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November 5, 2011
"Your Heart is the China Shop" by ~Tenty-Hime is a soft, beautiful, and playful drawing full of great colors and emotions.
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'Your Heart is the China Shop'

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"; Love the bull."- Henry Mencken

Just in time for Spirit Day c:

My two characters, Chastity and Mercy.

I spent a long time on this one, I don't even know roughly how many hours. @ . @

They're sort of like... Romeo and Juliet meets Alice in Wonderland. I'll eventually get their story out.

Easy Paint Tool Sai for several hours,
water mark added in CS4.

Do not use my art work without my express permission.

Mercy and Chastity © ~Tenty-Hime

Story Peek:

"I've heard it said, that love is like a bull and the heart is like a shop filled with china. I suppose it's because you can hear the heart break as it is destroyed. I wonder what kind of sound my heart is making right now, sitting here, thinking about you while you're staring at me from across the table.

We've managed to fit a whole year into a day, all four seasons, and every one of the three hundred and sixty five days. We spent this morning in the winter, sitting all alone, and when you called me came the spring. At first I told you no, that today was no good. Truth be told, I was avoiding you. But, you're like the sun, and you pulled me out from my hybernation. Our summer we spent looking out over the horizon, far beyond the loch, stringing together emerald strands of sweet grass. Now, our fall comes early, as our day dies and the delight I'd had for my tea settles into a painful cold.

Still, the way you're staring at me now from across our sea of a table, hands wrapped posessively around the the antique-green glass chalice, as you kiss for the promised reward of tea is haunting like my morning winters. This is why I wanted to stay away today. We spent the whole day being alive, the first time in forty days since I was last sick, and now it feels like we're dying again. It takes one moment for the body to die, but millions for the heart to end. I dread being alive, because of the guilty butterflies eating away at the resolve in my stomach. I don't want to go to the funeral today, I don't want our day to end yet, but the hands on the clock are like the claws of a great cat, knicking away at the bars keeping us civil.

The last time I tried to kiss you, you pushed me so hard I bit the inside of my mouth. I don't know how we can look at each other now, with it still on our minds. I keep looking at your mouth, washing the edge of your tea cup with a long, half-bored kiss. With your eyes on me, I think that this will be the closest we ever come to a real kiss. I'm savouring it, letting my tongue dance behind my teeth like a lucid, drugged ballerina. I don't know if you can tell, but suddenly, you look sad, as if you're about to cry.

Maybe it's because I feel like crying, too. It is now that I finally have the courage to ask you to dance."
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Agetian's avatar

Very pretty!! :love: