I put my mind to it. [The toes of his boots press hard into the side of the building, and the former homunculus coyly sways his head - the show of his throat, a predator's quiet language, meeting an equal.] As for that, well. You might want to move out of the way, lovely. Wouldn't want to ruin that slip of yours.

[The Sin rocks his hips to pivot one of his legs through the window. The spores, the swell of soaked, rotting wood: it's nothing he hasn't seen in his own place. Hasn't seen and trundled over, night after night, to avoid the eyes lurking behind his walls. He tries to hand over the goods as he shimmies a couple of steps to the side. The shift of his claws, skating as pointedly as a chalkboard's ground-down eraser.]

[Then, he lets go, hooking his other leg through the window. If they had an audience, it would probably all be terribly amusing. The way he dangles, back splayed, as lax as a twilight's bat. Greed huffs out a soft laugh, spreading his thighs to either end of the window frame.]
Didn't say it would be easy. [He says, and his voice churns out a small, cloudy puff into the evening air.]

[Greed flattens his hands against the building's face and with a shove, he slides himself through the opening. Of course, he doesn't completely make the clearing. One of his horns manages to snag a bit of the outer sill, taking the smallest chunk of it. A bedpost scratch, in case she ever forgets his face.]

[Once inside, the Sin catches himself on the solidness of his stomach. He rises not a moment later; his movements, haunted, ghoulish. A fiend by no other name but his own.]
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HANDS IN THE AIR SOMETIMES ....

[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-03-28 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Once upright, the former homunculus cradles the back of his neck, letting the weight of his head sway on his palm. Cheeky would be one way to put it, but cocksure? Oh, is that far more accurate. How his smile beams across his face, slivery and smooth, as if he'd always known what the outcome would be. It isn't his first time climbing through a window to see a would-be lover, and it wouldn't be his last. Leave the more conventional methods to boring men who'd rather keep things comfortable and predictable.]

[No, he wants her to keep him in mind, even if it's only in passing. To remember that, no matter how many people either of them take to fill their time, he'll always try to come up with someway to surprise her.]

[However, he isn't the only one offering a little intrigue this evening. The room isn't exactly what he pictured. Sure, he'd expected the tick marks (of people who have come and gone, of their desperation, clawed in as a keepsake). The artwork, however: that's something he didn't anticipate. Something he didn't anticipate and as the Sin moves deeper inside, it's clear that he's minding his step. As if one, false move will bring the beauty of her world tumbling down to nothing but rot and soot.]


Mnn. You did ask. [Greed answers, stretching his arm out at his side. He cocks his hand off at the bend of his wrist, pointing his finger at the far wall.] And even if you did, I'm sure you and I could figure something out, hmn? Wouldn't want to leave you on the hook, love. [He goes quiet, though, when he sees it. Himself (murky, but no less obvious, in an outline of graphite that's more fitting than she could possibly know). It hits him in a way he can't place; his whole body going as stiff and unmoving as a deer, staring down the headlamps of a truck.]

Ah - ? [The former homunculus starts, shaking himself out of his momentary stupor.] Oh, right. Yeah. [He fans his arm dismissively at his side. As if giving her anything, as if bringing her anything, had been only a second thought and nothing more.] Managed to find a few things in some of the high rises around this place. Don't know if the wine's any good, but think, out of the two of us, the necklace suits ya better.

[The piece in question is one he'd found a month or so back. A couple of the gems are missing (likely dug out by him and pocketed at some point), but for the most part, it's intact. A glint of silver and blue, tied up and forced into the shape of a humble, hugging serpent.]

[Greed pockets his hands and as he hunches over his hips, he sidesteps gracefully across the floor - his eyes watching, wandering, across every portrait like that of a man, reading the years between the paint.]
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[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-03-30 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[He's so focused, though, that he almost misses her thank you. The paintings alone are enough for him to get lost in (their purposeful strokes, the want soaked into them that's far softer than any sort of desire he could possibly hope to understand). It's not like he hasn't seen art before. Over the years, he's crossed paths with a few. Talented people history would never remember, pouring themselves, their admiration, their need, into works that would, eventually, fade as all things do. But in the moment, for him, they're still as fresh as the day they were made. Drafts, half-finished pieces, and the rare, final products, glowing faint in the warm dim of hearths and oil lamps.]

[The genuine gratitude, however, shatters every, single thought in his head. And as the Sin finds himself (standing there, stupid), his body goes stiff as a board. The only movement, the telling snap of his tail as it jumps wildly at his ankles.]


Oi, oi, oi. The hell are you thanking me for? [He barks, his bite clearly missing, as he flicks his fingers curtly off the edge of his hip.] Don't start getting any wild ideas about it, would ya? I told you, figured you'd be able to use it better than I could. [The tether, however, hints at a different story. How it throttles itself like a fist trying to choke out a string.]

[But she gives him an out, and oh, is it a godsend.]

[Because he knows exactly what she means: becoming invested. Becoming too invested. It's what brought him here tonight in the first place. Not that he needed an excuse to see her. He'd visit her any time. Like an old haunt he knows will always have a glass for him ready and waiting, no matter how many years have passed.]

[The Sin slumps into his shoulders, and the end of his tail knots loops around his calf.]
Invested, huh. [He repeats, more to get a feel for it himself. Admitting it isn't something he'll ever do. He can't, really. Not in the way most people can. His sort weren't made for that kind of love. Sure, he knew what it could look like. Of course, he's heard the stories. But it's a language he can't comprehend. Not then, not now, not ever, no matter how much something in his chest rattles back.]

[Greed closes his eyes, and his grin slowly crawls up one side of his face.]
Some people, right? Can't stop yourself, no matter how well you know it's probably a bad idea. [More a tell on him than her, but the point still stands.] Humans get the wrong idea all the time. What it means to have, what greed really is. Can't blame you for trying to find a way to keep it from getting too complicated.
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[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-04-03 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Whatever the moment had been (a twitch, a tremor, a lie for him alone) slips away, however. Another grain of sand in his long, tall hour glass, trickling down to lose itself in the sea of it. Love. It's been a subject that's been brought up more than once in his short time here. And while the circumstances were always different (the tethers and their need to hold things close, Sleep and her poisoned admiration), in the end, it all boiled down to the same thing. The same thing he's seen for centuries, rising and dying again like crops in a cycle.]

[But him, ah. He's always been on the outskirts of it. As if one step would bring the whole thing to ruin like a plague without a cure in sight.]

[Not that he minds. That's just how things are, and how they'll always, always be.]

[Greed sucks on one of his upper teeth, humming.]
Eh, suppose that's where you and I won't agree, sweetheart. Always found it easier to keep things simple. [Not a lie, not a truth, not anything, really. Nothing but an instinct, and the only answer he has to give her.] Nothing wrong with attachment, mind. But it's a little different when it comes to me.

[It's not colors, painted wild and free. Not her warmth, bubbling over and asking for little in return. No, what it is at its core is rotten. A cancer that will claw, snare, and latch on, refusing to let anyone or anything take what it is so rightfully owed. That's the difference between the two of them. Where she's sunshine, he's a pit. An empty, hungry pit that will never be satisfied, much as he tries to fill it.]

[That's what he tells himself, at least. Keep it simple.]

[The tip of the Sin's tail slowly drags to a low, sleepy swing. He isn't looking at her, but he does hear it: the soft twittering of the gemstones that remain. The silver, unbuckling as pitched as the backside of woman's silk dress. The former homunculus lulls his head into his shoulder and as the fur around his collar pillows his ear, he shows her a sliver of his smile. Something with less teeth.]
Mn. Can't blame you there, either. There are rules, lovely. And no matter what Sleep wants us to do, there are some things I won't, no matter how hard she tries.

[Desire was a street that had to be traveled because they wanted to, after all. Otherwise, it wasn't worth shit to him.]
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[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-04-05 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[The twitch along the Murmur is undeniable the second time. When she comes out and says it like an arrow, aimed and shot:]

["I just fought very hard for my own freedom..."]

[It's something he can relate. Something he knows personally from experience, even if the fighting part came later. Leashes. They may not always be physical ones, but they're there, nonetheless. Chains and collars built to hold people back and drag them into submission either by brutal force, or simply by the sweet lies, told and spun to hold them level with the ground.]

[Greed chases his inner cheek with his teeth, letting the skin of it drag along their points. He doesn't have any intention of opening that up right now, but the tone of his voice? Oh, is it a dangerous one.]
Choice. [He answers, and the tension from his end pulls as tight as a bow string.] That's the whole point, lovely. The ability to choose - [He shrugs his shoulders, lifting his head languidly from the tickle of his collar.] - call it my nature, but I've always been a fan of that. Gives them the ability to think about it, to decide if this is what they really want, or walk away and be done with it. In the end, it doesn't really matter to me. Even if they do decide it's not worth it, I'd rather it be honest from the start.

As for you - [His heel dips, his body sways, and the former homunculus coolly pivots to face her; his slouch more akin to that of a buzzard with a tale it has no plans on telling.] - good. One day, you'll have to tell me. About who they were, and what you're owed. [Owed. A guarantee, if nothing else. That if whoever tried to drag her down, tried to tame her, showed up even close to his doorstep, Hell would be a more merciful option.]

[Thankfully, he lets the moment pass as soon as it comes - a slip down his back as jumping as water from a slick-oiled feather.]
Mnn. Simple is boring, huh? That what you think? [He teases with a snap of his teeth. However, he is closer. One step, bringing him nearer and nearer to what he came here for in the first place.]

[Greed reaches out, trailing the backs of his knuckles along the slope of her hip.]
Dunno, love. Might be able to show you that simple can be a whole lot more than you think.
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CW: NSFW, just this whole thing, do not pass go, do not collect $200

[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-04-07 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Messy as the thoughts may be, she makes good on her word the moment she takes him by the collar. If nothing else, the language of what is one he does understand. What drives people to do the things they do, what makes them crave the things they want, even if all the world is against them. He's already said it before: it's easier this way. Easier to drop the problems at the door and take, if just for a moment of clean, effortless satisfaction.]

[So, he shelves it for now. Another book he'll pick up when the time is right, and when his own selfishness takes a turn for something a bit more kind.]

[Greed gently nips his lip. The growl in his throat is a pleasant one; the pitch of it like an alligator, shaking its plates on water.]
Mn. You should know by now that's bullshit. I want everything, sweetheart. Another time, though. I did say I wouldn't bore you, right? And it would be such a shame if I did. [Smoothly, as if he's done this a million times before, the Sin slips one of his arms out of his vest, leaving it hang on both the chokehold of her claws and the stronger part of his opposing shoulder.] But you're gunna have to do a little thing for me. Nothing big, though, I promise.

[However, he's already guiding her. The flat of his hand at the small of her back, the tap of his boots, pushing her towards the window from whence he came. The former homunculus smiles (wicked, toothy) and as he reaches out, he sinks his nails into the lip of the sill.] A view, right? Go ahead and take a look, love. There's a whole world out there just waiting for the taking, after all.

[It's gentle, the way he does it. How he slides the window down until he can hear its faint, telling clck. The way he leads her arm off his neck, down the side of his chest, and across the point of his hip. He's spinning her and in the end, it's all a dance. Similar in tune, but different in pitch every, single time.]

[Greed plants his nose at the back of her neck once he has her spun 'round, and his vest falls weighted behind him; its hidden trinkets and keepsakes, slapping to the ground like a softly closed door. He's all over her a second later: his hands, drawing out the bends of her hips. The chord of his tail as it begins to wrap, link after link, around the lower part of her leg. One tug, and he tries to spread her the tiniest bit apart; the tease of his claws, tickling at the hem of her slip as gingerly as a moth's kiss.]

[The Sin smiles against her skin.]
You'll have to tell me. Everything you see - [He talks, and one of his nails grazes her inner thigh. Not enough to scratch, but enough to let her know he's there.] - paint me a picture while I do what I do best.
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[personal profile] nestingdevil 2026-04-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, part of him is all-too aware. That all of this is being done on her terms. Her invitation, the way she lets him lead her on, toe-to-heel back to the window where he's already left his signature. If she didn't want this, if she didn't want a piece of him, she would have already torn his throat wide open. Torn it open and chewed him out for even thinking, for a second, a man like him could try.]

[So, he doesn't take it lightly. He never, really, does. Simple as he likes things to be, there's still fine print to every engagement. Not the kind that would ever bind him (the thought, in itself, is laughable), but the kind where the terms are clear. The two-way street of desire, bolded out and underlined to make sure each party gets their wanted satisfaction.]

[Besides, he'd hate for her to have a bad memory of him. For her to get the wrong idea, as so many others already have.]

[Greed eases himself to the ground, folding his wings up as snug as possible against his back.]
Don't doubt it. But it'd be a little boring if we took the easy way out, don't you think? [His position is, by all means, questionable. Whatever he has in mind, lost in the flood of their tether. He can't give the punchline away that easily. It wouldn't be fun that way. And that's what he's here for. A little fun, a little means of unwinding, after getting his ass raked and spat out by a fight between two men he had no business being a part of.]

[The Sin's hands wander away from her as he flips himself onto his back, settling his weight firmly on his elbows. And as he finds his spot, he taps one his knuckles twice against the inner part of one of her thighs. A nudge, a suggestion, that she should probably shift a bit.]
A more interesting view, if you really gotta know. [And now, it should be clear. How he pries his hips off the ground, lifting his head slowly between her legs. He doesn't need to see past the hem of her get-up to know where to go. To seek out her slit as his horns catch silk and satin like cat's claws, kneading themselves in.]

[If she's wearing anything underneath, the forks of his tongue find it soon enough. They split out of his mouth, smoked with soaked whiskey, leaving a damp trace behind them.]