[Closed] @eidxiety🐎🌹

[winterbolt]

Angelina is a black horse with white markings on her face in this sorry I can't picture her as being any other color-

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[lupusxylem]

...sure, yeah. We'll see.

[Yes yes yes that's definitely what he wants. He can't believe he's managed to make this work-







hang on]

So you're leavin' tomorrow, then? I'll follow after you to make sure you don't get jumped on the road, or whatever.

[eidxiety]

[Dumbass.]

Probably. Tomorrow morning... before noon, definitely, since it'll be difficult to motivate myself to leave after it gets too hot.

[Which means his morning ritual of ripping his posters down is uh... well... he'll burn that bridge when they reach it like 15 hours from now.]

My saviour~. He's gonna keep me safe from all the horrors on the roads~. Lalala!

[Small warning: Ain Will sing the whole journey, so good luck.]

[lupusxylem]

Pfft. Oh yeah, I almost forgot you were a little songbird.

[He will complain at first because he has a reputation to uphold...then he will realize he really, really likes it. He'll then fantasize about Ain singing him to sleep. If the mountains really are a thousand miles away or whatever Ain said, won't they have to camp inbetween here and the next town?

Hm...

Angelina, while Wolfwood is distracted staring at the back of Ain's head, suddenly leans in and bites Wolfwood on the leg, causing him to whip around and shove at her head.]

Oy, getoff-!!

[No. She sees your sins >:/]

[eidxiety]

[They'll have to camp between here and the next town, and then between that town and the town after that... it's a long adventure. Many short adventures in between to make up the long one overall. It'll be fun, lots of gay sex happens on long journeys—

Angelina homphs, and Ain just starts laughing, slapping his hand over his mouth like "oh oops shouldn't be doing that".]

What was that for, I wonder? [No seriously Angelina why you nom.] She really does bite...

[lupusxylem]

She's an asshole, that's what.

[Angelina snorts, stomping the ground. Then, she walks a little forward so she can nibble at the ends of Elria's mane because she's too short to reach her ears.

No, Wolfwood, your horse is just gay and knows you're also gay and being stupid about it u_u]

Should we head on back? Gotta make sure we're packed if we're goin' on a trip.

[It has gotten a bit later...they've been out here for a couple hours already, somehow.]

[eidxiety]

[Ain finds it amazing that these two will just nibble on each other while they fucking walk. How do you do this... for why do you do this?]

I have all of my stuff on me, but you can pack, haha... but we should actually get food, shouldn't we? It's going to be dinnertime by the time we get back.

[He's going to steer Elria back to the other side of the pasture now. Ange will just have to nibble and keep up.]

Unless you want to eat alone and go do your thing~. I can keep myself entertained.

[lupusxylem]

[She will do exactly this, you cannot stop her. She is a horse that is an agent of chaos.]

Mmmh. I guesso. Does the saloon have any kind of food that's fittin' to eat?

[Then again, he probably shouldn't be too picky. All he's eaten...literally all day has been those nuts they had this morning. Huh.

What does that say about him-]

[eidxiety]

[Noncommittal shrug...]

Sure, if you like subpar mashed potatoes and overcooked steak. I like that little place and all, but no one goes there for the food. Everyone's there for the liquor.

[To be fair, it's good liquor!]

There's a little restaurant that sells heartier food, though. Good steak, veggies, the sort. We can try that place.

[lupusxylem]

[HMMMM...]

...I guess we could go there.

[As acquaintances. Obviously.]

Better than eatin' just nuts.

[Better for YOU maybe.]

Angelina seemed to like the hay in the stables at the inn though. Is it far from there, or would it be too far of a walk?

[eidxiety]

Oh? Is she a gourmet? [Or is Wolfwood walking from the inn a convenient excuse not to be seen in public with whatever gender Ain is presenting as today? Can't accuse them of being on a date if they come from separate locations, you know.] Haha, it's not that far. Putting an inn away from a restaurant loses money, don't you think? Not that this little town is too big either way.

[He hums. Down the pasture they go, until they reach that gate, and then Ain hops down to open it and usher the horses through before he springs back onto Elria.

...]

I take it you wanna get down and steer your own horse? Can't be seen riding on the back of the saddle of someone who prefers to get bent over every night, right?

[do you prefer to get bent over though Ain, because like,

you have stepped on this man and threatened to top him last night.]

[lupusxylem]

[Hahaha what? Nooo why would you think that...

Wolfwood is doing a piss poor job of covering for himself, and at this point it's hard to tell if he's doing is on purpose or subconsciously. Either way, he is relieved that Ain doesn't question him on why on earth he'd want to do that, though something tells him in just the coy way he responds that he's probably suspicious either way...

Oh, right, yeah he should. Probably do that. His ass is going numb from sitting up on this barrel of a horse for so long.]

Yeah...probably not.

[He slides off of her (and stumbles when he lands), giving Elria a little pat before he walks over and climbs his way up onto Angelina. Meanwhile, Angelina immediately scoots back over to stand next to Elria like :)]

I didn't mind comin' out here, by the way. It was actually pretty nice.

[eidxiety]

[Heterosexual horse owners will be like "aww look at those two horses they're best friends :) we love a family :) wowe" and meanwhile Ain's gay ass is out here like "aww they're GIRLFRIENDS!!!" but he thinks if he calls the horses gay that Wolfwood will flip out. So!

The horses are friends :) historians will say they were best friends et cetera. Toward town they go, then, while the horses bump into each other the whole way. It's a little hard to steer like this but hey. All good.]

Oh? I'm glad, haha! The cacti are pretty when they bloom. And I bet the mountains have a bunch of pretty flowers!!

[Ain likes flowers.

Ain lives in the wrong place to see lots of flowers.]

[lupusxylem]

[Yeah sorry to tell you Ain, this is definitely the worst place you could have chosen to live in that case...but whatever floats his boat, Wolfwood supposes. He's not the hugest fan of the heat and the sand, but he's here too. Sometimes you take what you can get in this world, because actually moving someplace more favorable is never an easy task. Ergo, the mountains.]

Y'think? Wouldn't the snow just kill 'em all, though?

[He asks as they pull up towards the Inn, where they presumably will break off for a moment so Wolfwood can awkwardly catch up on foot while Ain takes Elria the rest of the way to the restaurant.]

[eidxiety]

They regrow???

[Wolfwood there's this wild thing about plants

they usually come back.]

Well, whatever. [You're a lil dumb but he likes that in a man.] Here, this is your stop. The restaurant is down the road back where we came from, turn right down the alleyway over there, [pointing,] and you'll find it. Be seeing you~.

[Unless Wolfwood decides to bail, which Ain won't blame him for, but like. He's getting food either way, headed there now to park Elria in front of the trough and let her eat More Stuff.]

[lupusxylem]

[Sorry Ain, the heterosexual man you have chosen to spend your time with is also stupid. Like, he genuinely just stares at the back of Ain's head for a moment as he says that, like he isn't quite sure what he said wrong.

He'll get it later, when thoughts of boy aren't clouding his brain and making him even more stupid. For right now, he gives a noncommittal grunt of acknowledgement as he stops Angelina by the Inn, sliding off her back so he can put her in the stable.

Ain and Elria, meanwhile, will hear Angelina sadly whinny after them like :( where going

Sorry Angelina, Wolfwood's self loathing and homophobia means you have to stay here. No hanging out with the girlies for you tonight, unfortunately. He doesn't end up bailing on Ain though, miraculously. He takes a moment at the Inn to drop off his shit and freshen up before heading back out just as the sun sets, walking all the way to the restaurant with his boots jingling as he goes.

So, where's Ain? Did he wait outside for him, or did he go on inside?]

[eidxiety]

[Sorry Angelina, your dad is going through some changes right now and he doesn't want to talk about them. You will see your friend again because it turns out, Ain is bad at saying "no, I'm gonna dip because I'm a criminal" and Wolfwood is bad at not giving into temptation. The temptation being Ain's ass. Anyway.

Ain is waiting outside, and it looks like he's re-done up his makeup so that he's leaning more on the feminine side. He's aware of the social ramifications himself, even if he really just wants Wolfwood to admit he likes guys more than anything, so it would be bad to present as "vaguely?? some kind of young masculine dude??? out here with a super masculine dude????" this is how we cloak our gays. Ain is twinky enough to make it work.

The lipgloss is fucking Pink, and he looks like he's applied some sort of powder to his cheekbones, light and subtle, just to make him look like he's blushing a little. Demure. Cute.

Hi Wolfwood. :) ]

You made it!

[lupusxylem]

[Okay, you know what? He...weirdly does appreciate the care Ain has taken to make himself seem more feminine than masculine in this instance. He can't say for sure if it was done on purpose for his sake or not, but either way that probably doesn't matter much. It just takes a bit of the social pressure off of Wolfwood, while also opening up the floodgates for him to realize that it's not the feminine appearance he's attracted to, but the man underneath.

Hoo boy. Here we go.

He walks up with his hands buried in his pockets, trying to ignore the subtle heat in his cheeks that's mostly covered by the brisk evening wind blowing at his face.]

Yup. What, you think I was just gonna skip out on dinner?

[eidxiety]

[Wolfwood sure is handsome. Ugh... this isn't fair. Ain has been known to Look in the past, of course, he's like this with men and he wants to stare at them... but god. Wolfwood really is all rugged and handsome and god please just admit you love men he wants to sit on your face :(

Sigh.]

I had my fears.

[You know, because Ain is A Man, and Wolfwood knows he is, even if the general populace in this town are Mostly Confused about him. Is he a man? Is he a woman? He's stealing your wallet.]

Come on. We can get a table near the back, I think.

[lupusxylem]

[He is stealing your wallet, and Wolfwood knows damn well he's lucky Ain hasn't stolen his yet. Why is that? He's still not entirely sure, but maybe he'll figure it out once they've been on the road together and have had just soooooooooooo much gay sex like oh my god being out in the secluded desert with just Ain is going to fuck Wolfwood up for real.

He'll follow him on towards the back, only removing his hat from his head once they've taken their seats proper. It's pretty busy here tonight since this town is smallish and not everyone wants to go to a saloon to eat, but since Ain is doing a good enough job of passing, people aren't paying them too much attention. Like sure, some definitely wonder, but it's not enough for them to give Wolfwood any kinds of weird looks.]

You been to this place before now?

[eidxiety]

[Listen. Androgynous women also exist, and it's still straight to fuck one, ain't no one gonna question it. Unless you're also a girl. And then that's gay as fuck.

Anyway, Ain sits with his legs crossed under the table, nice and fruity, and obviously no REAL MAN would cross his legs like this so Obviously that is a woman and not the most Gender man you've ever seen in your life.]

Once... mm, two days ago, when I first arrived. It was the first place I stopped off at because it was getting late and I was hungry from travelling.

[The menu is pretty simple: meat and potatoes, veggie dishes, soups, stuff like that. This place is leaning a little into the French cuisine side of the old west, and while it isn't fancy, there's stuff Ain can't even pronounce on there. Good signs. He will order something he can say the name of so he doesn't sound like he's choking because French is like that.]

I did really like the steak. I might get that again, since I'll need to have a little energy for tomorrow.

[lupusxylem]

Yeah? I'll prolly get that too, then. Ain't often you get to have steak.

[Especially not a good one. It will be expensive, sure, but Wolfwood is a man who loves his meat (lol). He'll also be ordering beer against his better judgement despite what ended up happening the night prior, it's fine they're not planning on spending the night tonight together or anything. Just the subsequent who-knows-how-many nights on the road together. It's different.

It becomes clear just how people are seeing them when their waitress comes by to take their orders, letting Wolfwood take his before turning to Ain and saying completely innocently "And for you, ma'am?". Ain is very pretty, clearly.]

[eidxiety]

[Good, it's working. Ain doesn't mind being seen as a Pretty Woman if it a) gets people off his back and b) gets people off of Wolfwood's back. He has that advantage over some of the burlier gay guys. If the patriarchy finds out he can shapeshift, they're going to tell the church—

Ain completely innocently answers back that he would like to have a steak as well, please and thank you miss, and could he get a glass of wine? And she's like yes of course sweetheart and there she goes. Burly men don't drink WINE they drink BEER. Ain wants his smashed grapes please.

They totally won't end up in bed together, nope.]

If there's one thing a tiny town like this has going for it, it's the food in this particular joint. I'm not too picky about food, but I do like it when it's actually tasty and not whatever over-salted mess they serve at the saloon.

[lupusxylem]

Over-salted? Says the guy who was having his fill of the peanuts earlier.

[Wolfwood retorts, shaking his head a little as he picks up his glass once their drinks are brought over, taking a swig of beer. Disgusting, just how he likes it (I'm sorry to beer drinkers everywhere).]

I'm countin' on your word, in that case. This place's food better be great, your reputation is on the line.

[eidxiety]

Peanuts are different. That's a snack.

[Don't get technical with him mister he'll bite you.]

My reputation, huh? I didn't know I had one!

[Well. Yes he does, but not that one. His reputation for Crime is not on the line.

Anyway he's going to gently kick Wolfwood's shin under the table. Bonk bonk bonk.]

[lupusxylem]

[Wow! Rude. Wolfwood snorts, and after Ain kicks his shin a couple times, he'll bring the side of his other boot around to block the next kick, pressing the toe of it back against the sole of Ain's. They are playing footsie under the table-]

Maybe in this town you do. You've been turnin' heads ever since you got here. Ain't you noticed?

[Honestly people mostly are like "what is the gender", while others are completely fooled and are just like "wow...prety..."]