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manic pixie dream architect (it's kaveh, sorry) ([personal profile] fussiest) wrote in [community profile] citylogs2023-09-23 02:09 am

[ open ] kaveh's permanent catch-all

WHO: kaveh ([personal profile] fussiest) & y'all!
WHAT: this is a perpetual catch-all for kaveh because i'm too lazy to make a new one every month. this is for closed starters, tag-ins, visits to kaveh's workshop and the like! be wild! be bold! be free!
WHERE: all around the city, and especially at kaveh's workshop, the pairidaeza architectural design studio in district 1
WHEN: everywhere! everywhen! all at once!
WARNINGS: bickering, probably - everything else will be warned for on a thread-by-thread basis



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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-06 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
No lock a bit of patience and love won't solve, darling.

[ Quite blatantly, a large, heavy boltcutter leans on the wall next to the cot. The lock is nowhere to be found.

Midnight, in spite of himself, touches his mouth with the back of his hand, frowning. He's... always strived to be hydrated enough that his lips wouldn't start bleeding, at least... ]


I haven't any idea how that would look. Show me.

[ Definitely not a no, and not even an "impress me". Much more of a "dazzle me once again with your magic, you gorgeous man." He reaches over, snags one of the cans at random, and cracks it open, tugging Kaveh over one handed, eyes keeping a careful watch to make sure that Kaveh doesn't stub a toe in the low light. ]
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i live, but at what cost

[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-07 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ too bad the boltcutter is their adoptive child now

Anyway, Midnight stares at Kaveh through his explanation, patiently waiting out his irritated pique and imagining the mirrors as Kaveh describes them. Eyes dragging down his irascible form in the same way gravity, in turn, drags Kaveh down into its very depths. He's making the way Midnight carries himself through constant, water-drip constant exhaustion look graceful. ]


I'd like to try that, too. Another day, when we're working on the lights. And please do not be alarmed... I haven't the creativity to come up with theme nights in the plural. You'll be fighting Miss Fearne or Miss Don on that front, I think.

[ ... He can't help it; he reaches out, touches the birdnest at the base of Kaveh's neck. Where are his hairclips? The modicum of self-awareness one needs for a bit of grooming? Forget his lips; Kaveh could use some overall moisture, metaphorically speaking. ]
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im so sleeby, dude. I am, in fact, not woke as fuck

[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-07 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ so in the next divorce alhaitham is taking the kids, except for boltcutter-kun, midnight takes him. kaveh gets visitation every other saturday. Useless

Midnight's eyes narrow in the dark, quietly putting his dishevelment together in the frame of Kaveh he's built in his head. Cat-lenses flashing in the gloom, from behind Kaveh's back, where he can't see. ]


For aesthetics, or to let any prospective bartenders have a precious bit of illumination? Really, so long as your suggestions remain this lovely, I'll always let you have your way.

[ The third chandelier was not a lovely thing, and Kaveh expressed it, but Midnight stands by it. A fantasy isn't always lovely, after all... ]

Plain black for now, I think. I don't have any specific plans for it or room five; Miss Don hasn't gotten back to me on that front and I'd like to keep the possibilities open. You've done quite a bit with the greenhouse and coffee station anyhow.

[ ... He tugs at the back of Kaveh's collar, first softly, then a bit more insistently. If Kaveh turns to see what the hell he's on about, Midnight will put his hand to his face, fingers in Kaveh's unkempt hair, peering at his tired red eyes. How long has he been up this time...? ]
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crawls in. Lonetrail,

[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-08 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ god, anime, and marriage counseling can only dream of rescuing them now, never mind a court of law.

Midnight pauses, then reaches behind Kaveh's neck, tugging him in only the two or three centimeters needed to feel the ends of his frizz, notes if it's too dry, if it's at least been combed through. ]


For someone who prides himself in subtlety in aesthetic, you really don't do much to put up a facade around others. Or perhaps I'm simply noticing these things for the first time.

[ Midnight takes a breath in, lets it drain out of his nose slowly, making a decision that is just as unpleasant for him as it will for Kaveh. ]

I've liberated your cot, love. Let's have a liedown, then. Both of us.

[ The gentle threat-and-promise behind the suggestion is quite clear: if Midnight's going to be fussed over, Kaveh will have to acquiesce to a certain level of fussing himself, or Midnight will find his own ways of getting underfoot. At this point, they both know this. They're at an impasse of mutual, tacit understanding on how hard they both work, tireless in all but the mortal coil. How long it will take for them to get from where they stand to the five or six steps they currently stand from the cot will all depend on how badly Kaveh would like to go down swinging. ]
unrequite: (05)

that nonsequitur finally makes sense... also i thought kristen was a birb this whole time LMAO

[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[ One of those affirmative noises that promises nothing except the fact that it's there. Midnight drops both hands to Kaveh's waist, tugs and prods and pushes until they've traversed the five-to-six steps to the cot, unlocked and bedding slightly askew from a hurried tidying. He removes his shoes, toeing out of them and shifting them to the side, sits, then tugs Kaveh down next to him. ]

I'll set an alarm. We'll both be up in an hour.

[ This is a lie, but only if Kaveh is still asleep after an hour. Midnight completely plans to leave him there as he goes back to work. He only plans this because he knows Kaveh is planning the same, if he even plans to sleep at all. ]

Your eyes are so red, love. Were you redrawing the barista station? I told you that your blueprints were fine, love. Even if the scaling is off, we're the only two on the project. It needn't be accurate.
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:'( miss laika... rip to a good dog

[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Shoes off, love.

[ Oh, that alarm is getting set. In fact, Midnight takes his phone out and sets the timer on it as Kaveh complains, as Midnight settles, as Midnight uses his other hand to pull Kaveh down next to him, until both their noses touch, bodies pressed full against each other as a poor furniture item barely meant to fit one 180+ cm man sighs to occupy two. At least the whole thing is rather stiff, refuses to sag. It will break, first.

This means every complaint Kaveh has past the water damage is breathed against Midnight's mouth. Midnight sneaks in a very quick, chaste kiss when Kaveh pauses for breath, a soft thing at the corner of his mouth. Because his complaints about the work are all well and good, but his mouth is right there, isn't it? ]


We're using it, silly thing. Currently, even.

[ Midnight tucks his phone behind him, slightly under his own half of the pillow. Equally because there isn't any room for it otherwise and because he wants to be in control of turning the alarm off. He pulls the blanket over them both. ]

Now, please continue until I fall asleep. Because I will, if you're here, or at least I'll try my hardest.

[ Netzach is spoiling him, honestly. Reminding him how nice it is to fall asleep with someone soft and warm next to him. If Kaveh doesn't fall asleep, that truly his own affair, but he knows that the only way to convince one that another person has stayed by one's side for a nap both that long and that short is to simply stay in bed with them, at least. He hopes gravity will do the rest for both of them. ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ A puff of air, a momentarily satisfied sigh. Midnight isn't opposed to the concept of repose, just the hours that must be devoted to the activity. What his body does to refuse to let him rest. Everything he needs to get done before he runs out of time.

Another kiss, poorly aimed, just under Kaveh's lip, tucked above his chin, then Mifnight closes his eyes. Another sigh. It's good to be allowed to kiss. All he needs is a kiss. Just a few to stave off the hunger. ]


I have trouble sleeping regardless of company. Netzach does more that he should to help, and he does, but.

[ A silence. His hand finds Kaveh's wrist between them, curls around it. ]

I told them I didn't want medication to help me sleep. I was already taking too many, I wanted to work it out on my own. The work helps.

[ Except when he's filled with thoughts of his work, about the time left, about how the hours feel too, too fast when nothing is ever finished, and too slow when his eyes burn with unachieved goals, even when they're closed. When he's tired and he doesn't know which fatigue it is, if it will ever properly go away. ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ The kiss is met with a tiny smile, another kiss. He feels his face warm, his hands and feet heating with affection, with delight, with the first curlings of giddy, swooping want. The swoop turns to a hairpin turn with the feeling of fingers in his hair. The next sigh is shaky, accompanied by a soft moan. More touching than he needs, not nearly enough of what he wants. He feels both full and ravenous, drifts in the yearning between the two as he listens to Kaveh and dutifully continues to assign words to meaning. The sort of hurt he enjoys. ]

He should spend more time with you painting, if you'd like to paint the concept of being in between. But Mr. Roland's returned, so he spends quite a bit more time back at their place. He does still come by now and then to talk me to sleep, but he's been occupied with the affairs of that library of his.

[ With Miss Angela, and the consequences thereof. He doesn't pretend to understand half of it, but the weight of what he does understand along with the waves of eternal fatigue lapping up his feet, his knees, softens his voice, lowers it. Leaks some of that yearning into the timbre. I miss him, it says, but he isn't mine entirely to have. ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ As much as he'd like to surrender himself into the gentle ache at the grip in his hair, the conversation's turned. He turns his head instead, nose to the inside of Kaveh's wrist, enjoying the way his skin smells there, lips brushing against where the thin spiderweb of veins stains just dark enough to see. His eyes do not open. ]

I understand enough about the shape of it, I think. I understand that if they return to their city, it will be the end.

[ Quiet, even, but not without passion. Sad, but lacking hatred. He loves Miss Angela too. He understands what loneliness is, and what it isn't. ]

I don't want them to be alone. Perhaps I've kept others company professionally for too long, but if there's even a possibility that they might feel lonely...

[ He knows there's only so much he can do, but he feels like there must be more. Something else on top of something else until there are only reasons to smile.

(People must smile. Even if it's at his own expense. Even if they're relieved to see him gone...) ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Silly, a triangle is the strongest shape. Midnight rumbles at the strokes, a purr in all but true name. He leans in, eye closed, and kisses over that raised pulse, over ghosts of bruises from a bite in the dark. He wonders, not for the first time, if the emotion Kaveh feels is possible in himself. If it would hurt if he lapped that anger from his body, from puncture wounds in his neck. ]

Your heart needs to survive for the fury to stay alive. Fury without the body is a ghost, and between the both of us, I don't think I'll believe in one until I meet one properly.

[ He says this in the way one would soothe an inflammation with aloe, with water. Breathe, Kaveh, don't make your heart burst before its time.

At the last declaration, though, he opens an eye, face still hidden in Kaveh's neck. He huffs a laugh. ]


Bold words, love. Even if we weren't living amongst excellent examples of some terribly cloistered souls... Loneliness lives in bad company, and I am always with myself.

[ With himself, not by himself. Sure, being alone can hurt every now and then, but it always passes, and once it's in the past, he gets moments like this, kissing skin and touching fingertips to work-scarred, work-loved palms. How could he feel anything but gratitude? ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
'Course I haven't. If you wanted to give me your heart, you would've done it already.

[ Midnight sighs, continues to push into Kaveh's hand, laces fingers in between Kaveh's with his other, letting his other hand come to rest on the other side, sandwiching Kaveh's hand in between. Midnight, as usual, is quite warm. People with anemia tend to be a bit cold, don't they? ]

I'm not out to take anything that isn't already mind, darling. I can do without. [ A small inhalation. ] I have myself, and I think of myself constantly. I have things I'd like to do, things I do without thought for others. Things I do because I enjoy them, and simply because I enjoy them.

[ ... Midnight draws back ever so slightly. ]

One must wonder if you suspect these things in me because you are, in kind, so unused to thinking of yourself.

[ Kaveh, you aren't projecting, are you? ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not in much control of what my heart does, love. Perhaps if I did, I would make wiser decisions.

[ Rude. And here he is, doing his best warm and soft Netzach impression to scam Kaveh into falling asleep with him. Here: if Midnight feels like he wants another kiss, and steals that kiss, is that enough to distract Kaveh for another moment? Midnight's not the tactical sort, this is pure desire. ]

Scold me? Have I done something specific? Tell me what it is anyway, before I do something terrible out of sheer curiosity.

[ ... Mischief. The crackle in his voice goes low and sweet. ]

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