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[19 OCT] [SPICE AND WOLF] [LIKE BOTTLED SUNSHINE]
Title: Like Bottled Sunshine
Day/Theme: 19th October 2010; vibrant
Series: Spice and Wolf
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Lawrence, Holo; Holo/Lawrence
Rating: G
Notes: Almost any time post Season 1 Episode 6.
Lawrence looks at his companion and is a little lost as to what to think.
Certainly, in her current form she looks innocent enough - minus the ears and tail, Holo could pass for an average human girl. He's seen her true form, though, and knows that the power hidden behind the pretty face is nothing to be trifled with. It is not without reason that the people believe her to be a god.
For all that indomitable strength and expansive knowledge, however, it mystifies him how incredibly childish she can behave sometimes. At times she exudes an aura that in itself speaks of her vast wisdom and experience, and other times she acts exactly like the human girl she's pretending to be. He finds it a little hard to reconcile these two sides of her every now and then, when the difference is so striking it takes his breath away.
Regardless, if there is one thing that remains constant throughout their time spent together it is the fact that his journeys have never been livelier. Each day is filled with pointless bickering, mischievious teasing - mostly by her, varied lessons... and occasionally, just talking about nothing and everything. He has always travelled by himself and she has been alone for a very long time and this is new to both of them (but far from unwelcome for sure).
There are times, nonetheless, when she goes uncharacteristically quiet and he can only guess that her mind has taken her into unpleasant territory. It is in those moments that the gravity of her situation - the timelessness and the loneliness that goes with it - hits him, and it is unsettling. It feels like he's glimpsing a sliver of her past, a fragment of those years when she was bound with a promise ungratefully exploited by those who feared instead of respected her. He does what he can to bring her back to the present when it happens, be it by starting a mock fight, regaling her with some humorous story he'd heard during his travels or simply offering her the comfort of a warm embrace. Eventually he breaks through that cloud and gets his companion back - that strange wolf-girl who'd so brazenly entered his life and become such a large part of it he can't imagine how things will be when they part ways. He does not tell her that when he succeeds it brings him no small measure of relief.
She looked her best when she was smiling, after all.
Day/Theme: 19th October 2010; vibrant
Series: Spice and Wolf
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Lawrence, Holo; Holo/Lawrence
Rating: G
Notes: Almost any time post Season 1 Episode 6.
Lawrence looks at his companion and is a little lost as to what to think.
Certainly, in her current form she looks innocent enough - minus the ears and tail, Holo could pass for an average human girl. He's seen her true form, though, and knows that the power hidden behind the pretty face is nothing to be trifled with. It is not without reason that the people believe her to be a god.
For all that indomitable strength and expansive knowledge, however, it mystifies him how incredibly childish she can behave sometimes. At times she exudes an aura that in itself speaks of her vast wisdom and experience, and other times she acts exactly like the human girl she's pretending to be. He finds it a little hard to reconcile these two sides of her every now and then, when the difference is so striking it takes his breath away.
Regardless, if there is one thing that remains constant throughout their time spent together it is the fact that his journeys have never been livelier. Each day is filled with pointless bickering, mischievious teasing - mostly by her, varied lessons... and occasionally, just talking about nothing and everything. He has always travelled by himself and she has been alone for a very long time and this is new to both of them (but far from unwelcome for sure).
There are times, nonetheless, when she goes uncharacteristically quiet and he can only guess that her mind has taken her into unpleasant territory. It is in those moments that the gravity of her situation - the timelessness and the loneliness that goes with it - hits him, and it is unsettling. It feels like he's glimpsing a sliver of her past, a fragment of those years when she was bound with a promise ungratefully exploited by those who feared instead of respected her. He does what he can to bring her back to the present when it happens, be it by starting a mock fight, regaling her with some humorous story he'd heard during his travels or simply offering her the comfort of a warm embrace. Eventually he breaks through that cloud and gets his companion back - that strange wolf-girl who'd so brazenly entered his life and become such a large part of it he can't imagine how things will be when they part ways. He does not tell her that when he succeeds it brings him no small measure of relief.
She looked her best when she was smiling, after all.