bakerstreet | Heart over head

❝HEAD OVER ♡ HEELS❞
Perhaps you're the kindest, most love-filled person in the world. Or, on the other hand, you may be a calculating, cold villain. Most likely, you fall somewhere in the middle. But for this meme, everyone in this spectrum has one thing in common: you feel love towards someone. Not a facade, not even lust, but real, true love. This, of course, complicates things, yet your love is all-consuming and cannot be ignored.

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This is a shipping meme that operates on "true love." You're welcome to interpret that as you will through your character and your character's culture/society/canon, but what your character will feel is equivalent to love. Not pretending, not a falsehood, etc etc. Actual love. This may be hard for them but that's the point of the meme!
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Prompts:
1. First Love: You've never felt love before, at least not romantic love.
2. Been Burned Before: You had a relationship or loved someone before, and it didn't go well.
3. Fighting It: Nope. You don't want love. Not gonna happen.
4. Confession: You decide not to fight it. Instead, you just want to give in and tell the person, for better or for worse. Good thing they love you back...
5. Courtship: You want to take it slow, so you're doing the dating thing. Awww, how sweet.
6. Do That To Me One More Time: The obligatory smut option. You're using the physical to show the emotional.
7. I Don't Deserve You: You don't think you deserve the affection of the amazing, perfect person who loves you, disgusting and horrible and broken you.
8. Forbidden: It had to be here. You're both members of different factions, species, classes, and so on. But nothing will stand in the way of your feelings unless you let it.
9. Be My Bad Boy: Similar to the above but one of you is "good" while the other is "evil." Despite this, your relationship is just as strong and just as pure as anyone else's.
10. For Your Own Good: We all know the romance trope. One party must leave the other, though they still love them desperately. They must make their love hate them for their own good.
11. Trying to Make It Work: Through good times and bad, you've decided to work together for what you feel, because you know you'll only ever love this person.
12. Back Together: You only had room for one person in your heart, and they were the one that got away. Now, though, you have another chance.
13. I Refuse to Leave: Sometimes, even true love isn't all that good. Sometimes it's destructive and painful, and the person you love isn't the one who's good for you. But they love you, and you can't leave.
14. Keep Your Hands Off!: You have to defend your partner, and you won't let anyone stand in the way.
15. Marry You: You've decided to make things permanent. You're getting married to this person, or whatever other bonding ceremony applies.
16. Doomed: You are seeing this love through to the end, even if you know one of you is dying, being taken away, or otherwise gone from the picture.
17. Wildcard

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Edited 2018-11-19 14:45 (UTC)

[ She mumbles under her breath when she reads. Not quite reading aloud, just the first few words after turning a page. He could listen to it forever, not understanding a word of it.

Understanding would make this less pleasant, more than likely. Not understanding means that he can just listen to Sypha read, listen to her be completely contented. He can pretend like this is her being herself instead of some prophesied magician and doing what she pleases instead of just being here because this is where some story said she has to be.

Makes it feel like this is a place she wants to be. Like his family, if not he himself, has some value to her.

He only speaks up when he recognizes a few words. ]

Old Church Slavic? [ He knows that one. He's learned that one, part of his interrupted education. He wasn't always excommunicated, after all. There was a time where he'd read all manner of church texts. ] Funny sort of language to be writing magic in.

[ It isn't really, considering that most of the Belmont archives deal with Vampires, and the language of the church's texts must have some power over them. But still, he can almost see that old bishop frothing at the mouth over the heresy of it - magic written in the same words as the Good Book. ]

( Sometimes - most times, actually, in the Belmont Keep - she becomes so engrossed in reading, poring over the texts she has grown to love so much, that she forgets she's not alone. Now is one such time. She adores the old languages, ones only she and her kin understand, some that even her kin may have forgotten. But she loves them. She treats them as entities unto themselves. The words demand respect, adoration... They require care.

So, it is in this deep state of being immersed in an ocean of beautiful, ancient things where it takes several moments to realize she's being spoken to. She looks up, what Trevor said just now only half-sinking in at first. She keeps her hand in place, right where it is, pressed against some old inscrutable word of power. )

Hm?

( As his question and his statement both mingle, connect, and finally sink in now that her mind is no longer muddled and distracted by the wealth of knowledge before her, she offers a smile and the slightest hint of a chuckle. Trevor is... a marvel. For one so gruff and brash, he is incredibly intelligent, in spite of all of his tromping around in denial of same. ) Oh. Yes....

( She takes care to note where she's left off, but she closes the book and sets it back on the shelf, in its place between its siblings. ) I suppose it is unusual, that languages now reserved for strict religious teachings against all things magic were once used to call upon forces beyond the understanding of the Church... But the Church, as it is now of course, is much different than the original intended words of God... And the original intended purpose of the Church.

( As she speaks, she walks a slow pace, dragging fingertips lazily over the spines of the other books in the row. Her eyes scrutinize each one's specific binding, some with titles hastily scrawled, others with none whatsoever, others still with deeply embossed scripts sinking into the soft leather. )

History, if not kept carefully as we Speakers keep it, as your family has kept it, is oft forgotten. Lost to dust. The Church is notorious for forgetting itself. Particularly when they find it most convenient.

( She tosses a smile, a bit wider now, over her shoulder at him. )

You surprise me. How many other languages can you secretly understand?

[ She's smiling. It's nice, and it's tempting to boast if it'll make her smile like that more. But- well, she'd figure it out sooner or later. Best to stay honest. ]

They're hardly secret, just the kind of thing you'd expect from a good little Belmont boy. French - I sound like a pompous arse in it, mind. Cymric. Old and new church slavic - can read that, probably couldn't speak it. Enough latin to keep a tutor's hand away from the cane. My hungarian is terrible, but I can ask for a beer and bed. Forgot most of the english I knew. None of this magic shit, though. Don't get tutored in that until you hit fifteen.

[ He shrugs. ]

For some reason they didn't want the little ones going about setting things on fire. Can't imagine why.

( As he rambles on and on about what he knows, doesn't know, what he is terrible at versus where he is skilled, Sypha finds herself more and more amused. And attracted, truly. Trevor Belmont, for better or worse, has altered her life in a way that she hopes never disappears.

She walks up behind him, making a point of bumping him as she reaches past him to the shelf. A smaller book, more simple in its linguistic styling. )

You know, I could teach you. Your fighting is more than adequate, but if you would like to know some magics, it would be simple enough. You learn quickly, or seem to.

[ He just laughs. ] You have a lot more faith in me than I have. But I'll leave it to you and Alucard.

[ He has his reasons, most of which aren't very good. Laziness. Fear. Not wanting to prove the rumours about the Belmonts truer than they're already proving to be. And- ]

Not planning on hitting the road without you any time soon, after all. [ And he looks over at the book, somewhat curious, putting a hand over Sypha's to run his fingers over the raised letters on the cover. ] So I'll keep letting you carry my weight when it comes to the magic.

I do not think my faith is misplaced. You have proven yourself more than once. ( But, nonetheless, he is disinterested - so she shrugs and goes about her business as they talk. They settle into this routine easily now.

Her lips quirk upward as he says he won't leave her behind, but she doesn't move or say anything more until his hand brushes over the top of hers. Her head turns and she looks at him back over her shoulder. Her cheeks brighten, pink. ) You are not too great a burden to bear. ( Then she looks him up and down, best she can at this angle. ) You don't look heavy.

( Her attempt at a joke. It's not perfect, but besides sarcastic jabs it's what she's working with. ) And I am happy to remain by your side.

( What she meant to say was fight, but remain came out instead. She averts her gaze quickly, back to the books. )

( ooc: my pref rundown to avoid tl;dr. )

[y/n? c:]

[ota 21+ I'm not as interested in 2, 6, or 13. 15 with discussion of assumed CR only, please don't hesitate to PM if you'd like to explore this option.]

[ooc: open to cross-canon]

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7 is basically canon for this idiot so

oh no, i'm so happy you exist, and that username is so good.

Thank you!

you're most welcome :3c

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