Royal Beeduo | Part Book, Part Oneshot, and Full Abomination

Words // Fireworkduo

mohaSleeps stop giving me ideas /lh

actually dont i like this motivation

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The Sleepy Bois household had only found the moobloom hybrid around a week ago, but Tubbo was still very skittish, even around Phil, who seemed to calm kids down almost immediately.

They had all tried to make him feel welcome, which the moobloom had appreciated, but he still seemed paranoid and shy. Which was normal, but he had been with the family for a week and a half and still flinched when someone appeared, especially the older people like Phil and Techno.

One afternoon, while Phil was cooking dinner, he noticed Tubbo by the fireplace. He was curled into a ball on the floor, reading a book, and squinting at it. Techno was passing by and Phil glanced at the book obsessed piglin to the moobloom. 

Techno silently sighed and sat next to Tubbo and touched his shoulder, which made the brunette flinch.

"Sorry." Techno said, and the younger just nodded.

"Can you read?" Techno asked, and the chestnut haired boy nodded. 

"I can read." He said quietly.

Techno pointed to a poem, since it was a quote and poem book. "Can you read that?"

Tubbo turned his head toward the page and quickly read over it. "Aloud?" He said, sounding a bit nervous. Techno nodded.

"Ok. Um.." Tubbo blinked at the word and started reading the page. "Life is but a.. s- sil-?" Tubbo stumbled over his words, blinking and looking at the word. "Siloloy?" He said, confused.

Techno looked at the word. "Soliloquy." He said simply.

"Soliloki?" Tubbo repeated.

"No, sol-ill-oh-quy" Techno said, a bit firmer.

"O-oh, sorry" Tubbo mumbled.

"Life is but a soliloquy, a play in which we all act in." Tubbos eyes seemed to shine. "What's this word?" He said, interrupting himself and pointing to the other page.

Techno looked over Tubbos shoulder. "Hiraeth?" Techno asked.

Tubbo nodded, tracing the word.

"Hiraeth means a deep longing for something, especially ones home." Techno quoted the dictionary.

"Huh?" Tubbo asked, confused.

Techno sighed "It means you miss something every much." He summarized. 

Tubbo seemed to shrink a little "Ok."

"What about this?" Tubbo flipped to a random page and pointed to a word again.

"Epoch? It means a specific bit of time in someones history." Techno responded.

Tubbo kept pointing to random words and asking the meanings, quietly making a list of the words he liked.

The moobloom hybrids eyes sparkled at one word. "What's sea ren- ipty?"

"Serendipity?"

Tubbo nodded.

"A bunch of good things at once."

"I like that word." Tubbo said quietly.

"How many words do you like, Tubbo?" Techno meant to sound nice, but he winced when he sounded kind of mean and stern.

"Um.." Tubbo closed his eyes and counted "6, right now."

"What are they?"

"Hiraeth, epoch, serendipity, ethereal, iridescent, and epiphany." Tubbo said smiling.

Techno hummed "Those are very pretty."

"I also like their meanings." Tubbo skimmed over the book pages.

Phil called for dinner, snapping Tubbo out of his word-daze.

Techno got up and stretched. "Better get dinner before Wil and Tommy devours it."

Tubbo nodded, then shyly hugged Techno quickly and said "Thank you for helping me."

Techno was surprised. Literally no one hugged him. "You're welcome."

Tubbo sat down at the table, looking happier.

Techno probably looked happier too.

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went way off script but in a good way :)

also those words are some of my favorites too

*cough* some