serpentarii:A H E A D L E S S G O D ; a wip by @serpentarii ❝Every morning, he would watch himse
serpentarii:A H E A D L E S S G O D ; a wip by @serpentarii ❝Every morning, he would watch himself as he slipped into his skin and smiled to pull it tight. He smiled as if he’d been asked to. It didn’t last very long as Shizu stuck his thumb through a hole in his shirt and frowned at the way the thin, colorful stripes simply stopped and peeled into themselves.❞ genre ; y/a, magical realism, coming of age themes & tropes ; the gaps between reality, old wounds, codependency, longing, body horror, comfort in monotony, melancholy, unreality, monsters as metaphors, suburbia, personification, the body is a home pov ; third person, dual pov status ; planning wordcount goal ; 15-20k S Y N O P S I S A chill ghosts across the horizon of the Left Horn, where Autumn Island will know its first summer in over a decade. With it brings a girl half-mad with grief and starved for blood. Shizu Sakuma wants nothing to do with her. His only hope for the future is that she’ll flee once she sees how the waters gnaw away at the cliffs, how the sway of the sea rocks the sidewalks, and while he can’t leave like the others, he can certainly dream. Whatever haunts the waves has crawled its way through Shizu’s mind and made its nest. The cloying stench of death brings more. Everyone has their secrets, but how long can Shizu keep his before they grow an extra mouth?T A G L I S T (none yet ; send an ask to be +/-) Keep reading -- source link
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