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eachdraidh2014-12-14 11:16 pm
smithwork) wrote in eachdraidh2014-12-14 11:16 pm
Entry tags:
- alice liddell: american mcgee's alice,
- dave stutler: the sorcerer's apprentice,
- dorian gray: codg,
- han solo: star wars,
- hiccup: httyd,
- jack frost: rise of the guardians,
- jon snow: asoiaf,
- kara beckworth: mercy thompson series,
- korra: avatar,
- legolas: tolkien,
- mako: avatar,
- merida: brave,
- nerdanel: tolkien,
- pod: dragonlord series,
- prince edgar: king's quest,
- shijima kurookano: nabari no ou
( ✈ SEVENTH FLIGHT; video — both courts )
Hi, everyone! Hiccup here, Unseelie Court if that ... matters to you. I was wondering if anybody else felt like getting to know each other. I'm That Guy With The Night Fury, also known as Why Are You Riding A Dragon and Is That Thing Going To Eat Me.
I'll start us off.
I've been talking to Jon about marriages and weddings, stuff like that. You can all settle down, me and Snow aren't getting hitched any time soon — I know you'll all be deeply disappointed to hear that — I'm just wondering how people do things in other lands.
When you're a Viking, you only ever get married if the other person proves their worth to you and it's unheard of for anyone to be pressured into it. You could be a guy or a girl, it doesn't matter. Women and men decide for themselves that that's it, they want to marry, do it, and then sometimes one of them might decide to divorce the other. Is that such a weird concept to a lot of people here? And, uh, on the subject of ... bastards — sorry about the language if that's also a thing for you, as well as the actual meaning — why is it that if one half of a married couple has another child with someone who isn't their spouse, everybody thinks said child is worth less? That seems insane.
[ Hiccup certainly looks confused, and a bit offended on behalf of said illegitimate children. ]
There are lots of cultures clashing in the Drabwurld and I'm finding out new things every day but this is fascinating to me, maybe because it's crazy and I've never explored anywhere far enough away to encounter such a weird way of thinking. Where I come from, no one gets to offer you a serious insult unless you yourself have done something to deserve it. You should be as brave as Thor himself and stand up for what you want, no matter what anyone else thinks.
Then there's this whole weird attitude about other people bothering to voice their opinions about who you sleep with, as if a guy choosing to bunk with another guy is a huge deal, or girls doing the same. Where does that entitled nosiness even come from? [ Hiccup snorts. ] Surely if you're not there getting down with them, it's not your place to even have an opinion on their bedroom shenanigans. My dad's friend Gobber would put his metal club-hand through the face of anyone who decided to get vocal about his private life.
Jon said that Berkians sound like the Free Folk where he comes from, because we do whatever we want and we keep our honour through our own actions, not the reputations other spin for us.
[ Sitting back against a snoozing Toothless, Hiccup toys with the strings on the neck of his green tunic, armour set aside. ]
Does anyone want to chat about their own lands, their people? I'm ... the only Viking in either court, I think, at least currently. A few of my gods are here — Sif, Loki, and I think Thor might be or was, and I'm still kind of thrilled that Elves and Dwarves and Trolls are real in the Drabwurld. The latter less so, maybe. If you want to ask me anything about my home or our customs, go right ahead! I'm probably going to be bugging people if they respond to this, so fair's fair. Sorry if I already managed to offend you somehow, I guess that's the sort of thing that happens regularly when lots of different people are stuffed into the same place.
I suppose I'm just homesick for that craggy, freezing, rain-soaked rock I call home. [ (Hiccup was always able to sit down and talk to Stoick at night about his day, or he was until this whole Chieftain Handover thing began to crop up.) He pauses as he remembers to ask one more thing before he closes the locket. ] Also, uh. Do you ever think about — about settling down here permanently? In the Drabwurld. With someone ... new? If we get three times our normal lifespan, it's worth it. Isn't it? Building a new life.
Anyway, thanks for listening. I know I go on. Feel free to talk to anyone else in this broadcast if they pique your interest, I don't mind.
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I'll start us off.
I've been talking to Jon about marriages and weddings, stuff like that. You can all settle down, me and Snow aren't getting hitched any time soon — I know you'll all be deeply disappointed to hear that — I'm just wondering how people do things in other lands.
When you're a Viking, you only ever get married if the other person proves their worth to you and it's unheard of for anyone to be pressured into it. You could be a guy or a girl, it doesn't matter. Women and men decide for themselves that that's it, they want to marry, do it, and then sometimes one of them might decide to divorce the other. Is that such a weird concept to a lot of people here? And, uh, on the subject of ... bastards — sorry about the language if that's also a thing for you, as well as the actual meaning — why is it that if one half of a married couple has another child with someone who isn't their spouse, everybody thinks said child is worth less? That seems insane.
[ Hiccup certainly looks confused, and a bit offended on behalf of said illegitimate children. ]
There are lots of cultures clashing in the Drabwurld and I'm finding out new things every day but this is fascinating to me, maybe because it's crazy and I've never explored anywhere far enough away to encounter such a weird way of thinking. Where I come from, no one gets to offer you a serious insult unless you yourself have done something to deserve it. You should be as brave as Thor himself and stand up for what you want, no matter what anyone else thinks.
Then there's this whole weird attitude about other people bothering to voice their opinions about who you sleep with, as if a guy choosing to bunk with another guy is a huge deal, or girls doing the same. Where does that entitled nosiness even come from? [ Hiccup snorts. ] Surely if you're not there getting down with them, it's not your place to even have an opinion on their bedroom shenanigans. My dad's friend Gobber would put his metal club-hand through the face of anyone who decided to get vocal about his private life.
Jon said that Berkians sound like the Free Folk where he comes from, because we do whatever we want and we keep our honour through our own actions, not the reputations other spin for us.
[ Sitting back against a snoozing Toothless, Hiccup toys with the strings on the neck of his green tunic, armour set aside. ]
Does anyone want to chat about their own lands, their people? I'm ... the only Viking in either court, I think, at least currently. A few of my gods are here — Sif, Loki, and I think Thor might be or was, and I'm still kind of thrilled that Elves and Dwarves and Trolls are real in the Drabwurld. The latter less so, maybe. If you want to ask me anything about my home or our customs, go right ahead! I'm probably going to be bugging people if they respond to this, so fair's fair. Sorry if I already managed to offend you somehow, I guess that's the sort of thing that happens regularly when lots of different people are stuffed into the same place.
I suppose I'm just homesick for that craggy, freezing, rain-soaked rock I call home. [ (Hiccup was always able to sit down and talk to Stoick at night about his day, or he was until this whole Chieftain Handover thing began to crop up.) He pauses as he remembers to ask one more thing before he closes the locket. ] Also, uh. Do you ever think about — about settling down here permanently? In the Drabwurld. With someone ... new? If we get three times our normal lifespan, it's worth it. Isn't it? Building a new life.
Anyway, thanks for listening. I know I go on. Feel free to talk to anyone else in this broadcast if they pique your interest, I don't mind.
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I know that people do settle down long term, after a while and after they adjust to the Drabwurld. Although I imagine that for some people, doing that is admitting that they might not ever be going home again, and that's a little hard to accept.
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I know, but I don't think this war will ever end between the fae. Even if it does, I'll lose friends on the other side and I don't want that. Not at all. I want to go home, stop the brewing war, and then to come back here, I think.
I can't just abandon my friends. Does that make any sense coming from a guy unwillingly trapped in a magical fairyland?
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[Not that the culture rules ever applied to him anyway after a certain point.]
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[ LMAO JACK WTF. Except he's actually quite touched, and so must be a shit in return. ]
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Just please don't let his siblings see this. Like ever.]
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[ GENUINELY ASKING, JON. ]
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As for issues of consent, intimate relations are also ... spiritual for us. We join our souls, along with our bodies, until the breaking of the World.
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[ A mystical elf is talking to him, hoo boy. Breathe. Wow, this guy looks flawless, is that an elf!thing or what. ]
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[Says this particular bastard, who sympathized with Jon, but thought him terribly lucky that Ned Stark ever spoke a work to his bastard, much less raised him! He might like Jon, but he seemed unhappy to think that Jon had been complaining when he'd gotten it as good as he did.]
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I live on an archipelago, a bunch of islands where everybody basically knows everybody and who they're doing and when and why. [ Gossipland, tbh. Sheds have thin walls when you happen to be walking past one in the middle of the day, catching a few sounds that make you wish your ears would turn instantly deaf. ] Are you saying you never met yours? Your dad.
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Beg pardon, but these matters may be more complicated than...
[ than hiccup's speech implies. and yet her heart twists up and her fear sets in and she regrets protesting at all. tears sting her eyes. and it may indeed be a good five minutes before she manages to say anything else. ]
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No, I understand that. Actually, that's why I'm asking, because it's obviously really complicated stuff that I'm not used to. I'd be happy to listen to anything you have to say, or to learn more.
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Anyway, ye already know my stance on th' whole marriage thing.
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I do. You're totally for it, right? Can't wait to get hitched!
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Actually those things you mentioned -arranged marriages and unwanted bastards- those happened in Earth too. The medieval times I told you about? Yeah. Nowadays is better, though some countries still keep old customs... what exactly do you want to know about?
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[WAIT NO FOCUS. Dorian immediately flushes red as he realizes how rude he has been.] Pardon me; I was carried away. Ah, to answer your question, marriage in England is of course a matter of love. [He hesitates before adding,] But of course, one must love the right sort of person. One mustn't mistake a passion for the wrong sort of person for true love, something to wed over.
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I would have thought passion is a great reason to marry someone, if you care that much about them that you can't think straight when they walk by.
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[ Still, let him give you a little advice, Solo-style. ] ]I'm sure everything's a little strange, Hiccup, but as far as how you want to play it, just pick your own rules until they stop workin'. I honestly doubt this world cares much about that sort of nonsense, really.
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That sounds crazy, even to me. We're not even in the same world.
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What brought this on? Were you having issues with Jack?
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I'm just asking because I'm curious, I wasn't aware I needed a cited and signed reference.
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Things are weird for my kind. There's magic to mating bonds and all. At least that's what I been taught.
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That's a very Yerrin sentiment. [A beat] Your thoughts about bastards, I mean.
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You've flown with a dragon too? It sounds like he's here. Where is he about; can I see him?
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He's right here. See? Napping off his fish.
[ Hiccup swerves the locket to show the sleeping Night Fury at his back, a large head curled into big black paws. The supposed blanket over Hiccup's legs is actually a wing. ]
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My father and I, there is no longer much that anchors us to where we come from and a home we can make here just as easy, so we are and we are settling down here for all the foreseeable future. Indefinitely, for the years of our lives are limitless.
[ He's smiling as he says that, although it's not without traces of sadness. ]
But to marry another here? Ah, I have not thought of it ever since my days of youth, [ A slight shrug. ] it will be no different here. The elves of Drabwurld are too different from us, and the elves of Arda are all married already.
[ #lifeoftheonlnysingleelf- but for what it's worth, Legolas doesn't see particularly upset or put upon about it. Very much trying not to think back to a certain someone he should not be thinking about. ]
Now then! You have asked your question, but did not give a single thought on the matter! [ Oh, it might be the first time they're speaking, but it seems to matter little: the elf is still nosy as heck. And his smile is... quite knowing, in this quite the infuriating manner. ] Is there another you wish to build a life with?
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[ NEATLY SIDE-STEPPING THAT QUESTION, and wow, is this a cheerful, upbeat elf? That's so weird. ]
Couldn't you marry a normal person? It'd be awful when they died, since you guys are immortal, but at least you'd get to make their life a happy one while they could have you in it. Wouldn't that make you happy?
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[ Harry doesn't sound entirely convinced by what he's saying, but that's partly why he's saying it. He needs to tell people and repeat it so he can believe it himself. ]
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[ i.e. not having all these ideas about who matters or why or what...but cats probably care even less. ]
Otherwise, I suppose I am somewhat familiar with the courtship customs of Japan. I imagine the Japanese children here are moreso capable of speaking about it familiarly, though.