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New Life

Being with someone can change your life. But what if you can't have your old life back? For your own sake, the sake of your relationship, or by no choice of your own, you have to leave the old you behind. It can go from anything to changing a behavior to changing your whole identity, and all of it can be difficult. One thing is clear, however; to continue where or as you'd lived before is not an option if you want to keep this person you care for in your life.

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THERE WILL BE QUESTIONABLE CONTENT. Just because it's a shipping meme doesn't means everything's fluffy; in fact, more options than not have some unfortunate implications.

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Open Secret: You two have never specifically said who you are in this new place, though you've never denied it.
Witness Protection: To protect your lives, you must live under assumed identities.
Your Real Life: What you knew before was false. This is the actuality.
After a Tragedy: All your friends are dead. Your group is shaken. You saw someone you love murdered. The only other person you have left is the one you're with.
Second Chance at Life: After a brush with death, you've decided to do things right and actually live.
I Don't Want this Life, Dean: You don't want to continue in the family business - er, in your old ways set up by someone else, so you cling to someone who can give you a normal life.
Criminal: You did a bad thing and are wanted. For your protection and the safety of the one you lo...that person, you have to hide.

Turning Over a New Leaf: You're genuinely trying to become a better person and you can't do that with the reminders of your old home and old life.
Rehabilitation: Your lover is helping you get over your wounds, your traumas, or your flaws.
Blank Slate: You have to have a new life because you don't know your old one! All you know is the person you're with and the things they can tell you.
Partners in Crime: You two are rough around the edges, but you're reformed. Really, you just want a peaceful life!

Old Habits Die Hard: No matter what your life is now, you can't shake the need to double check the locks or hold your magic wand tight.
Guilt: You're guilty about your relationship, so you have to reside in hiding.
Through Elicit Means: You got with your partner through cheating and you want to keep that fact on the low.
Stolen Away: You stole your partner - from a bad situation or from someone cruel - so you have to keep your heads down
Taboo:
1. Incest: It's better for you to live where no one know's you're related.
2. Age Difference: You can always fake IDs and birth certificates.
3. Interspecies: There has to be somewhere that doesn't have the prejudices of your home.
Tyrannical Government: You're political enemies drawn together. Perhaps you're working to undermine the government, or maybe you've escaped from that place and are living in peace.
Pulled from the Darkness: Your previous life was so terrible, you don't want to even ponder it any more. End of story, it doesn't matter.
Dependent: You don't know anyone else in this new world of yours, or you don't know how to navigate it, making you dependent on your partner.
Protecting Them: You're with them and hiding them for their own benefit.
They Don't About Your Past:
1. Secret Monster: If they knew about who you used to be, they'd be disgusted and want nothing to do with you.
3. For Them: You're dangerous to be around, so you can't clue them in lest an old enemy or your own abilities come back and harm them.
4. Florence Nightingale: They found you and took you in to help you, no questions asked. You couldn't help but fall for them.
Using Them: This new life is just a sham. You want them to be your camouflage, maybe even getting others to believe you've changed.
Faked Turned Real:
Brainwashing:
1. One-Sided: You love them and want them to believe that things have always been like this. Can you be blamed for going about it this way?
2. Mutual: Both of you think you've always lived this life, thanks to outside forces.
Who Am I, Really?: You love your partner, but you feel like you're losing yourself.
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Edited 2016-12-17 08:43 (UTC)

Edited 2016-12-17 09:30 (UTC)

[Canon actually works with this already.]

[can go either way, but regardless he Relates]

[ And yet is there a way in which it wouldn't fundamentally break him. ]

[ If nothing else, trousers and boots were much more easy to move around in than a bodice and skirts would ever be. Colder in this weather, but that bit of chill was well worth the ability to slip in and out of places sight unseen. Because dressing as she always had, a woman of high-class upbringing, it would be much harder to go about her business without being stopped.

And what was her business, exactly? Nothing much, really, and adjusting the hat that kept her flaxen hair up and out of sight with a pair of gray-gloved hands, she once again slipped them into her pockets. Walking like she felt she owned the place; not looked, certainly, because there was a slight awkwardness to her gait, like one who knew how they should be moving, but couldn't quite pull it off due to lack of practice or muscle memory.

An awkward, young-teenage boy who thought perhaps a bit too much of himself, maybe.

But in actuality, a young woman wanting to get away from the overbearing, overwhelming weight of the day-to-day and simply enjoy a bit of the city. Preferably without someone telling her how unbecoming it was. A young lady simply doesn't do that sort of thing, let alone a Crownguard. And you know, right now, she simply did not want to hear any of it. She was going to have an afternoon to herself, enjoy the incoming winter weather and then slip back in before her father and mother so much as noticed. At least that was the plan.

She would apologize to the boy whose clothes she borrowed later. Yes, borrowed, never stolen. She may be breaking any number of social taboos, but Luxanna Crownguard would never break the law. And while she had no real destination in mind (admittedly, the escape had been the most appealing part, and for once she hadn't gotten caught!), her feet took her on a journey toward the outer reaches of town, moving more on instinct than on reason.

That was when she saw it, flickering at the corner of her vision, a scant whisp of light filtering out of a dark and seemingly empty alleyway. And while she was not exactly the adventurous type, something beckoned her to move, to turn toward that eerie light in the darkness and begin to walk. To move with purpose, weaving around those people unknowingly walking past, making her way into the alleyway and— ]

—!

[ Feathers white as freshly-fallen snow, floating upward toward the heavens like the wing of an angel. She stumbled then, half tripping and knocking her cap free, flaxen hair unfurling quite suddenly as the young woman stared in disbelief. Frozen there, sky blue eyes wide and eyebrows raised ever so. In that cold, early winter night, as people unknowingly laughed and made merry on the streets not too far from them, none quite knew the sudden cold bite that ran down her spine just then.

Fear yes, but... ]

[ Something else. A strange cold-hot burn of purpose, like she had stumbled upon something both so terrifying and otherworldly, but at the same time beautiful and broken (A single wing? Was it a wing at all?), and that she had to do something about it.

She moved, but it wasn't to retrieve her hat. Instead, her gray-gloved hands fumbled at her neck, tugging the dark-colored muffler and quickly folding it at the ready. A few steps forward, once again dodging past, although slowly this time, like one might around a scared animal.

...That was a man there, wasn't it? It wasn't her eyes playing tricks on her? And while he might have been positioned away from her (...white hair?), that didn't seem to deter her in the slightest. ]

Here.

[ An olive branch, in a way, as she offered the stranger her scarf as she began to crouch. Keeping her distance—both for him, and for her own safety—yet staying close enough to hand him that bit of warmth.

Stay calm, Lux. Deep breaths. Remember to breathe... ]

You—you're not hurt, are you? Let me help you.

[ Her head canting just slightly, she offered him a somewhat forced smile. Not unkind, but perhaps a bit uncertain? ]

A life together

Aoba Seragaki (DmmD) OTA

Yuri Plisetsky (Yuri!! on Ice) OTA

alex j. mercer | prototype | ota

Shinonome Kon | Amatsuki

steve rogers | mcu | ota

Inej Ghafa | Six of Crows

Gansey ( The Raven Cycle - OTA )

janice rand | star trek (alternate reality) | ota

Evangeline Greene | Arcana Chronicles

major lilywhite | izombie

Rey | Star Wars | m/f

Credence Barebone | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

tsurugi kamiya / servamp / ota

Neil Josten | all for the game

Frank Castle | Daredevil

Yato | Noragami | OTA

Rey | SW: TFA | OTA

Reaper Arden | OC | OTA

Edwin Jarvis | Agent Carter | S1

margaery tyrell | asoiaf

Credence Barebone | Fantastic Beasts | ota

Allen Walker | D.Gray-man

all of 22, with a bit of AU sprinkled in for taste [1/2]

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