Hard, rigid lines march across the page. Every letter takes up its own space: its own square block. It's like when he learned to write as a child, he was taught using grid paper instead of the conventional wide-ruled notebook paper.
Her writing, on the other hand, is bigger, more flowing, and far more sloppier than his. As if when she was a child, whoever taught her showed her how to make every letter, every dot of the i a piece of art. Which is probably why to this day she still puts hearts over her letters i and j.
His paragraphs are composed of direct sentences, with impeccable grammar. They are often short sentences, but they are in no way stupid ones; they are simply all he needs to convey his message. He stays on topic and rarely goes on tangents-and if he does, it is impossible to tell because they relate so much to his original point. His paper is ordered like an essay, each thought connecting and building upon the last.
Her writing style is more fluid, with longer sentences, half of which are run-ons. She writes fast and sloppy, as if she could not bear it if she runs out of time and cannot get everything she wants on the page. She bounces from topic to topic, and often the relationship between the two is completely questionable.
Sometimes, on particularly bad days, when he has to hold back what happened, he looks at his most recent creased picture of her for a while before he can even process what to put down. On those days Feliciana knows how he feels, because it's only a few words and he never mentions anything about himself. But on the good days he can fill a page without a problem, and sometimes, if it is a really good one, he makes it to the back.
For her part, she writes a lot. It helps that she has bigger handwriting, but she can fill two pages, front and back, no problem. She always writes him at night before she goes to bed, and Ludwig can tell if she was watching a rom-com that made her sad or got into a fight with her sister right before she went to bed because her letters get longer when she is upset.
In both though, they share how they are. They make plans for when he has his month's leave, and she sends him wedding plans. Currently she is on a beach theme, which is better than the flower theme; Ludwig has nothing against plants, but his brother is deathly afraid of bees, and he freaked out when he learned that was the current theme.
Whenever they read each other's letters, they both have a smile on their face, no matter whatever had just happened before. Because the postal system was slow, they would often get several letters at once, and so when they could finally read them they would eagerly rip the first one open. Ludwig would try to savour his, opening each letter one at a time and stay up late into the night reading them. Feliciana would tear through each one as quickly as possible, and then end up rereading them all at least twice when she had finished. Whenever they would have a rough day though, they both would sit and slowly go through each letter already sent to them, just to revisit those feelings all over again and to remember that there was another person, on the other side of the world who cares for them.
Every daily letter begins with "I miss you so much", in the middle of each they include a "this reminded me of you" and every letter ends with "I love you". Then they kiss the letter when no one is looking, seal it an envelope, and mail it off. And then they wait for the day when they won't have to send any more letters.
A/N: So I wrote this in December, but then I put it aside and I was looking for something today and I dug it up. And I was like, hey, this is actually kinda cute, maybe I should publish it. And so I did, after adding some things (adding a lot, I practically doubled the word count of what I originally had).
If you liked this, I have another fluffy story that I am working on currently called Three Words: Spain. I'm currently working on chapter 6. So if you are interested, check that ish out.
So I didn't mention their names a lot, I was trying something out. Let me know what you thought!
Thanks for reading!
