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His face had never been so close. She wanted to sink into sin with him, certain it would elevate her to heaven instead. She did not realize she was reaching for his face until it was nearly too late. Her fingers closed gently, a blossom folding in on itself for the night, and the backs of her fingers grazed his cheek instead. Then, with more deliberation, she reached for his other cheek with the same hand, this time unfolding her fingers to stroke the back of her hand against the gentle curve, feeling his unshaven cheek and jaw and remembering what it was like to hold his face in her hands.
“Rai…” She had not intended to whisper his name, but she could not hold it in if she tried.
A moment from my Bridgerton AU RP with @xiaolindude. (In the scene, he’s got a bruise from boxing, but I wanted to see the moment without the bruises, too.)
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Lord Pedrosa, Relaxed
Just a quick sketchy doodle of Rai with his shirt undone and his suspenders/bracers on. For @xiaolindude
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Tempting Scandal
Me: I have finished watching Bridgerton, and I’m going to put a Bridgerton verse on my Rapunzel RP blog.
@xiaolindude: I’ll give Rai one, too, and start making a shipping playlist for them as we discuss how their relationship would work in this verse.
Me: This playlist needs a cover.
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Aftermath - The First Night
This is a pic I’ve had in progress since sometime in 2020. It’s mostly an exercise in severe light and shadow (plus fabric folds that aren’t clothes). It’s from my roleplay with @xiaolindude called “Another Inch of You Life Sacrificed.”
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FELIZ ANO NOVO!
Just me, lost in my Raipunzel feels on New Year’s Eve.
Last pic of 2021, y’all! (Unless I miraculously bang out another before midnight, which I don’t see happening, but who knows.) I had a lot of fun playing with lighting on this one. Plus, you (sort of) get to see Punz’s back tattoo from @xiaolindude‘sfutebolAU! Also, I think this is some of the best line art I’ve ever done. (So you get to see the line art without the colors muddying it up, too.)
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Just a quick thing, because even though I draw @xiaolindude a Christmas present every year, I have yet to draw a Raipunzel Christmas pic. Until now.
Played with a lot of Procreate brushed for the first time on this, and honestly? That tree is amazing. I’m really proud of it.
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His Biggest Fan
Before him, she didn’t care about futebol. If it weren’t for him, she still wouldn’t. But because of him, she goes all out!
Merry (early-ish) Christmas, @xiaolindude! I was legit delighted that you wanted to do a futebol AU RP for Christmas, because I was already well on the way to working on this.
I made sure that the yellow of her shirt is a little faded and dingy, because it isone of his old ones. (Technically, she should be swimming in it, but eh. I didn’t want to lose the dynamic poses. X3)
Details on their faces (her make up, his sweat and stray hairs), his bracelet and the stars she embroidered on her shorts, her nails and bracelets, her toe nails.
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Rai in ‘We’re a Union Just By Saying So’
Suggested by @xiaolindude
I guess he’s about 19 here?
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That was her wish, too… It astounded her how very much they had been on the same page for so long and so unable to talk about it! The letters they’d written over the summer were scandalous enough, but such dialogue had been silenced when they were once again in person!And speaking of those fantasies, aspects of them flooded her mind again and again, every time their lips touched once more. She exhaled a sound when he sucked on her lip. That felt… marvelous! She should certainly have to try it on him!
“Quite admirably, indeed!” she giggled. “Considering how long we have wished for exactly this! Though I supposed we might have broken sooner, had we not spent months apart.”
She never wished to be apart from him for months again.
So saying, she caught his lip between hers and sucked gently, as he had on hers, only hoping he enjoyed feeling this as much as he seemed to enjoy doing it.
God help him, her noises! Each and every one stole his breath away and he knew very well that he’d be replaying them in his mind every time he fantasised about her. He was sure it was only going to become more and more frequent now that he knew how wonderful it felt to kiss her.
Her technique so far seemed to be learning by example. It was certainly working for her! He hummed his appreciation at the suck of his lip and kissed her harder once again with renewed urgency, one hand on her leg, the other pressed to her back. And God, was he aware that she was sitting on his lap!
He kissed her and kissed her and kissed her until he was all but breathless, then broke off with a slightly shaking breath. “So you have had fantasies, and now you have had the real thing… how does it compare?” he murmured playfully, drawing back and tucking a loose tendril of her hair behind her ear.
That hum of his sent a shudder of pleasure through her. It was for her! He sounded like that for and because of her! She did not regret even a moment of this! How could she?
When the vigor of his kisses increased, she found herself holding the back of his neck and cradling his jaw with her other hand. She loved feeling his jaw work as the kissing continued, little whimpers and sounds carried on her exhales. Goodness, was this all fantasy fodder! She had an entirely new retinue of thoughts and experiences to draw from, now!
When they broke apart once more, she knew she was flushed, and her breaths came in excited little pants as she grinned at him. The grin melted away, though she did not stop smiling at his question, merely looked down bashfully. “How could my fantasies compare to the real you?” she wondered. “I feel I have learned much already, including that kissing is so much more than I imagined it to be!”
She took the time to truly experience it this time, and absorb the sensations. She paid attention to where it stopped feeling like her leg and started feeling like her rear. She was scarlet, she knew, but even if it was light in here, she should not mind blushing in front of Rai anymore. The squeeze had her smiling.
Oh, but his laugh was like heaven! She could listen to it all day! It filled her with so much joy! “I wonder what other scandalous shenanigans we shall get up to in here,” she teased. She had fantasies about what kind…
He could practically feel the heat radiating from her cheeks given how close they were, and the knowledge that she was blushing so hard was certainly satisfying. Again, he squeezed her rear, easing her closer in his lap, ignoring the warmth of arousal pooling in his gut.
Her wondering had him blushing, though, utterly enamoured with the idea and the thoughts she was placing in his head. She’d freely admitting to fantasising about him, and he found himself wondering what that entailed. How far did they go in these fantasies? Had some taken place in the stable itself? He burned to find out, yet did not want to invade her privacy.
“Plenty more, if I have my wish,” he purred against her lips. He’d resisted for so damn long, but now that they’d started, he longed for it again and again. And more. He sighed, kissing her again and gently sucking on her lip as he broke off. “We have discovered the limits of our willpower… I believe we did rather admirably.”
That was her wish, too… It astounded her how very much they had been on the same page for so long and so unable to talk about it! The letters they’d written over the summer were scandalous enough, but such dialogue had been silenced when they were once again in person!
And speaking of those fantasies, aspects of them flooded her mind again and again, every time their lips touched once more. She exhaled a sound when he sucked on her lip. That felt… marvelous! She should certainly have to try it on him!
“Quite admirably, indeed!” she giggled. “Considering how long we have wished for exactly this! Though I supposed we might have broken sooner, had we not spent months apart.”
She never wished to be apart from him for months again.
So saying, she caught his lip between hers and sucked gently, as he had on hers, only hoping he enjoyed feeling this as much as he seemed to enjoy doing it.
She giggled into the kiss. Lost them, indeed! She should never want to leave this stable again!
At the unexpected wandering of his hand, she gasped, breaking the kiss, and wondered if her blush was bright enough to light the gloom. She closed her eyes a moment, willing herself to relax. “I was not ready,” she explained. “Try it again?”
It was precisely the sort of touch she had been craving, she just hadn’t realized it until now. She idly wondered if he liked his rear touched, as well, a thought which led her to thinking about his rear end, and the night she saw it naked. She found herself laughing again.
“It is as if this stable is our secret scandal spot.”
Her gasp had him freezing. Uh oh. He’d pushed too far, hadn’t he? He drew back at the same time she did, gazing at her, an apology in his eyes that he wasn’t even sure she could see in the dark. “I’m sorry,” he said immediately, worrying his lower lip between his teeth. But then she explained and asked him to do it again, and he relaxed once more, wetting his lips and nodding. It made sense that she’d need time to adjust to each new thing. Perhaps he should have warned her first.
“Okay…” Again, he leaned in to kiss her, a little slower and more careful this time. He started in safe territory, warm palm sliding over her leg before he ventured back, resting against her rear once more and giving a light squeeze, almost as if in greeting.
And then she was laughing again and it was delightful.She was having such a good time! It was so important to him that she was, and he could not be happier right then, he was sure. He snorted in a particularly unattractive way at that, then laughed properly. She was funny! Red in the face, he grinned and nodded. “I suppose it is. How romantic of us.”
She took the time to truly experience it this time, and absorb the sensations. She paid attention to where it stopped feeling like her leg and started feeling like her rear. She was scarlet, she knew, but even if it was light in here, she should not mind blushing in front of Rai anymore. The squeeze had her smiling.
Oh, but his laugh was like heaven! She could listen to it all day! It filled her with so much joy! “I wonder what other scandalous shenanigans we shall get up to in here,” she teased. She had fantasies about what kind…
