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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



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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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-11 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A satisfied, strained little moan. His eyes slice open, his lips slightly parted. Why can't it always be this easy to have what he wants...?

A thought so cursed that the universe divests him of the time to indulge in it immediately. If he leans in for another kiss, he will seem mad or a clumsy negotiator, but all he wants, even now, is another kiss. He whimpers, just a low, soft sound in his head, but tries to pay attention, at least. ]


Did you expect me to? It's done. You know what my thoughts are on dwelling on the past. And I wasn't precisely alone in the moment, you understand.

[ ... Are either of them going to get any sleep, at this rate? Midnight sighs. He understands that this is very important to Kaveh, but he did want to see if either of them could rest. ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-12 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
I did. He was... too kind.

[ Which is an odd thing to say about one's murderer, but self-defense certainly is its own beast. Heaven knows he's thought about that before.

It is very unfair for Kaveh to keep pulling him in like this and expect him to simultaneously to think of things as boring and irrelevant as the past. He puts another kiss on Kaveh's lips. It's becoming too easy to stop thinking before he does it. He always... needs to think. ]


You've defeated your own argument, love. I keep these things to myself because I think of myself first. Perhaps what I want is the capacity to live my life close to that which harms me beyond repair. Perhaps that is all a life is. A gradual accumulation of wounds in search of some sort of meaning for it.

How you feel about that, what you would do to prevent that, is certainly not my affair, outside of what mad things you would do to dissuade me from my choices. How then do I make the decision to tell you anything?
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-12 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
One must wonder, if neither of us are under any illusion about this, why we can't both try for a bit of sleep.

[ He knows, though, that they'll have to pick on each other for a bit before either of them can settle. He presses one eye shut as Kaveh's palm brushes over it. No one's done this for him since his mother, probably. Probably where he picked up the habit, come to think of it.

Midnight cradles Kaveh's hand between his, thinking for a moment. ]


You're trying to have me confront my pain, still. I'm still not terribly certain if that's at all valuable. Or possible, really. I am happy, Kaveh. In this moment, I am. I rarely think beyond that.

[ He sighs. ]

My motivations aren't nearly as complex as that, love. I just want to be happy enough to make others happy, and that's a process, not a goal. I want you to be happy someday, even if I'm not around to see it. I'll kip down with you, if that's what it takes.

[ ... He can see it though. Lying on the edge of this road like a dead fowlbeast. What he wants is to love others, Kaveh and all, properly, in the way they deserve. What he is inclined for isn't that. One step off the road is enough to kill. He knows it. He can't risk that. ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-11-13 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
You can't say that and expect me to believe that we won't be expiring at around the same time. You may even go before me. A lack of sleep kills, my darling.

[ Midnight sighs, though. He's perfectly aware that his sleeping circumstances were... less than ideal before the Oripathy, but he knows that if the fatigue that comes with gradual loss of oxygen in his blood wasn't physically kneecapping him, he'd be in similar straits.

The only analogue Midnight has for this is what he's read in books of courtly literature from Victoria and Kazimierz. It's strange. He never counted on anyone seeing him as someone to be blessed, which is why he takes such blessings so seriously. Kaveh's red, red eyes are too bright with fervor, with a deathly lack of sleep. How do these things come to you so easily? ]


I'm not Netzach, darling. I only know one sure way to tire someone else out in bed.

[ There is a very slight change in his expression at this. He nudges their hands out of the way, then lands another kiss on soft lips. This one is very slow, languid. With the confidence of someone who could have been landing accurate kisses for the past ten minutes, but really made a conscious effort not to bother.

He's looking at Kaveh's mouth when he draws away, licks his lips. Kaveh's lips are so very carefully moisturized. He must have used that lip balm too. ]


Regardless of what you might like to do next... Might I propose that you simply might be allowing yourself too many thoughts to sleep?

[ The tone of his voice suggests, among other things, that Midnight would be perfectly all right with helping Kaveh rectify that problem. (Among other things. The other things mostly revolve around his concern about Kaveh's safety with power tools in proximity.) ]
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