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[shadowglitter]

Oh! Yeah! Big lights! Big buildings. Man, I had a friend who wanted to go there before she ported out. Pour out one of your woodsy, viking ales for her for me when you're there.

Maybe... buy me... a TV show? Oh! Wait. Get me a taxi? A bright yellow car would be pretty fun to have.
Wait, don't do that. Cars are scary horses that you get stuck inside of while they make loud noises. I wouldn't trust myself taking care of one all by myself.
Umm.
Uhh.

New York has pigeons, right?

[fehus]

you're gonna think i'm a liar but my first thought was actually a pigeon?? no joke

[shadowglitter]

I don't think you're a liar. I think you're a good, considerate friend who takes the time to understand and empathize with the people who love him.

BRINGETH ME THINE FINEST-ETH PIGEON-ETH

[fehus]

are you sure? you guys have a lot of pets already... i could also get a rat. you don't have a rat yet.

[shadowglitter]

No, I think the ratlings kind of soured Peter on anything smaller than a Pomeranian.

I do have a lot of pets, though... I just love birds so much. Pigeons are so cool. I wish I could live in the sky with all the birds in the whole wide world and we'd fly together and be free. I'd make them divebomb so many people.
Maybe just surprise me? I like things with glitter. It can't be hard to find a glittery thing in New York.

[fehus]

ok. i have some good ideas now.

[shadowglitter]

OK. Ah! I'm so excited. What are your ideas? Wait, I can't ask that. Ah!!!!!!!! I haven't been this excited for ages.

Can I... get you something in return? A souvenir for a souvenir.

[fehus]

no? souvenirs are a one-way gift. you'd have to go somewhere.

[shadowglitter]

Oh.

Can I come to New York with you? Wait, no, that doesn't make sense. Ugh.
Okay, wait. Tell me a place you want to go. I'll go there. And bring you back, like. A brick. From a building.
And be like, yo! Here's some fundamental material that makes up the foundation of the place you like.

[fehus]

the places i like don't have buildings mostly. or are in boston. but i don't want you to go to boston without me.

[fehus]

you and peter could come one of the days. we might be there for a little bit? i was gonna put you in charge of making sure clarisse doesn't burn the place down but now i'm worried about you having sex all over my kitchen.

[shadowglitter]

Boston's your pre-afterlife home? Your life-life home. Or something. Right? I'd love to see that with you some day. You can show me around.
I wish I could show you Ylisse. I hope you'll get the chance to see it one day.
The Magnus Chance. Haha. Like Chase?

But yeah, okay. Don't worry, we've only screwed in your kitchen, like, twice.
I don't want to get in the way of family time, but we should actually set something up for Boston one day? That could be kind of cool, right? You and me and Peter and Annabeth and whoever else you wanna bring, checking out the old sights.

[fehus]

if you want to, we should definitely go to boston. you're not in the way of family time, you are family time. i can creepily show you where i died or less creepily show you where i learned to like ice skate or found jack or whatever.

what's ylisse like?

[shadowglitter]

You're family time too!!!!!!
I wanna see all of it. Everywhere that was important to you. Let's talk about it a little more seriously when you get back from New York? I'm kind of invested now.

Ylisse was a lot cleaner than America, I guess. Green fields everywhere, marble buildings, amazing architecture. Ylisstol, where I grew up, was the biggest city in the country. Our palace stood in the middle of it, surrounded by rows of houses and businesses. It was nice.
Sunny?

[fehus]

ok. we will. i'm invested too. it's not weird and morbid, right?

ylisse sounds really pretty... and different from boston. i'm a little embarrassed now. did it snow? what kind of animals were there? were people nice or mean and busy?

[shadowglitter]

It's a little weird and morbid, but that's kind of who we are?

It snowed, yeah. All four seasons came on pretty strong, actually. Hot summers, cold winters, colourful springs, bright red autumns... it was paradisaical. Maybe that's just nostalgia talking, though.
I guess - in regards to what people were like - it depends on where we went? I travelled all over the country - most people made money through farming or crafts, so there were a lot of small, tight-knit villages filled with families and friends who would be super excited to have visitors, especially royalty like us. I experienced most of Ylisse how it was meant to be in the year or so we had after ending the war before I went to Nohr, and like, everyone was really kind and happy and calm and excited all at the same time. People liked sharing food with us and showing us their home town's specialty meal and just - stuff like that. It was nice.

But there were a lot of nobles in the Capital who read a lot of books and talked about posture and stuff like that. When I was a little kid, that was all I really saw? I got a lot of attitude because I always liked playing in the mud rather than studying and stuff. My parents were fine with it, but man, Aunt Maribelle.
She was super mad all the time because me and her kid would just wrestle and get all dirty trying to catch tadpoles and stuff in the lake behind the city.

Animals... I guess deer? Rabbits. Foxes. Dogs? Birds. Cats. Everything, really. I saw a whale once. That was pretty great.

[fehus]

true. we are weird and morbid.

maribelle sounds like a cow's name. the rest sounds amazing, though. no wonder you're so proud of your home world.

where the hel did you see a whale? was ylisstol by a coast?

[shadowglitter]

She'd probably beat you up for saying that. With her parasol. She had a parasol? Like, all the time.

Yeah! Well, not really. Uh. Jeez, how do I summarize this.
This one guy was basically leading this entire conquest against the entire northern hemisphere? Sort of. He was fucking up the country my dad was from. Then he tried to fuck up Ylisse. Also, he was secretly a good guy? It's this whole thing.
This other other country was mad at him because they were secretly bad guys and Ylisse waged war against him to stop his garbage and that other other country gave us a bunch of their ships and we went to the docks to travel the ocean and stop his invasion and.

There was a whale.
Aaaat the docks.
Big. Pretty. I liked it.

[shadowglitter]

Oh, Ronan too. Duh.

[fehus]

i feel like you might be strongly hinting you wanna hang out with my boyfriend?

[shadowglitter]

Well, like.
Am I hallucinating or did you say he was made out of dreams or something at one point? Because one of my powers is the ability to reshape dreams.
Maybe I can change his entire physical form to look like a dinosaur or something. That would be cool, right?

[ ... ]

Oh, and like, I guess I want to check him out, at some point. Or whatever.
Not because I need to do the stupid macho tough guy brother interrogation thing, 'cause I know you wouldn't date someone who isn't good for you and I trust you to make good choices when it comes to who you spend your time with, but.
I'm still a little uneasy, I guess. It's scary, knowing you're being vulnerable with someone. For someone.
Something. Maybe that's silly.

[fehus]

[...]

please don't reshape my dream boyfriend. i like his shape. he can also be sparkly flying pixie dust, which i already think is pretty cool.

it's not silly. and tbh that is giving me a lot of credit? i'm flying pretty much blind. maybe i'm one of those really shallow guys that just goes for looks, after all?

[shadowglitter]

If you were like that, you would've tried to hit on me by now? I'm straight up the hottest guy in America.

But you're inexperienced, not dumb.
I feel like you're good at seeing people as they are. It took a lot of time before I stopped assuming the best or the worst about someone based on surface level shades of them I built up in my head. I thought my parents were flawless and could do no wrong, I thought I was letting everyone down by not measuring up to them, etc etc etc etc. And like.

I don't know. I guess I'm just trying to say you're good at giving people chances, but you're also good at being firm when they do something you don't agree with? It took me a while to get to that level of self-assurance.
And maybe that's not infallible, maybe you're not always going to get it right, maybe being able to find balance in your relationships isn't enough to stop you from making mistakes or needing advice, but you're getting off on a better foot than I did. My first romantic entanglement was with Poe, so like.
I guess I just think you wouldn't be with someone who runs a high risk of hurting you because you're kind and strong enough to value both your time and theirs, and you've always been honest when things make you uncomfortable. You have been with me, at least.

[fehus]

[it's typical of Owain to slip such heartfelt feelings into a casual conversation; Magnus rereads it a few times, because while he's not sure Owain is right (not that he doubts Ronan; he doubts himself), it makes his chest warm to think that his friend believes in him and his character so much. it sounds like Owain is describing someone worthwhile, and it's a little overwhelming that that person is actually him]

thanks. and you're right that he has a lot more than looks going for him. i think, anyway.

what kind of thing is normal? when it comes to friends and boyfriends meeting and hanging out.

[shadowglitter]

Oh, yeah. I guess I should've said he probably had more going for him than that, too. Whoops.
Is he even hot? I can't see it, tbh.

[ ruining the atmosphere ]

Of all the people to ask for suggestions on normal friendly friend meetup meetings, I'm probably the worst person to come to?

[ he bought alex weird toxic harlequin clothes when they first met. he fucked up magnus's tent, screaming as he swung a sword over his head. he and peter first met in person in fucking space after 2 months of talking over the phone and being too awkward to break the ice and hang out in person. honestly. ]