Redacted Bright Eyes - Tumblr Posts
hey guys I'm working on something, and I would like to know the story behind Fred and bright eyes, I know about their turning but that's it and id like to know why people were against bright eyes?
just want to make sure i get my facts right
Ive recently been thinking about a boxing au for the redacted universe. I will do this in bullet points cause it makes sense but if I do well ill write some stuff. And if you are inspired by it and want to write your own stuff based around it, go for it just credit me for the inspiration. ( I'm not good at writing fighting, and i don't know much boxing terminology, so if you know something let me know)
tw fo quin being shitty, toxic, abusive.
Quinn is a non professional trainer, set up illigeal " anything goes fights" normally only takes on one loyal boxer at a time.
david runs a profisnal gym , has multiple traniers such as milo and asher. most the other wolf pack works there or train as a fighter.\
the wolf pack will often go to illegal fights to scout fighters , to try and get them to a profecinal level
darlin started off as quinns boxer, and partner. darlin switched trainers when david scouted them. Quinn did not take it well, broke up with them in a violent way. opening darlins eyes to what Quinn was really like.
Willium is an older , boxer champion who has a closed off gym, after his number one, alexis, started training and betting illegally. sam and vincent are his trainers , sam retired from actual fights , while vincent trains and fights.
now i was never able to listen to the fred/bright eyes story so if this doesn't fit I'm sorry
Sam trains fred after finding him and bright eyes, injured in a fight, they'd been jumped by some of Quinns guy, for no other reason then the fact that they like having the power to hurt people.
Bright eyes however, didn't want to learn from Sam, they thought that it ve better to learn first who ever taught the group that jumped them, so they became Quinn favorite fighter.
Angel and David were together before angel started training , they only train for self defense after realizing that David couldn't magicly show up to save them. They are very good and asher and milo keep suggesting they get in the ring but they don't want to , and David agrees with angel. Angel prefers kickboxing btw.
Sweethearts life wasn't easy and they made money fighting in the streets, they worked alone, no one trained them. They fought dirty, wearing rings in fights, heart shaped rings , which earned them the name sweetheart, cause they'd leave heart imprints all over their opponents body
The damn group are a fight school, only really train and fight within the school
Cutie is known for being so good there accused of cheating, it almost like they now their oppents next move. But in reality they spend a lot of time learning the patterns of other fighters. known for being on the defensive before taking out their opponents in just a few hits
That's all I got for now. Not checked so sorry about the spelling and grammar mistakes.
The longer I think about this the more I want to write something, I'm currently working on an outline. Anyway I'm here to aks for some fighter names for the non listeners, one that fit with who they are but also work in a non magical world l, i don't want it to be obvious like " milo the wolf" so I'd love some suggestions for any character you'd like to add
Ive recently been thinking about a boxing au for the redacted universe. I will do this in bullet points cause it makes sense but if I do well ill write some stuff. And if you are inspired by it and want to write your own stuff based around it, go for it just credit me for the inspiration. ( I'm not good at writing fighting, and i don't know much boxing terminology, so if you know something let me know)
tw fo quin being shitty, toxic, abusive.
Quinn is a non professional trainer, set up illigeal " anything goes fights" normally only takes on one loyal boxer at a time.
david runs a profisnal gym , has multiple traniers such as milo and asher. most the other wolf pack works there or train as a fighter.\
the wolf pack will often go to illegal fights to scout fighters , to try and get them to a profecinal level
darlin started off as quinns boxer, and partner. darlin switched trainers when david scouted them. Quinn did not take it well, broke up with them in a violent way. opening darlins eyes to what Quinn was really like.
Willium is an older , boxer champion who has a closed off gym, after his number one, alexis, started training and betting illegally. sam and vincent are his trainers , sam retired from actual fights , while vincent trains and fights.
now i was never able to listen to the fred/bright eyes story so if this doesn't fit I'm sorry
Sam trains fred after finding him and bright eyes, injured in a fight, they'd been jumped by some of Quinns guy, for no other reason then the fact that they like having the power to hurt people.
Bright eyes however, didn't want to learn from Sam, they thought that it ve better to learn first who ever taught the group that jumped them, so they became Quinn favorite fighter.
Angel and David were together before angel started training , they only train for self defense after realizing that David couldn't magicly show up to save them. They are very good and asher and milo keep suggesting they get in the ring but they don't want to , and David agrees with angel. Angel prefers kickboxing btw.
Sweethearts life wasn't easy and they made money fighting in the streets, they worked alone, no one trained them. They fought dirty, wearing rings in fights, heart shaped rings , which earned them the name sweetheart, cause they'd leave heart imprints all over their opponents body
The damn group are a fight school, only really train and fight within the school
Cutie is known for being so good there accused of cheating, it almost like they now their oppents next move. But in reality they spend a lot of time learning the patterns of other fighters. known for being on the defensive before taking out their opponents in just a few hits
That's all I got for now. Not checked so sorry about the spelling and grammar mistakes.
sam is literally the only reason everyone hates bright eyes
AND SHSHSKJSD SHUT UP SHUT UP SHHH I LOVE SAM HES MY HUSBAND IM NOT SLANDERING HIM GRRR /lh /nsrs
he lashed out at them like they were a little kid after their decision. i dont think he was necessarily wrong to be upset, bc again bright eyes was in the wrong for what they did, but i guarantee you if he was the first person to reach lovely the fandom would hate them too. vince hit on them on sight so we dont care that going back to where they met vince was the dumbest thing they could possibly do.
unfortunately it looks like redacted fans do not want flawed characters with their sexy bf soup, which is fine sure, but it hurts my psychoanalysing heart /lh /hj
I'm going to be real with y'all. The reason I'm hesitant about writing my thoughts about bright eyes and darlin is that. Some y'all don't understand their not 100 percent in right with their actions.
I get some people kin characters or really like them. But some y'all can't handle when the Canon it's self has valid criticism of their actions. I don't want people being upset at me bringing it to attention when Canon itself says yah that's a problem or really bad flaw.
Fred and Bright one-shot - characters
I'm not dead guys, school just held me by the neck and my motivation for this comic has been wavering, so it won't be as long as I originally planned. I'm sorry gang, my attention got drawn towards my own personal comics and I wanna start getting them out to the world. The Fred and Bright Comic is still on its way but I will only make one long post about it, I don't know when. anyways.
Vincent- 5'9ft->175.26 cm
he/him
Lovely (Kunna)- 5'7ft->173.736cm
he/she
Alexis- 5'2ft-> 158.496cm
she/her
(i changed the style cause i needed to go quicker and i couldn't waste anymore time making them elaborate T-T)
(i did Sam incredibly dirty)
Sam collins 5'11ft->180.34 cm
he/him
William- 6'7ft -> 204.216cm
he/slay(/j)
Porter-5'11->180.34 cm
he/they
Fredrick-6'3ft->192.024cm
he/him
Brighteyes(Mairenn)-6'0ft->182.88 cm
they/them
That is all gang, i might be radio silent again, until I've finished the one-shot
genuinely tweaking up in here
How To Quickly Categorize Redacted Audio Listeners By Using Iced Tea:
-Drinks iced tea straight from its two-liter carton:
Darlin
Angel
Bright Eyes
Seer Obscura
Cutie
Bestie
-Drinks iced tea from a glass like a normal person but the glass is filled with more ice than tea:
Sweetheart
Lovely
Sunshine
Yandere Ivan's Baby
Smartass
-Drinks iced tea warm, defeating the whole purpose of it being iced:
Warden
Asset
-Prefers hot tea:
Baabe
Starlight
Precious
Flyboi Ivan's Baby
Honey
Anton's Listener
Lasko's Water Elemental
"Why would you drink tea when [sugary, over-caffeinated thing that will one day give them diabetes] exists?":
Ollie's Babe
Freelancer
It seems I have written yet another one-shot while I was procrastinating my bigger works... Oh well, at least I had fun writing it for the past three hours.
If you're looking to read some suicidal and angsty Bright Eyes/Frederick fic in which I explore my take on Bright's behavior, here you go!
Here Are Some Names The Listeners Call Our Redacted Boys! Solaire Clan And Shaw Pack Edition:
Angel: Davey/Cutie or Babe/Handsome depending on whether they want to annoy Davey or not
Baabe: Ash/Darling
Sweetheart: My Love/Love (get it? because milo and my love sound similar? yea no, i'll leave-)
Lovely: Vince/Vinny and any (and every) other short version of Vincent or Lover/My Beloved
Darlin: Sammy/Dear
Bright Eyes: Freddy/Moissanite (because it's the most reflective gem and fred is the light of their life, get it? i'm so creative, i know /s (<-but in addition to this: Fred doesn't get it at all and just feels sorta insulted that Bright compares him to a rock all the time))
When Frustrated Or Extremely Angry, These Listeners Do The Following:
Goes for a run: Sweetheart, Warden, Anton's Listener
Starts hitting things: Darlin, Cutie, Smartass,
Starts hitting people: Honey, Lovely
Aggressively paints on their body and every surface in their home that should not be painted: Baabe, Starlight, Sunshine, Asset, Lasko's Water Elemental
Starts chugging either ungodly amounts of soda or furiously crunching on breath mints: Angel, Bestie, Seer Obscura, Mentor, James' Listener
All of the above in that order: Freelancer, Bright Eyes
Cries afterward: Anton's Listener, Cutie, Smartass, Lovely, Sunshine, Angel, Seer Obscura, Freelancer
Redacted Characters And Listeners That Should Not (under any circumstances) Be Handed a Gun:
-James (Will face first degree murder charges for killing several of his superiors.)
-Milo (Should face a first degree murder charge for killing at least one individual, but there is not enough evidence to make this possible.)
-Angel (Will lose the gun.)
-Kody (Because obviously.)
-Hush (OBVIOUSLY)
-Sunshine (Will kill off everyone in CloseKnit no questions asked [but would that be such a bad thing?])
-Guy (The worst he'll do is shoot a hole into the wall [on accident?] but that's already enough of a reason to never hand this man a firearm.)
-Bright Eyes ("Hey, Fred? Wanna find out how many bullets a vamp can take?" - "No thanks!" - "Chill out, I wasn't gonna test it on you." - "*sigh of relief* Oh thank god... Wait, you're not going to try and kill Vincent again, right?" - "Of course not!" - "Okay good." *silence* "Wait, Bright, no!")
Because nobody asked, here are songs that make it very easy for me to write for/that I associate with certain characters (but this is only for the vampires because otherwise, this list would likely be too long for anyone to want to read it):
Sam: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend by Girl In Red. [I will not explain. Just listen to the song and don't tell me you can't see Darlin' and Sam sitting on the couch with an acoustic guitar.]
William: Dream On by Aerosmith. [It's not that I'm refusing to explain. Rather, I have no idea how to explain this.]
Vincent: Honkai World Diva from the game Honkai Impact 3rd. [So majestic. Just like him TwT]
Vincent (again): From Now On We Are Enemies by Fall Out Boy. [Vibe. That's why.]
Alexis: Applause by Lady Gaga. [It really feels like her. Like, if songs had a human appearance, Applause would look like Alexis.]
Alexis (I had to): After Life by Band-Maid. [Alexis but happy :D]
Adam: Regret by 1stress. [Again, I have no explanation other than "the song looks like him."]
Quinn: Battle Cry by Shayfer James. [Yes.]
Lovely: Vampire by DECO*27 [I don't think I have to explain this one.]
Lovely (once more): The Title Track by Origami Angel. [You know, while I was going through my playlist, I was expecting to end up with hyperpop or a Hatsune Miku song for Lovely. Then I put on The Title Track and somehow it just clicked for me.]
Bright Eyes: Dream On BUT it's the Kasane Teto cover. [The cover that made me fall in love with Teto <3]
Frederick: Bleed Magic by I Don't Know How But They Found Me. [Haha trauma haha funny. But seriously, this was not the song I expected to give Fred.]
I present the following thought:
Lovely, our residential urban explorer, Bright, whose middle name is "Trespassing," and Tank, "no impulse control" Shaw, running around Dahlia trespassing onto abandoned factory grounds or breaking into dilapidated buildings like once a week for fun. Lovely trances the cops if they get caught, Bright smashes shit with Lovely's baseball bat for the hell of it, and Tank takes pictures with an old digital camera from like 2006 to show Sam and the pack the next day.
Things I would make a second Ao3 account for just so I could give kudos twice: Teaching and Learning -related Prompts.
•Angel teaching David how to roller-skate and him being a mess about it.
•Tank teaching Angel how to ollie.
•Honey teaching Guy how to do sudokus.
•Marie teaching Sweetheart some family recipe that's been passed down in her side of the family.
•Huxley showing Lasko how to properly care for plants without drowning or dehydrating them.
•Sam and Baabe sitting down and teaching each other how to play their respective instruments (guitar/piano).
•Freelancer teaching Damien how they always win at bowling.
•Damien teaching Gavin how to minigolf.
•Starlight teaching Avior how to make their favorite ice cream (said ice cream turns out to be some horrific ice cream/slice of pizza/chips mix).
•Tank who was forced into dance groups and such as a kid teaching Bright Eyes how to dance.
•Vincent, Lovely, and Frederick studying for D.A.M.N. together.
There's a spider in my bed.
"There's a spider that's been in my bed for a week, I lost it and still haven't found it. Despite this, I still sleep in my bed" - Darlin', Honey, Lovely, Freelancer, Lasko's co-worker
"There is a spider in my bed, I lost it and now I sleep in the bathtub" - Vincent, Guy, Milo & Sweetheart, Gavin, Frederick, Damien, Lasko, Elliott & Sunshine
"I saw a spider in my bed so I got my partner to clean the entire room and make sure to catch it" - Angel, Asher (Neither David nor Baabe actually found the spider in question. They pretended to have found it but they didn't.)
"There's a spider in my bed. Has been for at least a week now. We're friends :)" - Bright Eyes, Doc, Hudson, Huxley
In honor of my name card post reaching 500 notes for some godforsaken reason, here's more of that as a thank you to everyone who enjoyed that post:
Vincent "You're the Lovely of My Life" Solaire
Sam "No violence unless it's hot and deserved" Collins
Lovely "Punches holes into walls as a hobby" Solaire
Alexis "I need to be really careful with what I put here or the fandom will hunt me down" Getty
Porter "Who?" Solaire
William "Are you even allowed to drink wine with your meds old man?" Solaire
Adam "Insert the bisexual anthem here" Jessup
Quinn "Swiper no fucking murder" Fox
Bright "Trespassing" Eyes
Frederick "What do you mean 'therapy'? I can't afford that" Collins
Redacted characters/listeners as me talking about fanfic to my friend:
Tank: That moment when you read a fic's description without reading the tags and just get hit in the face by some a/b/o shit.
David: I did not consent to this bullshit.
Angel: All of these fics make me feel very vanilla ngl-
Vincent: Also yes, I probably will keep sending you random shit from the fics I'm reading right now. You're welcome.
Baabe: Ah yes,
Bright Eyes: [insert several screenshots of various fics they're reading]
Bright Eyes: I'm having a great time, can you tell?
Frederick: I'm in class.
Fic: [Wordcount 15k+, 1/? Chapter]
Freelancer: I am not about to put in this much effort for a fucking unfinished pokemon AU.
Asher: Reading this damn near gave me a stroke for some reason *cough* sleepy *cough*
I love this u-u
Ok just one more punk progeny won't hurt~
Chapter 1: the give away
(Bright eyes is ftm trans in this but not all of the other characters know this so they use he/they when referring to him) tanker and Lovely use they/them pronouns (this is the same in all of my fics)
To put it simply Vincent honestly didn't understand what the big deal was.
Yes, Sam had confided in him about the way Bright eyes acted out and how the whole "wonder world incident III" was Bright's fault but giving Bright away to William? Seemed a bit...drastic. However Vincent had never seen how bad the arguments got, how Bright would act like a 'rebellious teen on steroids' and how Sam would scare himself sh*tless realising who he was beginning to sound like...his parents.
Vincent only ever heard Sam's side of the story and Bright wasn't big on talking to well...anyone other than Sam, when they were arguing, Fred, when he was telling him to get out of his room and Tanker when they would hang out.
Not to mention this was William's idea.
Vincent was the first person William had told about this. Will's plan was to run it by Vincent to get his advice, then ask Bright if he wanted to, then ask for Sam's consent. In any case, Vincent thought that the idea was a little on the extreme side but he could see some good coming out of it.
He wandered through the halls of the solaire household as he thought about all this and eventually found himself back in one of the common rooms, where he left lovely. He smiled to himself and walked over to them.
"Hey lovely" Lovely's head perked up at the sound of his voice
"Oh! Hey Vincent" the meeting with William wasn't particularly long but the two embrace nonetheless
"How did it go?" Asked Lovely. Neither of them knew what the meeting was going to be about, Vincent was just notified that William wanted to "discuss a potential proposal and wanted his opinion".
But now that Vincent knew what William's "proposal" was, he of course planned on telling Lovely.
"It went alright I mean, it was....unexpected" Lovely gave him a look of curiosity. Vincent sat next to them and instinctively put his arm around them.
"So what WAS the meeting about?" Vincent hesitated for a moment due to him worrying that gossiping about something like this while IN the solaire house might not be a good idea but then brushed the thought aside, he was pretty sure Alexis was out, Fred was at Sam's and he hadn't seen Bright.
"Welll~ you've met Bright eyes right?" Lovely thought for a moment then gave a nodd.
"Uh huh, yeah we've brushed shoulders once or twice, he's Sam's progeny right?" Vincent gave a blunt laugh at that last comment.
"Ha! No no he's FRED'S progeny (who is Sam's progeny)"
"Oooohh sorry, its just from what little I've heard of them they just seemed like there both being taken care of by Sam right?"
"Yeah but that's only because Fred can't exactly take care of or teach Bright to be a vampire right?" Vincent replied. Lovely understood.
"Ah ok I get it. What about them?" Vincent gave one more look into the hallway just to check that no one else was listening, he saw no one so he continued.
"OK so you know that Bright is being 'taken care of' by Sam right?" He continued without Lovely having to answer "buuut Sam and Bright have an extremely...rocky relationship, with Sam initially blaming the whole wonder world III incident on Bright and them not apologising to Fred. So they tend to argue a lot. Sam tells me a little about these arguments but only after they both have calmed down." Lovely nodded to show they were paying attention.
"I guess they've gotten worse tho....? Cos now William wants to step in. And by 'step in' I mean
Hes gonna ask Sam if he can take Bright off his hands and make him HIS progeny"
Lovely's jaw dropped "wow, do you think he will?"
"Sam, accept the offer? Hmm hard to say, but if I had to guess...yeah probably. Sam means well and I'm sure Bright dose too but right now I think it's all too much for both of them to handle. Besides we both know William has his way with 'trobled vampire youth'" Lovely giggled.
"Oh you should have seen his face! He wants another punk-ass progeny so bad!" Vincent and Lovely both began laughing.
But while they laughed, unknown to them, another held back furious, burning tears. Bright had been listening.
When Vincent went to look in the hallway to see if somone was there, he ducked out of the way of the open doorway and remained hidden but he heard the whole thing...
Without being heard by the two, he stormed to the guest room he had been given and slammed the door. A moment of silence momentarily drowned the room, then he scrunched up his fist to the point where he swore he felt blood dripping out of his hand and he punched the wall of his bedroom so hard a crack that resembled lightning.
He couldn't tell if the crack came from the wall or his knuckles but he didn't care either way.
He hated this, this feeling, this situation, everything. The thing that he had hated from the very beginning was the way Sam made him feel like a child again. And now that feeling was more overwhelming than ever, because he was being given away...again.
Of course Sam was going to accept the offer, he had hated Bright from the very start! All these thoughts screamed at him as his fist slid down the wall he had hit, along with his body.
He fell to the floor and leaned his forehead against the wall for a long while.
Maybe having William as a mentor wouldn't be so bad, at least him offering ment he gave even a little bit of a sh*t about him. Still...he didn't like the feeling of being given away without being able to do anything about it.
After this thought crossed his mind he got up, whipped his face and walked out of his room...and ran towards William's office.
(Thanks to @darlin-collins for giving me the idea and proof reading for me again 🧡💙)
You have no idea how happy I was to see this just now -w-
Ok just one more punk progeny won't hurt~
Chapter 2: barging in
(Ftm Bright eyes - he/him)
Bright eyes thought about what he'd say to William as he ran down the hallway, up to his study.
He had never met him officially but its not as if he's worried about making a good first impression, I mean he's on his way to accuse him of the vampire equivalent of adopting him without consent.
He didn't exactly have long to think about this though as it only took him a couple of seconds to get to his study. He still wasn't exactly used to (or particularly good at) this whole super speed thing, anytime he'd train with Sam Bright would get upset that he wasn't as fast as Fred and that just made Sam mad at him.
Losing no momentum, Bright burst into William's study.
"Hey!-" he was about to begin but was shockingly taken aback by William and his appearance.
He didn't look up at him when Bright burst through the door, he just continued writing. He had long light blonde hair that elegantly flopped forward, covering his eyes slightly as his head leaned forward over his desk.
Bright wasn't sure what came over him, it was as if a wave of respect washed over him as soon as he opened the door.
Then he snapped out of it.
"Hey!" He repeated, he managed to finish his sentence this time only he was louder.
Either William didn't hear him the first time or he was ignoring him but his eyes looked up at Bright, however he kept his head down.
As mentioned before, Bright didn't have a lot of time to prepare a speech and he'd already lost his composure, so he just figured he'd say whatever came to mind.
But before he could start, William began, with a welcoming and soft tone that almost made Bright eyes completely at ease. Almost.
"Ah Bright, I've been meaning to talk with you~ actually we've never officially met have we? I'm William solaire and you're the one they call 'Bright eyes' ? I'd love to know where that name came from. Please sit."
Bright had to shake his head around just to convince himself not to comply.
"Cut the crap! I know what you and Sam plan on doing with me. That you're supposed to 'take me off Sam's hands' cos crist knows that southern bastard can't handle me on his own.
But before you seal the deal....
Could you at least give me a chance to think about it?"
You'd think William would be confused at this but he's smart enough to figure out what's happened here.
He looked to his antique clock on the wall beside him that looked like if you sold it you could buy a house with it.
He sighed and pinched the skin between his eyes.
"Damn it Vincent, its been less than 20 minutes and you're already gossiping about matters that barley concern you"
He took a deep breath and looked at Bright with his silver eyes that seemed to illuminate his face.
"I can understand why you'd think that is the case, however im sorry to inform you that there has been a slight miscommunication. Either Vincent misinterpreted what I told him in the meeting or you heard him wrong, in any case that is not what my intention with you was".
Bright gave a look of disbelief, then looked down.
"R-really?"
He had no idea what it was about this man that made him want to respect him almost instantly but William still smiled and answered him.
"No. The plan was that I'd ask for Vincent's council on the matter, then ask if you'd like to be transferred as my progeny and IF you agreed I'd go to Sam and ask for his consent to 'take you off his hands' as it where"
Brights eyes widened
"It was always going to be your decision, Bright, I apologise for any hardship this mistake may have caused you"
Bright looked to the floor for guidance. He felt so stupid now. He didn't know what to do.
But William did.
"So now that we have that out of the way, please sit."
Bright would be exaggerating if he said that William's tone was sturn but he had a feeling that he didn't want to know what would happen if he declined.
So he hastily sat down at one of William's chairs facing his desk.
"This meating is certainly happening faster then i has expected, but I suppose there's no point in sending you away now".
Bright stayed silent.
"Well you've already told me your decision on the matter so I suppose this could be a way for me to get to know you before you make your final decision".
"W-what?"....
"When you came in here you said you'd like to think about it, so while you 'think about it' I'd like to get to know you
For instance, your name".
Bright's brown thurowed "what about it?"
William smiled and closed his eyes in a way that reminded Bright of when he was alive, when the sun would wake him up by blinding him and he'd have to choose between a warm bed and eyesight. Eventually he'd always close the blinds....
Damn it why I this French f*k making me spit poetry?! Thought Bright eyes to himself.
"It's very interesting~ where dose it come from? I think its safe to say that you weren't born with it and it's not uncommon for young vampires to change their name upon being turned. So
Where did you come up with a name like that?"
Bright felt more at ease at this, maybe it was the fact that he was no longer being blinded by his piercing eyes.
He thought about this question for a second and was briefly brought back to a time befor he died, before he got top surgery and when there was literally no part of his body that he didn't hate.
Apart from his eyes. And the only reason for that......was Fred telling him basically every other week just how "bright his eyes where".
He stopped himself from smiling at this. Because that wasn't the reason why he called himself that.
He called himself "Bright eyes" to remind himself of what Fred had taken from him that night. When he first looked in the mirror after being turned he was met with the loss of the one thing he actually liked about himself, he also hated the irony of the one who made him love his eyes was the one who took the light from them away.
He then looked at William with his usual cocky smirk that had become like a resting face for him.
"You know when someone complements you and then you make that one complement your whole personality?"
Bright regretted this question immediately after asking it. How was he supposed to know if William understood what he was telling him? Dudes like a thousand years old!
But then William gave a short giggle, still keeping his eyes closed.
"Oh yes~ there's a woman from the house of Benit that was once told that she 'looked good in red' and I honestly can't recall a single time she's worn anything else In the last century".
They both laughed at this.
"So there was somone in your life that complimented your eyes?~ and now you call yourself Bright eyes?"
Bright gave a sturn "yes" hoping that he wouldn't ask anymore of him.
William was about to ask him about his realationship with Sam and why HE thinks William wants to take him in but then he got a sharp wiff of something that made his eyes go sharp.
It was blood. Vampiric blood.
Bright was bleeding.
William shot up from his desk, making Bright jump in the prosses. He didn't mean to scare him as much as he did but he had to know what was hurting him.
He went around his desk to where Bright was sitting and bent down. It was coming from his palms.
"What happened?" His voice didn't contain pity as much as it did concern, that combined with a sturn look made Bright feel weak. Like he was about to cry.
Not from the pain, he hadn't noticed he was bleeding until just now. No.
He was just surprised to hear somone caring about him again...
"O-oh i-i scrunched up my fist up kinda tight when I heard what Vincent said, i-i guess I squeezed a little to hard huh? Haha...." his voice was braking up.
He needed to get out of here before William noticed the state he was in.
But he already knew.
He grabbed him softly by the shoulders and said "stay here"
Upon turning Bright's hand over for inspection, he noticed that there wasn't just blood coming from his palms, there was marks on his knuckles that implied blunt force trauma.
Maybe now wasn't a good time to tell William that he punched his wall so hard he cracked it, thought Bright.
William pondered whether or not using healing magic was a good idea. Bright wasn't used to magic just yet, not only that but his bad realationship with Sam may have made him not exactly....partial to healing magic.
But then he looked up at Bright, he had THAT look.
The same look Vincent gave him that convinced him to save him.
The look he historically couldn't resist.
He took Bright's hand and it flinched as if he had electrocuted him.
But then Bright took a deep breath and gingerly placed his plam in William's hand.
William gave a look of reassurance and began working on his hand.
Bright winced and hissed and tried to pull away, but William didn't waver in his attempt to heal him. He squeezed his hand to keep him still in a way that didn't hurt him but so that he couldn't let go.
Afterwards, William let go and Bright's hand shot away from him,he began breathing heavily.
Now William DID have a look of pity on his face but he didn't let Bright see it.
Bright looked up at him and for a moment the two sat there in silence just looking at each other softly.
Bright was then the one to brake the silence.
"Right well...now that that mishap is all figured out I really should get going" he didn't exactly have an excuse but he didn't want to talk to William any longer.
Not because he had any problem with him, he actually felt better and more comfortable than he had been In ages after spending less than 10 minutes with him.
But William said that he wanted to "get to know Bright" and he liked William to much already to let him realise just how terrible he really was and the mistake he was making.
If William wanted him as a progeny now....better keep it that way.
So he left after making a motion with his body that resembled an awkward excuse for a bow, his face was bright red (ha!) After that.
William smiled to himself and finally opened his eyes.
"It seems I have my work cut out for me with this 'Bright eyes'"
He was disappointed that their time was so short but he shrugged it off.
He picked up his phone and began to make a call to Samuel.
"Hello Samuel, I like to request a meeting with you"
.............
"In a few days"
..........
"Alright~ alright~"
When he finished his call he made a new one directly afterwards.
"Hello, yes it's good to hear from you!~ do you have any free time to come by the house and fix a crack, presumably also a hole, in one of my walls?~"
..............
"Thank you, goodbye~".
(Credits go to @darlin-collins for the idea and thanks for proof reading and all the complements 💙🧡)
Honestly thought I was too tired to read but I couldn't help myself. A lovely read, as always ^-^
Ok just one more punk progeny won't hurt ~
Chapter 3: consent (part 1)
(Ftm trans Bright eyes - he/him pronouns)
Let it never be said that Samuel was proud of the way he had treated Bright when he was first turned.
He was harsh, however at the time it seemed appropriate considering Bright had essentially led Sam's progeny to his death.
Because of that, Sam had placed all the blame onto Bright since the beginning of his turning.
That combined with Bright eye's already existing young-adult-angst, newborn vampire emotions and a newfound hunger.....let's just say they didn't exactly mix well.
However it wouldn't be fair to leave out the struggling situation Sam had found himself in at the time.
He had a thousand excuses but none of them got him any sympathy from Bright. But its not as if Sam was looking for it.
He only began to regret his treatment towards Bright after meeting his darlin, Tanker.
Meeting Tank gave Sam a chance to better understand Bright.
Maybe it was wrong to say, but they had so much in common. And the way Tank talked about how they acted in their adolescents, it made sense that they got along with Bright so well.
Admittedly, introducing the two was a way to get Bright off his hands but funly enough, Bright having somone he could talk to that he knew wouldn't judge him was actually decreasing the amount of arguing Sam and Bright did.
So, when Sam got a call from William requesting a meeting, he wasn't anticipating it being about Bright eyes.
He assumed it would be something to do with Porter coming back or the upcoming summit, maybe Sam would be lucky enough to find out why he wouldn't be attending.
So you can imagine his surprise when William revealed that the meeting was about his troubled grand progeny.
His instant reaction was getting very quiet and eventually saying in a cold and serious tone
"What did he do?"
But William was quick to jump to his defence
"He didn't do anything Samuel, you have nothing to fear"
He said this but after a moment, William looked...unsure
Maybe it was a good idea not to mention the whole, broke one of my walls and burst into my office situation, thought William.
"With all do respect your highness, I don't believe you"
"I assure you, nore him or yourself are in any form of trouble"
Sam paused for a moment
"Then what is this meeting about?"
William sighed, Sam prepared himself for what was to come but no matter what, he would have never anticipated this.
"It is no secret that you two don't get along very well and with all due respect, it's gotten out of hand. I'm aware that your arguing has died down and you know that I am very sympathetic towards you, but tell me, how is Bright doing in terms of his vampire training in comparison to Fred?"
Sam felt embarrassed. He didn't want to seem immature for his treatment of Bright or that he was being petty in any way but he had to answer honestly.
"He's far behind Fred....but that's probably just cos he was turned by someone who was turned 2 seconds before him"
Despite his excuses, William looked like he had heard enough.
"Between your arguing and Brights inability to use and understand his powers, I'm sorry but I don't see you being his mentor going anywhere
It's unfair that your realationship has, though I'm sure unintentionally, stifled his learning"
Sam was defeated. William had made up his mind. And he had nothing to say about it.
Because he was right.
........
"So what do you propose we do?"
"Well~, I've been pondering this idea for a while now and I've ran it by Vincent and asked for the opinion of Bright eyes himself on the matter and~"
William reminded himself not to look so happy and to restrain his excitement.
"I would like to ask for your consent to take Bright eyes on as MY progeny".
Sam was dumbfounded to say the least. There was a part of him that was expecting that but it was such a small part that he didn't expect it to be correct.
After a long pause, Sam began.
"What did Bright say yo that?"
William explained that after telling Vincent, he then went to tell Lovely and Bright overheard them.
Sam assumed the worst, Bright bursting in and screaming at William and just genuinely being a brat.
He was prepared to start apologising for whatever Bright did on his behalf but then William went on to say that after he had explained that it was up to him, he calmed down and they had a quote 'delightful' conversion.
Sam couldn't possibly fathom the consept of Bright being 'delightful' but he listened on.
"So he said he'd 'think about it'?"
"Yes"
It was better this way, he knew that, but somehow, for some reason, it still hurt.
He had failed one of his progenys.
"You can have him"
He was about to leave but then somthing came to his attention.
"But before that I have one question...
Why? Why go through all this trouble? Why NOW?"
Sam mentioned to Tank before this meeting that William wasn't one to do things just to be nice but he couldn't think of any other reason why William would want to take in a punk like Bright eyes.
The real reason was simply because......he couldn't help himself.
Every time he has had a new progeny it's been the same.
He couldn't help himself with Alexis and she was a.....disappointment to put it harshly.
So he said "no more. Never again"
Then he saw Vincent and he COULD. NOT. HELP. HIMSELF.
So he said "one last one"
Porter was a different story all together.
And now there was Bright eyes.
He had accepted by now that when he sees a troubled vampire youth he simply cannot help himself.
But he wasn't about to tell Sam that.
"Well....you know the summit is coming up-"
"Ah right of course-"
"Let me finish"
William knew what Sam thought about the summit. That it was just a huge pissing contest and an excuse for vampires to show off to each other.
While he did have a point, it meant more than that to him.
"I simply meant that it would be most convenient to make this kind of decision at this time because if he says yes then its just easier to make arrangements for his coronation. As you know I won't be attending this year so I'll have yo make arrangements for what to do regarding that"
That did technically answer the question of "why NOW" but Sam wasn't convinced.
I guess we won't know until he decides, thought Sam as he got up from his chair and left.
Bright wasn't his problem anymore....so why did he feel so...
Disappointed in himself?
Tagg - @darlin-collins
Will I keep reblogging every single part of this and talk about how much I love this story until the author gets tired of me? Yes. Yes, I will. Anyway, this was great to read before (probably) heading to bed ^-^
Ok just one more punk progeny won't hurt ~
Chapter 3: consent (part 2)
(Disclaimer: treasure and Bright eyes are the same person in this fic so just assume 3 things before reading, 1: Bright knows Porter is a vampire and vise versa, 2: I can't afford patrion but I do know what happend In the BA so if you have seen it just assume that they did bite each other they just didn't drink each others blood, 3: Bright dosnt know that Porter is a solaire. Got it? Ok)
TW. Mentions of mental health issues, abandonment issues and Foster care. Bright is ftm trans and uses he/him pronouns
Vincent and Bright had interacted before but not enough for Vincent to not feel nervous about talking to him. Especially about this.
William had told him what happened with Bright and that his answer was that he'd 'think about it'.
Now obviously Vincent wasn't going to sway him one way or the other,
But William had given him the vampire equivalent of 'dad's belt' for gossiping and causing that meeting with Bright to happen earlier than expected.
Besides, Vincent saw how egger William was to take in Bright so he just wanted to show Bright just how sweet this deal could be for him.
If he could just pluck up the courage to just walk over to him!
Just then, Vincent noticed Bright was stretching and groaning in a way that suggested he was stiff or in pain.
The perfect conversion starter.
"Ruff night?"
Bright turned his head towards him.
"Hmm? No actually, I had a great night"
He said this but still stretched out across the common room's couch.
Vincent knew what that meant, of course he did, he was Vincent!
"Yeah?~"
He didn't know where this 'small talk' was going but he was genuinely intrigued.
"Yeah. Went out, fully intended on getting wasted after a long and confusing day but then ran into some old friends and I hate getting drunk in front of people I know, so I got stuck as their double D-"
"Their what?"
"Double D, designated driver"
"Oooohh! OK continue"
"So yeah I got stuck, sober, then all of a sudden this guy comes up to me, lays it on real thick, so we started talking and I'm sure you of all people can figure out what happened after that"
"Wow good for you"
Bright hadn't told anyone this but he had met some of his and Fred's old friends from before....yeah.
You'd think they would have been a little bit concerned considering he and Fred had been 'missing' for ages now, but no.
When he finally sees his old 'friends' again....they didn't even care.
And yet, he still felt like he owed them for leaving and never coming back, so that's why he endured being their DD.
But a certain someone recently taught him that he didn't need to do that anymore.~
"He was also a vampire, which was kinda cool"
"Well I'm glad your mingling with vampires other than Sam and Fred"
There was a moment of silence between the two but then Vincent reminded himself of why he started talking to him in the first place.
"Speaking of mingling with other vampires, I heard about what happened with William"
Bright didn't answer
"And I also know I'm kinda what caused it so I came over here to apologise, it wasn't my news to tell, I'm sorry"
Bright's face went a lot colder than it was before but he still answered him, only he didn't look him in the eyes.
"It's cool, whatever..."
"Well I got the vampire equivalent of 'dad's belt' for gossiping about it so I thought I'd make it up to you"
Bright's face sofend with curiosity.
Vincent continued
"I thought it would be a good idea if I showed you what perks being a solaire Prince comes with"
"Wait-wait-wait!....Prince?"
Vincent held back a smirk.
"Yeah, William is the vampire king so becoming his progeny would make you a Prince, like me. I mean he's not your maker so you probably won't have the same level status as me or alexis but you'll still be classed as 'Prince'".
Bright eyes stared, starstruck. He remembered being a kid, running around with the "other girls" who were all dressed up like princesses, laughing and screaming with him chasing after them. He got yelled at for it later but he just didn't want to be a Princess.
He wanted to be a Prince.
And now, years later, literally after death,
He can be.
"Huh....I guess I never realised that..."
"Well It can be pretty cool, and since your considering it, I thought I'd give you a rundown on what it's like"
"What dose that mean...?"
"It basically just means,
Do you wanna go shopping with me?"
Vincent realised that this was a really long winded way of asking him that.
Bright then looked dead serious and got up from the couch, looked him in the eyes and said
"Vincent, I'm a gay, trans man who grew up with f*k all money
Of course I want to go shopping with you".
"Isn't she gorgeous?"
Bright looked In awe at the car Vincent was showing him.
He whistled
"Sweet ride"
"I know!"
He was smiling ear to ear.
"Wanna ride IN it?"
Vincent jingled the keys
"Can I drive?"
After Bright asked that, Vincent no short of belly laughed.
It took him a moment to pull himself together, but when he eventually managed to stop laughing he looked at Bright and coldly said
"NO"
Vincent opened the car and Bright slid in after him.
The sun had just gone down.
Bright still hadn't gotten used to the whole 'sleep-all-day-and-stay-up-all-night' deal. Usually he was a master at the 'stay-up-all-night' part but not so much the latter.
And considering what happened last night...let's just say he wasn't exactly 'Bright eyed and bushy tailed'.
"Could we get coffee while we're there (Wherever we're going)"
"Yeah of course"
Vincent wanted to avoid awkward silence as much as possible, he also genuinely wanted to get to know him, the real him.
Not the one Sam had told him about.
Besides
It could be cool...having a little brother.
"Sooo...your 'thinking about' being William's progeny?"
"Yep"
.....
"Can I ask why?"
Bright sighed
"Well it's like this, I hate being Sam's progeny, it sucks! Nothing I do is ever enough and whenever I get mad or frustrated that I'll never be as good a vampire as Fred HE gets mad at ME because it's my fault...its all my fault...
But it's not like I don't know that and it's not like apologising is gonna fix anything...."
Vincent took a moment to take all this in.
From what Sam had told him, Bright was just a punk with a bad attitude who couldn't accept the blame for what happened at wonderworld and was a jerk to everyone.
But that's not what Vincent saw.
He just saw himself.
Or who he used to be.
Bright had accepted that what happened was his fault, he just didn't think apologising would do anything.
"So...why not take the offer right away?"
He really didn't want to seem like he was trying to swing him one way or the other, he just wanted to know why he wouldn't, since he hated Sam and Fred so much.
"Because....im used to being passed around from person to person, I hate it. I don't want to be reminded of that feeling again. Especially if William at some point figure's out that I'm not the little broken kid he clearly thinks I am, cos to be honest,
I really am the worst"
.....
"What do you mean...your used to it?"
"Oh! I'm a Foster kid"
He said this much more casually than he did just previous statement.
That did make a lot of sense to Vincent though, and it did clear up a lot. However his reason for why he won't take up William's offer was... worrying.
But low self esteem was definitely something William could help with.
Most of Bright's problems could probably be solved by this agreement.
But that wasn't for Vincent to say.
"Well...im sorry"
"Don't be, its cool......your cool"
Vincent looked at him but he was facing the window
He chuckled.
"So what did you think of William?"
Bright perked up but then looked embarrassed
"Hes cool too..."
"Uh huh, hes been known to have this...power over 'troubled vampire youth'"
Bright scoffed
"I guess...there was just something about him that made me want to-"
"Trust him? Respect him?"
"Yeah! What's up with that?! Does he have like a....genetic dominance over other vampires or something?! I respect NO ONE THAT quickly!"
Vincent began laughing at his sudden outburst
"No, hes just kinda...like that I guess. It pissed me off SO much when I first became his progeny, but you don't seem as upset about it"
"Yeah well...its like I said
He was cool".
Vincent wanted to go on but by now they had reached the parking spot of their location.
"OK looks like we're here, get out"
They both left the car, Bright waited by the car as Vincent paid for the spot.
It looked like this was a regular spot for him
And probably Lovely too, thought Bright.
When Vincent came back from paying, Bright and him walked into the mall.
"So, coffee,"
"Oh god yes"
As soon as they stepped into the building, a Starbucks was waiting for them.
Bright practically ran up to it, put his hands on the counter and asked for a caramel macchiato with as many shots as they were legally allowed to put in.
When Vincent caught up to him he made his order and sat down at the nearest table, Bright joined him.
"So, based on that order I'm guessing the whole 'up all night and sleep all day' thing has been kicking your ass?"
"Keen observation, but aren't we suppose to not talk about that sort of stuff in public?"
Vincent shrugged then gestured towards their surroundings
"Bright, look around, it's getting late and no one is here! Besides vampires have....culturally been known to ummm not ignore covert but....bend the rules a lil"
"Huh...?"
"It's like that one bad stereotype that is completely true"
"Here are your orders guys!"
The batista gave them their drinks after they both thanked her.
They took a minute of silence just to indulge in their drink of choice.
Vincent was way more comfortable around Bright then he was before actually getting to know him.
From what Sam had said, he had assumed he'd be more....hostile....? But he wasn't, he was just like any other newborn but with the added angst of abandonment issues and god knows what else.
After Bright had taken a few sips he looked up at Vincent
"So what's the actual plan here? Like yeah we're at the mall but WHERE are we going?"
"Well I just thought we'd hit my usual spots, clothes shopping, maybe get some snacks and then head down to 711 or something"
Bright nodded.
"OK so basically everything you do with Lovely? Got it"
"Y-yeahh but please don't phrase it like that, it would be a lil weird considering who you would be to me if you agree"
Bright shot him a look of confusion.
"What do you mean?"
"Well" Vincent took another sip from his coffee "there's this general consensus that a mentor is supposed to act as a parental figure to their progeny, which means there progenys are kinda like siblings, at least that's how most of us view it...thats how I view it"
Bright paused. He had had many 'parental figures' throughout his life, none of them were ever permanent or knew how to handle him and his attitude.....why would this be any different?
He had also, as a result, had many siblings, but next to all of them were younger than him and if they weren't they were always older sisters.
He'd never had an older brother before.
"So...William's like your dad?"
"Yeah but just don't ever call him 'father' ok?"
Vincent seemed serious, it made Bright eyes a little nervous
"O-ok why?"
"He gets super defensive about how he's not a father"
"O-oh, yeah, right"
Bright's head hung a little but he didn't know why.
He didn't want another failed attempt at a father figure to be added to the list so why was he-
Vincent interrupted his train of thought when he tilted his head down to be at eye level with Bright
"But he IS like a 'dad' he will always tell you that".
Bright's head perked back up, still not knowing quite why
"But thats only if you agree that is now come on you can finish that on the way, I have a shopping craze that needs to be satisfied"
Bright got up, sipping his coffee along the way, then a smirk crawled on his face as a thought popped into his head.
"Hey you got turned when you were like 2 years older than me right?"
Vincent looked back at him, worried where this conversation was going.
"Y-Yeah why?"
The smirk got wider
"So do you shop at forever 21?"
After saying this he bust out laughing
"Oh you lil shit come here!"
Vincent said playfully.
He lunged for him but Bright ducked and ran, Vincent followed on.
There was basically on one there, it was like back in the old days when Bright and Fred would check out abandoned buildings together.
For the first time in ages, Bright didn't let that memory bother him, he just ran and howled playfully with Vincent on his tail.
And it was awesome.
After a while the two got out of breath, but Vincent caught up to him and not very hard and with little effort, pushed him to the ground.
They both just laughed for a moment, Bright still on the floor.
"OK OK you've had your fun, now come on, up"
He extended his hand towards him but he got up without it, not in any rude way Vincent just figured he didn't need help.
"So we ran past a couple of the shops I had in mind, wanna WALK back to them?"
"Yeah sure"
They went into the first clothing shop they saw and started browsing.
After a while, Vincent noticed Bright trying on a couple of accessories, chains, hats, shades ect.
"You thinkn of actually buying some of those?"
"Oh god no, some of these prices could pay for the second half of my surgery, I could never afford this!"
A smirk crawled on Vincent's face, he had been waiting for this moment.
"Oh, you think YOU'RE paying for these?"
Bright's head turned towards him so fast the shades he was wearing fell off his head and onto his face, covering his eyes.
He slowly lifted them back up then asked
"Come again?"
Vincent then reached into his wallet and pulled out what could only be described as a 'fan of credit and debit cards'.
Bright was flabbergasted.
"Dare I even ask? You aren't a stripper are you?"
Vincent gave a one note laugh.
"Ha! No no no this is just a solaire thing. What you didn't think Prince was synonymous with rich?"
Bright pulled himself together and stepped closer to him and sheepishly took one of the cards and went up to the desk to pay for the accessories he had on.
Vincent watched on and smiled to himself.
After no short of ransacking as many places as they wanted, the two left the mall but left the car where it was.
"Umm, what about your car?"
"Hm? Oh! Were just going around the corner"
It was pich black outside, when they turned a corner the only sorce of light....was the 711 stood before them.
It looked almost holy and it might as well have been with the way Vincent was gazing at it.
After a moment of watching Vincent bask in its glory, Bright felt a sharp pull on his sleeve and was pulled into the store.
Bright didn't exactly appreciate being pulled around so when they passed the threshold, he snatched his hand back.
"OK JD keep your pants on, it's just 711"
"I'm going to pretend you didn't just say that because I've enjoyed our night so far. Now follow me"
"OK but I can walk on my own"
Bright followed him through the aisle, 'freeze your brain' now firmly stuck in his head.
Coincidentally enough, when Vincent stopped, Bright was met with the infamous slushy machine.
"You literally dragged me here...for slushys?"
"No I did not 'JuSt DrAg YoU oUt HeRe FoR sLuShYs' I brought you here to enjoy some ice cold liquid gold, after a long and and eventful night! Now pick your flavour, come meet me at the counter and go outside so we can sit on the sidewalk and chill!"
"OK OK, gezz"
Bright picked up a cup and pressed the blue raspberry and cola flavours.
Vincent went round the corner to get more snacks so Bright did what he was told and went up to the counter.
Vincent came back with his 'supplies' and slushy in hand.
He paid and they both went outside.
Vincent took a big gulp (hehe) of his slushy and listened to the silence for a while.
Until Bright eyes spoke up
"Do you think I should do it?"
"Do what...?"
"Agree to be William's progeny?"
Vincent hesitated.
He did have a lot of fun today, Bright wasn't a bad kid and he could tell that William liked him a lot.
But this wasn't about him.
"Well...I know you and Sam don't get along, I also know that kind of person William is and yeah being a solaire dose come with its perks
But I don't think I should sway you one way or the other.
Listen, I know this must sound bullshit but when I was first turned by him, I was so much like you that it kinda scares me"
"Oh f*k off"
"No, I'm serious. I had the same realationship with William as you have with Sam. So if I were you, knowing what I know now, I'd stay with Sam....but I'm not you and I don't think that thats really what you want"
Bright sighed and took a swig of his slushy.
"Yeah well...I think I'm still gonna marinate on it, ask around a bit maybe get to know you guys better"
"That sounds good"
That's way more than I did, thought Vincent.
"It's so funny to me, you'd think me and Sam would get along better considering how much we have in common"
At first Vincent thought he was being sarcastic but then he thought about it, then he asked
"Wait.....what are you talking about?"
"Oh yeah I forgot everyone leaves this part out....
You know what happend in wonderworld right? Sam told you?"
"Y-yeah"
"Well...you know that he was turned by Sam and that Fred turned me but what no one seems to know or care about.....is that I didn't want him to. I wanted him to stop. I didnt know exactly what he was doing but I couldn't. Make him. Stop.
Who knew being turned without consent was a big 'no no' am I right? I only found that out after it happened. Anyway its getting late or I suppose early, I can finish this I the car, you coming to or what?"
Bright stood up and walked towards the car but Vincent just sat there trying to take in everything that was just said.
Why did no one tell him that? Why dose no one know about that?! And how long was it before he found out that that wasn't OK?....
All these questions flooded Vincent's mind but he snapped out of it when he saw Bright waiting alone by the car.
What could he possibly say after that....?
The car journey back was deadly silent. Vincent realised why he was so scared to talk to Bright in the first place. He was worried that Sam was wrong about him, scared that all the things that Sam seemed to hate about him were just the same things HE did back then, scared that William would-
"Oh man I love this song!"
His spiraling, intrusive thoughts were interrupted by the sound of "dear Maria count me in" and by Bright's excitement when it started playing.
Vincent began to smile, he let himself ignore what Bright said before and let the sound of his voice overshadow the sound of his mind.
Eventually the two were belting it out together, Vincent lowered his roof and Bright stood up in his car, hands up, still singing as loud as he could.
That crazy kid.
Taggs - @darlin-collins
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