When Leaves and Lives Fall
Muzan Kibutsuji x The Angel / Annavenn (KNY OC)
This is a tarot reading (from Muzan’s POV to the Angel) by Monne (@_deamonne) and the illustration is drawn by Sunmoony (@sunmoo.ny).
This is the timeline of Muzan and the Angel (Annavenn) in the Heian era (Year 900s). Muzan Kibutsuji was a sick noble man who was plagued by extreme frailty from the very beginning, and the Angel descended to earth and persistently offered him a blessing that eased his illness, until eventually he became a demon, yet the Angel still stayed.
I.
You came to me like a trespass of heaven — soft-footed, unafraid of rot, of ruin, of the man already half-buried in his own bones.
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You placed eternity in my hands, and I, petulant, dying thing that I was — spat on it twice.
But, you persisted.
Was that the moment you chose me, or the moment you doomed yourself?
Look at what your mercy has made. I am no longer a man who can die. I am a thing that must feed, must rend, must stain the world red just to persist another dusk.
And still — still — you place my hand against your cheek as if I am not defilement itself.
Do you know what that does to me?
Do you think your love is some sanctifying flame?
It it not.
It is oil.
It feeds what I have become.
