cw: death, disturbing/dark imagery


like all half holy things, jinri is born tender. spider-lashed, fawn-limbed, with small palms full of flowers, she grows as a mouthpiece for soft virtues. peach, they will call her endearingly. hers is a childhood as venus-sweet as nectar, but inside roots a hard, sharp pit.

( on a school trip to Songjeong, busan,

she discovers a secret reprieve on the sand where some once-living thing has washed ashore. now swollen with the weight of the sea, it stares unwatching without eyes.

she thinks: is it wicked or divine?

to witness life and death contained in one.
to be the thing left behind.

she leaves before they notice she's missing; tells no one. )

so she grows i.
(she hates the thought of being compared to something that will break easily, not when she is so fragile and .)

that day on the beach she adopts a name all her own. sulli, she scrawls in the dirt. pear blossom in the snow. something that will endure even the most suffocating winter.

Seon with a jar of strawberry jam, riding a bike across the sunlit Garden District. The library is old and faded, the books settling dust all around her in the late afternoon glow.

Her apartment is old and decrepit, seated directly above a wayward apothecary shop on the outskirts of town. She collects crystals and grows herbs for their medical benefits. Plants grow in excessive abundance on windowsills, on the kitchen counter, and on her nightstand, making the tiny space appear even smaller. Her bathroom hosts flowery perfume of every variety and homemade herbal concoctions.

Seon is in no real hurry to get an education, particularly now that she has been sired. She was sired in October of last year,

She met Hyuk while visiting the library

favorite artist? corinne bailey rae
is she physically affectionate, generous with showing love? or more reserved, saving that for those she's closest to?
perhaps she's in school as a pharmaceutical sciences major to combine her love for apothecary with science. or she refuses to go to school at the moment, believing in the sanctity of her work.

here is a question? here is your answer.

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