if i had a nickel for every time i latched onto a dark-haired asshole named frank who has a soft spot for a sensitive, kind, but tenacious blonde woman i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
imitheos. (oikawa tooru)
➵ oikawa barely recognises the god he used to be.
wc: 3.8k
warnings: gn!reader, greek god au, melancholia? angst? is that something to warn people about?
a/n: so this got away from me, and ended up half a character study, but,,, @kacchand (sorry for tagging this one but i couldn’t tag @kacchand-archive aa) thank you so much for the warm, lovely things you’ve said to me ever since stumbling across my blog, and for complimenting my oikawa specifically. it’s those sorts of compliments that makes me feel all soft!
Oikawa Tooru. He’s still not sure of the name. He never chooses them himself; they come to him, quite naturally, each time he assumes a new form. Each time he knits himself a backstory, he wonders what this life will bring. If it will be better than the last.
He hasn’t always been Oikawa Tooru. He’s been many other forms littered throughout history, recycling the same ego. And before each of those, he was Apollo.
Apollo had been a god amongst gods, deity of so much and so many. He could absolve men of guilt, gift mortals with the power of prophecy, balance their lives in his hands as he commanded the fate of their crops. Even the gods feared him, loved him, revered him.
But he is no longer Apollo. He is a whisper of him, a half-forgotten shadow.
One of my favorite parts of life is adopting new personality traits. Last month I decided to become a person who reads in the morning and goes to the library. This month I'm becoming a person who eats oatmeal and loves linen clothes. If you see something in other people that you like, you can just try it on.
chapters 8 & 9 of untouchable are up on AO3
if i stop being lazy, i might format it here but lmao