*August Valencia*'s Literatures
Various half-finished drabbles or snippets of dialogue that I like enough to save, but unsure whether I'll finish OR I intended for them be snippits and not turn into anything else. First Chapter is a table of contents of sorts. Place where I hold all my snippit guys <3
Ameokk tells August various Storm Speak words over the course of ~9 yrs, despite September urging (conditioning) them to forget them, and despite their own twisted emotions over many of them. Part of them wants to forget too, but half in guilt and half in spite, they refuse to. August helps.
Exploring August and Ameokk's relationship to art, how they view it in relation to themselves, to eachother, and to others. The hobby has been August's solace from loneliness from a young age, and him introducing it to Ameokk builds both a connection between them and allows Ameokk to build a lifeline for themself. Chapters will jump around in time and focus.
August is having some anxiety and missing Ameokk. He kinda accidentally contacts Ameokk over their podbond (mind connection), which they both have only used for emergencies/high-stress situations at this point. Basically, me exploring how they actually communicate through podbond, which is mostly thru trading emotions + small visuals + tiny phrases. Anyways take a rare pure fluff literature.
Having recently been adopted by September, Amek hasn't had much time to explore Daharus yet, or be aware of its common dangers. Like Ryajha, god of the flood, who owns the east sea bordering Valencia. Ameokk has a fateful encounter with the god, who seems to know them more than they know it.
Amek comes to August on the cusp of a mental breakdown, or rather, a shut-down- the likes of which August hasn't witnessed yet. August attempts to comfort Amek, even without knowing what has upset them so deeply. August is 14 in this and Amek 16. self-indulgent hurt/comfort leaning more into the hurt y'all know my brand.
Exploration of Amek's identity issues (along with other issues LOL) through the body-language of his own species (storm spirits) and others. Mostly rn, storm spirits are voice/sound mimics, and Ame starts mimicking different creatures' voices involuntarily (after years of repressing this behavior) and doesn't know why lmao. <- this eventually gets revealed.
August returns to a place he spent a lot of time in as a child (COUGH, in his emotional-neglect-laden childhood).
ah-hah back at it again with the august and amek angst *bits lip sexily*. anyways this towards end of story where they're both mentally wrung out to all hell and miscommunicating like no tomorrow (ame 26 Aug 24). Amek asks August why his mandibles are out so often (spoiler: stress and trauma response, not pog). warning for sadge-ish ending.
Amek realizes they've accidentally formed a podbond (read: basically a soulbond) with August and has a bit of a crisis over it. August tries to comfort them but doesn't rlly know what's going on lmao. Amek is around 16ish and August 14ish.
Amek and August r having a snuggle except Amek is too busy contemplating the fragility and impermanence of existence to enjoy it.
short introspective-ish drabble of August thinking abt Ame when Ame gets Really Pissed (aka goes into feral storm spirit mode). Mostly me playing around with (way too much) imagery.
A dump of headcanons explaining the intricacies of August and Ame's relationship. Mostly for my own reference, but since i don't explain it that much in either of their bios, thought i'd upload this. May add more as i develop them.
August ponders about the strange relationship he has with rain because of Ame. Ame also temporarily back on their bullshit.