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eachdraidh2015-05-09 01:32 pm
notyetlegend) wrote in eachdraidh2015-05-09 01:32 pm
sixth arrow → VIDEO → Seelie
Oh for...of all th' irresponsible...
[There's some angry Scottish muttering as Merida sets her locket down, standing in front of what looks like a shrine to the White Hart in armor. Or it had been before it was desecrated in such a manner. Her knees sink into the dirt and tugging her quiver and bow off and setting them to the side, she starts to fix it up, huffing. Her locket is angled so that she can look at it while she works, pulling a face when she pulls things out of the broken shrine before tossing them over her shoulder.]
As if we didn't have other things to worry about with th' Void comin' closer. Honestly, whatever happened to respectin' th' gods? I thought th' Black Shuck an' th' White Hart held sway over these lands.
[It's the second one she's come across in the last day or so, though she bets there are more like this. Even her ears had caught noise of the riots that had started happening in the Drabwurld, and not shardbearer related this time. Merida shook her head as she set the shrine artifacts upright, making a mental note to replace them as she sighs. She can't claim to know the affairs of gods, even with what Ben said about the vision he had. After a minute or two and the shrine starting to look better, Merida pulls her hands back to rest them against her legs, pausing before picking her locket up again.]
Does anyone consider just...stayin' here? Settle down after th' war ends? I don't know if I could go back home to who I used to be, if I could just forget everythin' that's happened here an' all the people I've met, th' friends I've made. [She reaches to brush the hawk feather behind her right ear back, braided into her hair like it is.] Just curious if anyone else feels th' same way I guess.
[There's some angry Scottish muttering as Merida sets her locket down, standing in front of what looks like a shrine to the White Hart in armor. Or it had been before it was desecrated in such a manner. Her knees sink into the dirt and tugging her quiver and bow off and setting them to the side, she starts to fix it up, huffing. Her locket is angled so that she can look at it while she works, pulling a face when she pulls things out of the broken shrine before tossing them over her shoulder.]
As if we didn't have other things to worry about with th' Void comin' closer. Honestly, whatever happened to respectin' th' gods? I thought th' Black Shuck an' th' White Hart held sway over these lands.
[It's the second one she's come across in the last day or so, though she bets there are more like this. Even her ears had caught noise of the riots that had started happening in the Drabwurld, and not shardbearer related this time. Merida shook her head as she set the shrine artifacts upright, making a mental note to replace them as she sighs. She can't claim to know the affairs of gods, even with what Ben said about the vision he had. After a minute or two and the shrine starting to look better, Merida pulls her hands back to rest them against her legs, pausing before picking her locket up again.]
Does anyone consider just...stayin' here? Settle down after th' war ends? I don't know if I could go back home to who I used to be, if I could just forget everythin' that's happened here an' all the people I've met, th' friends I've made. [She reaches to brush the hawk feather behind her right ear back, braided into her hair like it is.] Just curious if anyone else feels th' same way I guess.
[video]
It's still weird when I stop to think about it. I just try not think about it. [ He shrugs. ] It's actually not that different from working for the gods, anyway.
[video]
[Even if she had dressed up as a tribute to her last Samhain, she wasn't willing to risk the wrath of a goddess of war and death.]
Well, I wouldn't know about gods but faeries are prominent in stories where I come from, so they're not much different from th' tales I know.
[video]
[ He doesn't always pay attention to his own mythology, let alone that of other cultures. The closest he gets is dabbling in Roman myths, but those really aren't that different from his own. ]
I mean, it's mostly that they both want us to fight for their cause just because they say so. The big difference is that the fairies actually thank us. Still getting used to that, but hey, who's arguing?
What kind of "tales" are those?
[video]
[She says that a bit matter of factly, then shrugs.]
Tales about them leadin' people down sidhe mounds, enchantin' them with fae food which means you stay in their realm, kidnappin' babies an' swappin' them with their own. Brownies that help out around th' households an' dullahan that throw buckets of blood at those who witness them escortin' a soul to th' Otherworld.
[video]
Okay, that is gross. We've got our fair share of weird stuff, but no buckets of blood being thrown around. [ Blegh.
Whoa whoa whoa, wait a second - ] Wait, fae food? Like the feasts? Does that mean we can't leave? We're just stuck here unless the connection gets shattered or whatever?
[ That would explain what Solais said at the last audience - that the people who disappear and leave their shards behind don't go home, but are stuck in-between somewhere. That's the last thing he wanted to hear. ]
[video]
[This land has you now, Merida. The air, the food, the drink, it all works on you like ink staining a cloth. The Shuck had said that to her during her first Samhain, something that had stuck with her. For the moment though, she shakes her head.]
I'm not sure if th' food here is th' same as what's mentioned in our stories. It's certainly an...interestin' idea. [One she wasn't willing to discuss over locket.] There's always some truth to legends though.
[video]
[ Clarisse is okay in small doses. But a lot of the others? While they're arguably some of the best targets for a practical joke or three, you definitely don't want to get caught.
He shudders. ] Man, I wish I could say we had better, but so far - nada. Sounds like everyone's legends suck in some way or another. Nice to know that's universal.