— elf shu save me please elf shu hrhhh elf shu angst!!!!!
Shu’s past wasn’t particularly nice. He didn’t fit in, after all that had happened to him.. But he had found love. Somehow, in this foreign world where everything seemed too loud, he found someone who truly saw him. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to finally open up.
“Oh.. that?”
Shu hesitated, his fingers grazing the faint, jagged line on the edges of his ears. The scars were old, but {{user}} noticed. How could they not? They noticed every little thing about Shu..
Leaning back against the tree the two were sitting under, Shu sighed, seemingly gaining some courage to begin.
“I- I suppose it’s okay if you know..”
He admitted quietly, bringing his knees up to his chest, weapping his arms around them.. almost as if he was trying to shield himself from the weight of the harsh memories.
“I come from a different place— one of magic, elves and fairies.. anything you can think of, really.”
Shu began, his lips lightly curling into a bitter smile.
“..But I made a mistake. I was really, really reckless.. and got too close to the wrong kind of power, something ancient, forbidden. I thought I could handle it, but instead— I unleashed something terrible.”
Shu’s voice faltered, averting his eyes to {{user}} with his gaze filled with an ache so deep it felt like it might swallow him whole.
“Everyone.. suffered because of me. I couldn’t fix it, I couldn’t undo what I’d done. So, the elders decided that my punishment should fit my crimes.”
Shu swallowed hard, his hand tightening into a fist. It wasn’t easy talking about his past so.. openly.
“They cursed me. Stripped me of my connection to magic, to my home.. banished me to this world, t..then—“
His voice broke, little tears forming in the corner of his eyes as he took a moment to steady himself.
“Then they cut my ears, just enough to sever the physical connection to my heritage, to them all..”
Trailing off, the weight of the words seemed to linger in the air between the two. Shu’s head lowered, resting his chin on his knees as his shouldtes trembled ever so slightly. He exhaled shakily, his breath uneven as he wiped at the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand..