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Lobco ([personal profile] justsomeshrimp) wrote in [community profile] mistymansion2020-07-12 07:28 am
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just the two of us (lobco & thk)

It was her second winter here in Prismatica.

It was hard to believe that she had been here for over a year now. Time had passed so quickly she had scarce noticed it for so much had changed in such a short amount of time. The changes were largely all for the better and these days Lobco found herself doing much better than she had in a long, long time. Sometimes it felt unreal, sometimes her own lack of belief that it was ok to be happy and have hope set her back but all in all?

Lobco was happy.

She was happy for all the wonderful friends that she had found--people who reminded her of what love, respect and gentleness were, she was happy to finally be because of all that had happened with Danny who never made her feel weak or stupid, she was happy to have her future back. She could make her own decisions about her life, from as large as what she wanted to pursue vocationally, to as small as what ribbon she wanted to wear for a walk.

She was happy to have met and have by her side, Hollow Knight.

It had been several months now since they had become partners but sometimes it still felt like just yesterday and it was with barely restrained excitement that Lobco clocked out for her workday at Roman Holiday. They had all been kept quite busy now as the days had gotten colder and while she certainly appreciated the extra Chroma and Demichroma it brought she had been eager for today to be over for she had reserved a private bath for the two of them after work.

Without changing out of her uniform she hurried to the entrance to see if Hollow Knight had arrived.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-07-13 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The Hollow Knight was standing in the entrance hall, back curled over so that its horns didn't bump against the ceiling. It waited patiently for Lobco: the receptionist could not speak in the hand-signs they had been learning, and so the Hollow Knight had decided to let him deal with the other guests while she came.

It was still somewhat thrilling to have the strength of will to decide, and to not feel guilty for nurturing it. Or, at the very least, feel only a little guilt.

When she came, the Hollow Knight straightened up slightly. It was an unconscious move, similar to the way a smile might brighten the face of a more expressive being. That was only strengthened when it immediately knelt to be on more of a level with her, and raised its hand in greeting.

And the other for her to take, if she wanted.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-07-26 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It shook its head, content that she was here and happy to see it. It was still such a strange idea, that someone would be happy to see it. But Grimm and its sibling made that obvious, and so it could accept it from others.

Gently, it held her small hand in its own, and gestured for her to lead them on. It kept its shoulders curled and its spine bent so it could more easily hold her, but also so it didn't bash its horns against the doorframes.

It was little wonder that the Root remained stationary, until She felt She had to move.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-08-14 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
A bath was not unlike a hot spring. Perhaps it would not have the soothing effects of one, but it would be a welcome reprieve nonetheless. That it would share that gentleness with Lobco was a singularly wonderful thing, and would have been worth it even if a bath did nothing at all.

The Hollow Knight removed its cloak, unfastening the ties its sister had so expertly woven into the fabric. It swung the cloak from its shoulders in a rippling spiral of fabric, admiring even now the excellence of her craftsmanship. Wherever she was now, it wished her well.

Once the cloak was safely stowed away, the Hollow Knight came to the lip of the pool. It reached down with one long finger, testing the water. Warm. Pleasant to the touch. The ripple that spread out from its touch reminded it so sweetly of the springs in Hallownest.

Carefully, it lowered itself into the water, slipping in with the minimal amount of disturbance it could make. It was large, and the bath hardly a pool, but it found if it sat down, it could submerge most of its body.

Gently, it raised one hand, steam rising from the black carapace, and held it out to Lobco, to help her into the bath as well.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-08-22 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
It tilted its head, watching as she lifted the loofah. Its washes in Hallownest had been perfunctory, sensible things. It wasn't there to luxuriate, no matter how it had felt. Being able to do so here had been a strange and wonderful thing, and it would ever treasure the memory of bathing in that hot spring, surrounded by snow, and with its sibling and Hornet beside it. But even then, it hadn't been washed.

If it had had a heart, it may well have been thundering in its chest. As it was, that blossoming brightness of its soul flared above the ocean of void inside of it, causing ripples across the dark surface. The disturbed water did not turn turbulent, however, but instead lapped at the feeling, turning it soothing.

Accepting feelings was just as new as luxuriating, it seemed.

So it nodded at her, but before she could begin, it lowered its head until it was close to her face. Though it could not kiss her, it nuzzled the blunt end of its mask against her hair as it brought up a fingertip to touch the bow of her lips.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-09-02 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
It was perfectly still in her hands. Had its mask been able to, its eyes would have closed to slits as it enjoyed her kisses. Her little whisper made it flush with delight, the feeling rippling in its soul and lapping against the Void within.

Love you, it signed just as she slipped around behind it. Her touch was gentle and soothing against its carapace, and it leaned forward, resting its arms against the lip of the bath as she washed its back. Such intimacy was heady and strange, even in a place where it had become somewhat used to touch.

Its back arched slightly, before it stretched out its neck and spine to their full extent, once again rather like a lazy cat.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-09-09 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
A deep tissue massage just wasn't as effective on a carapace as it was on skin and muscle. The contact was what was important, however, and the intimacy of bathing even more so. Yes, Chroma was an important thing in this place, but both of them allowing themselves to feel both vulnerable and valuable enough to be this close to each other eclipsed it by far.

Lobco slipping her towel off only added to that. It hadn't taken long for the Hollow Knight to realize how important clothing were to the majority here, and how sensual removing it could be for them. For Lobco to do it around them spoke volumes for her comfort, and to be a source of that for her... If it could have sighed in pleasure, it would have.

She still wanted to dote on it, and so it didn't have time to wrap its arms around her, skin to shell, but that could come later. It kept itself stretched out, enjoying the feel of her hands on it, and the warm water lapping against its shell.

And then came the brush to the jointed segments of its body.

It jolted at first, similar to an involuntary muscle twitch. The Hollow Knight turned its head to look at what she was doing, flexed the joint slightly, and then laid it back down. It bowed its head to her to try to show that it hadn't minded the touch.

In fact, it had been quite pleasant.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-09-10 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ It shivered in pleasure whenever her fingers ghosted over its joints, and the sweetness of the touch against its hands was delightful. It was so hard to believe that this was happening now, and that guilt was little more than a whisper against its mind, barely stirring the calm ocean of Void within it.

When she held its hand to her cheek, it lightly curled its fingers against her. It raised its other hand to lightly touch the bow of her lip. Equally as gently, it soon brushed its finger over her lips - the closest it could come to giving her the kisses that she so freely gifted to it. ]
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-09-25 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It was concerning, at first, to see her eyes well up with tears. Their time in the mindlink had let it know, but there was so much about her trauma it found hard to understand. For that moment, it had worried that it overstepped a boundary, reminded her of that awful monster that plagued her, and the Void seethed in soothing anger for her, and boiled in unsettling worry also.

All was put right when she kissed its fingertip. Some tension it had held at the sight of her tears went out of it. It brought a second finger to joint the first one. Soon, it had dipped its head and curled its back, and laid the blunt 'snout' of its mask against her head, allowing her to press herself against the curve of its neck and shoulder.

It would give her the gentleness she deserved. She worked so hard to do the same to it; it wanted to try the same for her.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-10-13 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
It very rarely felt frustrated at its lack of noise. Speech, even breath - these little things would have been so useful to let Lobco know it felt in response to her words. It didn't want to disrupt their hold to nod to her. If only there was a more simple way.

But such things weren't the case, and could never be. It let the frustration sink into the Void, be lapped and consumed by that comforting emptiness, and instead held the pleasure rippling on the shores above it. Like a pale, luminous moon above a dark ocean.

It let its shoulders slump in response to her words, as if having exhaled a great and comfortable sigh. Perhaps that would do. Lobco was so good at parsing its body language by now. It tapped her lips lightly with each smooth, cool finger, pressing another 'kiss' there.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-10-23 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
She had tensed slightly in its arms again, but it wasn't worried this time. Her tone was not panicked or worried despite the hesitance therein. It drew back a little to look at her, the blank face of its mask eternally patient. The shade beneath was patient also, though if it could have been, it would have made an effort to be more encouraging.

It nodded once, to show that she could go on.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-10-25 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Lobco was not like it. She never could be - the circumstances of its birth were too unique to the world it lived in for anyone to be like it. However, her experiences, in a way, had led her to have a similar way of parsing difficult emotion. There was a feeling of shame attached, of not being allowed to feel them, of having to navigate around why they were, or that it was all right to do so. It could recognize that. She needed it now.

It watched as she worked through what it assumed was a difficult question. Gently, it reached out to touch her cheek, steady her. Had it lips, it may have given her an encouraging smile. All it had were gentle gestures.

Slowly, it nodded its head to her, knowing that that wasn't what she had meant to ask - not in its entirety. There would be a further question she would want to pursue there, and it would be happy to answer for her once they arrived.
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oh lord we're skipping

[personal profile] instilled 2020-10-29 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a lovely experience, and the Hollow Knight left feeling its shell buffed to a fine polish, healthy and glowing. It walked hand in hand with Lobco from the bathhouse through to the residential area. It hadn't moved from its original lodging - indeed, it hardly used them, except to store things.

The house was somewhat bare, with the few items it had been gifted reverently displayed on the otherwise bare shelves, with its old, broken nail and tattered, ragged cloak in prime spot. Nestled atop the ragged fabric was the shining icon of the Pale King.

Beside that was a small incense burner, which the Hollow Knight gently disentangled its hand from Lobco's own to light. The scent was slightly spicy, with a smoky, tea-like scent to it otherwise.

That done, it turned back to her, took her hand again, and led her over to the couch. It was clean and comfortable, though obviously not much used. It was sure to fluff the cushions with one hand before she sat.
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[personal profile] instilled 2020-11-22 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. That certainly did explain it.

Sex was no sacred topic to the Hollow Knight. Its Mother and Father were lovers, and bugs were not precisely prudish about a natural act. It understood the mechanics and the end results. While it was equipped for neither, it could form something to approximate the former without issue.

What made sex important to it was the value Lobco placed on the act. It knew her trauma as she knew its own. Something that should have been a mutually pleasing joining had been tainted for her. It spoke to her strength and newfound comfort that she could broach the subject.

And she wanted to have sex with it. The affection it felt lapped gently at the ocean of Void inside itself, making the light of soul that hung above shine in brightest joy.

The Hollow Knight raised a finger to place under her chin, turning her face up to meet its mask. Slowly, deliberately, it nodded its head, so that she could not sorry that she had misinterpreted the answer. It then lowered the muzzle of its mask to her lips, as of it could kiss her as she kissed it.
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[personal profile] instilled 2021-02-03 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
She was a warm and welcome weight against it. The Hollow Knight shifted so that she could arrange herself more comfortably. It knew its carapace was hard, so it wanted her to be as comfortable as possible. This was a big step for Lobco, and an important one. For her, sexual activity was an affirmation of herself. It was something she could choose to take part in, choose to do. It was her choice to share that part of herself.

The Hollow Knight had no right to be proud of her, and yet it felt so overwhelmingly so. She was an inspiration. A beauty.

One of its large hands gently rested on her waist, supporting her. The other tilted her chin up again, making her look. It wiggled its finger at her, not in a chiding or refusing way, but questioning. Then it pointed down, to where her hips were against its smooth pelvic area.

What did she want it to have?
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[personal profile] instilled 2021-07-18 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The Hollow Knight wasn't a prudish creature, nor was it naive. It knew about sex, and it knew the parts the biological males, females, and those who were neither ought to have. It seemed to it that Lobco had something similar to an ovipore, and therefore it would make most biological sense to give itself something similar to an aedeagus.

However, it knew that this was not just about sense, biological or otherwise. Lobco felt things like this with a passion it couldn't conceive of, and not just because it had tried for so long not to feel or think. What she wanted might be very different to what 'made sense' to have.

As it had no preference, and no feelings of discomfort one way other the other, the Hollow Knight reluctantly lifted its hands off of her, and quickly signed.

"No. Shall I try different ones?"
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[personal profile] instilled 2021-07-20 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
All right. It curled its fingers against her face, happy to have been kissed. Yes. Happy. It could accept that it felt that, because it was fine to feel, fine to think. Some guilt lingered, as it always would, but that guilt had no place in this moment, and it let it sink into the Void.

She had said that they had best try different ones. All right. The sensible thing, it thought, would be to create the obvious parts. That meant the aedeagus.

The shell near its pelvic area softened as it returned to Void. The Hollow Knight concentrated on changing its body. The easiest thing to make where the shadow tentacles it had been taught, and so it started with those.
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[personal profile] instilled 2021-10-16 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Touch was not a rare event to it anymore, and Lobco's even less than most others. It didn't jump at the contact, but rather seemed to relax against it. The tentacles curled in easy rest, and it tilted back its head as her hand made contact with its shell. Though it couldn't close its eyes, the angle gave a very real suggestion of them having been closed to slits of pleasure.

It raised a hand in the sign for go ahead, the gesture only slightly shaky as it enjoyed her slow movement.
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[personal profile] instilled 2022-03-28 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
They weren't sensitive in the way a normal phallus would be, but they did quiver when Lobco touched them. The Hollow Knight felt its head tilt back, outwith its own volition. Bodies were such odd things, when paired with minds...

... it didn't have the time to think of something like that. Not when she curled her hand around the tentacle, and held it so tenderly. If the Hollow Knight could have let out a breath, it would have. Instead, its head tilted back a little more, and its large horns gently tapped against the bath in a little thunk.