Day 5 of me trying to get better at writing

“Stop lying to me.”

The venom being shot by Sabre’s eyes shut his mouth up.

Juste’s smile faltered a bit. He looked down to his weapon, fever high and breathing heavy, sitting on the carpet, his usual uniform replaced by a simple longsleeved shirt, two times his size. He looked exactly as bummed as he always did, except that right now, his eyes were tired and unfocused and his cheeks were sickly red.

[ID. A drawing of Walenty, a teenage enby with light skin and short dark lilac hair, styled with tomboyish bangs and bangs slightly braided on one side. They wear jirai kei makeup (stylized eyebag), intricate earrings on both ears and a shirt that reads: "I survived 6 years of Daffodil Academy & all I got was this stupid t-shirt". End ID.]

@floral-comet-whump's Walenty <3

you know what

OC art requests (temporarily) open!

Specifically, this sort of simple drawing with the "i survived [the horrors] and all I got was this stupid t-shirt" thing. I had so much fun in them! So if anyone wanna send in their ocs for me to draw in the meme please do! ^^

I'll let you all know when I close them :)

Some details under the cut if you're interested:

WHUMPER REVIEW! Let's begin, in order of relevance

"I might make a post going into more detail on each of Eldwins whumpers. Bc idk how much you guys know but I just make a lot of shit up as I go along lmao, but now I'm doing the full story I want to really solidify the facts and settle on who they are."

CLYDE FAREWELL is Eldwin's owner, the one who bought Eldwin over eight years prior to Forsaken. Although strictly speaking Eldwin should be turned in and executed, it's technically not illegal to keep him as a pet or a slave, and with Clyde being the heir to an incredibly wealthy and influential noble family, who run the Black Syndicate to boot, he has more than enough power and political sway to pull the relevant strings and claim legal ownership. (In the same vein, slavery in general is supposed to be illegal in Aenora, but... it happens and everyone turns a blind eye, especially with so many other issues to worry about.)

From the moment he made the pact, Eldwin had no legal standing, no human rights, he gave up everything. He is an outlaw:

"An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. "

"In the common law of England, a "writ of outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput lupinum ("[Let his be] a wolf's head"), equating that person with a wolf in the eyes of the law. Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights, being outside the "law", but others could kill him on sight as if he were a wolf or other wild animal.[citation needed] Women were declared "waived" rather than outlawed, but it was effectively the same punishment.[1]"

In Forsaken, Clyde is Eldwin's owner, or "guardian" and thus holds all legal rights over him. Eldwin doesn't get a say in anything, and neither does anyone of importance bat an eye at Clyde's treatment of him. There is one caveat; if it's decided Clyde can't maintain adequate control over the dangerous warlock, or is being too nice to it, Eldwin may be removed from his hands. Normally, this would mean death. In Eldwin's particular case, this would mean being rendered full-time to a government lab as a secret weapon and aether source.

Don’t get me wrong, I still hate that wolf’s blood. I’d never drink it again unless it was to show him his place. That doesn’t mean I don’t find him absolutely adorable when he’s enthralled, though. I think he’d make an excellent companion after thorough training.

I said I would injure Eldwin's right hand and watch him struggle with his damaged left, so here it is. Is it gratuitous? Yes. Do I care? Absolutely not. Should Clyde be beaten to within an inch of his life and left to be consumed by corrupted creatures of the Blight? 100%.

(need to think of a title still but I'm in a rush, if you have any suggestions pls tell me!)

Steady now. You can do it. Eldwin bit his lip in concentration as he brought the pen to paper, an action he'd done a thousand times before now filling him with unease. He glanced at his list just to be sure he'd remembered correctly. It was a simple report. He had all his notes. He only had to rewrite it down formally, neatly, in a manner that would please Clyde who was approaching again, looming over his shoulder wi-

The quick, sharp sting of the whip across his back was nothing compared to the agony of his right arm as he flinched, jostling it in its makeshift sling. "What is your fucking problem?" He hissed, his pen clattering to the desk. "You realise you're making it worse right?"

That earned him a smack across the head, like a scolded child. "Silence," Clyde commanded. "Do better."

Eldwin didn't bother to hide his exasperated sigh. He scrunched up the paper and tossed it into the wastebasket where a mountain was slowly building. He took another sheet, dipped his pen in emerald ink, and put it to the paper. His hand was trembling, and it wasn't long before he threw out another sheet.

doing the commentary thing

cool start :D

ignore clyde for a second, the unnerve is felt. mmmm anxious