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Alecto Crabtree ([personal profile] infringe) wrote in [community profile] fuguestates2022-09-22 05:36 pm

Portrait of a Man on Fire (Painter/Subject)


A STUDY IN RED
( alecto, josh )

A young painter is commissioned to make a portrait of the peculiar young master of the House of Crabtree, who is known to be a very difficult subject not only to capture but to work with.
singinthestorm: (JA looking up)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-12 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
That was not what he was expecting to hear at all.

"What?" He asks, startled into answering, into rudeness. "No. I. It was something I said, wasn't it? I shouldn't have..." He's not sure what he'd done wrong, only that he must have, that whatever it was that had sparked those thoughts, that had convinced Joshua that his host, his patron, (your muse) had intended to...
singinthestorm: (JA Oh I see)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-13 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
The moment Alecto's lips touch his own, Joshua melts. He leans into the contact, his mouth opening pliantly into the kiss, and he sighs, not so much a sound or reaction as a settling, as though a tightly held resistance had suddenly drained away.
singinthestorm: (JA looking down)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-14 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
He stares into Alecto's eyes, a delicate flush suffusing his cheeks, windblown already from the cold ocean breezes. "Um," he says, eloquently, holding utterly still, seemingly afraid to move, as though Alecto might interpret any motion as a rejection. "Do...do you do that often?"
singinthestorm: (JA summer sunshine)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-14 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Even knowing how picky Alecto was, that still felt like a surprising plurality of painters. Josh nods, trying to sip the honey from the compliment while avoiding the odd sting, and dares to lean forward, chasing Alecto's mouth and pressing a chaste but earnest kiss against his lips. "Talented at painting?" He can't help but ask, feeling more than a little self-conscious, "Or?"
singinthestorm: (JA looking at you)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-14 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Joshua was, perhaps, naive and inexperienced in comparison, but he wasn't so sheltered that he couldn't understand the implications in Alecto's words, the deliberate touch of his fingers against his own, even if he had no idea how to respond, how to sort through the unexpected turmoil being brought to light.

"If you say so," he says meekly, and obediently uncurls himself from his seat, but Alecto is still holding on to his hands, and he doesn't quite know what to do.
singinthestorm: (Default)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-16 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
He follows Alecto obediently from the cliffside back to the house. Everything in the drawing room is just as it had been when he'd run off, but at the same time it feels that everything has changed. His fingers flex, instinctively, against Alecto's hand, and he curls his wrist, as if trying to hold him back, tighter.

"Would you," he starts, with a slight stammer in his voice, but an underlying tone of unexpected boldness, "would you let me see you again, Alecto? All of you?"
singinthestorm: (JA summer sunshine)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2022-10-17 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
He lets go of Alecto's hand, but he can't quite bring himself to step back, to put any additional distance between them. His eyes are avid as he watches Alecto's movements, his lips parted slightly, and then, almost of their own volition, he raises his hands up to the collar of Alecto's shirt, fingers deftly untying his cravat and undoing the topmost buttons.
singinthestorm: (JA Oh I see)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2023-09-17 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
He tilts his head, his bottom lip caught between his teeth, briefly absorbed by the play of shadows and cloth against Alecto's pale skin, softly illuminated by the last few rays of evening sun. He doesn't even notice the way his own fingers go slack, letting Alecto's fine shirt fall to the floor with an uncharacteristic carelessness.

"The chaise by the west window," he says decidedly, still not stepping back, his fingers busy now with Alecto's belt. "The light is best there."
singinthestorm: (JA summer sunshine)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2023-09-17 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Now he steps back, his mind suddenly seized with the need to create. Alecto's impending nakedness now seems to be nothing more than the appropriate state of his muse, the subject distilled to essence, rather than any kind of titillation or prurience. He's aware, in a distant, absent way, of the burn of arousal within his core, the vague thought that this was a prelude to some other activity, but for the moment he cares for nothing else than capturing what is there in the moment, in front of his eyes.

"Whatever you like," he says, absent and distracted, as he bends to retrieve his sketchbook and charcoals, with the same gravity as a soldier donning his armor. "I just need to see..."
singinthestorm: (JA sidelong)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2023-09-17 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
He seems wholly absorbed in his work now, fingers working furiously on the page, only glancing up now and again as if for confirmation. As though Alecto is burned already into his mind, a singular obsession. As though he can only bear to take him in in small glances, spacing out doses like an addict with an impossibly rare and deadly vice.
singinthestorm: (JA summer sunshine)

[personal profile] singinthestorm 2025-01-02 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
He's aware, at a distance, of physical arousal, like an old ache - a seemingly constant companion, always at his side, his cock throbbing, already fully hard, in his pants. But his body's physical reactions are muted somehow, despite their urgency, in comparison to the way every iota of his mind is devoted to the aesthetic of Alecto Crabtree's body, the lines and curves and planes that comprise it. His charcoals are almost nonsensical at first, his fingertips coated completely black as he sketches and rubs at the page, the image slowly coming together - the delicate drape of shadows over each limb, the details sharp but seeming inconsistent until one realized that what the charcoal depicted was everywhere Alecto wasn't, as though covering up the pale whiteness to make the picture emerge. Joshua adds the intricate tracery of shadow, of depth, to Alecto's body with worshipful touches, charcoal flaking gently off his hand as he follows the tracery of the exact opposite path of the light falling over him, all those intimate, hidden places, now revealed by his nakedness and display.

His fingers freeze, between the depiction of Alecto's spread legs, after caressing the darkness behind his knees, the alternating play of shadow along his inner thighs, and then his pitch black thumb brushes along what would be the furl of his hole, between the impossibly tantalizing curves of his ass, just as Alecto works his own two fingers in.