Municipal Regulations Regarding Sartorial Discretion, by Shayvaalski (G)

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Fandom: WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
Pairing: Cecil/Carlos
Length: wordcount 1,564
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Shayvaalski on tumblr; works on AO3
Why this must be read:

Or, Cecil goes to pick Carlos up for their second date in a rather surprising outfit. It's a really nice outfit though. It just leads to some unexpected revelations.

This sweet story could easily fit into canon. It feels like Night Vale, with its inescapable, intrusive legislation and idiosyncratic approach to fashion and gender. Plus, Shayvaalski’s Cecil is a total sweetheart:

Carlos pulls the door open, and Cecil is a combination of terribly glad and pathetically relieved, as he has been every time, that Carlos looks as pleased to see Cecil as he is to see Carlos. Carlos. He cannot say or think that name enough, the purr of the R, the sibilant S, the drawn-out O.

There is something deliciously fulfilling about the way his name has insinuated itself into every corner of Cecil's mind and body, and he wonders if it's obvious, if little eddies of six letters (two vowels four consonants: perfect) swirl around him when he moves, if he breathes out two sweet syllables in his sleep, if the taste of it on his tongue is something Carlos can taste too. If fellow citizens can see the way the knowledge of it radiates from Cecil's skin, how it makes each of his tattoos curl more tightly around his limbs and torso. He hopes so. He hopes so very much.

“Municipal Regulations Regarding Sartorial Discretion” on AO3; podfic version by einzwitterion

Comments

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting Welcome To Night Vale recs. I noticed on an earlier one that you said it was related to a specific episode. I hope you will keep doing that, because I'm still catching up, and I know other people are, too. Thanks!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I plan to hold back more spoiler-heavy fics for a week or two, and I will definitely keep noting fics that are tied to specific episodes.