by 25114013114 » Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:01 pm
Username: King Corvid
Name: Valentine
Gender: Male
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Why all of the scarves?
The mornings have always been hard for Valentine, ever since his sight left him and he could no longer take solace in the warm glow of dawn, or the friendly smiles of those he passed on his way. The previously soft comfort of sunrise became only a reminder of the scalding hot day to come, void of the soft words and cheery remarks shared with those he used to call friends. He used to have sharp eyes, in his youth, able to tell a lie from truth in the eyes of another without breaking a sweat, but hearing, only hearing, threw Valentine into a fearful spiral of paranoid thoughts and fake smiles. Not knowing what others were thinking, no matter what they said aloud, made him nervous and wary. His trusting nature, before being his most prominent feature, was shoved to the back of his mind in favor of trying to calculate the thoughts of those around him with only the tells of their speech to guide him. As his sight grew ever darker, however, Valentine took a great comfort in his scarves of bright hues, soft fabrics lulling him to sleep at night when the darkness that swarmed his thoughts grew too heavy for him to bare alone. The thought that even though his sight had abandoned him the bright hearts just outside his blurry vision never wavered, that things outside of his mind were still the way they always were, and that he could still rebuild what he had shied so far away from, this helped steady his ground, giving him a foundation to begin to bounce back from this and to relearn how to live and once more find affection among those he cared about. Though he still has a long way to go, and the sharp tremors and anxious thoughts will still linger, the gentle weight of the scarves around his body ground him to the better things and keep him steady when the going gets tough.
((haven't really done these before, please tell me if I did something wrong))