gratuitous violence; unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking
He both has and hasn't been expecting this.
Blinking himself awake in the twilight of the houseboat, Ronin's brow furrows at the sight of the portal. For a second he does little more than clutch Remi closer, having been blissfully wrapped up in his husband to snooze the night away. But when the gods come knocking, there's no real way to say no.
(Not in a way that would allow him to walk away intact, anyway).
With a soft kiss pressed to the underside of the Bastion's jaw, Ronin peels himself out of bed and takes a slow, deep breath, before stepping in through the starlit portal.
He will appear before Safrin with dark hair made unruly by sleep, in a pair of tartan pajama pants and little else. Tattooed, scarred and marked by both the goddess and by life in general, it isn't the time of night that makes him seem tired, but everything else.
"Yes?"
Blinking himself awake in the twilight of the houseboat, Ronin's brow furrows at the sight of the portal. For a second he does little more than clutch Remi closer, having been blissfully wrapped up in his husband to snooze the night away. But when the gods come knocking, there's no real way to say no.
(Not in a way that would allow him to walk away intact, anyway).
With a soft kiss pressed to the underside of the Bastion's jaw, Ronin peels himself out of bed and takes a slow, deep breath, before stepping in through the starlit portal.
He will appear before Safrin with dark hair made unruly by sleep, in a pair of tartan pajama pants and little else. Tattooed, scarred and marked by both the goddess and by life in general, it isn't the time of night that makes him seem tired, but everything else.
"Yes?"
RONIN
