: The Language Of Flowers :

: The Language Of Flowers :

 : The Language Of Flowers :

"People trust what is beautiful, what is soft. But flowers can poison, too." – Lily Calloway

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"When I was little, my mother told me that good girls are loved, and bad girls are left behind. But I watched the world, and I learned—good girls get nothing. Smart girls take everything."

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Tucked away in the heart of Birmingham, Calloway’s Garden is a charming little shop where the air is thick with the scent of lilies, violets, and roses. People walk in for fresh-cut flowers, never questioning why some bouquets come wrapped in whispers and secrets. A flower shop is a good place for business—the real kind. The kind no one talks about.

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"She’s a liar, but a useful one." – Thomas Shelby

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Lily Calloway is not the woman people think she is. A social butterfly, warm and disarming, she knows exactly what to say to make people lean in, listen, trust. But beneath the charm is a mind that sees, calculates, and survives. She’s not cruel—cruelty is too messy, too blunt. She prefers subtlety, making people think they’re in control when she’s already three steps ahead.

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Theo Carter : He was her brother’s best friend. Now he’s hers. He came back from the war when Charles didn’t, and she doesn’t know if she keeps him close out of loyalty or something heavier.

Janifer Smith : Her partner-in-crime, her best friend, and sometimes the devil on her shoulder. They are two sides of the same coin—one soft-spoken, the other bold, but both dangerous in their own way.

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Tommy Shelby?— She respects him, and he sees potential in her. But she knows what men like him do to people who get too close. And Lily Calloway? She wasn’t made to be anyone’s pawn.

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Writer’s Note:

So, this is my first-ever OC, and honestly? I have no idea what I’m doing, but we’re rolling with it. Lily Calloway has been living in my head rent-free for weeks, so it’s about time I let her loose into the world. She’s manipulative but not cruel, charming but not harmless, and definitely not the kind of woman you want to underestimate.

I’ll probably be dropping the first chapter in 2-3 days (if I don’t get distracted by life ). I have the whole story outlined—25 chapters, slow-burn, morally grey choices, and a whole lot of drama. So, if you’re into that, stick around.

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Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on Lily! Is she giving femme fatale or just a girl trying to survive in a man’s world? Maybe both. We’ll see.

✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day ✨

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1 month ago

The Things He Never Forgets

Sukuna does not remember the faces of the men he has killed.

They blur together, indistinct, insignificant. A thousand screams, a thousand lives, all reduced to echoes lost in time.

He does not remember the first time he tasted blood.

Only that it was warm. Only that it tasted like power.

He does not remember the last time he spoke without cruelty.

Perhaps he never did.

Perhaps he was born sharp-edged, made only to take, to destroy, to rule.

And yet—

Sometimes, something shifts.

Something rises unbidden, uncalled for, unwanted.

A scent, a sound, a fleeting phrase spoken without thought.

And suddenly, he is somewhere else.

Suddenly, he is something else.

Something before.

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It happens on an evening like any other.

The fire is low. The air is thick with the scent of whatever you’re cooking, something simple, something forgettable. He is not paying attention. He does not need to.

Until you hum.

A tune, quiet, absentminded. A fragment of something old, something small.

And the world lurches.

Because he knows it.

Not the song itself, but the shape of it, the feeling of it. The way it pulls at something he does not remember storing away.

The air changes.

Sukuna does not move. He does not react. But his fingers twitch, curling just slightly where they rest.

It is nothing.

It is nothing.

Except—

His mind betrays him.

A flicker. A glimpse. A place he does not recognize, a life that is not his.

Or perhaps it was.

Once.

Long ago.

Before he became a god. Before he became a curse. Before his name was spoken in fear and reverence and hatred alike.

He does not remember.

And yet his body does.

The way his shoulders tense, the way his breath slows. The way he knows that if he reached out now—if he closed his eyes, if he listened just a little longer—

Something would come back.

And he is not sure he wants that.

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"Why did you stop?"

Your voice snaps him back.

He blinks, sharp and immediate, as if tearing himself free from something he does not want to acknowledge.

"You were humming," he says, and his voice is too even. Too careful.

You tilt your head. "Did it bother you?"

He scoffs, the sound rough. "Hardly."

A lie.

Because he does not forget things.

Not like this.

Not in ways that matter.

And yet, when he closes his eyes that night, long after the fire has burned down and silence has settled over the room,

The tune lingers.

It settles into the quiet spaces of his mind, the places he does not look too closely at.

And for the first time in centuries,

Sukuna remembers something he never meant to.

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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸

Sukuna having an internal crisis? Maybe. Or maybe I’m just delulu. Who’s to say?

But honestly, music is one of the most human things there is. It lingers. It carries. A song from centuries ago can still be sung today, and I feel like that’s the kind of thing that would get to him. Maybe not in a way he’d ever admit, but in that quiet, unwanted way where he finds himself listening when he doesn’t mean to.

And that line—what is immortality if not a curse? To be left behind when the other part of you is gone?—I swear I’ve read it somewhere before. It sounds like something that should be carved into a tombstone or whispered by some tragic figure who’s lived too long. (If you remember where it’s from, tell me because my brain is blanking.)

But yeah, completely agree with that sentiment. Who the hell wants to live forever? Tom Riddle was as stupid as he was good-looking.

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Anyway, let me know what you think! I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one. Feel free to comment or send ideas—you know I love them.

✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨


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1 month ago

Greetings, Dreamers and Readers 🌸✨

so—wanna know where i’ve been all this time?

Well. school started. and it’s been exactly as soul-sucking and exhausting as you'd expect.

i’ve been floating through days like a ghost that didn’t even get a tragic backstory. just assignments.

but in between the mess, i ended up writing a few jjk meta pieces. not planned, not polished—just… thoughts that wouldn’t shut up. little rants. poetic breakdowns. trauma essays disguised as fandom content. you know the deal.

i’ll be posting them all by this evening—there’s like 2 or 3 for now. they’re less “analysis” and more “me yelling into the void about how the jujutsu society is evil and i would physically fight god to protect every broken, bloody, emotionally-damaged character in that show.” so yeah. feel free to read, scream, cry, or argue with me in the tags. i’m down for it all.

they’re not perfect. but they’re honest.

and weirdly enough, they feel like the most me thing i’ve written in a while.

see you in the ruins.

✨Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨


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1 month ago

The Monster That Purrs :

Sukuna has spent a thousand years learning how not to be human.

That is what the world expects of him. That is what the world made him.

A man who became a myth. A myth that became a monster. A name that people still whisper like a curse, like a prayer, like something they are too afraid to summon.

And what is a violence if not the absence of everything soft?

Sukuna is rage and ruin, destruction woven into the fabric of his being. There is no place for tenderness in his body, no home for kindness beneath the weight of his legend. Whatever he was before, whatever warmth might have once lingered in the hollow space between his ribs, has long since turned to rot.

And yet.

When the world is quiet—truly quiet—his body betrays him.

It happens without his permission, like an instinct long buried, like muscle memory from a life he no longer claims.

A sound. A hum, low and deep, vibrating in his chest.

Not quite a growl.

Not quite a sigh.

Something in between. Something dangerous.

Because it is something alive.

Something human.

And if anyone hears it, if anyone dares to notice—he will rip their throat out before the thought can fully form.

It is better this way.

It has always been better this way.

Until you.

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It is late when you first notice it.

The fire in the room has burned down to embers, casting the walls in flickering shadows. You are pressed close to him, not because you are foolish enough to think he needs warmth, but because your body, unlike his, still listens to instinct.

The silence between you is easy. Not because he is kind, not because you are unafraid, but because something unspoken has settled between you.

For once, he does not have to perform.

For once, he does not have to be the villain in someone else’s story.

For once, he is simply here.

And in that moment, in the stillness of it, his body reacts before his mind can catch up.

The hum slips out—deep, steady, unwavering.

You feel it before you hear it. The vibration against your skin, the way it rumbles through his chest like something meant to be there, like something that belongs.

You blink. Your lips part slightly, and before common sense can stop you, the words are already leaving your mouth—

“…Are you purring?”

Sukuna stills.

For a fraction of a second, there is nothing. No breath, no movement, no shift in his body.

And then, like a storm breaking, the warmth vanishes.

The air changes.

He turns his head, slow and deliberate, his crimson eyes gleaming in the dim light. His expression is unreadable, a mask of cold amusement stretched over something darker.

"Say that again," he murmurs, voice quiet. Too quiet.

The kind of quiet that warns of something sharp waiting beneath the surface.

Your heartbeat stutters.

A normal person would backpedal. A smart person would apologize, pretend they never heard it, let it slip into the silence between you and never bring it up again.

But you are not normal.

And you have never been particularly smart when it comes to him.

So instead of looking away, instead of swallowing your words, you do something infinitely more dangerous.

You smile.

“You were purring.”

It is immediate.

One moment, you are lying beside him. The next, you are beneath him, wrists pinned above your head, his weight pressing you into the futon.

The air crackles between you, thick enough to drown in.

His claws rest against your throat, his grin all teeth, all venom, all warning.

“Say another word,” he purrs—actually purrs, just to mock you, just to remind you who you are playing with—“and I’ll carve out that sharp little tongue of yours.”

You should be afraid.

But you aren’t.

Because in this moment, despite the sharp edges, despite the threat in his voice, you see something you shouldn’t be able to see.

Not just a monster.

Not just a legend.

But something in between.

And the realization is like a blade slipping between his ribs.

Because you know.

You know that sound was not a mistake.

You know that it was instinct.

You know that, buried beneath centuries of cruelty and ruin, there is a body that still remembers what it means to be at peace.

And worst of all—worst of all—you have the audacity to ask, voice quiet but certain,

“…Why does it bother you?”

Something flickers in his expression.

A crack in the armor.

A hairline fracture in the mask he has spent centuries perfecting.

Sukuna hates you in that moment.

Hates you for seeing him.

Hates you for not fearing him.

Hates you for existing in a space he swore he would never allow anyone to occupy.

His fingers tighten around your throat—not enough to hurt, just enough to remind you that he could. Just enough to make sure you understand.

“You think I am embarrassed?” he scoffs, voice low, dangerous. “Foolish little thing.”

And yet—

He does not kill you.

He does not silence you.

Instead, he exhales, slow and deliberate, and leans in close—so close that his breath brushes over your lips.

"You will not always be so lucky," he murmurs.

And then, as if to prove that none of this meant anything, as if to prove that *you* mean nothing, he lets you go.

The warmth, the weight of him—it all vanishes.

As if it had never been there at all.

As if the sound you heard—the sound that should *not* exist in a monster like him—had been nothing more than a trick of your imagination.

But you know better.

And so does he.

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That night, after you have drifted into sleep, Sukuna stays awake.

He does not need rest.

But for the first time in a long, long time, he does not know what to do with the silence.

For centuries, the quiet has been easy. He has worn his solitude like armor, a kingdom built from blood and terror.

But now, as he sits in the stillness, he is aware of something else.

Something beneath the violence.

Something beneath the legend.

Something unsettling.

He does not sigh. He does not hum.

But if, in the quietest part of the night, something deep within his chest rumbles—low, steady, impossible—no one is awake to hear it.

And that is enough.

For now.

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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸

Honestly, if I ever had to stand in front of that curse king in real life, I’d probably be too busy shaking to even breathe properly. But hey, this is my story, so I get to look him dead in the eye and say, "Dude. You’re purring.”

Anyway, let me know what you think! Feel free to comment and share your thoughts—I’d love to hear them. And if you have any ideas, send them my way! Who knows? Maybe the next thing I write will be inspired by you.

✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨


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1 month ago

: Life and Lies of : ~Lady Rowan Baelish~

 : Life And Lies Of : ~Lady Rowan Baelish~

"The court loves a tragedy, but the audience? Oh, they're worse. You all watch with bated breath, waiting for the fall, for the blood, for the spectacle of it all. You’re no different from the vultures that circle the Red Keep—except you do not even pretend to mourn. But then again… what’s wrong with being a little wicked, hmm?"

—Lady Rowan to Viewers

(A jest, perhaps. But there’s always truth in a well-timed jest.)

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A Memory —

Rowan Baelish learned young that silence was a weapon sharper than steel. She had been a child of quiet corners and half-heard whispers, of watching men lie and women smile as they twisted the knife. 'Clever girl,' her father had once murmured, pride curling in his voice like smoke. But cleverness was a double-edged thing.

Once, when she was very small, she had asked a whore in her father’s brothel if the world was kind. The woman had laughed—a soft, bitter sound—and kissed her brow. "No, little bird," she had said. "But if you learn how to sing the right tune, the world might pretend it is."

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Who Is Lady Rowan Baelish?

Born: The only acknowledged daughter of Petyr Baelish, a girl born on the fringes of power and raised within its shadows.

Age: 13 years old at the start of A Song of Ice and Fire

Titles: “Baelish’s Girl,” “The Mockingbird’s Daughter” (Later: Lady of Highgarden)

Appearance: Warm copper-colored hair, mint-green eyes, favors dark blue and green gowns

Personality: Socially charming, observant, strategic, kind-seeming but never naïve

(a girl who understands that power is not just taken—it is earned, owed, and wielded.)

Role in Court: Lady-in-waiting to Princess Myrcella, navigating the world of power and deceit

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Notable Relationships :

Petyr Baelish – The father she respects but does not trust, the man who shaped her but does not own her. A lesson and a warning, all in one.

Loras Tyrell – A husband in name, a friend in truth, a partner in ambition. A marriage of convenience that became something more—an unspoken understanding, a promise of survival, a bond that no bedchamber could define.

Aegon VI (Young Griff) – A love written in stolen moments, in hands that reached but never held for long. A romance that could never be, a longing burdened by duty. In another life, perhaps. But in this one? Love is a sacrifice, and kings do not keep what does not serve the crown.

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What Will Be Her Legacy?

She is the daughter of a man who built his fortune on whispers and deceit, a girl raised not on lullabies but on half-truths and well-placed smiles.

Born from a fleeting moment of want and accepted only when it suited him, Rowan Baelish grew up learning that love and loyalty were currencies—rarely given freely, always traded for something.

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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸

Alright, after seeing the polls (tf it was a tie 💀) ( after much internal screaming and debating), I’ve decided to officially step into A Song of Ice and Fire! And what better way to do that than by introducing an OC I’ve been obsessing over for way too long?

Of course, I’ll still be writing my usual one-shots and headcanons, but I really wanted to dive into a full character study because, let’s be honest—I’ve been consumed by ASOIAF for years now.

So, meet Lady Rowan Baelish. Petyr Baelish’s only acknowledged daughter, a girl born into manipulation and ambition yet trying to carve her own path. She’s everything I love about morally complex characters—sharp, observant, deeply self-aware, and walking that fine line between survival and power.

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I hope you all like her! Feel free to send in questions, theories, or just yell at me about her—I’d love to talk more about the world I’m building around her. First chapter should be up tomorrow, so stay tuned!

✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day✨


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1 month ago

If You Loved Gojo, You Should’ve Cried for Geto Too :

(A eulogy for the other half of the story.)

People talk about Gojo like he’s a myth. A phenomenon. A force.

The strongest.

The honored one.

The boy who walked into battle laughing, who blinded the world and somehow still burned quietly inside.

But nobody talks about Geto.

Not really. Not in the way that counts.

Not in the way you'd talk about someone you lost too young.

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Geto Suguru didn’t fall.

He unraveled.

Piece by piece. Year by year.

Not in one great tragic moment, but in the quiet, steady disillusionment that happens when you love too much in a world that keeps asking you to be okay with cruelty.

He was the best of them, once.

Sharp. Kind. Smiling. He used to laugh so loudly it echoed. He used to believe in saving people.

Until belief wasn’t enough anymore.

Until the children kept dying, and no one cared unless they were born with power.

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And what do you do when you’re powerless in your grief?

You either collapse…

Or you radicalize.

Geto didn’t want to destroy the world.

He wanted to make it stop.

He wanted silence after years of screaming.

Peace after endless loss.

A future where the people he loved could live without watching civilians beg them for help and then flinch at their existence.

That kind of hope can rot you from the inside out.

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They always say Geto left Gojo.

But maybe Gojo left him first.

Not on purpose.

Not by choice.

But when Gojo became the strongest, Geto became the one standing still.

Watching his best friend evolve into something divine while he stayed painfully, helplessly human.

And Gojo Satoru kept moving forward because he had to.

And Geto Suguru stayed behind because he couldn’t.

That’s how people break—not from a single fracture, but from the silence between footfalls when you realize you’re no longer walking beside each other.

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You want to know something unfair?

Even after everything—after the ideology, after the murders, after the war—

Suguru still loved him.

You can see it.

In the way he smiled, tired and soft, when they met again.

In the way he said, “You’re the only one who ever understood me.”

And in the way Gojo couldn’t bring himself to kill him, not really.

Couldn’t even finish the sentence.

“At least curse me properly in the end, Suguru.”

Even when they stood on opposite sides of a ruined world,

(They never stopped being each other’s first home.)

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So if you cried for Gojo Satoru—

For the burden he carries, for the loneliness he wears,

For the way his laughter covers something too quiet to name—

Then cry for Geto Suguru too.

Because Geto is why Gojo hurts the way he does.

Because Gojo lost the one person who saw him, not as a weapon, not as a god,

But as a friend. As a boy. As someone who could be laughed with.

Because every time Gojo smiles now, it feels just a little bit borrowed.

A little bit hollow.

Because the strongest sorcerer in the world couldn’t save the one person he wanted to.

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Geto wasn’t the villain of the story.

He was the tragedy no one was ready to hold.

So here’s to him—

The one who stayed kind for as long as he could.

The one who carried too much.

The one who gave in to silence, because it was the only thing left that didn’t hurt.

You don’t have to agree with what he did.

But if you really loved Gojo Satoru…

You should’ve cried for Geto Suguru too.

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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸

So, here’s a random thought that’s been bouncing around in my head for a while. I swear, Gojo and Geto are basically two sides of the same coin. I know, it sounds cliché, but it’s true. Whether you ship them or not doesn’t even matter—there’s this unspoken bond between them, this shared history and pain that’s just too strong to ignore. And, honestly, it’s like they were meant to be connected in some tragic, inevitable way.

It’s funny, every time I write about Gojo, Geto’s right there. Like, I can’t get one without the other, and I don’t even want to. It’s like a natural thing, a reflection of each other’s choices and consequences. They are the embodiment of that one truth that always haunts us—people become the very thing they try to escape.

I don't know. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but there’s something so tragic in how they’re both broken by their own choices. It’s like they were never meant to be fully happy or to save each other, but somehow, in the wreckage, they’re the only ones who understand. That’s the tragedy, right?

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Anyway, this is just me rambling about them again, because, well... someone has to say it. I hope you liked this meta, and if you’ve got thoughts—please, let me know. I’m all ears. Always love hearing different perspectives on these two, especially when it comes to this tragic duo.

✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨


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1 month ago

okay so ngl I’m probably not gonna write these as good as I do for Gojo, Geto, or my sweet bbg Kento (character analysis just hits different with them), but I’ll try my best to ruin your emotions anyway. So, which one do I attempt next hmm ?


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1 month ago

—Nothing Special—

Nanami doesn’t believe in doing things halfway. Not work, not fights, and certainly not meals.

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It’s something you notice early on, the way he approaches cooking with the same quiet precision he applies to everything else. No shortcuts, no half-hearted attempts. Just careful, deliberate movements—measuring, chopping, stirring, tasting. He doesn’t rush anything, and there’s something almost meditative about the way he works. Like cooking is one of the few things in this world that make sense.

And yet, every time he sets down a plate in front of you, he shrugs it off with a casual, “It’s nothing special.”

Which is, frankly, insane.

Because Nanami’s cooking isn’t just good—it’s absurdly, unfairly good. The kind of good that makes you reconsider every meal you’ve ever had before. It’s balanced and flavorful and just indulgent enough to make you wonder if he missed his true calling.

He didn’t, of course. Because as much as you hate to admit it, he is a good sorcerer.-Even if you’d much rather see him somewhere else, somewhere safer. Somewhere with a kitchen instead of a battlefield.

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“You know, most people don’t just whip up a three-course meal on a random weeknight,” you tell him once, staring down at the plate he’s just set in front of you. “This is not ‘nothing special.’”

Nanami exhales through his nose, unamused. “It’s just a simple meal.”

“Nanami, there’s saffron in this.”

He barely reacts. “I had some left over.”

“Of course you did."

It’s a pattern, this quiet form of care he offers. He doesn’t say much about it, doesn’t expect praise or gratitude. But you see it in the way he portions out the food, always making sure your plate is full before serving himself. In the way he adjusts the spice level just enough to match your tastes. In the way he always, always makes sure there’s something comforting on the table after a particularly rough day.

You don’t always call him out on it. Sometimes, you just let it happen—this wordless, steady kind of love that he insists isn’t anything grand.

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But one night, after a long, exhausting day, you sit down at the table, take one bite of his cooking, and blurt out, “I think you love me more than I love you.”

Nanami pauses, chopsticks halfway to his mouth. Raises a brow.

You gesture at the food. “This is ridiculous. This is devotion. And I—what? I just show up? I sit here and receive all this?” You shake your head, overwhelmed. “It’s embarrassing, honestly. I need to step up my game.”

For a second, he just looks at you, unreadable as ever. Then, very quietly, he says, “You do more than you realize.”

And maybe it’s the exhaustion talking, or maybe it’s just the way he says it—calm, certain, like an undeniable fact—but you find yourself falling silent. Because when Nanami says something like that, you believe him.

The rest of the meal is quiet. Easy. And when you finish, setting your chopsticks down with a sigh, Nanami gives you a look and says, “So? How was it?”

You meet his eyes, dead serious. “Nothing special.”

The corner of his mouth twitches, just barely. But he doesn’t argue.

He just gets up, takes your plate, and starts cleaning up.

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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸

You know, I’ve been thinking—maybe cooking is a love language. My younger Bhai (cousin brother), for example, is an absolute menace most of the time (as younger siblings tend to be lol)

But when he’s in the kitchen, he always makes something for me too. Not in an overly sweet, “look how much I care” kind of way—more like a casual, “I was already making food, so here, take this” way. No big declarations, no dramatic gestures, just... an unspoken understanding.

Which, honestly, is kind of unfair. Because while I can barely cook to save my life, this little brat could probably become a chef if he wanted to. 😭✋

Meanwhile, I struggle to flip a half fry egg without cracking its yolk. Life is cruel like that. 🗿

But anyway—maybe food is one of those quiet ways people show love. No grand speeches, no poetic confessions—just a plate of something warm, made with care, set in front of you without a word. Feels very Nanami-coded, doesn’t it? lol

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What about you guys? Do you express love through cooking? Or does someone do that for you? Let me know—I’d love to hear your stories! 🎀


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1 month ago

Gate, Gate—

(gone, gone beyond)

They brought him to the temple like people leave things at riverbanks.

A last attempt. A gentle abandonment dressed in incense.

“He has something wrong in him,” the mother whispered.

Or maybe it was the aunt.

Or maybe no one said anything at all. Maybe they just looked.

The monks accepted him like they accepted stray dogs and dying birds.

With open hands and quiet eyes.

He was six. Or seven. Thin. Quiet.

Too quiet.

He didn’t cry when they shaved his head.

Didn’t flinch when they poured the cold water down his spine.

He just stared at the stone floor like it had spoken to him in a language no one else could hear.

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The temple was kind. In theory.

They rose at dawn, washed in silence, chanted in circles.

Everything smelled of sandalwood and routine.

Things were clean here. Predictable.

But Sukuna?

He was not a creature of clean things.

He learned fast. Too fast.

By the second week, he was sitting longer in meditation than boys twice his age.

By the third, he had the Heart Sutra memorized.

By the fourth, he could mimic the chants with a tone so exact it felt mocking.

Not cruel—just empty.

One of the older monks said, “He’s gifted.”

Another muttered, “He’s hollow.”

(Both were right.)

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They named him Reien. (Distant Flame.)

He never used it.

When called, he looked up slowly, like surfacing from somewhere deeper.

He didn’t smile. Didn’t play.

Didn’t cry when the others whispered things like witch-child or thing with teeth.

He once told another boy during chores,

“I think people hope temples make monsters polite.”

The boy blinked.

Sukuna shrugged, soft and almost gentle.

“But I was never rude. Just honest.”

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The monks thought perhaps routine would save him.

Structure. Compassion. Years of stillness pressed into his ribs until something softened.

But it never did.

He lit the incense with perfect fingers, poured tea without spilling a drop.

He knelt so still he looked like a statue left behind by an older god.

And when he whispered the sutras?

They sounded like elegies.

Like grief recited backward.

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There was one monk.

Old.

Kind.

Tired in the way that made you trust him.

He brought Sukuna extra rice on cold mornings.

Helped him adjust his robes when no one else would get too close.

Once, he said,

“You remind me of a bell before it rings.”

Sukuna looked up.

“You’re waiting for something,” the monk said. “I don’t know what. But I hope it’s peace.”

Sukuna didn’t answer. But later that night, he buried the monk’s prayer beads under the snow.

Not out of malice.

He just didn’t want anyone to believe too much in rescue.

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Years passed.

Sukuna grew. Not into someone better. Just someone more.

More silent. More watchful.

His eyes started to scare people.

He never raised his voice.

Never raised a hand.

But once, when a boy shoved him during chores, Sukuna whispered something into the boy’s ear.

No one knows what was said.

But the boy never spoke again.

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Sometimes he would sit under the Bodhi tree at night, alone.

Whispering pieces of chants.

Not the full sutras. Just fragments. Broken syllables that didn’t fit together.

“Form is emptiness…” he’d murmur.

“…emptiness is form.”

Then laugh to himself, soft and cruel and tired.

It wasn’t joy. It wasn’t madness.

It was a boy telling a joke no one else understood.

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Once, a traveling girl came with her father, a rice merchant.

She sat beside him at lunch and offered him a peach.

He stared at her.

“You don’t talk much,” she said.

He blinked.

“Are you sad?” she asked.

He didn’t answer. Just took the peach and held it like a thing he’d never earned.

She grinned. “I think you’re pretending to be a monk.”

That night, he didn’t sleep.

He just stared at the peach pit in his hand for hours, wondering why it made him feel anything at all.

She never came back.

And that was the first time he realized—

Even kindness leaves.

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The breaking didn’t happen all at once.

Not like a sword through the ribs.

More like water over stone.

Small cracks.

Soft erosion.

A boy watching compassion become something quiet and useless.

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One winter, he found a bird dying in the courtyard.

It was shaking. Mouth open. Tiny heart fighting too hard.

He sat with it for an hour. Just watching.

Didn’t touch it.

Didn’t help.

Didn’t look away.

When it stopped breathing, he buried it with his bare hands.

And whispered the full Heart Sutra over its grave.

The first and only time he ever said it with feeling.

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Later, when the elder monk was dying from fever, Sukuna sat beside him.

The monk wheezed, clinging to prayer beads with pale hands.

He said, “Do you believe in rebirth?”

Sukuna stared.

“Maybe you’ll come back as something… softer.”

Sukuna leaned in, voice gentle and cruel:

“This is my second life. I think I was something softer before.”

(The monk wept.)

-----

He left soon after.

No one remembers how.

Some say he disappeared into the snow.

Some say the temple doors opened and never closed again.

Some say he burned it all.

But here’s what’s true:

He carried the chants with him.

Not because he believed.

But because belief was the first lie anyone ever told him.

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And now?

Now he walks like a God who doesn’t want worship.

Kills like someone remembering something ancient.

Speaks in riddles and old truths.

Sometimes, before a battle, when the wind is just right,

he mumbles a chant to himself :

“Gate, gate, pāragate…”

Gone. Gone. Gone beyond.

He always pauses after that.

Not out of reverence.

Out of memory.

Out of the sound of snow falling on temple roofs.

Out of the soft weight of a peach in his hand.

Out of the silence after a dying bird stops shaking.

He doesn’t say the last line.

Not anymore.

Because it was never for him.

And he knows, with a kind of terrible peace:

Not everything is meant to be saved.

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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸

I don’t think I meant to make this version of Sukuna. It just… happened. I kept circling this quiet idea of a boy left at a temple like an afterthought—like maybe someone thought peace could be taught into him, like sutras could smooth out what was already unraveling inside.

This isn’t about battles or glory or blood. It’s about stillness. About a boy who memorized all the sacred words but none of them saved him. About silence, routine, ritual. About being watched, studied, never understood.

I didn’t want him to be tragic in a loud, dramatic way. I wanted the ache to be quiet. Familiar. Like bruises you don’t notice until someone touches them.

There’s something that haunts me about characters who know how to sit still but not how to be comforted. Who learn everything except how to ask for help. Who are full of language but empty of meaning. I think some part of me understands them too well.

So yeah… this version of Sukuna? He’s not softer. He’s just more human in a way that hurts.

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Anyway. If you made it this far, thank you. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts—I’d love to hear your opinions. You guys always see things I missed.

✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨


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1 month ago

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1 month ago

Ahh, come on, man. I already had my JJK OC half-built in my drafts, all planned out and everything—but I guess that’s how it is.

But hey, I’m glad so many of you voted and actually enjoy my JJK one-shots! I’ll keep posting them, then.

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Feel free to comment and throw your ideas at me—I’d love to hear what you guys want to read next.

So, do I keep emotionally devastating you with JJK one-shots, or do I create an OC and ruin their life instead?


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