[ SEPTEMBER CATCH-ALL ] we will welcome summer’s ghost.

[passio]

WHO: dextera and the crew
WHERE: all over!
WHEN: september… the whole 30 days.
WHAT: quests and whatever else crops up over the course of the month!
WARNINGS: nothing yet!


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[passio]

[ dextera nods slowly at the sound of his name, a little wobbly on his feet. even if he’s trying to stand still, there’s a slight sway to his whole body like he can’t quite keep steady. ]

…

[ sorry, joshua. he’s really just going for it—dextera reaches out in the vague direction of his upper body, and it’s a last minute decision that has him trying to cup joshua’s cheek. ]

[whereabout]

[ Joshua doesn't actually try to avoid the touch, because - well, it's Dex, you know? Joshua's not a really hands on guy, but Dex is a friend and Dex really gets a lot of the things that Joshua struggles with and so there's nothing suspicious in his mind about Dex going for some kind of contact.

He was not expecting this kind, though.

??? ]

[passio]

[ the only thing protecting joshua is that there’s a low fence between them, and that’s not even really protecting him so much as it is just blocking dextera from doing anything too insane.

it’s surprisingly tender, the way he caresses joshua’s face—looking at him like he’s trying to figure something out—and then the mood is broken before it even had the chance to be made, because his hand slides down to full-on palm joshua’s chest. ]

[whereabout]

[ Okay, not that it wasn't kind of weird already, but -

this is getting weird. ]

Dex? What are you...doing?

[ He does have some surprisingly impressive abs, though Dex is aiming a little high for that -

- but no, that's not the point! That couldn't be what he's trying to do...? ]

[passio]

[ it is what he’s trying to do.

dextera can’t help himself, like this. his image is at odds with the reality, as he tries to massage the soft heft of breasts in his imagination—joshua’s actual chest is so much firmer. ]

…

[ both hands it is! ]

[whereabout]

[ what ]

Earth to Dex!

[ Finally, he grabs Dex's wrists and tries to pull him back a little. Not too sharply because it's Dex, he doesn't want to hurt him or his feelings, but this is getting a little too weird. ]

[passio]

[ dextera is somewhere far, far away from earth. when joshua grabs his wrists, he stops, but he looks at joshua like he can’t possibly comprehend why this just happened. his expression changes into something—desperate, a bit, but like sexy desperate.

with his hands occupied, he’s forced to mouth his request. ]

Don’t—tease—me.

[whereabout]

[ He's torn between the fact that Dex can't sign to him unless he lets go, and the fact that if he lets go, Dex is presumably going to go right back to copping a feel instead of explaining what the heck is actually going through his head right now.

...he'll hang on for now, he can read lips well enough. ]

I'm not - what do you mean?

[passio]

[ honestly, it’s mostly a good thing that he can’t speak, because the things going through his mind are crude at best. he’s being bound by a beautiful woman with a voluptuous body and huge breasts, and she’s teasing him even though he’s so… lusty. ]

I want you!

[ his hands struggle to sign it at the same time he breathes it out, putting as much voice as he can behind it. it’s not much, but the effort is there. ]

[whereabout]

[ um

he's not guren, what the hell?? ]

I don't think we're on the same page right now.

At all.

[passio]

…

[ joshua is so calm, and dextera is so horny. he’s looking at joshua in a complete lack of comprehension—was he not just invited to touch? is he the one in the wrong here? ]

[whereabout]

[ How...how is he supposed to deal with this? If he lets go, this is going to get inappropriate for children's eyes in a hurry, whether that's through Dex's rampant groping or Joshua's potentially violent rebuffs (and he'd rather not hurt Dex, but he'd also rather not get felt up, so...that's a problem).

But who knows how long this is going to go on for? Is he just going to have to...stand here and keep him restrained all day? ]

[passio]

…………

[ a longer pause, this time, as his brain slowly struggles to make sense of this stalemate. joshua is not letting go, but dextera’s hands are definitely urging him to move forward, to hold something.

something occurs to him, like recognition flashing in his eyes, but— ]

Kiss?

[ please. ]

[whereabout]

...

[ Pardon? ]

What the hell, Dex?

[passio]

[ you don’t want to kiss him??? ]

…

[ it’s either heartbreak or something else that breaks through that lusty fog, and dextera blinks a few times—his struggle renewing in joshua’s grip, but for a different reason. maybe. probably? it’s best to just let him go. ]

[whereabout]

[ He likes you, Dex, but you're not his one and only...

He catches that there's something a bit different in Dex's eyes, though, and he lets go of his wrists. ]

[passio]

[ dextera almost reaches out to touch joshua’s chest again, and then thinks better of it—but his solution to realizing he can’t do that is to come back and grope his own chest. what he sees when he looks down is very different from what he feels. ]

…

[ slowly, he comes to a conclusion. ]

What do I… look like… to you?

[whereabout]

[ ...uh. Is what Dex looks like really the question here? ]

You look...like you.

[passio]

[ dextera nods, like joshua has said something profound. the chickens, too… what had previously looked like a harem to him now registers in his mind, even if not in his eyes, as the house’s pets, but it’s not possible for him to turn redder than he already was. ]

…I’m so sorry.

[ he’s still a little horny, which is the worst part about all this? ]

[whereabout]

It's okay.

[ And he means that, because look, he's the last person who gets to lose their shit over the messed up things happening in someone else's head. ]

Can I ask what...just happened?

[ Like, psychologically.

Obviously Dex thought he was someone (thing?) else and tried to cop a feel, of course. He got that part fine. ]

[passio]

…

[ there’s honestly nothing he can do to make this seem okay, but it’s true that joshua, of all people, can probably understand things out of one’s control. ]

A… fairy wing.

[ he’s more fluent in sign language now than it seems, with the choppy explanation. ]

…lusty.

[whereabout]

[ ...oh.

That's got to be embarrassing. Ergo - ]

I won't tell anyone this happened.

[ Not that it'll stop the story spreading from all those other people Dex has tried to feel up today, but. ]