word game: eyes

[museaway]

This week's word is...
eyes

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and please pop back around later!)

Comments

[bens_writingjournal]

Something for the oncoming Level Up event, planning for a fic more than 1k words with a second-person POV. So naturally, that POV is for Doppelganger/Yulia.
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You try again in saying your swallow's name — again, "My swallow…" and you wince on cue, expecting her irritation. But instead of an indignant sigh and a short lecture on saying her name, she chuckles. In the dim light of a gas lamp, her eyes look so… soft. Reassuring, even — a look without demand or expectation, only love and patience.

Third time's the charm, so even with a nervous gulp, you say her name — Lara. And you watch her smile bloom.

Yulia, she says, followed by, good warrior, and she gives you careful strokes to your blood-crimson hair. Yulia — that's your new name, right? For so long, you've been derisively called Doppie, as if you were a disobedient child in need of a controlling parent, not a warrior with an intelligence as equal as your lover's. Nor has your nickname been said with a sort of quiet intimacy with which she's said to you. As if it's a form of prayer, an exaltation of you putting a permanent end to Natla's [THE EMPRESS] fury.

[nicky_gabriel]

What an intense moment. Wow!
Just three paragraphs, but as if an entire story!

[stefanyeah]

You're already planning for level up? 🤭

2nd person PoV can be so intimate. And names and nicknames are also such a intimate thing! 💖