[Kyar]

◅◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈▻



◅◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈▻

username: kyar
name: enzo ryfield
gender: male

◅◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈▻

when was a time they experienced unrequited love?:

"No, you must be mistaken."

Enzo's heart locked in his chest. Was it still beating? Was he still breathing?

"Who is it, honey?"

Hushed whispers.
"…lost… wrong address…"

No, no.

"No, Maria Salos, that's your name, right?" Enzo interrupted, words bursting like fire on his lips.

The woman stared. Vacant eyes. Her husband's arm on her shoulder…

-◈-

"Maria Salos," he repeated, staring at the PI as his hands began to shake. "That's her name, you're sure?"

-◈-

Hesitation. "Yes, it is." No confusion, no surprise. Devoid, emotionless. No, no this wasn't right.

"You… you're my birth mother, I've… you are," he insisted, his fingernails curling up and nesting in his palms, locked tighter… tighter…

"That's impossible, sir. I'm sorry."

-◈-

"Mom, why is this blank?" Enzo held up the birth certificate. Mother's name—empty.

"Well, sweetie, we're not sure who your birth mother was. She never gave her name at the hospital. I'm sorry, baby."

-◈-

"No. No, no. Don't… do this." He could feel it beating again. His heart, ready to break through his chest. Red hinted at the corners of his vision.

"Son, I think you need to go."

"Don't talk to me," he whispered, eyes like lightning on the man's face. He, at least, seemed concerned. His mother… his mother… dead-eyed… "You… you are," he hissed.

"You need to leave."

"No!" he shouted. "No, no! I'm not going anywhere, you--! Hey! Open the door! Open it! For God's sake, OPEN THE DOOR!"


He never felt the brick in his hands. He didn't hear the glass shatter, the screams. He didn't feel the cool summer breeze on his back, or his feet as he started to run.

He closed his eyes, and saw it again. Staring back through the shattered window.
An empty face that would never go away.

297/300 words

◅◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈▻

extra i:

"Hey, Enzo, how was school?" His adopted mother looked up from the stove. A bright, innocent smile.

"Good, it was good." As he propped his longboard up against the wall, a smear of blood wiped across its surface. He stopped, giving it a quick rub with his sleeve. Stepping back, his fingers curled around the fabric, pressing it into the crescent nail-cuts through his palms. Steady, now.
"Yeah, good. You know."

"The usual?" she chuckled, dropping the empty sauce jar into the bin.

"Yeah. Exactly."

"So I was thinking you and your father and I… Enzo?"

His footsteps echoed off the stairs, skipping every other on his way up to his room.

"Dinner will be ready in twenty minutes!" she called after her son, brow furrowing for just a moment.

"Okay!"

He closed the door to his room, standing in silence for a moment as the day washed over him. The face… that face… it was never going away, was it? He coughed, gasped, and dropped to his knees.

SLAM.

"Enzo? Is everything alright? Sweetie?" His mother hesitated, then ran.

Hot, ferocious tears flooded his eyes like bullets. He couldn't let them go fast enough, and the build up of pressure was aching…

"Enzo?"

He couldn't answer, even if he wanted to. Crumpled on the floor, his body ravaged with indescribable pain. Heartbreak.

He whimpered as his mother's arms found him, and his sobs finally became audible. Gurgling, horrible tears, nose running, body shaking. Breath sucking in, rattling out.

"Shh, shhh…" his mother whispered, cradling her baby once again.

"I-I-I f-found h-h-er," he gasped.

"Okay. It's okay, just breathe."

The boy dissolved back into aching sobs.

"Oh Los Angeles we leave you now… at the setting of your skies…"
A familiar lullaby, son wrapped safe in mother's arms.

298/300 words

◅◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈▻

extra ii:

los angeles - peter bradley adams

◅◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈▻

Gif Credit

[~The Original Alice~]

username:~The Original Alice~
name: Oni (Oh-knee)
gender: Genderfluid but leans towards male
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?: (192/300)

"Okay this is a hard story for me to tell but I guess it is better to tell it to you all than anyone else right? Alright here it goes

When I was in school there was this girl I was best friends with, she was the person I could go to with anything. I never felt alone when she was around, I mean she made the world a little better. She was Alyce.

I knew she had liked me for years but I didn't want to ruin our friendship, she was my everything how could I lose her you know? So I push all of the signs no matter how big they were off to the side and tried to pretend it was all just really friendly gestures. This went on for a few years without a hitch an we moved on to different schools. I thought my heart was broken until the real heartbreak happened.

I got a call from Alyce's mother that she had passed away. It wasn't until then that it really hit me it wasn't then until I realized I loved her an she would never know."

[Mid-life]

Res

Masochist
Because of her innocence and naivety she didnt notice this dudes feelings towards her and stuff... Childhood friends

[Takk]

-:username:-
Takk
-:name:-
Quinn Mae Manson (Quwim, Felidae)
-:gender:-
Female
-:when was a time they experienced unrequited love?:-
Working at the shelter, Quinn extends her love to a lot of the animals and helps them get new homes. It was during kitten season, early August a few stray cats were brought in for some R&R and rehabilitation. The cats of course were moderately feral, but she'd always had a way of working with them. The edge teen had spent too much time with cats in her past, even earned the nickname Felidae from her friends due to how naturally she bonded with feral cats.
This particular batch had a fourteen(ish) year old male who was quite fussy and suffered from several medical issues. With gas, he was attended to and Quinn nick named him Franklin after her old grumpy neighbor. Socializing him was difficult, often resulting in antibacterial sprays and bandaged arms; but she couldn't give up. Day after day for almost two months she dedicated her time to Franklin, but he never seemed to understand that she just wanted to help. She adored his strong will and stubbornness, but couldn't seem to break his walls down.
He passed away in the shelter, and Quinn was utterly crushed. She knew, like a lot of people, cats didn't always show love or appreciation or people and this was one of those cats. Sure she was sad, but mostly it bothered her that Franklin never let her close enough to be friends before dying. Her coworker insisted because he'd never been given love before that he wasn't sure what to do with it when it came along.
She denies the cat didn't love her to this day, positive he'd come back to her in the form of a kitten born three days later. A tabby from one of the pregnant mothers Quinn ended up taking home named Frankie.
-:extra 1:-
Come Undone, MDD
In the End, Linkin Park
Knives and Pens, Black Veil Brides
Spiders, System of the Down
46 and 2, Tool
-:extra 2:-
res

[squeegi]

res!

[~Levi~]

username: ~Levi~
name: Kaen 火炎
gender: male

when was a time they experienced unrequited love?:

It all started with the soft scent of spring rain and the accompanying pitter-patter as the light drops fell to the ground, being intercepted by newly budded leaves and twittering birds. The rain was washing away the remnant of winter and would be the start to a new chapter; both for the seasons and for Kaen it was when he first saw HIM. He was waiting for the bus when he heard the mew, it was a scruffy kitten, looking rather like a drowned rat but it had brilliant liquid gold eyes that seemed to dance in the light. Slowly, as to not scare it, Kaen crouched down and extended a hand out. Just as the kitten approached a soft laugh, and there HE stood, scruffy blonde hair, sharp green eyes and bright smile. The world stopped, the kitten’s head outstretched, raindrops mid air, leaves mid rustle, birds with beaks open to sing. And all Kaen could do was smile.

Kaen met the stranger, for that was what HE was at the time, numerous times after, and from strangers to friends they became. And then from friends they became more, oh so much more. Time seemed to move quickly now, as they talked, laughed and loved; until it seemed to vanish with a shout of lightening and resounding depression of thunder. As it had started with the rain, it would seem to end with the harsh autumn storms that raged and tore at the ground. And as Kaen stared up at the sky, where it had all begun, he couldn’t help but wonder if the rain would eventually wash away the regret he held in his heart. Then he once more heard a small meow as a scruffy looking cat looked up at him with liquid gold eyes. Kaen smiled.

Extra 2: The Rain
Kaen had always loved the rain. As a child it was like he could touch the sky when the crystal blue fragment fell down, it was awe-inspiring. As Kaen grew older he realised that the rain was not the sky but life instead, it brought change, bringing life to plants and animals alike. He loved how even a single rain drop, seemingly so small and insignificant, could cause a chain of new changes. Kaen felt like it represented him; a single human, one among billions. And so maybe, one day, he could leave a mark, a simple show of kindness perhaps.

When Kaen fell and lost in love he learnt that the rain could also bring destruction, from a clash of thunder to a wave of a flash flood, the rain caused it all. And so Kaen decided that if he were to leave a mark; it would be one of kindness and growth, not one of demolition. And so when Kaen lost in love and saw the cat with those golden eyes again he did not hesitate to welcome it into his arms and take it home. And when it pushed its muzzle against his cheek he new he had made the right decision.
[205/300]

[Mima]

username: mima
name: azure
gender: female
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?: she wore a human face, but her heart knew better.

[wip still,]

[cherrydoge]

cherrydoge | Yuki | genderfluid (any pronouns)

“It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.” -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

They always tell you to love thy neighbor as thyself, but when it comes to war, they tell you differently. They tell you,

"That's the enemy. You take your weapon and you work for your country's victory."

They tell you that you'll be home in time for Christmas. They lied. The war raged on, both sides were suffering.
Yuki didn't exactly want to get drafted into the war, the 'first world war,' as many called it, but they were prepared for what they would have to do.

Yuki loved the enemy. Not in a romantic sense per se, but in the fact that those are other people; other people that had to leave their friends and family, people they cared about.

Only for them to not come home.

The unofficial truce between the Germans and the British, 1914. At that moment, they weren't enemies, but brothers.
To love the enemy is to be able to love yourself as well.

The unrequited love, or so Yuki thinks, is between themselves and the enemy. Some want to go home, they do not care about the others on the opposite side of the line.

Was Yuki doing what was right, in fighting for their country? Was the 'enemy' doing what was right? They were just following orders, just as Yuki.
So why should they be punished?

To love is to truly understand the one you're loving. Some don't love, therefore the others do not understand. They do not love back.

Yuki loved the enemy, but they didn't love them back.

[297/300] (including quotes)

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

xxxxxxxxxxxxzxxxxmoodboard
╭━━━━─────────────────━╮

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxclicky

╰━━━━━━━─────────────━╯

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxzxxxxxxplaylist
╭━━━━─────────────────━╮

xxxxxxxxxxSabaton - The Price of a Mile
xxxxxxxxTally Hall - Hymn for a Scarecrow
xxxxxThe Pretty Reckless - Living In The Storm
xxxxxxxxxxSabaton - A Lifetime of War

╰━━━━━━━─────────────━╯

x
x
xxxxx

credits;;

divider by | me
avatar02 [animated_f2u] by | AkumiIrako

[cocogerber13]

username: Cocogerber13
name: Verglass
gender: Male
when was a time they experienced unrequited love?: (300 word max) he was the sun, and she was the shadows that fled from it

[JulieMew1010]

Droppin out oof