𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒐𝒌 — 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

— become of him."

It hurt. It was blinding and radiant; a full-bodied feeling that coalesced throughout his entire form, but pain bore no meaning to an Aeon. He could tolerate it without complaint.

With how that secondary presence trembled in the back of his mind however, he doubted it was mutual.

— curled its fingers hard enough to bruise around Aleator's wrist, and pulled it further into that warmth.

"Why don't you reach for him yourself and voice these woes of yours if you want him so badly. You might finally learn to better differentiate the two of us once you see for yourself what has —

— stronger the more those claws pushed in. A weary connection rekindled itself, as if beckoning the Ravager forward.

"He begged you to flee while you could, if I remember correctly, but you refused, and you are regretting that now? Shall I strip you of your blessing? Or perhaps..." A rough hand —

— all you have learned, Aleator?" Nanook spoke easily, entirely unfazed by the outburst. "An Aeon lives by their path; mine serves to burn away all things- an evolution of my prior nature. To me, the greatest sin one can commit is ever living at all."

Those fluttering waves of energy only grew—

Nanook closed his eyes and breathed in, slow and deep. It wasn't particularly hard for Aleator to reach into the wound if he desired it; it was his weakest point leading straight to the one thing that would have destroyed him ...

Of course, one had to manage to break it first.

"Have you forgotten—

— so "conjoined" then it shouldn't matter which of us takes the stage in your eyes."

Nanook felt nothing from that presence but desperation by then.

He wondered if Aleator could feel it then, too.

— Nanook took his Ravager's left hand, pressing it to the wound at his chest. Gold ichor seeped between clawed fingers; a hum of energy that once ran so strong and sweetly between two lives now a weak flutter, as if suffocating.

"Perhaps I should take your "blurred lines" at face value. If we are—

— weaker fight lately. I don't need to "try" anywhere near as much as I used to. If anyone is trying to suppress anything between the two of us..."

The blonde was pulled closer, with an empty, burning gaze boring into eyes Nanook felt nothing for. "I'd say you're outdoing me now."

Roughly, —

Nanook relinquished Aleator's throat with a low rumble; a barely-there chuckle that arose from that unwavering grip in his hair. He kept calm.

"Is that what you think you are doing?"

Had he the capacity, he would have pitied his company for the delusion.

"The lesser half of myself puts up a —

— hard into a throat that gave way easily; armor and flesh surrendering under the scorching heat that pierced, fierce and unyielding — painfully intimate whilst held firmly in place.

The spiteful feeling in his chest grew to new extremes, desperate and furious yet swallowed down all the same.

—"How unapologetically greedy." Nanook tightened his grip, both hand and arm. "We may just be similar after all." Eyes of molten gold bore into that gaze. "Perhaps I will reward you, since you asked. I'll even let Him kiss it better."

Without warning nor chance of escape, Nanook sank his teeth —

— and the force that had contained him for so long had been crushed under layers of gold ichor instead. Yes, those two had loved each other. So much that they both adamantly refused to die apart.

Was it really that surprising that a being like him could discern the Destruction from that too? —

— watched his Ravager struggle through the currents of a life shared with his lesser half while they both clung to their humanity. The nightmares, the drinking, uncertainty and shed tears until they managed to pick each other back up only to have that respite shattered when Man became Aeon, —

— passenger in someone else's body, it was the vulnerability of human beings.

Once you watched them for long enough, peeling back the layers was as simple as breathing. In Nanook's case, he had been subjected to all manner of storms as a bystander. Love, loss, rage, desperation. He —

"Of course you do." Those words were laden with poison.

It didn't matter what Aleator thought of him. Truthfully, the mad gambler could come to whatever conclusion kept him stable enough to still be of some use, but if there was anything Nanook had garnered through his years of merely being a —

— but one that lingered, familiar but lacking in anything inherently genuine until those fingers snaked around behind a head of blonde hair, threaded through soft locks, and yanked back.

"Tell me, Aleator, what touch of mine do you crave so badly? I know little of such desires, so do indulge me."

— suggest you grow used to me as I am. It is what awaits you and the other Ravagers once we've jumped this particularly long hurdle after all."

His hand lifted to gingerly drift searing fingertips harmlessly along the curve of the other man's cheek- a tender touch that didn't match his nature, —

"Oh are you now?" Something very faintly akin to amusement meshed with the low timbre of his voice, further enhanced by the acidic sensation churning spitefully in his chest.

Good. That, too, was a form of Destruction. If Aleator wished to aid in it, all the better.

"If you desire me so much, I —

— experience of enduring the Warforge and nothing else.

"It's not every day I ruffle your feathers. Is it praise you want?" A brow lifts. "I doubt such things would mean anything to you coming from "Me" specifically, or is that your way of asking me to let "Him" out instead?"

Supporting him was a trivial affair, and Nanook did so without much thought and even less effort. His skin was blazing hot, but that meant very little to his Ravagers, reforged as they were. Aleator may have been granted the "mercy" of being blessed by hand, but that had only spared him the —

— it seemed Nanook's mind was busied with other things.

An arm wrapped around to pave warmth along armored skin, while his expression remained a mask of indifference... but the angry throb in his chest won a twitch of his lips. "It won your little coin toss, did it? Must you rely on such things?"

The slight lean back suggested the Aeon was -not- the happy recipient of such a gesture, but the fact that the other wasn't instantly immolated hinted at something else — a curiosity that often turned the heads of the other Ravagers and left their Ruin Author's mood soured.

This time however, —

"You were, once." The reminder came casually whilst he shrunk down; form warping like ink in water in an effort to mimic his Ravager's height.

It was a blessing that the other could not reach the Aeon's size.

"Now look at what you've become. I hope you've not arrived empty-handed."

....
.... He merely slants a gaze at him.

"Aleator... and in a mood no-less elated than usual I see. I trust you haven't been burdened since our last audience."

— the echoes of his influence bouncing from star to star to rumble in his ears, forming the death rattles of countless worlds in a grand discordance. A dirge of immolation.

The ache in his chest had begun to dull lately; a promising development, but with his Ravagers busied, he saw fit to rest.

Within a lonesome quadrant of the cosmos, a slow vortex of barren rock and gilded droplets that burned all they touched, and bordered by a cold and lightless void, Nanook was patient.

Destruction moved at its own pace, but he felt it all around him — a rot permeating throughout the cosmos, and —

——𝑹𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔:

. Absolutely no minors.
. NSFW must be kept to DMs.
. No forcing ships.
. Shipping on this character will not work out 99.9% of the time. It would be best if you didn't try.
. No OCs, sorry. It's a personal preference.

——𝑴𝒖𝒏:

A grown adult who expects anyone who interacts with me to respect the difference between fantasy and reality. I'm deathly allergic to OOC/IC bleeding, so please don't treat me as my character or my character as a reflection of myself.

——𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕:

A selective, independent depiction of Nanook the Destruction. There isn't much known about him so I've taken some liberties to fill in the gaps myself. Treat this as an AU if you care that much. NSFW will be in DMs only. Absolutely no minors allowed; I'll block you on sight if you try.

- 𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒏𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔,
𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆. -

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